Matt Ahlborg @MattAhlborg Twitter profile

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Matt Ahlborg

2 months

1/ Hey all, I built something! Introducing PayPerQ, (website: , twitter: @PPQdotAI ), a sleek and functional ChatGPT4 experience which operates on a pay-per-query model via Bitcoin micropayments:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

What Jack Mallers is really saying is that you will be soon be able to offload your Bitcoins in the real world without KYC'ing through an exchange first. If this is true, it is actually an extremely substantive and important development for Bitcoin.

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Matt Ahlborg

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2 years

Buying and hodling isn't good enough. Bitcoin needs the circular economy to succeed. Do you accept direct BTC payment for goods and services that you offer? Do you spend your BTC at places you support? If you believe in it, live it.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

Yesterday I tweeted about a #ChivoWallet privacy issue where the users' full legal name was being leaked in the LN invoice metadata. It appears to be fixed, and what's in its place is "Thanks Matt Ahlborg", which I guess is to show that they saw my tweet.

Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

The lightning invoices generated by Chivo contain the full legal name of the creator of the invoice. This to me seems like a privacy issue that should be dealt with.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 months

Why is crypto twitter is not discussing more what is going on in Nigeria? Nigeria is perhaps the highest per capita crypto country and the government just blocked most crypto trading websites due to it undermining their fiat, NGN. Guys, history is being written right now.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

1/25 🧵 @Bitrefill believes it the largest commerce platform in the space. As such, I wanted to share some deep thoughts on payment method (PM) popularity over time in the hope of pushing the industry forward. This first chart shows monthly active users for each PM since 2019:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

1/ An absolutely incredible story out of Venezuela today. @theairtm , a @Coinbase funded digital currency exchange, has been elected to redistribute $18M in US government seized corruption funds of the Maduro government back to 62,000 healthcare workers in Venezuela.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

5 months

The fact that @BetterMarkets , a special interest connected to @ewarren (who has been caught unethically coordinating softball questions to @GaryGensler ), expended significant resources to put this letter together (in the 11th hour) makes me think we may yet get rugged.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

Every $ in BTC that you hold takes away ~$9 that banks could add to the money supply had you stored that $ with them. Therefore, even a small shift in BTC momentum at a precarious time for banks could result in a calamity for the whole system. Starting to see @balajis point.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

Learnings on El Salvador Chivo app functionality so far: - You can use the original $30 BTC to send off-chain, but you have to send it back and forth in Chivo 3-5 times - You CAN send #Lightning to Chivo - You CAN send Lightning FROM Chivo - on-chain are NOT being batched

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

@balajis Interesting how it's in English. Reveals that it was made to pay lip service to Western Elites taking pictures of it, not the local population.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

1/ Some super interesting #LightningNetwork trends @bitrefill lately... Emerging markets, not the US or Europe, have been leading the way in lightning adoption. For example, 92% of all payments coming to us from El Salvador are riding lightning rails this month...

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

1/3 #LightningNetwork on @CashApp will be the inflection point that brings lightning remittance mainsteam. The vector will be immigrant USD --> Cashapp-->P2P trading platform via lightning --> local fiat in family's mobile money wallet or bank in home country.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

I read the white paper in '14 and it seemed novel, but not particularly transformative. It wasn't until later when I put time into learning about the world in which Bitcoin exists, the world beyond my perspective as a American, that I began to truly understand its significance.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

Hey all, quick update: I've been helping @bitrefill over the last year on its quest to 10000x the number of people living on Bitcoin, and I decided to make it official last month. I am now Head of Research and will be helping with insights, data analysis, comms, and bizdev.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

5 years

I just published Nuanced Analysis of LocalBitcoins Data Suggests Bitcoin is Working as Satoshi Intended

Nuanced Analysis of LocalBitcoins Data Suggests Bitcoin is Working as Satoshi Intended

In the decade since the Satoshi white paper was published, we can now say that the word Bitcoin has entered global conciousness. However…

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

Argentina, Bitcoin, and Dollarization. You can learn about it all here in what I believe is the best analysis yet:

Will Argentina Be the Next Venezuela?

