jimmysong Civility is what the state demands when they have a monopoly on violence.
@notgrubles Source?
@stephenolmon @CoinSeer That would be an improvement, though storing all of your private keys in a single piece of..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…CQ
@hanlonoccam I’ve never heard of someone manually unbanning peers; you shouldn’t have to do that. Maybe your VPN or..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…An
@stephenolmon @CoinSeer I’d be worried that the tradeoff you make for convenience is security: creating a single po..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…IQ
@hanlonoccam Bitcoin Core has a points system for which is assigns points to peers who perform “bad” behavior. Once..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…5k
@TaylorGerring Seems to me that when converting is simple & instant, it will result in folks choosing to store thei..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…FK
@PC_Portland Download page should be functional: bitcoin.org/en/download
@CoinSeer People may believe that they prefer to have unlimited choices, but having too many choices is actually de..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…v2
Securely managing dozens of crypto assets is quite onerous; the “token economy” where everyone issues tokens is goi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Zv
@deyw Default is 1000 satoshis/kB which is 0.00001 BTC/kB github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…

@kyletorpey @Forbes Dangit, Forbes! pic.twitter.com/JhIPVnbg4e
@peeticek Nope
The Bitcoin Core Config Generator has been updated to be compatible with Core 0.16! jlopp.github.io/bitcoin-core-c…
BitGo Why a Tiny Kentucky Firm Rules a Corner of the Crypto Market wired.com/story/why-a-ti… via @WIRED
@blockchain_u “Functional” is a matter of perspective. I expect there to be a power distribution of capital that re..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…kf
Centralization of distributed systems is a multifaceted spectrum, not binary. Thus the answer is “yes and no” - muc..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7x
@mohithkalyan Looks like my testnet wallet was having issues - you should have received them now.
Lightning Privacy FAQ by @Snyke
H/T @murchandamus
snyke.net/post/privacy-i…
Folks are showing up fashionably late to the SegWit party but that’s OK - the real action is at the after party:..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7m
@simonpolrot @maurelian_ It’s hard to compare apples to oranges; the “bitcoin tx” metric isn’t great either because..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7H
Ran an Ethereum comparison on this blazing fast setup. @ParityTech 1.9.3 node with no warp, “fast” pruning, & 10GB..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…sR
@GamerAndy Not possible because Ethereum doesn’t have native multisig. @BitGo’s multisig smart contract has been au..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…TW
@NeerajKA @prestonjbyrne @pmarca is such a @Twitter baller that he’s still in the top rankings after quitting Twitter a year+ ago.
@skywalker23452 With a truly decentralized exchange there is no “they” - you run the software yourself and join a peer to peer network.
Benefits of decentralized exchanges:
* No middleman fees
* Doesn’t create systemic risk (target for hacking / DoS)..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jV
BitcoinMagazine Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 Is Released: Here’s What’s New
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitco… #bitcoin #blockchain #TechnologyNews

.@OPENDIME is the real Bitcoin Cash. pic.twitter.com/YQnmRRgfkB
_jonasschnelli_ Hey SPV wallets: make sure you make use of Bitcoin Cores 0.16 BIP159 implementation and connect to pruned peers onc..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…WW
bitcoincoreorg Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 Released lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitc…
GamerAndy Let’s Talk #Bitcoin Episode #357 is OUT! Featuring @starkness talking the now and future Lightning Network with mys..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…FB
@aaronlage Sure technology is a tool that will be wielded for a variety of purposes. Printing presses pumped out pr..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…HX
@RustyBitcoin If you don’t think the Internet has had an enormous impact on the world, I don’t think we have much to discuss.
@RustyBitcoin Strawman much? I don’t believe I’ve ever claimed utopistic outcomes.
Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure,..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…z2
daboloskov One more time Laszlo Hanyecz make #Bitcoin history using #LightningNetwork to buy pizzas.
This is promising for a..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…pu
alexbosworth Laszlo Hanyecz of Pizza fame and history does it again with Lightning mainnet lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ligh…
@JanowiczDaniela @AmyRay41759600 Fuck off, scammer.

