@JeremyRubin $200 a month for food? You’re probably not eating enough quality meat.
Bro it’s a trap ya gonna get jacked. https://t.co/xcx2QwIwkA
@blockFanatics @FieldNas @ninoguarisco Yes, very few people have their keys secured in such a way that they are sec… https://t.co/hSWYqgcNwp
@blockFanatics @FieldNas @ninoguarisco It’s not a possibility if you secure your assets such that even you can not… https://t.co/VifsvYRP4f
@FieldNas @blockFanatics @ninoguarisco You make an assumption that paying a ransom will save the life of your loved… https://t.co/HzwXr8OwGa
The most successful people tend to be those who make up jobs that previously did not exist. https://t.co/JMAYvohByq
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
Trust the science and remember that science says one should not trust the scientists.
You can’t truly own real estate without a standing army.
@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
If you switched off your laser eyes at $30K, you don’t get to turn them back on, poser.
Waiter: “how would you like your meat?”
Me: “clutched by more meat.” pic.twitter.com/nrQ0MVvp6r
@MrBlakeCan There’s a presentation linked at the top of https://t.co/wqawX5OpEc
Imagine getting DoS attacked with tens of thousands of pages of paperwork that have an expiration deadline of next… https://t.co/hN7dpZM8OH
@imthedronelord A hodgepodge of kidnappings, home invasions, and ATM attacks. https://t.co/BUdsFsvKsh
As it stands today, 27% of known physical attacks in the crypto space have been committed against victims who were… https://t.co/6LRvnFWYyp
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
JPMorgan Chase projects that central banks’ balance sheets will have grown by $12T during 2020-21 due to purchasing… https://t.co/RYAAlXliFt
@stopfeds Probably not rolled out to all the airports yet.
@stopfeds Yeah I was preparing to hand over / scan my passport but they were just like “Please remove your mask. Hello Mr. Lopp.”
@JoelKatz good point
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
Freedom has a catch-22: groups that are sufficiently organized to defend themselves against aggressors are by defin… https://t.co/9wqgt30wtS
If you lose your private keys in a house fire…
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… those coins are burned.
@AnaLeal3000 No, the files on the computer only had the public keys not the private keys.
Another hard lesson learned regarding the necessity of geographically separated keys. Funds lost to house fire. https://t.co/baoCTXqxou
@NeerajKA how about digital real estate experts
@btcmantis I wouldn’t know, I never traded grin.
International travel is now security theater with extra checkpoints for health theater.
@btcmantis No, running a node is not a for-profit activity. I’m not a miner.
@btcmantis Yep!
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
Hypocritical clickbait headline that contradicts the actual article. If you’re a shadowy super coder, nobody knows… https://t.co/VB8ZD6mmYe
@junderwood4649 Might be different if you’re actually at the border. They don’t let you board a flight to US without proof.
@ChrisBlec They don’t let you board without proof of negative test or recent recovery.
Narrowly avoided getting rejected from entering my own country due to a typo on the attestation from the COVID testing service.
@lucash_dev Gravity wells, atmospheres, and magnetic fields are kind of important.
@MFloresFive Seasteading is an interesting idea but I think there’s a high barrier to achieve the defensive capabilities required.
The future is being built by software engineers
…and we don’t even have a license to code.
Throughout history, those who yearn for freedom have attained it by staying out of reach of those who would deprive… https://t.co/7DL9h5VcgG
Wait ‘til @ewarren finds out how much of the internet’s infrastructure was built by “shadowy super coders.”
Please point me to the code repositories for the Treasury and Federal Reserve, @ewarren
We’re writing new systems… https://t.co/n3UYnjJ0TS
When an organization is composed of voluntary members who can easily leave, authority must be bestowed from below r… https://t.co/VdEOk0XQwB
@AnitaPosch Yup
RT @CasaHODL: THREE huge updates for y’all today. That’s right. Count ‘em.
🔈 Recurring Buys
💸 Refer-a-Friend
🚀 Limited-time bonus for Cas…
@DavidA1337 @coinyeezy The node was never our primary business.
