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NIP-05:druid @caughq .org - Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult. Founder @TrammellVC , @Blockhenge , & @Rogue__Signal . My opinions are my own. #Bitcoin ∞/21M
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@gothamhiphop
I was walking through the Atlanta Airport on a connection between flights and walking the other direction was Jack Nicholson & Danny DeVito. As I passed them I said "Hey look! It's Joker & the Penguin!". They both laughed as we passed and went our separate ways.
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At no time did the real Satoshi Nakamoto share any early Bitcoin source code with me, contrary to Craig Wright's lie on the stand in Norway:
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Satoshi did not share any early code with me. I first found out about Bitcoin when the whitepaper was published and the first code I got was the first public release that I downloaded myself from the website. I will testify under oath to that fact.
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"Investing" in
#Bitcoin
implies that at some point you intend to exit, or "take profit", in some other asset.
Don't invest in Bitcoin.
#SaveInBitcoin
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Well, well... It would appear that
@Dr_CSWright
's counsel in the
#COPAvWright
trial has decided *not* to cross-examine me and just accept my written witness statement as-is. For those unfamiliar with why I would be submitting a witness statement, for your review:…
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2009-01-11
1AExTP6GV6atUnWLaLsA1FzsDFPc6j9VxC
"The Times 2021-10-12 Britain must learn from ‘big mistakes’ on Covid, says report"
HIy8a09RFH6KKB9K3FvscVF5OZ77vW3v7WyG6otPQ8WrfwI+ODjhEs0+9RF0sROpG4zkr66k4qrXNBK5Vnd9E2o=
Proof that fits in a tweet. See Craig? This isn't hard...
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Bitcoin = That Band You Love
Ethereum = Nickelback
Litecoin = Nickelback
XRP = Nickelback
Tether = Nickelback
Dogecoin = Nickelback Cover Band
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Actually, all of my mined Bitcoin was consolodated to an address provably owned publicly by me, and those transactions already doxxed anyway.
So here ya go, the first block I ever mined:
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@coryklippsten
Actually, I think I *may* have beat Hal and been the second node on the network. I pretty much ran the software immediately after release, and for the first ~6 hours or so, there was only one other node connected (presumably Satoshi). Then other nodes started connecting.
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I try to have Bitcoin conversations with people on Facebook too but OMFG are we so early.
Sometimes it's like repeatedly slamming my head against a wall made of of willfull ignorance.
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"The Times 2021-10-12 Britain must learn from ‘big mistakes’ on Covid, says report"
G9jcjEk1dn2MEtVxa0bl9wjgYslcMMpsw5mvaugRbvD9epS/5HvLnOdjq9RNx5dyv7FRhtulS+yuyu3e9szxOLw=
Proof that fits in a tweet. See Craig? This isn't hard...
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@olivia__ms
@WeirdMedieval
Wonder how this relates to the modern day term "bread-winner", meaning the one that goes out and earns the family's income.
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@howiesxsw
@RiotPlatforms
@nytimes
Glad to see that you agree that many uses of electricity such as those you name, and Bitcoin among them, are energy source agnostic and that the problem to be addressed is at the source of the energy and not cherry-picked destinations for it.
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Proof-of-Work is not the innovation. Literally everything of value Humans have created through all of history has been PoW.
*Digital* PoW is the innovation.
We can now preserve PoW in digital form and it can't be copied, forged, or counterfeited.
It's no wonder it has value.
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Who'd have thought that endless variations on the same monkey JPG wouldn't hold their value? (:
The Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection is now down over 90% from its $600K high
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#WeAreAllHodlonaut
.
Also,
#WeAreAllSatoshi
.
Except for Craig Wright. Definitely not that guy.
#CraigIsNotSatoshi
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@JamesMelville
@zooko
They're trying to prevent a run on the banks. Or are collapsing under the load of a run on the banks.
That's what happens when Governments and/or banks start stealing people's money.
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You should never have to invest your money just to save its value; the money should do that itself.
