Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees Twitter profile

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

2 years

Let's remember that @elonmusk charging $8 for premium Twitter experience means Twitter becomes the product again, instead of you. And if $8 is too much, you're free to remain as the product.

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Build a website that lets consenting adults buy recreational drugs = 2 life sentences + 15 years. Build a website that steals $10 billion from innocent people = hugs with politicians and celebrity endorsements.

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7 years

My memory is failing, was it Bitcoin or was it JP Morgan that was bailed out by the government?

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7 years

BREAKING: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says bitcoin "is a fraud" that will eventually blow up

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1 year

No, this isn't crypto's "Lehman Moment" There are no taxpayer bailouts coming nor money to be printed. This is capitalism, and the markets will work it out.

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2 years

Strong men make green candles. Green candles make weak men. Weak men make red candles. Red candles make strong men.

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5 months

@cz_binance CZ! You are one of the great heroes on the front lines of an epic struggle. You should be immensely proud of Binance. Well done ser, and thank you. #EndTheFed

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3 years

Twitter blocking Trump is not a violation of free speech. Trump can say what he wishes, and so can Jack Dorsey, each with their own property. Trump has no right to shout from Dorsey's platform any more than Dorsey has the right to shout from the balcony of Trump tower.

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3 years

If there is a climate emergency, build nuclear reactors. Otherwise I can’t take you seriously.

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

On the bright side, veganism has been set back by years

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4 months

Heroes look like @elonmusk . They risk their own capital and that of those who voluntarily contributed it, in ambitious projects, without violence, toward grand human achievement. Villains look like @SenWarren . They steal other peoples' capital to force their opinions on those…

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4 months

Starship will make life as we know it multiplanetary for the first time in Earth’s ~4.5 billion year existence

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5 years

We stand with @binance and CZ's sentiments. We’ve decided to delist Bitcoin SV #BSV from @ShapeShift_io within 48 hrs.

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

So Alameda CEO’s father was boss of Gensler…

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@Forza_Crypto

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@cryptomanran @SBF_FTX

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1 year

@ohJuliatweets Well it’s insane to ME that home cooking is an accepted practice in this country. Real chefs have to go through years of training and state certification but a hungry father with a BA in psychology who “doesn’t believe in the food pyramid” can be like “No I should be the cook.”

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2 years

A single #Bitcoin transaction consumes more energy than the sun puts out in a year.

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2 years

80% of all dollars in existence were created in the last two years. This is probably why prices are starting to rise.

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3 years

$100 billion goes into oil… more oil is produced $100 billion goes into gold… more gold is produced $100 billion goes into bitcoin… same amount of bitcoin is produced

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6 years

For anyone who is newly interested in #Bitcoin , instead of going and blindly buying it, go instead and learn. Watch a couple docs. Read a book or 20 articles. The price is fun, but what really matters is why it exists at all, and the consequences to society now that it does.

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1 year

The US dollar has lost 99% of its value since the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize the value of the dollar.

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6 years

Many have questioned how Bitcoin works, and stay away from it due to this uncertainty. Meanwhile, not 1 in 100 of them know how central banking works, but use it without question.

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6 years

Bitcoin: a digital currency with limited and known supply, no borders, and no central group controlling it. US Dollar: a digital currency with unlimited and unknown supply, border restrictions, and controlled by a banking cabal. What's in your wallet?

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1 year

Gov regulates food; population is grossly unhealthy Gov regulates healthcare; costs skyrocket Gov regulates drugs; fentanyl epidemic Gov regulates money; runaway debt and high inflation Let’s have them regulate AI so we can truly fuck ourselves

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

"Big advocate for Sam, because he has two parents who are compliance lawyers. If there's ever a place I can be that I'm not going to get in trouble, it's going to be at FTX."

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@concodanomics

1 year

speechless

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@ErikVoorhees

4 months

The #BitcoinETF is the first ETF in history in which the underlying asset has a limited supply.

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6 years

@jchudyk @rogerkver @bitcoincoreorg @TheBlockstream Roger - please stop referencing me to back up your opinion that Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin. It isn't. Bitcoin is the chain originating from the genesis block with the highest accumulated proof of work. The Bitcoin Cash fork failed to gain majority, thus it is not Bitcoin.

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Erik Voorhees

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2 years

A good bitcoiner should defend defi on ethereum when the government attacks it on grounds of surveillance. A good ethereumer should defend PoW on bitcoin when the government attacks it on grounds of energy use. The war is money vs state. The latter is powerful. Do not squabble.