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
Satoshi Roundtable VII concluded recently and I was reminded of Brian Armstrong’s writeup of SRT II. It’s interesti… https://t.co/3m9kEKULr5
The “authorities” said the victims should have “let them handle it.” Of course, the authorities were not available… https://t.co/o2R2d7J4dz
Is Bitcoin dead yet?
@thetrocro Only possible to compute those stats for your own payments.
Whether Tether has full or fractional reserves is of no consequence to the continued operation of Bitcoin.
Concern… https://t.co/8bXx6GJnWm
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
@milner_aviv @realPaulSantos @CoinDesk @Tether_to @sheldonreback @zackseward Bitcoin crashed later once folks figur… https://t.co/Yi0FSpSgUj
@milner_aviv @realPaulSantos @CoinDesk @Tether_to @sheldonreback @zackseward I suggest you research what happened a… https://t.co/WYdhJFlV5E
@realPaulSantos @milner_aviv @CoinDesk @Tether_to @sheldonreback @zackseward What is my self interest? I don’t hold… https://t.co/vYEAzY6H46
long the new moon
YOLO margin long the full moon
am I doing this right, @marenaltman
Major players spooling up Lightning infrastructure in the coming months. https://t.co/5GqzHDp9E8
@CoinDesk @Tether_to @sheldonreback @zackseward Hard for recycled FUD to be “breaking news.”
@matthew_d_green It works well.
Side effect: you have to sweep up salt. I recommend only using outside.
Full moon rising pic.twitter.com/YzsFghUU7t
The knights & dames of @SatoshiRoundtbl have convened and set this year’s price target.
“Bitcoin doesn’t provide any utility for law abiding citizens!” pic.twitter.com/u77OkPZ1jO
“Governments should guarantee safe, stable and usable money” writes @Rmanning4
Yes, they should. Yet, they can’t.… https://t.co/M4T4RrKyxe
BREAKING: ETHEREUM’S ASTROLOGICAL CHART IS “HIGHLY UNFAVORABLE”
- SOURCES
I know plenty of high net worth Bitcoiners who remain so laser focused on stacking sats that they sacrifice health,… https://t.co/tlZH08Nl1D
IF YOU’RE STILL USING FIAT AS YOUR UNIT OF ACCOUNT YOU’RE NGMI
@Investor_Tricia Fuck off, scambot!
Folks selling market timing tips = get rekt quick schemes.
@CoinPurloin Nope, never been to Bangkok
You can at most have several thousand thoughts per hour. Spend your time wisely; there are no refunds!
@DanDarkPill @ledgerstatus @CryptoCobain Yeah I’m playing this game on hard mode.
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
@DanDarkPill @ledgerstatus @CryptoCobain First edition of Extreme Privacy was published in 2019 IIRC. I wish it had… https://t.co/yhB5xxpZFd
@ledgerstatus @CryptoCobain Privacy means having the power to selectively reveal to the world only what you want it… https://t.co/7PwFk9lRSe
If you havin’ supply chain problems I feel bad for you, son.
I got 99 problems and inflation ain’t one.
“Germans who have been fully vaccinated are entitled to a certificate which allows them more freedoms, especially t… https://t.co/pHRN45a2wN
RT @ODELL: My conversation with @dhruvbansal, @lopp, and @wiz on bitcoin custody best practices and tradeoffs for institutional investors.…
“government interference is a source of error” in money as an information system. - @elonmusk
@acityinohio Nobody ever lost money by taking profits!
@danoprey @dhruvbansal @ODELL @wiz I assume so.
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
@DrSpacemn Same benchmark machine I’ve been using for 3 years. https://t.co/68sMUpA26Z
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
@SkiingBlock Coercion is immoral regardless of who is being victimized.
Reported for inciting theft and threats of violence. https://t.co/1F3WC9th1Y
The first time you think you’re witnessing Bitcoin’s death is the hardest. https://t.co/cmid8rSxkW
RT @BitcoinerJobs: For all the Content Marketers, @CasaHODL needs you! 💋
They’re looking for expertise in writing about bitcoin and bitcoi…
@cryptocornfeld Carrier pigeons could work well for a regional @OPENDIME-based Bitcoin sneakernet.
@nvk NPC 67447419 reporting for duty!
Stablecoins are the very definition of unsound money.
