Former host of The Bitcoin News Show. Creator of bitcoindev.org. Bitcoin Is. And that is enough.
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#Bitcoin competes with central banks and base money
#LiquidNetwork competes with SWIFT
#LightningNetwork competes with Visa
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Regular people will never use electricity.
Regular people will never use cars.
Regular people will never use computers.
Regular people will never use cell phones.
Regular people will never use the internet.
Regular people will never use #bitcoin.
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Sorry #bcash folks. It's over.
1. We have #LightningNetwork
2. BCH has less tx's than dogecoin
3. No BCASH futures or ETFs in the works (b/c no one cares)
4. HP continues to hit record highs
5. Amazing privacy tech in the works
6. Roger now completely irrelevant
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Dogecoin Has More Transactions than Bitcoin Cash
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In case you missed it, #lightning RC1 has been released and mainnet tx's have been completed. The mainnet beta is on the way but you can begin researching how to implement #lightning into your technology stack now.
coinjournal.net/bitcoins-lig…
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Did you know #LightningNetwork uses onion routing similar to the TOR network? This enables a high degree of privacy within the network making all traffic encrypted by default & unable to be read except by the sender and the receiver.
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Rumor: Nasdaq May Launch Bitcoin Trading in October 2018
medium.com/@VidrihMarko/nasd…
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The software did not "forget" your password, software does not "forget", aging boomers forget.
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Finally made the switch to @DuckDuckGo. My search results are 95% as good as @google's were and my data is not being stored and sold to advertisers.
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1/Announcement: I'm now devoting most of my time to my new music project
For 2+ yrs straight I commented on bitcoin every day on coindesk comments
For 5+ yrs straight after that I tweeted and RT'd about bitcoin every day
I did all this with no thought of reward/compensation
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Looks like @rogerkver figured out he WAS in fact committing fraud, and changed the bitcoin .com website back to displaying BCH as Bitcoin Cash.
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Did you know? #LightningNetwork is not centralized.
-Being dev'ed by 3 teams
-Fully open source
-Uses onion routing by default
-Incentivization for nodes to remain small
-Peer to Peer
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#Bitcoin is stronger than ever.
1. Tx's ☝
2. Localbitcoins volume ☝
3. Users/wallets ☝
4. Nodes ☝
5. Hashrate ☝
6. #LightningNetwork launch on mainnet
bitcoinist.com/5-reasons-bit…
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Satoshi's response when asked if/how bitcoin.com is related to the #bitcoin project. bitcointalk.org/index.php?to…
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Events so far:
1. Banks launder $2 trillion dollars of dirty fiat money
2. US gov goes after bitmex
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I'm not sure people will fully understand the implications of lightning team finishing their 1.0 specification. This is HUGE. Devs from around world can now begin creating lightning apps & integrate it w/their existing tech. By 2019 it will be embedded into the entire ecosystem.
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You need computer science to know why digital scarcity is important
You need economics to know why a limited supply is important
You need finance to know why removing fractional reserve/central banks is important
You need history to know why censorship resistance is important
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7/I wish you all the best in this next decade. The first 10 years of bitcoin's life was simply an experiment, but the next 10 years will see bitcoin truly shine and take center stage as the world's reserve currency. I hope to see you all in the citadels!
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Roger's q/a on Infowars just got cut short b/c all 3 phone calls in a row were people calling him out as a scammer.
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"My goal is to create the perfect Bitcoin Lightning node, running on unfairly-cheap hardware, set-up completely trustless from scratch. This guide brings you what I think is a near perfect solution."
medium.com/@stadicus/perfect…
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Sign the petition now for @Coinbase to prioritize #SegWit implementation. Over 700 signatures so far let's get it to over 1k!
change.org/p/coinbase-coinba…
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1/ ANNOUNCEMENT: I'll be stepping back from podcasting in 2020.
I don't want to make a big deal out of this but I have some things going on in my personal life that require more of my attention.
I'm just glad to have been apart of the public conversation.
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I'd just like to give a general shout out to the entire @lightning team. We are putting alot of pressure on them but yet they still come through releasing a spec & mainnet tests before end of 2017. Also big thanks to @starkness for continually educating over social media.
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It is absolutely beyond impressive that in ~2 years #Lightning went from an idea on paper, to a real world implementation being worked on by multiple teams with mainnet tx's completed by EOY 2017. The next couple yrs of this tech is going to simply change the world.
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People need to seriously calm down about bcash. It's an alt coin with 100% volume coming from South Korea. Alt coins pump all the time. CME futures launching soon, then ETFs. Have some perspective.
