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

July 2021

@JeremyRubin $200 a month for food? You’re probably not eating enough quality meat.

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Bro it’s a trap ya gonna get jacked. https://t.co/xcx2QwIwkA

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@blockFanatics @FieldNas @ninoguarisco Yes, very few people have their keys secured in such a way that they are sec… https://t.co/hSWYqgcNwp

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@blockFanatics @FieldNas @ninoguarisco It’s not a possibility if you secure your assets such that even you can not… https://t.co/VifsvYRP4f

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@FieldNas @blockFanatics @ninoguarisco You make an assumption that paying a ransom will save the life of your loved… https://t.co/HzwXr8OwGa

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The most successful people tend to be those who make up jobs that previously did not exist. https://t.co/JMAYvohByq

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When you say “we should form a super PAC to donate to politicians so they’ll be pro crypto” I hear “we should negot… https://t.co/kNfws2ZGUq

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Trust the science and remember that science says one should not trust the scientists.

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You can’t truly own real estate without a standing army.

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@SethBoutin Yes I think the key is in how it’s prepared - marinated / tenderized / etc. You can’t just take octopus… https://t.co/VyfO2JSdj9

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If you switched off your laser eyes at $30K, you don’t get to turn them back on, poser.

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Waiter: “how would you like your meat?”

Me: “clutched by more meat.” pic.twitter.com/nrQ0MVvp6r

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@MrBlakeCan There’s a presentation linked at the top of https://t.co/wqawX5OpEc

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Imagine getting DoS attacked with tens of thousands of pages of paperwork that have an expiration deadline of next… https://t.co/hN7dpZM8OH

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@imthedronelord A hodgepodge of kidnappings, home invasions, and ATM attacks. https://t.co/BUdsFsvKsh

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As it stands today, 27% of known physical attacks in the crypto space have been committed against victims who were… https://t.co/6LRvnFWYyp

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A trader was robbed of more than HK$3 million ($523,000) in cash when he went to meet a bitcoin seller in Hong Kong… https://t.co/WmBNAHVLC3

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JPMorgan Chase projects that central banks’ balance sheets will have grown by $12T during 2020-21 due to purchasing… https://t.co/RYAAlXliFt

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@stopfeds Probably not rolled out to all the airports yet.

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@stopfeds Yeah I was preparing to hand over / scan my passport but they were just like “Please remove your mask. Hello Mr. Lopp.”

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Didn’t even get asked for my passport when returning to the US this week. Border patrol instantly knew who I was vi… https://t.co/iJ7yGE5D6P

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Freedom has a catch-22: groups that are sufficiently organized to defend themselves against aggressors are by defin… https://t.co/9wqgt30wtS

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If you lose your private keys in a house fire…
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… those coins are burned.

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@AnaLeal3000 No, the files on the computer only had the public keys not the private keys.

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Another hard lesson learned regarding the necessity of geographically separated keys. Funds lost to house fire. https://t.co/baoCTXqxou

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@NeerajKA how about digital real estate experts

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@btcmantis I wouldn’t know, I never traded grin.

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International travel is now security theater with extra checkpoints for health theater.

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@btcmantis No, running a node is not a for-profit activity. I’m not a miner.

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Q: How did you get so many followers?
A: A decade of consistent niche tweets.

Q: Was your goal to get more followe… https://t.co/2UL79x75bI

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Hypocritical clickbait headline that contradicts the actual article. If you’re a shadowy super coder, nobody knows… https://t.co/VB8ZD6mmYe

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@junderwood4649 Might be different if you’re actually at the border. They don’t let you board a flight to US without proof.

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@ChrisBlec They don’t let you board without proof of negative test or recent recovery.

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Narrowly avoided getting rejected from entering my own country due to a typo on the attestation from the COVID testing service.

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@lucash_dev Gravity wells, atmospheres, and magnetic fields are kind of important.

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@MFloresFive Seasteading is an interesting idea but I think there’s a high barrier to achieve the defensive capabilities required.

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The future is being built by software engineers

…and we don’t even have a license to code.

