The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

April 2018

Bank: “Let’s get you enrolled in our voice authentication service!”
Me: “Why are you trying to decrease the securit… https://t.co/WH80RyHaQb

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This enterprising good boy invented his own currency and even convinced local proprietors to accept it!… https://t.co/zFibDDKSSA

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RT @SatoshiLite: Running your own node is like having your own watch. You use it to tell time without relying on others. (e.g. miners) If e…

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Elections are popularity contests.
Social media has made it easier for folks to leverage their social capital.
It’s… https://t.co/cn8gwPRoex

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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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RT @theonevortex: Catch an all new #LIVE episode of The #Bitcoin News Show on @WorldCryptoNet today at 12pm PST!
https://t.co/XqEHOTUirE h…

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RT @irekz: Did you know that LN channels don’t have to be closed when all funds are spent? You can re-balance those via LN and keep your LN…

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@kurtwuckertjr The only entities that can define Bitcoin on behalf of others are custodians of bitcoin; the users w… https://t.co/L4hwEOMd9y

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@geiger_phil I’d say it’s pretty clear that consensus is BTC == Bitcoin, though there aren’t any metrics that form… https://t.co/qZktI0mkBj

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@BCH_TheOriginal “Our software is evolving the least!” is not a great selling point in my opinion, but to each their own…

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You may define what Bitcoin is to yourself.
You may not define what Bitcoin is to others without their consent. pic.twitter.com/6vVRhoVTZm

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Not even the whitepaper defines Bitcoin; whitepapers are starting points, not finishing lines. Even Satoshi’s own u… https://t.co/rFkh6gJRsc

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@deromme Anyone is welcome to try; I’m not particularly worried about such social attacks.

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@thealexgalaxy Nope - read their twitter handle, not just their name and avatar.

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There is no web site, forum, social media account, foundation, code repository, conference, enterprise alliance, or… https://t.co/qv7LbbnIu4

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@girevikcap @robzon @UKTraderCrypto According to Bitcoin Core’s output, the 17 millionth bitcoin was mined in block… https://t.co/3rU0DzLq7h

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@weissjeffm Looks like it went from 23 to 36 which sounds right (given flexibility for rounding) https://t.co/21DU2C1MFt

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@girevikcap @ndrchvzz Miners may claim anywhere from 0 to the max allowed subsidy. https://t.co/XrcgoVz4qU

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@Sisko86 @ndrchvzz For a variety of reasons, yes. Even if every reward was fully claimed you’d never get to 21M exa… https://t.co/0crFg1PMqM

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@ndrchvzz And that’s exactly why folks get it wrong - assuming that every block reward has been fully claimed.

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@duckartes Absolutely! It’s: bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo
That’s the output that I’m displaying on statoshi.info

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@BenDiFrancesco They’re probably calculating it themselves rather than actually counting the UTXOs. There are a few… https://t.co/SrkSP6OHEZ

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Today I’ve learned that a lot of data sources are incorrectly reporting the total bitcoin supply. We haven’t actual… https://t.co/TV892pQhBK

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@KyleSamani @VinnyLingham @myles_snider Sounds like there’s an expectation of inflation but that whoever launches a… https://t.co/4MKGMMg7TX

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This will be the 23rd time we have broken the $9,000 resistance level… pic.twitter.com/NH7x0wTclm

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@KyleSamani @VinnyLingham “EOS transactions will be free for users” is a huge red flag for me. What incentivizes en… https://t.co/XttZK8mm64

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I’m choosing to interpret this tweet as a coded message that Kanye wants us to decentralize so much that by the tim… https://t.co/OCvo5pW9ZP

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@ziggamon @bramcohen Heyyyyy @binance @cz_binance if this was you, might want to invest some dev resources so that… https://t.co/a9VeqHKFcO

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@bramcohen Probably a noob who is learning The Fidelity Effect the hard way. I’ve seen plenty of enterprises make these mistakes.

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RT @Emmonspired: Stop the FUD and Learn how to #BUIDL contracts that avoid such overflow bugs.

