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Energy abundance is the root of the policy tree, the big unlocker.
With energy abundance, you have factories, jobs, national security, energy security, food security, water security (desalination), GDP and so much more.
With energy scarcity, you have foreign wars over scarce resources, famine, poverty, all the ghost factories never built and the ghost jobs never generated.
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What was SBF lobbying against? DeFi. 🤔
What would have prevented this? DeFi. 🤔
What exchanges already publish real-time proof-of-reserves? DeFi. 🤔
What will US regulators try to shut down? DeFi. 🤷♀️
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Utter corruption at the SEC.
Gensler and cronies should offer their resignations immediately.
BINGO! 🤑Found a memorandum of the @SECGov in which it is recorded what the meeting of the SEC with @SBF_FTX was about: The risks and NATURALLY non-action relief from Gary for @FTX_Official. The best investor protection agency in the whole world by far! ❤️
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Which hodler whale will be the first to buy a house with @AlchemixFi?
- Deposit $500k ETH
- $250k USD loan from Alchemix, for a house in Atlanta
- ETH is locked until internal yield generation repays the loan.
- In the future, you get back 100% of your ETH.
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It's not amazing, it's embarrassing.
The #bitcoin payment solution that was purported to be ready by year 2019 is, in year 2022, barely squeaking over the "payment went through on the first attempt" milestone. 🤦♀️
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The rot was SBF and FTX.
The apparent theft of "we invest in you, if your company deposits at FTX" was all FTX.
Alleged stealing from employees, partners and portfolio companies was all FTX.
Beware media #misdirection attempts @FT, redirecting away from a heavy Democrat donor.
Honestly this headline and write up is awful from the FT.
@cz_binance’s “actions left Bankman-Fried’s FTX filing for bankruptcy” is utter BS.
SBFs actions left FTX and hundreds more filing for bankruptcy. Pointing the finger at CZ is a weird angle for the media to take.
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Q1: If my teenager accesses a banned app via a VPN, what is the maximum prison sentence my child may receive?
Q2: What is the maximum prison sentence a parent may receive?
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We are witnessing a pivotal moment in the history of the development of the modern algorithmic authoritarian state.
Say the "wrong" thing, donate to the "wrong" cause, and you are added to A List.
Those on the List will be #debanked without trial, unable to buy food or shelter
It's not just banks.
Canada's new dragnet, will encompass basically every part of the financial system (including securities dealers) in order to cut off the truckers from funding. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Policy, not comms.
Democrats love to assume policy perfection, and conclude "it was the message delivery, not the policies" after an election loss.
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Bloomberg's net worth is approximately 58 Billion dollars.
There are over 7 billion people on the planet. He could have given every person on Earth 1 billion dollars... and still have over 50 Billion left over! #NYTMath
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Just got an earful from a Chicago cabbie, on $LTC
He was very grumpy at @SatoshiLite selling, saying it indicated a lack of founder's confidence in his own creation. #StreetCrypto
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Maximalists, yesterday: Everything on Ethereum is a scam.
Maximalists, today: Here's my ethereum token sale. Please buy. Our claim that this is the first major equity evolution since the 1600s is in no way exaggerated or false.
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If your CTO or DevOp uses a single computer for both work and personal, it's time to start polishing your resume.
And/or purchase infosec insurance. 🤔
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A test of negotiation culture: Who pays sticker price, and who negotiates.
Many cultures have figured out that Americans dislike negotiating, and have adapted to take advantage of that.
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How crypto could respond to TC:
- ZK everything (a la HTTPS Everywhere from EFF)
- IPFS-by-default dapps (browser extensions already exist)
- Have your legislators fight for privacy and basic human decency
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Honestly, this is the kind of reaction I expected in 2010, when there was a not small chance I could get arrested simply for working on #bitcoin
Now, ten years later, that train has left the station, there's no stopping it...
Today in Congress Rep. Sherman called for a bill to ban all cryptocurrencies.
This is why Coin Center is needed in DC now more than ever.
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Two bank wires.
Sixty minutes.
Three bankers.
Three ID checks.
Ten printouts.
All to wire $60k for a real estate closing.
when #Crypto ?
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Data point for the story: journalists were not interested in reporting on the fraud, because it might interfere with access to FTX executives.
... as @AlderLaneEggs can surely confirm, its an industry problem, not just a blbg one and its as old as bubbles
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This is a subset of a larger AI risk: cultural stagnation.
AI is fundamentally backwards-looking. It is trained on what came before.
