Willem S 🕷⛓️ @WillemSchroe Twitter profile

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

2 years

Bitcoin mining positively contributes to the environment in 3 ways: 1. Methane flaring (~80 more harmful than CO2) 2. Renewable grid balancing (enables a bigger % of grid to be solar & wind) 3. Monetization of stranded energy

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@WillemSchroe

1 year

🔥🔥 and a very interesting testnet transaction from @BotanixLabs 👀 Development on Bitcoin, it’s happening.

Udi | BIP-420 🐱

@udiWertheimer

1 year

Oh? 🧙‍♂️🧐

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@WillemSchroe

3 months

Who’s going to Nashville next week?

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

Orangepilling 300 founders and VC’s on the future of #Bitcoin at the @HarvardHBS Entrepreneurship summit

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

The #Bitcoin tourism flywheel. A positive tourism flywheel has started in El Salvador 🇸🇻 The major move to legal tender has put it on the international map as THE #Bitcoin country. For everyone on the ground this massive growth cycle is profusely clear

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@WillemSchroe

1 year

How BitVM can be used to build sidechains (ZK, Optimistic, Drivechains & the Spiderchain). A misconception everyone had with the BitVM is that it is limited to 2 parties. That's not the case. Imagine one of the parties (eg the verifier) actually being a consortium of parties

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

Money printing led to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Chart shows the value of the Roman Denarius. Looks eerily similar to the USD one.

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

1/ In 2020 the #Bitcoin as a store of value narrative started the new bull run. Recently Russia has been making quick moves to approve #Bitcoin for international trade. Is the next narrative ... Bitcoin as Medium of Exchange? Let's explore A 🧵👇

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

5 months

Thrilled to share our raise announcement with the most supportive group of investors to power our next phase of growth at Botanix Labs. Over the last few months we learned so much about what it means to scale with intention and integrity: 1) Question your assumptions, build

Botanix Labs 🕷

@BotanixLabs

5 months

We’re thrilled to announce that Botanix Labs has raised $11.5 million in funding from Polychain Capital, Placeholder Capital, and other industry-leading investors.

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

We founded @BotanixLabs in a bear market when no one cared about new Layer 2 protocols. Today our mission continues as we break new ground in scaling Bitcoin and accelerate the development of a truly decentralized financial system. It was a pleasure speaking to @frankcorva

CoinDesk

@CoinDesk

6 months

"Bitcoin is a big breakthrough in terms of money, but the Ethereum Virtual Machine is the big breakthrough in terms of financial system," @WillemSchroe @BotanixLabs tells @frankcorva . #futureofbitcoin #opinion #bitcoin

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@WillemSchroe

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Our thesis on the future of Bitcoin is simple. Learn from Ethereum. Bring what works back to Bitcoin. It’s not rocket science.

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@WillemSchroe

4 months

Bitcoin is an adversarial protocol. UTXO management is difficult. Dust problems are real. Onchain edgecases are rarely discussed. Most people underestimate how hard it is to build on Bitcoin, and the world has fewer experienced Bitcoin developers than most investors realize.

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

Bitcoin's testnet mempool is exploding right now. Bitcoin Season 2 is here! ...even on testnet 😂

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Almost every early investor in Bitcoin and Ethereum agrees on one thing. We should build more stuff on Bitcoin.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

GM to folks who believe Bitcoin should be the base layer for a decentralized financial system.

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

“Simplicity is an extreme virtue in engineering.” @rodarmor is exactly right here. We used the same principle when creating the Spiderchain.

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@WillemSchroe

5 months

Bitcoin is magic internet money. Everyone understands the "internet" and "money" part. Now it's time for some magic.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

If you own Bitcoin, you’re a bitcoiner. If you use Bitcoin, you’re a bitcoiner. If you build on Bitcoin, you’re a bitcoiner.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Powerful people who hate Bitcoin are exactly the people that Bitcoin was designed to protect us from.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Bitcoin is more than just sound money. It’s a framework for recreating a fair and permissionless financial system accessible by anyone who uses sound money.

