Any apologetic or "nuancing" remark about the invasion and mass murder of civilians in Ukraine perpetrated by Putin and the Russian Army gets an instablock.
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One of the most ethical and moral things you can do is profit. Doing so means you have found a way to meet somebody else's need while at the same time reducing waste (their previously best offer).
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This is the current menu at Burger King in Sweden, who are trolling the shit out of McDonalds after they lost the EU trademark to "Big Mac" to the far smaller Irish burger chain "Supermac".
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165 years ago, UK Parliament legalized public libraries where people could read for free. Just as publishers warned, no book written since.
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Blockstream's modus operandi is not particularly hard to copy. It's just so cheap and shortsighted. #bitcoin
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Sometimes I wonder if it's a coincidence that the worst of the worst future dystopias -- Children of Men, 1984, V -- are all set in Britain.
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A physics headline writer had waited their whole career for the opportunity to write this headline.
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Fun fact: I am aware of a truckload of companies currently in the process of converting from Bitcoin Legacy to #Bitcoin Cash. I am aware of zero (0) companies going the other direction.
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Considering how the world is developing, should children in Western countries have to learn Arabic digits/numerals as part of mandatory school curriculum?
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No, Latin digits are fine
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Catalan police is now defending voters from Spanish police. That's one inch from a civil war.
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So Google has downloaded binaries to computers running Chrome, turning on mics and listening w/o consent. NOT OK. bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr…
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"Murder". The word you're looking for is "murder". Otherwise you might just as well write "consentless euthanasia".
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With recent developments, I'm putting all available dev resources to retool my software for #Bitcoin Cash. I suspect I'm far from alone.
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I've said it before and I'm saying it again and again: in order to beat old-world banking, crypto must be at least an order of magnitude better. Old-world banking offers free instant tx between private accts, and 15-cent txs to merchant accounts. Beat that or be obsoleted.
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Would you "seek peace" if it meant eternal torture and subjugation by a whimsical, sadistic tyrant? This is simply not an option.
The only option is for Russia to be thoroughly defeated. I write this from Alexanderplatz, Berlin. where Germany was so in 1945. It works.
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Swedish govt doubles down on the hated data retention, plans to add VPN surveillance as well, says leaked proposal - privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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Bitcoiners: We need better rules.
Core: Then go mine yourself.
B: Ok.
C: HEY NO FAIR!
C: Just fork off.
B: Ok.
C: NO FAIR!
C: IT'S AN ATTACK
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Oksii, I am so sorry. Know that there are people in Europe who do what they can.
I cancelled my 50th birthday party and used the money to buy an ambulance and a firetruck to Ukraine instead. I can meet friends anyway, and maybe with one more ambulance, one more in UA can too.
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I'm not too impressed with people who predict a $10,000 bitcoin when it's at $9,550 [Core + Cash]. I predicted a $10,000 bitcoin when it was at about $5. falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why…
Baseball Great Jose Canseco Predicts $10,000 Bitcoin By 2018 bit.ly/2zdw0qF
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It's worth noting that the name of the "Stasi" - the "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit" - translates to "National Security Agency".
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Bigot: "If this hispanicization continues, the city of Los Angeles may well soon have a Spanish name" - um what, say that again?
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BREAKING (in English): French politicians, about to vote in favor of mandatory upload filtering in Europe, get their YouTube channel deleted by the very filtering they want to make mandatory.
privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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Pornography is definitely giving unrealistic expectations for everyday life.
No plumber arrives that fast when you need one.
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A while back, I said I'd convert all my software from Bitcoin Core to Bitcoin Cash. That conversion is now complete. It's liberating to send 25 cents into the system and get it back seconds later in a technical "bitcoin echo test". #Bitcoin is back, baby!
github.com/Swarmops/Swarmops
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After Paris attack where terrorists used cleartext and own credit cards, police demand bans of encryption & bitcoin: privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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In Sweden, the ISP Bahnhof is launching 10-gigabit service to consumer households today for $37/month. (Companies have a 100-gigabit offering. Yes, gigabit.)
