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After 2 years, search term for "Bitcoin" finally surpassed "Stocks" on Google
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Beating Bakkt, LedgerX Is First to Launch 'Physical' Bitcoin Futures in US - CoinDesk
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Bitcoin Is 'Ludicrously Underpriced': Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec
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Today we finally pass 85% of all bitcoin that will ever be mined.
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The real Satoshi symbol has been here all along. Now we can stop posting shitty drawings here.
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Tomorrow, Bitcoin will experience the first US Federal Reserve interest rate cut in its history
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In 2013 I told people Bitcoin is the PayPal for nerds. In 2019 I tell people Bitcoin is a decentralized equity based monetary system for the internet.
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Congress trying to figure out there "Schrodinger's privacy" argument at the cryptocurrency hearing to protect incumbent elites interests.
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Putting my money where my mouth is...
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New username for this one.. Well, I'm doing it. For better or worse. I'm all in. I just refi-ed my house, and putting my equity in BTC. I'm sure many of you will tell me that I'm nuts. Maybe you are right, but I think the math is pretty solid. I don't day trade. I buy and hold. Don't need a lambo and I don't expect to get rich overnight. Yes, I did my research. Yes, I diversified my investments. If this fails, it'll hurt but I won't be homeless. I'll just retire a little later. If it succeeds? Let's define success. I have lived in the same house for 20+ years. I bought a repo in a nice neighborhood for cheap and put a lot of sweat into it over the years, repairing and remodeling. I built of equity and worked hard to pay down the loan. In planning for retirement in a few years, I was reviewing my finances, and figured that the biggest investment in my life (my house) had a large amount of money just sitting there, as equity, not helping me...
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire to Congress: Treat Crypto like a New Asset Class - July 30th 2019
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Bank of China publishes infographic explaining why Bitcoin is valuable and how its value keeps increasing
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Chairman Crapo: "I'm pretty confident we couldn't succeed" in banning cryptocurrency - July 30 2019
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Raoul Pal on Baby Boomers, Millenials, and Bitcoin (SLP93 snippet)
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The Satoshi, the smallest unit of Bitcoin, is getting its own symbol
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100 million KYC banking sheeple hacked. Danger of KYC.
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GitHub - Lightning Pay Station - a simple lightning network point-of-sale terminal
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Facebook warns investors that Libra digital currency may never see the light of day
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36% of US Investors Ready to Buy Bitcoin, Grayscale Survey Finds
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China Could Be About To Throw Its Weight Behind Bitcoin
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#BitcoinForTor - The Crowdfunding for the Tor Project ends in a few hours. We're close to raising 20k if you can please consider donating
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Joe Kernen and Katie Stockton talk Bitcoin Halving on CNBC
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OpenBazzar for iOS and Android has landed! Download Haven and privately buy and sell today!
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A Guided Reading of Bitcoin's Original White Paper
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How does Bitcoin work? Why does it work? I get it, researching these questions can be frustrating and the white paper is a bit dense. It's much easier to browse Reddit for insightful comments and get the latest blurbs from your favorite news outlets. However, if this has been your strategy, you should proceed with caution. Crypto has become a space where information and news are incredibly biased. It's a reality in large part due to how easily sentiment can sway prices. This is why I started the White Paper Center . The goal of the podcast is to provide impartial, simplified guided readings of cryptocurrency white papers. Those long technical papers can now become easily digestible in just 10-20 minutes of a well-structured podcast. Every week or two, I plan to add new episodes. This week, we have a guided reading of Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 white paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." Hope you all enjoy. Submitted July 29, 2019 at 09:39...
Brazilian city Fortaleza Public Transportation System Accepts Bitcoin Payments!!
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Hopefully, this guy can afford himself to buy a new car one day...
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Business Insider compares spending Gold versus Bitcoin at various merchants in New York City
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Poll shows Americans trust Bitcoin more than they trust Libra
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How come whenever I post a comment about Bitcoin over at r/investing it gets downvoted so hard?
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Safeway shoppers can now receive 3.5% bitcoin back when purchasing groceries online
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https://blog.lolli.com/announcing-safeway/ Today, Lolli announced a partnership with Albertsons Companies’ subsidiary, Safeway , the top grocer across Washington, Colorado, and California! Through this partnership, Lolli users can now receive 3.5% sats back on all online purchases at Safeway.com . This marks the first major collaboration between a major grocery chain and a bitcoin rewards company in the United States. Submitted July 29, 2019 at 02:13AM by StepheninVancouver https://ift.tt/2YuCTDZ
Any chance we can avoid paying taxes by making a Church of Blockchain?
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Robinhood admits to storing some passwords in cleartext
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Found this at my local gas station. Owner said a lot of people been asking about it.
