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Alan Silbert

2 years

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

Google is down. Bitcoin never goes down.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

Bitcoin dead. I’m out

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@alansilbert

5 years

T-minus 1 year to next Bitcoin halving #bitcoin

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@alansilbert

5 years

I’ll still be around, at $3k, $2k, or $1k. I’m a dedicated lifer. If people exit based on price, they really aren’t committed 🙂

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

If I was Satoshi and created Bitcoin, I know one of the things on my list would be to harass pseudonyms on Twitter with lawsuits and spend a large amount of my time on “troll hunts”, because you know, that’s what Satoshi would do 🙄

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

500 days to go until Bitcoin reward halving 🚀

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

Bitcoin doesn’t get kidney stones

TRON DAO

@trondao

5 years

TRON Foundation announces postponement of Warren Buffett lunch, press conferences after founder Justin Sun falls ill with kidney stones. Parties agreed to reschedule at a later date. @GLIDEsf @WarrenBuffett

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

The Bitcoin community, you would be led to believe, is full of drug dealers, money launderers, and scoundrels. I retort that it is one of the most generous communities I have been a part of, and it will be a key part of worldwide philanthropy for years to come. 👍

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Unpopular opinion: I welcome a correction. When iced tea companies pivot to blockchain and go up 300%, we have reached terminal stupidity and it’s time to shake out weak hands, rekt iced tea stock buyers, and consolidate on way to $50k.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

3 years

Retiring 87-year old senator that probably wouldn’t know a mining rig if it hit him in the face didn’t get an additional $50B of monopoly money for defense and kills amendment. This is how ridiculous our system is. Dinosaurs deciding on the path of innovation.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Happy Anniversary Hal. Thanks for all you did. RIP

halfin

@halfin

15 years

Running bitcoin

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

$500k donation to Andreas. Omg

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

7 years

Over/under on how long Spicer will stick around. 6 months.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

4 years

BTC up 95% since his recommendation #bitcoin

CNBC

@CNBC

4 years

Don’t buy Bitcoin, warns one wealth manager. We’re likely "going to see cryptocurrencies collapse." via @CNBCMakeIt

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Same guy that said the internet will have no bigger impact than a fax machine. Beware.

Markets Insider

@MktsInsider

6 years

PAUL KRUGMAN: Bitcoin is a more obvious bubble than housing was

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

The top is in when this Tron crap overtakes Bitcoin as the #1 coin. Then peak ludicrous stupidity has been reached and the carnage begins. Alts have turned into nothing but a penny stock casino. Rektening will be widespread. Just know the risks. This is gambling.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Update: You are somewhere around here:

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Stop using the following businesses until SegWit is adopted by them: @blockchain @coinbase @BitPay A few months ago these CEOs told us their users had spoken and that fees were a priority. Their inaction now shows they are dragging the ecosystem through the mud for politics.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

3 years

Market realizing BTC doesn’t get sued by the SEC #Bitcoin

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

The new Bitcoin Jesus

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@jack

5 years

#BitcoinTwitter and #CryptoTwitter ! Square is hiring 3-4 crypto engineers and 1 designer to work full-time on open source contributions to the bitcoin/crypto ecosystem. Work from anywhere, report directly to me, and we can even pay you in bitcoin! Introducing @SqCrypto . Why?

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel Gonna explain this again, since I guess you need a memory refresh: 1/ CEOs of major wallets were freaking out on high fees, said users were upset, couple threatened a malicious hard fork BEFORE 2x because THINGS WERE THAT URGENT. Claimed Core was holding them back, blah, blah

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

Rekt US Copyright Office Says It Does Not ‘Recognize’ Craig Wright as Satoshi - CoinDesk

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

The only certainties in Bitcoin: 1. Nobody knows where the price is going. 2. Most media coverage will suck. 3. All “experts” should be vetted. 4. The number of bitcoins will never exceed 21MM. 5. Faketoshi is not Satoshi. 6. Nobody knows everything about Bitcoin. Keep learning.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

🤔 interesting! Coinstar machines will start selling Bitcoin at the grocery store – TechCrunch

