Alex Waltz
@raw_avocado
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Bitcoin history buff. Directing @SatsDontExist movie. Photography: @waltz_on_film
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Joined March 2016
Last month, I dug into Satoshi's code and the VERY early days of Bitcoin. Here are 10 lesser-known and counter-intuitive facts that blew my mind 🤯
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Liana was launched more than 2 years ago. Time flies :')
1/21 Liana v1.0 IS OUT! by @Wizardsardine A #Bitcoin wallet that supports: - Miniscript descriptors - Timelocks - Multi-path spending This means: - Key-loss Recovery🗝 - Trustless Inheritance 👨👩👧👦 - Safer Backups🔗 https://t.co/cSLTsnxC1s 🧵Thread👇
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People who often say "choose your battles" are usually people who choose no battles.
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👏Satoshis👏do👏not👏exist!
The Bank of Internal Settlements (BIS) wants to start marking bitcoins. The central bank of central banks is essentially proposing to create a grading system from 0 to 100 for each satoshi, based on transaction history. If the score is low, companies and even users could refuse
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I think I solved the mistery of why Satoshi used different endianess in various places. :D
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Treasury Company Advisory Agreements We take a look at some of the crypto treasury companies. We briefly review some of the "advisory agreements" and the fees involved https://t.co/mIpXOyT3pD
blog.bitmex.com
Abstract: We take a look at some of the crypto treasury companies and talk about the structure of some of the latest deals and why people choose to invest in them. We look at how PIPE investors can…
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The marketing of Bitcoin companies has not changed since 2013.
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Mixnets are cool! So I built a Bitcoin transaction broadcaster that runs in the browser and sends the transaction anonymously via the @nym mixnet 😎
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Years ago I remember listening to @pennjillette on a podcast talk about the evil mediums/psychics do when they claim they can talk to the dead. When someone dies, all you have left is their memory. The act of claiming you can talk to the dead and have them communicate through
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Utreexo BIP drafts published by @kcalvinalvinn, co-authored by @tdryja and Davidson Souza. Come review 🤠 - BIP drafts: https://t.co/3md0ZDZVhB - Mail list post: https://t.co/JCiLd2NuTA - Utreexo is a proposed alternative to the UTXO set; more info at
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We just released a new version of electrum-ecc, our python interface to libsecp256k1. https://t.co/SHrIqAfgTQ
github.com
python library for libsecp256k1, using ctypes. Contribute to spesmilo/electrum-ecc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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While going through earlier e-cash references in the Bitcoin space I stumbled upon @theymos describing not only e-cash, but a federated e-cash on Bitcoin in 2014, 5 years before @scritcash! 🤯 https://t.co/5nIOqrxiIX
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Introducing our Community Statistics page! You can now visit https://t.co/FFb2zFCN9Z to track trending chat, image, and video models on our platform! It's really helpful for deciding on which model to use as well as for understanding the current AI landscape!
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The legendary Bitcoin Bar - Room 77 One of the 1st places in the world to accept Bitcoin. Did not accept Bitcoins from Coinbase. Pictures from 30 Aug 2018.
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Oldie but goodie.
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Marc Andreessen on the 5 personality traits of an innovator “When you’re talking about real innovators—people who actually do really creative, breakthrough work—I think you’re talking about a couple things:” 1. Very high in trait openness. “Just flat-out open to new ideas… And
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John Newbery talking about the newly released Bitcoin Core 0.17 2nd London BitDevs meetup 16 Aug 2018 (not yet called BitDevs)
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For the 100th time.
BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services
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