And yet they still offer an order of magnitude improvement over wire transfers.
If you’re programmatically encrypting data to N GPG pubkeys and any 1 of N keys expires… you’re gonna have a bad time.
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
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
Time to watch history being made. https://t.co/hIe5NBZTGt
Today is a good day to contribute to the demise of central banking by writing more code.
@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
@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
Had to send a bunch of wires today.
The bank kept asking me why.
Apparently “because I want to” isn’t a sufficient reason.
Builders can stay engaged with writing code longer than traders can remain entertained by drawing shapes on price charts.
@badcryptobitch I blame the oracle problem.
Retweet if you managed to make it through your entire life without needing life insurance. https://t.co/pktOwdOyUY
RT @BitcoinCorePRs: This week’s PR Review Club is on #22383: “Prefer to use txindex if available for GetTransaction”, authored by @lopp. Co…
Another day, another scammer to crush. https://t.co/sAvMVwqyhx
Seeking out liquidity flows to facilitate routing on the Lightning Network feels like fishing. You can look for sig… https://t.co/ChnbtVWgwK
@unruhschuh Yes, most payments are. Though from my own experience trying to rebalance large channels, I get tons of… https://t.co/IXukOsYBTT
@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
@kozuchowski_m It’s very spiky, anywhere from 0 to 20.
@kozuchowski_m Tor, though this may be detrimental to being a routing node.
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
sure but what’s the price of a kilo of bug protein https://t.co/LTkEof7WdB
@brrrunog Calibrating hashcash difficulty per client isn’t really feasible because clients can pretend to be weaker… https://t.co/FE0cL7x0Wp
@LadyAnarki Can’t afford to lose that SEO juice!
@brrrunog No, but difficulty should only need to be increased every few years.
@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.
Who’s the idiot release manager that decided to version it as COVID-19 Delta instead of COVID-21?
so many influential fools on this app
so little time to dunk on them
Necessity is the mother of invention. https://t.co/cNVMu6PtZ8
@mechtoni If you’re wanting to increase forwarding, I’d stick to creating channels over 10M sats.
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
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
*makes payment I’ve made countless times in the past*
THIS PAYMENT WAS CANCELLED FOR YOUR PROTECTION
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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
@kellogh @bascule You don’t seem to understand that there is a difference between miners seeking out cheap excess e… https://t.co/yoNoDDvTKE
A HODLer’s rule to remember with Bitcoin: it eats bearwhales for breakfast. https://t.co/mGdMrHXsIz https://t.co/2zzB3Fc0V1
Running Hashcash pic.twitter.com/PIE7t8jNwX
@kellogh @bascule Feel free to present your evidence of that occurring.
Generally speaking, it’s not tenable for m… https://t.co/kx0teOFghB
@kellogh @bascule Rubbish. Bitcoin miners are incentivized to seek out the cheapest energy - energy for which there… https://t.co/hKsO1cEpBq
Which of my many draft articles should I focus on finishing?
@nvk Just gotta get your hashcash protection turned on! https://t.co/OvsBmbNj9b
@CryptoCobain This is Twitter’s secret sauce.
“Bitcoin is controlled by a small group of whales that manipulate the market.”
You just described every free marke… https://t.co/nau0nkh2wO
If everyone reproduces at high rates and humanity doesn’t figure out how to manage its resources, civilization may… https://t.co/Chs12BprcU
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
Crypto assets are so ingrained in pure capitalism that a hardcore socialist created a copypasta coin that was meant… https://t.co/LLt2XiBNUR
After 9 years of studying it I’m certain that Bitcoin is an inherently anarchic, hyper-capitalistic technology buil… https://t.co/BDZf6PWtwv
@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
@orweinberger Bah, not sure how that happened.
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
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.
If your government is overcharging for the services they provide, fire them.
@whiterabbitbtc1 @snapboltbaral @CassieCeleste FWIW both @snapboltbaral and @CassieCeleste blocked me within 60 sec… https://t.co/8ViQW4k0NV
@snapboltbaral @CassieCeleste More like the exact opposite.