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Throughout history, those who yearn for freedom have attained it by staying out of reach of those who would deprive… https://t.co/7DL9h5VcgG

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Wait ‘til @ewarren finds out how much of the internet’s infrastructure was built by “shadowy super coders.”

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Please point me to the code repositories for the Treasury and Federal Reserve, @ewarren

We’re writing new systems… https://t.co/n3UYnjJ0TS

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When an organization is composed of voluntary members who can easily leave, authority must be bestowed from below r… https://t.co/VdEOk0XQwB

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RT @CasaHODL: THREE huge updates for y’all today. That’s right. Count ‘em.

🔈 Recurring Buys
💸 Refer-a-Friend
🚀 Limited-time bonus for Cas…

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Hey @coinyeezy
It’s been a year
Casa’s still here
Next time you sneer
Know I don’t shed a tear
I set a reminder to… https://t.co/PHpy4PpyJU

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Satoshi Roundtable VII concluded recently and I was reminded of Brian Armstrong’s writeup of SRT II. It’s interesti… https://t.co/3m9kEKULr5

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The “authorities” said the victims should have “let them handle it.” Of course, the authorities were not available… https://t.co/o2R2d7J4dz

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@thetrocro Only possible to compute those stats for your own payments.

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Whether Tether has full or fractional reserves is of no consequence to the continued operation of Bitcoin.

Concern… https://t.co/8bXx6GJnWm

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Tether truthers like to claim crypto markets are manipulated by money that’s being printed out of thin air. This cl… https://t.co/DOMm15E4jd

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long the new moon
YOLO margin long the full moon
am I doing this right, @marenaltman

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Major players spooling up Lightning infrastructure in the coming months. https://t.co/5GqzHDp9E8

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@CoinDesk @Tether_to @sheldonreback @zackseward Hard for recycled FUD to be “breaking news.”

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@matthew_d_green It works well.

Side effect: you have to sweep up salt. I recommend only using outside.

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The knights & dames of @SatoshiRoundtbl have convened and set this year’s price target.

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“Bitcoin doesn’t provide any utility for law abiding citizens!” pic.twitter.com/u77OkPZ1jO

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“Governments should guarantee safe, stable and usable money” writes @Rmanning4

Yes, they should. Yet, they can’t.… https://t.co/M4T4RrKyxe

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BREAKING: ETHEREUM’S ASTROLOGICAL CHART IS “HIGHLY UNFAVORABLE”

- SOURCES

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I know plenty of high net worth Bitcoiners who remain so laser focused on stacking sats that they sacrifice health,… https://t.co/tlZH08Nl1D

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IF YOU’RE STILL USING FIAT AS YOUR UNIT OF ACCOUNT YOU’RE NGMI

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Folks selling market timing tips = get rekt quick schemes.

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You can at most have several thousand thoughts per hour. Spend your time wisely; there are no refunds!

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@DanDarkPill @ledgerstatus @CryptoCobain Yeah I’m playing this game on hard mode.

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The RCMP is asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in a series of bitcoin ATM robberies and property… https://t.co/TmMVyJZnFI

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@DanDarkPill @ledgerstatus @CryptoCobain First edition of Extreme Privacy was published in 2019 IIRC. I wish it had… https://t.co/yhB5xxpZFd

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@ledgerstatus @CryptoCobain Privacy means having the power to selectively reveal to the world only what you want it… https://t.co/7PwFk9lRSe

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If you havin’ supply chain problems I feel bad for you, son.

I got 99 problems and inflation ain’t one.

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“Germans who have been fully vaccinated are entitled to a certificate which allows them more freedoms, especially t… https://t.co/pHRN45a2wN

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RT @ODELL: My conversation with @dhruvbansal, @lopp, and @wiz on bitcoin custody best practices and tradeoffs for institutional investors.…

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“government interference is a source of error” in money as an information system. - @elonmusk

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@acityinohio Nobody ever lost money by taking profits!

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The B Word starts in 3 hours!

I’ll be on a panel about Preserving the Bitcoin Ethos with @dhruvbansal, @ODELL, &… https://t.co/nWitrMfhde

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@DrSpacemn Same benchmark machine I’ve been using for 3 years. https://t.co/68sMUpA26Z

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Full validation (pruned) sync of Geth v1.10.4 got to height 11,415,000 after 5 days 21 hours on my benchmark machin… https://t.co/jbtdOmMaUq

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@SkiingBlock Coercion is immoral regardless of who is being victimized.