If this capsule history of our progess te…

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T-minus 1 hour ‘til my @TheNextWeb Answers session goes live at https://t.co/fHnOd2gXvk

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When you’re writing safety critical code, every arithmetic operation is potentially catastrophic. Smart contract de… https://t.co/ijdHJqeGhP

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RT @matt_odell: More info below.

“Our results show that more than a dozen of ERC20 contracts are also vulnerable to batchOverflow. To demo…

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RT @WhalePanda: ERC20 tokens deposit suspended on @OKEx_ due to the discovery of a new smart contract bug. $ETH https://t.co/mbz8PXbThp htt…

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@NakamotoInst I dare say we have ourselves a strong candidate for induction into the hall of The Skeptics! https://t.co/tPHaYdVI34

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RT @Melt_Dem: the women of crypto are here to break some shit! thanks to
@glamourmag for sharing the story - featuring @starkness @e_rossi…

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RT @NickSzabo4: Cryptocurrency most important areas for improvement over the next few years:
* More secure storage (key management)
* Trust…

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@joeloutwest The primary reason I recommended GreenAddress was because it’s multi-sig which should be more secure.… https://t.co/HVqg2ZF16X

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Bitcoin was the 9th most viewed Wikipedia article in 2017, coming in not far behind the entry for the United States. https://t.co/jdIHYQTu05

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Suddenly “Satoshi’s Vision” starts sounding much more compelling… pic.twitter.com/iJjiwx4IKn

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For today’s Technical Analysis indicator I direct your attention to the Vegeta Resistance Level at 9000. As we can… https://t.co/EXE8V0EhKx

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RT @WayneVaughan: HODLing ain’t easy. @lopp explains the challenges of securing your Bitcoin. https://t.co/Tbdxv5JnwW

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TheNextWeb Put your Q in Bitcoin dev Jameson Lopp’s Answers session tnw.me/N1vzkdR

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RT @WNCN: Bitcoin ATMs beginning to appear in Charlotte https://t.co/x7CGCWiKAl

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Taking advantage of low time preference is counterintuitive but easy in the Internet Age. E.g. if you want to buy s… https://t.co/lhcr5lz2kw

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@cl0uding @TuurDemeester When you remove the decentralized aspects of a crypto asset you’re left with little more t… https://t.co/quGh9GG4v4

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BTC needs to appreciate by an average 0.484% per day to stay above the @officialmcafee Dick Line. If you extrapolat… https://t.co/svHOdDVEDg

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There is only one “technical analysis” trend worth paying attention to for Bitcoin and that’s the @officialmcafee D… https://t.co/DkFtSE2Ohh

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RT @ArminVanBitcoin: We just passed 2,000 nodes with over 5,650 open channels on mainnet. The total network capacity is now $150,000 USD. T…

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@2nd_Entropy Physics and cost of computing resources impose practical limits. Coming to consensus across many thous… https://t.co/NhCmTQGP9r

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@WayneVaughan @chainpnt @ryanxcharles Yeah the argument that node operators will be so rich that they won’t mind st… https://t.co/1TyYA3MYQ4

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@PokerPercal @BernieSanders It’s a joking reference to something that IIRC Jihan Wu said last year.

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@WayneVaughan The very future of bcash rests upon the belief that a single public blockchain can be used as a cheap global database.

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And if everyone tries to shove all of their junk data into a single blockchain, it won’t work either. https://t.co/vBSi5Ctn3x

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Unfairly cheap SegWit transactions are using more than 25% of Bitcoin’s block space but aren’t paying their share o… https://t.co/ZFsWCThr3O

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@NTmoney Disable notifications from accounts you don’t follow. Problem solved.

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I struggle to envision how burning less than 0.005% of bcash’s inflation rate is going to have any discernable econ… https://t.co/07R1MYFGQw

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@jimmysong More generally: computer science departments should spend more resources teaching software engineering i… https://t.co/WpoVeEPmp0

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There is no need to be upset - you were using Bitcoin incorrectly by handing control over to a third party. Now tak… https://t.co/ykhk3c9HIn

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RT @aantonop: The very first bullet point in the howto for paper wallets is why they’re not useful for most people:

Step 1: “Ensure your c…

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Apollo 13 literally blew up when an oxygen tank exploded. https://t.co/h1ssfvBGfl

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@JacekLakomiec EXT4 but the issue came about due to a problem with the hosting provider’s virtualized disks.

