@JeremyRubin @secparam Oops, missed that. Though it should still improve lightning payment forwarding performance, no?
During 2021 the Bitcoin blockchain grew from 319GB to 383GB - an annual growth rate of 20%. pic.twitter.com/mLK9WjAWSg
@cobie @coincenter sorry you have to delete your account as sacrifice @NeerajKA i don’t make the rules
@secparam Lower cost… of validation.
Bitcoin’s thermodynamic security accelerated at an average rate of 1,507 GH/s^2 in 2021. https://t.co/8CeTh67kpO
2022 prediction: 🤡
Bitcoin never stops scaling. https://t.co/QmCKtZu6zR
@PeterMcCormack @realbedford No need, xpubs are old & busted.
Wallet descriptors are the new hotness.
@gohncompany @TrustlessState @Nike @adidasoriginals @budweiserusa @EYnews @Mastercard @Visa I live my life.
@TrustlessState @Nike @adidasoriginals @budweiserusa @EYnews @Mastercard @Visa It appears we have different definit… https://t.co/CaNdfXv0c8
What could possibly go wrong if everyone does this? 😈
sell everything today
buy it all back tomorrow
wash those losses away
@nic__carter Don’t forget the mark ass marks, trick ass marks, punk bitches, skip scap shitcoiners and skallywags,… https://t.co/FhjfXkVOnd
A great way to guarantee mediocrity is to regularly switch your focus to whatever grabs your attention, ensuring th… https://t.co/lS4gBA63Ul
“Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.”
- Betty White
RIP
Any day now. https://t.co/bK9BTV9s2z
This is a first: a group of inmates took a couple other inmates hostage and coerced them into transferring cryptocu… https://t.co/swzXIPS2gV
I don’t expect bitcoin to displace the dollar as a common currency any time soon.
I expect it to replace the dolla… https://t.co/Tj9HSo7xF4
Wrapped bitcoin increased by 133% in 2021 to 329,000 BTC across different protocols. pic.twitter.com/mmHkLbvGhC
During 2021 the amount of BTC pegged into @Blockstream’s Liquid network increased 29% to 3,354. pic.twitter.com/wmIxRw1f3Z
Lightning Network in 2021:
# advertised channels â¬†ï¸ 124% to 84,377
# nodes with channels â¬†ï¸ 132% to 1,948
Bitcoin i… https://t.co/J3MXAp8JRU
@Sunny_Singh10 @elonmusk I wouldn’t know, I have him muted.
@nic__carter is the signature legit tho
I hereby signal my support for BIP-119 OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY. Those who have reasonable technical objections shoul… https://t.co/xv0LhJmMyl
@JeremyRubin Time locked sats grants?
Running out of time to squeeze in more trades, degens! pic.twitter.com/QLcQYrDkUs
🤡pic.twitter.com/vTQfSpugs7Spugs7
The sooner you realize that even self proclaimed Bitcoin maximalists don’t agree about who is a maximalist, the soo… https://t.co/L4yzrjvBuq
@cobie Any good site with aggregate annual stats?
Are ICOs dead or have they just moved to other networks that aren’t tracked by the ICO stats sites I can find?
@parkertxranger Sounds like you are not reusing addresses.
The Bitcoin hashpower that is merge mining the
@RSKsmart sidechain is holding steady in the 55% - 60% range… https://t.co/wZEUxMNuVI
@JeremyRubin what did i miss
@dabloki I said nothing of the sort. Of course Trump voters are statists too.
Amusingly, crypto owners as a group are now mostly statists. 🤦
https://t.co/WFMt6Yg8uN
Bitcoin’s UTXO set rose from 68M to an all-time high of 78M in 2021, adding a net new UTXO every 3 seconds. pic.twitter.com/LGOQ8wk2Ny
Thanks to the Blockchain wallet finally rolling out SegWit support in June, the percentage of SegWit spending trans… https://t.co/HSfM2a6TgM
Bitcoin address reuse, which is a poor privacy practice, started trending back upward in 2021 after several years o… https://t.co/xy0yNgpXMk
The fee market for Bitcoin block space dropped off a cliff mid-year. pic.twitter.com/amfdpdsf1C
Bitcoin miners have earned nearly $38 billion over the past 13 years and revenue is accelerating. This number assum… https://t.co/4gos5rq4Yt
Revenue collected via transaction fees by bitcoin miners nearly reached all-time highs in April before spending the… https://t.co/YRenS78KwM
Never had a barber require wearing a mask until last week. They cut around the mask strings while doing my ears and… https://t.co/lfAmRs464s
@CashflowREAM Yeah it doesn’t take much to keep a coin on life support.