Coinstar machines will start selling Bitcoin at the grocery store | TechCrunch

You know those machines at the grocery store that transform your gallon jug of spare change into more usable currency? They're about to start selling

techcrunch.com

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Funny thing - you don’t need any license or get any particular scrutiny to use this machine - which results in a near certainty of you losing money 🤔

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

7 years

WSJ today

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

4 years

Less than 5 days until the Bitcoin halving and it is literally one of the few things in the World today that you can be confident will deliver without fail.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

@davidealgebris Davide, if you are really an asset manager I implore you to go learn about Bitcoin. Your characterization is absolutely inaccurate and uninformed and under your rationale we should ban US Dollars or Euros. Please go learn:

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@alansilbert

6 years

What Bitcoin has done for me: Taught me to take lofty titles with a grain of salt (professor, Noble Prize winner, etc). Your title doesn’t make you an authority on things you don’t bother to understand.

Bloomberg

@business

6 years

Bitcoin is a bubble and ought to be outlawed, @JosephEStiglitz says

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@alansilbert

7 years

@rogerkver So "first Bitcoin investor" and you still don't know how to NOT pay a $9 fee? You are either outright lying or don't know what you are doing

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@alansilbert

5 years

@BillOReilly You are a fucking dick

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@alansilbert

6 years

For those of you that haven’t been around the crypto space a while, Satoshi went to great lengths to protect his/her privacy. Satoshi won’t be writing books, acting in movies, making White House cameos, or other nonsense. Use a HIGH degree of skepticism when these articles arise.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

4 years

Buffett's actions really warrant watching here. He really thinks the fiat shit is hitting the fan. Not only is he buying gold (which he always hated) but he sold off his banks and gave up an 8 PERCENT dividend on Occidental. He is sounding the doomsday alarm for fiat and equities

DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM |NVK|⚡️🌞

@nvk

4 years

Buffet is “saying” buy #Bitcoin if you don’t want to get REKT. 😂

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

4 years

Whoever has been fighting on the front lines at $10k, I salute you 👊

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

@ryanxcharles BitConnect (BCH)

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Update: You are around here

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

What did I tell you - Bitcoin whale donating $86MM to charity. Wow.

From the Bitcoin community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Bitcoin community

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

The Bitcoin community, you would be led to believe, is full of drug dealers, money launderers, and scoundrels. I retort that it is one of the most generous communities I have been a part of, and it will be a key part of worldwide philanthropy for years to come. 👍

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@alansilbert

6 years

This is your periodic reminder that BitConnect is a Ponzi scheme. Get your money out of there before the music stops.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

7 years

Getting real tired of all these CEOs dragging their feet on SegWit while taking to Twitter to send disingenuous tweets about $20 fees. I just sent a 50 sat/byte (86 cent) tx this morning. And that is with a lingering spam issue, non-SW tx. Stop the BS.

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@alansilbert

6 years

BitPay finally came to their senses #SegWit

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@alansilbert

6 years

Guess that whole “Bitcoin isn’t money because you can’t pay taxes with it” argument will soon go to the Bitcoin argument graveyard 🙅‍♂️

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@paulvigna

6 years

Exclusive: Ohio to accept #bitcoin for taxes, appears to be a first for a U.S. state. Starting w/business filers, plans to expand to individuals. via @WSJ

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

7 years

SegWit adoption up to 17% and seeing nice consistent block size growth #SegWit #bitcoin

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Buy the dip

Cøbra

@CobraBitcoin

6 years

Can maximalists fucking stop telling people to “buy the dip”? You guys have been saying this every step of the way down from $19k. Bitcoin could go to $3k and stay there *FOREVER*, there is nothing guaranteed about Bitcoin rising, but many seem to think its a universal truth!

