Nicolas Dorier @NicolasDorier Twitter profile

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@NicolasDorier

2 years

Can't make this shit up.

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7 years

@BitPay This is lies, my trust in you is broken, I will make you obsolete

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6 years

"Segwit is too complicated" became "Lightning is a vaporware" became "Lightning has horrible user experience". The train is leaving the station, don't sit in horse-drawn carriage like them. What a great time to HODL, 2018 will be incredible!

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I under estimated the speed of lightning network adoption.

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The number of people who had any kind of remaining faith that the system was not completely rigged just got severely red pilled. This is good for Bitcoin.

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3 years

Pro tip: It is easier to explain why fiat always goes down rather than why bitcoin always goes up.

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3 years

I am sorry long time bitcoin podcasters, speakers, OG, devs, teachers but nobody delivered as many truck of red pills than @michael_saylor and he is still a 1 year old baby bitcoiner. He did not even lived through a bear market once.

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5 years

I can't speak for everyone, but a big part of why I love working in bitcoin's open source stuff as opposed to shitcoin, is that most dev main goal is not to pump the price of BTC, but to make BTC the best form of money within the existing technical constraints.

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2 years

I don't understand why IMF doesn't like Bitcoin. They could print it too if they wanted... with the right hardware.

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Nicolas Dorier

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4 years

I just published a proper BIP for the payjoin implementation. Many (non breaking) improvements suggested by @lukechilds and @waxwing__ . Thanks to @junderw , ncoelho, @nopara73 , @lontivero , yahiheb for having provided lot's of feedback!

BIP 78: Add payjoin proposal by NicolasDorier · Pull Request #923 · bitcoin/bips

Previous discussion at NicolasDorier#3 Submitting to mailing list.

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Nicolas Dorier

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3 years

Some people seem confused when I tell them I don't know anything about crypto, so I made this handy info graphic. #toxic

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6 years

I always wonder why we call the "Global financial system" "Global". It is not global. It is limited only to those who are friends with the US and those who fit inside the box of what payment processors define as "legit". Bitcoin is the "Global financial system".

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6 years

Coming!

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3 years

Since 2008, USD money supply grew at a rate of 14% per year. Another way to look at it, is that your fiat saving lose half of its value every 5 years and 2 month.

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6 years

Noobs not understanding why hodlers do not sell don't get the point of Bitcoin. For hodlers, Bitcoin is not an investment to cash out from, Bitcoin is the purest form of money.

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3 years

Sometimes I feel I won the double lottery. In all job and interests I could have chosen in my life, what are the odds I'd end up choosing both being developer AND working on Bitcoin? Nothing could have blessed me more than those two choices.

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2 years

The biggest achievement of Bitcoin is to put money debasement into public consciousness. Current politicians, evil or not, are the result of current culture. Bitcoin is changing culture, even if most aren't aware about it. I for one, learnt what is money thanks to bitcoin.

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What is money?

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3 years

today, I discovered a quote of Thomas Jefferson about #bitcoin maximalist toxicity: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"

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5 years

I think the Fed money printing looks better expressed in BTC: this is around 10 millions BTC.

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3 years

When explaining to our children's children what is gold. We will say: it is like physical bitcoin.

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3 years

I thought it was a parody account.

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3 years

Three very common steps to become hodler: Step 1. I want BTC for investment Step 2: I keep BTC because I don't want to pay taxes on profit Step 3: I keep BTC because there is nothing else left of value to buy

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3 years

XRP prove that being an authority boot licker does not protect you from their wrath.

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Nicolas Dorier

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6 years

I am preparing a one-click deploy for C-Lightning + Charged + Let's encrypt + Bitcoin Core, as I did for @BtcpayServer . Then a merchant will be able to pair this instance to his BTCPayServer store.

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5 months

I've put my laser eyes at 60K, I've kept it at 15K and I'll keep it till 100K, as initially planned. LARPers removed it during the bear market! #LaserEyesTill100K

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1 year

Interesting, The Sovereign Individual saw this new "class conflict" 24 years ago. The conflict between those who can choose where to work, and those who are stuck and taken advantage of by their collapsing countries.

