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Warren Togami

@wtogami

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VP Solutions at @Blockstream . Founder @fedora Linux. ex-Red Hat.

Austin, TX
Joined May 2012
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2 years
I'm not aligned with the truckers but shutting down bank accounts of protestors strikes me as too much like the shit the CCP does to cripple critics in Hong Kong. You lost the plot if you call yourself a liberal democracy while calling people you disagree with "terrorists".
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3 years
My previous plan to buy a Tesla car and solar roof is conflicting with my disgust with unethical market manipulation and shitcoin promotion.
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2 years
Recently one of my oldest and dearest friends in tech blamed Bitcoin for the GPU shortage. Bitcoin mining has not used GPU's since ~2013.
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1 year
Operation Chokepoint 2.0: Today I heard this from the management of a small US bank.
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3 years
There is no such thing as crypto "diversification" to reduce risk.
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3 years
June 2019 I met my favorite Satoshi.
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3 years
Reminder - Nobody has the right to speak for Bitcoin. Bitcoin has no official website.
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3 years
Dear @nayibbukele , Please be careful. 1) Nobody has the right to speak for Bitcoin "officially". 2) History should raise severe caution flags: * Brock raised billions for EOS ICO, later sued for fraud and SEC violations. * also see: Chinese prison labor
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1 year
@jmvasquez1974 I was among the first who supported you when it was about raising awareness. You've done some heroic things but you've lost control of yourself. This is about the country, not you. Please focus on yourself in quiet reflection. That is the most respectful thing you could do now.
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1 year
@WarMonitors Greta is not relevant to this conflict. You can see the awkwardness in Zelenskyy's face. He took the meeting because he can't afford to alienate any possible foreign supporters no matter how irrelevant or self-promoting their visit is.
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1 year
@LynAldenContact @greenpeaceusa Greenpeace was directly harmful to their own climate goals for decades in their campaign against nuclear power.
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3 years
1 BTC = 0.995 BTC ETF's will enable innovation of this type.
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6 months
@hodlonaut I witnessed my dear friends haunted by these fraudulent lawsuits for years. It caused stress and health problems. Craig is an evil man that deserves punishment.
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6 years
Which is the real water that should be fed to babies?
Water (H₂SO₄)
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3 years
I hadn't heard of this guy since Breaking Bitcoin 2019. At a group dinner he introduced himself as a BCH-only VC and wanted to debate. I responded, "It doesn't matter what you or I think. The market had decided a long time ago." He stormed out. Now he's backing another winner.
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Warren Togami
6 years
Bitcoin is distinct from all the centrally controlled securities (ETH, ICO's and many other alts). Satoshi's wisdom was not only in its creation but also in stepping back. Lack of central authority is why Bitcoin endures. Nobody to pay for marketing campaigns is a feature.
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Warren Togami
2 years
Pleasantly surprised my Austin chiropractor now accepts Bitcoin Lightning payments to his non-custodial wallet. He's a damned good chiropractor too. Highly recommended!
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3 years
Bitcoin Lightning Network payment experience was excellent at McDonald's El Salvador. Same touchscreen self ordering machines as in the States. No different from credit card checkout. @OpenNodeCo processing integrated into a smooth experience. (Thread 0/4) 👇
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2 years
Shitcoin companies are laying off staff during "Crypto winter". Bitcoin Only companies are hiring and struggling to find enough talent.
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1 year
Only the morally corrupt would write or believe this statement.
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2 years
@Noahpinion We're instead witnessing selective breeding for humans to achieve dog-level IQ by 2050.
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1 year
@shouldhaveanima That doesn't look consensusal.
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3 years
Good to see the market has grown to be immune to China. Countries that respect freedom and property rights will prosper.
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1 year
@wartranslated It is surprising to me Russia somehow has true believers willing to take out their opponent with a suicide grenade rather than be taken prisoner. They surely can't believe they would be mistreated as a POW?
