Coinbase ordered to turn over data on users trading more than $20,000 to the IRS techcrunch.com/2017/11/29/coi…

Juncker: "This is not a failure". Correct: It is a long string of failures so far. #brexit

Considerable persecution and disinformation campaigns did their fair bit to convince many people that it is the real deal. #finance #bitcoin #fintech x.com/ErikVoorhees/s…

Announcing the first-ever interoperable Lightning transactions using real bitcoin with ACINQ @blockstream! We bought a Starblocks coffee ☕️ and a yalls.org article 📰. medium.com/@lightning_net… youtu.be/a73Gz3Tvx3k

What really matters is that in the last two years at least the spread between the lower bound and current price has only been narrowing all the time. Corrections happen only within these boundaries that keep improving. #bitcoin x.com/kangasbros/sta…

The energy argument against cryptocurrencies originally started by Paul Krugman in 2013 only confuses matters. If you think critically about this subject, you must wonder why would anyone want to obscure the facts. Watch Andreas (aantonop Team)'s explanation youtube.com/watch?v=2T0OUI… #bitcoin

There is some value in providing the mining necessary to run it, but some tokens that are backed by services and assets in the real economy may actually be worth more. #litecoin #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #tokens x.com/prestonjbyrne/…

Very obviously, we haven't. Yet. x.com/VitalikButerin…

In 2017 variety of industries learned that Blockchain technologies could optimize the way they do business. cointelegraph.com/news/industrie…

From the figures I've seen, Russia probably spent about as much money influencing the election as a single CIA branch spends on "stationary" in a year. $100k facebook ads? $1.4m on trolls? CIA black ops probably burn that amount in silence every five minutes of every single day.

Switzerland continues to do it right. x.com/ErikVoorhees/s…

This community project asks the question "Are We Decentralized Yet?" of every top cryptocurrency. And the results reveal a surprising level of centralization: buff.ly/2tN4dPE

On it! x.com/PhillipNunnUK/…

Most ICO whitepapers would be, and are, laughed at by subject matter experts. x.com/ricmac/status/…

Matjaž Šircelj Richard MacManus elizabeth stark ⚡ Whitepapers should satisfy a technical audience that the proposed idea embodies a technical innovation. I don't believe that they should target the layperson at all. It's impossible to do an adequate job of both.

Richard MacManus Matjaž Šircelj elizabeth stark ⚡ Indeed, the best way to do this is exactly as you suggest: a technical innovation, concisely explained to experts, in the whitepaper, and an accompanying business plan, clearly described to non-technical investors, that builds on the technical innovation.

As always, it's best to not keep all eggs in one single basket, meanwhile you make sure you have good baskets. x.com/aantonop/statu…

Don't confuse "we need to explore ETH rent so system is incentive compatible and scalable for use it will see in 10 yrs" with "small block maximalists were right ETH is out of control, small blocks FTW, BTC is doing it right". I think adoption has thoroughly disproved the latter

Good thread by Elizabeth. x.com/starkness/stat…