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IRS letter writing campaign info from insider
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I just made throwaway account for obvious reasons but I'm a regular poster here. I actually have first hand experience with these "letter writing campaigns" from the IRS side. I worked for the IRS and helped them with a different "letter writing campaign" as they call them a few years ago. These are broad and very error-prone fishing expeditions on their part. They do these for a few reasons. First is they simply don't have the resources to go after everybody and instead do a letter writing campaign to try and scare as many people possible into paying more voluntarily so they don't have to do anything. Second is they're not really sure if you owe more money or not since they have really bad data. They are almost certainly joining up some of their internal tax filing database tables with external datasets (probably coinbase) and trying to estimate how much they think you owe. For example the coinbase data might have shown that you sold $20K worth of...
US Government Doesn't Want You to Use Foreign Crypto Exchange- AT All
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I've had a hard time explaining to people what's going on and why it is a big deal. You do need some historical context for how the US law system works and our general policies. Basically they want to track, control, bar etc etc everything. They want to do everything bitcoin was meant to keep them from doing. Let's be perfectly clear. They can't control the protocol, so they are just fencing American's in and using an oppressive profound capitalist legal regulatory system to make it so difficult to offer Americans services that no one does, where they then by turn over domestic control to, you guessed it the banks, So the US government is overtly hostile to small entrepreneurs in the space, to innovative, low maintainance, low overhead people and the various projects that make the space a common man's tool. And since they know they can't win a fair fight, they are lying about jurisdictional reach to threaten and intimidate every major foreign exchange....
Dear BTM owners plz stop hiding fees in artificial/Fake spreads. I see your 5-10% spread. Do you want to be regulated because that's how you get regulated.
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The FUD is real.
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Creating this post so I can look back on it in 5 years. The level of FUD in this subreddit is remarkable. We’ve all been saying 8.5k retrace, and yet as soon as we move towards it the FUD appears. The longer we move sideways and towards 8k, the more stable a base we build for this bull run. If you want to sell, sell. But keep in mind if you invest today, you risk losing 1x on an asset that has proven it could net you 100x. If you think that right now is the end for bitcoin, well it’s been a pleasure riding with you. For the HODLers, see you in 5 years for the post reunion. Submitted July 27, 2019 at 06:33PM by BeTeeC https://ift.tt/2GxGTcD
83% of US Investors Would Consider Investing in Bitcoin
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Trump’s criticism of Bitcoin may have been negative but what really matters is the very fact that a sitting president mentioned cryptocurrencies at all
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Satoshi's Citadel : visions of a better future (inspired by the "Bitcoin time travelers' reddit post)
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Introducing the Marge Simpson pattern, even more Rekt than Bart
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GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions
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Did you ever lose bitcoins on the Lightning Network because of a disk crash? Here‘s a way you might get them back.
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Newegg Expands Bitcoin Acceptance to 73 Countries Beyond North America
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Bisq needs YOU! (coders, business development,...)
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Bisq is the only true p2p crypto/fiat & crypto/crypto exchange. it recently hit all-time highs in trade volume, likely due to LocalBitcoins deciding to implement KYC. People working on different aspects of Bisq congregate on https://bisq.slack.com , and of course, in the issues section of the github repo . Submitted July 27, 2019 at 09:09AM by Riiume https://ift.tt/2SGlNOl
For my Cake Day I present my grandfathers window. May it bring us as much momentum as The last time I posted it!
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36% of Americans are Already Interested in Buying Bitcoin: Grayscale
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BULLISH! - Billionaire James Richman Reportedly Just Increased His Cryptocurrency Exposure Due to Increasing Demand from Institutional Investors
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Bitcoin Hashing Power Is 8 Times More Powerful Than It Was On Its All Time High Price - Cryptocratist
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Making mining more decentralized! New mining stack feat. Stratum V2
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It looks like Deutsche Bank lost 95% of its value since 2008. It’s a bubble! Get out now!
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JP Morgan Admits Dollar’s Doomed Reserve Status to Unwittingly Cheer Bitcoin
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Now our coin kiosk also sells bitcoin! In Temecula, California!
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Swedbank is censoring SEPA transactions to Bitstamp
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Hi, I wrote another post yesterday about how it has been more difficult to buy Bitcoin for me as a customer of Swedbank. And I thought it was just an error but no, Swedbank is actually censuring transactions to Bitstamp's IBAN number SI56070000002199468. I've been messaging with them then just got a straight "we're not going to do the transaction to that IBAN number." Then I called them to get a clearer understanding why. And the girl I talked to really tried her best not to sound like a robot when she repeatedly said the same thing as they wrote in the messages. Then I talked to another girl who started saying cliché things like AML/KYC, anti-terrorist, that bitcoin is anonymous, untraceable, scams, "must protect the customers" and bogus shit which I couldn't help me to correct her. I really tried to get a hang of if it was Swedbank who thought it was something shady with Bitstamp or if it they didn't like Bitcoin. I asked them to escalate it...
Bitcoin is up 100% since Grayscale's 'Drop Gold' campaign. Gold prices are up only 10% since then.