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Warren Togami
6 years
Supposedly BCH is +32% today while BTC is +7% but when you look at the relative Buy Support on you need to scroll past the first page to even find BCH. By this metric the market for BCH is dangerously false. Don't be another victim of false Bitcoin fraud.
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5 years
I'd feel more comfortable about @Bitcoin if it tweeted something like: "This account expresses opinions of a fan. Nobody has the right to speak for Bitcoin, including this account." This message pinned for a while would be fantastic.
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Warren Togami
6 years
Update: BCH now below 8% hashrate relative to BTC. Real risk of double-spend causing exchange insolvency. * 6 hours and 20 confs wasn't enough to protect against the BTG exchange theft. * Vulnerable to single persons, intentionally or via hacked pool.
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Warren Togami
6 years
BCH meanwhile has 12% hashrate of BTC while some exchanges credit BCH deposits after 1 conf. This is terribly dangerous as there exist INDIVIDUALS with enough hashpower to reorg attack the BCH network. e.g. A hacked individual or pool could render an exchange insolvent. /3
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Warren Togami
2 years
Until the big blockers lost the war in 2017, Coinbase literally tried to seize control of "Bitcoin" and force it into the fake "decentralized" dystopia we now are witnessing at ETH.
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3 years
I have no idea who this Cuban guy is but yeesh this is cringe.
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1 year
@officejjsmart @secretsqrl123 This is the most popular Russian flag.
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1 year
I'm no expert trader but I consider gaining Fidelity but losing Binance to be a net win.
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Warren Togami
7 years
Past week I met a few big companies in Korea ... * Did not know about Lightning or layer 2. * Did not know anything about ETH's massive failures, e.g. Parity multisig. The upcoming community translation project will educate many over time. Quality information speaks for itself.
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Warren Togami
4 years
Money needs to be boring. Security and reliability allows people to focus on their own business instead of "exciting" emergency updates.
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3 years
BTC vs ETH
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4 years
Why is the lady in a Mario warp pipe?
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1 year
@turnofftheglory @wartranslated Not true. They are quite skilled at sending cruise missiles at civilian apartment buildings.
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Warren Togami
2 years
My prediction: The Merge will eventually happen then things won't miraculously improve. PoS was never a "scaling" solution. They hit fundamental limits a long time ago. Blockchains do not scale. They already had many disasters but then sharding will increase dapp complexity. 🍿🍿
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Warren Togami
3 years
Local Wendy's. Dining room is closed. Manager at drive-thru says, "I have no employees. Can sell you only nuggets and fries. Cash only because my credit card machine is broken."
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Warren Togami
5 years
@alistairmilne Here's one chart describing why "BTC dominance" is a completely worthless metric. Included data is from: * BTC "market cap" * all gold ever mined * "broad" fiat money supply Let's focus on the real opponent please? The alts are ephemeral distractions.
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3 years
The $$ gets the headline but what she says about how mining can lead to more renewable power generation investment is important. Intermittent power sources are more profitable if there is a sink to buy up all that excess energy. Tesla et al should be focusing on this potential.
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Cathie Wood says she still thinks #Bitcoin  will go to $500,000
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6 years
BCH's absurd little civil war has an unexpected benefit. Any hashrate they deploy to fight their fellow morons effectively hands free money to the BTC miners.
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2 years
The first step of being a validator is to validate. This influencer is quite dishonest as he knows full well very few people validate with their own ETH full node. They instead trust a small number of centralized providers and pools. This is already bad and will only grow worse.
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4 years
Bullshit.
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4 years
Bitcoin is boring and conservative. I hope it stays that way.
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1 year
@sentdefender Seems far more likely other Russians are behind the attack?
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Warren Togami
7 months
There is a non-zero chance of a ETF custodian making a mistake.
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Warren Togami
3 years
Sounds like the FBI had the easiest recovery op because the "hackers" were grossly incompetent. Bitcoin is working as intended.
