@Wecx_ @alexbosworth Both forks have the 21M cap - by extra I mean “ahead of the normal schedule.”
@jimlyndon Hopefully they don’t go buy eggs and toilet paper! 🤣
Status… confirmed. pic.twitter.com/xYeklIth0B
@whatcanudoman @ecurrencyhodler Private contractors already provide these services, at least in the US. You’re just… https://t.co/YoZLRWR1ra
It’s important to teach your children about government. You can start by taxing the candy they work so hard to collect tonight.
RT @larrysalibra: Announcing the Public Alpha of the Blockstack Browser https://t.co/IcVxatOOl9
FOMO leads to doubt.
Doubt leads to panic selling.
Panic selling leads to suffering.
Stoicism is the solution: HODL, don’t FODL.
@XydigitalX (500124 blocks - 492538 blocks) * 12.5 coins / block = 94825 extra coins disbursed.
BGold has a 100,000 coin premine for devs, but if you do the math BCash has already paid out 95,000 extra coins to miners. H/T @alexbosworth
RT @laurashin: Show notes to today’s podcast, which is all about the #Bitcoin hard fork! https://t.co/h3IdYhDvPW #SegWit2x
@mikerelentless @jasonmsteele Er, the wallet will manage the private keys and use them to sign transactions to upda… https://t.co/1YU6DRTJb3
@mikerelentless @jasonmsteele Perhaps you’re imagining it as some convoluted manual process. It will happen under t… https://t.co/z2AI7pyNli
@flyosity I’m really liking my Pixel 2. Insanely fast, too - boots in like 5 seconds.
@mikerelentless @jasonmsteele Bitcoin derives its value from a multitude of reasons that a diverse set of users val… https://t.co/bn18RbwC14
@SatoshiLite So you’re saying that you don’t want to be chickunholed?
@edmundedgar Not necessarily. In some countries with guaranteed hyperinflation, even maintaining value or decreasin… https://t.co/k9ZxR9BbRS
@edmundedgar Store of value is the use case.
Bitcoin HODLers are ambivalent if a block arrives every 10 minutes or 10 hours. Time is on our side while the clock ticks against miners.
The Bcash community is undergoing a learning process regarding the difficulties of meatspace consensus. https://t.co/2ZjLtnOnWy
Hard fork stance from @Unocoin sounds like the onset of fork fatigue. news.unocoin.com/?p=818 pic.twitter.com/Nm8OpGR8IZ
@RetireOnBitcoin @Unocoin Oops, link got mangled
@CaptBitcoin Safes can flood. Mattresses can burn. Many geographically distributed encrypted backups are preferable.
@MrHodl @BashCo_ @BitPay @spair If you send your 2X coins without replay protection, you’ve just lost your BTC.
@BashCo_ @BitPay @spair It’s fine for HODLers to “stop using Bitcoin” for transacting because it’s perfectly safe t… https://t.co/V2SWCvCSgi
@kyletorpey @morcosa @kristovatlas @rogerkver SegWit miners don’t count because they violated Satoshis Vision. Only… https://t.co/M6pxPbzknI
BCH community generally agrees that miners decide the rules. Why would miners decide to enforce new EDA rules that decrease their profits? 🤔
@morcosa Somebody has to make sure BitGo users don’t get forked off a given crypto asset network… 😬
Parity releasing critical fixes 2 days before fork. Bcash forking again w/2 weeks notice. Airdrops abound. Can’t afford to blink these days.
@ryanxcharles Bitcoin Cash Classic is the real Bitcoin‽
@brianchoffman In my experience, giving crypto assets to people who know nothing about them tends to end poorly. Wh… https://t.co/ETW6pElYCw
@brianchoffman Not at all; if you want to burn your BTC it’s fine with me. 🙃
Simplicity: A New Language for Blockchains blockstream.com/simplicity.pdf H/T @alexbosworth pic.twitter.com/KxGaVPsYnv
@brianchoffman You misspelled “burning BTC.”
@beijingbitcoins /r/btc is best suited for advanced users who are sufficiently zen to safely navigate the vitriolic… https://t.co/l10DfrSNhj
Each time Bitcoin bubbles a wave of HODLers check their wallets only to discover their HODL is permanent due to bad data backup practices.
‘Tis the season for a Bitcoin horror story. https://t.co/QBRWLNe92i
@mic_mandelli In some cases, yes. In many cases, no.
@newsereum I’m specifically referring to payment tokens. The argument being that it’s better to have fewer types of… https://t.co/yUVu9AOHid
@KingSolomonMine You’re claiming that I can’t fork the codebase and blockchain and convince others to follow me?
