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#FreeSamourai Libertarian. Interested in Bitcoin, Monero and censorship resistance. GPG 6022 34D3 F520 354C 6AF5 1198 7610 EEEF FD25 FEC5.
Singapore / London
Joined March 2009
Instead of yelling at our users to be better, we again did something radical: We made our wallet better instead. Login on a DeSo app like and you will see "Login with Google". This still uses a seed phrase, but backs it up securely to your Google Drive.
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Wasabi Wallet is a coal torpedo in the armoury of a Bitcoiner. It's done more damage to the value proposition of Bitcoin than any other wallet. It remains an unmitigated disaster.
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If you haven't tried buying and selling BTC for cash directly in person yet, you should.
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A statist core dev with an affinity for blacklists, sees transactions he doesn't like as "spam", gatekept BIPs, begs for donations whilst sitting on a stack, spews fundamentalist vitriol, has attacked BTC privacy and UX improvements then gets rekt and some of you are sympathetic?.
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On this timeline, I could see myself being forced to use dark net markets to purchase vacuum sealed organic rib-eyes in the not too distant future.
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@gegelsmr4 @JoeNakamoto Was she an ex wife before or after the Venezuelan lady incident?. Canât believe even his cutlery was taken. Seems egregious. A man gotta eat.
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Application layer privacy on Bitcoin is not dead. Itâs very tiring seeing these constant cries of defeat. Bitcoin is a useful tool, it will most likely continue to be and it is worth not giving up on. Iâm sad to see friends in prison but we dishonour them with this attitude.
So how are Bitcoiners feeling now about the "let's just do privacy at the app layer" now that all app layer approaches are dead in a week of government action?. What's your next step, anon?.
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2021 has seen some incredible development in the desktop Bitcoin wallet space. Nothing comes close to @SparrowWallet. No trusted âsidechainâ nonsense, a focus on entropy in transaction construction, built on open source standards with a clean, informative user interface.
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Bitcoin is a software program. It is fallible. It isnât a chemical element or a mathematical axiom. This is a highly misleading viewpoint to espouse.
#Bitcoin was discovered, not created. When you understand this, your view of the multi-verse changes completely.
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Bless @Jimmysong who a while ago was very grateful that a PDF he wanted in the Blockchain could be stored there (and was looking at ways to do this with other PDFs!) but now thinks you are attacking Bitcoin if you do the same.
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Just got the below sent to me by my girlfriend in all it's uncropped glory.
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If you market BTC as ângu techâ, tell them âitâs still earlyâ and âthereâs not enough to go round for everyoneâ, of course theyâll anxiously put it in a yield platform as theyâre literally FOMOing. If you describe BTC as freedom tech, users wonât want to encumber w/ 3rd parties.
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If money moves like email, itâll be surveilled, censored and youâll be dependent on a third party for your identity. For me, still, one of the most magic things about BTC is that itâs possible to receive and send value using public key cryptography that requires no permission.
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Honestly a toss up of who I canât stand more at the moment - Monero maxis or Bitcoin maxis. The Samourai situation has brought out the worst in them. Rally round and support some guys that have principles that should be the foundation of the space? Nah, shill a protocol instead.
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Donât let anyone shame you from making a Bitcoin transaction. If your transaction is worth you paying the mining fee, itâs not spam. A âpushâ tx on a blockchain is fundamentally different to going through channels and comes with significant privacy and censorship trade offs.
Doing anything but #lightningnetwork payments to transfer #Bitcoin in consumer facing payment applications is on the long term a disservice to the consumer AND the #Bitcoin network. Why would one spam the #Bitcoin blockchain with small size payments for day to day activities?.
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@TokenHash @NickSzabo4 âthere's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighboursâ.
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@mohamedmansour @troyhunt @coinbase @haveibeenpwned @brian_armstrong Stop asking permission to use Bitcoin. Just set up an actual wallet rather than a bank account that is Bitcoin denominated. Sparrow Wallet would enable someone to receive donations without address re-use too and no need to run a server.
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I don't even know why BIP119 is even a thing being discussed for soft forking into BTC. Implementing common input signature aggregation and confidential transactions should be less controversial, more conservative and aligned to the purpose of BTC - a censorship resistant ecash.
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Some Bitcoin projects have compromised in the last two years and just gone for custodial money grabs. There aren't many that have gone via the difficult (but correct) route and stayed close to their principles.