Just for perspective on bandwidth debates which tend to assume that Comcast offerings are some sort of normality.
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Bitcoin Legacy, for all intents and purposes, is now impossible to trade. It has a transaction backlog approaching 200,000 txs of people _trying_ to sell, who _can't_.
Also, markets have suspended trading.
On a market, any market, what is the value of something you can't sell?
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People in the Blockstream fork of bitcoin are acting as though this is a problem of Coinbase's. It's not at all. It's a problem for the Blockstream fork of bitcoin, and only that.
If one company can take down the network, the network has a problem, and not the company. nitter.app/CivEkonom/status/95169…
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The notion of every #bitcoin user running their own node is as dumb as the notion of every email user running their own server.
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You're kidding, right? They would outlaw its use on public officials and electees, and mandate it on everyone else, while trying to make it sound voluntary.
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I am cautiously predicting that there's a tipping point somewhere around $2,000-$2,500 for #Bitcoin Cash, when Bitcoin Legacy will just be dropped like a bad habit and the exits will be crowded, except for by a few who still refuse to read the writing on the wall.
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The primary reason right now that #bitcoin's value is declining slowly is that its enforced limitations is making it impossible to sell off as fast as people really want to. The exits aren't crowded, they're clogged.
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Here's why I'm considering the Bitcoin Cash fork to be #bitcoin, explained in good faith and with as much objectivity as I can, as opposed to the Blockstream fork of bitcoin: piped.video/watch?v=lvpD3iF9…
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New rule: before you criticize anything and say it's "capitalism's fault" (homelessness, environmental destruction, poverty, etc), you need to show how the situation was noticeably better where there was NOT capitalism.
Hint: It wasn't. Not once. Not ever.
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The account @Bitcoin has obviously been hijacked by somebody who's intent on revising history and falsifying financial information. Electronic trespassing, insider, securities fraud... Serious stuff in the eyes of the State. I wonder how many years of jail they're gunning for?
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Interesting: somebody is sending transactions with insanely high fees on the #bitcoin cash network, apparently in an attempt to game up the average fee statistics for the network. Meanwhile, my 200-Satoshi-fee transactions keep going through like clockwork.
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Today's media tip for aspiring politicians: when posing with police officers, don't rest your hands behind your back. (h/t @ericaronson)
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If #bitcoin doesn't upgrade to 2x as agreed, wouldn't it be reasonable that miners also roll back the first part of the agreement, Segwit?
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What if new Google management decided that all searches should cost $20, take eight hours to complete, and be unreliable? #bitcoin falkvinge.net/2017/11/17/new…
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I would disagree. Being a communist is objectively about an order of magnitude worse, in terms of people murdered.
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Another false #bitcoin narrative: Bitcoin Legacy's software engineers aren't "second to none" and "the best in the world". When looking at the data and numbers, the output from the Bitcoin Legacy ("Core") team doesn't even meet the bar for mediocre.
piped.video/watch?v=IdWV0xHP…
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British Internet providers are already censoring political pieces that they just randomly happen to disagree with privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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Twitter makes me want to have a drink with people I don't know. Facebook makes me want to throw drinks at people I thought I knew.
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Just thought I'd remind of this tweet of mine from October.
Fun fact: the current #bitcoin trend, which started in January, indicates breaking $10,000 in the first half of December. Yes, of this year.
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Hello, Internet. Let's talk about predators (sociopaths, narcissists) and the insane damage they can do to a collaborative community. #bitcoin
piped.video/Zkg_-_HwRcI
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Please verify that these addresses belong to Ukraine, in a less hackable way than a Twitter account?
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You will remember I'm a project manager by trade; I started my first company when I was 16. I can tell when a team can't and won't deliver. Blockstream is one such team: The Lightning Network is just about 18 months away, just like it was 18 months ago, and 36 months ago.
