What is your favorite bitcoin moment or quote?
336 sats \ 10 comments \ @ek 29 Sep 2022 bitcoin
Mine is:
Once you understand #Bitcoin, you go to bed each night with anxiety, feeling chronically short.
-- Michael Saylor
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442 sats \ 1 reply \ @HODL 29 Sep 2022
Running bitcoin
Hal Finney
https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 29 Sep 2022
Oh, yeah! Totally forgot about that one
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36 sats \ 2 replies \ @newnym 29 Sep 2022
The "buy bitcoin guy" behind Jenet Yellen was pretty awesome.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 29 Sep 2022
Yeah, he made a little fortune with it:
As of press time, that address has garnered 6.32570673 BTC, an amount worth just under $15,000 at current prices. While most of the transactions involved, numbering 556 according to Blockchain.info, were small in scale, one notable contribution was for 1 BTC.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/07/13/bitcoin-sign-guy-nets-almost-15000-after-fed-chair-appearance-goes-viral/
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @newnym 29 Sep 2022
Wow! Didn't know that.
*thinks of some way to get in on the background of a press conference...
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taranis 29 Sep 2022
"Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn't have the keys used to sign this message.
The Lightning Network is a significant achievement. However, we need to continue work on improving on-chain capacity.
Unfortunately, the solution is not to just change a constant in the code or to allow powerful participants to force out others.
We are all Satoshi"
-Based OG Bitcoiner
https://archive.ph/x929a#selection-49.8425-49.8459
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @tlmort91 29 Sep 2022
Somewhat not a bitcoin quote but should be:
"The gold standard is the best "governor" that can be devised for a world that is still human, rather than divine" – Montague Norman
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 30 Sep 2022
Replace "gold standard" with "difficulty adjustment" and it's perfect.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 30 Sep 2022
When people realized the whitepaper is encoded in the blockchain and wrote a one-liner to grab it:
seq 0 947 | (while read -r n; do bitcoin-cli gettxout 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 $n | jq -r '.scriptPubKey.asm' | awk '{ print $2 $3 $4 }'; done) | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 17-368600 | xxd -r -p > bitcoin-test.pdf
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 30 Sep 2022
Haha, ooh, yes! Also forgot about this. I remember when I first saw this and was completely mindblown and had no idea how this is possible.
Now it makes sense to me with these amount of outputs etc.
Now I imagine CSW suing random bitcoin developers because "his" whitepaper is on the blockchain, lol
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