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Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today
3 years
More info from the warrant here. So it looks like I was right. The FBI did not obtain the private keys. Instead, they took legal action against an exchange or some kind of custodial wallet that has servers in N California (Coinbase, lol?). These "hackers" were grossly incompetent
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3 years
My roof is ~14 years old and needs to be replaced anyway. Their solar tiles in particular seemed like a good idea for longevity, durability against Texas hail, and clean rainwater collection. But I really can't reward undisciplined, unethical behavior by giving him money.
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Warren Togami
3 years
Claro is a national mobile network provider in El Salvador. Their Bitcoin Lightning Network top up experience is so fast that the activation SMS upstaged this photo attempt of the successful LN payment. Excellent LN experience powered by the Open Source @BtcpayServer . (Thread) 👇
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Warren Togami
6 years
Update: BCH 30-day avg falls to 7% hashrate. Matters bc of the risk of exchange insolvency from double-spend theft. ~85 BCH confirmations roughly equiv in cost to security of 6 BTC blocks. NOT HYPOTHETICAL. Reorg theft happened multiple times this year.
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Warren Togami
6 years
Update: BCH now below 8% hashrate relative to BTC. Real risk of double-spend causing exchange insolvency. * 6 hours and 20 confs wasn't enough to protect against the BTG exchange theft. * Vulnerable to single persons, intentionally or via hacked pool.
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Warren Togami
6 years
Today I am thankful that these morons sequestered themselves into their own pocket universe where they can safely demonstrate the unsustainability of externalizing costs to other people.
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3 years
USD sinks to all time low.
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Warren Togami
4 years
BTC fees earning miners far more than the BCH block subsidy. Further nobody is using BCH.
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3 years
The greatest evidence against the possibility of time travel or FTL is Bitcoin's PoW continuing to work as expected.
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2 years
@GearoidReidy @fujita_d_h I visited Japan for a total of 9 months during the past 2.5 years of the pandemic. Gov lacked ability to shut anything down except borders. Despite the lack of mandates people wear masks near 100% indoors/trains, and after Omicron most of the time outdoors. That seems to matter.
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Warren Togami
1 year
According to Google Project Zero they discovered 0-day "Internet-to-baseband remote code execution" affecting many millions of Samsung and Pixel 6+ modems. Read it for yourself. It sounds very bad. If you have an affected phone you may want to turn off
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Warren Togami
6 years
This fellow @DrRoyMurphy is exhibiting the laziest attempt of BCH marketing fraud. Without proof claimed to be of earliest Bitcoin devs. Curiously got lots of historical and technical details wrong. Next time do some basic research before you commit fraud? CSW was better.
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4 years
@danheld Gold is useful to industry due to its non-corrosive property but it isn't usable while its price is high. Bitcoin unlocks the true potential of gold to benefit society.
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1 year
@secretsqrl123 Russians have been messing with Americans in America for years and we did nothing about it.
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Warren Togami
11 months
@secretsqrl123 You said fictional?
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Warren Togami
5 years
ETH had a third emergency update in a month yet price unaffected. Why? Almost zero people use it for anything outside of speculation. Further, traders don't run nodes. They instead rely upon centralized providers.
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7 years
@TuurDemeester Namecoin for years had a vulnerability that allowed anyone to steal names. Upon announcement of the vulnerability the trading price did not change. Why? Because nobody actually uses nor cares about the purpose of altcoins.
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Warren Togami
6 years
It cannot be overstated how important it was that Bitcoin demonstrated in 2017 that nobody has the right to force changes without agreement of everyone. This is a key way in which Bitcoin differs from the centralized securities, and why BTC will endure for 100+ years.
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Warren Togami
6 years
BAB abandoned their "0-conf is safe narrative" in favor of ~110 minutes plus moral hazard for finality. Sooooo much better than ultra-efficient, trustless LN channels.
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2 years
@notsatoshisarah Please be careful about ".btc". Stacks seem like polite builders but in reality they commit affinity fraud. Basically they misleadingly claim to be "on" or about Bitcoin while it is really about their own token. Bitcoiners will look upon .btc tagged people with suspicion.