Our interest has never been blind maximalisim. Our interest is identifying & solving problems for bitcoin users who want to interact privately on the public blockchain with tools that work TODAY. We believe Haveno-DEX has the potential to solve problems for Bitcoin users.
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Easy to blame Binance for this but you have to expect it in meatspace when youâre dealing with exchanges on fiat rails. Wasabi address re-use makes for easy identification and tracking. It is not fit for use in an adversarial environment. Listen to the shilling at your peril.
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BTC/XMR atomic swaps being built into excellent and innovative wallets are where the real changes are happening. The innovation in applications built for users _using_ Bitcoin is where the real dissent happens. Itâs not the protocol anymore. Direct your attention accordingly.
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Thought provoking sentiment from @craigraw. Well worth listening to. Respectful, articulate and reasonable challenges to the current status quo. At what cost to Bitcoin are the current pursuits towards shared UTXO ownership, custody and federated models?.
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I wonder when Tor will be usable again. Can't remember a time I've tried to use it and not forgotten what I was originally trying to do by the time I got any kind of a result from it. FML.
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@Excellion @Liquid_BTC We shouldnât oppose âCBDCsâ but we should try to get a country to adopt good ones before the bad ones arrive. A Bank of America coin on Liquid is long overdue.
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This site is garbage. Avoid Yeti. Avoid interacting with @JWWeatherman_ and @RobertSpigler . Apex larp.
The 1.0 of is finally out!. Thanks to @bjdweck @zachherbert @GaryLeland @thibm_ @martindale @SomsenRuben @sanket1729 @TheCryptoconomy @AaronvanW for providing their reviews and to my 14 year old daughter for doing all of the design and coding.
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@dergigi Address should be invoice, UTXO should be paid invoices, coins shouldn't be mentioned, wallets should be keychains, mining should be validation, recording, etching or appending. Transactions should be called contracts.
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Earned BTC for the first time today. Thanks for the support @privacyhalt, the inspiration @Ragnarly, the website advice @TotalBuzzKit and for the tools @SamouraiWallet and @SamouraiDev. Big thanks to @_copperj - looking forward to taking this further. Will do a soft launch soon!
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I did a couple of #Stowaway transactions today with @btcblackcab using the new #Cahoots UI in Samourai. Screenshots of QR codes were sent over Telegram. The payjoins were created, coordinated and broadcast in under 5 minutes with someone halfway round the world.
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BTC/XMR âïžđ with đ are a game changer.
đis a game changer đ.
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If you give them a hand theyâll take an arm. Incorporate a blacklist? Theyâll soon require a whitelist. Why even have this as a smart contract on a âdecentralisedâ chain if you implement human decision making to this degree?.
Tornado Cash uses @chainalysis oracle contract to block OFAC sanctioned addresses from accessing the dapp. Maintaining financial privacy is essential to preserving our freedom, however, it should not come at the cost of non-compliance.
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If your reaction to AOPP is to vilify message signing generally for Bitcoin addresses, youâve completely lost the plot.
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@jimmysong You donât know what Monero is nor what Chaumian e-cash is. Embarrassing .
1/ I have thoroughly been enjoying WBD lately, but the #Monero mentions here are absolutely not based in reality. That is on @jimmysong and not on @PeterMcCormack, Jimmy misuses his authority in the space and is either intentionally misleading or woefully lacking technicals.
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Closed source heuristics used to imprison Sterlingov:. âThere is no evidence anywhere that Mr. Sterlingov operated Bitcoin Fog,â including no eyewitness accounts or server logs, his defense lawyer, @TorEkelandPLLC , told jurors during closing statements.â.
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Seamless purchase with @Azteco_ today. Very pleased to see this in action after @Beautyon_ gave me a sneak peak back in 2016. Feature request: please recommend @SamouraiWallet for your android users in the receipt! Thank you!
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You can also be self sovereign if you control a Monero TXO. That aspect isnât even entertained in the maxi mindset. So far, blockchains have scaled horizontally, not vertically. Iâve also yet to see an L2 worth using vs an alternative L1.
For a year I have been asking the smartest people I can find âif you donât control a UTXO can you be self-sovereign?â. I havenât yet found a solid answer. If the answer is no, you canât, then fine, admit that. Admit that the goal is 21m and we have the UTXO elites and the.