Roger Ver thinks BSV scales better than BCH and is merely suffering from branding problems. 🤣… https://t.co/rvu2ijDH8J
Bitcoin’s daily adjusted on-chain value transferred hit $36B in 2021. For context, the previous peak was $9B in Dec… https://t.co/U3POX4app5
Bitcoin OP_RETURN (data anchor) outputs created in:
2014: 13,000
2015: 655,000
2016: 1,040,000
2017: 2,253,000
2018… https://t.co/l2frC7AhGf
Bitcoin market cap dominance (a highly manipulable metric of questionable value) dropped throughout 2021 despite th… https://t.co/ogXbdcXYcL
The fact that the US hasn’t been able to institute a nationwide centralized vax pass system shows the robustness of… https://t.co/ZwA3ZwrLbJ
Known Bitcoin related physical attacks in
2014: 1
2015: 5
2016: 4
2017: 12
2018: 25
2019: 8
2020: 11
2021: 25
An Italian couple staying in Bali were beaten & robbed of $400,000 in cash and bitcoin. https://t.co/rGO10ssxZo
Forkcoiners had a moment of hope in May but will end the year down double digit percentages against BTC. pic.twitter.com/PHb0bEctCf
@MikeSington OH NOES THAT DOG IS UNMASKED
I’ve visited some places in the US that require showing a vaccine card.
No establishment checked against my ID or… https://t.co/pQUZDO9DyZ
The number of deployed Bitcoin ATMs increased by 142% during 2021 to over 33,850. pic.twitter.com/DJxG80TPOl
@jiceman It’s in their 2021 annual report PDF.
Teach a girl to HODL and she’ll stay safe.
Teach a dude to ape aaaaaaaaaaand it’s gone.
https://t.co/MkhzdWWeLV
Bitcoin’s 30 & 60 day exchange rate volatility averaged around 4% during 2021, over 1% higher than the previous yea… https://t.co/fOyXh5Xstn
@charliegirl0527 Everything you need is at https://t.co/8ZsrcEwSfa
Crypto exchange trading volumes have blown away previous historical records throughout 2021. pic.twitter.com/JofWgUXrD8
Bitcoin Why is proof of work important?
Because humans can break any laws made by humans but none made by physics.
Crypto industry venture capital funding:
2012: $23M
2013: $120M
2014: $368M
2015: $850M
2016: $850M
2017: $1,200M
2… https://t.co/qGmijevYRF
The Matrix 4 suffers from a severe case of huffing its own farts. It’s so self referential that it’s cheesy.
@nic__carter ser none of us can see that because he blocked us all
@greg_not_so They can educate themselves at https://t.co/8ZsrcEwSfa - I’ve already done a lot of the legwork compil… https://t.co/FL2vrufjoI
I think you don’t understand the point of cryptocurrency. pic.twitter.com/DC6gq3eZH8
@csuwildcat Amassing followers does not require being correct. You just have to craft the right narrative and stay on point.
“Savings,” more like “losings” amirite? https://t.co/bRaJFr6qWX
Imagine keeping your savings in cash because you’re risk averse.
2021 on Bitcoin Twitter
H/T @wullon pic.twitter.com/dsCWW7EjQw
There were 101,000,000 tweets containing the word “bitcoin” in 2021 - 350% the volume of 2020. H/T @wullon pic.twitter.com/c9NhwWQCbH
Cryptology ePrint Archive papers mentioning Bitcoin:
2011: 1
2012: 3
2013: 8
2014: 18
2015: 20
2016: 26
2017: 24
20… https://t.co/pjoWJYto1e
Google Scholar articles published mentioning Bitcoin:
2009: 83
2010: 136
2011: 218
2012: 424
2013: 868
2014: 2,070… https://t.co/iGaUp3uvQz
BitcoinTalk total registered users:
2009: 19
2010: 3,127
2011: 48,827
2012: 76,680
2013: 207,357
2014: 406,833
201… https://t.co/eGJsbgONUY
@delvin_baronof Yeah @glassnode has a chart of daily new bitcoin addresses at https://t.co/LmD8xt6mLC https://t.co/hzgMemRTzX
/r/bitcoin had a massive 2021, nearly doubling its subscriber count to a total of 3,706,000. By doing so it has fin… https://t.co/rN3KGapgEV
During 2021 an average of 563 visitors per day viewed my educational resources at https://t.co/8ZsrcEwSfa - a 109%… https://t.co/E8DXPR7t4m
El Salvador surged from 150th to 1st place for relative Bitcoin search interest in 2021.