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LNBIG - Big update! You can open so many channels as you want (FREE)!
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BiG UPDATE! 1) Now free incoming service allows to you to open so many channels as you want! But you can do it only when the sum of LN balances on your side exceeds the sum of LN balances on our side! 2) Now the capacity limit was increased (from 2M to 5M channel - you choose the amount)! Example #1 (you have bitcoins): You open a 16M channel to us then you can open 5M + 5M + 5M + 5M channels after. The last opened channel will close the possibility to open further channels until you receive 4M sats in any of the opened channels or you open a new channel for 4M sats to us. Example #2 (you don't have bitcoins): You open a free incoming channel from us (5M capacity for example). After that you get 3M sats. So you have 3M and 2M in our side. So 3M > 2M and after you can open one more 5M channel. And so on... Welcome! https://lnbig.com/ Submitted July 25, 2019 at 09:04PM by LNBIG https://ift.tt/2Y5v3kI
IRS: "We have information that you have or had one or more accounts containing virtual currency but may not have properly reported your transactions involving virtual currency"
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I received a letter from the IRS today that accuses me of breaking the law. Yet I believe I have properly reported and paid all the taxes I was supposed to on my bitcoins. They've sent out three letters, and mass mailing started this week. The three letters are: 6174: Basically means they know you have crypto 6174-A: Basically means they think you broke the law and haven't paid your taxes, and may or may not start enforcement actions on you soon 6173: Means they are sure you broke the law, and are coming after you now. I received 6174-A. Even once I prove I did everything correctly, it's probably going to have cost me many hours and maybe a lot of money to an accountant. Just a heads up to everyone for what's coming. You can read more about the letters here: https://www.irsmind.com/audits/irs-begins-targeting-taxpayers-who-misreport-virtual-currency-transactions/ Submitted July 26, 2019 at 03:43AM by q928hoawfhu https://ift.tt/2JPIywh
We should keep this pattern so Bitcoin remain Reddit's top 10 discussion everyday
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Norway’s Largest Airline Reveals Bitcoin (BTC) Plans As Crypto Takes Flight
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If you would have bought any amount of BTC at $3700, you would have more money right now than if you would have invested the same amount in the S&P500 and wait 15 years.
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Bitcoin was trending in the top 30 ‘Hot’ posts on Reddit today
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Let's discuss KYC: I believe the current KYC standards put everyone who has submit their identification at significant risk of physical or cyber attacks.
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Think about it this way, Exchanges devote most of their security attention to protecting their own coins. All a hacker has to do is get access to an exchanges KYC data and now they have a name, ssn, photo, dob, address, and phone number, and BTC address for every person who has ever withdrawn coins from that exchange. Individuals are much easier to hack or manipulate than companies, especially if you already have all of their personally identifiable information. Call your representatives and explain these risks. I believe the risks that this imposes on everyday people far out weighs the damage that can be caused by "terrorist financing", or money laundering. Submitted July 24, 2019 at 11:46PM by i7Robin https://ift.tt/2ykixyR
Ethereum Is Down 85% Against Bitcoin Since The Peak Of The 'Flippening' Hype
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Andrew Yang Super PAC Will Accept Lightning-Powered Bitcoin Donations
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Poker site earns Guinness World Record for the largest cryptocurrency payment in online poker tournament with $1,050,560 Bitcoin payout
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Almost $38 billion worth of Bitcoins (4,000,000 BTCs) found untouched (probably lost) for over 5 years now
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Pretty much the nay sayers have a script they run from to make themselves feel better.
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Pantera Capital's Bold Prediction: '$356K Bitcoin Is Only A Few Years Away' - Blockspectator
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2032 at the Citadel. Sorry Dad, please process my waste water if you're thirsty.
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Andreas Antonopoulos Talks About People Who Say Crypto Isn't Useful
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Newegg.com Expands Bitcoin Payments to Another 73 Nations
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Ross’s clemency petition turns 1 year
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One year ago, was lauched Ross’s petition for clemency. Today, we have nearly 190,000 signatures, making it the second biggest clemency petition on Change.org right now. We are so grateful for the outpouring of support. Thank you all! :) Ross Ulbricht Submitted July 24, 2019 at 02:26PM by IndividualConscience https://ift.tt/2SB75YF
People in US Trust Bitcoin More Than Facebook's Libra: Report - CoinDesk
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Quick, upvote this to confuse everyone into thinking the price jumped back up.
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Low Barr: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General
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It's nice to be able to use my favorite mug at work again without being criticized.
