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Today on clubhouse I heard an 18 year old kid from Lebanon who’s been stacking Bitcoin since he was 16 to avoid crippling currency devaluation. This is the generation that will topple authoritarian regimes while dollar privileged armchair economists argue that Bitcoin has no use
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“Bitcoin has no use except for speculation by tech bros”. A debunk thread.👇
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Bitcoin doesn't have bear markets, much like the Internet doesn't have dips in adoption. Adoption is one way only. This concept is misapplied to Bitcoin by traders because it appears to have a price. Adoption is only going in one direction. Fundamental value grows with adoption.
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@paulkrugman
Let’s remove the stuff people need from our data. That would be a cool exercise.
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Breaking: Hillary Clinton says bitcoin is working as intended
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El Salvador becomes first nation properly positioned for self sovereignty on a bitcoin standard.
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1/THREAD: WHEN WAS IT CLEAR?
Oct. 8, 2020: The purpose of this thread is to document and timestamp when it first became clear that
#Bitcoin
was likely to become a major reserve asset for public corporations, and eventually states, with Square's purchase of $50M in BTC.
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Why is Bitcoin worth 100x of BCH, it’s closest clone? Instead of thinking of bch as “Bitcoin plus bigger blocks for scalability”, think of it as “Bitcoin minus decentralization and immutability”. The value prop of Bitcoin becomes much more clear.
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Recently we announced that some of the banks and qualified custodians that Swan works with have been freezing or terminating accounts involved in mixing Bitcoin. Today I’d like to help the industry get perspective on what’s going on, and what steps we are taking to do the right…
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🚨Action Required: FinCEN has a proposed rule that tramples our 1st and 4th amendment liberties, continuing the expansion of unwarranted search and seizure on law abiding Americans.
You can comment in less than 5 minutes with 3 easy steps:
1. Source a list of objections.…
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The
@nytimes
chose to devote a huge section of its front page to a 0.1% consumer of energy, which is more renewable than other industry, full of misleading and false information. What could possibly warrant such an editorial choice? Inquiring minds want to know.
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“Magic internet money” was the right meme in 2013. It is not the right meme for 2023 with bitcoin as legal tender, supporting energy grids, and powering freedom protests. People dressing up as wizards and acting like clowns are a social attack on the most important movement of…
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When does the Internet reach its top and have a dip in adoption? I’m thinking of selling the Internet top and then rebuying Internet later. Surely it can’t keep going up forever. There must be a technological innovation coming to replace it? Anybody?
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2011: for nerds
2013: for criminals
2017: it’s a ponzi
2019: not a store of value
2020: not recession proof
2021: only a few public companies have any
2022: it’s only legal tender in one country
2023: it’s bad for the planet
2024: it’s just ETF speculation
$6 nerd money is gone…
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Bitcoin critics be like: “Convince me in one tweet that my cursory understanding, based on reading one poorly researched article, of a subject you spent years studying, is wrong.”
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PayPal CEO: only bitcoin
Twitter/Square CEO: only bitcoin
Nobody that matters: only your favorite altcoin
Bitcoin maximalism isn't a philosophy. It's a recognition of reality.
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If you think Bitcoin is a scam and then sign up to speak at a conference run by people who literally try to convince everyone that their copy of Bitcoin is the real deal (and being brutally rejected by the market 215 to 1) then....well, we tried to warn you. Reputation
@nntaleb
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Let’s talk about how Coinbase gives you a fake price on their Home Screen to lure you into buying at a higher exchange rate. Rug pull!
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The drop from the $600’s to the $300’s in 2013 was just as scary for people who had first bought bitcoin. The difference? There wasn’t yet a country with bitcoin legal tender laws and the founder of Twitter had not yet quit to work on it full time.
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Two things that can be true at the same time
1. Privacy is not a crime. There is a war on privacy and the proposed fincen rule that attempts to treat mixing as suspicious by default is creating reporting requirements on standard privacy practice which even they themselves…
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Bitcoin is worth $386 billion dollars today. Congrats on everyone who studied, understood, believed, and educated. And to the people that are still in disbelief: this is the beginning.
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This is a gross violation of our free speech rights and our personal property rights.
