mikebelshe @BitGo is growing. Bitcoin will make more monetary world change than @HillaryClinton or @realDonaldTrump. Come work with an amazing team.
@kyletorpey Who was it that said “Ethereum is 16GB of ‘Hello World’” - an apt description.
I have a simple approach to bitcoin exchange rate fluctuations. When it goes down, I buy more. When it goes up, I buy less.
@TuurDemeester It’s in an incubation phase, but I expect the infrastructure will be similar once finalized, meaning it will have admins.
Hm… admins have the ability to take down the entire Hyperledger system whenever they want? https://t.co/EpTO0I2d5X https://t.co/0jGITf4WkR
@balajis This is why it’s necessary to build technology that reduces the ROI of aggression. Sovereign Individual 101 😎
RT @petertoddbtc: IMO biggest risk to Ethereum is replacement by better tech that uses Bitcoin’s immutability for smart contracts. https://…
ryanxcharles Inventing a new blockchain is not the new Delaware C Corp. That’s like spooling up a new Nation State every time you make a company.
@TuurDemeester Perhaps, but it usually happens within seconds of tweeting. I suspect that Twitter adds weight & recommends the old tweets.
RT @BenedictEvans: The state of the American banking system: I can wave my watch over the till to pay, but then I need to sign my name
@TuurDemeester I’ve noticed that when I tweet after a long silence, I get a flurry of likes & RTs on older tweets…
@JVWVU1 No concerns on our end since we can’t move users’ funds without their consent. At most could relay txs across forks - as can anyone.
You should add “blockchain forking risk” next to “counterparty risk” when deciding whether or not to use a custodial cryptocurrency service.
If you have an account on a custodial cryptocurrency service, you don’t actually possess any tokens, much less tokens on other chain forks.
I don’t dig the Glockchain. I like my firearms free of high tech security flaws. https://t.co/Yjswblxxag
@desantis Are you saying that I can’t get paid thousands of dollars to write a single blog post?
ETC: et cetera: noun, a number of unspecified additional persons or things. 🤔😯😬
@CaseWallet You seem to be experiencing technical difficulties. pic.twitter.com/9kWhQPSZ9K
Changes from Bitcoin Core 0.13 have been merged into Statoshi.
New memory pool charts now available at https://t.co/qZaVgUaAXD
@30somethingSTL They’re considering it, but no way you can convert $50M worth of tokens through @ShapeShift_io in a reasonable timeframe.
RT @virtuallylaw: Very interesting ruling on enforceability of money laundering: https://t.co/0b9XhxKRBa
cc @brianeklein @jerrybrito https…
@Cryptoe1337 It’s possible, but they wouldn’t be able to use any of the major exchange that require ID.
The DAO attacker now has a new challenge: how to liquidate their ETHC tokens without crashing the market & without losing their anonymity.
At a market cap of $45M, Ethereum Classic is currently worth less than the value of the ETH tokens taken by the DAO attacker.
“You are here” H/T @BashCo_ https://t.co/bxXEvEg6Jk https://t.co/OVFzs3m28Y
@lightcoin @bamos01 Exactly; power is distributed amongst many groups; miner misbehavior can be counteracted by others.
A case for Bitcoin maximalism. Thx @bramanathan @lightcoin @martindale @muneeb @paulsnx2 @SDLerner @Truthcoin et al. https://t.co/r7M1WfvEXK
RT @aantonop: A great article about immutability and other properties that not all blockchains have by @lopp :
https://t.co/oITZdQ8QCq
@ameir You can simplify this statement down to “voting is useless.”
@kristovatlas @el33th4xor Can’t claim they’ll collapse ecosystem, have to fall back to moral slippery slope argument now.
@petertoddbtc What were the hard forks other than the cumulative work vs chain length change?
@morgenpeck It’s @bitsquare_
@seweso @AaronvanW I see, it’s because it’s ETHC/BTC as opposed to ETHCBTC. A very weak market nonetheless…
@AaronvanW @ethereumproject I’m fairly sure that an “ask” on the ETHC order book means they are asking for X BTC in return for Y ETHC…
Ethereum Classic has < 1% of @ethereumproject’s hashing power and while there are plenty of sellers, no one’s buying pic.twitter.com/nS5ns49oeh
naval The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven’t figured this out yet.
@kyletorpey @theonevortex @knozaki @Tone_LLT SP gives people ‘voting power’ and that can result in payouts to bloggers of 50/50 SD & SP. :-|
@kyletorpey @Steemit Looks like it, though isn’t that the primary token of value that is being passed around between users?