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[DOCUMENTARY] The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin: great documentary at an inside look at the origins of bitcoin and how it became a global phenomenon
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Norwegian Air to accept bitcoin, opening crypto exchange
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Not Fake News: TD Ameritrade CEO Confirms REAL Demand for Bitcoin
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It may not be much, but this is my reward for HODLing the 2013 equivalent of $0.18 :)
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Starting this fall, the biggest airline in Scandinavia, "Norwegian" is accepting cryptocurrencies like bitcoin for ticket payments. (Norwegian article)
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Thanks to Dave Bitcoin of Wallet Recovery Services I recovered .3 bitcoins along with some Bitcoin Cash that I bought back in 2013. I had forgotten my password for the account of a online wallet and Dave was able to crack it. Just wanted to spread the word and let others know of his services.
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Bitcoin is a rare example of collective action succeeding in practice. When you exit fiat you take a leap of faith that others will too and you won’t be alone. When a decentralized movement gets to a critical mass it becomes very hard to oppose. Buy BTC, they can’t stop all of us
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People are taking the red pill on bitcoin because of libra
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JPMorgan: We Believe The Dollar Could Lose Its Status As World's Reserve Currency
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SamouraiLeaks Part 2— Harassment of Bitcoin Developers
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International Energy Agency's report on Bitcoin power consumption
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Bitcoin one giant leap for mankind. My gf got me this poster
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Time to buy bit cones
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I got my old man (dad) his first smart phone and one of the first things he had me do was install a bitcoin ticker so he could follow the price. He sent his very first text message last night. "Price below 10,000. Time to buy bit cones" So nice to have him on board. Just wanted to share. Submitted July 23, 2019 at 08:13PM by mqpickens https://ift.tt/2Ou6vOj
[Explain It Like I'm 5] Bitcoin Transaction, SegWit, CoinJoin, Confidential Transaction, Bulletproofs, Signature Aggregation
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Glad to see the place in Boston, where I work at got the atm machine that can be use to buy Bitcoin.
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Hal Finney is the Ultimate Hodler
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Hal Finney received the first Bitcoin transaction ever. This absolute unit of a hodler was prescient enough to freeze himself cryogenically after succumbing to ALS. A new economy running on the rails of Bitcoin was his best shot for propelling the medical sciences forward. I want to his see revival in my lifetime. What a legend of a story that would make. Submitted July 23, 2019 at 04:17AM by lobt https://ift.tt/32IGldv
Almost 80 EH/s – Bitcoin hashrate reached a new record level
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Last weekend, the aggregate computing power of the Bitcoin network once again updated its historical maximum, reaching 79,752 EH/s. Peak indicator, according to Blockchain.com ( https://www.blockchain.com/en/charts/hash-rate ), was on Saturday, July 20. On Sunday, the last day on which statistics are available, the hashrate fell slightly and today is at 67,136 EH/s. The previous record of 74,548 EH/s was recorded on July 5. Also at record levels above 9.06 trillion is currently the complexity ( https://www.blockchain.com/en/charts/difficulty?timespan=1year ) of the production of the first cryptocurrency. On these indicators, the complexity of mining came out on July 9, rising as a result of the last recalculation by 14%. Submitted July 22, 2019 at 09:40PM by SwapSpace_co https://ift.tt/2Y8laOG
Guys I think I’ve identified the pattern we’re having in Bitcoin
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Why can't other people see the inevitability of bitcoin?
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"People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results, they choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar." - Michael Burry; The Big Short. Why don't any of the people around us understand bitcoin? Why do they ignore it? Why do they refuse to look below the surface? The truth is, as the quote above eloquently explains, they want an authority to tell them how to value things. If the media talking heads and the investment advisors they see on TV tell them its a waste of time then its a waste of time, period, and nothing can change their mind or even make them look a little bit deeper. The day these authoritative figures tell them bitcoin is money is the day they will believe it, not a second earlier. The day TVs most popular news anchors and financial advice celebrities start saying bitcoin is money, that is the day we go mainstream. Submitted July 22, 2019 at 11:19PM by slvbtc https://ift.t...
Trillions of Dollars Could Flow into Bitcoin Over Next 25 Years: Grayscale
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4% of Americans Chose Bitcoin as Long Term Investment. Not That Significant But We're Getting Close
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Latest Grayscale Report Shows Institutional Bitcoin Investment On The Rise - 17 July 2019
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I told a friend Bitcoin enables financial freedom, he replied you're stupid just use Paypal... please help
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Bulgaria's Bitcoin Holdings Surpass Their Gold Reserves
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Mind blowing...
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Bitcoin will potentially grow to become the most liquid, saleable and transportable asset on earth while simultaneously being the asset with the least counterparty risk, least default risk and highest level of scarcity on earth. Humanity has never before had a form of money that has all of these properties simultaneously. Not even gold can compare. This fact continues to blow my mind every single day. Submitted July 22, 2019 at 01:09PM by slvbtc https://ift.tt/2JXO2Uq
If reports of Iran's gold-backed crypto are true, then the US might start a war sooner than we think... Iran is foolish to not use Bitcoin
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Showerthought: Isn't it ironic that the digital world, which knows no scarcity, produced the most scarce good in the universe?
