Stephen Cole
@sthenc
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co-founder & ceo @orqestraio, angel in some important startups, atlas shrugged appreciator, ✞
Joined March 2008
A reminder of bitcoin's killer app is conveniently etched in the genesis block.
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I was an engineer at eBay/PayPal when PP censored donations to Wikileaks in 2010. That’s the first time I remember wondering… “are we sure we’re the good guys?” 🤔.
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New best chips in the world just dropped. Look at that ingredient list. PERFECTION. 🔥
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Buy as much bitcoin as you can while billionaires still misunderstand it.
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PayPal leadership on a mission to prove that just because the stock is down 70% in the last year doesn’t mean it can’t fall another 70% from here.
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Politicians don't like Bitcoin because it frees us from them.
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weapons in the fight for freedom:. - linux. - vpn. - tor. - signal. - bitcoin. learn 'em. use 'em.
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$100K is such a psychologically important level. When Bitcoin punches through it and the headline is plastered across mainstream finance channels, the FOMO is going to be unreal. What a time to be alive.
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It is vital for the health of our nation that we come together and recognize this as the automotive section.
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Pretty neat how Satoshi stayed anonymous so Hillary can't have him suicided.
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This is health food. For decades fat and meat have been blamed for what sugar and seed oils have done.
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Upgrading from dollars to bitcoin is going from proof-of-war to proof-of-work.
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This book from 1997 predicts nations will get desperate for funding as tech like the internet and digital money make it easier for citizens to protect their savings. They suggest states may even create excuses to limit taxpayer mobility, such as a global pandemic.
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Germany is shutting down nuclear reactors and selling bitcoin. Absolute decel maxxing.
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Bitcoin dipping on news that Tesla is stacking sats, Fidelity is filing an ETF, and sovereign wealth funds are asking NYDIG how to buy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Knowing someone who owns an entire bitcoin will be wayyyyy more rare than knowing a millionaire.
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turn off tv, read books, lift weights, buy bitcoin, meditate, eat steak, get sunlight, ditch sunscreen, avoid sugar, learn to fight, own a gun, encrypt communications, speak truth to power, encourage friends, build a family.
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Plot twist: Bitcoin will be the best thing to happen to the environment in our lifetimes.
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Literally just buy bitcoin and hold it. It really is that simple.
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Always be upping your bitcoin game. - No BTC? Buy some. - Bought BTC? Control your keys. - Got your keys? Run a node. - Run a node? Make it private with Tor. - Run a Tor node? CoinJoin your funds. - Funds CJ'd? Open Lightning channels. - Good on Lightning? Plan inheritance. .
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“Bitcoin hasn’t announced any plans to move to proof-of-stake.”. “Gold hasn’t announced any plans to change its atomic number.”. Same energy.
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Central bankers don’t like Bitcoin because it gives the people they steal from a way to protect themselves.
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It's less about El Salvador helping Bitcoin and more about Bitcoin helping El Salvador.
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Are you upgrading to sound money, or are you enriching insiders?. BTC pre-mine: 0%.ETH pre-mine: 70%.XRP pre-mine: 100%.
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Wow. Someone made a searchable website showing real identities and crypto holdings lost in the Celsius collapse. What a perfectly horrendous illustration of the risks of KYC.
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McDonalds, Starbucks, Pizza Hut all accepting bitcoin via lightning in El Salvador. ⚡️.
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The enormous transfer of wealth from US Treasury bonds to Bitcoin will be one of the most virtuous and liberating events in human history.
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$67M net worth.10 houses.3 luxury yachts. Elizabeth Warren should teach a MasterClass on cantillionaire methods of extracting wealth from the citizenry 😂.
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Buying bitcoin at $47K for the same reason I bought at $200: seems hilariously cheap and most people have no idea.
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Buying volcano bonds because I believe in Bitcoin and in El Salvador but also because it feels wonderful seeing the IMF become irrelevant. 🌋 🇸🇻.
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Surround yourself with people who understand that what is legal and what is right are two very different questions.
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I'm glad Satoshi invented Bitcoin instead of trying to change the world through politics.
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Someone I respect messaged me confused about why I'm throwing shade at Coinbase instead of being happy for them and what they've done for Bitcoin. Full transparency, here's my response.
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If you think parasitic bureaucrats and authoritarians dislike Bitcoin now, just wait until they understand it.
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First they’ll add bitcoin as a payment option, then they’ll offer discounts if you pay in it, and eventually it’ll be the only way to pay.
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A vulnerability in money was introduced in 1971. Satoshi Nakamoto released a fix in 2009.
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My 89-year-old aunt just called asking how to buy bitcoin because she's worried "the government is printing money and never seems to run out of ink".
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Borders are going to be less about keeping out intruders and more about keeping in taxpayers.
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Bitcoin will simply be the money. If you don't have any bitcoin, you won't have any money.
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If you think today's scam is bad just remember EOS convinced people to send them $4 billion in 2017.
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We should break up Big Government.
We should break up Big Tech.
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Ever stop to think how wild it is the crime Assange and Snowden committed was telling us the truth?.
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If Elon sells $25B of TSLA and buys BTC this month, hello $10K daily green candle.
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Bitcoin isn't just how I protect my savings—it's my vote, my protest, and the only meaningful way I see of fighting a broken, corrupt, destructive system.
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If you think covid kills lots of people, just wait until you hear about sugar.
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At my first Bitcoin meetup in SF in 2014 I remember telling some guy how excited I was about LTC because it was faster and cheaper. He gave me this exasperated sigh and literally just walked away. I was baffled. Dear sir exhausted maximalist, wherever you are now, I get it. 😂.
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I have a feeling bitcoin is only ever going to cross $20K once.
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I'll take Bitcoin over the full faith and credit of the US government any day.
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Bitcoin is going to restructure society by making it harder for nation states to steal from people.
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Not buying bitcoin because you can't afford 1 BTC is like not buying gold because you can't afford a huge gold brick. One dollar buys thousands of sats. Think in sats. Make sats the standard.
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Think how hilariously luddite and cringe and all-around dumb it would look if you'd run an "anti-internet" campaign back in the early 90s. That's you, Elizabeth Warren. That's what you look like.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Senator Elizabeth Warren launches "anti-crypto" re-election campaign.
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Bitcoin market cap: $140 billion.Microsoft market cap: $1 trillion. In a few years we'll look back and laugh at the days when the internet of money was worth less than a single company.
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I truly believe if enough of us save in bitcoin, we can save the world.
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Mad about regulators botching this infrastructure bill? Channel that energy into. - buying bitcoin. - controlling your keys. - running a node w/ tor. - opening lightning channels. - encrypting communications. - moving / getting a second passport. Take their power away.
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One of the deadliest viruses in history is the food pyramid. It escaped from a USDA lab in 1992 and went on to infect millions.
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Recently Iran moved $500M in gold out of Venezuela, a risky and costly operation with a load of 9 tons spread across multiple jets. Yesterday a single Bitcoin transaction moved $750M. It took a few minutes and cost $2.75 in fees.
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I’m a simple man with a simple plan: accumulate bitcoin before the world realizes how valuable it is.
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We're so early some people will still give you bitcoin if you give them dollars.
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It started with no one willing to trade dollars for bitcoin and might end with no one willing to trade bitcoin for dollars.
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One cool thing about Bitcoin is you never have to worry about selling. You just hold it and wait for the rest of the world to catch up.
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Any time the government does something you don't like, buy bitcoin.
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There is absolutely no price bitcoin could crash to at which I'd consider selling. Literally none. The only question is how much more to buy and when.
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