Investing is for attempting to accumulate *more* value by putting your money to work, and incurs risk.
Saving should incur little risk, if any.
Bitcoin solved the conundrum of having to create a diversified portfolio in order to save for the future.
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If only there were some kind of immutable ledger of timestamps that
@Dr_CSWright
could have started using throughout his later research to hash and timestamp his files so as to be able to prove when they existed...
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@TheRealNumber6
@RiotPlatforms
@nytimes
One man's waste is another man's incorruptible permissionless global monetary network.
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It's so satisfying responding to every single shitcoin pitch I get in email that our current VC fund is Bitcoin-only (:
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@amazingmap
I feel like Alabama has an opportunity here for a "Four Corners" style roadside attraction...
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OMFG.
This animation literally shows Craig creating his LaTeX forgery over many edits in his Overleaf history, adjusting his initial source that didn't match at all until it reasonably matched the original published whitepaper.
Game Over.
G: "We can see you were making changes one way and then another"
W: "I was doing a demonstration"
G: "You were trying to make it fit the actual Bitcoin WP"
W: "No I was showing them how it is created"
G: "I'm not interested in that only what you are doing"
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@lott_jd
@coryklippsten
Very surreal. I gave away a LOT of Bitcoin, pretty much to anyone that would take some, to raise awareness and promote it. I bought probably thousands of 1 BTC Casascius coins and handed them out at conferences, renaissance fairs, etc. Hopefully that helped (:
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@jespow
@hodlonaut
@coinbase
@krakenfx
I just sent a donation directly. If the cause is worthy enough, and this one definitely is, I don't need anything in return. Not even a tax write-off.
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Can "cryptos" all just go to zero already so "cryptography" can have its abbreviation back?
Thanks.
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@ErrataRob
People who don't want their battery drained as the phone constantly searches for a nonexistent cell tower to connect to.
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It's almost like a million dollars ain't what it used to be...
Oh wait, no, it's exactly like that.
#OptOut
#UseBitcoin
Visualizing the World’s Growing Millionaire Population (2012-2022) 💰️
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As a programmer, this exchange between Craig's counsel and Hinnant where Craig's counsel attempts to rationalize overloading the standard library namespace of an existing standard library with another custom library is just absolutely painful. Just no. Programmers don't do…
W: "You summarise CSW's evidence, you understand CSW created his own lib based on Project Chrono, so use of # include chrono would lead to the use of his own library."
H: "Yes"
W: "So it is possible for a programmer to modify existing lib to create their own"
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1. Get paid in fiat (because you probably still have to).
2. Exchange fiat for Bitcoin.
3. Spend Bitcoin into circular economies.
4. Repeat.
Value transfer from fiat --> Bitcoin.
#OptOut
#UseBitcoin
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The separation of Money & State is the most important solution for Humanity's problems that you can work on today.
Do the work.
#OptOut
#UseBitcoin
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So when someone pays a mining pool out-of-band to prioritize a transaction, the miners contributing to that pool likely never see any of that money because it's not actually part of the transaction's fee, yea?
As a miner, I would not contribute hash to such a pool. I would feel…
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Lemme help you BSVtards out... Craig said that setting metadata to certain values when creating a document, like making a document *appear* to have been created in OpenOffice when in reality it was created in LaTeX is *like* embedding a watermark.
He wasn't claiming there *is*…
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@CryptoVinco
Anyone can change Bitcoin's code to anything they want, at any time. It's open source.
Doesn't mean the network is gonna run it... Nodes control the network, not miners, as evidenced by the outcome of the blocksize war.
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Thanks to
@Breedlove22
&
@saifedean
for teaching me what money actually is. Once you understand this, Bitcoin is obvious and there can be only one.
#ThankAMaxi
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I've seen some pretty silly alternatives to Proof-of-Work consensus, but I don't think Craig Wright's Proof-of-Friends consensus mechanism that he's attempting to use in this trial is going to be able to definitively prove that he's Satoshi (:
#CraigIsNotSatoshi
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During
@hodlonaut
's closing arguments, Craig is frantically scribbling notes in a notepad, taking a picture of each completed page, then ripping them out with a loud *RIIIIIP* and handing them to his counsel. Quite audibly annoying.