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John McAfee: "We Need To Give Control Of Currency Back To The People"
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FORTRESS carelessly revealed that I'm a MtGox creditor and where I live to anyone who held this envelope. This is what happens when scumbags get ahold of your confidential data.
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BTCPay Server Directory - Website where you can showcase your BTCPay projects, stores, apps
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Lightning is so EASY
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Well, I'd read Lightning was complicated. But I've just downloaded Zap for Desktop (I don't have a smartphone). And it's just so easy . It started automatically and showed me the passphrase which I wrote down. It invited me to set up a password which I did. It then showed me a 'fund wallet' address following which it spent 6 minutes ‘Fetching latest data from the blockchain’. I closed down and restarted to check the password, changed to 'Light' settings (Dark~=invisible), selected Autopilot and, well, that's it. Done. I have a working Lightning wallet. The Receive and Pay options are intuitive. Now, maybe most of you already know how easy a Lightning wallet is to set up and use - I didn't. If I, as a non-techie, find Lightning this easy, everyone will. Submitted July 21, 2019 at 05:50PM by fulber34 https://ift.tt/2LzIvGU
Officials seize $5 million in gold bars at Heathrow Airport, reportedly from drug cartel
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Do I understand this correctly? If you have $100 in BTC and the price goes from $10k to $20k, you now have $200. Correct?
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craigslist post bitcoin accepted and preferred
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Came across this craigslist post of a car for sale and it put a smile on my face to see bitcoin being used for everyday transactions out there in the public. https://newyork.craigslist.org/que/cto/d/college-point-2009-bmw-328i-xdrive-awd/6929805256.html Submitted July 20, 2019 at 10:28PM by allnighter25 https://ift.tt/2JF34Q9
Bitcoin hater is embarrassing himself on TV - " cash isn’t used for illicit activities"- @mnuchin
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PSA: The mempool is very low. 1 sat/byte transactions are clearing in the next block!
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In case you all are overpaying in fees, the transfer rates are VERY low. I made 2 transfer with 1 sat/byte about a hour ago and they had a confirmation in about 13 minutes. Don't get suckered into your wallet's over priced fee estimate, always check the mempool status. For example, my favorite is https://bitcoinfees.net/ It's a good time to move! EDIT I'm not saying that this is always the case, but is currently the case. Understand the mempool, watch it, play with it, and learn. Submitted July 21, 2019 at 02:12AM by BTC-4-LYFE https://ift.tt/2JVvrs6
The Killer App: Bananas on the Blockchain? - Andreas Antonopoulos
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Fidelity’s crypto arm has officially applied to operate in New York as a trust
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Bitcoin likely wasn't supposed to come out until sometime in the 2030's to 2040's...
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I think a renegade time traveler brought the Bitcoin idea from the future to the past. I think there's an alternate version of reality where the central bankers were let run amuck, and they ended up, fucking shit up so bad for generations forward, something drastic had to be done. Think about the genesis block. Bitcoin, in its entirety, had to be complete, and ready to go, on said auspicious date. January 3rd, 2009 is probably some horrible banking holiday in this alternate timeline. Bitcoin probably fixed the economic woes the bankers had imposed upon the world as soon as it was introduced, but quickly centralized, and bought up by the technocratic elite who were much smarter, and intelligent than the general population at the time in said future. This alternate timeline Bitcoin from the 2030-2040 future, was probably cooler, and more fleshed out than what WE got, however, it was also written in computer languages that might not exist yet, with different syntaxes/rules, and maybe...
Did you know Cristiano Ronaldo makes 10,480.77 BTC in 2019 at todays current rate?
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Hey guys, wanted to make an announcement of the launch of a subreddit dedicated to sourcing athletes and celebrities salaries and convert them into bitcoin. #bitcoinsalaries Here is the link to the new community: r/BitcoinSalaries/ Here you can check out the full list: https://bitcoinsalaries.com/ Hopefully, this will raise awareness and get more people use to checking prices in bitcoin, rather than FIAT. Submitted July 20, 2019 at 01:20AM by mbenchi https://ift.tt/2Z2LZVB
Benjamin Franklin willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each in 1790, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million. If I create an NTimeLock transaction for 200 years, will it still be spendable then?
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"We cannot accept private companies issuing their own currencies without democratic control,” Mr Le Maire said
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A Pull Request in Bitcoin Core which will simplify fee negotiation for the Lightning Network was merged!
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See for yourself: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15681 The devs are working together to improve the LN and make it even more awesome. This PR most likely means that we won't have to overpay miner's fees when closing LN channels anymore. Submitted July 20, 2019 at 04:13PM by Kalin101 https://ift.tt/2xZVo4s
This Ohmm mining center can reduce carbon emissions by 7400 metric tonnes p/year if operating fully loaded and utilizing natural gas that would otherwise be vented
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1988 Economist Magazine Cover, how much will a Satoshi ultimately be?
