Jeffrey Lebowski

Joined Apr 26, 2018

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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1784d · Bitcoin
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In one word: why?!
1784d · Documentaries
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"It isn't just the censorship which allows the BTC cult to mislead so many people. They also gain 8 years' worth of creative material which still exists online (YouTube videos, blog articles, etc.)
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than real gold as a medium of exchange.
And let's not miss the fact that being able to use the gold directly as a medium of exchange without needing a bank to route it for you
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slow and expensive has the effect of turning Bitcoin back into gold 1.0. Slow and expensive is the BTC strategy. A digital version of gold that isnt cheap and fast to move is no better
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Bitcoin wasn't ever supposed to be a decision about being "gold or cash." Bitcoin was always supposed to be gold and cash. That's what makes it disruptive!
Making onchain transactions
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gold digital makes it teleportable (weightless, massless) and trivially divisible. In other words, digital gold solves the problem of using gold directly as a medium of exchange.
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made it possible to teleport one song from an album right into your home, digital gold makes it possible to teleport one payment's worth of gold directly to the recipient.
Making the
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immutable) and make them digital.
In exactly the same way that digital news made it possible to teleport one article from a virtual newspaper right into your hands, and streaming music
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way to use gold for payments directly, so no "mint" or "bank" was needed!
The genius of Bitcoin was in figuring out a way to take all the properties of gold (valuable, scarce, and
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"To use gold as a medium of exchange, historically, one had to turn it into coinage, which can be diluted causing inflation or banknotes, which can be printed without reserves causing inflation. If only there was some
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"With the lie going around that Bitcoin was always mean to be Gold 2.0, you should not ask what it was designed to be, you should ask what you (and the masses) want it to be. They make it valuable."
Barricade
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Maybe because you know, the state don't like it. BTC supporters are now statists.
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What’s the point of localbitcoins if you can’t use cash?
Waiting for them to change their name to RemoteBitcoins.
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"LocalBitcoins just banned cash transactions. It really only goes to show everything in the BTC ecosystem is compromised."
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How fiat money falls:
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1790d · Ethereum
EY's Nightfall protocols for private transactions on the Ethereum blockchain using zk-snarks released:
https://github.com/EYBlockchain
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Are you in it for the money or for the tech?
1790d · Bitcoin Cash
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I smoke weed #dailymemo
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