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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @faithandcredit 12 Jun 2022
It seems that the number 1 country in terms of BTC nodes is USA, the number 1 City is Moscow, and the number 1 ISP is Deutche Telekom. You couldnt make this up :)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 12 Jun 2022
Sounds plausible, what's the problem?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 11 Jun 2022
I learned more about using heroku today!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lv99_slacker 11 Jun 2022
Bought some tees and stickers from Lightning.store, and lightning payment via Breez took, like, 10 attempts before the transaction went through. Is that normal?
This was my first time ever buying anything with bitcoin, btw.
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134 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 11 Jun 2022
My default tip is 100 sats and it feeeeeeeeels nice. Like sugar and spice.
There are some occasions where I want to just do 1-10 sats though, like to acknowledge a reply.
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110 sats \ 6 replies \ @jp 11 Jun 2022
Litecoin's implementation is MimbleWimble and subsequent banning from Exchanges has confirmed my belief that Bitcoin privacy must be handled on L2
CC: @sethforprivacy
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @sethforprivacy 13 Jun 2022
Exchange delistings are something to be embraced, IMO, especially if there are real technical gains made that anger the establishment.
Monero has faced this "problem" for years with both delistings and large exchanges (i.e. Coinbase) refusing to list it because it actually works. I would be very worried if the current broken system is more than happy to support Bitcoin and don't seem scared or worried.
As far as privacy on L1/L2 -- while it's a nice sounding idea to just build privacy into L2, if L1 is not private (a la Bitcoin) L2's privacy suffers as a result, just like we've seen with many of the core privacy flaws in Lightning being the result of on-chain privacy issues bubbling up to Lightning.
I still do think Lightning is probably the most promising tool in Bitcoin for potential approachable privacy, but on-chain is still superior in most cases (if done right).
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 11 Jun 2022
It's harder for exchanges to ban Bitcoin than to ban Litecoin... because of the userbase
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jp 11 Jun 2022
Governments have a history of regulating things into non-existence. Adding privacy on L1 only would help strengthen part of their argument - which will be supported by nocoiners.
If a DEX becomes available for Bitcoin, then I would be 100% support of L1 privacy
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 11 Jun 2022
I think we need just a bit more adoption and then we should push really hard for privacy on L1...
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @LaserStack 11 Jun 2022
Bitcoin already has L1 privacy by way of CoinJoins and CoinSwaps. And getting banned from exchanges shouldn't really matter, since we have p2p exchanges such as Bisq.
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 11 Jun 2022
Shots fired
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107 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 11 Jun 2022
Thinking about a yearly subscription to Amboss prime service! Support bitcoin startups
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ideasourcing 11 Jun 2022
is it kinda clear now that the price is not rising because normal pleb buyers have no more money left to buy the dip?
if the above statement was true, then what will the institutional/whale buyers do now?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @pony 11 Jun 2022
The price is not set by plebs, but by the super-wealthy.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 11 Jun 2022
That's why price isn't rising:
https://bitcoinexactforecast.com/
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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @pdmccombs 11 Jun 2022
I think you’re spot on.
Food and gas is more important than sats right now.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @ideasourcing 11 Jun 2022
apart from the inflation thing, i mean, people have repeatedly bought 6-7 dips now from 68 to 65 to 55 to 50 and so on...and now have no more money left, so I think, the whales/govts. have stopped dumping their coins as they no longer need to lose their bitcoins in order to prevent the market from jumping. So if all the small guys have no more money left to pump bitcoin. what is going on in the minds of the whales/govts.? Are they going to orchestrate a big dump which will cause almost half the holders to let go of their coins? Or are the whales going to buy now and pump it?
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7 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 11 Jun 2022
Considering how chaotic the world is under a macroeconomic lens I’m shocked Bitcoin hasn’t fallen to 10k yet.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 11 Jun 2022
Me too. For me it's pretty high signal its status as wealth store has 10x'd.
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