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Be Careful: Safe Deposit Boxes are NOT safe !!
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Here's an interesting story about safe deposit boxes at banks. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Business TLDR: Many people have lost a lot of valuables that they placed in safe deposit boxes and the banks are NOT legally responsible for any damages. This mostly occurs when the banks change ownership and records are lost. Even worse is simple, stupid mistakes. Like some other customer doesn't pay for their box and the bank wrongly drills out YOUR box. How often does this occur? It happens to over 30,000 safe boxes PER YEAR !! I see here how people often recommend safe deposit boxes to store seed phrases or even actual USB devices or hardware wallets. Be very careful that you have a backup elsewhere BESIDES the safe deposit box. Submitted July 20, 2019 at 09:36AM by bjman22 https://ift.tt/2Y8A7nV
Naomi Brockwell translates what US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says about Bitcoin.
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Crypto Not Prohibited In India, Confirms Minister Anurag Thakur
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Court Declares Bitcoin Legal in China as a 'Virtual Property’
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Highest BTC trade ever publicly recorded - 4164m Breithorn
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Joe Kernen, the unsung hero we need but don't deserve. We appreciate you sir! Keep asking the hard questions. 👏
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Bought in the dip instead of selling in the dip and it feels good. Might keep doing that.
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Chinese court upholds the legality of Bitcoin ownership, BTC protected by China's property laws
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Buying A Pack of Gum with Bitcoin Because Rep. Sherman Said I Can't
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I'd rather pay a small transaction fee with Bitcoin than letting central bankers fuck around with printing their fake money.
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Did anyone become more financially aware because of bitcoin?
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I use to spend money on take-out, brand clothing, sporting events and a bunch of subscriptions like Netflix. Now every time I spend i have this feeling that money couldve gone to bitcoin. Since then I've learn to cook very basic healthy food, plain no named clothing, stay at home to watch sports and cancel my Netflix subscription. Funny thing is i saved so much for bitcoin i didnt even spend all what I save into bitcoin, I built an emergency fund, paid my debt faster(which meant I save at higher rater) while putting in what i had left into what I originally saved to begin with; buying bitcoin. Anyone else have this experience? Submitted July 18, 2019 at 10:12PM by havoc319 https://ift.tt/2XNHYIc
U.S Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin tells it like it is....
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It appears some congressmen has just started stocking bitcoins...
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Congressman Davidson is clear about his view on Bitcoin
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The US dollar when you put it through the age test on FaceApp..
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Congressman Tom Emmer Damns Libra, Supports Bitcoin - 07/17/2019
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After testifying on Capitol Hill, Meltem Demirors explains what Congress is getting wrong about bitcoin
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Financial Services Hearing - Rep. Patrick McHenry's opening remarks: "The world that Satoshi Nakamoto..envisioned, and others are building, is an unstoppable force. We should not attempt to deter this innovation, and governments cannot stop this innovation, and those that have tried already failed."
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When yo girl defending your bitcoin in front of the lads. #stonks++++
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I’ll admit it. I was one of those people
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that heard about Bitcoin during the hype toward $20,000, didn’t know anything about it, and was amazed at its progress but shrugged it off as something I shouldn’t bother get into. Not long after, I briefly heard about Bitcoin again on the news of it “crashing”. That’s why people need to buy low and sell high, right? Fast forward to a few months ago, I started hearing about Bitcoin again. This time from friends. “Why are people buying it again?” “How does it work?” I decided to find out this time. I did some research and began to unearth the truth and potential of this technology. I get it now. This is the future, whether some people like it or not. The rate of adoption is accelerating. I look back now and realize what the “crazy” Bitcoiner friends were trying to tell me long ago. I am one of them now. And the majority of people around me still think as I used to. At some point soon, the majority of us will have experienced this role-change. The question is: how much longer are yo...
Meltem Demirors, the hero we need but don't deserve 👏
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Congressman Patrick McHenry on Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto - 07/17/2019
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This just has been spoken in a US Congress hearing: "There is bitcoin, and there is shitcoin"
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Rep. Patrick McHenry: "There's no capacity to kill Bitcoin"
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In my day we did this for porn, today my nieces and nephews are doing this to buy bitcoin
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I'm the Bitcoin Time Traveler, & back to buy more during this next dip! AMA
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I was here during the low of January to pick up coins at 3.5k dip and did an AMA. The account I used seems to have been found by the time counsel and removed from reddit existence. Here's a screenshot set someone compiled of my last AMA before it was sweeped off the site: https://imgur.com/gallery/z4FyZQj I will be here for the next couple of months buying during this FUD period on the way down. Submitted July 17, 2019 at 03:00AM by BitcoinTimeTraveler https://ift.tt/2ki4c2b
Because Bitcoin as far as we know from the traditional mindset is based on thin air.
