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Ansel Lindner
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Accurate #Bitcoin and #Macro analysis you can't find anywhere else! Free newsletter Premium market newsletter Join Telegram community! LIVE streams YT Rumble
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Lots of #Bitcoin maximalists were minted today.
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Brilliant. Nailed it. 🤦‍♂️
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@Culture_Crit lack of free speech high taxes dependence on globalization de-industrialization big company focus vs entrepreneurship radical climate agenda proximity to historical enemies
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#Gold up $13 today! #Bitcoin is up $1300.
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We went from a South Korea ban, to Samsung producing #bitcoin mining equipment in a matter of 2 weeks.
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First Bulgaria having $3B in bitcoin, now the central bank of Ghana to hold 1% of reserves in #bitcoin .
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You can't sync a node to the #2 coin by market cap the #3 coin is run on 5 servers w/ 0 usage #4 is a super scam fork of bitcoin There's literally no competition for #bitcoin .
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4 years
There's a much less destructive and more powerful way to protest. #Bitcoin
@banthebbc
banthebbc 𝕏
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Banks set on fire in #Lebanon as currency crashes in hyperinflation event.
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"Bitcoin will overtake the dollar in importance as it becomes the single global currency of the internet within a decade" - Jack Dorsey #Agreed #bitcoin
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Your objection to #bitcoin has been said before, 10 years ago, and debunked 100 times.
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7 years
Spammers drove up fees in #bitcoin , which stimulated the #lightning network. Scaling arrived quickly, forcing them to stop spamming. The incentives worked beautifully. Attackers sealed their own fate.
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Take what happened today, ~20% drop, multiply it by 4x the intensity, and stretch it over 2 years. That's what many bitcoiners have lived through *at least* once. Oh, and add in MSM telling us we're dumb all the time. Now, do you think Wall St is getting our coins? #hodl
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Boss
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4 years
Do you care enough for family and friends that you will buy and hold a little #Bitcoin for them until they come around?
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Don't laugh, but once there was a meme of ethereum flippening Bitcoin.
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The SEC just destroyed their whole reason to exist. If $ETH can get approved, then every other blatant #crypto scam will as well.
@WatcherGuru
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 SEC officially approves all spot Ethereum ETFs.
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Altcoins are the dotcoms. #Bitcoin is the internet.
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"We've on boarded more people to bitcoin than any other company." This is self-important VC thinking. Imagine saying that about another commodity, "we've on boarded people to lithium." No, bitcoin enabled your business. Bitcoin doesn't need Coinbase specifically, CB needs
@brian_armstrong
Brian Armstrong
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We’re looking into how to best add Lightning. It’s non-trivial, but I think worth doing. I’m all for payments taking off in Bitcoin. Not sure why you think we’re ignoring Bitcoin - we’ve onboarded more people to Bitcoin than probably any company in the world. Let’s build it
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@Blockworks_ Way to alienate your readers.
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Vitalik and the Ethereum Foundation sold 100,000 ether at the top.
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The @federalreserve will be the first major central bank to add #bitcoin reserves.
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People are discussing #sats as the main unit in #Bitcoin . Bullish. 📈
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@SamanthaLaDuc Bitcoiners have been saying the same thing about ETH for >8yrs.
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51% attacks are valid and potentially beneficial adversarial market behavior. Cleansing money printing scams from the ecosystem is a good thing. Stop whining and fearmongering. #bitcoin
@zooko
zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ
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This is a serious problem. Nakamoto Consensus is failing. “Vertcoin (VTC) is currently being 51% attacked” by Mark Nesbitt, security engineer at Coinbase:
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VCs are starting to invest in LN projects. Very smart. #bitcoin Note: there's more LN channels than users of all apps on #ethereum .
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Bitcoin won't destroy banks, it will fix the banks.
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BinanceUS #bitcoin is $2500 (9%) off spot.
