Polylunarrrrrrrr 🐝 🍵 🌊 @[email protected]

just a heads up: please grab your own copy of the #bitcoin whitepaper and store it carefully

there are some unsavory characters using legal threats to use its uncertain licensing status to bully sites into removing it from the internet

i will not provide any details at this time

more fuckery

https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/regarding-csw

#Bitcoin node count rising massively again 🙂
(data: luke.dashjr.org, graphic: bitcoinkpis.com)

There seems to be some current discussion of bitcoin's energy usage, which leads me to shamelessly re-plug my recent blog post about proof of work:

https://joinmarket.me/blog/blog/pow-a-pictorial-essay/

#bitcoin

What can we do to increase PayJoin adoption? https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-January/018356.html This is one great privacy tech that will be very important for helping bitcoin fulfil its potential as a permissionless money for the internet

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

We are now entering the "fight" stage. So if somebody (e.g. a major government) wanted to try to fight with a mining attack, what would it take?

https://braiins.com/blog/how-much-would-it-cost-to-51-attack-bitcoin

eToro is beginning to ration Bitcoin. Demand is out pacing supply. Let that sink in.

Bitcoin has a total addressable market of everyone.

Bitcoin fixes this... (fill in the blank) for literally everyone.

Everyone needs high quality money and now with Bitcoin everyone can have it.

With Bitcoin everyone is better off, even bankers.

Interested to hear people's thoughts on Mastodon as a platform, the recent migration, and the differences you have noticed between twitter/mastodon (both positive and negative)

Feel free to reply with your thoughts👇

Hey @bitcoinhackers, I was permanently banned on Twitter over the weekend and I refuse to create a new account.

Can you guys please boost this so I can find and reconnect with people, thanks!

The fiat world got accustomed to free cost of carry. Let's see what happens now with the game changing and Bitcoin representing a better alternative.

For large values, bitcoin can be stored incredibly cheaply.
https://www.reuters.com/article/ubs-group-rates/ubs-to-charge-negative-rates-on-holding-above-250000-sfr-euros-memo-idUSL8N2JN0TI

When Bitcoin reached a new all time high last Friday its market cap was:

- Larger than the vast majority of the large cap stocks.
- Larger than all the stocks in the financial sector.
- Larger than Facebook and Alibaba.

Bitcoin is still on track to get its market cap larger than any mega cap stock.

To flip Apple we'll need one #BTC to trade above $120,000. Doable.