Don’t like having your rights trampled upon? Don’t advocate for trampling upon the rights of others. pic.twitter.com/fUFixqNuMO
Ragnarly We can’t trust
- Police to protect us at the moment of a crime
- Central banks to keep our money sound
- Politician..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…mN
@timothyej Nice; it appears that folks who buy market tops tend to HODL.
timothyej The evolution of bitcoin’s UTXO set. Each pixel represents a block, where each column is 300 blocks. The orange vis..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Xv
@ChrisBlec @KryptykHex @laurashin @BitfuryGeorge @cburniske @CremeDeLaCrypto @eric_lombrozo @wences @adam3us..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Yg

Problematic is an understatement. If only there was a way to make it too expensive for scammers to spam with bots… pic.twitter.com/VAha7SO88p
@ChrisBlec @KryptykHex @laurashin @BitfuryGeorge @cburniske @CremeDeLaCrypto @eric_lombrozo @wences @adam3us..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…on
@laurashin @BitfuryGeorge @cburniske @CremeDeLaCrypto @eric_lombrozo @wences @adam3us @mikebelshe @ErikVoorhees I d..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Zc
@jimmysong May 2017
If you see a Twitter account that claims to be me, please report it and let me know - Twitter seems to respond fast..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…S3
@mentalina @AlenaSatoshi @Onlyzineb @starkness @eiaine I originally added her but was then told that she’s not a developer.
ArminVanBitcoin The #LightningNetwork on testnet is absolutely massive! 😲Developers from all over the world are testing it, running..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Wz
@Onlyzineb There’s already an issue with women in STEM, though it seems to be exacerbated in crypto. Possibly due t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…kc
@JSterling8 This list isn’t just for implementation developers; it’s for anyone with experience building software with Bitcoin tech.
@prestonjbyrne I don’t know what an AK-15 is, but I definitely need one.
@JSterling8 Indeed; he literally wrote the book on programming for Bitcoin.
By popular demand: a curated list of Bitcoin developers. Please suggest additions! twitter.com/lopp/lists/bit…
alexbosworth Self-sovereignty can be deeply confusing to people. It goes against common wisdom like, “You can’t fight City Hall”..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…rK
aantonop Bitcoin Q&A: Why running a node is important youtu.be/oX0Yrv-6jVs
coinbase 1/2 Announcing SegWit support on Coinbase
blog.coinbase.com/announcing-seg…
@StopAndDecrypt That’s a good philosophical point, though it doesn’t seem to be quite as robust - don’t want to hav..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…3H
The solution to violence does not lie in futile attempts to prevent people from gaining access to weapons. The solu..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Qp
Major perspectives on gun control:
* Some want govt to protect them from fellow citizens with strong regulations.
*..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…c9
@DuncanMcMartian @ErikVoorhees @AaronvanW Look at history: even the might of the high tech American military can’t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…p3
@krassenstein They can /buy/ firearms or /buy/ healthcare. They don’t have /free/ firearms or /free/ healthcare. Th..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…CX
Folks may believe otherwise because they pay taxes or something, but the Supreme Court of the United States has rul..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…5T
@piramida @dachrinne @tipprbot I’m getting mixed messages here; apparently they tipped me a few penny shavings and..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…2J
Service providers have been taking advantage of low fees to consolidate their UTXOs - the size of the UTXO set has..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…9r
@krassenstein It doesn’t matter how highly trained you are with firearms if you aren’t actually carrying a firearm,..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…WL
ErikVoorhees ShapeShift (2% of Bitcoin Network) is Now Batching Transactions shar.es/1LXkDp #bitcoin @ShapeShift_io
@simoanorak When fees dropped down really low, service providers have taken advantage of the situation to consolida..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…bx
@MediumSqueeze @Piotr14Tra Rather than projectiles you’re probably gonna want an EMP gun. Unless the robot has hard..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…1R
Over 1 Million users are lined up and waiting to BTFD via @RobinhoodApp blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/2/21…
The potential block space efficiency gains from transaction batching are even greater than from implementing SegWit..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…gD

@rogerkver You’ve just got to look on the bright side; it’s always a good time for champagne! pic.twitter.com/JO7Cq7zVVJ
If Bitcoin’s dying then I’m buying! coinjournal.net/bank-england-g…