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Bitcoin isnât KYCâd. Users are. Buying P2P can be private but is almost impossible to do âanonymouslyâ. This does not make it pointless. Anyone that confuses âKYCâ with privacy and anonymity is not just misinformed - theyâre larping. Reject this dishonest framing.
Furthermore, most Bitcoin is already KYCâd at some point. Even freshly mined coins. There are so many ways to leak your privacy that even skilled Bitcoin users will make mistakes on. You donât need to be buying 100% non-KYC corn.
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If you enter discourse with this woman, you are making yourself dumber.
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TDev has the essence here of what I spoke to Gabriel about. Second half of the podcast is a response to some of the narratives that are starting to take root and need to be nipped in the bud. Some thoughts:.
Core vs real users (Core doesn't use bitcoin day-to-day so why listen to them. Incel, what about those half-ass sigs ?), Covenants/CTV ("scaling" is a red herring), atomic-swaps (nice route around, more please), mempool fee rates (think satoshis, not USD).
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A couple of things that strike me about this Binance delisting of XMR. 1) XMR users stating they âalways wanted thisâ or âhave been waiting yearsâ. lol, no you werenât. The Samourai team and users wanted this for BTC and only after you were schooled, you adopted this đ€Ł.
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Whatever the price, you can be sure you'll find some camaraderie, support, humour and zero tolerance for self pity or entitlement in the @SamouraiWallet and @SparrowWallet Telegram chats. Staffed by the most highly qualified admins who've not read a manual but made it work đȘ.
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Braindead take. Ultimately, someone has to use the tools. An attack on developers building the best software in the space is not âgood for Bitcoinâ. Peer to peer coinjoins and atomic swaps are still possible using the apps. It was not entirely centralised by a long shot.
@TheVladCostea Incorrect. This was always obvious and inevitable. They *will* come for any system that has a trusted third party as a potential attack vector. This is good for Bitcoin privacy. The sooner centralized privacy solutions get flushed out, the better.
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I first bought Bitcoin in 2015. I wasnât interested in recreational pharmaceuticals, I didnât gamble and trading it seemed pointless as I didnât have an asymmetric advantage. My first âspendâ therefore ended up being a small donation to a charity.
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@udiWertheimer I genuinely think heâs the worst of all the influencer types. Insufferable, huge ego and his following have been a cultural rot in the space. I was blocked by him years ago for simply liking a tweet of him in a Karbonbased meme. So fragile lmao.
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Iâm actually fine just using my secure messengers as they are and simply sharing a PayNym or Monero stealth address. Wild, I know.
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@SamouraiWallet Should go without saying but thereâs a lot of folk I know that would have given up on BTC (myself included) if it wasnât for the foundational privacy and sovereignty work youâve put in at the application level. Thanks so much to the team. đ».
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"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online.payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution".
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@DanielJHannan Actually the US DoD invented the internet. A brit invented the World Wide Web.
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Interesting to see the number of so called bitcoiners taking pleasure at the plight of an individual who maintained an open source project critical to those who require transactional privacy. *who's not even been convicted of a crime* . NgU obsessives and statist scum.
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Zerolink or bust. Joinmarket lol. All the nonsense out in force today. If youâve been in this space long enough, you should have enough post mix to keep going until options become available again.
Centralized mixers are likely doomed to be attacked by nation states. But there's always @joinmarket!.
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âESG mandates currently prevent some institutions from embracing bitcoin, and uncertainty in the matter blocks othersâindividuals and institutions alikeâfrom entryâ. Feature, not a bug.
@jfnewbery @hasufl @thetrocro Thanks, John. If youâre curious for details, @hasufl, check out our whitepaper here:
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Good advice although Iâd highlight from my own experience:. Selling a portion of your own stack to own a physical asset like a property, land or invest in a business is definitely worth it. Itâs especially worth doing if Bitcoin is a large percentage of your net worth.
For all those "planning" on selling a significant portion of your stack at the top of this #bitcoin cycle to buy back lower in the subsequent bear market, here's some things to bear in mind:. 1. Your technical analysis is unreliable.If there's one thing bitcoin is consistent.
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Unashamedly love the design on these cheap Japanese lighters at the convenience store
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Interesting that all the folk that are complaining about Ordinals still wonât bring up the possibility of doing a hard fork with Confidential Transactions.