Trading of the Argentine Peso (ARS) on LocalBitcoins, a frequent bellwether for global Bitcoin adoption, hit an all time high this April…

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

@RecIaimTheNet @PalmerLuckey I just tried this and it deleted my comment. We are living in a dystopia.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

[1/5] Holy Smokes! Sub-Saharan Africa had its first 10M voume week ever on P2P exchanges, stomping the weekly record set in Dec 2017! The volume is likely a bedrock of utility use with a substantial bump of speculation related to the halvening:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

@UNCTAD Your motivations are not honest. You are not honest people.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

The lightning invoices generated by Chivo contain the full legal name of the creator of the invoice. This to me seems like a privacy issue that should be dealt with.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 months

@biancoresearch Thats a proper Bitcoin Baptism then.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

Peer to Peer Bitcoin Trading is Changing the World, Take Notice:

Paxful is the Most Important Bitcoin Company You Aren’t Paying Attention to.

Bitcoin enabled gift card trading markets have fueled a multi-billion dollar explosion of informal trade and value transfer around the…

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

#Bitcoin changes the course of yet another nation state.

Documenting ₿itcoin 📄

@DocumentingBTC

3 years

Nigerians 🇳🇬 are adopting #Bitcoin at a record pace. The nation started last year at $2.5 billion in inbound foreign currency remittances, and ended the year with $55 million. #Bitcoin fixed that.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

Here comes retail:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

7 months

Used @Strike to send a payment to @Bitrefill . Accidentally selected for an on-chain pmnt, but luckily Bitrefill's QR codes tell the sending app to default to lightning, if possible. Paid with lightning without even noticing. This is how Bitcoin payments are supposed to work!

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

Gold is going to finish down on the day. Incredible.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

I've been working on my citadel for the last couple of years at the Lake of the Ozarks, MO:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

11 months

@cameron @BarrySilbert You could make your users whole out of your own pocket but won't. They are just numbers on a spreadsheet to you. You must think very little of your customers to think they don't see the blatant hypocrisy here.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

[1/2] Africa had ANOTHER record week on global P2P markets. In all, over 13M in USD equivalent was traded across 18 African currencies and this was the first week on record where African volume exceeded Latin American volume on these P2P exchanges.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

@raudaz_ @ricardovalp Perhaps google translate didn't do it justice, but the article seemed to be VERY negative... trying desperately to paint Bitcoin tourists as colonialists. I couldn't imagine burning down hope for my country just to defeat the 'other' political side. That's what I've read here.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

I figured out why El Salvador gov is forcing acceptance of Bitcoin. Law will force businesses which don't understand Bitcoin (99%) to use the Chivo merchant app and thus bring them under financial surveillance of gov where before most transactions were unrecorded cash transfers.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

7 months

@IanTalley Sir why did it take until now to address the firestorm? Seems like you were hoping for this injustice to just go away instead of engaging with people who actually know what they are talking about.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

@lizrhoffman He still doesn't acknowledge that playing with customer funds was a mistake. All of his admitted mistakes are that he didn't play with their money well enough. He didn't gamble skillfully enough. He never acknowledges that he SHOULDN'T have touched funds at all... Not forgiveable

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 months

@BlockFiZac @americanhodl8 So you have Bitcoins to pay off influencers you made personal bets with but you don't have them for innocent customers who lost a huge chunk of their savings through you?

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

Argentina had its highest volume day ever on Localbitcoins yesterday as capital controls on dollars increased earlier this week:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

@GaryGensler @SECGov @CouncilInstInv The reason you are getting all of the hate here Gary is that you have not had a clear/genuine dialogue with us over the last few years. Engage us openly and honestly and we would respect you a lot more.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

@lizrhoffman Oh, I didn't see this... now I understand why you aren't as harsh... he gave you money. Did you disclose this in your tweet thread as well?

TSF | Space Cowboy 🤠

@topshotfund

1 year

a story in three parts... "just a run on the bank"

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

[1/4] Kenyan P2P Bitcoin activity has been on absolute fire this year. It pole vaulted to a new record yet again last week with an amazing 11% gain week over week:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

[1/] A truly tectonic week for P2P exchanges with @Paxful and @LocalBitcoins setting new combined weekly YTD records! This was also the first week in history where Paxful exceeded LocalBitcoins trading with $42.8M to $41.7M in USD equivalent volume. Wow.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

10/ Shout out to the heroes at @theairtm and other P2P exchanges like @paxful , @localbitcoins , @localcryptos @hodlhodl , @bisq , and others who are on the ground in emerging markets bringing financial services to the underbanked. #HeroesDeLaSalud

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

Electrical blackouts show how Bitcoin activity in all of Latin America is tied to Venezuela. Read my latest research on utility use of Bitcoin published under @makeopenmoney

Latin American Bitcoin Trading Follows the Heartbeat of Venezuela

Electrical outages reveal the nature and scale of Bitcoin usage across Latin America

medium.com

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

@raudaz_ @ricardovalp Not sure of the criticism here... Do you not want tourism?

