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Jun 11, 2019

"Cypherpunks write code", wrote Eric Hughes in 1993. It became the Cypherpunk rally cry. But by 1996, Hughes came to believe that code alone does not cut it. To realize Cypherpunk ideals like anonymous transactions, "some measure of toleration in society" is necessary, he wrote.

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Miljoenen subsidie naar wandelcoaches, edelsteentherapeuten en ‘Misss Bitcoin’ Madelon Vos

Nikki Brands

@Nikki_Brands

Jan 6

Een groot deel van de 180 miljoen euro STAP-budget, bedoeld voor bijscholing, is in verkeerde handen gekomen. Zo verdiende zelfbenoemd 'Misss Bitcoin' binnen enkele maanden ruim 2 miljoen euro. Met

@remykoens

voor

@FTM_nl

ftm.nl

Informatie die werd opgevraagd via de Wet open overheid laat zien waar een deel van de 180 miljoen euro die bedoeld was om bijscholing te financieren via het STAP-budget, terecht is gekomen. Ene...

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Dec 31, 2022

In Bitcoin, Explained 70,

Bitcoin Explained 70: Bitcoin Core v24 Bug

and I explain how a wallet bug crept into the Bitcoin Core 24.0 release, and why there is now a Bitcoin Core version 24.0.1 available. 👂👇

podcast.sprovoost.nl

Aaron and Sjors explain how a wallet bug crept into the Bitcoin Core 24.0 release, and why there is now a Bitcoin Core version 24.0.1 available. Episode Sponsor: https://voltage.cloud/ Sjors New...

Dec 31, 2022

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Nayib Bukele

@nayibbukele

Jan 2, 2022

2022 predictions on #Bitcoin: •Will reach $100k •2 more countries will adopt it as legal tender •Will become a major electoral issue in US elections this year •Bitcoin City will commence construction •Volcano bonds will be oversubscribed •Huge surprise at @TheBitcoinConf

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The more things change....

Dec 21, 2022

Tonight! 🍻🍗🕹️👇

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@GKBoris

Dec 9, 2022

We are celebrating bitcoin at the next Bitcoin Meetup Amsterdam on December 21st! Come hang out and play some retro arcade video games. There are prices for Outrun high scores! Thanks to @Coinkite Let us know if you're coming: meetup.com/de-bitcoin-mee CC: @JWBurgers @AaronvanW

dennis

@pourteaux

Dec 12, 2022

SBF ARRESTED. if your politics or timeline convinced you that he would evade justice and become a media darling, you might want to reconsider who you listen to if you want to be right about the next thing

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Thanks to

for the excellent Bitcoin Explained podcast. I was able to keep learning about Bitcoin on my trip home from

@bitcoinpark_

. Excited to dive into Sjors' book this week as well.

Replace By Fee (RBF) - The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado 26 - Bitcoin Magazine

and

with a couple great rips on RBF for the audio inclined out there. youtube.com/watch?v=mMT0ey

youtube.com

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss Replace By Fee (RBF). RBF is a trick that lets unconfirmed tra...

Sjors Provoost @sjors@sprovoost.nl

Dec 2, 2022

This week

Bitcoin, Explained 69: The Tornado Cash Trial

go on a trip to Ethereum land, where between all the magical tokenomics we explore the mysteries of Dutch money laundering law. All this in order to ask: what might the Tornado Cash trial mean for Bitcoin privacy tool builders?

podcast.sprovoost.nl

Aaron and Sjors explain what happened in the pro forma hearing concerning the trial against Alexy P., one of the developers behind the Ethereum-based Tornado Cash mixer. While this means that this...

Namcios

@namcios

Nov 28, 2022

A new version of #Bitcoin Core is here! Released a few days ago, Bitcoin Core 24.0 brings improvements on usability, privacy and security. Here’s all you need to know… 🧵

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Bill Birtles

@billbirtles

Nov 27, 2022

So I thought it was BS that China’s govt broadcaster was censoring shots of fans at the World Cup due to lockdown anger back home. But it’s true. Here are live feeds from SBS & CCTV (which has a 32 second delay). As ⁦

@DreyerChina

⁩ explained, CCTV avoids crowd close ups:

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Pleb Hodler

@HodlerThoughts

Nov 24, 2022

Thankful I found this new podcast w/

Bitcoin, Explained 62: Hash functions

recently. Macro is important but I am looking forward to more #bitcoin technicals as part of my regular listening. Great explanation of how SHA256 works and base10, 16 and 58 in this one.

open.spotify.com

Listen to this episode from Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin on Spotify. In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost go back to basics. They...