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4 years

Leaked Fed document

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3 years

A small nation could buy $10 billion of #Bitcoin , wait five years, and no longer be a small nation.

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

1 year

Income tax is most accurately described as a fine imposed on you for being productive. And the more productive you are, the higher the fine.

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@ErikVoorhees

4 years

It takes a special kind of Government to spend $10,000 for every adult to give $1,200 to every adult. And it takes a special kind of public to cheer this Government into doing it. #America

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

3 years

The mistake wasn't withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. The mistake was sending troops there in the first place two decades ago.

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

6 months

SBF found guilty on all 7 counts. Let's remember that he operated "the safe and regulated" exchange, and not a single regulator caught him. It was, instead, the market, which is not only a great fountain of innovation, but also the best arbiter of discipline and justice.

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5 years

1/ Thoughts on Libra (and my first tweetstorm!): first, zoom out for a second and realize how far this industry has come. The biggest companies in the world are now launching cryptocurrencies. BOOM.

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6 years

Such hypocrisy... politicians grill #Zuckerberg about the importance of privacy, while simultaneously supporting the world's largest surveillance apparatus. If I don't want #Facebook spying on me, and I stop using it. If I don't want US Gov spying on me, where can I opt out?

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

@kevinolearytv You know there are many such entrepreneurs who didn't also steal $10 billion of customer money

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

5 years

If you bought Bitcoin this summer at $12,000 because it was going up, and you’re selling it now at $9,700 because it’s going down, you’re doing it wrong. “Hodl” isn’t just a cute meme... it’s wisdom from the elders who have been here before.

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

5 years

This tweet aged well 😎

Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

12 years

#Bitcoin just broke $7.00... now up 40% in the last 30 days and most people don't even know what we're up to ;) #forex #finance #gold #money

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1 year

@elonmusk “You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality” - Ayn Rand

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1 year

Let’s avoid making jokes about this guy. We can be better than that. Indeed, we should remember that some suffer more from inflation than others.

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2 years

#Inflation should be deductible from taxes.

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

“The fact that billions of working men and women must sacrifice 40+ years of their time, energy, health, and focus to gain access to fiat currencies that central banks replicate with a keystroke is theft at the largest scale humanity has ever seen.” h/t @Wealth_Theory

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

6 years

For all those who have recently gotten rich with crypto, consider that one of the most rewarding uses for that wealth is helping those you care about. Do big things for your family and friends. Change lives around you while we change the world together. #Bitcoin

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Erik Voorhees

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3 years

Today, we announced that ShapeShift is decentralizing. Unorthodox, but it is the only way to maintain fidelity to the most important principles of crypto; specifically, self-sovereignty over money. Without that principle upheld, we’re all just LARP’ing. A thread…

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2 years

European nations can buy billions of dollars of oil/gas from Russia while it invades and murders people, but an average person who wants to transact without KYC is a terrorist financier.

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@ErikVoorhees

3 years

My hope for 2021 is that the the Bitcoin maxis stop smelling their own farts, the Ethereum maxis stop daydreaming of rainbows and pickles, the "number go up" noise goes down, and everyone in crypto realizes this shit's starting to get real. Build, focus, plan, and cooperate.

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5 years

The euro is 16 years old. Bitcoin is 10 years old. Both digital currencies. One governed by politicians and debased as a matter of policy. One governed by open-source code and impossible to debase. Which more likely lives to see 30 years of age?

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@ErikVoorhees

5 years

The US dollar has fallen to 1/5000th of a Bitcoin

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

5 years

Keep buying bitcoin until CNBC says to buy it.

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@ErikVoorhees

3 years

Dear SEC, Uniswap provided more stimulus to its users via airdrop than the US government provided to its citizens, and did so without taxes, debt, or cutting down trees for checks. Maybe give them a pat on the back rather than an investigation that will cost them millions?

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@ErikVoorhees

4 years

Jeff Bezos has almost actually become Santa Claus. He literally delivers toys to children all over the world, and can nearly do it all in one night 🧐

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6 years

Bitcoin: a digital currency with known & limited supply, an open global network, and not controlled by politicians. US Dollar: a digital currency with unknown & unlimited supply, a highly restricted territory-based network, and controlled by politicians. Which will win, longterm?