@NTmoney @Steemit Perhaps, though unless you can buy things with SP it seems to drastically reduce blogger revenue.
@NTmoney @Steemit OK, so to be accurate your “steem power” is locked, not your steem? pic.twitter.com/LYfD5HkgVi
If you deposit money into @Steemit, don’t expect to be able to withdraw it. https://t.co/EhP8TCd4Is https://t.co/13SrzuBUan
@mikeinspace @BitcoinMagazine Yep, ignore fancy marketing. You have to go deeper! I’ll be delving into this in my next article.
@mikeinspace @BitcoinMagazine Or perhaps you’re projecting your own values onto Ethereum… 😯
@elonmusk @TeslaMotors Sounds great Elon! Please tell me that you’ll eventually get around to building motorcycles 😬
@mikeinspace @BitcoinMagazine I’m saying if you’re on the minority side, it doesn’t matter which protocol version it is - it won’t last.
@Macr0chip @MadBitcoins LOLOL capital controls, enforced via blockchain technology!
There were some holdouts who rejected the first halving & kept mining 50BTC block rewards; it didn’t last long. https://t.co/OmnULAGNKn
@benalexander_ @jgarzik @octal Predicting one’s own actions is a far cry from predicting those of a crowd. I hear you can short ETH, though.
@benalexander_ @jgarzik @octal I didn’t realize we were talking about future death; in that sense, every currency / system is dead.
@jerrybrito Sure; a large federation of semi-trusted entities is probably good enough for many use cases. A single trusted entity is risky.
@jerrybrito “One common trusted person” logic branch is iffy - that introduces a single point of failure that could be catastrophic.
@bergealex4 Nuance and twitter don’t mix well - for nuanced analysis, I write 10 page articles :-)
@__Wintermute_ *shrugs* it seems to be correcting upwards
@bergealex4 “Alive vs dead” is a binary condition. If you want to talk strength / value, it’s much more complicated. BTC/ETH/STEEM are alive
@bergealex4 *shrugs* market cap is but one of many signals showing the “aliveness” of a cryptocurrency.
@josephjpeters Indeed; I’ll go into detail about the difference in philosophies in my next lengthy article. Stay tuned!
All the fiat users in the world can scream “Bitcoin is dead!” but it doesn’t matter so long as Bitcoin users disagree. Same goes for any CC.
A cryptocurrency can’t die until there is consensus that it is dead. The $1B market cap suggests otherwise. https://t.co/ewCgqPb6lY
I’ve been told many times: “it’s ridiculous / offensive to compare Bitcoin to cryptocurrency ____.” How else will Bitcoin learn from others?
Don’t get too hung up on what you think /should/ happen in a distributed consensus system. This is cryptoanarchy - consensus is fluid.
Ethereum hard fork is racing ahead - the old chain looks dead. fork.ethstats.net pic.twitter.com/7v9MtqaGTI
Ethereum has hard forked. fork.ethstats.net pic.twitter.com/9FR9lHW1Zc
@AnselLindner @JopHartog But since the “liveness” is subjective, I find it easier to use the binary condition of operational consensus.
@AnselLindner @JopHartog Yep, it’s difficult to measure the strength of a cryptocurrency. In comparison to BTC most could be called “dead.”
@JopHartog “Survived” just means the consensus mechanism is still operational for validating transactions. Can’t really put a $ value on it.
@_vjy @a3456gf @brian_armstrong @weex @roasbeef @SFBitcoinDevs Lightning Network will still warrant larger blocks. https://t.co/ZGP0Yfuwg5
@CoinandCo Vericoin was; I don’t recall the details of all the others.
RT @orionwl: Bitcoin core 0.13.0 release candidate 1 (test version!) is available as binary download: https://t.co/baS5jIBL2A
@brian_armstrong History shows vast majority of hard forks are successful, though not always good for exchange rate. https://t.co/P8XLpfp2hS
@Tone_LLT @VladZamfir What rules? This is cryptoanarchy - everyone is free to act as they deem fit…
“I believe that ethics is independent of decentralization.” - @VladZamfir https://t.co/vBqeysCfTw
@MadBitcoins Buying drugs with cryptocurrency, as one is wont to do.