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10 tips to help improve your life:
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LN is vaporware
LN is 18 months away
LN kills miners
LN can't scale
LN requires money transmitter liscense
They just keep shifting the FUD. Meanwhile LN is on mainnet kicking ass & development around LN is only accelerating with tech like eltoo and multi path payments.
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There is absolutely no reason to ever issue altcoins on bitcoin's L1 chain. Those kind of security trade offs belong on layers above L1, but never on L1 itself. There is no way BIP 300 is happening.
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The explosion of financial innovation in #bitcoin is still breathtaking every time I think about it.
1. Segwit activated
2. Bech32 Address
3. MAST & Rootstock
4. Schnorr
5. Lightning
6. Taproot/Bulletproofs/Dandelion protocol
7. Simplicity
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#Bitcoin is not a for profit corporation needing returns ASAP. Development can take it's time.
Bitcoin is not a desperate startup needing mass adoption ASAP. Mass adoption will come to it when it's ready.
Bitcoin doesn't need you. You need bitcoin.
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Some things that were supposed to kill #bitcoin & created sensational headlines:
1. Mike Hearn's Rage Quit
2. Halving
3. Blockchain not bitcoin
4. Ethereum
5. China shutting down exchanges
6. Bcash Fork
7. Segwit2x Fork
And we're still here. #Antifragile #honeybadger
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Looks like @NickSzabo4 has added the #NO2X tag to his twitter name :) Thanks Nick for showing people the way!
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These tokens/chains are utter and complete garbage:
1. XRP
2. IOTA
3. EOS
4. TRON
The ONLY reason they are around is b/c of information asymmetry. These chains are plagued w/sec holes & bad engineering & cannot stand the test of time.
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A reminder of how centralized the #segwit2x movement was. It was canceled the exact same way it was created, by just a few people sitting in a room and signing a piece of paper.
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CEO of Twitter running a #bitcoin full node.
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Roger (@rogerkver) was wrong about the following:
-MtGox solvency
-Big blocks viability
-Segwit anyone can spend
-HFs being "upgrades"
-BCH price/hash exceeding BTC
-LN being vaporware
-LN nodes needing MTL
-Too many to list
Latest incorrect prediction:
BCH won't split in Nov
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This single website for testing out #LightningNetwork has more active users then all of the top 10 #ethereum #DApps combined...
satoshis.place is driving Lighting innovation via real-world stress testing. Over 8,000 daily users, 8,000,000 pixels drawn, and 3,000 settled payments. Lightning devs are writing performance patches in direct response to feedback provided by @LightningK0ala
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#Bitcoin is the only counter culture we have left.
It is the new rock and roll.
It does not ask for permission.
It does not care what you think.
It does not need you, but you need it.
This is as cypherpunk as it gets.
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The #LightningNetwork continues to grow at break neck speeds.
244 nodes
722 Channels
3.544 BTC
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#Bitcoin breaking yearly price highs, hash rate highs, and daily active address highs all in the same day.
Bullish.
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"I like to call it Satoshis Trojan Horse whereby people originally come to #bitcoin for the 'sick gains' but then they stay for the Austrian economics, anarchism and the global revolutionary political order that bitcoin could unleash." - @saifedean
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Your BCH news for this week:
-BCH got 51% attacked
-Roger lost another bet on his claim that BTC transactions are slow and unreliable
-Still nobody using BCH
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-Blythe Masters is gone
-BCH is dead
-R3 is a joke
-Hyperledger's useless
-Ethereum produced massive scams, can't scale and failed to produce a functioning multi sig
Painful lessons for people who thought they could build a better #bitcoin.
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Messed around and made a website. Hope it helps someone. bitcoindev.org
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I simply cannot overstate what an important upgrade the Taproot/Schnorr BIP proposal is.
-Huge privacy win
-Huge scalability win
-Huge utility win
This is why #bitcoin is the Mt. Everest of engineering
Thank you #segwit/#UASF for making this possible.
lists.linuxfoundation.org/pi…
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#Bitcoin was created out of the destruction Wall St caused in 2008 facilitated by corrupt moral-less rating agencies like @WeissRatings and @SPGlobalRatings. And now they are attempting to "rate" it a "C+". NO ONE in crypto is going to take these seriously, no one.
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Bitcoin + segwit + lightning + schnorr = mass adoption capabilities. After that will be exciting to see confidential transactions improve fungibility even further.
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The blocksize wars will never end because #bitcoin's decentralization will always be attacked. 300, 2x, XT, Classic, they'll all tell you the sky is falling and you need them but in the end will only hand control of bitcoin over to the miners & corporations. Remain ever vigilant!