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Eventually, they *will* come for your savings.
Save in money that they can't steal.
#OptOut
#SaveInBitcoin
Unreal.
This is Bruno Le Maire, France's Minister of the Economy. You might know him as the genius strategist who said he was going to "cause the collapse of the Russian economy"...
Now he is straight out declaring that Europe has run out of money (it "does not have sufficient…
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But... why? LOL
Someone needs to educate them on Bitcoin versus shitcoin forks.
@Excellion
?
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@coryklippsten
Fun fact:
The coins that Satoshi sent me were from a mined utxo, which was *not* in Craig Wright's list of claimed "Satoshi addresses". Why?
Because
#CraigIsNotSatoshi
.
The remaining coins in that address remain unspent to this day.
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How many countries need to make
#Bitcoin
legal tender before we can make the argument that Bitcoin is money, specifically foreign currency, and should be treated like all other foreign currencies instead of taxed as a capital asset?
@JohnCornyn
@SenTedCruz
@SenLummis
…
DEVELOPING: Argentina moving to make
#bitcoin
legal tender, more updates to come as story develops
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@Derpitor
@danheld
@bitcoingardener
@QuantumCatsXYZ
"It's not what NFTs can do for you, but what you can do for NFTs..."
Satoshi took OP_CAT out of Bitcoin Script for a reason.
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@unusual_whales
Who's got time for love when you're working three jobs?
The money is broken.
#FixTheMoneyFixTheWorld
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Wait wait wait... so which dollar in this $20 is the rare dollar here?
@rodarmor
The bitcoin code does not distinguish between individual satoshis.
It's impossible to order or number them natively on bitcoin. It would be like trying to number and order the individual dollars on a $5 bill.
So, how do Ordinals work?
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I've literally been here from the beginning, and even I still occasionally learn something new. Especially as
#Bitcoin
continues to add new technology like Lightning and Taproot, you'll never completely understand all of it.
Never stop learning!
Does anyone really understand Bitcoin?
I think anyone who says they do, is lying or hopelessly narcissistic.
I don't think there's any single qualifier that gets you easily through the door. DYOR til you die, you're still only gonna understand"parts" of bitcoin.
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Proof-of-Work *is* the innovation:
#Bitcoin
101: Satoshi's Innovation
Understanding why and how Satoshi Nakamoto used proof of work to crack the code that unlocked the best money in human history.
Gold is stuck in the ground,
#Bitcoin
is stuck in the future.
My keynote presentation at
@BitcoinAtlantis
:
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Happy
#Bitcoin
to Gold Parity Day!
On this day in 2007, 1 bitcoin surpassed the price of 1 oz of gold for the first time.
cc:
@PeterSchiff
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Craig is so, so fucked. Noone is buying this bullshit, including the Judge.
Mellor: "What you are claiming is all those changes shown were done for demonstration purposes but what was disclosed to the COPA solicitors was the end product..."
W: "WELL WHAT I.."
Mellor: "Let me speak"
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I didn't think it would be happening this quickly, but my prediction that energy producers and Bitcoin miners merging into single entities is definitely happening. Soon, you won't be efficient at energy production without a Bitcoin mining component to your operation.
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Three of the best books I've read in the last decade.
My books are available to purchase via my website with an automatic 10% discount if you pay with Bitcoin (on-chain or with Lightning).
Get your 10% discount upon checkout here:
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LOL
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@POTUS
Uhm... this phenomenon is due to monetary inflation of the dollar. Manufacturers can't *afford* to make their products the same size at the same price because dollars don't buy as much as they used to.
Either prices go up, or products get smaller. You can't avoid both with…
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Clear signal from the politicians that bribing them will not get you in (additional) trouble.
Corrupt AF.
NEW: The US Government has announced that they're no longer seeking a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried and will not prosecute him for political campaign finance violations despite having donated a $100 million in stolen customer funds to various American politicians.