RT @ForbesCrypto: Forbes contributor @lopp speaks with @CoinDesk about his article “Bitcoin: Redefining F-You Money” and the future of the…
@raw_avocado @codedawi There’s not a whole lot to say; you just need to generate the auth string:… https://t.co/AJywOcgCnK
Imagine believing that central bank money is safe. https://t.co/KnzDUlN0tu
@me_bsv ROFL
GET IN, LOSER
WE’RE TRANSMITTING MONEY WITHOUT A LICENSE
https://t.co/hHVhwbtEIZ
@alexbosworth mempoolminfee via bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo
@PeterMcCormack Added bonus: BSV getting rekt https://t.co/greYnmF7oL
Those who hold power over you will not give you the knowledge necessary to overthrow them.
Very interesting research from Rene Pickhardt that concludes the base fees for routing lightning payments add too m… https://t.co/qTFIYvecjS
@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
@renepickhardt @c_otto83 Have you done any analysis of network-wide fee policies? I was shocked when I stumbled acr… https://t.co/rzZ93izCm0
@BitcoinFear ðŸ§
@nvk That sushi looks overcooked.
I’ve learned to wait for Europe to go to sleep before posting libertarian memes. pic.twitter.com/lDKHA21AcR
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…
@StopAndDecrypt It was surprising; maybe the window of trailing data is simply too large? Not sure how aggressive the pruning is.
Expect the occurrences of Bitcoin’s mempool completely emptying to decrease as more Lightning liquidity providers a… https://t.co/aMtErO2VSm
@Hackatoshi Fast sync is not full validation sync from genesis, though. “Fast sync downloads only the latest state,… https://t.co/LEsvdZ1zge
@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
@LefterisJP @nethermindeth My 1 TB drive had 800GB available for node data. I ran it with ./Nevermind.Runner -c con… https://t.co/4ycGK2RiF8
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
“Freedom” is an anti-government slogan because government is anti-freedom. https://t.co/AL6wQD1oAI
@VinnyLingham @Thavash @elonmusk @howardlindzon 🤡”Bitcoin Cash has proven that larger blocks can technically scale”🤡 https://t.co/I7cWP11wVO
@PeterMcCormack glad to hear you’re going to be a bearable twat
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…
Bootlicking crabs say what? https://t.co/cwL6r1ALvr
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
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…
@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
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
@BlockchainLeft @Illaustrian @currtism22 @CaitlinLong_ @nanoseagull That wasn’t a 51% attack.
That was a consensus… https://t.co/g3MFM8tMmW
@currtism22 @CaitlinLong_ @nanoseagull You can’t prove that it’s impossible to attack Bitcoin computationally. You… https://t.co/RalrdLc2Mx
Bitcoin is like rocket science.
It’s mission critical engineering.
The tolerances for failure are nearly nonexist… https://t.co/NlYTx7VX7P
There are no shortcuts to understanding the principles and engineering constraints that drive Bitcoin forward and k… https://t.co/PdASNaBWXD
@hashcashio FYI looks like the SSL cert for your site has expired.
@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
@GE_9_9_9 Being a successful entrepreneur in no way helps someone understand the intricacies of decentralized netwo… https://t.co/W5q1Rsl7EY
@realSidhuJag The closest thing that comes to mind is RGB; I think it supports “colored coin” style asset trading o… https://t.co/7NLoFHlpWP
@Robin__masters @SMichaelRyan1 Complexity is the enemy of security; design flaws tend to be hidden in complexity.
Shitcoin liquidity traders swap hot potatoes in and out of complicated smart contracts hoping they don’t get rug pu… https://t.co/6EFG4TfksR
@elonmusk @PPathole @MattWallace888 Clowncar engineering for a joke coin sounds sensible.
@nanoseagull No. Better to have too much security than not enough. Even more so, given that “enough” is unquantifiable.
@WeAreBreaker Looks like your studios web site is down.
Ggool is an honest to god shitcoin! https://t.co/C10dqJTzrG
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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.
@CryptoCobain oh shit forgot to switch to my anon account
@CryptoCobain How about a darknet market that eliminates postal system risk via use of a tor-like network of drones for dead drops.
@missaghi Depends upon the features of the given crypto network. This is possible on Bitcoin via RBF, though not ma… https://t.co/NrdtmjdkiY