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Meanwhile in Portugal

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5 years

4 years into Bitcoin, and listening @aantonop still like...

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3 years

@michael_saylor I prefer miners using coal in China than this shit.

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6 years

"Visa payment" and even "a bank account" are custodial layer 2 technology. Money transfers through these medium do not involve cash movement or a balance change in the central bank ledger. Lightning is the same but better: it is non-custodial.

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4 years

To those who say Bitcoin is difficult to use, I envy you to be living in USA. Just try to make a wire transfer outside of Japan. Since I started the process, wasted 3H of my life, still failed. Paying 70USD for the privilege. (Not counting other bank fee and change fee)

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1 year

@JeroenFrijters I kind of like this code actually. Easy to read.

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3 years

My biggest disappointement of Trump is that he did not pardon assange and or snowden. What a cuck. Ron Paul #2024

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3 years

Bitcoiners are brainwashed fanatics. I won't engage in such puerile virtue signa... ok I give up LAZER EYESSSSS

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@stevenmnuchin1 It's too late. You are already obsolete.

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250 ETH was lost the instant you bought this shit, not when it was stolen.

Sohrob Farudi

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I was scammed / socially manipulated / hacked on @Discord and @OpenSea and lost three @BoredApeYC , four @0n1Force , and three @worldofwomennft totally roughly 250 eth in value by getting tricked into exposing the Metamask QR Code in the Chrome Browser Extension. I’ve never felt

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5 years

About lightning custodial wallets: I think it is useless to "educate" people to not use them. This does not scale, as people are naturally drawn to the path of least resistance. The way to win is to develop products which just can't exist in a custodial model.

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4 years

After seeing Michael Saylor interviews, I started calculating asset inflation on long term. And he is right, 6-9% annually on conservative assets such as real estate/stocks/metals. If Bitcoin does nothing, that's the expected return. Without even talking about the lindy effect.

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3 years

People don't search "cryptocurrency", they search "bitcoin".

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Ramen is still more popular than cryptocurrency. We're early.

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5 years

So many people focus on Bitcoin being a discovery that started with the Whitepaper. The reality is that the whitepaper has been written only after working code. Ideas are cheap until you execute them.

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2 years

Does anybody see the irony in this? Environmentalist tried all they could to push wind and solar power technologies in form of fiat subsidies and other incitation program. End up being too unreliable for people, and... repurposed for mining Bitcoin instead :p

Bitcoin Magazine

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2 years

#Bitcoin mine powered by 100% renewable wind energy coming online ⚡

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5 years

Why being a "currency manipulators" is considered an insult between countries? It is impossible to NOT be a manipulator when you control the printing press.

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4 years

I don't FOMO often, but this interview got me.

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4 years

My conversation with @michael_saylor is now on YouTube. We discuss how he built MicroStrategy, what his $500 million dilemma earlier this year was, and why he chose to put more than $400 million into Bitcoin with the company's balance sheet. Enjoy :)

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I am fine for the label "Twitter bitcoin scam". I discovered bitcoin because MtGox was called a "Bitcoin scam", and I just wanted to know why Bitcoin was still working while the scam already exited. Now here I am.

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1 year

@WSJmarkets He is a fraud. This is ridiculous, such a dark day for media.

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5 years

2 years ago I hated Linux. I thought it was obsolete, clunky, too complex. Today I spent the whole day writing bash scripts, and I feel good. Damn, I changed.

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4 years

I find @DuckDuckGo better and better relatively to google. I don't know if it's google getting bad because of various pressures or DuckDuckGo getting good, but outside for coding questions, I find DuckDuckGo on par and sometimes superior. (one piece streaming! :p)

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4 years

Tomorrow, I close twitter for a whole week. It has been fun, but the more-than-awesome next release of btcpayserver requires dedicated focus.

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6 years

Long term goal: if you use BTCPay you can earn more coin by helping coinjoin mixing, LN liquidity, market making of altcoin via atomic swap than by lending those BTC on bitfinex. Making it more attractive to hodl than converting to fiat.