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

1/ The Argentine Peso hit another all time high on P2P #Bitcoin markets last week as the volume growth seems to have kicked into a new gear.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

1/ Update on #ChivoWallet app functionality today based on our work @bitrefill : - Receive lightning works but UX is really bad. You have to click "Recibir", then "BTC", and then click dropdown at the top and click "Otras Billeteras" where "Reciber Bitcoin via Lightning" shows.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

[1/13] Last week, Argentina's version of FINCEN released a warning to institutions regarding crypto's growing usage there to evade regulation. If you want to raise your crypto street IQ by 50 points, read below on the latest use case that has emerged:

El Gobierno busca controlar al dólar bitcoin

La Unidad de Información Financiera (UIF) emitió una comunicación para que bancos, casas de cambio y compañías en general refuercen los controles y compartan información sobre transacciones con...

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

5/ This story ushers in a new era of geopolitical brinkmanship as certain countries make available their own currencies and financial infrastructure to the citizens of other countries en masse. #Defi isn't the story this year, #OffFi , or offshore finance, is.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

African BTC P2P volumes touch their all time highs on @Paxful and @LocalBitcoins this week. This doesn't include other venues which are also seeing rapid growth. #Bitcoin is useful in places with high capital controls, high inflation, high bureaucracy, and low economic freedom.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

9/ In summary, I just want to take a moment here to acknowledge the fact that in 2020, the major opposition leader of a country is voicing support for and relying upon a Bitcoin-aligned company to distribute aid and achieve political reform. How far this has come!

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

5 years

UsefulTulips Project, a website and article series dedicated to showing that there is a lot more to Cryptocurrencies than Tulips:

Introducing UsefulTulips.org

Your trusted, interpretable, and comprehensive source for data and analysis regarding the burgeoning use cases for cryptocurrency in the…

link.medium.com

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

People in 185 countries bought from @bitrefill last month. Here's a few by # of purchases: Cambodia: 79 Papua New Guinea: 64 Haiti: 55 Namibia: 44 #Bitcoin is used across many languages, social classes, and age groups. It's much bigger than your own personal knowledge bubble.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

It's now or never for gold. Since it's local peak in 1980, gold has only gained in price 168% whereas purchasing power has decreased 238%. Gold has underperformed for 40+ years. Gold's properties as a superior form of money are struggling to compete in the digital age.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

@esaagar The guy just wants a burger, man.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

Disappointing take from @Melt_Dem . I wrote a piece for @makeopenmoney which boldly argued that Bitcoin may have already have changed the destiny of an entire country. It was the sum of hundreds of hours of research on Bitcoin in Latin America.

Meltem Demirors

@Melt_Dem

4 years

venezuela is not a "case study" for bitcoin turkey is not a "case study" for bitcoin the philippines is not a "case study" for bitcoin countries experiencing economic crisis, political turmoil, food insecurity, and other humanitarian issues are not "case studies" for #bitcoin

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

@Bitcoinbeach @bitrefill Lightning ~ 73% Bitcoin ~ 18% Binance ~ 7% Other ~ 2%

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

2/ @jguaido , leader of the opposition in Venezuela, repeatedly recognized AirTM’s efforts in a press release yesterday and outlined their plans for airdropping censorship-resistant digital dollars onto Venezuelan healthcare workers through their platform.

Juan Guaidó

@jguaido

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#HeroesDeLaSalud

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 months

@PeterSchiff It can't possibly do as bad as GDX has done over the years. GDX is at an all time low against SP500, even though gold is at ATH.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

1/3 70% of payments from @CashApp to @Bitrefill are still using on-chain BTC instead of lightning. So even though Cashapp supports both LN and BTC QR code scans, people don't know enough to click the lightning payment button instead of the BTC button on the Bitrefill side.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

1 year

Maxi, anti-maxi culture war is getting boring guys. Can we move onto the next thing?

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

3/3 Why use #LightningNetwork to remit? Because it's verifiably cheaper, faster, and less of a hassle than Western Union, Transferwise, and others for many of the top inward remittance countries like India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

Africa again broke P2P exchange volume records with Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Central Africa seeing new weekly highs. For Nigeria, it was the first record in 20 months! Will volumes settle down now that the halvening has passed? Stay tuned for next week!