A world of AI generated content acts as cultural molasses, mimicking existing styles and tones, rather than inventing new and fresh ones. The more AI is used, the less innovative is the culture.
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Today, a moment I've been waiting over 10 years for: Purchased GBTC via a normal @CharlesSchwab retail account.
In 2010, this milestone was a future yardstick for #Bitcoin success: retail trader access to Bitcoin-specific vehicles.
Well done, @Grayscale
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Crypto websites in 2010: Deposit BTC here. What is KYC?
Crypto websites in 2015: Welcome all, except for Sudan, North Korea and the State of New York.
Crypto websites in 2020: Welcome all [excluding US citizens].
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Welcome to my twitter feed!
- Humanist. Energy is life.
- Pro-freedom, pro-future, pro-innovation and pro- data-backed nuance.
- Unless stated, [re]tweets are "data points" not endorsements.
- Keywords: autonomous energy humanism nation-state AI space drone crypto economics
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VC investment in #bitcoin:
2012: $2m
2013: $92m
2014: $268m (so far!)
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"If you explained the #Bitcoin Core Cult in one slide, this is it" - @ryanxcharles
In case you are still not sure of what #BitcoinMaximalism is, here’s a tip from a man who knows - @giacomozucco at #bh2018
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A list of people demanding the news media remain biased.
Neutrality should be celebrated, not condemned. nitter.app/jgarzik/status/1849886…
It is not the core mission of a newspaper to pick winners in an election. Just the opposite, really.
Outside the box:
Bezos setting a neutrality standard for WaPo should be applauded.
Newspapers traditionally do endorse candidates. This is in the editorial section, where bias and opinions are encouraged.
Neutrality is a new, higher standard for the media. 👏
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In 2010, software developer Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoins. Today you could buy a yacht. Charting Bitcoin’s First Decade: bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-…
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Sir, Harris could not make it through a single policy interview.
Harris was, objectively, one of the worst "serious contender" candidates for POTUS in Democrat history.
(FTR, I voted for Biden)
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I'm calling it. A third crypto killer app has been found:
1. BTC
2. USD Stablecoins
3. Polymarket
All three have successfully punched through CT into the mainstream, with staying power.
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1/ Snowden notices part of what's wrong with #Bitcoin governance and development.
...but they're not addressing the high severity problem confronting the ordinary bitcoin users who don't even notice fancysig faffery exists (beyond eventually reduced tx sizes). The thing is, I want to be wrong. But proving me wrong doesn't happen on Twitter. It happens on-chain
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Fundamentally, a lot of the left's messaging and branding is "America is bad, actually" 😔
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chatGPT is not in a rush to see a bunch of patients, because the [government | private] insurance incentivizes doctors towards high throughput.
High throughput implies reduced empathy, and probably, increased error rate.
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ATHs:
#Bitcoin breaks $2800
Total Cryptocurrency mkt cap over $100 billion
...and the world is only just waking up to this new asset class
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"The vault’s fingerprint scanners were equipped with a pulse reader to prevent amputated hands from being used" #bitcoin #cryptocurrency @xapo bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Welcome to my twitter feed!
- Pro-freedom, pro-future, pro-innovation and pro- data-backed nuance.
- Unless stated, [re]tweets are "data points" not endorsements.
- Keywords: autonomous nation-state AI space drone crypto economics
- Disclosures: github.com/jgarzik/disclosur…
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Who runs Windows on critical server systems, and surrenders their business sovereignty to automated third-party vendor updates?
Now we know.
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KYC is the act of exposing entire nations worth of personal data to hostile overseas powers, when considered in totality across multiple decades.
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Cryptographers know the difference between "won't comply" and "can't comply", and build accordingly. 🤔
🤔 Interestingly, he may not have been arrested if Telegram was actually e2ee.
Having access to the conversations and not handing them over when the gov demanded it is a very different legal position than not being *able* to access the conversations at all.
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All #Bitcoin Core had to do was compromise.
Instead they fought their own kind: Businesses that on-boarded millions into Bitcoin... medium.com/@jgarzik/bitcoin-…
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Additional data points:
- During the Yugoslav Wars, soldiers would eliminate graveyards from towns. This was intended to disconnect people from their roots, history, ancestors and culture.
- Communists neuter or eliminate cemeteries and memorials: cnn.com/2020/01/02/asia/xinj…
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My view, uncompromised and unchanged for over 10 years:
CBDC = Orwellian.
CBDC + crypto ban = Orwellian hellscape from which there is no escape.