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6 years
Bitmain created this coin, maintains most of the mining, and now proudly announces their ability to adjust the inflation rate as if they are a central banker. I'd like to help them with "Database", the latest FOMO tech that will revolutionize scaling for their centralized ledger.
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Jimmy Song (송재준)
6 years
IIRC, AntPool fees are now burned in BCH. That's taking monetary policy into your own hands for you.
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2 years
I liked the old Nic. His heart was in the right place.
@MrHodl
MrHodl⚡️🟠🤌👍🇺🇸 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱 #Maga
2 years
He deleted the tweet right after I RT. I'm not sure why though, it's a fantastic tweet.
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7 years
10/ The only way Bitcoin will survive 100+ years is if nobody has coercive power to force changes upon other people. #UASF #WeAreTheBadger
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1 year
How the f- is this a SEC approved ETF?
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3 years
@brockpierce @MilenaMayorga @FoxBusiness @Blockstream I speak as one of many in the Bitcoin community in expressing outrage. The leaderless Bitcoin movement is better off without dangerous self-aggrandizing affinity scammers, and had grown stronger from the failure of the Bitcoin Foundation who had several such people at the helm.
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3 years
Hearing from locals and fellow travelers: * Chivo needs to make LN receiving default. Onchain is a bad idea for small amounts. UX confusion, can't find LN option. * Some reports of Chivo LN being not reliable? * McDonald's LN payment is very reliable because they use @OpenNodeCo
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2 years
Charged my credit card. 1 hour later refunded my credit card. JPY is dropping that fast.
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1 year
@bayraktar_1love Dammed if you do. Dammed if you don't.
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1 year
@ukraine_map @jmvasquez1974 This seems definitive. He wanted to help and he did by helping to raise awareness among the Western public. It's better that he's not there anymore. I wish him luck.
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Malcolm Nance
1 year
TFW: Several of us spoke to James & said he should get off of Twitter, get his life in order & come back to support Ukr in a legal construct. He took that advice. James was NOT fake, he was troubled. He did a lot for Ukraine but has challenges to face. Respect what he did do.
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Warren Togami
2 years
Props to @CaitlinLong_ for warning about paper Bitcoin for years!
@BitcoinMagazine
Bitcoin Magazine
2 years
JUST IN: FTX lists zero #Bitcoin assets on bankruptcy papers despite $1.4 billion of BTC liabilities - FT
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3 years
@nayibbukele For the sake of your people please be careful. One will use your country to promote itself and governments including you are able to influence. The other exists because the people demand a fixed set of rules that no government can corrupt. The moral authority is not equivalent.
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Warren Togami
7 years
Scaling on-chain simply does not work. Be careful about unrealistic promises and those who make them.
@boriskozak
Boris Kozak 🇺🇦
7 years
@AriDavidPaul Yep, Ethereum is pretty much useless today. Transactions are being evicted from the mempool.
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5 months
There is something far scarier than buying Bitcoin. Selling Bitcoin.
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Warren Togami
3 years
ETH network is yet again crippled by technical malfunction. Price responds by going up. Perhaps ETH would be better off dropping the decentralization theater. "Database" technology would bring untold levels of reliability. Your traders won't notice any difference.
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3 years
@MilenaMayorga @brockpierce @FoxBusiness Please see this summary of why the vast majority of the Bitcoin ecosystem considers Brock Pierce to be a fraud. Nobody has the right to speak for Bitcoin. Especially not guys like this that so shamelessly lie for the purpose of self promotion.
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Warren Togami
3 years
Dear @nayibbukele , Please be careful. 1) Nobody has the right to speak for Bitcoin "officially". 2) History should raise severe caution flags: * Brock raised billions for EOS ICO, later sued for fraud and SEC violations. * also see: Chinese prison labor
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7 years
All of the developers that I know across many countries have sold 100% of easily split-able BCH. This may be of concern to those who know the role of developers in defending the security and reliability of a network.
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1 year
@pourteaux @Greenpeace Nuclear. For decades. They contributed to the anti-nuclear sentiment that caused significantly more carbon intensive fuel imports and recently screwed over the economy and national security of Germany and Japan. Greenpeace and Green parties must be punished for these mistakes.