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

The mission is simple. Build reliable infrastructure for a world running on Bitcoin.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Bitcoin is still a very young protocol and ecosystem, and prematurely celebrating “success” usually ends badly. There’s a lot of work left to do. We should stay focused on the battles ahead.

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@WillemSchroe

1 year

Overheard in @PubKey_NYC “Renaissance 2.0 is coming to El Salvador 🇸🇻 ” @stacyherbert @maxkeiser

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

Every Bitcoin L2 is a sidechain with different trade-offs - even the Spiderchain. The only real L2 that is not a sidechain is @lightning .

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

Bitcoin positively contributes to society in 3 ways today: 1. International remittances (cheaper than legacy) 2. Protection from malicious governments (Lebanon etc) 3. National currency alternative (El Salvador, CAR)

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@WillemSchroe

4 months

. @BotanixLabs will have decentralized sequencers from day 1

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

If the majority of Bitcoin ends up in ETFs and central banks, we've lost.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Community is everything. It’s wild seeing tens of thousands of supporters in our Discord every week who share our vision for Bitcoin. We’re just getting started.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Trump didn’t say the words “Bitcoin” or “crypto” tonight, and I think that’s okay. His campaign is clearly pro-crypto. That’s enough. Too much politics in Bitcoin is distracting.

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@WillemSchroe

4 months

No one is ignoring Bitcoin anymore. Everyone considers building on it again. Bitcoin will look completely different in four years.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

to say it out loud: I love bitcoin, am so grateful for it's role kickstarting crypto, and we're going to build a massive bitcoin economy on Bitcoin

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@WillemSchroe

1 month

The Bitcoin market is very quiet right now. But the future has never been more bullish. Nobody is ready for what’s coming.

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@WillemSchroe

11 months

Bitcoin Layer 2s will change the game. Just created a token, put it in a liquidity pool and traded it on @BotanixLabs within 2h. All on #Bitcoin rails.

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@WillemSchroe

3 months

Celebrities, KOLs, and big marketing budgets are almost always a major distraction. Build something people want to use. That’s all you need to do.

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

27 days

Some simple narratives to remember: 1. Bitcoin will always be king. 2. There will only ever be 21 million. 3. All L2s are good for Bitcoin. 4. Everything in DeFi will come to Bitcoin.

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

Nearly 100 "obituaries" have been written about Bitcoin since the last halving in 2020. Today, Bitcoin is stronger than ever. Our mission to build on it is unchanged.

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@WillemSchroe

24 days

It’s easy to criticize Ethereum right now. But its community made 10x the progress Bitcoin has in building and testing a decentralized financial system. Bitcoin has some catching up to do.

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@WillemSchroe

7 months

Been pitching Layer 2 EVMs on Bitcoin since 2022. Incredible to see it come alive. @BotanixLabs

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

Orangepilling 300 founders and VC’s on the future of #Bitcoin at the @HarvardHBS Entrepreneurship summit

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

The current #Bitcoin DCA army stacks a massive 600-700M$ each month ! This is all going into cold storage. A few more months like at these price levels and BTC on exchanges will dry up

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Bitcoin = Best money ever made Botanix = platform for new financial system Lightning = fast payments The Bitcoin stack is coming together.

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@WillemSchroe

5 months

In April 2011, Satoshi sent their last email. They moved on by saying that Bitcoin was “in good hands.” It’s everyone’s responsibility to be those good hands.

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@WillemSchroe

5 months

Powerful people are actively fighting covenants. I believe their opposition comes from a belief that this market has no demand for using bitcoin as anything other than a store of value. It’s up to us to prove them wrong.

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@WillemSchroe

5 months

If a critical bug is found in rollups, all assets are at stake. If a critical bug is found in decentralized BTC-stakechains, that is not the case. Different designs come with different tradeoffs.

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@WillemSchroe

1 month

Decentralization is actually important

mert | helius.dev

@0xMert_

1 month

it is frankly insane that every major L2 in mainnet right now can technically steal user funds

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

If everything is a multisig, better make it decentralized. All roads lead to the Spiderchain.