ZCash is pretty neat, though I’d like to see higher utilization of shielding. Currently 2.6% of value & 20% of txns. https://t.co/BMXihwMgq5
If you hear “on-chain governance” it likely means on-chain voting & coordination. I’m skeptical b/c no one can control open source software.
Beware of crypto tokens that are only used to pay for a specific service, for they are simply altcoins with highly restricted utility.
@__pcd__ Of course Bitcoin can scale on-chain. If you’re willing to accept trade-offs. Here are some I’m unwilling… https://t.co/N8JafmdRqd
@__pcd__ That’s a big question; here’s one good research paper: https://t.co/QAb1QPqeaE
@__pcd__ 2012. The additional transaction volume has made it more clear to people that blockchains are best suited as settlement systems.
@MarkosZCH Predicting the future is pretty hard. You can try to predict the future price of an asset or you can do… https://t.co/yN028y4L5T
@BrianLockhart That doesn’t look like a consensus system to me.
@bora_uygun You’ll have to adjust the same as the rest of us; our understanding of the system is a constantly moving target.
@MarkosZCH Mining has a number of risks on top of the risk you’re taking regarding the value of the underlying asse… https://t.co/tV2FjPlKyP
Newcomers must adjust to Bitcoin; Bitcoin won’t adjust to meet the expectations of newcomers.
RT @crypto_hackers: Interview with @lopp — a very active evangelist with strong expertise in the #blockchain technology 😎
Read here: https…
@Peter_Villa_III Hardware wallets are safest against thieves. Fully validating nodes are safest against protocol level problems.
@Peter_Villa_III Then all you need to do is enable the prune setting
@Peter_Villa_III Depends on what you’re trying to do. In order to use it to protect a wallet, you’d have to use the… https://t.co/5FcyqMaEsY
@Peter_Villa_III You’ll need a couple hundred gigs of space for an archival node or 5 gigs for a pruned node.
pierre_rochard Pieter Wuille’s explanation of full node trustlessness. Follow him @pwuille pic.twitter.com/cuW7DSGz19
@coffeelance @moklett @Chargify Can’t say I do…
@BitcoinBabaji @BitMEXResearch The difficulty adjusted upwards by over 20% yesterday, thus blocks are slower and th… https://t.co/9n54djlSkR
RT @BuckPerley: “Crypto-Governance and the Dangers of Faction: Lessons from the 18th Century for designing a decentralized future†https://…
RT @nathanielpopper: Centra’s two co-founders were indicted on perjury charges just a few days after they finished raising their $30 millio…
@agkrellenstein @twobitidiot I don’t think the privacy matters; you could still hard fork a privacy centric blockch… https://t.co/didFu8fSPT
“The pools arguing most vigorously for larger blocks, tend on average, to produce smaller blocks.” - @BitMEXResearch https://t.co/Dkap2gZGDP
Are there any sociologists studying the Bitcoin ecosystem? Because it’s a petri dish…
@crietmann @xCarsonogen I hope you have a license to wield that in public, sir.
@XydigitalX Advice still applies; get yourself some hardware wallets and full node hardware to protect your wallet.
I wouldn’t look at it as dividends, but rather showing Bitcoin can remain cohesive even during splitting scenarios. https://t.co/l0gE5a0Zpx
@ziggamon @pavolrusnak @krakenfx @BitGo @mikebelshe Not sure; their new infrastructure may be segwit-enabled…
@PeterRizun @jgarzik Hm, that’s weird - I could have SWORN that it already “upgraded” at block 478,558… 🤔
@pavolrusnak @krakenfx @BitGo @mikebelshe I wouldn’t read too much into this - it’s completely unrelated to forking… https://t.co/ekZh7OpQis
@_drgo Nice. Main thing to be aware of with magazine-fed shotguns is if you leave them laying around too long, spri… https://t.co/VwtFnp6k6c
@CU_Griffith Phishing site; they keep popping up and we keep playing whack-a-mole
@roviator Full nodes, hardware wallets, claymores…
@BTCBaron Twitter keeps screwing it up. Tried 3 times with no success…
@_tm3k Pretty awkward to perform with the sling!
@Melt_Dem My tripod
@morcosa IDK what’s wrong; it plays the audio fine in preview mode. Tried multiple browsers but it keeps killing th… https://t.co/60RoCF6PI8
@morcosa Bah, Twitter lost the audio somehow…
@Otacon___ Just part of my duties at BitGo. There are a few crypto-specific sites like https://t.co/pBHrr4Oqkm and https://t.co/dMV1yOsxcY
Bitcoin security pro tip: protect your software with hardware. pic.twitter.com/R4KeRGRcTP
@Otacon___ Have you checked out the openings at the various crypto companies? BitGo has several at bitgo.workable.com
@TuurDemeester I suspect reputation damage will be minimal. Remember that this is the 4th or 5th iteration, depending upon how you count it.