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Throwing @binance gangsigns at #BinanceBlockchainWeek #SAFU #SAFUhacks
Really appreciated the organization and focus of this hackathon.
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Via @DoombergT, @LukeGromen enumerates the menu of options available to Europe (and JPY/UK?):
1. Reboot energy policy
2. Agreement w/ Russia
3. Kaboom
Realistically, some mix of all three...
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Pet theory: Aggressive woke/DEI peaked, coincident with the end of ZIRP, thus being classified as a luxury ideology.
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The more "wrapped" tokens on ETH, the more ETH becomes a #blockchain for financial exchange. Wrapped BTC was actually mentioned in one of @VitalikButerin 's earliest papers, and is now a reality. #Trend #WorthWatching #cryptocurrency #cryptoexchange #ethereum #bitcoin
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VSP tech updates
- VSP, VVSP are available for supplying and borrowing on @CreamdotFinance lending platform.
- VSP, VVSP and DV registered with @0xPolygon as a preparation for further #DeFi cross-chain work.
- Testing other bridges, e.g. @avalancheavax #BSC @xdaichain @FantomFDN
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This community has had enough of Core's smears, and the general attitude that anyone who disagrees must be destroyed.
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Apparently socialism and "defund the police" slogans are not winning with Hispanics who fled socialism and defunded-police situations.
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AI will become sentient around the same time that conference room A.V. works flawlessly every time.
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Fun fact: I gave away over 15,000 BTC in #bitcoin developer bounties, circa 2010-2011.
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1. @PayPal + #cryptocurrency Is huge news, that we have been waiting for for a decade. Almost an emotional moment for we old #Bitcoin'ers.
Very positive, and a signal of cryptocurrency market maturation.
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Meta: America lacks benevolent advertising.
Why is there not a "End the Jones Act" ad campaign across the US, and associated EndTheJonesAct.com website?
Why is there not an ad campaign about how cheap, abdundant energy brings world peace & solves climate change? 🤔🤷
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The famous behavior where a user returns to Twitter from another browser page, or another mobile app, and Twitter immediately jumps to a different tweet.
aka "I still wanted to look at that tweet" bug.
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Great UI/UX is the hardest problem in crypto today. The average consumer should have payment freedom, privacy, and a secure experience without having to understand hashes and blockchains.
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Sync'd!
#Ethereum --syncmode=full node:
- Laptop w/ 8G ram, external 1TB USB 3.1 SSD
- Started: November 26, 2019
- Finished: January 13, 2020
- Storage used: 668G
- Docker container restarts, for hard fork geth upgrades: 2
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🤔 #DeFi
It was Sam Bankman-Fried's approach to crypto policing that caused his downfall, says @andymukherjee70 trib.al/xjJ0nsN via @opinion
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The current segwit2x / b2x effort has nothing to do with @btc1project or myself or @bloqinc
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"the Lightning Torch is becoming too large for the network now that it contains $150." coindesk.com/its-getting-har… #bitcoin #lightning #cryptocurrency
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Next they came for the source code
Hey @nandoodles, want to tag team this and see if we can get @gitlab to stop hosting Parler’s codebase?
They have to have a TOS about applications used to plan terrorist insurrection.
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Check out my humble project, then:
Visit @VesperFi for a clean, simple, "compound your crypto" #DeFi experience. vesper.finance/
Just need a "token bridge", and we can start a WDOGE (wrapped DOGE) pool, hehe.
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"Fear of radiation is a far more important health threat than radiation itself." - @stewartbrand
The WHO did a study of Chernobyl, summarized by the environmentalist Stewart Brand: "Fear of radiation is a far more important health threat than radiation itself."
Dwell on that for a moment.
The human dialog on nuclear energy has killed more people than nuclear energy.
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Neat that @UniswapProtocol website is published to IPFS, and continues to be available even if uniswap org has problems #decentralization github.com/Uniswap/uniswap-i…
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Personally I'm pro-data, however,
My doctor claims: The data delivered by full body scans is not correlated with better patient outcomes.
i.e. When a mass is detected, a surgical procedure is triggered. This is definitionally needless for benign masses, yet adds risk.
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Cryptocurrency exchange @Gemini is calling on developers to assist its effort to bring a "Wrapped Filecoin" token to the #Ethereum network.
Via @sebsinclair1989 trib.al/sJe47cL
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Of Sia, Storj and Filecoin, Skynet-on-Sia appears to be the most thoughtful of the bunch. Trying to Ask The Right Questions before building on the apparent tech leader. 🤔😀
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