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Fun fact: The average DAILY appreciation in Bitcoin since 2010 is higher than the average YEARLY interest paid on USD checking accounts

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$17 trillion dollars are currently held in negative interest bonds. 17 trillion reasons why you should own bitcoin.

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When we watch TV, our TVs watch us back and track our habits. This practice has exploded recently since it hasn’t faced much public scrutiny. But in the last few days, not one but *three* papers have dropped that uncover the extent of tracking on TVs. Let me tell you about them.

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It is a faux pas to ask how much bitcoin someone owns. However, it's acceptable and often entertaining to ask early adopters how they have lost coins over the years.

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Even if bitcoin had 10000 tx per second, people still wouldn’t use it for payment. Number go up is too powerful.

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Bitcoin isn't a get rich quick scheme, it's a don't get poor slowly scheme.

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I feel kinda similar to bitcoiners as I feel about my family. I can complain about them all I want, but I am not allow someone from outside to insult them

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Bitcoin has exposed how many intelligent people don’t actually understand economics, finance, or technology.

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Programmable money is a multi-trillion dollar opportunity, plain and simple.

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If the potential of a startup is proportionate to the size times the incompetence of its competitors, the most promising startup of all would be one that competed with national governments. It's not impossible; this is what cryptocurrencies do.

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Research into Trust-Trading Scams on Twitter

"Over 300 Twitter accounts are trying to steal your money."

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I feel kinda similar to bitcoiners as I feel about my family. I can complain about them all I want, but I am not allow someone from outside to insult them

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The reason "crypto" has come to mean cryptocurrency is because people care about money more than math Ironically, this is one of the great side benefits of cryptocurrency - money makes people care about the security of their keys. Crypto(currency) makes crypto(graphy) useful.

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Money launderers want untraceable currencies. Bitcoin’s transparent ledger makes that harder to achieve

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DAOs & Guilds are re-emerging in the Age of Information to serve a similar purpose as many guilds of the Medieval Ages

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Bitcoin could be 51'd by a nuclear power that commandeered a fab, or maybe conducted a stuxnet-level attack on Bitmain/Bitfury/etc, but that wouldn't kill it. It might halt the network for a while, but it would only strengthen the meme. Bitcoin lives in the minds of Bitcoiners.

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The 2020s will be a doozy. Millions of genomes sequenced, billions in crypto traded, trillions of dollars printed.

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Bitcoin really does feel like a gift from a time traveler from the future.

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