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Reported for inciting theft and threats of violence. https://t.co/1F3WC9th1Y

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The first time you think you’re witnessing Bitcoin’s death is the hardest. https://t.co/cmid8rSxkW

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RT @BitcoinerJobs: For all the Content Marketers, @CasaHODL needs you! 💋

They’re looking for expertise in writing about bitcoin and bitcoi…

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@cryptocornfeld Carrier pigeons could work well for a regional @OPENDIME-based Bitcoin sneakernet.

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@nvk NPC 67447419 reporting for duty!

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Stablecoins are the very definition of unsound money.

And yet they still offer an order of magnitude improvement over wire transfers.

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If you’re programmatically encrypting data to N GPG pubkeys and any 1 of N keys expires… you’re gonna have a bad time.

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Looks like @nntaleb has taken 16,000 Ls. Still a mere fraction of the cyber hornet swarm. https://t.co/FSEL20KVzn https://t.co/9Pc0bGg9XR

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20 years ago it cost tens of millions of dollars for a ticket to space.

Today it’s less than a tenth of that.

Onl… https://t.co/tTDsBMPD4A

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Time to watch history being made. https://t.co/hIe5NBZTGt

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Today is a good day to contribute to the demise of central banking by writing more code.

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@stbabo_ If you wipe and restore the trezor, you’re all set. The multisig wallet won’t know anything happened - it… https://t.co/o0BjcpHgM8

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@stbabo_ If that trezor is one of the keys to the multisig then you’ll need to either import the seed phrase again… https://t.co/lLp4zdVFM2

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Had to send a bunch of wires today.

The bank kept asking me why.

Apparently “because I want to” isn’t a sufficient reason.

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Builders can stay engaged with writing code longer than traders can remain entertained by drawing shapes on price charts.

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Retweet if you managed to make it through your entire life without needing life insurance. https://t.co/pktOwdOyUY

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RT @BitcoinCorePRs: This week’s PR Review Club is on #22383: “Prefer to use txindex if available for GetTransaction”, authored by @lopp. Co…

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Another day, another scammer to crush. https://t.co/sAvMVwqyhx

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Seeking out liquidity flows to facilitate routing on the Lightning Network feels like fishing. You can look for sig… https://t.co/ChnbtVWgwK

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@unruhschuh Yes, most payments are. Though from my own experience trying to rebalance large channels, I get tons of… https://t.co/IXukOsYBTT

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@Hoodl57918837 If you only want the channel for sending/receiving your own payments, sure. If you’re trying to be a… https://t.co/BEPCCaoZ08

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@kozuchowski_m It’s very spiky, anywhere from 0 to 20.

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@kozuchowski_m Tor, though this may be detrimental to being a routing node.

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If your goal of running a lightning node is to route plenty of payments, stick to creating channels > 10M sats. Con… https://t.co/Ct4iBW6TT5

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sure but what’s the price of a kilo of bug protein https://t.co/LTkEof7WdB

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@brrrunog Calibrating hashcash difficulty per client isn’t really feasible because clients can pretend to be weaker… https://t.co/FE0cL7x0Wp

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@LadyAnarki Can’t afford to lose that SEO juice!

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@brrrunog No, but difficulty should only need to be increased every few years.

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@thorie Nah, you’d want it to mine monero since it’s a CPU mineable coin. You’ll earn nothing from networks that are ASIC or GPU mined.

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Who’s the idiot release manager that decided to version it as COVID-19 Delta instead of COVID-21?

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so many influential fools on this app

so little time to dunk on them

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Necessity is the mother of invention. https://t.co/cNVMu6PtZ8

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@mechtoni If you’re wanting to increase forwarding, I’d stick to creating channels over 10M sats.

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Pretty sure I’ve made more Bitcoin transactions in the past few months than in the decade prior.