@hernzzzzzz @Bitcoin I hear it’s the year of the doge; better watch out! pic.twitter.com/2tF1pG8yJl
@VinnyLingham As our understanding of Bitcoin improves, its evolution makes it more alien to those whose perspectiv..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…GM
Blockstream #Bulletproofs: rangeproofs in hundreds of bytes and tens of microseconds, the ability to prove hash preimages in ze..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…6H
@notgrubles It was disabled by default; you have to pass —enable-experimental-asm when building to turn it on.
@WayneVaughan That would be an interesting test since in my experience eth nodes are generally I/O bound and this t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…2A
Bitcoin Core 0.16 will enable an SSE4 optimized SHA256 hashing algorithm which will be ~50% faster for x86_64 CPUs..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…S1
@WeissRatings $BCH supporters conflate “scale” with “scalability.” They chose the path forward that appears to be e..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…A5
@TuurDemeester @starkness @mikeharrisNY Mythical Man Month fallacy in action!
“Even if you have done everything right and your servers are up and running, your entire infrastructure can still b..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…L1
signalapp Today, we are launching the Signal Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to develop open source privacy..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Qr
If Bitcoin was a business then we’d have key performance indicators we’d try to hit, such as market cap / market do..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…2L
@Bitcoin You also operate under the premise that “usage” means “transacting” whereas HODLers see “usage” as “not tr..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jR
@Bitcoin Because you’re using a naive heuristic that glazes over the complexities of the protocol. twitter.com/oxt_btc/status…
Commodities expert: “Bitcoin is nonsense and I’ll never buy any!” cnbc.com/video/2017/12/…
2 months later: “I bought..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Hc
@Chase_Bianchi No worries; hackers are going to have a tough time getting past my hardware 2FA.
@SatoshiLite hunter2
@SatoshiLite Yeah the weird thing is that I’ve definitely been able to “log in” while offline before, but for some..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…o5
Synced a Parity 1.8.9 node with “fast” pruning enabled and it decreased disk usage from 758GB to 57GB. 👍🏼
Also lear..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zr
@ecurrencyhodler A delicious breakfast burrito!
Welp, looks like I’ll just have to hang out on Twitter while I’m locked out of all the critical systems! 😬 twitter.com/LastPassStatus…
@AriannaSimpson @earndotcom @coinbase I reported this a month or two ago; hopefully they fix it soon because it’s incredibly inefficient.
@Bitcoin That’s an interesting interpretation because it seems to me that Bitcoin users are transacting at the same..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…nf

@Bitcoin Oh noes; where are the transactions going? Bcash is flatlining! ALERT! pic.twitter.com/vKPEKlo5cH
@CoinDeskMarkets @coindesk But 2 hours ago you said we were likely breaking the neckline upward! twitter.com/CoinDeskMarket…

@CoinDeskMarkets @coindesk Necklines are so hot right now… pic.twitter.com/J1sRp4gv2w
@mikevpratt I think you missed the part where he said “even if it’s stored with a custodian like Coinbase.”
By this logic, anyone who travels and has credentials to log into their bank account is breaking the law. twitter.com/Disruptepreneu…
@TuurDemeester Or miners DGAF and will just keep mining the PoW fork if it switches to PoS… or they switch to ETC.
@flyosity Fascinating thought experiment. Given that the roots of gun control lie in racism, it just might work.
@ranreichman Probably a combination of many factors: folks using block space more efficiently with segwit and batch..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…MZ

Bitcoin transaction fee estimates are at the cheapest rates we’ve seen in 18 months. p2sh.info/dashboard/db/f… pic.twitter.com/8uxProGpBq