@TuurDemeester Main problem being that when SegWit2X fails to become Bitcoin, it won’t hurt its proponents nearly e… https://t.co/YFOEjv17pI
@markmathis Good article from @jfnewbery here; it should apply to most projects. https://t.co/TKpG1jlinj
@rogerkver @BITCOlNCASH @useBitcoinCash @justicemate @JulianAssange @aantonop @ErikVoorhees @WalterRothbard @BronxR… https://t.co/GwzOVMQtyy
@rogerkver @BITCOlNCASH @useBitcoinCash @justicemate @JulianAssange @aantonop @ErikVoorhees @WalterRothbard @BronxR… https://t.co/qIYMcDCfNU
@morcosa @adam3us @bitPico I don’t expect anyone to take it; I’m calling the bluff that either 2X will be the only… https://t.co/9kXBYnBYbM
@adam3us @bitPico If you’re “upgrading” the system in non-backwards compatible way, you’d best be doing something t… https://t.co/R8oMBAVC9p
@awertheim It would be a manual process.
@adam3us @bitPico Oh yeah? Can I get in on that action, @bitPico? My original terms were just seeking straight 1:1 swaps.
Still seeking s̶u̶c̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ SegWit2X supporters for coin swaps. https://t.co/PNzkLIUh3t
Consensus searching supersedes consensus building.
@nikzh Is there a full size version with more granularity?
Does anyone still maintain realtime Bitcoin Days Destroyed charts?
@CryptoMania_ @VinnyLingham @civickey There is a real cost and those of us who are forced to bear it will eventually stop playing along.
@CryptoNoir @onlybuysblood KSG
@coinwho Nice; the tricky part is going to be figuring out the best category to put it in…
Salaried shills shan’t succeed at spawning Schelling points.
@stp_ip Interesting; I wasn’t aware that some jurisdictions require copyrights. I only really care about the jurisd… https://t.co/4V4PHNcPsu
It’s a valid strategy for a game player to change rules to their advantage. But to do so they must know the unwritten rules of rule changes.
@twobitidiot @VinnyLingham @alansilbert @BashCo_ Well, you had a good run for a few months. The game never ends…
@valemount_io It would appear notsomuch.
@stp_ip I suppose, but that’s a lot of words… mine seems simpler 🙃
Everyone is welcome to take content from https://t.co/gpFdGhISqM and translate it, modify it, republish, whatever.… https://t.co/aLR6IqQ1ZS
The ICO space is already rife with scammers; conferences should at LEAST keep the violent criminals off the stage. https://t.co/jyVfcYVCdw
@InvesterGadget Yeah, maybe. I get a lot of very large packages though… it would have to be a huge drop box.
@InvesterGadget Yeah, Amazon Locker is already a thing.
@prestonjbyrne Well you could hire a PI but you’ve already had to pay for the cops sooooo might as well use their services, eh?
@JPScoopZ Oh, it’s not like you’re gonna get the package back. But IMO it’s better to take a small loss than open y… https://t.co/mKzaXie4uA
Or just buy a $100 camera to record outside your front door and hand footage to police if someone steals a package. https://t.co/m58bNuAYUx
@WhalePanda I can’t help but notice you don’t embed tweets, but rather screenshots of them. Get burned by too many deleted tweets?
@MichaelStreiter That’s why it’s important to not have an oval office!
If your ideas get mostly negative responses, ecosystem may have ID’d you as an attacker. Time for self reflection. https://t.co/jQ9rWsAkOn
@JihanWu The cherry on top of this rant is that OP believes Bitcoin is “literally controlled by 1 person.”
Bitcoin has been and will remain perpetually under attack. This is good for Bitcoin, as stressors make it stronger. No pain, no gain!
“A system based on verbal warnings will be dominated by non-risk-taking babblers who won’t respect you unless you take their money” @nntaleb
Self sovereign servers shall sell shell scripts by the C shore.
@matt_odell @GeminiDotCom Hard to do when exchange isn’t facilitating price discovery 😬 - issue is that hashpower i… https://t.co/oAsksCa2vT
“That which is good for business is not necessarily good for society.” @martindale #AllThingsOpen https://t.co/qU66B5zAWa
It’s easy, in hindsight, over a long period of time, to say which fork is the “real Bitcoin.” Notsomuch when using realtime metrics.
