Venezuela's P2P Bitcoin market does 157x the volume of their largest stock exchange.
Venezuela's top stock exchange did $8,117 of trading volume on Friday.
Not a typo. $8,117 USD.
Venezuelans traded an avg of $1.28M of Bitcoin on LocalBitcoins each day this week.
@matt_odell People are always trying to mislead the public on this. They always fail to state that you can make the transaction fee any amount you want, it just might take a little longer to get there.
#LightningNetwork
https://t.co/Q0CaYRhLWD observed:
5,980 nodes (3,012 with active channels)
23,804 channels
651.276 BTC capacity ($2,219,882.32)
new in the past 24h:
39 nodes, 498 channels
median node capacity: 0.018 BTC ($61.53)
#Lightning#LN#bitcoin $BTC
Consequences of cashless societies:
- Total loss of user privacy
- Wholesale enabling of surveillance capitalism
- Easy imposition of political control schemes through social credit
- Frictionless wealth confiscation through negative interest rates
It's FULL NODE FEBRUARY.
Running a full node is how you ensure financial sovereignty on the Bitcoin network. Your challenge: launch your own node this month.
The easiest way to get started is @pierre_rochard's Node Launcher: https://t.co/207zulpBBO
Take control of your money!
I continue to believe we'll learn more about governance and economic systems from blockchains than from the "real world" in the coming years. Microverse is an early example of this: a blockchain-based game that tests Harberger taxation https://t.co/eehjwsl9pq
h/t @_charlienoyes