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While most of Bitcoin Twitter is interested in some spot trades by some corporates and virtue signalling with emojis on an incremental protocol upgrade, the most fundamental test of Bitcoin is about to occur. Thisâll be a turning point for the way BTC is treated by authorities.
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Transactional privacy will be increasingly vital for protecting yourself from theft from those that envy your wealth. This old news getting regurgitated again by academia.
Are the English elite hiding their #wealth? . Analysing historical big data from a hundred years of probate records, Prof Neil Cummins from @LSEEcHist tracks the wealth of dynasties in #England, revealing discrepancies between their predicted and actual wealth. #research
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Got blocked for this đ€
@jimmysong You donât know what Monero is nor what Chaumian e-cash is. Embarrassing .
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So this is the USA's "then they fight you" stage? Shutter a few banks, send the SEC into a multi year court battle with Coinbase?. Pretty weak so far. Where are the attempted bans on self custody or 6102-style executive orders? Might not be possible in such a divided government.
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@ODELL 1. Coldcard was forked from Trezor.2. Foundation was forked from Coldcard.3. Coldcard license changed afterwards as a reaction to being forked and Coinkite staff still try to create ambiguity around what software can be classified as open source vs source available to this day.
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Calling people spooks on Bitcoin Twitter achieves nothing. It doesn't help your argument. For many onlookers, you'll just look paranoid. Just criticise the argument itself. If someone is a statist then their language, ethical and moral reasoning reveals them quickly enough.
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I get called a hater sometimes but, in Bitcoin nowadays, in order I generallyâŠ. ⊠dislike . Influencers and thots.âEconomistsâ.Protocol devs.Tinkerers. ⊠like. Dissidents.Application devs such as wallet, DEX builders.Merchants and traders.Hackers.
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If core devs had focused on building in enhancements like confidential transactions rather than scripting, the protocol would have been more âcash likeâ than âfinancial instrumentâ like.
Bitcoin isn't an academic playground.
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JoinMarket shilling and Wasabi excuses off the charts today. Why? Itâs PR to distract from todayâs news of atomic swaps with Monero on mainnet and a strong indication that Chain analysis companies have made inroads against coinjoins that arenât 100% entropy. Take note of them.
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I love retweeting the unpopular stuff that gets hardly any engagement. If you're the type that needs daily inspiration to feel better about life you're NGMI. You don't have to panic about the below post but keep it in the back of your mind. Your threat model can change quickly.
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Iâve been critical of some of the ways that liquid has been advertised but this use case has a lot of potential. With BTC volatility the way it is, I could see money changers selling Tether for cash and then people switching from Tether into BTC as and when they are ready.
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Only in Bitcoin have I seen such an obsession with the price of an asset yet a complete misunderstanding of how the prices are made that signal the very price people are referencing. Like it or loathe it, the order books on exchanges are the primary price discovery mechanism.
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Unfortunate statement. A coinjoin is not a âpolitical actâ any more than a Bitcoin batch transaction is. The only thing political is anyone trying to convince you that itâs somehow odd to _not_ want to have all your transactions on a public ledger deterministically linked.
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The last 18 months have completely validated the opinion I had before that this is a complete waste of time. Votes and political donations are for statists. Build, test, teach the use of software tools that give you freedom. Offer ethical services and pay for them. Opt out.
8/ It IS still possible to influence the course of events by lobbying and pressuring politicians and making them aware there is a political cost to attempting to attack #Bitcoin. Tell them they will lose your vote, your political donations and your support. They will hear that.
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This kind of messaging is disingenuous and most unfair. Itâs been possible to support Ordinals on Bitcoin and therefore any wallet with coin control. Terrence works for an exchange adjacent KYC outfit that relies on marketing to push the âbrandâ.
YO SPARROW,. CONGRATS, SERIOUSLY. IN SOLIDARITY,. COMRADE LOPP.ETH. #BUIDL #FREEDOM2SCAM.
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Goodness gracious me. It seems some folk are going to learn some painful lessons. Bitcoin[.]org has been a hostile site for some time but itâs pretty clear now that whoever is maintaining this has complete contempt for on chain privacy.
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@orionwl @_k3tan @_jonasschnelli_ It is not my place to ask you to continue to do this job as I don't contribute but if you decided to leave the role as maintainer due to a fuss about very little such as this, it would encourage those who want to attack it to do more of the same behaviour. Thanks for your work.