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@jamie_donald Running on a 4 CPU VPS with 16 GB of RAM. Manually managing Bitcoin Core and LND installs. Doing some… https://t.co/S9pWsyuVZa

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Still stretching to achieve first goal. My node has forwarded 95 payments for which it has earned $16 in fees, but… https://t.co/8zrs5N5NT9

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*makes payment I’ve made countless times in the past*

THIS PAYMENT WAS CANCELLED FOR YOUR PROTECTION

ಠ_ಠ

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@CyberHornet21 It works great as an anti-spam mechanism. Unfortunately, google’s captcha system seems to be the go-… https://t.co/9a6YAvUUOY

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@kellogh @bascule You don’t seem to understand that there is a difference between miners seeking out cheap excess e… https://t.co/yoNoDDvTKE

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A HODLer’s rule to remember with Bitcoin: it eats bearwhales for breakfast. https://t.co/mGdMrHXsIz https://t.co/2zzB3Fc0V1

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@kellogh @bascule Feel free to present your evidence of that occurring.

Generally speaking, it’s not tenable for m… https://t.co/kx0teOFghB

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@kellogh @bascule Rubbish. Bitcoin miners are incentivized to seek out the cheapest energy - energy for which there… https://t.co/hKsO1cEpBq

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Which of my many draft articles should I focus on finishing?

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@nvk Just gotta get your hashcash protection turned on! https://t.co/OvsBmbNj9b

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@CryptoCobain This is Twitter’s secret sauce.

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“Bitcoin is controlled by a small group of whales that manipulate the market.”

You just described every free marke… https://t.co/nau0nkh2wO

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If everyone reproduces at high rates and humanity doesn’t figure out how to manage its resources, civilization may… https://t.co/Chs12BprcU

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The hashcash PoW anti-spam function on my personal contact form broke due to a 3rd party API SSL cert expiring.

It… https://t.co/VYXcmhdLAn

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Crypto assets are so ingrained in pure capitalism that a hardcore socialist created a copypasta coin that was meant… https://t.co/LLt2XiBNUR

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After 9 years of studying it I’m certain that Bitcoin is an inherently anarchic, hyper-capitalistic technology buil… https://t.co/BDZf6PWtwv

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@ITStudiosi @cryptoSuperGuy1 Yeah and my point is you’re wrong, though it takes more than a tweet to explain why. T… https://t.co/BD2bbOrIeh

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China’s share of Bitcoin hashrate declined from 75.5% in September 2019 to 46% in April 2021. The USA’s share of ha… https://t.co/CTgw9OiEYE

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If your reaction to my reply is blocking me, I count that as a W.

If your reaction is to take your profile private, I count that as a KO.

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If your government is overcharging for the services they provide, fire them.

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RT @ForbesCrypto: Forbes contributor @lopp speaks with @CoinDesk about his article “Bitcoin: Redefining F-You Money” and the future of the…

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@raw_avocado @codedawi There’s not a whole lot to say; you just need to generate the auth string:… https://t.co/AJywOcgCnK

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Imagine believing that central bank money is safe. https://t.co/KnzDUlN0tu

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GET IN, LOSER
WE’RE TRANSMITTING MONEY WITHOUT A LICENSE
https://t.co/hHVhwbtEIZ

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@alexbosworth mempoolminfee via bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo

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Those who hold power over you will not give you the knowledge necessary to overthrow them.

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Very interesting research from Rene Pickhardt that concludes the base fees for routing lightning payments add too m… https://t.co/qTFIYvecjS

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@renepickhardt @c_otto83 Is it fair to say that your research concludes that 0 base fees allow us to make better us… https://t.co/4H4oGz09dp

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@renepickhardt @c_otto83 Have you done any analysis of network-wide fee policies? I was shocked when I stumbled acr… https://t.co/rzZ93izCm0

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I’ve learned to wait for Europe to go to sleep before posting libertarian memes. pic.twitter.com/lDKHA21AcR

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RT @CoinDesk: Is financial autonomy for everyone and are people ready to invest money and efforts to get it? Listen to @lopp discuss this w…

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@StopAndDecrypt It was surprising; maybe the window of trailing data is simply too large? Not sure how aggressive the pruning is.