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@alansilbert

6 years

So @rogerkver doubling down on his “Mt Gox is safe” clusterf* #k and telling people to keep coins on exchanges, which is pretty much the worst advice in Bitcoin. Well, except for that time he said Bitcoin Unlimited was safe right before it crashed three times.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Been quiet for a while. Quiet period coming to an end shortly. Moving full-time into crypto 🚨🚨🚨

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

7 years

Migration back to alts incoming

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Next 12 months in #Bitcoin : (1) MSM: bubble! bubble! bubble! (2) BTC keeps going higher (3) Gut-wrenching correction (4) MSM: we told you so! (5) HODLers back up truck, new entrants pile in at sale prices (6) BTC rises from the ashes again (7) New ATHs. (8) Repeat pattern.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

@CNBCFastMoney @rogerkver Better fact check everything that comes out of his mouth

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

No. John McAfee does not know who Satoshi is. There. Saved you the suspense.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

Ok, hold everything. Woke up to this Bitcoin rollback/reorg nonsense. Let's be clear: 1. It's never going to happen. 2. Even suggesting it as a possibility shows a real lack of understanding of how Bitcoin works. 3. If possible, Bitcoin is broken. Pack up and go home.

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Alan Silbert

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5 years

Bitcoin supply is running out as 85% of ALL coins now 'mined' – and experts say price could soar

OVER 85 per cent of the world’s Bitcoin has now been gobbled up by coin-hungry cryptocurrency miners. Reports show that over 17million of the digital currency’s 21million coins have bee…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel 2/ Meanwhile SegWit was developed & tested for 2 yrs as a backwards-compatible way to enact a block size incr, fix malleability, make hardware wallets function better, more security for P2SH, improved script versioning, reduced UTXO growth, etc. B/c Core devs actually INNOVATE.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Does anybody even use Ripple tokens??

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

7 years

BLAM!! #bitcoin

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

Nobody has a worse track record re: Bitcoin than Nobel Laureates. Been consistently wrong for 10 years.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

Achievement unlocked 👍

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

7 years

Time to ask Coinbase/Blockchain/BitPay for timelines on getting SegWit up and running. This should hopefully be the priority now. If you use them, ask them what's up.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

My 8 sat/byte tx just confirmed in 12 mins

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

@rogerkver Sorry, never heard of Bitcoin Core. Have heard of Bitcoin. Oh, and BCash, BCash, BCash.

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@alansilbert

7 years

I'm surely muted by now, but as users, let your voices be heard. Demand #SegWit timelines from @coinbase @blockchain @bitpay @bitfinex

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4 years

@CNBC Ship has sailed boomer

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@alansilbert

6 years

@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel 6/ So now you say, “the market isn’t accepting SegWit!”. Answer is the same CEOs that threatened network stability with a malicious fork have leading market share in wallets. They directly affect a large % of SegWit adoption. And they are dragging their feet.

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@alansilbert

5 years

R. E. K. T.

Peter Schiff

@PeterSchiff

5 years

Not only has #Bitcoin broken out of its bear flag pattern, projecting a move to $6K, but the head and shoulders pattern that I mention was forming over the weekend has now been confirmed as well. If this pattern completes it projects a much larger decline, perhaps as low as $1K!

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6 years

@rogerkver Somebody is going to get rekt

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@alansilbert

6 years

Welcome to Bitcoin noobs. Hang in there!

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@VinnyLingham

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

7 years

Yeah, copying the code of hardworking people is generally easier than people working their asses off to create cutting-edge, safe projects. What an idiot.

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7 years

The jump to #BitcoinCash is an order of magnitude easier than the jump to the lightning network would have been.

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@alansilbert

6 years

The 5 FAANG stocks have lost $1 trillion for perspective.

CNBC

@CNBC

6 years

Cryptocurrencies have shed almost $700 billion, down more than 80% since its January peak.

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@alansilbert

7 years

Sharknado?!? WTF

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 years

New Bitcoin era starts today with launch of futures. Nobody knows exactly what it means, good or bad. Just return to your seats and fasten your seat belts.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

PSA: New Telegram update defaults to sharing your phone number with contacts. Check your privacy settings.

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@alansilbert

4 years

Are people really falling for this HEX garbage? c'mon people

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@alansilbert

5 years

I almost can’t believe my ears. You go @JoeSquawk !

Squawk Box

@SquawkCNBC

5 years

"Libra is currency for corporations. Only Bitcoin is currency for the people" - @JoeSquawk "I'm feeling like an evangelist, almost!"