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@WillemSchroe

11 months

@DylanLeClair_ @StephanieKelton In light of always trying to understand both sides of the argument I actually read her book. “The deficit myth”. I read it back to back with The Bitcoin standard. That’s all it takes to be completely orangepilled.

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

2 years

Just bought a coffee w lightning in El Salvador 🇸🇻 Wondering, will be this a 1000$ dollar coffee in a few years?

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

If Bitcoin is the winning money, then @BotanixLabs will be the bedrock of a new global financial system

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

@WClementeIII Soon Celsius 2.0

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@WillemSchroe

10 months

The EVM is software, there is no asset, coin or token. Can run perfectly on #bitcoin

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

The real flippening no-one is talking about. Soon Bitcoin dApps >> Ethereum dApps.

Botanix Labs 🕷

@BotanixLabs

6 months

The Botanix EVM fixes this.

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

1 year

@Cointelegraph Didn't expect to become the literal face of Bitcoin fake news this morning. But I guess here we are 🤷‍♂️

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

10 months

Incredibly proud of the team on this massive milestone. 💯

Botanix Labs 🕷

@BotanixLabs

10 months

It's time. Build anything EVM on Bitcoin. The Botanix testnet is live:

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@WillemSchroe

3 months

Yes, this is how you solve the blockchain trilemma. Bitcoin - 10min blocks. The money L2s - 10s blocks. The financial system L3s - 0.1s blocks. User applications Lightning for payments.

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@WillemSchroe

10 months

Bitcoin ATH this year and @BotanixLabs Launching public testnet tomorrow. Coincidence or not? 👀

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

16 days

Conferences can be very useful and productive, but they can also be a huge waste of time and other valuable resources. Having a detailed conference strategy is a huge advantage

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@WillemSchroe

10 months

People are starting to realize, it's not Ethereum that's worth $250Bn, it's the EVM. And that EVM can run on #Bitcoin @BotanixLabs

Dylan LeClair 🟠

@DylanLeClair_

10 months

🤔🤔🤔

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

The most important part of RFK announcing @TheBitcoinConf that he wants to buy 4M Bitcoin is that all world leaders follow the US election and now ask themselves: “why aren’t we buying btc” The signalling effect is massive.

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@WillemSchroe

3 months

@BotanixLabs tx fees will be cheaper than Solana

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Incredible to see @BotanixLabs ecosystem working together. Growing the pie.

Palladium Labs

@PalladiumLabs

2 months

We are thrilled to partner with @SpindleFinance ! ✨ Spindle Finance is one of the first on-chain, liquidity lending and borrowing protocols on @BotanixLabs , a fully EVM-compatible L2 on Bitcoin's network. Let’s get going! 🔥

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

4 months

I’m excited to be speaking at the Bitcoin Builders Conference taking place on July 25-26, 2024. Here’s how you can register:

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

5 months

Bitcoin-backed stablecoins on Bitcoin. It’s coming soon.

Palladium Labs

@PalladiumLabs

5 months

🔄 Mint. Spend. Redeem. @Palladiumlabs always ensures you can always redeem your $PUSD for #BTC providing a hard price floor and consistent value.

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

Happy Halving !

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

Bitcoin needs to move from Store of Value to Medium of Exchange. We've lived through a gold standard that was just a store of value. We've been down that road and we know where it ends, i.e. Bretton Woods. Governments will take control and paper money will dilute the soundness

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

Bitcoin in El Salvador 🇸🇻. - What % of merchants accept BTC? - Do they use it outside BTC beach? - Which lightning apps work well? I’m flying in tonight, will track statistics & do my best to answer any questions you might have. Reply 👇 for Q & follow for answers

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@WillemSchroe

7 months

Decentralization > trustless

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@WillemSchroe

13 days

Here’s a great piece in De Tijd (the Financial Times of Belgium) about my story and what we’re building for Bitcoin. For anyone who grows up in Belgium and has an entrepreneurial mind, this is dream! Bitcoin builders are slowly taking over the world.