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5 months

@JoeBiden Inflation rate is still positive, so why would prices come down you dummy

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1 year

@RyanSAdams Nothing has fundamentally changed. Why would I leave?

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@ErikVoorhees

2 years

All humans have this bias. Watch for it in yourself.

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@ErikVoorhees

4 years

Maximalists see only Bitcoin and Shitcoin. In reality, there are 4 categories: 1. Bitcoin 2. Ethereum 3. Other Valuable Coins, and 4. Shitcoins Maximalists think 2 and 3 are 4, because they are insecure about 1. In reality, 2 and 3 make 1 much better. Remain wary of 4. 😜

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Erik Voorhees

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8 months

Weak men are scared of immigrants

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2 years

People in tradfi making fun of UST... not realizing their stablecoin also depegged by 8% this year.

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

Rep. McHenry: “Is Ether a security or a commodity?” Gensler doesn’t answer, over and over again. If the law was clear, the answer would be immediate and easy. @SECGov is not credible or ethical

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

5 years

The Federal Government is shut down over a dispute about $5 billion dollars for a wall, gridlocked now for two weeks. Meanwhile they spend that much money every 10 hours. And people want them to be in charge of healthcare, food, education, and money?

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@ErikVoorhees

2 years

Taxes are the price you pay to be ruled by strangers.

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

5 years

Can anyone tell me the last time Bitcoin moved up >30% in one day? This is unreal.

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

5 years

When the next global financial crisis occurs, and the world realizes organizations with $20 trillion in debt can't possibly ever pay it back, and thus must print it instead, and thus fiat is doomed... watch what happens to crypto.

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@ErikVoorhees

6 years

Irony: the US Gov subpoena-ing a private company about the realness of their reserves. #Bitfinex #Bitcoin #Tether

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@ErikVoorhees

6 years

Bitcoin’s inflation schedule is set for the next 100 years: transparent, unwavering, and known to all parties. US Dollar’s inflation schedule is unknown even 1 year out: opaque and manipulated quarterly. One model mathematical & civilized; the other political & antiquated.

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A centrally-regulated financial system has led to the status quo. If you're happy with the status quo, stay there and enjoy. The rest of us are trying something else. We're not asking for your money or your permission. You're welcome any time to join us.

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1 year

@BeckettUnite NASA spends that much *every week* and has no rockets.

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@ErikVoorhees

5 years

Bitcoin's value increases steadily over time, while Bitcoin's price attempts to find it.

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3 months

@ewarren It's because the money is rotting away because you keep printing more of it

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@ErikVoorhees

6 years

Fiat is a scam.

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@ErikVoorhees

3 years

If it’s centralized, it is not the future of finance.

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@ErikVoorhees

5 years

Maximalists disparaging all other cryptos sound an awful lot like nocoiners disparaging Bitcoin. Scam. Ponzy. Bagholders. It’ll never work. Whats the use? We already have X, why do we need Y? Blah blah blah. Embrace the diversity, this is what an open market in finance looks like

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

6 years

Bitcoin is the sixth most valuable currency in the world, and achieved this in eight years of existence, despite (or more likely due to) having zero government backing. It is the biggest story in finance today, period. #finance

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

6 years

Chase just closed my credit card account. No warning. No explanation of any kind. Won't tell me why. No wonder people hate that company. Fuck you Jamie Dimon and fuck you @Chase Enjoy the next decade as you slide into stagnancy and decay. I'm aware of nobody who will miss you.

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

So weird how America suddenly woke up and realized what fractional reserve banking is

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

6 years

SEC commissioner on CNBC today: "If you want to know what our markets would look like with no securities regulation, the answer is the ICO market.” So... fast growing and full of cutting edge innovation, where adults are able to make decisions with their own money? Sounds awful

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

5 years

Most people think the US dollar has been around for a couple hundred years. In reality, it's been around since 1971. Before that, "US dollar" was a proxy term for a specific weight of gold. The fiat dollar is just a middle-aged payment instrument with high cholesterol.

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@ErikVoorhees

3 years

ETH Folks... try not to become to Binancechain what the Bitcoin Maxis are to Ethereum 🙏

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@ErikVoorhees

4 months

The most important result of Bitcoin ETF will be that it dissuades or even prevents governments from the harshest potential treatment of BTC (such as the impulse to outright ban it). When 50 million boomers own it passively, the political and economic damage from a ban will be…

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@ErikVoorhees

5 months

"I am happy that I will finally have more time to spend looking at DeFi." - @cz_binance This is the way.

