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  1. johnarb

    Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Blacklisted by US Treasury

    When I first started on Bitcoin, I saw post that was confusing to me and I think it's also confusing to others who are just starting out The Bitcoin wallets do not contain any bitcoins at all Bitcoin wallets are software to manage your private/public keys (pairs), what you call the *.DAT...
  2. johnarb

    Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Blacklisted by US Treasury

    There's a few things that stand out to me from your post Let's start with the most important one, "wallet vendors". If you use Bitcoin only, there is no need to purchase a wallet I've mentioned this before that I've never used a hardware wallet. What I recommend is buy a used laptop from ebay...
  3. johnarb

    Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Blacklisted by US Treasury

    The importance of running your own full node https://metamask.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015290012
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    Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Blacklisted by US Treasury

    https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/08/crypto-mixing-service-tornado-cash-blacklisted-by-us-treasury/ Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Blacklisted by US Treasury The department barred its use by U.S. persons as a matter of national security because North Korean hackers allegedly use the...
  5. johnarb

    Electrifying! With Stablesats, Galoy Brings The Dollar To The Lightning Network

    Last one I was excited about a DeFi backed by BTC started this whole crypto winter, you might have heard of it, goes by the initials LFG I was excited about Sovryn and still interested, but gonna wait until it has more substance to it. Maybe you do not see a problem with the screenshot below...
  6. johnarb

    BTC Lightening Network Capacity Reaches ATH

    We'll have to agree to disagree, but you did not address your concerns on what whales can do on the network that make them special? You also did not give an example of how these centralized miners are harming the network, like give us an example of a failed txid Let's be specific say you're...
  7. johnarb

    Bitcoin thread anyone?

    I still think it's very early if we look at the supply and demand over the long term There are 56 Million millionaires in the world Even if half of them want to add bitcoin to their portfolio of assets, they will only be able to acquire a fraction of a btc According to JP Morgan, Goldman...
  8. johnarb

    Bitcoin thread anyone?

    I wish I bought a lot more but I was too poor and too broke, living paycheck to paycheck and working OT just to make ends meet (ca 2013) I saw Bitcoin in the news during the Cyprus crisis when the price jumped but was too busy too look into it A few months later, spent some time, read a bunch...
  9. johnarb

    Bitcoin has topped.

    You're trying to induce fear to get me to your side, but you are wasting your time You clearly did not understand my post. Why don't you read it again and let me know if you have any questions ------- On a related note, POW miners on Ethereum are threatening to initiate a fork chain of the...
  10. johnarb

    Bitcoin has topped.

    Bitcoin is decentralized I do not think you know what that means It does not matter if Europe is threatening to ban POW, Bitcoin says fuck Europe Even if USA says they will ban POW, Bitcoin will say the same thing, fuck USA Even if Satoshi Nakamoto himself comes forward, signs the Genesis...
  11. johnarb

    Bitcoin has topped.

    No change from POW to POS for Bitcoin. I will die on this hill However, we will all be happy for another free Bitcoin fork POS. Yummy free $$$ like in 2017 At least one Bitcoin core dev already twitted he will support and provide code contribution to a Bitcoin POS project if anyone starts that...
  12. johnarb

    Michael Saylor steps down as MicroStrategy CEO

    MSTR is a publicly traded company for decades, and the news releases are all out there. You can see the announcements from 2020, yourself Here are the metrics since August 10, 2020 "Since @MicroStrategy adopted a #Bitcoin Strategy, its enterprise value is up +730% (+$5 billion) and $MSTR is...
  13. johnarb

    Bitcoin thread anyone?

    That's gotta hurt bad. Very sorry for him, but it would be impossible for him to buy back in now A lot of Bitcoin haters on ET want to bring up price-anchoring using the top price of $69K, but it's actually fake bravado of sort Secretly, most of them are price-anchoring btc when the price was...
  14. johnarb

    Bitcoin thread anyone?

    August 5, 2022 Mr. Pekelo, how would you grade your list of points and prediction (re: Government actions towards Bitcoin) after 10 years?
  15. johnarb

    Michael Saylor steps down as MicroStrategy CEO

    "Since Aug 10, 2020 when we adopted the #Bitcoin Standard, $MSTR has outperformed 97% of S&P 500 stocks." -Michael Saylor
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    Saylor steps down after Bitcoin losses

    "Since Aug 10, 2020 when we adopted the #Bitcoin Standard, $MSTR has outperformed 97% of S&P 500 stocks." -Michael Saylor
  17. johnarb

    BTC Lightening Network Capacity Reaches ATH

    The irony is lost on you. There's no Bitcoin "community". There's no budget for audit. Stop thinking like other crypto projects Bitcoin is decentralized Forced? lol Bitcoin is decentralized ------ If you ever spend some time running a Bitcoin node, making some transactions, running a LN...
  18. johnarb

    BTC Lightening Network Capacity Reaches ATH

    Use the lightning network with your own node and you'll find the answers to many of your uninformed concerns I recommend an Umbrel node
  19. johnarb

    Electrifying! With Stablesats, Galoy Brings The Dollar To The Lightning Network

    There's also USDT, USDC, MIM, USDP, etc. Stablesats is on the lightning network, no coin or tokens Decentralized and censorship-resistant, p2p pegged to the USD
  20. johnarb

    If BTC breaks through $20,000 next stop $10,000.........

    I get what you're saying and your perspectives are very compelling I've been reading a bunch of hard money books lately (latest one I'm on is the 7th property) then 1 day, I saw a video on YouTube that gave me an aha moment (below) All assets are money. Inflation is a great thing for Bitcoin...
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