@SenLummis
how can we stop your uninformed colleague from attempting to write laws that make no sense? This is so broad it includes people running computers at home for hobby and research…
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It’s just Bitcoin being bitcoin. Convert your dollars regularly with an automatic savings plan. Don’t look at the price. Enjoy building your stash of freedom cash.
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Bitcoin is extremely polarizing. People either end up deep in study, leveling up in economics, game theory, computer science, geopolitics, cryptography, and energy.
Or they post idiotic and ignorant takes with a level of conviction that’s frankly astounding.
Engagement…
Gold was made by God, bitcoin was made by a fictitious Japanese guy and a bunch of Jews with autism
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First Silicon Valley Bank died. And you didn't buy Bitcoin, because you were not a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
Then Silvergate Bank was shut down. And you didn't buy Bitcoin, because it was just a few isolated banks, and not a contagion.
Then Credit Suisse blew up. And…
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Statements about Bitcoin mining that sound like data but are actually unscientific emotional manipulation. A guide for journalists. 🧵👇
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Tesla and Me
I have suspended plans to purchase a Tesla. I am looking at other alternatives that work on fairy dust. I will be working with devs on an alt-EV project that has the same properties as Tesla but doesn’t use toxic battery technology and coal powered electric outlets.
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Bitcoin will never hit $0.10
Bitcoin will never hit $1
Bitcoin will never hit $100
Bitcoin will never hit $1000
Bitcoin will never hit $10000
* Bitcoin will never hit $100000
* We are here
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Breaking: horse and buggy salesman, fined billions for serving criminals, asks government to help shut down the car industry because it is used “only for crime”
Jamie Dimon: "I've always been deeply opposed to crypto ... the true use case for it is criminals ... because it is somewhat anonymous and you can move money instantaneously ... if I was the government I'd close it down."
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“Am I too late to invest in Bitcoin?”
Well…only one country in the world has enacted Bitcoin legal tender laws so far. It has a population of 6m. There are 8b people on the planet. So…are you too late?
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Carl Menger wrote Principles of Economics in 1871, outlining why utility tokens, forkcoins, app coins, and VC coins would never hold value in the presence of Bitcoin. This knowledge seems to have been lost. Zoom in and read!
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CBDCs will be first offered to the poor as bailouts. Similar to digital food stamps, but more programmable. Only spend on milk and only by this Friday or it expires. Most likely scenario. It will be heralded as an innovative way to Make our Economy Great Again. You were warned.
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Today, someone I admired for a long time,
@dhh
came around on bitcoin after years of deep anti bitcoin sentiment. What did it? Canada. The use case finally came close enough to home to pay attention. For the rest of the world, the use case has been obvious for years.
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Was Elon's 4d chess move really "mining is ruining the planet" followed by "we met and now it's not a problem, pump it"?
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Greenpeace is using $5m of money from someone embroiled in an unregistered securities lawsuit to run a bitcoin disinformation campaign. Where is the media on this?
@business
@ForbesCrypto
@CNBC
@FoxNews
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DeFi proponents are trying to fool you in claiming that FTX disaster was because of CeFi (centralized finance). A thread on DeFi risks with examples. 🧵👇
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Let's say you're a country. You're not doing well. Your currency is crashing, or you're dollarized and entirely at the mercy of the United States. Then you see this news. What do you do next?
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Analysts: mining death spiral!
Thiel: I'll take a Texas bitcoin mine for $50M, thanks
Analysts: but price go down!
Whinstone: 1gw mine coming right up
Analysts: but halving!
Oilfield miners: I'll mine on free gas, cheers
Don't listen to people with no skin in the game.
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1. Make an unconstitutional law requiring banks to spy on everyone
2. Make the reporting requirements so vague that the only choice is to automate and overreport
3. Make the reporting threshold based on a dollar value. Print a lot more dollars, debase the dollar, now pretty much…
The number of Suspicious Activity Reports filed by banks is skyrocketing. As a result, more and more everyday Americans are getting their bank accounts randomly closed with no explanation or recourse.