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Expect the occurrences of Bitcoin’s mempool completely emptying to decrease as more Lightning liquidity providers a… https://t.co/aMtErO2VSm

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@Hackatoshi Fast sync is not full validation sync from genesis, though. “Fast sync downloads only the latest state,… https://t.co/LEsvdZ1zge

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@Hackatoshi Interestingly enough, I saw that table and it seems to be missed pruned archive sync. The only way I fo… https://t.co/V5iDvpEKsJ

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@LefterisJP @nethermindeth My 1 TB drive had 800GB available for node data. I ran it with ./Nevermind.Runner -c con… https://t.co/4ycGK2RiF8

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Full validation (pruned) sync of Nethermind v1.10.74 node to ETH block 12,810,000 on my benchmark machine ran out o… https://t.co/uzvaeSLWDj

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“Freedom” is an anti-government slogan because government is anti-freedom. https://t.co/AL6wQD1oAI

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@VinnyLingham @Thavash @elonmusk @howardlindzon 🤡”Bitcoin Cash has proven that larger blocks can technically scale”🤡 https://t.co/I7cWP11wVO

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@PeterMcCormack glad to hear you’re going to be a bearable twat

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RT @richardbranson: I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I’m an adult in a spaceship looking down to our beautiful…

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Look kids, it’s crab mentality playing out in realtime! Bernie and the billionaires are crabs while the bucket is E… https://t.co/D1ajz8WwkE

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RT @virgingalactic: NEW TIME: Watch #UNITY22 launch and livestream TODAY at 7:30 am PT | 10:30 am ET | 3:30 pm BST.

Overnight weather dela…

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@Okcoin & @OKEx - do the Lightning nodes with aliases set to your names belong to you? If so, why do you both have… https://t.co/8SCNcS1xFo

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I’m told Risto Pietilä, an OG Bitcoin whale, passed away a year ago in a car wreck. A prolific poster on BitcoinTal… https://t.co/beKXTXkJpu

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@currtism22 @CaitlinLong_ @nanoseagull You can’t prove that it’s impossible to attack Bitcoin computationally. You… https://t.co/RalrdLc2Mx

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Bitcoin is like rocket science.

It’s mission critical engineering.

The tolerances for failure are nearly nonexist… https://t.co/NlYTx7VX7P

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There are no shortcuts to understanding the principles and engineering constraints that drive Bitcoin forward and k… https://t.co/PdASNaBWXD

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@hashcashio FYI looks like the SSL cert for your site has expired.

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@Hackatoshi Oh dear, looks like the hashcash API I’m using is currently failing due to an expired SSL cert. I’ve le… https://t.co/iSqPLngOYe

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@GE_9_9_9 Being a successful entrepreneur in no way helps someone understand the intricacies of decentralized netwo… https://t.co/W5q1Rsl7EY

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@realSidhuJag The closest thing that comes to mind is RGB; I think it supports “colored coin” style asset trading o… https://t.co/7NLoFHlpWP

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@Robin__masters @SMichaelRyan1 Complexity is the enemy of security; design flaws tend to be hidden in complexity.

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Shitcoin liquidity traders swap hot potatoes in and out of complicated smart contracts hoping they don’t get rug pu… https://t.co/6EFG4TfksR

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@elonmusk @PPathole @MattWallace888 Clowncar engineering for a joke coin sounds sensible.

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@nanoseagull No. Better to have too much security than not enough. Even more so, given that “enough” is unquantifiable.

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@WeAreBreaker Looks like your studios web site is down.

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Ggool is an honest to god shitcoin! https://t.co/C10dqJTzrG

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RT @CasaHODL: ⚠️ Onramp x Casa Twitter Spaces event happening now!

Join us here 💇https://t.co/2pUpQGhJnp https://t.co/PWAeO4dA9o

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If you wouldn’t carry $______ worth of cash around in your wallet, you shouldn’t carry that amount of bitcoin around on a single device.

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@CryptoCobain oh shit forgot to switch to my anon account

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@CryptoCobain How about a darknet market that eliminates postal system risk via use of a tor-like network of drones for dead drops.

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@missaghi Depends upon the features of the given crypto network. This is possible on Bitcoin via RBF, though not ma… https://t.co/NrdtmjdkiY

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