Countries with the highest relative search interest for Bitcoin have changed significantly from 2020 to 2021! While… https://t.co/aL1MUAZ5bi
Bitcoin Obituaries:
2010: 1
2011: 6
2012: 1
2013: 17
2014: 29
2015: 39
2016: 28
2017: 124
2018: 93
2019: 41
2020: 1… https://t.co/BXSHYcwpqb
@robustus You just need a bunch of power strips.
RT @bitcoinbrink: Thank you @lopp for the generous BTC donation! A great Christmas present to support our developer funding efforts. ðŸŽ
Them: “Why are you giving that money away when you could buy some nice for yourself instead?”
Me: “To make sure th… https://t.co/E69YBods4G
@danheld $50K Christmas Candle obvs
According to my @github Sponsors stats I’ve donated $25,440 to 34 open source developers / projects in 2021.
Not b… https://t.co/x8XGcPAr6L
@TomZarebczan Recipe: https://t.co/pPhEkJUwTS
Eggnog perfection pic.twitter.com/3lgHlmWETT
RT @birb_k: Domestic Migration During COVID. People are voting with their U-Haul trucks. We all have ideas what drives people from, or towa…
@Curiouser103108 Perspective: the market cap of the entire Bitcoin system at the time was $250,000 and there were p… https://t.co/uW9CgDd6aK
That feeling when you realize it’s not web3, it’s web2 covered with a thin veneer of web3… https://t.co/6WUXh1VfuP
@BitcoinMagazine This was later determined to be fake news. Pretty sure the BTC were immediately converted into fia… https://t.co/jJLQI32FAk
now this looks like a job for me
so everybody just follow me
‘cause we need a little controversy
‘cause it feels so… https://t.co/nCHTfTPGEk
@gladstein Check his profile.
It would be dangerous to him; he’d be out of a job.
ROFL this explains so much
bless your heart @smdiehl https://t.co/3lfgfnG61a
They say you should be the change you want to see in the world.
In 2022 I’ll be joining several venture capital fu… https://t.co/3fVePJ5gU8
@udiWertheimer you’re doing a good job at that, but it’s less clear that it’s being offset via more attention / ass… https://t.co/DEj1f9EJFr
@udiWertheimer alrighty then ðŸhive.one/p/udiWertheimerfpic.twitter.com/CdIxDsGFf2Ff2
@itsmattgeorge @udiWertheimer @ensdomains Hard to cover in a tweet but you can’t control how a diverse group of peo… https://t.co/lZDUU2FddA
One virgin’s toxicity is another Chad’s basedness.
@udiWertheimer truly don’t understand why udiverse is once again choosing to be the bitcoiner internet police
this… https://t.co/NgPuJNK6Z0
@twobitidiot Telling folks what they need to do? Great way to incite a civil war 😇
@eccentricexit What ruling, though? A default judgement because I didn’t deposit more ETH?
You see how there’s no… https://t.co/0PV9rXucEl
@tyler Don’t need a token to be your own platform though. https://t.co/zHnPXCI42Q
@WayneVaughan is waynechain web3
RT @lopp: If Bitcoin is a new form of life:
* Electricity is its food
* The Internet is its circulatory system
* Miners are its hearts
* Bl…
@eccentricexit I figured there would be notifications in the browser; I was checked it regularly.
It always felt l… https://t.co/uQrlYSBvMN
Update: apparently the comment I paid to post was irrelevant to the process.
The app gave no notifications or guid… https://t.co/bFLXZ5PZh1
@twobitidiot *Hater News
@FTMarkets BAHAHAHA
@cobie I’m pretty sure they don’t talk to each other.