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#Bitcoin is the end result of centuries of economic thought and decades of computer engineering to re-shape how we have been using money for the past 10,000 years.
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Andreas comments on the FUD around #LightningNetwork centralization.
piped.video/watch?v=c4TjfaLg…
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A large percentage of people I met at @bitcoin2019conf had children under the age of 5. This next generation of bitcoiners will be raised with the values of saving and entrepreneurship and thus will be better prepared to create a more sustainable future for us all.
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Central banks tweeting about #bitcoin all over the place over the past few days. The taste of capitulation in the afternoon is oh so sweet.
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A reckoning will be coming for alts. While new investors flock to experimental tech w/irrational exuberance #bitcoin is quietly building the best scaling technology for #blockchain on the planet. Combined w/it's epic security and proven history, it WILL take it's rightful place.
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This is why #bitcoin. Not to kill retail banks, but to DESTROY the central banking cartel.
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The Lightning Network's First ERC-20 to Bitcoin Atomic Swap Has Taken Place
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles…
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Congratulations to those that supported the #UASF and #no2x movements this year. You were on the right side of history. #YearOfTheUser #bitcoin
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Huge things to look forward to in 2018.
1. Lightning
2. ETFs
3. More volume in decentralized exchanges
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Really hope that this #segwit2x fiasco will wake up journalists like @laurashin to do more research in this space before writing about it to the world as if it's an "upgrade", or even written by a competent dev team.
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#BitcoinIsScaling
1. >2mb blocks being created
2. Segwit adopted by more businesses each week
3. Mainnet lightning transactions
4. Lightning nodes growing ~40% per day
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By this logic I'm pretty sure Roger was in a romantic relationship with CSW and Calvin, otherwise why would they care about BCH?
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Apparently I break break all the bitcoin twitter rules.
I don't say ****coins, I say altcoins.
I don't call myself a bitcoin maximalist.
I use TA and very much love charts.
I try to be relatively nice.
Going against the crowd is what led me to #bitcoin in the 1st place. 😎✌
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The miner incentive structure COMPLETELY changes with DC. There is an insane amount of unknown unknowns and if you think you can predict these system's behavior you might need an ego check & another lesson in protocol development. Plus it's backed by altcoin investors...No thx.
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Reminder: Nothing has changed except the price. The technology is moving forward at break neck speeds. Here's what's to come:
1 Cheaper tx's from #segwit
2 Mainnet #lightning roll out
3 Increased privacy via TumbleBit & ZeroLink
4 Sidechain adoption (liquid & rsk)
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One day people will realize that #bitcoin is at 100% dominance because it's what backs up the entire industry, and that measuring it against coins created out of thin air by the billions is fundamentally ridiculous.
BTC will hit $10k today.
First time BTC hit $10k (28.11.17),total mkt cap was $300bn ,BTC 52% dominance.
Today, mkt cap 55% higher at $475bn& BT-36% dom.
Money flowing from BTC to Alts. Alt season won’t end for a while-by end year BTC will be 20% dom. I called this in January.
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I do not poses great power or wealth, nor do I long for either.
I am on a quest to awaken the world to the evil that the central banking cartel has become.
My intentions are not to reform the traditional financial system, but to make it irrelevant.
To my brothers in arms 🍻
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Reminder: The "Cash" part of the phrase peer to peer electronic cash in #bitcoin's white paper written by Satoshi was in fact referring to settlement finality, not speed of transaction. Remember this was published on a cypherpunk mailing list, not the blog of a silicon valley co.
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You see Roger, this is what happens when you go against consensus. The market will punish you. This incident has even further damaged your reputation and I look forward to your next fraudulent stunt we can call out, b/c we all know you won't stop here.
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"No, I will not say #blockchain, I will say #bitcoin, because blockchain is bullshit, and bitcoin is the future." - @aantonop
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In light of the recent #segwit2x fork bug resulting in a complete freeze and halt of it's chain I wanted to remind people why @bitcoincoreorg has a thorough review process. This is why we don't risk a multi hundred billion dollar network on a single guy like @JeffGarzik.
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"The longest chain is only used to determine the winner of 2 chains using the same consensus rules." - @SatoshiLite
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Once you truly discover #bitcoin almost everything else in life becomes rather unimportant.
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Coinbase is the AOL of #bitcoin.
It provided a useful onboarding service for a time until it faded away into obscurity from terrible business practices and being out competed by the open web.
So too will be the fate of Coinbase. It's simply an onboarding tool, nothing more.
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It's looking like 2018-2019 we'll be entering the "Early Majority" adoption phase of #bitcoin.
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