@matthew_d_green @_prestwich Here’s my explanation of what happened to “bitcoin maxis.” blog.lopp.net/history-of-bit…
“Bitcoin is both a tool and a movement… some of the users of the tool are part of the movement, but the vast majo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…GQ
lopp Why do so many otherwise intelligent folks hold and propagate misconceptions about Bitcoin? Because they haven’t pu..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4y
RT @BraiinsMining: Stop
@WhatBitcoinDid @ziggamon Nice; you touched on a lot of aspects of Bitcoin culture that I covered in my latest essa..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Bw
@nic__carter the revolution will not be calm
Does anyone still use RSS readers?
Should I publish an RSS feed of my writings?
@_milehighlivin It’s a neutral pronoun; we don’t know for certain if Satoshi was male or female, a single person or a group.
An Indian couple faked a robbery at their house in an attempt to get their friend to hand over his bitcoin, but the..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Lz
@0xB10C 5 out of 122 peers
.@saylor is employing the Pokemon strategy: gotta catch ‘em all! https://t.co/M4sDIfak4l
GPT generated summary of my most recent essay in case you’re not sure if you want to spend an hour reading it. Wort..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…f8
A decent number of US Congress members speak favorably about Bitcoin. But how many of them actually believe in it e..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…K7
Did you know that that Satoshi Nakamoto limited their mining hashrate and thus ended up with far less BTC than they..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yT
lopp Bitcoin’s primary function is not “store of value” - that’s a result of its primary function.
Bitcoin is “fuck you..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Lw
Fake bitcoin has a dangerous effect on the real #bitcoin market. Here’s an explanation of how the supply of bitcoin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…tm
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford
Incredibly impressed by @OpenAI’s Whisper transcription software.
I tested its performance on 4 machines and its a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…z5
RT @CoinsureNZ: Awesome to have my talk at Bitcoin Honeybadger referenced in this great article by @lopp covering amongst other things how…
@giacomozucco I’m sure one could write a full length book on the subject if you were willing to put in the time to go deep enough!
lopp If Bitcoin is a new form of life:
* Electricity is its food
* The Internet is its circulatory system
* Miners are i..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Bn
@adam3us @ajtowns @shesek The excerpt is in a section entitled “Reclaiming the Pejorative” - I’m explaining, not blaming.
Sounds like this crypto scammer took money from the wrong people. toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-crypto…
In this lengthy essay I make my best effort to explain the history and evolution of Bitcoin Maximalism.
blog.lopp.net/history-of-bit…
@1440000bytes @thealpharaccoon @udiWertheimer @CryptoHayes @saylor @jackmallers @rodarmor @gladstein @ODELL… https://t.co/12DHjHjx8D
lopp bitcoin vs “the next bitcoin” pic.twitter.com/uGQ5n0n7cb
Hey @greenpeaceusa,
My offer to help you navigate the BIP process still stands.
twitter.com/lopp/status/15… pic.twitter.com/b58Hu67lEg
Everybody close your eyes.
No need to realize!
twitter.com/unusual_whales…
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mP
@saylor @mattkratter There is debasement risk if folks use paper bitcoin, which is why self custody is crucial. blog.keys.casa/securing-bitco…
FYI if you have build systems that rely upon interacting with github, they may have broken due to this SSH key chan..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wG
Thanks for funding the creation of some sweet Bitcoin art @chrislarsensf!
@Arthur_van_Pelt Oh neat, they’re giving a talk about how they intend to scam BSV bagholders!
Treat your bank account like a hot wallet - don’t keep more money in it than you’re willing to lose! twitter.com/davidmarcus/st…
@1440000bytes RIP
@LucasMacchia2 Check out @hivedotone to find the most reputable folks in hundreds of different fields. twitter.com/lopp/status/16…
Bitcoin is an open collaborative project. As such, public discussion of current events and improvement proposals is..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…HW
lylepratt One under appreciated feature of bitcoin is that you can have a hyper-secure geo-diverse cold-storage vault and sti..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Cx
@kke_oliver From a security perspective it’s usually minimal, but it can vary! The more common reason to update is..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…0z
lopp The Internet wasn’t built in a day. Neither shall the Internet of Money.
ChristopherA Victory! @GovernorGordon of #Wyoming recently signed into law two crucial digital-asset laws: one on private-key pr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Mh
So that’s what “not on the run” looks like. twitter.com/tier10k/status…
@bchinella @gegelsmr4 I’ve spoken about buying property with Trusts and LLCs to protect your privacy. But that’s a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pt
The SEC is basically running the IRS playbook, but for securities law.
twitter.com/lopp/status/12…
It took 6 months, but this tweet is now correct.
https://t.co/oGcINPJBXa
@cantrell Looking forward to seeing new classes of injection attacks!