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#Bitcoin is never going away. People will never stop working on it and building on top of it. Like the printing press, you can embrace it, learn to use it, promote reading, or choose to fight it and lose.
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#Bitcoin will be blamed for causing the next financial crisis.
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#Ethereum is already dead, believers just haven't realized it yet, and pumpers will hide it from you for as long as they can.
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The average blocksize for Bcash in the last 24hrs is 61kb.
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Outsiders think we are panic selling this dip but hardcore bitcoiners are panic buying.
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Bitcoin is in the process of shrugging off the altcoin bubble, which will be know to history as a crypto dotcom bubble of sorts.
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#Bcash , *zero* commits in 25 days vs #Bitcoin 7 commits *today alone*. Which will have higher quality, safe code that will retain value?
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#Bitcoin 's next bull run will be with Lightning Network up and running on mainnet. A whole new asset, and whole new level of fomo.
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Bitcoin "dominance" is going back to >90%
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@LukeMikic21 You truly believe that inflation has been 10% for the last 25 years? Who is gaslighting whom? Gold is up only 5% from its 2011 high Commodity index DOWN 38% from ATH in '08 Oil is DOWN 47% from its ATH in '08 (16 YEARS!) Nat gas DOWN 90% (!) from '05 high Copper DOWN 17% since
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🤣 no .eth allowed. Beautiful.
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If anyone is a spook in #bitcoin , it's this guy.
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This type of rhetoric is a huge red flag! Bitcoin maximalists create an atmosphere that rewards thinkers. It's open and friendly to those looking for answers, but righteously closed to frauds and scams. If u think btc is too toxic you're likely a scammer or influenced by one.
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During the last #gold rally 2011, many tungsten filled gold bars were found. Don't have to worry about that with #Bitcoin , no way to fake it.
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#Bitcoin is getting more obvious, not less. It will have a repricing event that will be fast enough to catch everyone off guard. Naysayers will start their trash talk all over again from 10x higher.
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. @brian_armstrong also warned that XT, Classic, Unlimited, Bcash, and 2x would takeover #Bitcoin (yes, every single one, lol). Then warned #ethereum would flippen bitcoin out of dominant position.
@Forbes
Forbes
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Coinbase CEO warns that widespread bitcoin adoption for payments is going to be a long time coming
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Don't underestimate the #DeleteCoinbase crew. These are many of the same people that brought us Segwit with the UASF and forced Bitmain to get rekt. #Bitcoin
@udiWertheimer
Udi | BIP-420 🐱
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@cryptomanran Diversification in crypto is for people that don't know what's going on.
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If #bitcoin were to be seen as a religion, maybe with Satoshi as prophet, would bitcoin gains be tax exempt?
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Imagine living in a #bitcoin world and trying to convince someone to accept fiat.
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@Vanguard_Group You mean *your* finance strategy/philosophy, because you won't enable #Bitcoin ETFs. *Our* strategy will be better executed elsewhere.
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If the ethereum price doesn't collapse after this shit show of an upgrade, and ethereum classic's price didn't collapse after their 51% attacks, the whole altcoin complex is based on nothing, zero.
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If you are buying $XRP #Ripple right now, you will get your pleb money taken away. The game is accumulation of #bitcoin .
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If Ver dumped his bcash bch, and attacked it the way he does #bitcoin , it couldn't be saved, Bcash would die a quick death. Investing in bcash is trusting one megalomaniac with your money. #ProofofVer
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The bull lives.
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#Bitcoin Prehistory Infographic
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Newb: What if #bitcoin doesn't stop going up? Won't that hurt the dollar and the banks? Me: That thought has occurred to me, yes.
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Best meme of the year, Tesla being "external combustion". h/t @saifedean
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Lots of people are rotating into alts after the bitcoin rally. It will end in tears.
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Bitcoin is easily understood by young people. A kid under 12 years old today won't remember a time before #bitcoin . They'll have a bitcoin wallet before a bank account. Imagine selling them on the idea of fiat when they know bitcoin first. Won't happen.