This unaccountable automated privatized surveillance apparatus is growing out…
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The USA’s unconstitutional surveillance regulation is driving innovation off shore. We don’t have to KYC when we spend our cash dollars. Why do we have to when we send bits of information over the internet? These regs harm our economy and our citizens by creating honeypots for…
To our valued Wallet of Satoshi community in the United States of America,
We've dedicated ourselves to providing the best Bitcoin experience with Wallet of Satoshi, being at the forefront of Lightning usability and adoption. However, we've made the difficult decision to remove…
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There's a hot new product under the radar of most tech investors...
- Worth $260 billion dollars
- Moves about $1T annually
- Works globally
- Nearly 100% uptime for 12 years
- Open source
- Embraced by tech and macro leaders
- Widely misunderstood
- Fixes everything
#Bitcoin
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Bitcoin is engineered for the worst case. Until the worst case comes, other coins may look similar. But it is like riding a car with a loose wheel. One day the loose wheel comes off, and that is the day you realize you should have bought a safer car. But you’re already dead.
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Bitcoin skeptics may benefit from understanding Amara’s law in order to avoid sounding like early internet user Cliff Stoll, who dismissed the internet as “baloney” after 2 decades online, in 1995.
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Bitcoin has become in Miami similar to burning man in Reno. Surreal to see the airport displays shilling.
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Bitcoin is used in this village in El Salvador because “majority of residents are unbanked and the local businesses don’t meet the requirements that would enable them to accept credit cards.”
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> a blockchain becomes popular
> fees go up
> tx’es start to settle bigger amounts of value
> low value use cases priced out
> highest value use case is money
> bitcoin is money
> congratulations, your blockchain is now a bitcoin iou database
> with weaker settlement assurances
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To figure out your Bitcoin allocation, don’t ask “how much of my wealth can I afford to lose?”
Ask “how much of my wealth should be stored in a medium that cannot be debased and is fully portable?”
Build your stash of freedom cash.
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Balaji bet feels like a local top signal. Sorry. But y’all gotta take the hopium down a few notches.
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@SenWarren
Banking companies are spending millions building an army of legacy industry officials to lobby against new technology that threatens their existence. The revolving door of the banks’ money laundering fines boosts Congress, but endangers our national security by funding unamerican…
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This was always inevitable. Once a public company buys Bitcoin all have to. Once a state buys Bitcoin all have to. Once a country buys Bitcoin all have to. You play the game or you get left behind. See you all on the other side.
A simple idea in the hands of the right person can take us very far.
Kudos to
@FrancisSuarez
for trying to create an environment that embraces and empowers entrepreneurs.
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Without mixing, spending bitcoin is similar to writing your bank balance on a dollar bill when you hand it to a clerk to buy a candy bar. Mixing is a normal privacy behavior.
This unelected body is legislating 4th amendment violations through its rule making actions.
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While some panic sell and play games trying to time the market with shorts, businesses, IRA accounts, and high net worth people are buying. In size.
How do I know? We had our biggest week ever at Swan and we have no sell button.
If you buy the FUD someone else buys your BTC.
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Reported for misinformation.
Bitcoin mines are increasing energy bills for millions of American families while enriching crypto executives — and causing as much pollution as an additional 3.5 million gas-powered cars. An alarming
@nytimes
report.
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If you "invest" in Bitcoin, that implies you will one day sell it for a fiat gain. It implies allocating a percentage of your portfolio and rebalancing. This is not the way.
Bitcoin is not an investment. It's about upgrading your money. Keep stacking, keep upgrading.
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When Bitcoin pumps, the scammers come out to play. BE VIGILANT. Do not send Bitcoin to anyone you don't know *for any reason*. That includes websites promising you a return on your Bitcoin. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. WARN YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
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I’ve heard some trading desks are terminating all altcoin activity except btc and eth. Nature is healing. One final boss left.
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I thought bitcoin was bad with 16k liters of water per on chain transaction, but it gets way worse. It turns out even a single bitcoin *trade* uses up an entire swimming pool of water!
There are 10M swimming pools in the USA. By my calculation, we should be out of water by…
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Unpopular opinion: you should have bitcoin stored in a variety of places ranging from hardware to software to multisig and yes even fully custodial. Diversifying storage is better than total loss due to messing up self custody, wallet exploit, etc.
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Coinbase retail is already selling bitcoin for well over 70k. The barrier is broken.