@AvinashJDsouza just look for any of my doge tweets from ~2014 or so https://t.co/I8tKV4ncKD
DOGE was fun before the pump & dumpers jumped in and ruined it
now it’s just a shitcoin with a dog on it
https://t.co/X8raNhkzyJ
This richest man in the world’s pfp is a phallic symbol of his own construction and he’s waving it in the faces of… https://t.co/kpN53NgVW2
We live in the age of billionaire shitposters. Why?
Because money can’t buy happiness.
But a legendary dunk sure can.
@micsolana you weren’t paying attention during the bitcoin fork wars were you
this is an adversarial environment;… https://t.co/B8RxL85M2f
gubmint’s gonna have a lotta splainin’ to do when folks wake up and realize they’re still alive and well
…except… https://t.co/00Jijp836e
@BrianLockhart LOOKS RARE
@NeerajKA being such a cheap bastard you don’t even buy the real jpg… *chef’s kiss*
@TheDesignFlaw For sure; AFAICT the mortality rate for these folks is well below expectations.
what if i told you
highly ranked govt officials
tend to be in the higher risk classes
of being exposed to and dying… https://t.co/jxtA4iMiKH
@ColinCareful High propensity means that the business has a high likelihood of hiring employees. Looks like the big… https://t.co/YNRQKKmDBd
MSM loves talking about The Great Resignation.
What you aren’t hearing is that the rate of incorporation of new bu… https://t.co/kfNeEcPrSC
Requiring children to get a vaccine for a disease with double digit % mortality rates where 1 shot will protect for… https://t.co/I8TgfJ3X5G
Multiple Nigerian law enforcement officers stand accused of robbing over $50,000 USD worth of bitcoin from two youn… https://t.co/ufKQwPTf9I
Escape from Boston while you still can.
https://t.co/unJo5I7kaN
@orweinberger @paulvigna @WSJ That’s what I figured. Somehow I bet it overlooks the nuance that owning BTC does not… https://t.co/dMbqnoQ3Pj
@paulvigna @WSJ Unfortunately I can’t read this article in order to debunk it. It appears that someone is gatekeepi… https://t.co/Nh7m6e2KGU
@bittychad Essentially infinity.
Crypto doesn’t disempower money printers - it empowers anyone to be a money printer.
Be wary of protocols for whic… https://t.co/hZzmsvVnuj
@doozy_j123 Nah, if people are wrong then they die. Self correcting problem.
@doozy_j123 There is no mortality rate that makes mandates acceptable. The incentives are already in play; it’s a self-correcting problem.
RT @CasaHODL: Announcing #Keyfest2022!
3 days packed with speakers, fireside chats, and interactive workshops on the potential of persona…
@CommonCentz2021 It’s from the recent press briefing. https://t.co/pl11nums7w
Fearmongering and hysterics.
I expect that the overwhelming majority of unvaccinated folks will not get severely il… https://t.co/OPEyfODcg0
Is Bitcoin dead yet?
bitcoinisdead.org pic.twitter.com/QLRtGTxxgk
“Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop, because women like to get out of the house, like to handle th… https://t.co/96uix0UtLr
Congratulations and thanks to @achow101 for stepping into the role of Bitcoin Core Wallet Maintainer!
@BVBTC @scarcedotcity Proof of work! https://t.co/qOQMPQS21t
RT @BVBTC: 1/ “Free Yourself†is my first sculpture in white marble, and it goes up for auction on @scarcedotcity this Tuesday.
https://t…
The most common debate I’ve seen on libertarian forums lately:
Which state is best for libertarians?
@taaronjones Acebeam X80 flashlight
I mostly use https://t.co/TZVNH2Amop cards; they rarely get rejected by payment processors.
RT @CasaHODL: 💂 CTO @lopp recently joined @natbrunell on the Coin Stories podcast and outlined a few of the best and most accessible ways t…
@PeterMcCormack is there any chance of @realbedford ever playing Calvin’s Scottish shitcoin club?
I have so many questions pic.twitter.com/WSVwtQUsB9
1 BTC = 1 BTC
1 USD ≠1 USD
https://t.co/yfV9zeB5UX
@prestonjbyrne Doesn’t make sense; you’d think that the liberals would prefer the convenience of visiting his grave at Arlington.