At 31:10 here with

youtu.be/CuKPIUO1pVA?t=

The Future of Sidechains w/ Adam Back, Paul Sztorc, and Aaron van...

suggests activating BIP300 on Litecoin, putting $1 million worth of LTC into the hashrate escrow, and seeing if the miners steal from it. This experiment has actually already been run on Ethereum...

youtube.com

Adam Back, Paul Sztorc, and Aaron van Wirdum dive into what the future of sidechains will look like and how they will be connected to Bitcoin at Bitcoin Amst...

In Bitcoin, Explained 68,

Should Full Replace-By-Fee Be Merged Into Bitcoin Core?

and I discuss the controversy surrounding the new option to apply full replace-by-fee logic with Bitcoin Core 24.0. 👂👇

bitcoinmagazine.com

Weighing the pros and cons of the current debate in the Bitcoin community about whether to include full RBF into the next Bitcoin Core update.

Sjors Provoost @sjors@sprovoost.nl

Nov 22, 2022

Some more context here fom Sjors:

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Nov 22, 2022

The outcome was not surprising sadly, but it was nevertheless an interesting (two hour) hearing. It's the first time the public prosecutor explained their reasoning. But ultimately this wasn't about the merits of the case, only about whether to extend his detention. twitter.com/CoinDesk/statu…

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Nov 22, 2022

The way it's shaping up, it looks like this case will resolve heavily around the legal implications of a DAO. (Also very relevant for eg.

@bisq_network

.) To be continued in February. nb.: IANAL, just sharing my general impression/takeway.

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Prosecutor alleges that Pertsev knew that Tornado Cash was used by criminals to launder their proceeds, but chose not to do anything about it. Judge agreed with prosecutor that Pertsev should be held in custody longer, in part because they believe he might flee the country.

In short, the prosecutor believes that Pertsev (and two other developers) were for all intents and purposes running Tornado Cash as a company/service: they were de facto in charge of it because they owned most DAO tokens, could change how it operated, and made money off of it.

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Just made it back from the pro forma hearing on the necessity of continuing the pre-trial detention of Tornado Cash developer Alexy Pertsev. This wasn't the actual court case yet, but the public prosecutor did offer slightly more insights on why he was indicted, exactly.

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That 10% growth is compared to COVID year 2020. Zoomed out, economic growth in El Salvador has followed the same trend for decades. I don't think there's much reason to believe Bitcoin had meaningful impact so far-- good or bad. data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.G data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.G

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David da Silva Rosa

@dldasilvarosa

Nov 16, 2022

1:40

“They’re still up half a BILLION DOLLARS. Do the f***ing math!”

Greg Foss @FossGregfoss bringing the usual fire on stage at @AdoptingBTC as he discusses #Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador with @Excellion, @maxkeiser, @paoloardoino and @bitcoindadpod

US protects Saudi prince from lawsuit over journalist Khashoggi murder

South China Morning Post

@SCMPNews

Nov 18, 2022

US protects Saudi prince from lawsuit over journalist Khashoggi murder

scmp.com

The government said in a court filing that the prime minister title held by the monarch should give him immunity in the lawsuit filed by the slain journalist’s fiancée.

President Bukele engulfs El Salvador in human rights crisis after three years in office

Nov 11, 2022

More context on Bukele's human rights violations:

amnesty.org

The Salvadoran authorities have committed massive human rights violations during the ongoing state of emergency

I missed it at the time, but these tweets also confirm the story: twitter.com/MariodelacruzP

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minutas bitcoin

@MariodelacruzP8

May 5, 2022

Quiero agradeser atodas las personasque estubieron pendiente de mi esposo y de mi familia ahora el esta en libertad y gozando de su familia gradeser primeramente a Dios y luego a todos loque hicieron posible para que el este ahora aqui con nosotros grasias y pasen feliz tarde

ICYMI, in the summer of 2021, I tweeted out a pic of Mario and his shaved ice cart, which happened to feature a QR code. Bitcoiners from around the world started sharing the associated bitcoin address and donate, adding up to more than $1000 worth of BTC.

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Jul 10, 2021

Wow. Mario and his wife received north of $1000 worth of bitcoin through the #iceshaverchallange

. That's about three times the average monthly salary in El Zonte. They have reinvested part of the money in a fryer and a coolbox, so they can now also sell fries and beverages.

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Nov 11, 2022

Mario García — the shaved ice seller who bitcoiners so generously donated BTC to during the #iceshaverchallenge — was apparently one of the victims of

@nayibbukele

's draconian state of emergency. Sad. Snippet from

@ZekeFaux

@raudaz_

's Bloomberg piece: bloomberg.com/news/features/

It's an especially apt analogy because they're all casinos.