@ofnumbers Rule #3: block the naysayers? pic.twitter.com/sBdwIlFkMi
It’s a potential felony to alter your smart bulb fixture’s DRM’d firmware so that it works with non-brand name bulbs https://t.co/9t6Zha8NIV
RT @masonic_tweets: A PHP SDK for the @BitGo API https://t.co/FgOM6KKyuA by @arikaleph
@VinnyLingham It’s time, @Satoshi_N_. https://t.co/OWFsDxOmWx
Ouch; here are all of Steemit CTO’s balances and transactions: https://t.co/aJAMGyTe1Y https://t.co/iKfIQ9Vj5B
Patents mentioning “bitcoin” filed in:
2010: 3
2011: 12
2012: 24
2013: 24
2014: 30
2015: 35
https://t.co/zNN7xbzLu6
Consensus is as consensus does. I suspect that distributed consensus is both more malleable and more robust than is commonly believed.
RT @Blockstream: Ensuring permissionless innovation is a driving force in our space, today we announce our Defensive Patent Strategy https:…
@santisiri Why? Fear of government crackdown?
@NTmoney @Steemit I can’t comprehend how that post earned $26,000 while the actual video content only has 1,600 views. Does not compute.
@GitKilbert Most likely they haven’t figured out they need to upgrade. If they get forked off the main chain, they’ll figure out quickly.
@GitKilbert Not upgrading is implicit approval for soft forks; not upgrading in a hard fork means you get left behind.
RT @VinnyLingham: I just published “Introducing Civic — Your Identity Protection Network†https://t.co/pEuzSlBjDy
Ethereum hard fork looks like an ~80/20 vote. This would be considered “contentious” by many Bitcoin devs; let’s see how it plays out. ðŸ˜
@pete_rizzo_ Whoever wants to :-) I mined on testnet3 a fair amount last year.
How bitcoin becomes a safe haven asset. Projected Venezuelan inflation rate:
2017: 1,642%
2018: 2,880%
2019: 3,497% pic.twitter.com/Qo9GYX4tVO
@desantis @coolbearcjs @NTmoney @Steemit $26k is expensive for an internal server error. It’s still down; wonder what their uptime is…
BitcoinJ has been added to the standard @fedora software package repository. 💠https://t.co/qdQ8qnPCKq
The new @KialaraCoin web site just went live and lots of pieces are back in stock! kialara.com pic.twitter.com/D5hzXzkfgr
@pig_poetry Yup
@Satoshi_N_ OH NOES! This wheat gose is pretty good. My all-time fav beer is https://t.co/pQMyOGofnj
Buying drugs with Bitcoin. #KillerApp #Cheers pic.twitter.com/yx22f8Kiql
1) Set up premium phone number that pays you to receive calls
2) Trick software into calling it many times
3) Profit
https://t.co/KKQDk2woUp
Statoshi now supports @tip4commit to incentivize further development! https://t.co/XFMMvM7x3x https://t.co/FqxBKHUmts
@mikestable @ddahlke Just in town for a wedding, flying back right now
A federal judge finally figured out how the fourth amendment works, rules StingRay evidence inadmissible w/o warrant https://t.co/HI8S0QCBWn
@piramida @twobitidiot Maybe not corrupt, but choosing crony capitalism over innovation. Try improving medical cannabis applications FFS…
1 USD == 0.0015 BTC https://t.co/dT6nQKHDYz
profcarroll New version of @brave protects against invasive “fingerprinting” techniques. And the arms race marches on. pic.twitter.com/TpL4m3ddfl
The reason why pharmaceutical companies are fighting cannabis legalization. https://t.co/PJ2FTauq1O https://t.co/F5QtqD5p8D
Block size debate is still simmering, but you’ll be excited to hear that we’re fixing transaction malleability! 😠https://t.co/BQkjZyNPJk
@mikestable @ddahlke Look familiar? pic.twitter.com/EEafHZBY4R
@pig_poetry Source?
@pig_poetry As opposed to it being hit while parked at the gate?
Planes can fly through thunderstorms, but they delay departures because baggage handlers might get struck by lightning. Bring on the robots!
@Reventl0v Yeah, I have no idea what the distribution is normally. Also, sounds like Google Scholar lags by several months thus it’s higher.
