Sam Wouters (@sdwouterr) 's Twitter Profile
Sam Wouters

@sdwouterr

Heading up Marketing & Content at @River Pronounced Wow-ters

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calendar_today16-11-2010 01:06:20

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“Nobody is using Lightning” should now be a dead meme. Launching a new #Bitcoin report from River: How the Lightning Network grew by 1212% in 2 years ⚡ It’s time to pay attention to the incredible work of so many people in the space 👇 Link below in the 🧵

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With the #Bitcoin halving almost upon us, I made a fun little treat 😄 Here is how much miners/pools have been earning in USD over the past 4 Bitcoin epochs! For the bitcoin-denominated version, see the tweet below 👇

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Many exchanges are, the data on this is staggering. Since 2018, 10-20% of all on-chain fees are from in-house transfers. (~$200-400M) This was part of why exchanges backed big blocks in the blocksize war: Outsourcing the problem to nodes to avoid optimizing internal processes.

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The major trends in #Bitcoin's next few years seem predictable. If you've been paying attention, much of the meaningful stuff that will happen has already been set in motion and now just needs to play out 🤷‍♂️ Let's speedrun through the next epoch in a thread 🧵

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I admit it's not exactly a positive/exciting/hopeful analysis, but that's where we all come in. Everything we can do to patiently educate people on #Bitcoin will help across all 6 of these areas. If you wait for people to come to you, someone else will get to them first. 🤷‍♂️

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I remain optimistic about Bitcoin, but I find too many Bitcoiners assume we’ve already “won” and have no clue how much stuff we’ll have to work through still. If the price goes up for a good amount of time while all of this is happening, it’ll motivate people to build as well.

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I didn’t expect this to blow up and for so many people to agree. Thanks for the kind words! I wrote the notes for this for myself weeks ago but decided to publish to see how wrong I’ll be. Above all I look forward to how brilliant Bitcoiners will continue to surprise 🧠

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News is going around that European bank BNP Paribas has bought some of Blackrock's #Bitcoin ETF. You guys, they bought less than a bitcoin. We're ok, there's still enough for the rest of us.

News is going around that European bank BNP Paribas has bought some of Blackrock's #Bitcoin  ETF.

You guys, they bought less than a bitcoin. We're ok, there's still enough for the rest of us.
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Honestly one of the best motivational speeches for Bitcoiners I’ve ever seen. This gets me more fired up than anything any Bitcoin influencer can say. We live in a world where the ruling elite has crafted an overcomplicated system with overcomplicated language that is so out of

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At MicroStrategy World 2024 I presented about #Bitcoin adoption trends we’re seeing at River and shared some internal data. You might find it interesting!

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7 months later I still hear stories about interesting places this report made it to: - Executives of large banks. - A central bank’s researchers. - Board members of a large fintech. If you’re a content creator, who are some unexpected people that have looked at your work?

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“Bitcoin Core developers have been growing Bitcoin’s code at a steady and conservative pace for 15 years” Thanks for your work, legends.