De Tijd

@tijd

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Jong Geweld | Willem Schroé (Botanix): 'Ik zat met meer dan 150 durfkapitalisten samen voor het raak was'

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@WillemSchroe

1 year

Up next for Bitcoin: Medium of Exchange

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

@natbrunell @saylor El Zonte

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@WillemSchroe

5 months

@TuurDemeester @tijd @AVBpodcast Very accurate. Good to see some positive articles about Bitcoin though. Unfortunately most Belgians in Bitcoin left Belgium.

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@WillemSchroe

2 months

Are you ready for gaming on Bitcoin? Spiderfam is growing 🕷️

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@WillemSchroe

11 months

It's happening 👀 Get ready for some utility on #Bitcoin !

Botanix Labs 🕷

@BotanixLabs

11 months

🚨 The Botanix public testnet will launch Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023! 🚀 Soon, the world will experience the future of utility on Bitcoin: 🥑 Launch a native token on Bitcoin 🙊 Mint and trade Bitcoin NFTs 💸 Lend against bitcoins and stablecoins Botanix is #OnBitcoin

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@WillemSchroe

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Bitcoin is a black hole. It will eat everything, fiat *and* crypto.

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@WillemSchroe

29 days

Our fiat monetary system often feels entrenched, but don’t forget how new and untested it is. The gold standard ended in 1971. Television is older than our fiat system. The S&P 500 is older than our fiat system. The NBA is older than our fiat system. Bitcoin is also a young

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

Has been 3y that I mentioned in my finance class @HarvardHBS that Bitcoin has by far the highest SHARPE Ratio. It’s still the case, quite sure if you mention it today you might still get laughed at.

Cole Tenold

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6 months

Updated Fidelity's Risk vs Return chart based on 2024 YTD data. $MSTR is leading the pack in risk and return

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@WillemSchroe

3 months

Decentralization matters. Let’s not make the same mistakes in Bitcoin.

MartyParty

@martypartymusic

3 months

Ethereum Layer 2s are not safe. They are permissioned networks. Stop the narritive. They are the biggest risk in all of crypto. To steal all the liquidity aka rugpull the L2's lets analyze how many anonoymous wallets need to agree. @blast 3 of 5 @Optimism 5 of 7 @0xPolygon 5 of

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A common misconception on PoS Layer 2s is that a majority stake can steal all the #Bitcoin This is not true in the Spiderchain. We've implemented "Forward Security" that we borrowed from cryptography principles (more specifically encryption). My cryptography professor used to

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

@charliebilello @LynAldenContact @ycharts This is what inflating the debt away looks like

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@WillemSchroe

4 months

Unilateral exit where you can get rugged by a security council is not unilateral exit

Optimism

@Optimism

4 months

🚨 FAULT PROOFS & STAGE 1 HAVE ARRIVED 🚨 Open source, permissionless fault proofs are live on OP Mainnet, and with them the OP Stack arrives at Stage 1 decentralization. This is a major step forward for the Superchain!

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This is an interesting take. While I can see a future where Eth L1 social consensus would override an L2 failure, this would not work on Bitcoin. There is an interesting paradox where a lot of people in Bitcoin are still under the belief that Bitcoin rollups are trustless and

Hayden Adams 🦄

@haydenzadams

1 month

Worth noting a social consensus hard fork of L1 can still override the failure of an L2 We pretend Ethereum social norms would prevent this but imo the rollup centric roadmap means top L2s will become so important to Ethereum they will be protected by L1 social consensus - the

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@chigrl

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3 months

Did not expect to see this so close to home. Ping me if you want to meet me at EthCC

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@WillemSchroe

4 months

Bitcoin will be the money for everything you will do in the world. You wanna buy stocks? You’ll do it with Bitcoin. You wan’t to take loans against your Bitcoin? You’ll do it on Bitcoin.

Botanix Labs 🕷

@BotanixLabs

4 months

Bitcoin is eating the world.

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@WillemSchroe

10 months

The EVM is not a token, nor a currency but a software infrastructure layer. It therefore operates according to classic software infra rules.

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@WillemSchroe

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@LynAldenContact

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10 months

Bots being deployed on the testnet is the real test! Nothing better than real attacks to test.

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@WillemSchroe

10 months

Is this the first time Microstrategy bought #Bitcoin and the price didn’t immediately crash after announcing?