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Translation: "I am displeased with how I have been unable to externalize the costs of my inefficient layer 1 parasitic protocol. I never even had the chance to be priced out. I blame the BTC devs for my unscalable ideas needing to be demonstrated as infeasible on other networks."
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5 years
gmaxwell on why CSW is probably not suing anyone in the US.
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4 months
Roger Ver got the exact things he wanted in Bitcoin Cash yet it was a spectacular failure. Why is that?
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2 years
@nic__carter We've long warned Bitcoiners should be consistent in rejecting "crypto" same boat-ism. We never resembled their fraudulent ways and we do not accept blame for their predicted failures. They benefited from affinity fraud. They had nothing to do with BTC.
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Warren Togami
4 years
They oft make arguments like "We crypto are in the same boat. Why fight each other?" It would be unethical to let that slide when I see reckless endangerment and rampant overpromising. BTC is so fundamentally different in safety culture. Association is outright affinity fraud.
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Warren Togami
3 years
Contract exploits stealing or destroying tens of millions of dollars happened several times a year to EVM-chains since 2016. This is why Bitcoin devs have cautioned people away from ETH for years.
@CoinDesk
CoinDesk
3 years
Another DeFi protocol on Binance Smart Chain @SpartanProtocol was exploited due to a bug, resulting in more than $30 million in losses, just a few days after the attack on @UraniumFinance . @MuyaoShen reports.
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7 years
1/ As long as users continue to hold the line, the only thing the miners can choose to do differently is to destroy. #UASF #WeAreTheBadger
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7 years
Tokyo Dragon's Den held a secret meeting and signed the TYA where we agreed to UASF to 8Mbit base block size.
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1 year
The maxis are now tree huggers while Greenpeace wants nuclear shuttered in favor of more coal. Weird timeline.
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Warren Togami
3 years
Ethereum and EVM clones repeatedly had these huge hacks with over $1.5B stolen over the past year. Why do their promoters have any credibility? Bitcoin devs have warned since long before ETH's launch that their approach to smart contracts does not scale and will never be safe.
@SlowMist_Team
SlowMist
3 years
Over 2,101 BTC were stolen from the @BadgerDAO . According to our investigations, the hacker converted the proceeds into renBTC before transferring them to 14 different BTC addresses. And ETH worth approximately $700,000 was stolen. We will continue to monitor the stolen funds.
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Warren Togami
2 years
I am humbled and appreciative of Bitcoiners. I had an urgent issue needing immediate remote help. Through Bitcoiner friend-of-a-friend someone I hadn't met delivered my urgent document 45 minutes later. Now I have a new friend. Bitcoiners are awesome. Bitcoiners are everywhere.
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3 years
Congratulations to BSV for being the first to achieve a circular economy.
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3 years
Don't forget Bitcoin succeeds despite Coinbase's best efforts. Their attempts to control or supplant BTC have failed and BTC grew a stronger decentralized immune system from it.
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3 years
@jespow Cook the steak well done. The IRS then owes you for the unrealized loss.
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Warren Togami
5 years
Don't be fooled by the polite, fake neutral history revision of "reasonable compromise". Twice during BTC he ran an enterprise that privatized profits while socializing the costs to everyone else. Both SatoshiDice and Shapeshift were maximally inefficient with on-chain resources.
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Warren Togami
5 years
@bergealex4 @kyletorpey @ErikVoorhees @WhatBitcoinDid I wish sarcasm was more obvious. I feel his conduct was morally repugnant, but he would consider this amoral, which is even worse. SatoshiDice was another strong reason to not trust his motives ... privatizing profits while socializing costs without care.
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Warren Togami
9 months
BSV is the real ßitcoin.
@halfline
Ray Strode 🌟
9 months
weird random thought: the german letter eszett (ß) looks like a fake B and is pronounced "sh", so "Bitcoin" written with a fake B would be ßitcoin and be pronounced shitcoin
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1 year
@Ukraine This is quality shiptoasting.
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