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You're still missing the point: you think there's a counterparty to negotiate with.
In contrast, IT in general and crypto in particular is about building a community -- being enough of a shining light that people voluntarily choose to follow.
There is no negotiation involved.
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#Bitcoin has entered a do-or-die phase. Either we get back to subcent optional transaction fees and instant reliable-enough transactions >>
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Rick Reacts: #Bitcoin Legacy is NOT a store of value - not at all. piped.video/watch?v=bjRoQYsV…
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This is superficial. Bitcoin mining uses excess hydro for half of the year. Keywords EXCESS and HYDRO.
You can't just measure the energy used, it's vital where it comes from.
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New vlog: Lightning Network, take 2
In this video, I present new data showing that the Lightning Network does not work at all as a real-time decentralized payment routing network, as every single transaction invalidates the global routing table. #bitcoin
piped.video/watch?v=Ug8NH67_…
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This is supposed to be satire, but you might have missed how ordinary Europeans on the streets are absolutely ecstatic over his speech and how the arrogant political nobility needed to get precisely that dose of reality written on the nose, according to common people.
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Rick Reacts: The "#coinbase Bitcoin Cash insider trading" story was completely fake and obviously fabricated and planted with a purpose. The #bitcoin community needs to get its bullshit detector cranked up a couple notches. piped.video/watch?v=Bwu_FzIo…
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Det här var en av de bästa debattartiklarna jag läst, om inte den bästa någonsin. Stående ovationer, @Bardissimo och Viktor Widblom.
Lång, full av insikter och viktiga observationer, och skoningslös i sina slutsatser.
nyheteridag.se/bard-och-widb…
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Hodling #bitcoin is the purest of bullshit - _spend-and-replace_ is how you win a new currency. New vlog: piped.video/watch?v=2nWGBMHU…
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A friendly request: As @SpaceX is at the forefront of science, could you please use metric measurements consistently in public communications, and drag the rest of the US along to metric?
Public interest in what you're doing is far above the threshold to do so.
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How Blockstream failed, and took the BTC fork of #bitcoin with it: Blockstream tried to be a horizontal and a vertical at the same time. New vlog:
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In 2011, I said that bitcoin would increase in value one-thousandfold (10,000%) in a couple of years. It did.
In January this year, I said that bitcoin would fall from its top at 20,000 to about 4,000. It did, letting you quad+ your holdings.
How's your financial advisor doing?
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New video: The Lightning Network, one year after I listed eight key problems - where are we now? #bitcoin
piped.video/AzaEd2RQuRw
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May: "Fighting terrorism requires censorship of porn on the Internet". Yes, really. privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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1998: XML is going to make every booking system and database interoperable!
2018: Researchers give up on database interoperability and just has an AI call actual people to schedule things instead.
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That's easy. Illinois kan also be abbreviated "Ill.", the traditional way to write Illinois, so you already have.
Markham, Ill.
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It promotes bitcoin as per the whitepaper, which causes annoyance and confusion only to those who are trying to hijack the brand ("bitcoin core").
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Here's the thing: Copyright is fundamentally, irreparably incompatible with the Internet. It's now up to every country if they want the Internet, or if they would rather stay in the pre-1980 analog ages.
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There seems to be just two reasons why something "cannot possibly work": 1) it's been tried before; and 2) it's not been tried before.
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New vlog: How and why #bitcoin split into Bitcoin-BTC and Bitcoin-BCH. A bit of a primer for newcomers and/or easy reference on the event. piped.video/watch?v=stq9htHo…
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New vlog: Oh, the Lightning Network of #bitcoin core. So, so, SO much to say about that. (And people were asking me to, too!)
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The time has come to put Moscow under international conservatorship, by force. They have demonstrated through their actions that they not capable of acting responsibly in an international community.
I write this from Berlin, which was made so in 1945, and it worked.
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"I'm against chemical weapons ... using toxic chemicals on unsuspecting civilians is purely evil. But enough about Monsanto. About Syria..."