RT @random_walker: Google scholar lags publication date by a couple of months on average, so the 2016 run rate is more like 500. https://t.…
Il 16 agosto alle 19:00 discuterò @BitGoo Engineering Lessons Learned” all’incontro del gruppo Bitcoin di Milano.bitcoinmilano.itv
@bgcarlisle Thanks; that was quite different from the average “blockchain expertise” that I’m usually asked to provide :-)
An academic paper about using blockchains to catch scientific misconduct may have been plagiarized. https://t.co/CmsKUI65oo
RT @BitGo: Not sure the banks are safe these days.
https://t.co/x67JPouVw3
RT @ryanxcharles: Why We’re Sticking With Bitcoin https://t.co/1nzRXKR9rR
@JohnCollins @Satoshi_N_ Did someone say “Magikarp?”
secparam Our new paper: Blind Offchain Lightweight Transactions (BOLT). Or how to do instant anonymous payments w/ #ZCash eprint.iacr.org/2016/701
Software bug results in @Citi considering 26,810 legitimate transactions over 15 years to be fake test transactions. https://t.co/rh1z3LMTUG
Academic papers citing Bitcoin:
2010: 5
2011: 12
2012: 56
2013: 106
2014: 332
2015: 407
2016: 196 (run rate of 370)
https://t.co/6hPKq1qGuo
Bankrupt @kncminer is still hashing post-halving, presumably because they’ve already paid for electricity / hosting. https://t.co/JLK1Gty59v
@alansilbert I just realized last night I got a call from them. My phone had blocked the marketing firm as spammers :-P
RT @DavidShares: China hacked the FDIC - and US officials covered it up, report says https://t.co/8PdM2GFwDk
Imagine a program tasked w/filling in missing GIS data. It inserts rare items in dead zones. Humans are now drones. https://t.co/txtxbOllXE
Augmented reality apps like Pokemon Go could serve as a platform to crowdsource capturing geographic information at never before seen scales
lightcoin Namecoin -> @BlockstackOrg
Steemit -> @YoursNetwork
Ethereum -> @RSKsmart
NXT -> @CounterpartyXCP
Running out of reasons to use altcoins.
Quirky: Steem supply doubles annually while a 10:1 reverse split occurs every 3.32 years. https://t.co/sVabByuJ1Y https://t.co/XgVruhfueH
@humphriesjm I generally don’t make it to the ones in downtown Raleigh - takes me an hour to get there.
Indeed, it looks like ~20% of the UTXO set is unspendable (entire UTXO value would need to go to pay the txn fee) https://t.co/QEXlS13D4y
@ChristopherA @yaoeo I think some opponents to forks see distributed human consensus as a slippery slope to actions that harm fungibility.
@ChristopherA @yaoeo Exactly; a “trustless” system just means you need not trust any individuals. You must still trust community at large.
@pwuille How many more gems do you have hidden on bitcoin.sipa.be?
Bitcoin unspent transaction output breakdown by value and total bytes. H/T @pwuille pic.twitter.com/bRBbQZr3c2
@MadBitcoins On the bright side, @coinbase may be drastically reducing contention for block space and thus keeping transaction fees lower.
Police around the country are reminding Pokemon players that trespassing is a bad idea. https://t.co/YiyDm2PNxc https://t.co/S6h6CddWw5
@desantis @olinational Well, that’s a whole other issue :-P
It’s only a matter of time before the Darwin Awards start rolling in. https://t.co/BWLrTQDg41
@maddenw @gavinandresen Tall order. Seems to me that people keep posting transactions regardless of mempool / fees.
RT @kristovatlas: osx-config-check, a tool for securely configuring and auditing OS X. I’d love your feedback. https://t.co/zgP4ELzRC1
(Problems With) Hiding Money: CoinJoins https://t.co/d4B7WisN5O via @coinlab
@fluffyponyza Exactly - and there are orders of magnitude more types of Twitter followers than Pokemon 😀
Twitter’s much more challenging to win, though. There are few rules. Battles are settled in court of public opinion. https://t.co/yt4xf9Zqs9
Users playing Pokemon Go are simultaneously playing Grand Theft Auto. Y’all best strap up before hitting the street. https://t.co/3sDF6kGLr1
I suspect that Pokemon Go may be a catalyst for government geofencing of augmented reality apps around restricted areas.
Happy halving! T-minus 210,000 blocks and counting…
@kristovatlas I heard it’s a fox
T-minus 100 blocks. thehalvening.com pic.twitter.com/fFUo2Y3Opk
@digitsu IDK, you’d have to ask @TheBlueMatt about the geographic location of his FIBRE network nodes.