How do you generate private keys, keep them secure, and back them up? This hour-long introduction to bitcoin self c..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pa
@NeerajKA Pretty sure there’s already an open investigation.
PaolosIntern I bet you didn’t know that the 5$ wrench attack comes back to a meme, as many great discussions about #Bitcoin
He..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…uZ
First they ignore you
then they laugh at you
then they fight you (YOU ARE HERE)
then you win.
@alexmccurryo @brian_armstrong I advise against publicly stating that you have funds on a specific exchange. Unless..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3y
@bramcohen Was looking forward to your take. https://t.co/0sz0VDTBOh
@CrapaudDuBitume Bullshit. I’d hazard to guess that most crypto tokens would fail the Howey test.
The main reason..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Yi
lopp Bitcoin has…
no charismatic leader
no funded foundation
no governance token
no vesting schedule
no steering counc..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8E
New unregistered security just dropped! pic.twitter.com/jp1uo91Q6w
When authoritarians loudly proclaim that Bitcoin offers nothing of value they conveniently forget to qualify it with “to us.”
If you don’t build the future, someone else will build it for you.
If you’re looking for educational Bitcoin resources in African languages, bookmark exonumia.africa
@tatumturnup It’s @_Kevin_Pham meets @bertkreischer
/cc @DanDarkPill
lopp There is no web site, forum, social media account, foundation, code repository, conference, enterprise alliance, or..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…QB
@GuerillaV2 @mempool Relevant: https://t.co/JUFgl4V6dM
@twobitidiot To be fair, it is too risky to the Fed.
https://t.co/HquxfiQMao
This was considered comedically obese 30 years ago. The average American male’s weight has increased by 20 pounds (..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…qi
@kofinas @balajis The institutions have proven themselves to be corrupt and untrustworthy; how do you propose they can be reformed?
Had a friend ask if I was worried about my money in the bank.
I laughed and explained that I only keep 3 months wo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…kl
@danheld Not even good ones, at that! https://t.co/mX0DmmOxgg
@allenf32 Debt is “number go up” technology.
@adam3us I know a guy who proved he ain’t.
@fluffypony But ser, GPT said so, it must be true!
14th largest US bank: pic.twitter.com/CVqQuu9lYV
It’s hard to find trustworthy reporting in the crypto space. Many “news” sites are pay-to-play or have incentives t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mO
lopp Miners don’t waste energy securing Bitcoin.
The military industrial complex wastes energy securing the petrodollar.
@slinkymonkey I went from eating a standard American diet to pretty strict keto. Basically, avoiding processed food products.
@Zonacats1 Short version: keto. But I suspect it was the cutting out processed foods that was the fix; my “allergie..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2h
I had severe allergies for decades. Took Zyrtec every day, even got weekly shots for years as a teenager.
After I..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Xy
@Lord_Ashdrake There are a variety of other services that banks can offer like debit/credit cards, ATMs, financial..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Jn
@Lord_Ashdrake Banks could offer loans, they’d just have to actually use money they had earned in order to fund them!
Full reserve banking is a threat to central banks and their ability to continue the shell game grift.
@acityinohio See this is what happens when the base layer protocol is too ossified to refactor; you end up adding k..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…So
Gonna be a big week! pic.twitter.com/GYFHGQQNo7
Did you know that the US Government has seized and sold over 185,000 BTC since 2014? See how much better off they w..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Zk
If current trends continue, this is how I envision a day in the life of the dystopian future. Little privacy, poor..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Gl
Bankers be like pic.twitter.com/CN2qDztrrH
lopp This is my node. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My blockchain is validated by me. It is my financial..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…jd
How ignorant folks see it vs how informed folks see it. pic.twitter.com/TF1RiKpdyV
Had the McAfee Dickline curve held up, BTC would currently be trading at $50,000,000. Aw, shucks! fnordprefekt.de
And as everyone knows, McAfee’s bet was bad for Bitcoin because now a million dollars is boring compared to eating… https://t.co/bznQFMU2yC
As I explained in 2016, Bitcoin is not merely money. It is a new type of database with radical integrity and robust..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…QQ
Apparently I published this article a year too early. Good time for a refresher! forbes.com/sites/jamesonl…
we can learn a lot from the 40 year history of email and the many small decisions that prioritized corporate server..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gI
Do you want to increase your data sovereignty and protect your content from deplatforming risks? The following is a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…hq
“Stop paying attention to TikTok and look at the discount window.”
- @balajis
@CaitlinLong_ “What are you doing tonight, honey?”
“Just chilling with 10,000 of my closest friends, watching a financial apocalypse.”
