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[Rene @Rene78087]

@sooneggg @coingecko Works again. That was quick! Thanks a lot!

[Rene @Rene78087]

@coingecko Is there an issue with the symbols parameter on /simple/price? Per the docs, querying ?symbols=btc&vs_currencies=usd should return price data, but it currently returns an empty JSON {}. This was working until last week. Is this a known bug or an API change?

[Rene @Rene78087]

@Davincij15 Don't get greedy, man! I thought you bought BTC early and have financial freedom. Why push shitcoins on your followers?

[Rene @Rene78087]

@Schwaebische Wer braucht eigentlich noch diese Unterführung seit der Umleitung der B31? Sie sollte aufgeschüttet und der ganze Platz fuß- und fahrradfreundlich umgestaltet werden.

[Rene @Rene78087]

@_jonasschnelli_ Accelerating the renewable transition requires investing in battery storage, not expanding Bitcoin mining.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

When you realize your life’s work has been made obsolete.

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

Trump's position on Ukraine explained in two minutes

A brilliant cartoon by @freeonis/Instagram

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Russia: Child survivor of the siege of Stalingrad during WW2 confronts Kremlin fascists who interfered with her laying flowers at the monument to victims of the Gulags.
"You and your grandchildren will be paying reparations to Ukraine. Ukraine deserves peace!"

[Andreas (aantonop Team) @aantonop]

Ripple shilling makes me sick. After this, I will personally make sure that Ripple is revealed as the centralized cop-out they are

[Jonas Schnelli @_jonasschnelli_]

❤️👌

[Gary Black @garyblack00]

@dka218 Maybe. But let’s compare notes a year from now.

[Anita ⚡🏳️‍🌈 @anitaonl]

This is not a Trump pump.
It's what Bitcoin has been doing in every halving cycle.

Trump doesn't care about the principles of Bitcoin.
He issues his own shitcoin.

Bitcoin is about giving regular people back their freedoms especially in countries with high oppression.

[Shooter tardfi McGavin @getderb]

@PeterSchiff @inversebrah @Rhythmtrader suck it peter. 100k by 2024

[Rene Pickhardt @renepickhardt]

Die amerikanische Community hat #bitcoin erfolgreich zum Wahlkampfthema gemacht. Trump gab dazu eine Keynote auf der bitcoin2024

Bin gespannt, ob es dem @btcverband gelingen wird das Thema entsprechend zu lancieren. Ich werde ihn daran messen und wünsche entsprechend viel Erfolg

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Nerds take you to the moon.

Banks take you to the ground.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Saylor's getting trashed for the self-custody comment.

As he should.

Self-custody of the digital bearer asset is the entire point.

*The entire point*

All important attributes of Bitcoin emerge from this property.

This doesn't mean that all Bitcoin holders should self-custody everything always. That would be impractical, inefficient, and inappropriate for many use cases.

It does mean that they should know how to do so, and should *tend toward self-custody* in direct inverse proportion to the trustworthiness of the custodians; a dynamic which ebbs and flows over time based on macro conditions and the tapestry of civilizational finance.

The *ability* to withdraw one's BTC into self-custody is the check that prevents the centralization and corruption inevitable under any other arrangement.

For Saylor to so casually dismiss this fundamental precept is wholly inappropriate and deserves the backlash.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Bitcoin self custody isn't just about being a paranoid mountain man. There are many long-term negative ramifications to convincing people to trust third party custodians.

1. Centralizing coins into a few hands increases systemic risk of loss and seizure.
2. Bitcoiners get disenfranchised from participating in governance activities like running nodes or trading forks.
3. Ossification arguments are strengthened because institutions don't care about more advanced cryptographic features.
4. Permissionless scaling gets deprioritized because we can just scale via trusted third party IOUs.

Self custody is not merely important to individual bitcoin holders. It's important for the continued strengthening and improvement of the entire network.

[Rene @Rene78087]

@schaaf_jurgen Sounds like you're describing our current monetary system.