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@ErikVoorhees

3 years

The IRS provides a critical service. They ensure you pay your fair share of the Taliban's Blackhawk helicopters.

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

The only meaningful difference between FTX and most major financial institutions is that the latter gets taxpayer bailouts when insolvent, and the former does not. What's more honest?

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4 years

I don’t think I’ve met anyone who got really into Bitcoin and then decided it actually wasn’t that interesting and headed on back to fiat.

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6 years

Bitcoin can be *both* in a bubble and underpriced, simultaneously. It depends on your timescale. Remember the poor fool who bought at $31 in mid 2011 at the top of that bubble...

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

One bank failing doesn't mean the banking system is unsound. $SIVB Two banks failing doesn't mean the banking system is unsound. $SBNY Three banks failing doesn't mean the banking system is unsound. $FRC Four banks failing doesn't mean the banking system is unsound. $PACW

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

5 years

A libertarian society would always permit a voluntary socialist commune to exist within it. A socialist society would never permit a voluntary libertarian commune to exist, however. The difference between these ideologies is that one respects and advocates peace and tolerance.

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Erik Voorhees

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No, the government shouldn’t bail out or “backstop” SVB. Consider, for a second, that SVB engaged in the behavior it did in part because of prior bailouts and backstops. Let’s not double-down on moral hazard, yet again. Nobody will care or listen to this tweet.

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Erik Voorhees

@ErikVoorhees

6 years

Why does Bitcoin keep growing? Because it's time to separate money and state.

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@ErikVoorhees

1 year

Slavery was wrong when it was legal, and protecting runaway slaves was right even though illegal. Good humans have the moral obligation to do what is right, regardless of law.

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@ErikVoorhees

2 years

@saylor You said the same thing about Bitcoin 8 years ago…

Michael Saylor⚡️

@saylor

10 years

#Bitcoin days are numbered. It seems like just a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as online gambling.

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5 years

You do not need to buy a whole Bitcoin. You can have any portion of a Bitcoin, 0.005 BTC, for example. There are *many* newcomers who do not realize this, and they stay out of the market, or buy an alt, purely because they can't afford a whole Bitcoin. #TheMoreYourKnow

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@ErikVoorhees

5 years

If the "debt ceiling" is raised every time it is hit, then it is not a "debt ceiling."

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@ErikVoorhees

2 years

Closing remarks. Thank you @BanklessHQ for the opportunity to discuss, and thank you @SBF_FTX for stepping into the ring with me.

norzy

@notnorzy

2 years

Well Said Sir 🫡

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1 year

So the state will attack BTC for using electricity, and ETH for being a security. Wise people in crypto will defend both, easily. The attack will fail on both counts, and the blocks will keep ticking... and on the horizon you can almost see fiat's arms flailing in desperation.

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Erik Voorhees

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6 years

In the dotcom bubble, institutions/funds got in first, and mainstreet investors got in last. In the crypto bubble, mainstreet investors are getting in first, and institutions will be last. Crypto too scary for board approval.

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2 years

Decentralized stablecoin (UST) now trades with #Bitcoin natively. The revolution will not be centralized. @THORChain @terra_money

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SEX without the CEX

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3 years

Behold... this has never been done before. Native (unwrapped) #Ethereum in Native (unwrapped) #Bitcoin out $5,000 trade No intermediary No custody No KYC @ShapeShift_io today launched decentralized cross-chain trading, by integrating @THORChain (which also launched today)

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3 years

Anyone who sold their car for $10k and bought Bitcoin upon seeing this now has $3,000,000.

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The Winklevoss' Bitcoin ETF idea was #5 on Mad Magazine's 20 Dumbest Things of 2013... http://t.co/khqxZ20zhE

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Hey @Apple I'll save you the McKinsey fees: Step 1: Buy several billion of BTC quietly over a month Step 2: Announce Bitcoin as payment method in ApplePay Step 3: Make a billion dollars instantly

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@BitcoinVanguard

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The fact that Apple has been at the forefront of technology for the past 30 years and owns no bitcoin makes zero sense. When are they going to get involved?

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3 years

I’m squarely in the “it’s not all time high until we breach $20k” camp

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4 years

Reminder: the dollar is *already* digital. Do you think the number in your bank account is a tally of paper in the vault? When you pay someone with your credit card, do you imagine a shipment of bills is initiated behind the scenes? 🧐 USD and BTC are both digital. One is scarce.

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