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Trust me, you do not want to ever have to manually recover files from lost+found after running fsck on a corrupted… https://t.co/OfsMngieb1

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RT @Nneuman: Excited to be joining the team @CasaHODL to lead product…taking what we learned with KeySplit to the next level of private k…

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@flyosity For POTUS? He certainly has the narcissism nailed. But does he have the necessary psychopathic traits?

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Contrary to my expectation, I’ve found that time flies when you’re suspended in a sensory deprivation tank. pic.twitter.com/seqY5OVPCm

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@NSKinsella I hope not; some have suggested it’s linked to unique experiences. I feel like most of mine lately have… https://t.co/Cy8bzNZqbv

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RT @jespow: Somebody has to say what everybody’s actually thinking about the NYAG’s inquiry. The placative kowtowing toward this kind of ab…

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Time appears to pass faster as we age, presumably because each unit of time progressively becomes a smaller percent… https://t.co/jluuh5u2jo

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@rogerkver @reddit @alexisohanian @wtfspez @brian_armstrong I nominate myself; I have a strong track record of hand… https://t.co/nV4ZByx2Ha

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RT @dhruvbansal: If you’re a data nerd, #Bitcoin hodler, or just crypto-curious, you might enjoy our new article analyzing Bitcoin’s UTXO a…

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@clevershark Taxation is not the only means through which one can fund such services. The fact that some taxes are… https://t.co/mv86u7YlQb

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@Luther0Blissett @thechanster @jasonus_habilis @CryptoDenton You’re saying folks should form new nations? I’m not a… https://t.co/KtTIaYan9A

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@thechanster @jasonus_habilis @CryptoDenton “You can always leave” is a non-argument. Nation states claim ownership… https://t.co/AwrcMBoNKf

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Taxation isn’t theft.
Taxation is extortion.
Merry national extortion day, ‘Murica!

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@theinstagibbs Nice; you know what would also be nice? If misspelled config params would throw an error rather than being silently ignored.

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@jimmysong I’ve lost count of how many people told me that civilized society only exists because we’re all perpetua… https://t.co/huLZg6sBQu

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“No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent.” - Abraham Lincolnpic.twitter.com/rNAgbC3SCnn

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@surfcashchain I doubt that Bitcoin can offer a solution to the concentration of wealth; all it can really promise… https://t.co/DdX6PzCS1Z

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@surfcashchain Concentration of wealth? Yes, that’s true in the broader economy as well - wealth does tend to concentrate.

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Lowest (daily average) BTC exchange rate in:
2012: $4.27
2013: $13.28
2014: $309.87
2015: $177.28
2016: $358.77
201… https://t.co/UKell3N7lw

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@WayneVaughan The most likely answer is because it won’t gain sufficient adoption to cause those problems.

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BobMcElrath Bitcoin mining doesn’t “waste energy”, it absorbs inefficiencies in energy generation and transport.

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@MrNickFriend @twobitidiot His tweet has crypto in it; your request has been fulfilled.

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RT @jimmysong: Rationalization is the weapon of the fool
Obfuscation is the weapon of the conman
Accusation is the weapon of the troll
Veri…

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@fat_engineer90 Nope. It can only be decrypted through a complicated process that involves multiple people in different locations.

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@APompliano But Barclays assured us that won’t happen!

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@cryptofun69 If you approach slowly and from my front, it should be OK. 🐻

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Potential physical attackers should take note: these days I only carry testnet bitcoins (which have no redeemable v… https://t.co/0SSvJS8hgf

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@CryptoGambleh Anyone who follows me home is going to be extremely disappointed. My cold storage is geographically… https://t.co/X1OnImIRdU

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@DatCryptoLife Thanks for your concern; I’ve balanced my risks and security to my satisfaction. https://t.co/vUPNgaWrbF

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@a_ferron This was a VPS so it’s much slower; over 12 hours. Haven’t tried 0.16 on my blazing fast rig, though it o… https://t.co/T9pVfLXJvg

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@JasonEbacher @alan8325 Yeah it’s a delicate balance between advertising for awareness and advertising to degrade one’s safety.

