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@FossGregfoss @dylanleclair Everybody should know this

What Satoshi did is far more interesting than who he is.

@idobitcoin2 Bitcoin: turns your worldview on its head Jesus: turns the world on its head So Bitcoin allows you to see the world right side up

I have noticed that a lot of Bitcoiners are some form of Christians. Even if they do not follow Christianity, a lot of them believe in god. I believe in family, values, and morals but I am not religious or believe in god. Am I an outlier? Do you guys believe in god?

@_BRCooper @Curious_KP_AZ @Rainmaker1973 Finally someone put words to this thought I've had

@Curious_KP_AZ @Rainmaker1973 This is a quick read that gets to the heart of your question.

Both societies exist simultaneously. really incredible to think about

@craigwarmke For crying out loud the English literally invented English

@craigwarmke Adds flavour and colour to one of my favourite subjects

Imagine being Satoshi in 2026 and seeing the NYT cite your British spelling in its argument for a British Satoshi.

@adam3us @spectator If you're going to get it wrong, at least get it right @spectator

@spectator Back not Black, if you can correct.

Sir Issac Newton, Alexander Flemming and James Watt may all have to move aside to make way for another name in the pantheon of Great British inventors: Adam Black. According to an exhaustive investigation published by the New York Times today, the mystery of who created Bitcoin appears to have been solved. All the signs point to a relatively obscure British computer programmer. If it turns out to be true, Britain should be proud of giving the world its digital currency. ✍️ Matthew Lynn Article | spectator.com/article/is-bit…

@TheStalwart @JohnCarreyrou The @nytimes and @TheStalwart have something in common for sure: Both have been 180 degrees wrong about #Bitcoin as long as they've known about it.

Although I didn't find @JohnCarreyrou's Satoshi reveal to be compelling, I'm glad he wrote it, because it's one of my favorite topics to talk about, and it brings out OG crypto twitter, from when it was good.

Who’s your favorite bitcoiner?

@ProfSteveKeen @DSBatten Sir, we need to drastically increase energy use on this planet to bring everyone up to our standard of living.

@DSBatten No, I have opinions about bitcoin as an ineffective form of money, as an expert on money, and as something which will be an early casualty of realising we need to drastically reduce energy consumption on this planet, as an expert on energy and GDP. So that's what I answer.

An open letter to @ProfSteveKeen regarding your recent comments about Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining. Respectfully, I have listened to your comments on Bitcoin mining and it is very clear that you have no understanding of how Bitcoin mining works. This is not a hill you I believe you should be seeing your reputation die on. Specifically it is very clear that you have no understanding that it is a flexible user of energy that does not rival other energy users for its power, no understanding of the well established ability Bitcoin mining uniquely has to monetize otherwise wasted renewable energy, no understanding of how Bitcoin mining obviates gas peaker plants, and no understanding of the unique role Bitcoin mining is playing in methane mitigation. You also appear not to understand that these facts are not some pot pouri of greenwashing claims from "Bitcoin supporters" looking to defend their assetclass but datapoints that have been repeatedly established in 24 peer reviewed journals, and 8 independent reports (including Cambridge University) Your characterization of Bitcoin supporters as not understanding the interrelationship between global warming and energy dynamics is as patronizing as it is a reconfirmation of your own lack of research, given there are a number of committed environmentalists, climatetech investors and climate scientists who are avid supporters of Bitcoin mining precisely because it already can and is incentivizing renewable energy transition and methane mitigation at scale. You also appear ignorant of the fact that the first generation research on Bitcoin mining that suggested environmental harm was debunked in peer reviewed study in 2023 and that is why the media has not quoted this study since. Finally your contention that Bitcoin is "going to zero" because mining will become unprofitable shows again an appalling lack of basic understanding of the economics of Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin mining companies are able to earn ancillary revenue through any number of means, they may be vertically integrated, they may mine using last-gen machines on stranded solar/wind, they may mine offgrid on otherwise wasted power sources such as landfills of oil&gas fields, they may be nation states such as Bhutan using Bitcoin mining on their otherwise surplus hydro energy. These unique abilities of Bitcoin miners mean that far from being at risk, Bitcoin mining is by far the most resilience industry in the face of rising energy prices. The mere fact that Bitcoin mining exists and is growing in EU despite already very high energy prices is proof of Bitcoin miners' resilience to rising energy costs that affect other industries far more. Your opposition to Bitcoin, and Bitcoin mining, appears more motivated by regret aversion, a well documented psychological phenomenon where someone who "misses out" rationalizes that "there was nothing to miss out on" rather than engage in genuine intellectual curiosity and humility by revisiting their decision, and this is leading you to invest an inordinately large amount of time dismissing a technology you have made an inordinately small amount of time trying to understand. When someone of your standing in the field of economics talks so dismissively about a domain they have spent so little time seeking to understand, it does not weaken that domain, rather it weakened 1. your reputation 2. people's general trust in economists 3. the extend to which we esteem people in society with the title "professor" If you want to continue to erode the reputation of all three, you are welcome to do so. Bitcoin does not care. Bitcoin miners will continue to stabilize grids, monetize wasted renewable energy, mitigate methane, obviate the need for gas peaker plants with or without you. But if you ever decide to re-allocate a small fraction of the hours you have spend dismissing Bitcoin mining into understanding how the technology works that you are dismissing, I would be more than happy to connect you to any number of utilities, renewable energy experts, methane mitigation specialists, climate scientists, climatetech investors or battery engineers who can explain to you why Bitcoin is an essential part of solving the exact issues you claim to care about. Daniel Batten Environmentalist, Climatetech investor, Bitcoin mining analyst

