huh. it already exist but memo.cash didn't find it when I searched for it? odd.

Buy bitcoin at the rates from paxful https://paxful.com/?r=or4QNeLo2kX

[HBO] - How Bitcoin Can Help Track Down Criminals

Just some food for thought. If you can't get people to update regular nodes how are you going to get them to update LN nodes in a timely manner? Everyone running a node only works in fantasy world

Bitcoin Core mandatory update means segwit is no longer optional. All core nodes will now have segwit. You could still run other implementations but few do that.

Good points. Optional upgrades are never optional in this sense.

BTC is nothing at all like the bitcoin I became a part of. They are betrayed us all and are trying to ruin the name of Bitcoin

Meme: #Blockstream Bitcoin Scaling Solution

The Launch of the Liquid Network https://blockstream.com/2018/10/10/liquid-launch.html

Liquid Bitcoin -- Double Edged Sword? https://www.yours.org/content/blockstreams-liquid-bitcoin----double-edged-sword--fcbbec32b1de

Sounds like centralized, permissioned, anti-bitcoin creation, but it's just me. And by bitcoin i mean the whitepaper bitcoin...

The Liquid Elephant In The Room Everone Is Missing https://www.yours.org/content/the-liquid-elephant-in-the-room-everone-is-missing-df8655b1869e

Will Liquid Users Be Subject to KYC/AML? https://www.yours.org/content/will-liquid-users-be-subject-to-kyc-aml--165f1d02e1c8

Will Proof Off Stake Be The Next Attack On Bitcoin? -- https://www.yours.org/content/will-proof-off-stake-be-the-next-attack-on-bitcoin--42948d85c831

Decentralized exchanges are coming. But can they properly support Bitcoin <--> Fiat exchange? Seems to me without it they are not so important (why sell BCH for a shitcoin?), supporting it is hard

There can also, be only one, only time will tell

So how did Core end up with all the hashpower supporting its client?

A question to Core supporters: how is the blockchain supposed to be secured once the reward is low and all the transaction fees move to the LN?

🎉Happy birthday Bitcoin!🎂You are 10 years old now!🎉Birthtimestamp: 2009-01-03 18:15:05 UTC🎉

https://coin.dance/ add PoW comparision graph for BTC, we have a large gap with BTC

damn! need a log scale for that.

https://honest.cash/FUBAR165/how-layer-2-solutions-give-take-even-more-power-from-the-average-user-and-give-it-to-whales-2198

Here is a great example of the growing up that the industry needs to address: https://www.coindesk.com/fake-volume-on-crypto-exchanges-isnt-the-half-of-it

If only a small percentage of the worlds population can afford to use something then it has already lost the decentralization battle.

A Dollar And A Dime Value

What is necessary for Bitcoin to have mass adoption?
What is the true value of Bitcoin?
The answer: People and businesses have to use the system and
the base formula for the intrinsic value of any income producing asset is
(VIR) Value = Income / Rate. All of capitalism operates on this formula.

Ultimately all ‘cryptocurrencies’ will have to address this basic equation or go into oblivion.
Miners and validators need rewards and fees or they are gone. Mining rewards are halving and transaction fees are high.
People and businesses, merchants and customers need ease of use and reasonable fees or they won’t use the system and will go somewhere else. Transaction times are slow and transaction fees are high.

Lower Fees require Scale allowing more transactions at lower cost with greater income.
Scale allows utility were businesses can invest and build systems that generate more transactions generating more fees and greater income.
Utility creates diversity gene...

I often feel the #Bitcoin social space is a 2:AM neighborhood filled with incessant barking dogs and rattling garbage cans.