[🧵1/16] bitcoin *is* money: “A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” https://t.co/fnuqCdzIvX

It’s not often an interview makes my jaw drop. I sat down with Erin West, an expert in transnational organized crime, about “pig butchering” cyber scams and the shocking cases of human trafficking and forced labor camps in Southeast Asia to run the scams. The DOJ recently

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Bitcoin changes in ways that confound arb data protocols leeching off of it and make zero difference to monetary users. Yes, spammers can still find other ways, but focusing on that is missing the point entirely. As with any hygienic endeavour, it will always need repeating but

degens will degen i guess

Reposting because you haven't seen it in a while, and you should.

@stephanlivera It makes no sense to intentionally leave holes when we're up against bad actors controlling Bitcoin Core and have to make a consensus change anyway. Better to close them all at once. Especially when all you bad actors are going to oppose it either way.

Everyone's fighting over Core vs. Knots while Bitcoin mining centralization is the real threat staring us in the face. Wake up. This is what we should be fighting for. Let's put our energy where it actually counts. Let's bring mining back home...

Here's the code: https://t.co/d7lp0Eo6fT

He misspelled jpegs.

Bitcoin UTXO Set Bloat, or Large Op Returns?

Statement from Foundation We are incredibly saddened by the harsh five-year sentence given to Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez. We believe this outcome is unjust and deeply troubling. It directly conflicts with previous guidance from FinCEN; where one federal agency

A new draft of the BIP is out 👀

Bastiat's Unseen, Chesterton's Fence, and Bitcoin

If you try and fight spam with policy, they'll tell you it's useless and to fork. If you try and fork they'll tell you that it's the wrong tool for the job and to do it with policy.

Eric, time to step it up. @EricTrump

Bitcoin Core Dumpster Fire

@BitcoinErrorLog asks, so he receives. (Despite him blocking me). If Bitcoin is money, how could data use-cases ever outbid commerce? --> Wrong question (gaslighting). Bitcoin is money. It's ledger is upheld by a decentralized and distributed network. "Being money" is the only

If you treat Bitcoin as merely a "decentralized database" you'll end up with a centralized database.

Spent my morning helping human rights activists across Africa learn about Bitcoin and set up their first wallets. What an amazing way to start the day. Shoutout @HRF @AnyaChekhovich @femilonge @wkkaung @gladstein https://t.co/SVOYfhYIVM

GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back Graphene says a major Android OEM partnership will bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships. https://t.co/4tNEr9VeNu