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electronic trading technologist, illiquid commodity futures enthusiast, hedge fund/HFT apologist, big idiot

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    1. drew‏ @drewg__ Jan 15

      drew Retweeted Elon Musk

      The thing is, from this point of view Bitcoin is a horrible currency. Transaction times are infamously long and require a shit ton of electricity and compute power to execute. Bitcoin's market microstructure design makes it so that transactions are slow and expensive to confirmhttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1349977642708168704 …

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      Elon MuskVerified account @elonmusk
      Replying to @Breedlove22 @benmezrich
      The thing we call money is just an information system for labor allocation. What actually matters is making goods & providing services. We should look at currencies from an information theory standpoint. Whichever has least error & latency will win.
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    2. drew‏ @drewg__ Jan 15

      As of this moment the amount of *unconfirmed* transactions in the mempool are ~78k and rising. If you want to confirm a transaction quickly you need to spend a lot of satoshis in confirmation incentive fees to jump the line or wait your turn

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    3. drew‏ @drewg__ Jan 15

      The current mempool is around 92MB, and with each bitcoin block locked at 1MB it will take many rounds of confirmation to fully confirm all bitcoin transactions. In bitcoin this is just a normal day but in the fiat world this would be a totally untenable situation

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      drew‏ @drewg__ Jan 15

      The nature of currency as commonly understood is that if you have it you can spend it, but bitcoin simply is not designed this way. In the absence of lots of compute power adding new blocks to the chain, it is easy to get "bitcoin traffic jams" which make it difficult to transact

      7:02 AM - 15 Jan 2021 from Manhattan, NY
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        1. drew‏ @drewg__ Jan 15

          An interesting thought experiment to close: imagine all bitcoin has been mined. How will anyone transact? If you don't get fresh bitcoin on adding a new block to the chain, why maintain the chain at all? Transaction fees will have to go up, but how much?

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