@matt_odell @GeminiDotCom Sure, but use whatever time frame you like - the edge case is still possible, especially… https://t.co/VZOZRSoHYy
@GeminiDotCom This is an edge case that hopefully won’t happen but it’s not outside realm of possibility. You don’t… https://t.co/iSG6NRxFYx
@GeminiDotCom If miners decide to mine 2X at a loss for 48 hours and then later switch to a more profitable chain,… https://t.co/G2xgVpktAP
@GeminiDotCom You don’t specify any time periods for “following the chain w/greatest difficulty.” Does this mean yo… https://t.co/uS6uOyXjZw
@jeffhattem The editor on the right screen is Sublime Text
@vipul982 @ShreyasGowda88 @TuurDemeester @CarpeNoctom @WhalePanda @ToneVays @MadBitcoins @jimmysong I haven’t looke… https://t.co/7h8GMqAOV1
“If you don’t need to store this data in a database, you definitely don’t need to store it in a blockchain.” - @geekbleek #AllThingsOpen
@AnthonyViscuse Not much point waiting due to the fork because you’ll end up owning coins on both chains; from that… https://t.co/tgNPr2nMh3
@CemFDagdelen Not this specifically, though every demographic report I’ve seen looks similar to this: https://t.co/9EVgbnPYuG
Welcome to crypto, here’s your crown. Remember that with great sovereignty comes great responsibility. pic.twitter.com/qNl62cvBDf
@AaronFosterReal @MichealIRYT You have the freedom to decide for yourself. Yes, it’s subjective - voluntary associations tend to be.
@udiWertheimer Sounds like a job for BIP150/151…
@Lyth0s @LedgerHQ @TREZOR I’ve used a @LedgerHQ device with @GreenAddress, for example.
@Lyth0s @LedgerHQ @TREZOR You’d have to find a software wallet that both supports connecting to a specific full nod… https://t.co/kC01YpqQd6
@MichealIRYT The valid fork with the most cumulative proof of work is considered Bitcoin. But the key is in “valid… https://t.co/D0wt0rXSz2
@kordaasPT @WhalePanda If you think Satoshi fully understood what he built, I recommend you read this: https://t.co/G7icKPcZQm
Why fully validating nodes matter and how to use them to secure your financial sovereignty. https://t.co/jFfeqFf7fv
Phone upgrade day for security nerds is henceforth known as “regenerate all your TOTP secrets day.”
It has never been a problem of scale. It’s about preserving principles of privacy, security, autonomy, and liberty. https://t.co/bS6jnh1DXN
@alansilbert @rogerkver Maybe they’re trying to help keep node operational costs low and are attempting to soft fork a block size decrease.
@TuurDemeester @VinnyLingham @RoySE96 @VinnyLingham2x Sure is easy to confuse the real deal with a cheap knockoff w… https://t.co/dulX6b3Ats
@rogerkver @SatoshiLite @bendavenport @morcosa @TuurDemeester @barrysilbert @olivierjanss @tedmrogers… https://t.co/QfSfBtI3YH
New fork monitoring resources section added to lopp.net/bitcoin.html - please contribute if you know of other good sites!
aantonop NEW #Bitcoin talk:
Delivering Liberty, At Scale youtu.be/AecPrwqjbGw
@GeorgePeaboy Suspicious activity that suggests a bunch of these nodes are controlled by the same entity.
During October 15-17 BTC1 added 290 nodes & the BU node count briefly dropped by 260. Coincidence? 🤔… https://t.co/NqQL7Tf80A
@Truthcoin But not without opportunity cost…
@CobraBitcoin @jfnewbery As our knowledge of Bitcoin continues to grow, it may make sense to expand upon the whitep… https://t.co/j117mjlcvd
@teunisbrosens Here’s a fact for you to keep in mind: https://t.co/IyevQD5U4V
@JavierGonzalez @CryptoJah “Subject to market price” meaning that hashpower doesn’t actually decide anything. The market decides.
Updated M1 money supply rankings. https://t.co/bAj2IDIWBm https://t.co/Xeyb1IEXAn
@JavierGonzalez @CryptoJah No, Sybil attacks don’t work. You can’t change Bitcoin for everyone, you can only change… https://t.co/vkKo7QyxZQ
@JavierGonzalez @CryptoJah You’re trying to apply democratic principles to a system of anarchy. Running a node is s… https://t.co/Ui1qbicuPh
@JavierGonzalez @CryptoJah I see. Feel free to mine an invalid block and try to force my node to accept it.
