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Stephan Livera
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#Bitcoin Podcaster | Work | partner | Writer | $10 free BTC swan.com/livera
Dubai, UAEstephanlivera.comJoined December 2010

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FTX once enjoyed a near-mythical status in the media, with splashy cover stories and news articles lauding the crypto powerhouse. Such coverage rarely emerges organically, and hired an army of public relations firms to burnish its image.
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Hypothetical for small blockers: Imagine we waved our magic wand and bitcoin had 300kb blocks from day one. Would you be running a full node on your phone today? Would it be a popular practice?
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The #bitcoin Lightning Network is the greatest payments platform ever devised and it’s not even close. Just bounce some sats around between wallets. See what instant frictionless nearly-free final settlement feels like. It’s so obviously the future.
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Good episode if you want to understand ordinals (btc digital artifacts). Also touches on some issues with many eth nfts
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SLP456 @rodarmor What are Ordinals? Casey joins me to discuss the controversy! - What are Ordinals and Inscriptions? - Does it harm fungibility? - 'security budget' - OP Return wars - Witness discount - Is it harder to validate? - Can it be stopped? stephanlivera.com/456
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This was really good, though I'm still undecided on the issue. Interested to hear others' thoughts. There were some bits I would have preferred Stephan to push back on a bit more tbh, such as the "security budget" stuff.
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SLP456 @rodarmor What are Ordinals? Casey joins me to discuss the controversy! - What are Ordinals and Inscriptions? - Does it harm fungibility? - 'security budget' - OP Return wars - Witness discount - Is it harder to validate? - Can it be stopped? stephanlivera.com/456
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Segwit was a complex upgrade that improved multiple issues. 1. It mitigated all known 3rd-party malleability issues, paving the way for reliable chains of unconfirmed txs as used in LN. 2. It realigned the incentives for creating and spending UTXOs. …
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An interesting corollary of the 'inscriptions taking up bitcoin blockspace' debate: If inscription people specifically want the artefact in the chain (rather than a link), then it implies bitcoin blockspace is highly treasured.
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just share this, lots of insight as per what they are but more importantly, what bitcoin "is" to casey & broader consensus really!
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SLP456 @rodarmor What are Ordinals? Casey joins me to discuss the controversy! - What are Ordinals and Inscriptions? - Does it harm fungibility? - 'security budget' - OP Return wars - Witness discount - Is it harder to validate? - Can it be stopped? stephanlivera.com/456
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I like this. Just a calm, polite conversation on a new technical development in bitcoin. Well done. (Both, btw.)
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SLP456 @rodarmor What are Ordinals? Casey joins me to discuss the controversy! - What are Ordinals and Inscriptions? - Does it harm fungibility? - 'security budget' - OP Return wars - Witness discount - Is it harder to validate? - Can it be stopped? stephanlivera.com/456
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Even for those who hate inscriptions - you may still appreciate this ep has some of 's critiques of shitcoin NFTs
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SLP456 @rodarmor What are Ordinals? Casey joins me to discuss the controversy! - What are Ordinals and Inscriptions? - Does it harm fungibility? - 'security budget' - OP Return wars - Witness discount - Is it harder to validate? - Can it be stopped? stephanlivera.com/456
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Lockdowns, no matter how long, strict, or early, are simply Chinese totalitarianism. They have absolutely no place in the policy repertoire of the free world. It’s an unforgivable crime that they were ever implemented, and it must never happen again.
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It's time to shun cRyPtO and focus on Bitcoin and self custody.
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FTX left a scar on the Gulf. I’m meeting a lot of folks who lost a lot— many investors trusted FTX leadership and were burned so badly they now distrust the industry and even Bitcoin. FTX has caused assets to be mispriced. This is a painful learning experience and an opportunity.
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Look for ways to earn more, spend less, and stack the difference into bitcoin for the long term. Creating a new financial system is not going to be done overnight.
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