Balaji dropping a new thesis on how the dollar is a shitcoin and the whole system is getting rugged. twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKb…
Today I discovered a @hivedotone feature that will come in handy. If you link your Twitter account to Hive, you can..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…73
lopp I’m not available to help anyone buy bitcoin. If you can’t figure out how to do that then it’s a sign you’re defini..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Pt
Perfect. pic.twitter.com/2SDrMCkObu
Apparently the politician who was pushing legislation to make BCH and TRON legal tender in St. Maarten has been arr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…dj
@ManateeBitcoin Fixed; thanks.
@MarcosDarkos Everything has trade-offs.
Making changes has trade-offs.
Not making changes has trade-offs.
General consensus is that the Bitcoin protocol will inevitably ossify. But how should we be thinking about it? I se..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Pz
@koeppelmann It’s hard to prove a negative. All I know is I’ve yet to hear reports of such attacks in other countri… https://t.co/7rY2LplHdq
@koeppelmann You think it’s unfair because the likelihood of attack is still low. My point is that these attacks se… https://t.co/cAloYDCF5K
@molly0xFFF You have more in common than you’d probably be comfortable admitting. twitter.com/lopp/status/15…
Imagine going through life thinking that your money is actually in the bank.
@tyler Fictional Reserve Banking
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
- General George Patton
My favorite line in Star Wars is when Watto says government credits aren’t real money. pic.twitter.com/7F8OmqfXth
The melt value of a WWII Nickel (35% silver) is now $1.22
Bitcoin didn’t appear out of thin air - it is the result of decades of work. Many digital currency projects failed..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…0Q
Jerome at work. pic.twitter.com/dPfdDJmTbW
@midjourney MidJourney v5
Does a better job deciding how to crop the Kratos action figure output. pic.twitter.com/cuLu1NoFId
MidJourney v5
Prompt: pastebin.com/JRX1t718 pic.twitter.com/qOptGUNW23
lopp The melt value of a modern US nickel is now 9 cents.
It is the best of times,
It is the worst of times,
It is the age of knowledge,
It is the age of misinformation,
It..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…nV
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it h..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Qn
The best time to diversify your corporate treasury into bitcoin was years ago when I published this article. The se..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…E8
@badcryptobitch If it weren’t for those toxic maximalists… oh.
@JD23241 This chart is inflation adjusted. For example, the Washington Mutual bank failure was ~$300B in 2008 dollars.
@jan18newbie Good question. This is FDIC data and it appears that the FDIC had no jurisdiction over Lehman at the t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4v
@nic__carter Seems like Silvergate got suicided.
lopp Q: Why did Satoshi choose an upper limit of 21,000,000 BTC?
A: The limiting factor is the max value of a 64 bit int..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1X
The incredibly low reserve requirements for fractional banks are far riskier in the age of instant communication an..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…HA
Imagine the boost to Twitter engagement if we could dunk on folks who post dumb stuff in languages we don’t underst..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…YH
@TuurDemeester I’m seeing some folks saying housing market is gonna crash while others say home prices are gonna moon.
1) what
@santisiri I don’t know how you define that; the other two I’m aware of were expats living in Colombia.
@realjdowner Not necessarily; the solution to coercion is to make it difficult for you to access your own keys. blog.keys.casa/how-to-protect…
1. Tell the machine to write some code
2. Tell the machine to review the code it wrote
3. Scold the machine for wri… https://t.co/bTxegQ88yd
NOBODY PANIC
PLEASE NO
O GOD
NO
twitter.com/financialjuice…
@santisiri Well for one, none of the other victims were American… the nationality of the reddit OP is unclear.
Looking forward to the day that I can point GPT at my github repository and have it submit pull requests that resolve the open issues.
@LukeDashjr Theoretically, though it’s unclear why this drug doesn’t seem to make it to other countries. This one s..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…j0
@6r1o5 If you know of any such attacks involving cryto assets please open an issue on my repository at github.com/jlopp/physical…
@santisiri I’m sorry that geographic boundaries offend you. I too, believe that the imaginary lines drawn by nation… https://t.co/wO0RVAu2Cp
Beware the Ides of March.
Time for some European banks to get assassinated?
@neo1807 I love it when my wishes are instantly granted.
I know you can ask GPT to write code snippets, but can you give it a diff and ask it to generate a commit message s..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ox
@santisiri Yeah, the guy who works to archive every physical crypto attack is ignorant. This is the third attack in… https://t.co/dsTuRIOOou
منابع فارسی بیت کوین bitcoind.me
Starting to see a pattern… pic.twitter.com/x4FYXPi4qx
@joe_pickrell @CasaHODL It’s the Diamond plan that includes multi-user functionality. Often used by teams to manage treasuries.