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@ElMichaelLewis It has a few upgrades, mostly aerodynamic and suspension.

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The most common reaction I still get to my BITCOIN license plate is laughter. Just another sign that it’s still the… https://t.co/zNasYrB9Yg

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@killerstorm Sure, and a letter from a bank doesn’t prove that you own that money. It only proves that someone at t… https://t.co/ie95NZHuId

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Them: We need a letter from your bank showing proof of assets.
Me: No problem; I’m my own bank. Here’s a cryptograp… https://t.co/Mv2E23YxeR

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Hello blockchain my old friend
I’ve come to sync with you again pic.twitter.com/jDyK3j7qgG

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RT @NodedPodcast: New episode! In Noded 0.12.0, @bitstein and @pierre_rochard do a deep dive with @alexbosworth into the world of Lightning…

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“Lower time preference allows us to curb our instinctive & animalistic impulses, act rationally, & think of what is… https://t.co/ZsioNjMJZ9

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“If soldiers are not to cross international boundaries, goods must do so. Unless the Shackles can be dropped from t… https://t.co/y08DxR6qsG

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RT @realjdowner: I just published “Bitcoin: A Breakthrough in Energy Liquidity” https://t.co/O9XVw7iUd5

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coindesk Police Officers Charged in $1.3 Million Bitcoin Extortion Scheme bit.ly/2Exd748 pic.twitter.com/FyqZcOxcGu

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@mikeinspace @rogerkver @Bitcoin It’s more evidence that control of Internet infrastructure is not sufficiently distributed.

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@jbarrwell @paullinator @MrHodl @SatoshiLite @EdgeSecure That’s why we need to get the market up and running now!

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@paullinator @MrHodl @SatoshiLite @EdgeSecure I’ll send you an on-chain satoshi for every two lightning satoshis yo… https://t.co/JbNDZY8fCA

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RT @iam_preethi: Overheard someone talking about job security and it made me realize how much our society conditions us to derisk everythin…

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@criptomaniaweb @savageben238 @Eatmorecod @rogerkver @Bitcoin Bitcoin changes are only decided by hashrate if you d… https://t.co/IdJqYsFiQR

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@criptomaniaweb @rogerkver @Bitcoin Even if that’s the case, it’s still an issue with Twitter as a private platform… https://t.co/lXifYS9nyL

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@criptomaniaweb @rogerkver @Bitcoin No, I’m referring to the fact that Twitter owns Twitter and thus gets to decide… https://t.co/CHgh9GVEK4

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@rogerkver @Bitcoin Freedom of speech means that the government won’t throw you in a cage for saying something it d… https://t.co/3efvU7fQJr

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@Cryptophrenic For recording real estate transactions / ownership? @factom perhaps?

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Lightning is an aloftcoin.

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@RayyanIsACrayon @saifedean Because Bitcoin doesn’t care. It might be a problem for you if this knowledge causes yo… https://t.co/QNfdo7xUBe

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RT @matthew_d_green: I wrote a blog post about hash-based signatures, just because. https://t.co/xYPBjNYlIE

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Africans, Chinese, & Indians learned the hard way against the European gold standard.

“History shows it is not po… https://t.co/nj1nLvpVAv

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It is the inherent nature of Bitcoin that knowledge of securing and using BTC cannot be delegated or outsourced. Th… https://t.co/5R297IGedg

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It’s neither safe nor ethical IMO to claim these Monero forks due to replay protection and privacy concerns. https://t.co/6g637qGU8y

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@AmberBaldet @TMobile FWIW I’ve yet to hear of a single case of a @projectfi user getting SIM-jacked.