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My bank is now charging me a $25 a monthly maintenance fee unless I have a combined $10000 in my checking any savings account.
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When a scammer tried to scam you, but you scammed him instead.
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One Bitcoin Satoshi Nearly Worth More Than a Venezuelan Bolivar
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when i see bitcoin dropping but have to wait for payday
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Second Canadian town set to accept tax payments in Bitcoin
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“This is their information, they own it” “And you won’t sell it?” “No, of course not” Remember everyone, talk is cheap.
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Breaking: Top GOP Congressman Defies Trump, Says ‘I Like Bitcoin’
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We have entered the next stage: It is now BTC versus USD for the title of World Reserve Currency. Both the US President & US Treasury Secretary have said so this week.
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In tweets and press conferences that they initiated this week to talk about Bitcoin, both the President of the United States and the US Secretary of Treasury have defended the dollar against Bitcoin as the World's Reserve Currency. This is not a time-traveler post. This happened. The debate is on. What will be the worlds reserve currency for the next few hundred years? Bitcoin or USD? BTW, current market cap (in USD): USD: 14,837,207,186,000 BTC: 193,875,371,545 Submitted July 16, 2019 at 02:52AM by mocoiner https://ift.tt/2jXMjpw
My dad: the government will shut it down! the Government: ...
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White House briefing on cryptocurrency - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
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Ron Paul Pledges Allegiance to Bitcoin, Calls Crypto a 'Great Idea'
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I'm happy that Ledger Live now supports native SegWit
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South African Ponzi Operator Gets House and Lambo Burned Down After Scamming Thousands With ‘Bitcoin Wallet’ scheme
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Gave my sister 1 BTC for Christmas in 2013. Got this text yesterday. Warms my heart, so happy for her.
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Zurich Airport - BTC is not dead ✌️ Crypto is booming in Switzerland
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If you bought Bitcoin and want the price to go up, OWN your private keys
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Many exchanges are trading more BTC than what is owed to their customers, ie. they have non-solvent BTC reserves and are trading paper Bitcoin. QuadrigaCX (extinct Canadian exchange) revealed that Cotten gambled away its reserves which were owed to its customers. Mt. Gox (largest exchange until 2014) was insolvent, but still operated until its demise. Had the majority of customers demanded custody of their keys , exchanges would need to BUY BTC to have enough to operate, otherwise collapse. Keeping exchanges honest with their reserves = extreme BUY pressure . Recent evidence on fractional reserve: It was obvious during the first few hours after the launch of GRIN, that the trading volume on exchanges was greater than its total supply. Grin’s inflation schedule is calculable, and it requires 1440 blocks confirmation for coinbase reward maturity. You can't spend the coinbase output before 1440 blocks, but yet exchanges listed and traded as if you could. NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR ...
Even Andreas Antonopoulos makes the comparison between bitcoin & Lightning network to the early days of the internet. This is what gives me faith in the future of Bitcoin.
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Just wanted to say those that stay 100 on holding and not cashing out i respect ur strong hands💪🏾
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BetterHash: Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining With New Hashing Protocols
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One of my favorite documentaries on Bitcoin - - - The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin (2014). Its a little older but tells a great story of how btc became a global phenomenon
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I saw this in a store and nobody knew what I got so excited about
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As a newcoiner I’m already starting to see the same questions from even newercoiners. Thanks for being patient and guiding us, wise folk.
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Buddy having a tough time getting in. Banks treating Bitcoin like online poker. Can't even use our own money to buy things we want.
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Wells Fargo no longer makes transactions involving Cryptocurrency.
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Clinical Trial will be anchoring data into Bitcoin for immutability
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Bitcoin has intrinsic value: simply explained.
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All economic value is subjective, something is only ever worth what value someone else is willing to exchange for it. So where is this economic value fundamentally derived from? What prerequisites do humans require before they ascribe economic value to something? The answer is utility and scarcity. Simply put, everything that has utility and scarcity has intrinsic value. Anything that has utility but lacks scarcity (is abundant) has no intrinsic value, and anything that is scarce but lacks utility has no intrinsic value. For something to be ascribed with intrinsic value it needs to have both utility and scarcity. We can look at all of the worlds valuable objects on a scale of relative scarcity and utility, the highest value being ascribed to the most useful and most scarce items and the lowest value being ascribed to the least useful and least scarce items. Things with no utility or no scarcity having no economic value. Bitcoin has the most predictable mathematically-provable stri...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges that don’t track users are growing fast
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Andreas Antonopoulos a fantastic guy. Polite, respectful and transparent. Blockchain for the WIN!
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Just Made My First Investment Into Bitcoin
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Alright, I have this awful habit of when I am stressed I buy useless junk, looking at you tastefully displayed toys. This is where Bitcoin comes in. Instead of buying garbage, I will spend the same dollar amount on BTC. I am stupid new, and the amounts I am purchasing are far from needing a physical wallet. But I was wondering if you guys could recommend an app for a beginner? I am using coinbase, if that matters. Submitted July 13, 2019 at 04:48AM by Qsus https://ift.tt/2JvvKuK
The first time a president has said the word bitcoin is in the middle of a bull run. In like 2-4 weeks he’s going to look very stupid for calling the dollar strong.
