DecentralizedDan

🐂 on ₿, decentralization, 🎶, and being excellent to each other. I've probably answered your support ticket.

(flws, ❤s, R/T's managed by a poorly trained 🐈)

[Troy Cross @thetrocro]

.@greenpeaceusa has shown no interest in actually changing bitcoin's code. Else, they would have hired someone to explore the technical options. (They haven't.)

They would have worked with environmentalists within the bitcoin community to engender support for such a change, so that the resulting fork might have a chance of success. (They haven't.)

If they cared about bitcoin's impact on the environment, they'd have learned about methane mitigation, whether on oil fields or in landfills. (They haven't.)

They'd have learned about the valley-filling and peak-shaving effects of a low-paying, time-agnostic, flexible user over power. (They haven't.)

They'd have learned what "location agnosticism" means for an energy system that is transmission-constrained. (They haven't.)

They'd have learned that none of the energy used to mine bitcoin is destroyed, but becomes low-grade heat, which we are using in ever more innovative ways. (They haven't.)

They'd have learned that bitcoin is driven to find the cheapest electricity in the world, and such a buyer, if flexible, portable, and scalable, is, in the long run, a good thing for the energy transition. (They haven't.)

They'd have actually read and engaged with the content of the KPMG report they high-handedly dismiss in a recent editorial. (They haven't.)

They'd have learned the difference between coal and coal refuse. (They haven't.)

They'd have taken up the issue of irrational energy subsidies, and environmental cleanup subsidies, with governments rather than pinning those issues on bitcoin miners. (They haven't.)

They'd have weighed the environmental impacts of bitcoin mining against the good it provides to millions worldwide. (They haven't.)

They'd have met with @DSBatten, who is actually trying to drive the network towards greenhouse-gas neutrality. (They haven't.)

They haven't done any of these things, or anything like them.

What HAVE they done? Hector bitcoiners. Shame is their only tool.

And that's because it isn't, and never was, about changing the code, nor saving the environment.

Their goal was always to create reputational risk for anyone involving their life with bitcoin, and to trigger anti-bitcoin legislation. They have nearly admitted as much in their tweets.

And that would repay their billionaire crypto-magnate donor handsomely.

Except... it hasn't worked.

Their posts are uninformed, off-putting, tiresome. They're routinely ratioed by anyone who bothers to post a reply. They're screeching into the void.

This isn't nuclear, where Greenpeace and the Sierra Club set back clean, abundant energy by decades.

Nuclear was an ill-understood and emerging technology, like bitcoin. It struck the imagination, like bitcoin, in a new and terrifying way.

But nuclear wasn't a people's movement. Bitcoin is. There are tens of thousands of us who are educated on the above questions. An average pleb knows more than the Greenpeace mercenaries on the above issues. And we're defending home turf (bitcoin and Earth.)

Meanwhile, the reality on the ground is that as bitcoin mining's margins grow slimmer and we approach another halving, the scary models look ever more ridiculous, like the 2017 Newsweek/WEF headline that bitcoin will use all the world's energy by 2020. Simultaneously, we are seeing mining innovation blossom, as it grows into the unique "dung beetle" role for which it was always destined.

We are going to win.

[Eric Podwojski 🟠🔥 @epodrulz]

Networking in the #Bitcoin Community:

Most people don't have time to hop on a 30 min call so you can "pick their brain."

Instead, do this:

1. Be really easy to say yes to
2. Add value before asking for anything
3. Attract opportunities by posting content

Examples of each 👇

[DecentralizedDan @DcntrlzdDan]

@fiatjaf These kinds of services have been around for years...

[DecentralizedDan @DcntrlzdDan]

IMO worth a read, regardless of what you think about this situation
https://t.co/BSizjTaQYn

[DecentralizedDan @DcntrlzdDan]

Whether you're a fan of STX or not, this is pretty interesting, and as far as I've seen (or not seen, for that matter) it has indeed largely gone unnoticed

[Blockworks Research @blockworksres]

Although it has largely gone unnoticed, @Stacks has experienced several roadblocks over the past few months:

- A critical bug in the STX 'stacking' mechanism
- Mass censoring at the mining layer
- More common block reorgs of the Stacks chain

@swmartin19 breaks it down 🧵👇

[Naoise Irwin 🇮🇪🇺🇲 @naoise]

An update on our bitcoin mining ASIC program

https://t.co/AXq4Glx4Kk

[halfin @halfin]

Running bitcoin

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

✨ Hal Finney reflecting on life and #Bitcoin exactly 10 years ago

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

its a shame so many people don't understand that protecting one's own financial privacy is not inherently illegal

[Stacker News @stacker_news]

iykyk

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

25/ You can read the full essay, "Bitcoin and the American Idea," below

Happy 4th of July

May we find ways to bring our societies closer to our ideals✌️

https://t.co/zhdMyA8lAH

[Mandrik @Mandrik]

Thank you Satoshi #Bitcoin

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

13 YEARS AGO TODAY: The #Bitcoin revolution begins with a white paper sent by an unknown developer to an obscure cryptography mailing list.

Its 9 pages hold the blueprint for the first decentralized digital cash, an invention that will make history ✨

[Rob @thegallowboob]

every damn time

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

Money lost by consumers through crypto scams last year: $80 Million
Money lost by consumers through overdraft fees last year: $12 Billion

[Neeraj K. Agrawal @NeerajKA]

ppl are framing the infra bill issue as “oh crypto people are just mad about taxes.”

that’s not the issue at all.

it expands the definition of a “broker” to all sorts of individuals who would never be considered one in any other context and in most cases *can’t* even comply.

[Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC]

#Bitcoin now has the same amount of users as the Internet did in 1997, and growing at a much faster pace.

[DecentralizedDan @DcntrlzdDan]

"I've never quite understood why cryptocurrencies are worth anything" but my misinformed musings about heavy handed supression of monetary freedom, full of factually incorrect proclamations, should definitely be published

[Robert Manning @Rmanning4]

Some thoughts on crypto currencies, Cybersecurity and the future of money.

Bye-bye Bitcoin: It's time to ban crypto currencies https://t.co/FLUnUrigSw

[Alex Bosworth @alexbosworth]

You can't see it because it takes a while to ramp up integration of Lightning, but a massive new wave has been starting. Having to support Bitcoin on a country level is no joke, and denying financial access to huge parts of the world by not supporting BTC is just not cool anymore

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

The email that started a revolution.