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@Grwdds

Drinker of whiskey and dark beer. Player of golf. Watcher of horror movies. #Bitcoin

Inscrit le Şubat 2013
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Evolution@Grwdds·
Bruce Fenton@brucefenton

Did Epstein influence Bitcoin core development? Short answer: No. This is not how Bitcoin works. Here’s what happened: Epstein donated to MIT Media Lab…who in turn supported MIT Digital Currency Initiative…which in turn funded Bitcoin developers. These devs used to be funded by The Bitcoin Foundation (which I used to run as volunteer Executive Director) there are many devs and no dev or team had power or control over Bitcoin. Under MIT’s patronage the devs had the same deal they had with us at The Bitcoin Foundation: that they could work on the code and not have direction from the org. More importantly — how Bitcoin works is that *even if* a dev was compromised then the nodes and miners would still have to run that code to make it included in Bitcoin. So for example if I had somehow asked the devs paid by Bitcoin Foundation to “add 1000 coins for Bruce” 1) they wouldn’t have done this / it would have been counter to our agreement 2) no miners would run that code & no nodes would recognize it. It would be a laughing stock and completely rejected. Does this mean code dev is not an attack vector? No. It’s still a risk. Particularly with nation state style actors and very careful efforts to co-opt which are much more sophisticated than “give Bruce coins” or something. This is one reason I’m cautious of Bitcoin core funding - especially from actors who’ve had bad judgment in the past. I think we should be cautious of who does the dev and view it as an attack vector. Bitcoin code is transparent and has lots of eyes on it. So in this case especially there isn’t even a solid accusation, let alone evidence that MIT directed nefarious code changes. If that was an allegation the first question should be: well what code specifically did MIT direct and what proof is there and how was it harmful? I think claims around this would collapse. There’s obviously plenty to criticize about Epstein and MIT working with him — and when it comes to digital assets MIT’s work with Gensler and especially its work on CBDCs is much more suspect than the chance that malicious code was pushed through on Bitcoin. Be cautious but this is a nothing burger

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StarPlatinum@StarPlatinum_·
- you get into bitcoin - you find out Jeffrey Epstein invested $3M into coinbase in 2014 - he also put $500k into blockstream - at the same time he was funding MIT - $850k directly and millions through his network - that money helped support early bitcoin research and developers
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Brandon Spinner
Brandon Spinner@whiskey_wx·
Today Buffalo Trace has announced the next release in the Daniel Weller experimental lineup, Spelt Wheat. Age: 10 years Proof: 94° MSRP $549.99. Spelt wheat is one of the world’s oldest cultivated grains, rarely used in bourbon.
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New York Post@nypost·
Utah mom accused of kidnapping autistic son's 11-year-old bully until he apologized trib.al/5BrO1xr
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LP Capital Chi
LP Capital Chi@LPCapitalChi·
Bitcoin is going to $0.00
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Keri Smith 🌱Deprogrammed
Keri Smith 🌱Deprogrammed@RealKeriSmith·
This is so pathetic and so sad! This man is describing what it’s like living with abusive leftist women. The walking on eggshells he has to do here, to accommodate their moral illness, is astounding. This man is not shepherd of his home.
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Evolution
Evolution@Grwdds·
@MeghanEMurphy Why bother commenting? These twisted Indian accounts get off on triggering Americans. They’re pathetic.
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Lauri Harkonnen
Lauri Harkonnen@MehmetOquirrh·
@Teenage_Witch__ @JustReidy @Vhoyde That’s not what you said, though. You specifically and confidently said “people didn’t say ‘believe all women’” when that was 100% a sub-slogan of the #MeToo movement and a thing that people said a lot.
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Crypto Currency@Crypto0637·
🚨 BREAKING BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk’S X MONEY HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ITS FIRST-EVER DEBIT CARD TRANSACTION. THE SERVICE IS EXPECTED TO LAUNCH WITHIN WEEKS — WITH #BITCOIN SUPPORT. THIS COULD BE A MASSIVE STEP FOR CRYPTO ADOPTION. 🚀
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Rain Drops Media
Rain Drops Media@Raindropsmedia1·
Nurse Linda Campitelli, married mom, 35, k*lled by coworker she was having an affair with, investigators say. Rene Perez, 38, was arrested after allegedly leaving her body in a busy roadway following their yearslong affair. 👀💔🤔
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Evolution
Evolution@Grwdds·
@digitalassetbuy Why would Satoshi deciding to move his coins be someone’s greatest fear? Isn’t that his right?
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Digital Asset Investor@digitalassetbuy·
If I was a Bitcoin Maxi my two greatest fears would be: 1.The Bitcoin in the Satoshi wallet moves 2.Ripple announces they don't own all the XRP in escrow(thus stripping away my entire ownership centralization argument in the blink of an eye) Not necessarily in that order.
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Corn Shatz
Corn Shatz@SlippySlipnuts·
@LoudOutside @Sayitpop I have three daughters. If any one of them planned on marrying a guy willing to do that… I would protest loudly. Indicates weakness and an unhealthy view of masculinity to me, and I wouldn’t trust him not to crumble when life’s challenges inevitably occur.
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Loud Outside@LoudOutside·
An increasing amount of men in the US are starting to take their wife’s last name after marriage, pushing a new trend meant to challenge traditional norms
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Evolution@Grwdds·
@rugbyplay3r2 @its_The_Dr Great. Now share a pic when you were 37 (like Caruso was on NYPD Blue) so we can all compare and shame you for the changes.
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Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff@PeterSchiff·
@2dogs1chic You have to abandon logic to believe Bitcoin can work as promised.
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Kristen
Kristen@2dogs1chic·
Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome (BDS): A condition where the mere mention of Bitcoin causes someone to abandon logic and repeat the same disproven talking points from 2013.
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Michael Tanguma
Michael Tanguma@MTanguma·
@PeterSchiff Sounds like the fools the one holding the token (claim) on the gold stuck in Dubai (or pick your favorite bullion depository / sovereign counterparty)
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Michael Tanguma
Michael Tanguma@MTanguma·
gold bulls spent 5,000 years telling you its the safest asset on earth right now its sitting in a vault in dubai at a $30 discount because nobody can get it on a plane the best store of value in history and it breaks the moment a war disrupts a flight path bitcoin doesnt need a flight path. it doesnt need a cargo plane. it doesnt need shipping insurance. it settles final in 10 minutes to anywhere on earth this is what "digital gold" actually means. not the ETF ticker. the actual property of being able to move value without depending on physical infrastructure in a war zone
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Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff@PeterSchiff·
It has now been three years and eight months since the Puerto Rico government shut down my completely solvent bank under the pretense of protecting customers who needed no protection at all. Even though I was prepared to return 100% of deposits to all customers on the day the government took over to “protect” them, to date fewer than 1% of the bank’s customers have had their depsoits returned. Compounding the problem is that about $90 million of the bank’s assets, at current market value, that was transferred to Qenta, an entity controlled by Brent De Jong, to hold on behalf of the bank and its customers, has not been returned. That represents over half of the bank’s total assets, the vast majority of which are owed to customers. But none of this would have happened had the OCIF Commissioner, the government banking regulator in Puerto Rico, not cooperated with the IRS and other J5 tax chiefs to frame the bank for financial crimes it did not commit. Those corrupt government officials used the closure of the bank and complicit media to fool the public into thinking the bank was facilitating tax evasion and money laundering, so they could take false credit for putting a stop to it. The bank’s thousands of innocent customers were acceptable collateral damage in the fraud.
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