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7 years

"Bitcoin - Immutable, AND easy on your rectum" ™

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@zerohedge

7 years

Gold Smuggling Surges: Man Caught "Walking Suspiciously" With 1 Kilo Bar In Rectum

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@alansilbert

6 years

@CNBC 1. Belfort doesn't have more than a basic understanding of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. 2. He is a self-proclaimed scammer and snake oil salesman. 3. Why are you giving him a platform again?

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@alansilbert

6 years

Way to go @CNBCFastMoney He lied at least a few times in that interview. If you care about your reputation, don’t have him on again. Cc: @BKBrianKelly

CNBC's Fast Money

@CNBCFastMoney

6 years

The original #Bitcoin Jesus @rogerkver who bought $BTC at $1 in 2011 says where he thinks it's going next $XBT

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@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel 10/ So just a few months ago at least one of these CEOs was willing to risk the entire ecosystem based on fees. Now SegWit just isn’t good enough? What happened to “our users have spoken?” No longer an issue? Users went on sabbatical? Users happy now?

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@alansilbert

7 years

@ErikVoorhees Erik - tell Coinbase, Blockchain, and BitPay to push SegWit live and Jihan to stop spamming. Until then, we don’t have legit fee numbers.

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5 years

@freedom_moates You don’t really understand much about Bitcoin I gather.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

6 months

JPMorgan has been fined billions and billions of dollars for being complicit in money laundering, manipulation, and other crimes.

Watcher.Guru

@WatcherGuru

6 months

JUST IN: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he would "close down" #Bitcoin & crypto if he were the government. "The only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers, money laundering, tax avoidance."

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My advice: HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL HODL

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6 years

Bankers against Bitcoin protesting outside Consensus. LOL

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@alansilbert

6 years

. @coinbase @bitpay SegWit timeline? Where we at? Very quiet over there.

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6 years

@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel 3/ Being backwards compatible/opt-in also seriously curtailed potential collateral damage that could be caused from a hard fork not being adopted by 100% of the user base. Besides, hard forks in the past never garnered consensus. And Core devs wanted a safer route for users.

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Alan Silbert

@alansilbert

5 years

Confirmed that BTC symbol shows up in iOS on Google keyboard. Sweet! ₿

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2 years

signs of the bottom?

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5 years

Guess from all the angry responses I should gather that people don’t understand sarcasm

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@alansilbert

5 years

Bitcoin dead. I’m out

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Exchanges will just migrate to countries that won't ban them at a whim. End of story.

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6 years

@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel 8/ Never mind that it helps THEIR USERS who they claimed were up in arms just months ago about fees, that it is extensively tested, that it doesn’t preclude further scaling improvements, that it helps wallets function better or help enable Lightning.

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@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel 5/ It fixes all of the issues above and shrinks transaction size, and is extensively tested w/o one hiccup on Litecoin or Bitcoin.

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6 years

Goldman Sachs' New CEO David Solomon Is Keen On Bitcoin And Crypto via @forbes

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6 years

@ryanxcharles Sure hope your Twitter handle was hacked. Otherwise, total brain meltdown.

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@alansilbert

6 years

@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel 4/ 2x came along, SegWit went live. UASF is not relevant at this point, no matter how sore you want to be about it. It was grass roots, it took hold, it succeeded. SegWit is live on the Bitcoin network whether you like it or not.

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Alan Silbert

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Holy crap. Didn't even see page B1 this morning. We are taking over!

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6 years

@VinnyLingham @CryptoBabel 7/ So SegWit is sitting there on the network, ready to go. Never mind that it gets us close to 2MB block capacity if said CEOs got off their butts, that it helps ALL users with fees the higher SegWit adoption goes.

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Alan Silbert

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6 years

Evidence Emerges of CNBC Collusion with Roger Ver, BCash

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@alansilbert

6 years

Jamie Dimon’s Bitcoin fraud comments couldn’t have been more timely. How embarrassing.

AFP News Agency

@AFP

6 years

#BREAKING JPMorgan 'seriously breached anti-money laundering regulations': Switzerland

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5 years

Where can I find 100x leverage short on BCHSV? Asking for a friend

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5 years

My theory for why @rogerkver is so irrational is that he has become irrelevant. Sunk to new lows here

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5 years

My theory for why @jack is so irrationally hot for #LightningNetwork is because he has / had a romantic relationship with @starkness , the CEO of @lightning

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