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Every Major Tech Company Will Have Its Own Cryptocurrency in the Next Two Years, Say Winklevoss Twins, Still Bullish on Bitcoin
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Bitfinex trying to steal my crypto (10K USD)
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Hello. I am from Ukraine. Today I got the issue with bitfinex. Seems they are cheating and want to steal my money. I used this exchange even before they were hacked, even more, I have verified account. But who cares when someone wants to cheat you -they cheat you.. This story starts a little bit less than 48 hours ago...to be exact: 10.07.19 at 17:19 (EEST GMT +3). I got an email from bitfinex: Bitfinex is constantly improving and adjusting its customer acceptance and related compliance policies, in order to ensure that it is operating within its risk appetite. As policies change, Bitfinex must decline new verification requests and terminate existing customer relationships from time to time. Unfortunately, I must inform you that Bitfinex is no longer in a position to do business with you. This should not be taken as a reflection of any particular business that you may undertake or your fitness to do business with any other digital token platform or, indeed, any other counter-...
Can we stop with the Donald Trump posts if it doesn't have anything to do with Bitcoin?
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Like, we get it, he posted on Twitter. That's relevant, but we don't need to see the tweet submitted every hour. Yet now we are getting posts that talk about Donald Trump and his political stuff and then saying "lol this guy doesn't believe in Bitcoin" It's unrelated and annoying. Honestly, please keep this sub focused on what it is about. @mods? Submitted July 13, 2019 at 12:51PM by brettlw_ https://ift.tt/2jGQ42x
Streaming Online Pornography Produces as Much CO2 as Belgium - Slashdot
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Coinbase CEO Says Trump's Bitcoin Tweet Is "Achievement Unlocked" - supports narrative of uncensorable free speech
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How many people have girlfriends that are sick of them talking about Bitcoin?
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I bring it up every now and then, when I’m on my phone and I laugh at something related to it, or I’m reading a Reddit post on here.. She’ll ask, “What are you laughing at?” Or “Whatcha reading?” And I’ll explain it and she just continues what she’s doing. (Goes right over her head sometimes.) lol.. She understands Bitcoin and it’s purpose, and she supports me. But sometimes she’s like.. shut the fuck up about it. Hahaha. Wondering who can relate. Submitted July 13, 2019 at 03:24AM by milkismade https://ift.tt/2l6ueFR
Technical: A Brief History of Payment Channels: from Satoshi to Lightning Network
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Who cares about political tweets from some random country's president when payment channels are a much more interesting and are actually capable of carrying value? So let's have a short history of various payment channel techs! Generation 0: Satoshi's Broken nSequence Channels Because Satoshi's Vision included payment channels, except his implementation sucked so hard we had to go fix it and added RBF as a by-product. Originally, the plan for nSequence was that mempools would replace any transaction spending certain inputs with another transaction spending the same inputs, but only if the nSequence field of the replacement was larger. Since 0xFFFFFFFF was the highest value that nSequence could get, this would mark a transaction as "final" and not replaceable on the mempool anymore. In fact, this " nSequence channel" I will describe is the reason why we have this weird rule about nLockTime and nSequence . nLockTime actually only works i...
Gym in Dublin starts accepting bitcoin, first gym in Ireland, maybe the world?
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BitMEX’s owner gives $60,000 grant to Bitcoin Core developer
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Trump- I am not a fan of Bitcoin Cryptoman - Bitcoin is the greatest Store of value. 😂
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Donald Trump is in for a real shock when he learns that normal cash can also be used to "facilitate unlawful behaviour, including drug trade and other illegal activity"
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How the bulls react to Donald Trump tweeting about Bitcoin
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According to coinbase whales just had a feast with this recent dip and the panic selling of noobs.
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The Miami Dolphins now accepts payments in Bitcoin and Litecoin
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Are you ready for Crypto Prime Day? Spend Bitcoin on Amazon Prime Day
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Hey everyone! Founder of Moon here. This Monday will be the first time ever that you can shop Amazon Prime Day directly with Bitcoin (via Lightning Network or Coinbase). To celebrate, we're giving everyone an additional 5% off anything they buy on Amazon.com with Bitcoin during Amazon Prime Day. We're calling it Crypto Prime Day! We're hoping this not only reward folks who already have Bitcoin, but incentivizes the average consumer to learn about Bitcoin, driving education and adoption. Who wouldn't want to learn how they could save an additional 5% on Prime Day??? You can find more information at paywithmoon.com Enjoy! Submitted July 11, 2019 at 11:06PM by binarytree https://ift.tt/2JuLXAk