@TuurDemeester I guess you could say… it’s a bull shit market. pic.twitter.com/IDroL0TN6v
coinbase Our engineering team has finished testing of SegWit for Bitcoin on Coinbase.
We will be starting a phased launch t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Br
alexbosworth The potential for LN atomic swaps isn’t just swapping between well known chains. Anything that can adhere to a simp..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Sz

bitfinex We are proud to announce support for SegWit.
medium.com/bitfinex/bitfi… pic.twitter.com/Kk2cA71wNN
@DigiByteCoin @BKBrianKelly Isn’t your total blockchain size less than 15 GB? Bitcoin is over 10X larger; sync spee..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…89
@AlpacaSW @lopp_____ One can hope, but the reason I noticed (the account instablocked me) was from receiving email..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ly
I regret to inform 3 of you that you have been duped by an imposter account with the handle “@lopp_____”. I will ne..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…57
You can build a crypto democracy on top of crypto anarchy.
You can’t build crypto anarchy on top of crypto democrac..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…98
@landonmutch I’m not sure there’s much of a conclusion you can draw from this metric because a single transaction c..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…bk
@landonmutch Total txns with UTXOs will vary depending upon whether or not a given TX has had all of its outputs sp..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…KE
@xxxelasmar @rogerkver Lightning is a protocol for transferring crypto asset value (it could be BTC, LTC, or any as..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7d
Today is a holiday in America - the banks and markets are closed. Meanwhile Bitcoin soldiers on, with over $1B tran..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…2N

flyosity I’ve never seen this presented so clearly before. Really wonderful. pic.twitter.com/Al1mS9EYwY
@AlexThefriday @rogerkver Banks and lightning nodes both have freedom of association. The difference is that if a b..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…dE

@sseagalofficial @mikeinspace Oh, Steven… pic.twitter.com/Ms7ihPdFyi
The safest way to participate in the crypto asset revolution is to buy your assets anonymously, never spend them, &..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ul
As we observe the rise of crypto anarchy we find out which folks claim to love freedom but can’t handle some of its..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…1X
@laurashin @nathanielpopper IMO “good custody solution” is an oxymoron - a regression to legacy trust models.
@rogerkver If no one wants to voluntarily interact with you, that’s not censorship…
“I don’t want to live in a world where younger generations grow up without privacy.” motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
Forking is governance.
@TuurDemeester @theonevortex @Topkek1337xd Some early adopters are stuck in 2012; Bitcoin has left them behind.
FelixWeis Initial version is live! Mempool-based feerate estimation for #bitcoin.
whatthefee.io
nytimes The currency they were after was virtual, but the guns they carried were anything but nyti.ms/2CtvPst
@TuurDemeester youtu.be/DFZOrtlQXWc?t=… 30 seconds later
@TuurDemeester I really enjoyed the Hitler propaganda he spliced in there. Way to elevate the conversation!
The beauty of voluntary systems is that everyone is completely free to disagree with each other, be as conservative..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…0J
naval The idea that we usually need authorities to guide and govern. Evolution and capitalism create spontaneous order. M..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…hb
@BitcoinUnlimit @AntonyZegers The reason /why/ the node count dropped is tangential to the point that it was quite..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…MF
@santisiri @hernzzzzzz According to bitnodes.earn.com:
5.4% of reachable Bitcoin Core nodes run on AWS
18.4%..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…To
9 years of @bitcoincoreorg development visualized. youtube.com/watch?v=DjYbsq…
@rbtkhn There’s evidence that supports the theory that quite a few bcash nodes are also operated by a few entities. twitter.com/lopp/statuses/…
@notgrubles Well, “Satoshi’s Vision” is for everyone to use SPV wallets, so you’re gonna need a ton of nodes to ser..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…oh
We suspected this already due to prior node count cliffs, but evidence continues to mount that 80% of Bitcoin Unlim..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…CB
@WayneVaughan @PhilCrypto77 I’ve had conversations with folks who are envisioning building arbitrarily complex fina..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ce
eiaine Wanna see how fast #Lightning is? Here is a Lightning-powered vending machine in action! ⚡️
vimeo.com/256250634
@pyskell Indeed! Anarchy does not mean “without rules,” but rather “without rulers.”
@kieranmlkelly You have to decide that for yourself.
Bitcoin is not:
A crypto republic
Crypto democracy
Crypto socialism
Crypto communism
Bitcoin is crypto anarchy.
@bettingplays It’s a small crypto world!
@stacyherbert @maxkeiser @jimmysong @jack I’m glad I bought more than $5 worth 😎
@vakeraj @kyletorpey Surely this problem can be solved with a glockchain!
@davidiach Check out the Lightning section on lopp.net/bitcoin.html
@Zigganaut It’s already out! It trades under the ticker “BTC”
Lightning is the TCP/IP of BTC. It will ultimately enable far more than just “fast payments” as innovators build mo..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jW
@coin_artist @AlyseKilleen @AlyssaHertig @AmberBaldet @AriannaSimpson @BitCoinSusan @BLR13 @CaitlinLong_ @calilyliu..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…TD
@brianchoffman Don’t dash their hopes, Brian!
@BlockCypher Your transaction fee estimates are ~10X what they reasonably should be right now. Compare and contrast: p2sh.info/dashboard/db/f…
A consequence of consumer convenience can be the creation of crutches that make you more reliant on third parties…twitter.com/i/web/status/9…7D
aantonop Bitcoin Q&A: Misconceptions about Lightning Network youtu.be/c4TjfaLgzj4
Crypto Ladies #FollowFriday:
@AlyseKilleen
@AlyssaHertig
@AmberBaldet
@AriannaSimpson
@BitCoinSusan
@BLR13..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…wC
lightcoin For those curious about how a competitive/ polycentric market for security and contract/ law enforcement would work..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…nr
@lsukernik I think we’re going to find out!
@FlashJordanK Whomever wants that level of security. Private security is not a novel concept. In fact, IIRC there a..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…FY
I’m fascinated by crypto enthusiasts who find it unacceptable for the State to have a monopoly on money, but are fi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…QN
@mrgan @flyosity You’re welcome to try. Meanwhile folks such as myself will be supporting liberating technologies l..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…vC