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A #gold shop owner I know has reported to me his business is buying back much more gold from customers than they are selling. Been the trend for 6 mos. Customers are saying they're buying #bitcoin .
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Fools or scammers call it #BitcoinCash . Don't play their game, it's an 8 month old altcoin called #bcash , with a megalomaniac as front man. There is literally zero chance it becomes widely used. $BCH
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It's either free speech money or government slave money. You pick. #bitcoin
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This is what many sound money advocates learned at the beginning of our journey, that fractional reserve banking was how the system was a pyramid of money printing. But it's not, it's worse. They don't "keep 10% and loan out 90%." Banks today make loans without the preceding
@TheChiefNerd
Chief Nerd
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👀 Dave Smith on How the Banking System is a 'House of Cards' "Everybody still kind of has in their mind that...the money in your bank account is your money and that they're holding it for you, right? But that's not right. That's not what's going on...There's not nearly as much
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What dimension is this? We have the CEO of Blackrock and the CEO of Vanguard taking contradictory stances on #bitcoin on live TV.
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#BCash bch hashrate dropped to 5% of total btc+bch hashrate. That means only 2.5% would be needed to double spend with a 51% attack. #bitcoin
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2017 Coinbase tried to destroy #bitcoin 2018 Started adding shitcoins in earnest 2019 Acquires human rights abusing firm to spy on everyone #DeleteCoinbase goes viral Monthly volume now down 94% 😎
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This is a huge negative for #Bcash , because means they are likely only competing for transactions that don't require censorship resistance. #bitcoin #BcashIsNotBitcoin
@SatoshiLite
Charlie Lee Ⓜ️🕸️
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BCH: Bcash. LOL 😂
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It's already a given that #bitcoin is taking some of gold's bid in this ongoing crisis. Next, it will start to eat some of real estate's and bond's store of value.
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#Gold and silver are not being traded on the streets in Venezuela. #Bitcoin is. Think about that.
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The return of the bearwhale? Every time the #bitcoin price looks like it could breakout to clear skies, it gets smashed.
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#BitcoinCash is a scam copy of #bitcoin . Don't believe their propaganda.
@notgrubles
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Centralized 💩. $BCH
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Holding bitcoin is using #bitcoin .
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The Flippening. #bitcoin
@BitcoinErrorLog
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🖕NEW! John Carvalho interviews Roger Ver! #bcash
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This new FINCEN proposal has a bright side. If they could easily track #bitcoin already, why would they need this? Chainalysis is not as reliable as many fear.
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Don't be fooled, they want your #bitcoin . I'm one of them. There's only 21M.
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#Bitcoin is freedom. In 2014, I had my last job interview. A VP of Product asked me about bitcoin, because he'd seen it on my social media. I sat up straighter, got a brighter look on my face and said, "Bitcoin is freedom." True story.
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@Bitcoin Anyone can fork bitcoin and pretend to be the real deal. Show us hard evidence, let a pre-2017 version of bitcoin try to sync bcash or bitcoin. Fact is, it won't recognize bcash because it's an out-of-consensus fork of bitcoin. Roger, just end this.
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The claim that #bitcoin is stagnant is tactical deception. It provides a reason for political attacks. The facts are clear, Bitcoin has the most cutting edge R&D, the most consistent performance and the most passionate community.
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Ansel Lindner
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I'm taking a deep dive into reserve currency history. First of a few posts, the Italian Standard emerged in the 13th Century.
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Bitcoin didn't change. You simply misunderstood it Vinny. You didn't listen to Hal Finney saying we needed a layer 2 for mass payments? Or the gold bugs talking about bitcoin as sound money all those years? It's your mistake, take responsibility for it.
@VinnyLingham
Vinny Lingham
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And to think, we as an industry wasted years trying to drive adoption of Bitcoin and when we finally succeed - it then magically transforms into digital gold...🤦‍♂️
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Thank you Shaolinfry! #UASF made this happen!