@Tom_Horvath Without a relay network, 7-10 sec https://t.co/HwSt3TsJLq
With old relay network, 300ms https://t.co/uCEQMyBW97
@johnbiggs Sorry to hear that; good help is hard to find…
FIBRE network stats: bitcoinfibre.org/stats_ng.html
Looks like most blocks propagate through the FIBRE network in < 150ms. pic.twitter.com/KP9DC7jatV
RT @TheBlueMatt: FIBRE: A much faster, more decentralized Relay Network, that everyone can run! https://t.co/Chsz9doZOV
RT @coindesk: Bitfury Releases Proposal for Bitcoin Lightning Micropayments Routing https://t.co/hJaQ2SV4GM https://t.co/aGDEW4hvNp
Flare does not yet withstand adversarial network conditions or handle channel rebalancing logic as I wrote about in https://t.co/3JfGR2Qjrm
Flare TL;DR: “a node’s network view is like fog of war, with strong visibility close by, boosted by random feeler connections farther away.”
Flare is a routing strategy that balances trade-offs between performance, scalability, & centralization. Not perfect, but great progress.
Introducing Flare: a hybrid path finding and routing strategy for @lightning Network. Kudos @roasbeef @BitFuryGroup https://t.co/MO74kj5HOW
If you don’t want Reddit to track all of your outbound clicks, now is a good time to opt out. https://t.co/HTqwq7bYhi
The Bitcoin Whitepaper is hosted on over 350 web sites and has been cited by over 1,100 scholarly articles. https://t.co/EoQkZHTkqQ
Possibly the best comment ever made on /r/BitcoinMarkets as /u/I_DID_LSD_ON_A_PLANE tells the story behind the name. https://t.co/7Rfej964ge
@flyosity Reverse jif gif i.imgur.com/sAbfVOg.gifv
“I had to sacrifice an old finance course to offer Innovation in Cryptoventures. This past semester was vastly oversubscribed.” - @camharvey
“I decided to teach a cryptofinance course after seeing the popularity of a single lecture I gave in another finance class.” - @camharvey
TriangleBitcoin Tonight at 6:30 @camharvey talks Cryptofinance at the @RTPfrontier #bitcoin meetu.ps/2VHnLx
@bhec39 Not sure what you mean - plenty of people in my area are into celebratory gunfire.
RT @Provoost: I wrote my first smart contract in Solidity and put €100 in it. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/gxkn47EZTP
@RyanRadloff You just missed our casual meetup Sat: https://t.co/L6rHjsbOqh
But we have a business meetup tomorrow: https://t.co/c4jzPT0Qe7
CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY is now activated. BIPs 68, 112, and 113 are now enforced - we’re one step closer to a deployable Lightning Network.
aantonop The fundamental unit of Twitter, the retweet, makes content cross filter bubbles to reach unexpected audiences. The opposite of Facebook
The scarcity (and value) of every natural resource is regulated by proof of work.
Europe is asleep and America is busy drinking and blowing stuff up - now’s a great time to make cheap Bitcoin transactions!
@victoriavaneyk What currency / publicly traded asset doesn’t have an “unequal” distribution of ownership?
Merchant: “Please email us your credit card info to guarantee your reservation.”
Me: “OK, what’s your PGP key?”
Merchant: “Wat.”
charley Column: The monetary bubble to end all bubbles is coming to.pbs.org/29bpZxo via @NewsHour
@santisiri Impossible; I heard it was already priced in!
@el33th4xor Cobra Commander has spoken!
@andyrowe I think once it’s locked in, the signaling can be disabled.
@Satoshi_N_ Perhaps because noob and his bitcoins are soon parted?
@prestonjbyrne A mantra one of my instructors drilled into us: only use your pistol in order to fight your way to your rifle.
jgarzik #Bitcoin approx avg transaction fee, in USD terms, has increased 206.8% since Jan. 31, from $0.073 to $0.224
@flyosity Safe fireworks? That’s downright unamerican!
Decade-long antitrust fee-fixing suit against Visa & Mastercard suffers setback as $7.25B settlement is thrown out. https://t.co/1bPqIaLN7P
After 2 years in the red, weathering lows of -50% ROI, Lopp Hodlings LLC is now in the black at +55% ROI. No selling, just buying & hodling.
oocBlog @lopp @KaikoData “Chance of Loss”: howto using kaiko.com Price index API
goo.gl/1Xzdd4 pic.twitter.com/OnBWdkm6eb
@infohufu @james_hilliard There was a really fast one (just a few seconds after parent) yesterday https://t.co/pP3o8Yoehy