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6 years

Hey #Litecoin , @BtcpayServer delivered! :)

Coincards.com - Buy Gift Cards with Bitcoin!

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6 years

#litecoin is now live on Coincards.ca! We had our first live LTC payment last night. You can now pay in #LTC , #BTC or a mix of both! @BtcpayServer

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6 years

Seems like some well known shitcoin forgot to mention the actual source of their "Innovation":

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4 years

I just got flippened by @BtcpayServer

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23 days

When I mention that I love living in Japan because I feel France isn't safe, people often respond, 'Because of terrorism?' Terrorism is far down my list. Wake me up when it's safe to claim a table at McDonald's in France by leaving my wallet on it while I order my nuggets.

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I will provide a Bitpay compatible API for those who want to keep Bitcoin payment deployed for using Bitpay but without the bitpay part.

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Hodlius ₿ Maximus

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1 month

Still cant believe that they cought Do Kwon (founder of terra luna) with a Trezor carrying 10000 #bitcoin on it, stuck up in his rectum This bear market was so crazy. Cant wait to see what the next bear market will bring

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3 years

To the cronies:

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5 years

Bitcoin: We value decentralization Shitcoiner: We don't need decentralization ** Shitcoiner get delisted ** Shitcoiner: BITCOINERS CENSOR US! YOU HYPOCRITE!

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Tale of a noob who became HODLer: 1. I want to invest into BTC and be rich! 2. I am rich now, let's cash out! *Figure out +50% tax on the profits and give up* 3. Fuck fiat, my BTC are my wealth! HODL! 4. Shit I am even richer, let's cash out! 5. Go to Step 2

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Damn what a way to trigger politicians. The sovereign individual predicted that small countries will be the first to offer this kind of advantages while big nation states will turn to irrelevance and become more repressive.

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3 years

I am surprised that the mempool does not seem to give a fuck.

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6 years

I just published “BTCPay Server is growing!”

BTCPay Server is growing!

…keep coding

medium.com

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7 years

2X in a nutshell: We represent users but: * Twitter polls are cheated * Exchanges are BStream * Our users are silent * Futures are cheated

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LOL

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2 years

Kind of confident in the future. This dose of tyranny probably activated the immune system of one or two generation. I feel it swings back.

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4 years

Tax avoidance is a moral duty. It makes sure your money get used in the most beneficial way for society.

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4 years

I see more and more freelancers getting paid to setup btcpayserver, build stuff on it, consulting on it. This can't make me more happy, a small economy starting to build on top of self sovereignty, using Bitcoin the way it is meant to be.

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6 years

People need to seriously chill out about BCH. Bitcoin works fine even with fees, and block time will likely stay almost the same because the fee compensate for it. If anything, this is a buy opportunity.

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5 years

I don't want to over hype, but the hwi integration in BTCPay will be so kick ass you will forget Electrum ever existed.

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Crypto dudes thinks that I trash shitcoin because I don't know enough... on the contrary I know all too well the smell of it, as I am dealing with it far more than you all know. The more I deal with it, the more I see the lies, the flaky engineering, the greed.

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4 years

Lightning works. I would not put too much money into my LN node, but in times like this, it is incredibly convenient, cheap and work as advertised.

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5 years

My deepest satisfaction as a coder, is when I need to add a feature, but that I need some prior refactoring so this feature can be added. Then I see that after all the refactoring is done + the feature is added, more code has been removed than added.

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2 years

I am a man of word, #LaserEyesUntil100k I mean it.

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3 years

I don't invest in Bitcoin, I save in Bitcoin.

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I say this with love

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2020 has been amazing year. A baby, Bitcoin ATH, good excuse to stay home to enjoy baby's company, @BtcpayServer kicking ass thanks to amazing sponsors and devs, freedom in Japan. The worst of the year has been to lose 0.4 BTC in the election bet. :(

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Assange and Manning, without any leaks, just delivered the biggest blow to the legitimacy of UK and US government. By making them Martyrs governments just inspired many to pursue their cause. Government oppression was for many only a textbook concept until now.