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Blast from the past:
Don't make the mistake of thinking that buying
#Bitcoin
below $3,800 is a bargain just because the current price is better than 80% below its record high. Bitcoin's price could easily drop another 80% from here, and at $750 it would still be expensive!
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Except Craig Wright. Definitely not that guy...
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Proof-of-Stake systems lock up capital, rewarding the stakers with more of the inflationary asset.
They literally make their own capital unproductive for any purpose other than debasing itself.
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@SenWarren
@nytimes
You and the
@nytimes
should actually consult energy experts about this rather than unqualified actors and climate hysterics.
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This is what questioning someone who understands Bitcoin looks like. Contrast with
@Dr_CSWright
's rambling nonsense answers and it's clear that Craig doesn't understand Bitcoin.
A: "Yes"
W: "In bitcoin the POW process secures the ledger rather than creating the money"
A: "Yes but it is also the work which brings new coin into creation"
W: "Yes but the creation of the new coins is removed a number of steps from the solving of the puzzle itself"
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@BrianLockhart
@greenpeaceusa
Right? If they want to
#ChangeTheCode
so badly, just hire some developers and do it.
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@gettxoutsetinfo
@Dr_CSWright
Just showing Craig how it's done...
It's so easy even a clown like him could do it.
...if he had the keys (:
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We do not need NFTs on the base layer of the new global reserve currency. I like my sats fungible.
Build NFTs on
#Bitcoin
's upper layers where they belong. We already have them on
@Liquid_BTC
, and very soon will have them on Lightning via Taro.
(1/3)
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@danheld
@adam3us
@BitcoinHugo
@Derpitor
@bitcoingardener
@QuantumCatsXYZ
You can not own a JPEG on Bitcoin, or anywhere else, unless you keep its data private. Once inscribed, the data of the JPEG is public, and anyone can make a copy.
You can own Bitcoin on its blockchain because there is no data that *is* the Bitcoin. What you "own" is the right…
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First 100% SegWit block I've seen, and I've been watching for a long, long time (:
Block 788604
Hash: 0x...036c7792d3e3e02b9cbb486d9ae933cdd32726ac1077eb
Size: 1.86MB, 3997313 WU, 100% full
Txs: 5,049
SegWit spends: 100%
5,502 in → 10,594 out
Out/In Ratio: 1.93
Out Value: $8,116,467 | 280 btc
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@rodarmor
@rot13maxi
Hard to stack when the mempool is unusable due to degenerate bullshit...
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BTC has once again dipped below my BUY target... Trailing stop-loss BID engaged. Here goes the remainder of the dry powder.
Again.
#BuyTheDip
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@coryklippsten
I definitely wasn't the second to mine, though, as I didn't figure out until a few days later that you specifically had to *turn on* the mining function. And
@halfin
obviously got the first transaction ever, between himself and Satoshi (:
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This is a brilliant idea. Every community needs a SATurday Sats Market. Find an empty parking lot you can use, get vendors there that accept Bitcoin, and spread the word! Either every SATurday or once a month!
Stop bitching and take some initiative. Asking permission has never worked.
Anyone in
#Calgary
that wants to bootstrap a local
#Bitcoin
circular economy with me, it's happening. Here comes the Saturday SAT market. Help me build it.
@orangepillapp
link:
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In my opinion, this is the strongest evidence of forgery the plaintiff's have. There is zero other explanation for this other than intentional direct manipulation of the binary executable file. Recompiling from source with the version number changed doesn't even cause this.
Supposed 0.0.8 exe has hard-coded version instead of template string, and GCC was changed from 3.4.5 to 3.4.4, creating the impression of an older version. But PE checksum is the same. – the "0.0.8" exe is 0.1.0 changed in a hex editor.
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#Bitcoin
just got a lot more deflationary. As institutions begin to lock up large amounts of Bitcoin into cold storage, effectively removing it from the usable money supply and turning it into a tradeable derivative that can't be used directly as money, the total supply…
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