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@WillemSchroe

4 months

It’s a good way to look at it. Yet, it’s a 10x improvement over the current financial system. Now it can be open, transparant and permissionless and ideally as trustless as possible. All embedded in code. Do you want a centralized bank (like a BlockFi) or a transparant,

Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️

@PeterMcCormack

4 months

Some of this #bitcoin L2s feel like some kind of #Bitcoin bank: - You deposit your #bitcoin with them - You can access financial services - I expect then to add payment services - They charge you fees I wouldn’t use them just yet but it’s the feeling I get. Any thoughts?

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@WillemSchroe

6 months

Decentralization is important.

Hayden Adams 🦄

@haydenzadams

6 months

Today @Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the SEC. I’m not surprised. Just annoyed, disappointed, and ready to fight. I am confident that the products we offer are legal and that our work is on the right side of history. But it’s been clear for a while that rather than

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2 years

@StackingHats @LawrenceLepard 👀👀

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@WillemSchroe

2 years

Money printing led to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Chart shows the value of the Roman Denarius. Looks eerily similar to the USD one.

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4 months

The onchain DeFi user experience isn’t great today but have you tried using a centralized exchange’s customer support?

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

3 months

Cannot agree more. Bearish on projects with multichain/omnichain as a GTM. You’ll never be able to compete with teams with a singular focus. Pick one you’re most aligned with and become big. Focus is an entrepreneurs most underestimated asset. You’ll face difficulties

Smokey The Bera 🐻⛓

@SmokeyTheBera

3 months

counterintuitively, aggressive multichain expansion is extremely mid curve The theoretical upside is higher TAM, but in reality it is: a) fragmented liq and emissions b) no "home base" c) no tribal community Take concentrated bets. Pick 1 chain, become dominant, then expand.

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

11 months

This Bitcoin L2 Trilemma doesn't really exist. @BotanixLabs does all three: 1) Open permissionless network 2) Doesn't introduce a token 3) Full global VM

muneeb.btc

@muneeb

11 months

The Bitcoin L2 trilemma. Out of three desirable properties (a) open network, (b) no new token, and (c) full/global VM, developers can only pick any two. In 2023, we've seen a lot of interest in Bitcoin L2s (or sidechains, if you prefer that term). Unlike the rest of the crypto

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

2 years

Bitcoin mining has two traits that make it unique to anything else: 1. Portable to anywhere 2. Possible to immediately turn it off These make it uniquely suited to capture the 66% (!) of energy that is wasted (per IEA)

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

1 year

Today's Ethereum dApps: "Deploy on Bitcoin? What for?" The same dApps very soon: "Which Bitcoin Layer 2 EVM is best for deployment?" The tide is turning towards Bitcoin. And @BotanixLabs will be there.

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

8 months

@ercwl @chainway_xyz Incredible to see the momentum in the Bitcoin L2 + BitVM space. Let's, however, acknowledge the trust assumptions that come with a BitVM ZK rollup: "Pegged BTC is held in the BitVM contract (leveraging Taproot) on Bitcoin network." This would mean the central party can steal

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

7 months

Bitcoin-backed stablecoins coming to #Bitcoin

Palladium Labs

@PalladiumLabs

7 months

🚀 Exciting News! 🌿 We're thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with @BotanixLabs ! Palladium's unstoppable stablecoin $PUSD is now even stronger with Botanix EVM, a @Bitcoin L2 leveraging 🕷️ #Spiderchain for trustless finality on @Bitcoin . 🌐🔒

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

15 days

This is what Hal Finney meant.

Tyler Winklevoss

@tyler

15 days

Behold, the Winklevoss School of Business. The world's first bitcoin-backed business school. This school teaches the Austrian school of economics, the same principles that influenced Satoshi. Check it out!

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Willem S 🕷⛓️

@WillemSchroe

2 years

Prediction Step 1: Fed will break the economy. (Now) Step 2: Financial crisis resulting in protests Step 3: Protests educating masses on monetary system Step 4: Orange-pilling by the millions as people consider alternatives Step 5: Bitcoin

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