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

Centralized exchange proprietor proposes regulations that moat his own position.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

6/ The average user on AirTM isn't a 1%'er in the West testing out new smart contract protocols on Ethereum, it is a middle to lower class worker in Venezuela preserving their wealth, ten dollars at a time. I saw this with my own eyes working with AirTM in CDMX last year.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

2/3 You can already do this on @ln_strike of course, but Cashapp's 70M users and network effects among young immigrant populations will be the decider.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

Africa had another record setting week in P2P #Bitcoin markets. What's specifically notable to me now is the non-stop growth in CFA franc countries @gladstein 's recent piece on monetary colonialism in the CFA system is highly relevant to this growth imo:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

7 months

@davidmarcus Compliance often means racism when you are required to block hundreds of millions of people basaed of the country they were born in. Let's acknowledge that please. KYC/AML as it currently exists is un-american guilty until proven innocent system.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

1/ The ultimate rejection of to those who say that #Bitcoin is useless. Bitcoin usage gravitates to areas of the world which are low in financial freedom, high in inflation, and high in corruption. Period.

Chainalysis

@chainalysis

3 years

With that in mind, here are the top 20 countries on this year’s index. While mainstays like the U.S. and China are highly ranked, emerging markets like Vietnam, India, and Pakistan lead the way.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

1) In Old City Istanbul I found around a dozen "crypto shops". It's really amazing to see crypto manifest in the real world like this. Here are some of my observations on this trend and I hope that some Turks can chime in and give better context:

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

9 months

@BTCGandalf And that's according to official inflation numbers. It's probably below given practical/real inflation.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

Sub-Saharan Africa P2P volume hit a new all time high last week on @Paxful and @LocalBitcoins . Bitcoin is most useful in places with capital controls, high levels of bureaucracy, and weakening local currencies.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

Native Segwit is being used.

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@MattAhlborg

7 months

@TheStalwart A lot of folks aren't gonna like this take, but IMO his donations did provide cover for him for a time. It was crazy to see some of the pro-SBF takes come out of the woodwork when it was so obviously the other way. Only after the outrage on twitter became so pronounced did those

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

5 years

@krugermacro This is LocalBitcoins Argentina in USD equivalent Volume. 220k USD last week.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

Western Union charges a $6.00 fee (assuming you are banked) and gives you a 7% WORSE exchange rate than the official exchange rate. To avoid these fees, buy #Bitcoin , send to VN, and sell for a ~3% premium against the official FX on Vietnamese exchanges. Bitcoin Fixes This.

Peter Schiff

@PeterSchiff

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Western Union charges $4.95 to transfer up to $500 to #ElSalvador . To avoid this fee will people pay a fee to buy #Bitcoin instead, then pay an additional fee to transfer it to El Salvador, which once received will likely be sold, potentially at a loss? Bitcoin doesn't fix this.

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4 years

7/ This trend of #OffFi has been documented by myself, @nic_carter , and @jp_koning recently in our research on the global trend of “Cryptodollarization” and “Bitcoinization” in emerging markets.

Latin American Bitcoin Trading Follows the Heartbeat of Venezuela

Electrical outages reveal the nature and scale of Bitcoin usage across Latin America

medium.com

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@MattAhlborg

3 years

Very well done video that no-coiners and non-techies can understand. Send this to your parents who still think Bitcoin is a casino!

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@MattAhlborg

4 years

[1/4] It's official, the Argentine Peso (ARS) had its highest volume week ever on LocalBitcoins, outshining all other Latin American currencies in growth for the week as Argentine markets adjust to news of further capital controls.

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3 years

h/t to Rompert (), our lead developer @bitrefill who pointed out this issue originally.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

@Bitrefill 's total volume is at an all time high. Additionally, @Bitrefill 's Lightning Network payment vol as a share of total vol reached a new high in June. LN now accounts for 5%+ of all @Bitrefill volume, double its proportion in Jan2019. Has your company integrated LN yet?

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5 months

@real_vijay @BetterMarkets @ewarren @GaryGensler Yea after seeing all the errors pointed out it does seem more desperate than anything.

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Matt Ahlborg

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7 months

@IanTalley Any normie reading the article would assume that PIJ got many millions of $ via crypto. It is your job as a journalist to explain the nuances of the technology so they don't make that mistake. Instead, you leaned into their ignorance so that you could push your slant. Retract.

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4 years

4/ As a result of this redistribution campaign, the Maduro government yesterday blocked access to AirTM from inside of Venezuela. However, just as quickly, Venezuelan activists were creating educational resources on how to access AirTM despite the block.

VE sin Filtro

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🛑 Bloqueado @theAirtm en #internetVE #20Ago : @Airtm es una plataforma financiera que permite en hacer transacciones y operaciones entre monedas con otros usuarios. Es implementado mediante #bloqueoDNS en operadoras como #CANTV , #Movistar , #digitel , #supercable .