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Doug Polk

@DougPolkVids

Nov 9, 2022

Let me explain what just happened in crypto to the poker people: Pokerstars has just announced that Full Tilt is in way too bad of a situation for them to purchase and all of the player balances are completely toast. twitter.com/binance/status…

Nov 9, 2022

In Bitcoin, Explained 67,

Analyzing The Insights From River Financial’s Lightning Node Report

and I have

@SDWouters

on to discuss what

@River

learned from running one of the biggest nodes on the Lightning Network. 👂👇

bitcoinmagazine.com

River Financial research analyst Sam Wouters shares about his report which details unique insights from the company’s Lightning node.

Sjors Provoost @sjors@sprovoost.nl

Nov 1, 2022

It looks like this happened again today, but this time not by accident.

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Oct 25, 2022

In Bitcoin, Explained 66, @provoost and I explain how a software bug brought down lnd Lightning nodes.

bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-

Alex Gladstein

@gladstein

Oct 27, 2022

Wow. As part of Bukele’s “state of exception” where 55,000 have been arbitrarily arrested, there are state-planned quotas for detentions, leading cops to jail people simply accused of crimes on Facebook posts or through a phone tip-line 🇸🇻

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Rest of World

@restofworld

Oct 27, 2022

El Salvador appears to have arrested hundreds of people based on tips received through Facebook and Twitter accounts managed by an IT department with no training in police work restofworld.org/2022/social-me

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Oct 25, 2022

In Bitcoin, Explained 66,

How A Bug Temporarily Brought Down One Implementation Of The Lightning Network

and I explain how a software bug brought down lnd Lightning nodes. 👂👇

bitcoinmagazine.com

One developer brought down LND nodes with a massive multisignature transaction, causing issues across the Lightning Network for a short period of time.

hodlonaut 13%er

@hodlonaut

Oct 20, 2022

I won. Welcome to law.

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Lightning Scaling Challenges w/ Gleb Naumenko, Ben Arc,Rafael...

Martell Fox

@Martellfox

Oct 19, 2022

"It's on us to take it to the people" ⚡️

@Rafa_Cordon

CTO of

@PoweredbyIBEX

gives insight into lightning adoption along with

and

. Awesome panel!

Gleb Naumenko, Ben Arc,Rafael Cordon, Sergej Kotliar, and Aaron van Wirdum have a great conversation about scaling the lightning network at Bitcoin Amsterdam...

Replying to

So… none of these industries should exist then? 🤣🤣🤣🤡

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The Future of Sidechains w/ Adam Back, Paul Sztorc, and Aaron van...

Blockstream

@Blockstream

Oct 18, 2022

See the whole conversation on #Bitcoin sidechains

with

, and

here. ⬇️

Adam Back, Paul Sztorc, and Aaron van Wirdum dive into what the future of sidechains will look like and how they will be connected to Bitcoin at Bitcoin Amst...

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Cryptocast

@CryptocastNL

Oct 18, 2022

In Cryptocast 242 gaat

in gesprek met

over de staat van #Bitcoin anno '22. Hoe staat de belangrijkste digitale munt er voor op het gebied van regulering, techniek, markt en mining? 'Live' vanaf

@BitcoinConfEUR

bnr.nl

Met de eerste (er volgt nog een tweede!) speciale uitzending van de Cryptocast vanaf Bitcoin Amsterdam beschouwen de staat van Bitcoin anno 2022. Hoe staat de belangrijkste digitale munt er voor op...

David Bailey

https://redeemGBTC.com

@DavidFBailey

Oct 18, 2022

Ok Fam what are we doing today to free Ziya Sadr? I’ll start.

@bitcoinmagazine

will put up 1 Bitcoin for anyone who can secure his release. Will anyone match?

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Cryptocast

@CryptocastNL

Oct 12, 2022

De staat van #Bitcoin doornemen met

Volgende week online! 💻

The Bitcoin Meetup Amsterdam

Oct 12, 2022

Tonight! 🍻🍗🕹️👇

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@BTCMeetupAMS

Oct 3, 2022

Are you in Amsterdam for the Bitcoin Conference? Join us Wednesday October 12 for chicken wings, beer, and arcade games at the best Bitcoin meetup in Europe! The Bitcoin Meetup Amsterdam is just a short ferry ride from Amsterdam Central Station. meetup.com/de-bitcoin-mee

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Bitcoin.nl

@BitcoinPuntNL

Oct 12, 2022

"The future of sidechains" op

@BitcoinConfEUR

onder begeleiding van

Aaron van Wirdum and 3 others

spraken

@adam3us

@paulsztorc

over het ontstaan, de ontwikkeling en de voor- en nadelen van sidechains. #bitcoinamsterdam #bitcoinpuntnl

#SaveTheOnionRouter - Tor Nodes Crowdfund Campaign: savetor.network Since several months,

@torproject

is experiencing a heavy network-wide DDoS attempt impacting the performance of the #Tor network, which includes both onion services and non-onion services traffic.

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