@nytimes Look who’s at it again

Bitcoin’s founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained hidden for 17 years. A trail of clues — and a year of digging by our reporter, John Carreyrou — led us to a 55-year-old computer scientist in El Salvador named Adam Back. nyti.ms/4bXWC3V

@thetrocro @Erikcason Wait I thought Troy was the voice of reason

@Erikcason Not implausible

I get it now, Here is the playbook: Mythos hacks everything, Mythos is leaked. Everything is hacked. Dow and S&P 500 destroyed, Governments need to lock down to save the economy, To protect your data, Digital IDs introduced, CBDCs replace cash, Private models outlawed No updates past current models, Corporations get access to mythos for hyper-surveillance Everyone lives in a glass panopticon forever. Get ready anon.

@BitcoinBond_007 Aw heck yeah

Be genuinely honest; do you CONSISTENTLY DCA Bitcoin?

@benthecarman @MartyBent Makes sense hot air would be the KPI

@MartyBent 1 gigagas/second, wow what a metric

Update: coindesk.com/fundamentally-…

@nvk I had a VIC-20! Awesome computer, very little computing power

@FossGregfoss @WalkerAmerica @natbrunell Good times

@BittyCent21 @WalkerAmerica @natbrunell Great pic eh.

Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable. Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours… Carla is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life… Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful. Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened: Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday. When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited. I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow. But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that… The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour… 2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life... It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call. They removed **2+ liters** of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body… They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok. The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet. The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades. Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy… The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange. Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day. It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time. In typical @carlabitcoin fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a tweet while still a bit loopy from the sedatives but now she’s just trying to manage the pain. Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby. Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated. This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast… Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted.

@FossGregfoss @WalkerAmerica @natbrunell Come back to the community @FossGregfoss !

My first post in a long time… God bless Carla and Walker and family. You are wonderful people and I miss our times together. Julie and I have fond memories of the friends we met in the Bitcoin community. Thanks for the repost of walkers tweet @natbrunell Hope to see you all again soon. Fosser.

What is your backup plan if Bitcoin doesn't work out?

@TSN_Sports @LWillson_82 @stevocaldwell @kdkilbane77 @Film_Never_Lies A classless move would be Italian-Canadians cheering for Italy vs Canada (in Canada). There is reason to believe this was narrowly avoided, so Soccer Canada having some fun with it is warranted.

With Italian soccer fans in Canada down bad, #FilmNeverLies host and Italian-Canadian Luke Willson visits the #ParkTheBus crew to take issue with the Canada Soccer "jersey exchange." 🇨🇦🇮🇹 @LWillson_82 @stevocaldwell @kdkilbane77 @Film_Never_Lies FULL EPISODE: youtu.be/wBZoD7yknSM

@cz_binance Real Bitcoiners have been doing 100 pushups a day for ages. Satoshi Nakamoto for reference

Just tried it. Push ups. Not proper form or speed, but the best I could do for now. I am 49. I challenge you to do better. 😉 (Unedited, no AI, straight from camera)