@satsie @CasaHODL @achow101 Stacie, you know how OCD I am about archiving my content! The MP3 and transcript are on lopp.net/interviews.html
@leftlaneisfor__ @CasaHODL Everything I’ve ever created is linked on lopp.net - just use the search..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…YO
lopp There is no web site, forum, social media account, foundation, code repository, conference, enterprise alliance, or..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…QB
@PlateLicker_21m @finaldenominatr Me too! Thankfully we appear to have different definitions of “shilling.”
@PraveenPerera @PlateLicker_21m I fully expect (some) folks to judge me based upon the services Casa provides. Obvi… https://t.co/3D4Vy6C6Yo
@PlateLicker_21m OOOoooo edgey. Even HEX and BSV, which you’ll find great consensus to be scams, are crypto assets.
@GoldLeader89 @PlateLicker_21m I’m not arguing a different point. Security is not binary - these are complex system… https://t.co/bGYs7IBvz1
@PlateLicker_21m @GoldLeader89 I’ve been quite honest on multiple podcasts that we are supporting eth due to demand… https://t.co/biLKKzNIKC
@GoldLeader89 @PlateLicker_21m I pointed out exactly how it’s possible to self custody eth to protect yourself from… https://t.co/g17tFc7v86
What’s it called when government officials decide which companies fail and which companies are allowed to continue operating?
@finaldenominatr @PlateLicker_21m In the sense that I am a Casa co-founder, sure. How does that conflict with my statement above?
@GoldLeader89 @PlateLicker_21m Those who self custodied their ETH and etherum-based tokens fared far better than th… https://t.co/pjSSriZ9p6
@PlateLicker_21m Care to be more specific? I “endorse” people taking custody of their own keys and assets. Feel fre… https://t.co/dbXjyZp6C4
GPT-4 released this week.
Midjourney v5 released next week.
The world will continue to get weirder!
@wbschreiner I think it’s a tougher challenge than showing other tech to normies. When you give someone a phone or..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ir
@GrapheneOS Conundrum: Google Play thinks I have 0 devices pic.twitter.com/hhJndu3FGi
Folks like @ChrisBlec have been warning us for quite a while that many aspects of DeFi (such as DAI) rely far too h..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…7r
@Ledger Still obscenely undervalued.
@jer979 Obviously that’s a riskier activity, but I’m also aware of several folks who have gone on less risky dates..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4P
DO NOT visit Colombia while still having access to your private keys. If the trend continues, I expect that Colombi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…X7
I see y’all attending Twitter spaces hosted by shady MFs and you’d best believe I’m judging.
@dangershony I don’t think that’s the problem. It’s that when you’re really early on all of these things, it requir..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…BO
@XanDitkoff Still early in my research. Started following a lot of folks from this list: hive.one/c/longevity
C..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…fC
Can’t believe I still have friends and family who categorize my latest interests (like longevity / biohacking) as “..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…uy
@cointankerous @ChartsBtc Still my least favorite Satoshi quote since folks use it to make it sound like their time..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2W
Hey @eisingerj, it’s been 9 years. How much longer do we have to wait?
twitter.com/lopp/status/46…
Folks have speculated for years about what would have happened if Bitcoin had existed during the 2008 financial cri..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Nq
@BrianLockhart IDK why you’d put a periscope on a handgun when a periscope would clearly be better on a belt-fed machine gun…
@PeterMcCormack As long as there are banks there will be bank failures.
Sooooo the solution is to make banks obsolete.
Chancellor on the brrrrrrrrrrrink…
Running a full node is how you attain the strongest security model available to Bitcoin users and also strengthens..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…f3
@DavidVorick You thought you could be snarky without getting trolled? That’s par for the course.
Remember when Bitcoin was a joke?
Now they’re saying it’s a threat to the banking system. pic.twitter.com/9Qf8wFPnK1
lopp Hospital bill for delivering a baby + 1 week recuperation in 1956. pic.twitter.com/SwNj8vgBEQ
@rogerkver When you make sweeping statements about the actions / beliefs of “bitcoin maximalists” you sound as igno..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…uO
lopp Self custody maximalists continue building. pic.twitter.com/xpCzomGRwQ
The tech industry should be pissed that politicians are fucking with your finances.
But it is not necessary to fig..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…G8
yassineARK Over the weekend, Bitcoin settled ~$33 billion, facilitated ~600k transactions, & issued 2,037 new BTC at a steady..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Of
VCs were working through the weekend to help give their portfolio companies options to shore up their finances from..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ww
@hoffmang @stack_collymore @sthenc @naval I will have a lot to say on protocol ossification in the coming months.
Everybody’s freaking out, trying to figure out which bank is safe so they can move their funds.
There is no safety..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…SM
Did the Corpse-in-Chief’s speech fail to instill confidence in the banking system?
Bank stocks are trading like shitcoins today. Nature is healing!
A miracle happened over the weekend: a bunch of bankers were actually working!