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Pillars of Bitcoin

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Curated Bitcoin articles. #Bitcoin |Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.|

เข้าร่วม Mart 2020
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Holger Zschaepitz
Holger Zschaepitz@Schuldensuehner·
El Salvador to become the world’s first country to adopt #Bitcoin as legal tender. President Nayib Bukele says he plans to submit legislation. “This will generate jobs & help provide financial inclusion to thousands outside formal economy,” Bukele said. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Nayib Bukele
Nayib Bukele@nayibbukele·
#Bitcoin has a market cap of $680 billion dollars. If 1% of it is invested in El Salvador, that would increase our GDP by 25%. On the other side, #Bitcoin will have 10 million potential new users and the fastest growing way to transfer 6 billion dollars a year in remittances.
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Ben Kaufman
Ben Kaufman@_benkaufman·
Fuck @BitPay
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Yossarian's Locker
Yossarian's Locker@YossarianLocker·
The only way to protect ourselves from suitcase nuclear bombs is to experiment with building them in dense urban areas with light security protocols.
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Pillars of Bitcoin@BitcoinPillars·
@PickACardHS @undef_ined @notgrubles Might be a bad example. But the network per se doesn't mean it's very valuable. I struggle to see value in the Ethereum chain. Bitcoin derives it's value from immutability, and trust. That's almost impossible to replicate.
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PickACard
PickACard@0xPickACard·
@BitcoinPillars @undef_ined @notgrubles (1/2) Torrents do work great if you have people seeding them. What if no one wants to seed a file on a torrent? You're stuck. How do you incentivize someone to seed a file? By paying them. This concerns IPFS/filecoin more than Ethereum though.
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Pillars of Bitcoin@BitcoinPillars·
@PickACardHS @undef_ined @notgrubles Smart contracts are pretty cool yes. They have been around for decades. If we could really decentralize these, they have potential to do great things. But a chain running these (that can also be done with a few AWS instances) is not worth billions of dollars imo.
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PickACard
PickACard@0xPickACard·
@BitcoinPillars @undef_ined @notgrubles So you don't believe in smart contracts at all, even ones built using bitcoin? Smart contracts allow for trustless negotiations and trades without any middleman. It makes transactions more efficient and removes the possibility of fraud from the middleman.
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Pillars of Bitcoin@BitcoinPillars·
@PickACardHS @undef_ined @notgrubles The financial system's size is about ownership. Ownership of debt, shares of a company, commodities, real estate... What part of the financial system does ether compare to that is so big? None of the above. It's a tool yes, but I don't see much value in a smart contract platform
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PickACard
PickACard@0xPickACard·
@BitcoinPillars @undef_ined @notgrubles That's fine, but it's also why it's going to get flipped by smart contract chains in the future. Bitcoin has a place as a hard money, but even gold is a far smaller market than the financial system as a whole.
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Pillars of Bitcoin@BitcoinPillars·
@PickACardHS @undef_ined @notgrubles And we expect people to keep swapping shitcoins for shitcoins? Ethereum collapses every few years. Stablecoins will collapse under regulatory pressure. I will be surprised if this defi thing will even exist in 2-5 years! Let alone the far future.
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@PickACardHS @undef_ined @notgrubles Developers follow the money. For now, that's Ethereum (partly due to massive funding from the premine). but that can change in a matter of months imo. Apps can be ported on other chains.
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PickACard
PickACard@0xPickACard·
@BitcoinPillars @undef_ined @notgrubles That doesn't seem to bother the thousands of developers building on Ethereum, which is growing by the day. If you don't want to use Ethereum, go use Ethereum Classic.
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Pillars of Bitcoin@BitcoinPillars·
@PickACardHS @undef_ined @notgrubles Ehm? Ethereum is the LEAST secure chain of them all. They hard fork at will, without users even wanting it (the DAO?). Not a SINGLE chain has even tried doing that! By definition, it is the least trustable chain of all.
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PickACard
PickACard@0xPickACard·
@BitcoinPillars @undef_ined @notgrubles What do you mean "damage has been done?" Ethereum is regarded to be the most secure smart contract chain and therefore it has the most development and locked value.
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