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May 13th, 2023

There’s more to wallet security than just keeping private keys safe; here are some often overlooked issues with wal..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…BS

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Remember 5 years ago when @LilWindexGang dropped this hilarious rap video about getting rich by investing in BCH?..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Z2

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The life of a Bitcoin Core contributor pic.twitter.com/zJfmllrP6Q

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@Excellion Tether truthers are gonna die of diarrhea they’re gonna shit themselves so much.

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@lbrealdeveloper For security reasons Graphene only supports the past few versions of Pixels.

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@RaUL_AMDERLAINE They don’t hold bitcoin, they only own IOUs.

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lopp When you didn’t prep because prepping is for the paranoid. pic.twitter.com/mO9SaVG5pq

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@MustacheTommy I would advise against publicly broadcasting how much money your family has.

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@danielwingen If you’re asking if I care more about the integrity of Bitcoin as an entire system than I care about..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…y3

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@MustacheTommy There could be 500m people who own bitcoin IOUs, but it’s far more difficult to approximate since custodians are black boxes.

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@kanzure Likely < 5% adoption even of IOUs. Still very firmly in “early adopter” territory.

Looks far earlier in t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…OD

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28,000,000 bitcoin addresses contain at least $10 worth of satoshis.

Each bitcoin holder likely has several (if no..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lX

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@bradmillscan @halfin He was right that there needs to be a “secondary level” of transactions.

This quote was made… https://t.co/pLeQFs7wpY

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How to set up a Pixel phone with the privacy enhanced Graphene operating system. blog.lopp.net/grapheneos-pho…

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@Coin_Dance your web site is down; working on fixing it?

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@Polyd_ @Tsutsaev_Ruslan @w_s_bitcoin I didn’t go in depth in this post but I do think we should continue exploring… https://t.co/vjBVpvzlZo

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@roryhighside Imagine thinking that I make every single decision at Casa. It’s quite flattering that you consider m..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Yi

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Looks like the bursts of transactions from BRC-20 token minters stopped about 12 hours ago and we’re back to our re..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…et

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@nicolasburtey That would be a massive improvement upon the status quo.

In terms of systemic risk, it’s always a m..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pp

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@jimmysong Knights and Mooks.

‘Tis the nature of social media engagement.

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@_pretyflaco @StanislawBits You just explained why Casa is architected such that users need not even write down see… https://t.co/tyjjgol7g4

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@freeslave06 Yes.

BUT!

With too much centralization the reliability of that property can be put at risk.

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@AndresRata_ You’re quite right that there’s nuance here, as mentioned in my other reply. My concern is with the sy..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…GR

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@AndresRata_ Good point regarding nuance. When I speak of custodians I mean huge regulated companies with tons of u..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Tp

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@Spartanze4o No doubt. It is, in my mind, the most important issue to focus upon. Which is why I’ve been doing just that for 8 years now.

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I worry about what happens to the game theory of Bitcoin governance if we DO achieve mass adoption any time soon…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ra

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@nicolasburtey Well that could certainly become an interesting debate.

I’d posit that, for example, self custodied..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…nv

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@UncleJae09 The masses want convenience.

Thus, to compete with the convenience of third party custody we must expe… https://t.co/xlhu01EI7P

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@decentmoney2009 It’s certainly both, as we’re talking about a massive paradigm shift. Can’t expect that to happen..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…SH

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@StanislawBits You just explained why I’ve spent the past 8 years working to make self custody more user friendly…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Gc

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@Tsutsaev_Ruslan @w_s_bitcoin There’s no single silver bullet, but it’s by treating the base chain as a cryptograph… https://t.co/OfW1SzF1lE

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@w_s_bitcoin Right, custodians are a naive way of scaling at the expense of security. We should not settle for thos..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xw

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@decentmoney2009 Without further technological improvements it’s true that it won’t be possible to get a UTXO into..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Bv

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Fascinating to see some hardcore Bitcoin Puritans becoming custodian apologists. Do they realize they are shilling..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…dF

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