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For me it is:. PayPal 2.0 (BCH and LN enthusiasts). Gold 2.0 (NgU, "Savings tech", Custody apologists). Financial Instrument 2.0 (Want covenants, BTC DeFi, tokenisation). eCash 2.0 (Concern over fungibility, privacy, censorship resistance).
I think it's more reasonable to characterise roughly four competing cultures on bitcoin:.1. Ossificationists: Literally want to end all protocol development outside of critical maintenance. 2. Conservatives: Monetary maximalists that prioritise protocol integrity and network.
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BitTorrent fixes this.
'Gone With the Wind,' the Civil War epic considered a classic of American cinema, has been pulled from HBO Max
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Incredible to see a very complex process distilled into a stable, intuitive UI on mobile. Direct apk download from a Gitlab on @GrapheneOS. #RunningMobileWhirlpool
Mixing w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶b̶e̶ is mobile. It's happening. #SamouraiWallet #Whirlpool on Android: MainNet mixing now open.đđ±.
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Seeing a lot of over confident amusement at the first moves of an ESG movement against Bitcoin. This is often from folk that appear to have not been through UASF / S2X yet are very confident about Bitcoin's resilience based largely on second hand storytelling.
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Peter with another statist take lmao. It is quite misleading to describe Android as a central point of failure. The nature of the Android Open Source Project has from the beginning revolved around a flagship phone that the OS (before Google Play Services are added) runs on.
Android is becoming a central point of failure for mobile wallets. Apple does not provide any realistic way of installing apps other than the app store. Android currently does. But they can take that away too. The only realistic solution here is legislation.
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@econoar My bitcoin transactions remain immutable and censorship resistant no matter what people say on social media. The same cannot be said of Ethereum.
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Bitcoin privacy is rightly criticised but Ethereum account model chains and DeFi activity is absolutely appalling. Balance sheets, cash flows and liquidation prices effectively exposed for all to see. Traditional Hedge fund analysts would normally have to dig for this info.
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Swapping one set of privacy issues for another, different set of privacy issues that a user wonât comprehend. This wallet is an absolute liability since introducing Lightning.
Worried about toxic change? Electrum 4.5 can send the change of your transaction to your lightning channels, through a submarine swap
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A lot to think about with this article. BTC adoption grows organically. Top down almost never works. If you want Bitcoin to propagate, think less about how much you need to procure and more about what services you can offer for it. Demand will follow.
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Imagine larping about a carnivore diet whilst being morbidly obese.
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Swiss banking capitulated under US Gov pressure. The reality is that if you want e2e encrypted communication you, and the person you are communicating with, need to manage your own keys. Like Bitcoin, there is no reason to think this will achieve mass adoption in the near future.
ProtonMail is Swiss. There is no way they will capitulate to US/UK and their apps can spread to as many people as WhatsApp did, if they would stop taking polls about the name of their app. They're funded by the EU also to the tune of 2 million Euros.
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On chain privacy is quite scalable. Just needs core devs to care / be interested in implementing it. Signature aggregation would be a huge win.
@stephanlivera You know my points: .1. Onchain privacy unscalable .2. LN privacy not good enough (even with AMP, PTLC etc.).
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Very weird how there are congratulations in order from some Bitcoin users for software libraries and / or proposals being âawardedâ a BIP number. This process was never intended to be any form of âblessingâ or indicative of any âstatusâ. This behaviour is subtle yet corrupt.
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Best thing so far Iâve found with the AI excitement is itâs pulled away the âin it for the techâ crowd away from BTC. Maybe a longer bear market can help get rid of the âin it for the gainsâ crowd so we are left with the âin it for the freedomâ crowd. đ€đ».
My son @SpencerKSchiff is no longer bullish on #Bitcoin. As young people typically do, he's lost interest in a passing fad and moved on to something new. In this case it's #AI that's captivated his attention. As Bitcoin's young fan base matures many more will grow out of Bitcoin.
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Itâs never felt more difficult trying to use the internet and cryptocurrency in a sovereign way. Everything feels so broken.
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@akkaufman No address re-use in mix, supports zero link coinjoins with change isolated in a different account, peer to peer coinjoins and PayNyms. Use Samourai and Sparrow.
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