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“There are other things that make Bitcoin special than just the blockchain.” - @starkness https://t.co/lWe75vWlGZ

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@_JasonCooper One of my favorites is this animation that shows how Bitcoin script gets executed to check the validi… https://t.co/4wj6a4A9Fe

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Starting a Lightning Developers Twitter list; please recommend any lightning app & protocol developers who should b… https://t.co/W8oiCUUN2b

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RT @alexbosworth: Feels like only the other day that I was passing $0.01 in earned routing fees on mainnet Lightning. Just passed $0.10! If…

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@Bullitoss @hugohanoi All the images load for me; perhaps it’s an issue on your end?

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RT @BitcoinMagazine: A Brief History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta by @AaronvanW https://t.co/2IHzIhchkV #blockchain #bitcoin #Ligh…

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@zxkcp Is that you, ZmnSCPxj?

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There are 2 types of people left in the Bitcoin scaling debate: those who realize the debate is over and those who do not.

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If you approach Bitcoin as if it’s just a:
* currency
* company
* database
* democracy
* developer platform
* scien… https://t.co/G7amTB8Mam

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We hosted Samer Falah at @TriangleBitcoin last night to learn about JP Morgan’s enterprise focused flavor of Ethere… https://t.co/PPuLxdGHIq

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@ObiWanKenoBit @starkness @jimmysong Intermediate changes to the channel state that occur between the opening and c… https://t.co/bJgkXDzOQ7

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@cburniske The downside is that because of the pay-to-play folks, now the rest of us have to field questions that b… https://t.co/C2AdJHo8ow

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The most appetizing valid BIP39 Bitcoin wallet mnemonic, converted to emoji:
🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔

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@ShopBitswift @TraceMayer It’s not possible to impose a class system onto Bitcoin users. Rather, this quote exposes… https://t.co/Jg6lx3V2om

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Freedom isn’t free; privacy is an important facet of freedom. If you wish to contribute to pushing the envelope of… https://t.co/2eLICuQyAE

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RT @BTCbenny: On today’s #BTCsessions I look at https://t.co/CSxlQhzjmB - one of the best aggregations of #Bitcoin resources I’ve ever seen…

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@BashCo_ I’m onto you - your handle is an anagram for O_BCash!

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@Just_JRM Yeah, I’ve done that in a few extreme cases; wish it was just automatic.

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It would be great if muting someone on @Twitter also auto-muted replies to that account from other non-muted users… https://t.co/IEAaOiamGS

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RT @jimmysong: I just published “Why Bitcoin is Different” https://t.co/59cjT39eW3

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@sandooku @ErikVoorhees @caseygraysi @TraceMayer It’s not elitist to recognize that a lot of users are not making f… https://t.co/p5oyUTQozL

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@ErikVoorhees Indeed, it’s far from a perfect metaphor; also because you can “switch classes” with a relatively sma… https://t.co/OxuIrSQa9E

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@ErikVoorhees @caseygraysi @TraceMayer In terms of my normal security model (to which the original quote is referri… https://t.co/QopsGvKzxc

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@SondreB Correct; I created them (and occasionally edit them) by hand in the admin UI.

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I see coding as a means to an end - bringing a vision for a better future into reality by creating new sets of rule… https://t.co/oHsp4GNSNd

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@SondreB You mean the JSON that defines the grafana dashboard? You’d have to download each dashboard separately by… https://t.co/K5h4SbNlvH

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Joke: political correctness
Woke: critical thinking
Bespoke: using political incorrectness to trigger critical thinking

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The most provably unfair investment available to crypto users, backed by a highly dedicated team, is now live at… https://t.co/zGoz2OgqkL

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RT @StopAndDecrypt: @lopp Why wasn’t this drawn on glass like it should have been? https://t.co/vtAQos8svt

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I’m pleased to announce a huge scientific breakthrough - after grinding away for years, my 5 petaflop supercomputin… https://t.co/swCeU0Sfjq

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Yo @VitalikButerin, I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish https://t.co/ijw6m9OrQ6 but @pwuille had the… https://t.co/AqkKfk4lZF

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