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Much of the wealth preserving premium of real estate will be gobbled up by #bitcoin . Think of foreign investors buying real estate abroad to offshore their wealth. Bitcoin offers a better option.
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The exodus from ethereum into bitcoin is going to be epic.
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There are a lot of clues: Blackrock shilling, ETF comp, Mr 100, Jason Lowery. All these things point to elites positioning. They wouldn' t do that for a toy $1T asset. They're going to take it to $20T. What am I missing? #Bitcoin
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I've been saying this for years, #bitcoin will not be a bottom up phenomenon. If you don't have 2 nickels to rub together you aren't bitcoin's target market. This is hard pill to swallow for many bitcoiners who see bitcoin as some great virtuous leveler. It is not. Income
@RussellOkung
OKUNG 🐆
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During my time in Africa, while advocating for the Lightning Network, I faced a cold, hard realization. Despite my efforts, I found that more people were interested in dealing with USDT rather than Bitcoin. They desired USD, even if they were synthetic versions.
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Over the next 2-5 years, #bitcoin will absorb most of the monetary value of #gold . The bitcoin market cap will go from $100 billion to $10 trillion. That's just two 10x rallies away.
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I won't recommend @coinbase until they remove #bcash . #removebcash
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This next bull market, I'm going to steer people away from @Coinbase . Their neglect of #Bitcoin support in favor of scam tokens is unacceptable. @CashApp is bitcoin only.
@CoinbaseWallet
Coinbase Wallet 🛡️
6 years
We're excited to launch Bitcoin (BTC) support on Coinbase Wallet! 🎉
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It's very hard to pin point the beginning of the end for an influencial person. But with Roger, this is the exact moment. He's never recovered his standing in the community. Now he's a scammer. #bitcoin
@Xentagz
Dave Parker
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Roger Ver on MtGox. Don't trust this guy and don't trust his scamcoin #bcash
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Yeah guys, Bitconnect is half as old as ETH, so let's give it a fucking break.
@ErikVoorhees
Erik Voorhees
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@BitcoinBrains @TuurDemeester ETH is less than half as old as BTC, so let’s give it a fucking break.
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It's just getting started. #Bitcoin is about to enter the early adopter phase.
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1/ #Bitcoin is in a mania. I admit that. People are accumulating. If bitcoin was a typical investment, it would be setup for a 90% sell-off. But this isn't a typical investment.
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#Bitcoin 's narrative is consolidating along with the price. Sound money, hodling, layered stack, network effects, freedom.
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@bitcoin_bolsa @The1Brand7 Here's an updated one.
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The bad thing is every stock is as fragile as #Facebookstock . It's one big false ediface enabled by expansionary monetary policy and based on bankrupt materialistic culture. Buy #bitcoin . The hardest money ever.
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In this post, published on @BitcoinMagazine , I do a quick geopolitical survey of El Salvador. I look into the history, politics, its geography and demographics, and economy trying to forecast how #bitcoin will fit into their unique situation. 1/
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Fiat money Fiat food Fiat science Fiat art Fiat mal-investment Fiat thinking Fiat culture Fiat time preference ... #Bitcoin as hard money will be far reaching.
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The SEC's actions make sense when looked at as being hostile to #Bitcoin . -Disgracefully slow action against ICOs. -Total disregard for own rules w/ ETH and Ripple. -4 year blockade of a Bitcoin ETF. -Trivial fine on a $4b scam. They are anti-bitcoin, pro Bitcoin competition.
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Lightning network transactions are #bitcoin routed peer to peer in a default anonymous way like cash, so it is the real #bitcoincash . Bcash bch is slow, expensive and not private by comparison.
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@ahitposter If you believe this kid is 4 months old, you deserve to believe the US has no chance. LOL
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France using chemical weapons on their own people.
@TheMarieOakes
Marie Oakes
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Teargas fills buildings along the streets of Paris, France during the protest against the domestic vaccine pass.
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