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Miners do not have to "verify the blocks"; this is not their function. Their function is to mine blocks; whether they verify them or not is secondary. However, everyone verifies the miners' blocks. The verification responsibility lies with the nodes, not the miners.

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More than 10% of amount of donation are using lightning network. This is superior to the % of the most used shitcoin (Litecoin) in other stores. In other words, if you want to decide to either add a shitcoin or Lightning payment to your store, you better chose Lightning.

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3 years

Dear @Twitter , I wished you stopped suggesting me shitcoin topics. Thanks.

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Missing bitcoin price graph adjusted for inflation. To reach the all time high of 68K from Nov 2021, we should reach 100K in 2024. And laser eyes should be kept until ~130K.

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3 years

That's the Bitcoin buzzword of the decade we were all searching for: "investment-grade safe haven treasury asset reserve"

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Spoke to @michael_saylor about the #cryptocurrency #Bitcoin space — find us wherever you get your pods 👉

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I sometimes heard about developer "sacrifices" for Bitcoin. Personally, I don't. It turns out that coding on Bitcoin is my best strategy to protect my own wealth.

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4 years

damn I am so excited by what is coming to BTCPay Server in the following weeks/months! We will take over the world ahahah

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3 years

@ACLU You compromised yourself

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5 years

In a world where bonds get into negative yield territory, bank account have negative interest rates, and cash is banned... I am interested to know how stable coin would work as the issuer will have to pay interest on their cash reserve.

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7 years

Start working on Lightning payment integration inside BTCPay checkout page. Starbuck will be happy!

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4 years

Some would say "don't buy ledger". I prefer the other solution: Stop using shitcoins. Shitcoins make such kind of vulnerability possible. This is the Shitcoin Tax, the invisible tax you have to pay for using it.

Ledger App Isolation Bypass

Vulnerability disclosure for Ledger hardware wallets that allows signing of Bitcoin transactions under Bitcoin fork apps.

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The more time pass, the more I want to develop an expertise unrelated to software. Not because I want to stop software, but to complement it. Most knowledge is silo-ed in domains, combining unrelated knowledge increase the chances of really innovating.

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4 years

Toxicity is a valid defense mechanism. It keeps parasites away. I'm not making this shit up, evolution did.

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3 years

An idea to fight Bitcoin's framing on energy consumption is to rather frame Proof of Stake as a way of consolidating power to the wealthier.

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5 years

Reading @nntaleb book about (skin in the game), I am wondering if bitcoin maximalists are not example of "the stubborn minority". => Shitcoiner can pay in bitcoin, but a maximalist will never pay in shitcoin. Thus everyone will end up accepting bitcoin to accommodate both.

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4 years

Easier to print money than making masks.

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4 years

I am not going to lie to you, as soon as she got mined she told me: "Dad, I will make you obsolete".

BTCPay Server

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4 years

1.0.4.0 Easter egg: Release code name was "Block 626048" That's the block, a day or two before release where @NicolasDorier forked himself due to increasing demand for his code. We welcome the new member in the BTCPay Server team! How beautiful!

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@BitcoinMagazine @Gemini @tyler Carbon credits are a shitcoin. If you pollute, giving your money to the issuer of this scam does nothing to redeem it.

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6 years

Would be cool if there was an app which could purposefully send fake data to online services tracking you instead of blocking them. Easy way to mess up their data analysis tools :D

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4 years

The secret of timing the market in Bitcoin is to buy high, buy low and if you can, buy in between.

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5 years

Regulators: You should take privacy very seriously Also regulators: You should require KYC passport/date of brith/salary/face scanning/fingerprint/address/tax record and store all the history forever before somebody can use your service

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WATCH: Fed Chairman Jerome Powell: Facebook's Libra 'cannot go forward' until serious concerns regarding privacy and money laundering addressed

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It seems I have to adapt TumbleBit for segwit now. Enjoy improved privacy!

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