6 sats \ 1 reply \ @jamesviggy OP 6 Oct 2022 \ on: Has Brian Armstrong has made more than 3 Lightning transactions in his life? bitcoin
This is a reference to the recent viral poll that Eric Wall ran which asked "Do you think Michael Saylor has made more than three lightning transactions in his life". The poll received over 10,000 votes and it was intended to try to 'shame' Saylor.
Saylor responded by hosting a lightning meme competition and awarding 1 million sats to each of 3 winners.
I'm not trying to shame Brian Armstrong with this poll. He's the founder and CEO of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S. It would be cool if he also demonstrated to the world just how easy it is to use lightning.
Link to the winning memes: https://twitter.com/jamesviggy/status/1577821367030140929?s=20&t=BwGDH18w9JKUxAXdnw39Xg
I would like to shame Brian Armstrong.
He was a big blocker.
When he lists an "altcoin" it acts as a seal of approval that causes "investors" to think that even though it can go up or down, its a legitamite project.
He took a really long time to batch withdrawls. Why would he? Doing so encourages withdrawing.
He doesn't support withdrawing to taproot addresses.
He advertises projects like XRP that spend money lobbying against Bitcoin.
He has so many employees, but every opportunity he has to support the chain that has given him his livelihood, he chooses to spend his employees time adding another table to the shitcoin casino.
He has to comply with regulations, but he goes above and beyond by forming an in-house chain analysis service which sells its services to the government. And other governments with worse human rights.
Any time the market really moves, coinbase goes down. When they shelled out $ for a superbowl ad, coinbase went down.
They encourage risky cryptolending that makes them money, but may make them insolvent.
They banned over 25,000 russian addresses and handed the info to the gov. Without any law asking them to.
There are much more ethical ways to get your bitcoin. Hell, there are way better places to get your altcoins too. Kracken has always been pretty badass, they supported taproot really quick. They have one of the highest capacity lightning nodes in the network. Even the winklevi at Gemini do alot for Bitcoin devs.
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