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Senator Warren has repeatedly gone on an unamerican assault on our basic rights. Using leading questions that are not backed by data, and expert testimony proving her wrong, she continues to fight for the wrong side. Far from being an anti bank warrior, she is happy to take…
Senator Warren has repeatedly proposed legislation that goes after your right to privacy in holding and using bitcoin.
You have the right to privacy and property in the United States. Period. This is not up to her.
Not sure what world Senator Warren prefers, but it’s…
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I do not stand with crypto, digital assets, blockchain, or NFTs.
I stand with Bitcoin, the most important freedom technology of our time.
Stand with me, or stand aside. Do not confound these issues. You're giving the opponent a hook.
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Bitcoin ranging between 9k-10k is the same percentage move as when it ranged $900-1000 and $90-100.
Few understand this.
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The biggest impediment to Bitcoin adoption is people who use a position of having lots of followers to mislead them with “wisdom” because they think they understand Bitcoin.
The biggest impediment to BTC adoption are bitcoin maximalists. Few understand this.
Be more open. Don't try to ram your points home. Support people and don't be tribal and never be abusive and insulting if someone doesn't share your BTC only views. It's a big world out there.
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Bitcoin is:
- good for humanity
- good for liberty
- good for the planet
- extremely American in its values
Those who say otherwise haven’t done their research.
This is the way.
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I came to Bitcoin in '16. Fell for shitcoins in '17. Listened to ICO pods. Fell for the decentralization memes and famous founders monetizing their reputation. Worked on scalability with big blocker guys with PhDs. I did the work. That's how I became a Bitcoiner.
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If all that Bitcoin ever does is let people squirrel away some money into a seizure-resistant portable form in case their country does the soviet/venezuela/iran/n. korea/turkey/iran/argentina/greece/cyprus thing, it will already completely change the world for the better.
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Bitcoiners have a ton of skin in the game. We have put on the line our reputation, career, and money over what we see as an absolutely crucial invention for human rights. Consider what we have at stake. Armchair critics are a dime a dozen.
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Bitcoin breaks $10k. Gold breaks ATH. The dollar is being debased and these markets know it. First they will moon together. Then bitcoin will likely take gold’s monetary premium. It may take a few generations for that to play out.
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Bitcoin is not an investment. It’s an on-ramp into the future of money. Just like you’re never going back to watching cable tv once you have on demand streaming content. Few understand this.
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Bitcoin is a savings account that will always be yours regardless of who you bank with, who runs your government, or where you live.
Americans don’t feel the acute pressure to open such an account. Be thankful that it’s a luxury for you and act before you’re on the other side.
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Heard bitcoin was crashing and people were “losing money”. In a panic, I checked my bitcoin wallet. The same number of coins was still there.
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Not a single positive reply to this scam announcement.
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Good morning. Bitcoin is 15 years old and worth $700B dollars, making it the 16th largest monetary system in the world. The next larger currency is the Mexican peso.
The world's top fiat currencies are bleeding out, while Bitcoin is protecting value. Multiple all time highs…
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Don’t underestimate
#eth
🚀
Ethiopia's 🇪🇹 State Minister at the Ministry of Innovation and Technology
@DrAhmedin
, "Having an open platform to create an empowered workforce that uses the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency -
#bitcoin
"
"
#Bitcoin
is critical for
#Eth
and Africa"
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Ok, we laugh at dave, but is his story really that different than what so many people experience?
* hears about Bitcoin
* lured by shitcoins instead
* trades, gets rekt
* eff this, I'm out, I own zero bitcoins
* I'll wait and watch
* Bitcoin goes up 10-100x
* Buys the top again
I currently own zero bitcoins. I will wait and watch. I lost 25k. Just like with the stock market it took my brain time to figure it out. I know this. The Link Marines are weak and the orchid flowers do die in the crypto world. I may or may not be done.
#bitcoin
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Bitcoin is the first and only economic system to channel self interest into the betterment of society without the use of violence. How much do you think that’s worth?
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Heads up! Inventing Bitcoin now available in Paperback on Amazon or through BTC/Lightning at . Learn how Bitcoin works before you invest. Two hour read, and no technical experience required. Share it with your friends!
Amazon:
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