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@PeterSchiff Please just stop.

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4 years

Paxful hit another all time high during the month of November with 120M USD in equivalent volume. Are you paying attention yet?

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

With context, it seems that WF is removing Zelle access to those who have set their billing address in VZ. They are not yet blocking access based on IP location. This is quite impactful as Zelle is a popular USD wallet inside of VZ. This is why censorship resistance is important.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

1/ The informal Nigeria Naira has lost 23% of its value against USD since the start of the year, a staggering number for Africa's largest currency. On Friday, the CBN pressured @abokifx , the country's largest publisher of informal exchange rates, to suspend publication.

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1 year

7/25 These coins enjoy high volume, low trading spreads, and good market depth, which are important if using them as a medium of exchange. A recent @Kaikodata report backs this up by showing that LTC and DOGE rank 4th and 5th among all coins in terms of overall ‘liquidity’:

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Matt Ahlborg

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2 years

In an incredibly moronic move, @YouTube removed the like/dislike ratio so now I have no idea which videos are higher quality or not. The reason? Apparently to protect content creators from getting their feelings hurt... What an insane world.

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Matt Ahlborg

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3 years

1/ New #LightningNetwork stats! LN payment volume on @bitrefill had a very strong finish to the year and increased 265% Dec '19-Dec '20. And today, @bitrefill released its "Lightning Toplist" showing the top LN nodes making payments to the platform:

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3/ How will AirTM achieve this you ask? AirTM operates a censorship-resistant P2P exchange from Mexico City where its primarily Venezuelan users haved logged in to trade Bolivars and Bitcoin for digital US Dollars for years.

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4 years

The Argentine peso broke its single day volume record on LocalBitcoins yesterday: Chart: If you didn't get a chance to read my deep analysis on Argentina, Bitcoin, and Dollarization, now is the time!

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If this ETF was a foregone conclusion, why would they go through the effort of putting this out last minute?

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@MattAhlborg

2 years

Spoken like someone who opines on but doesn't actually use this tech. If you did US-->Kenya @CashApp --> @Paxful via #LightningNetwork , $100 would get you, after fees, 11842 KES to your family's M-Pesa wallet. Using Western Union, you get 11205 KES. 5.7% MORE VALUE REMITTED.

John Paul Koning

@jp_koning

2 years

If someone wants to make a $100 stablecoin remittance on Ethereum, it'll cost $25 in fees. Yikes. Layer 2 transfers are cheaper. But it costs $122 to bridge $100 to L2 (Polygon). 😬 Can people who need to make frequent remittances to their home country afford this technology?

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

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Congrats to @BundleAfrica , the first app in Africa (to my knowledge) to make use of the #LightningNetwork . Nigeria is one of the most financially blockaded countries in the world and buying gift cards on @bitrefill is a way for Nigerians to access the global product market.

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@logbon72

3 years

Price Alerts are now available on @BundleAfrica ! Also, you can now Get Gift Cards on Bundle using @bitrefill Getting Christmas gifts for your loved ones is now very easy with over 3000 Gift cards to select from 🥺

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

6 months

@EricBalchunas How does it feel to move the world with every keystroke? 😂

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

3/ For Brazil, many users are coming to us through @bluewalletio 's integration after having been taught by the @bitcoinheiros community there. This is highly organic growth and is really encouraging to see.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

2 years

@ChrisBlec He said you can pay from any lightning wallet in the world. It doesn't have to be Strike. Strike is just the payment receiver/processor on the merchent side. Unless I misunderstand something.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

@willwarren89 If it is a physical object which exists in the real world, then it is confiscatable. If it is confiscatable, then private keys on a public chain accomplish little. Tokens for everything would more likely be served on permissioned databases.

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

3 years

"From Brazil to Nigeria, people turn to Bitcoin for different reasons than most of their speculating counterparts in North America. Namely, because it’s the most advantageous way for them to conduct international transactions." Yup. via @TechCrunch

How emerging markets are approaching crypto | TechCrunch

From Brazil to Nigeria, people turn to bitcoin because it’s the most advantageous way for them to conduct international transactions.

techcrunch.com

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Matt Ahlborg

@MattAhlborg

4 years

Africa sees another weekly record on P2P markets. 4th week in a row. #Bitcoin premiums remain high in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and others: Need to remit to Africa? Buy BTC in USA and send to family in Africa where they can sell for a 5-10% premium!

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