Bitcoiners be like pic.twitter.com/8n3urxbze7
@alexbosworth Proof of Work > Proof of Whine.
JackMallers Bitcoin will succeed. Why? Because I won’t let it die. The developers, HODLers, unbanked, millennials, etc won’t le..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…nx
@flyosity I’m sure this would work as well as the laws against moonshine and controlled substances.
@flyosity I hate to break this to you, but it’s even easier to manufacture ammunition at home than it is to manufacture firearms.
@MichaelSkolnik @twobitidiot Indeed, we should abolish the security theatrical organization known as the TSA.
After LCash forks then someone should fork LPlatinum which can finally fulfill the role of being the platinum to Li..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Nt
@scottbuszard @SatoshiLite It’s official. twitter.com/SatoshiLite/st…

Litecoin Cash is the real Litecoin that follows @SatoshiLite’s Vision!
litecoinca.sh
*ducks* pic.twitter.com/BgDGXXNrRO
@MattFnSmith If you’re using the javascript SDK then there should be local validation functions. I don’t think we o..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…QB

Check out @timothyej’s visualization of UTXO distribution by age at utxo-stats.com pic.twitter.com/k0l14BxN7a

Don’t forget to HODL your significant other today! pic.twitter.com/rbDhZ1jzbH
@flyosity It’s illogical to expect anyone to be fiscally responsible with money they extorted from others.
@CoinDeskMarkets @coindesk Meh. Needs moar Vegeta meme.
@ErikVoorhees @ShapeShift_io @BitcoinCom If they said “evil shills” then they were peddling propaganda. 2X was an a..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ee
@SoLara_Sys_Inc Not at all, this is a general problem for any type of investing. Few folks prioritize researching w..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…en
The casualties of the Bitcoin brand battle will be the uninformed noobs. Savvy investors do due diligence and won’t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jN
BrendanEich Hi, I created JavaScript. You should block JS used for 3rd party trackers, fingerprinting, ads. You should definite..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jZ
@ShapeShift_io @BitcoinCom Misinformation is contagious. Perhaps you shouldn’t partner with folks who use deception as a marketing tool.
@NeerajKA At the end you are presented with all the forks. If you don’t choose the One True Bitcoin created by Sato..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…1Y

Q: How many crypto “cash” coins are there?
A: 18 pic.twitter.com/LPJAZ9nBnu

@ShapeShift_io @BitcoinCom This is really confusing; I can’t find “Bitcoin Core” listed anywhere on ShapeShift! pic.twitter.com/VNjCPEormm
kyletorpey BitcoinCash vs Bitcoin is causing so much confusion that Coinbase can’t even get it right in their blog post. They..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…XE