@JavierGonzalez @CryptoJah That statement doesn’t make any sense. If you aren’t running your own node, you’re trust… https://t.co/fcR6Ox6aYw
@JavierGonzalez @CryptoJah “Non-mining nodes give no power to anyone” - false. Only way to achieve Bitcoin’s best s… https://t.co/Tf19nn7JC0
Bitcoin breaches 100 billion dollar network value. pic.twitter.com/FmuiIkQnhI
Hello $6,000. Nothing like an all time high to polish off the week. pic.twitter.com/BLy2BnCAa1
Chatting about BitGo, Royal Mint Gold, and Prova on @FuturetechP https://t.co/Sjqdstmlhu
@teunisbrosens 1) Mining != verification; it’s making it expensive to rewrite history. Nodes verify cheaply.
2) Has… https://t.co/52OisCmlAi
The electricity required to update a Bitcoin payment channel could power a @Raspberry_Pi for several milliseconds. 😉https://t.co/GVCo0ehe4K
@willmartin19 Bitcoin mining makes it expensive to rewrite the history of the blockchain. Verification by network nodes is incredibly cheap.
@willmartin19 FYI, Bitcoin mining does not “make txn verification expensive” nor is it even related to txn volume.
@TuurDemeester Because Ethereum keeps increasing the amount of data it allows to be processed, thus it grows faster. etherscan.io/chart/blocksize
@TuurDemeester I don’t see sync times on here, just data usage. Should be able to do a full sync in a week or so on a high end machine.
@JavierGonzalez They are theoretically possible; I’ve yet to see any. It will be challenging to implement without c… https://t.co/GmWPIXAIYb
@JavierGonzalez I’m not ignoring it; sharding is horizontal scaling / scaling out.
Everyone wants to scale Bitcoin, but not all scaling methods have the same consequences. Always ask the question: “… https://t.co/GCwl6NgGlo
@SatoshiPolanyi About 1.1 million. https://t.co/TJBR2XJL7A
I’m pessimistic we’ll ever settle on an objective definition for Bitcoin; even the dictionary can’t get it right!… https://t.co/EGXa2TKAm4
“Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.” - George W Bush
@theonevortex @kralux @jgarzik Replays can be rebroadcast in a matter of milliseconds; you want to have better prot… https://t.co/Bc8JLUJ9v3
The fight for the future of Bitcoin isn’t small blockers vs big blockers. It’s a struggle against apathy sliding us into authoritarianism.
@TuurDemeester It’s a shame there’s no bulletproof governance system to easily resolve these disputes…
If you’re seeing SegWit used as a derogatory term, it’s probably based upon the FUD debunked in this article. https://t.co/71Eo4is6NJ
khannib Introducing forks.network: monitoring the activity off all current and future forks of Bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/aJt4f7djlp
@Ragnarly Nope, can’t recall any failures to eject. Probably because I slapped the foregrip on it as soon as I boug… https://t.co/r6UvTprCAw
@StrikerBee Coinbase outputs and possibly a single manual locktime tx that we then fan out into a ton of UTXOs to seed wallets with.
My theory: someone at Benton County Sheriff’s Office came up with a fake excuse to mine BTC on the taxpayer’s dime.… https://t.co/7qYmRy2I3u
@cm0nt0y4 It’s motivation to work harder 🙃
@eric_lombrozo @mikebelshe Meh, there’s no evidence that this has anything to do with SegWit2X - that’s pure specul… https://t.co/yGEhvgmpwH
@shaftgunk Indeed.
@Bilthon Native replay protection, no. Each wallet will be responsible for writing their own hacky replay protection logic.
@Bilthon For the upcoming SegWit2X fork of Bitcoin.
@jordantcarlisle This is, in fact, @TheStandDesk :-)
@CryptoEthan Local PD isn’t going to send out the SWAT team again without calling me first.
@tiredandthirty It is indeed.
@britesense 12 gauge Kel-Tec KSG
When assholes are making threats against your life but this replay protection code ain’t gonna write itself. pic.twitter.com/d4MLox4kwd
@WilliamDevine10 Come to the meetups! https://t.co/eWeCdt6h89 & https://t.co/zZFprtM1SU
@jlbtc That is, in fact, the plan as I understand it.
@jlbtc It will be its own chain.
An Introduction to Grin. Deep technical dive linked at the end. https://t.co/Tp9VNLOyMf
Bitcoin Cash supporters are having to confront the reality that hashpower does not define Bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/cr5kGCQsbP
@gmelika They are now aware of my situation, which I expect will be helpful if there are future calls of this nature.