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Attention legacy news sites: the alternative to adblocking isn't not adblocking. It's not reading your damn story at all and moving on.
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You cannot have something be a store of value, except as a _secondary_ function, where a primary function generates ongoing demand.
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Swedish police website hacked to mine cryptocurrency.
These are the people that argue that they can safeguard YOUR data, and so their utter lack of security merits a lot more discussion.
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Reminder: Russia doesn't think they're the good guys in this war. Russia thinks they're the STRONG guys in this war. Russia doesn't value "good", they consider it weakness.
RU military takes every opportunity to demonstrate how weak the UA civilians are against RU military.
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Blockstream having patents in Segwit makes all the weird pieces of the last three years fall into places. #bitcoin falkvinge.net/2017/05/01/blo…
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A new video on #bitcoin releases today at 1800 Berlin time (in just under eight hours). "Lightning, take two" -- discussions following last video were interesting; I connected dots in a new way that I haven't seen anybody do before.
It's not even vaporware, it's unicornware.
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With shock appeals ruling, the United States has effectively outlawed file-level encryption (!!). New post: privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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Iceland: Pirate party re-elected, triples election results falkvinge.net/2016/10/30/rey… #VotePirate
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Indeed: I would challenge anyone to do a Bitcoin Cash Echo Test, for example at sandbox.swarmops.com/Admin/B… , see funds returned in 2-3 seconds with subcent fees, and then say with a straight face it's not far better.
Might be useful for us all to heed what Falkvinge is saying about Bitcoin Cash. (He supports it as the only coin with economic utility) nitter.app/mk_ultra_sperg/status/…
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RT publishes a very long interview with me on #bitcoin as "CEO" - in quotes - of Bitcoin Cash. rt.com/shows/sophieco/410363… Some really good quotes to be found here, I think.
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Using Bitcoin Cash to pay for stuck Bitcoin transactions. If this doesn't make the penny drop with some people, it never will.
Then again, I knew already that it never will with the people I have in mind, so I've stopped bothering.
We have added Bitcoin Cash as a payment method for Pushtx.com
The Pushtx.com API supports 0-confirmations #bitcoincash
We also accept all sorts of other payment options, use Pushtx to accelerate your stuck Bitcoin transaction easily.
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China is breeding its population to select for governmental obedience in a “Social Credit Score” program from 2020. Some have written about the program, but none of them about the bigger picture of what China is doing. New post:
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I'm actually quite amused by the sheer amount of Americans who appear really upset that another country may have been interfering with THEIR choice of government.
If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
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An official statement from the CEO of #Bitcoin Cash: how we resolve conflicts in our community, our values, and our development of leaders and people teddit.net/r/btc/comments/7c…
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Pirates enter another parliament: CONGRATULATIONS to the Czech Pirate Party!
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Ed #Snowden doesn't deserve "pardon". That's what you give redeemed criminals. Snowden deserves streets named after him. --Anon commenter
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Spain definitely just lost Catalunya, when its police fired live warning shots against people trying to hold a peaceful indep. referendum.
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People from Venezuela are reaching out to me and want to translate Swarmops, an enterprise-grade Bitcoin Cash wallet (and much more), into Spanish -- just to be available to Spanish-speaking people. If there ever was a stronger sign of the times, I don't know what it would be.
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Britain announces 15 years in prison for reading banned literature. New post on Privacy News. privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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Breaking: Danish ISPs will no longer surrender subscriber identities to copyright industry lawyers - privateinternetaccess.com/bl…
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Update: Czech Pirates is third largest party at 10.79%, ahead of Social Democrats, CDU, and Greens, and gets 22 seats in Czech Parliament.
Pirates enter another parliament: CONGRATULATIONS to the Czech Pirate Party!
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What if new Google management decided that searches should cost $20, take anything between eight hours and eight days, and be deliberately unreliable? #bitcoin
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