@Cowaboonga1435 By your logic they should also decrease priority for patients who have lifestyle related illnesses… https://t.co/iio92lAJLo
@BrianLockhart SIR ARE YOU DRINKING A PINT OF CARBS
@BtcChewy @druidian You should still max out your 401K if for no other reason than to reduce how much you pay the State.
@gladstein oh dear the replies are a dumpster fire of folks demanding access to shitcoin airdrops
@nic__carter What’s the over/under on Grenada launching a shitcoin?
HUMAN BEINGS ARE PRETTY PREDICTABLE
IF YOU THREATEN THEM, THEY’LL USUALLY COMPLY
https://t.co/Xevf71AIWJ
Receiving coal for Christmas is fine.
You can use it to power your mine.
If you dare to set it aflame.
Bitcoin changes the game.
@ErikVoorhees LORD HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES HRMH (& HMRH)
of Hougun Manor & Glencoe & British Empire
MR. Damian A. James Williamson
Wills
et al.
Just wait; every millennial will be a millionaire before you know it. https://t.co/iG5ZuBBc7F
@BitcoinIsSaving I’m envisioning a family struggling to cut their Christmas steak while holding their plate due to… https://t.co/N2vptAEKFU
You can’t comply your way out of tyranny.
@rfo2000 Physical attacks tend to be correlated with the exchange rate.
RT @actuallyCarlaKC: What’s special about Bitcoin is that you get to build the world as you want it to be ðŸ—ï¸
What previously fell to an el…
When I see the “holiday overflow” drivers pull up in their unmarked personal vehicle wearing plain clothes with jus… https://t.co/tI2OMv2mVa
@danheld Because both the prison-industrial complex AND the pharmaceutical-i ndustrial complex are threatened by it.
@HankThomasDC @gladstein That’s odd, I’m pretty sure Facebook has far more than 50,000 users.
@BrianLockhart truck nutz
plz stop hooking up critical infrastructure like cream cheese supply chain management to the internet kgr8thx https://t.co/jdduBvZqA7
Filed under “failed forkcoin forecasts.” https://t.co/XMUbQhBmMe
This is a pretty wild first: a well known TV personality was robbed by armed home invaders posing as DHL couriers w… https://t.co/3nHgTRvQSz
BBC found the biggest Chad in Lebanon pic.twitter.com/bg9ie7zA1I
is it a bad sign if the AWS status page won’t even load
AWS is down
*grrrrrrrrroans*inhales*
… Bitcoin never goes down…
@CryptoCobain AWS crashing on the news Crypto Cobain has become a verified twitter user
How many plants do I have to stake to be a plantfluencer?
Are plantfluencers carnivorous because they’re morally opposed to killing plants?
@CryptoCobain You’re a confirmed Ethereum co-founder nowwwwwww
Remember, folks: don’t go into debt to buy plants. They are a poor store of value and can not be used to execute a… https://t.co/0MOnqe2ETU
DeCeNtrALiZeD fInAnCe https://t.co/pO4wH2L21J
The Flippening is upon us. pic.twitter.com/uO4KvDYgci
@ChristopherA How well does it work for color blind folks?
RT @ChristopherA: https://t.co/LVs87HYGOz is a new Blockchain Commons website that demonstrates how LifeHashes work, and also offers a publ…
Super low time preference: not desiring the latest phone hardware because your preferred hardened operating system doesn’t support it yet.
@DanDarkPill Imagine being so desperate for good news that this is what you come up with.
Those who aren’t old enough to have experienced significant inflation are least likely to expect it. pic.twitter.com/qARc6HqTgM
“I wish I had spent more of my life staring at price charts!”
… exclaimed no one on their death bed.
@RobWaughMail Looks like almost all the replies are from brainwashed BSV folks, but that’s what tends to happen whe… https://t.co/GplumEOTt2
We can’t know for sure how much bitcoin is lost forever.
We can guess based upon how many haven’t moved in over 7… https://t.co/PfGZMJ5Pxj
@flyosity This is true though IIRC it wasn’t particularly fun to play as the duck.
@satsie it would be terrible if some anonymous individual were to do that
@banker0x In bitcoin terms, sure. But not necessarily in value terms. https://t.co/wCKiauNTuk