If you want to have the vocabulary + the right arguments to defend Bitcoin against some of the most common criticisms, you have to read Breaking FUD.
It is available for free in digital format, but you can also buy a print from ShopInBit (best for Europe) or LN Bits shop (US & UK).
According to nostr:npub1xv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqmclk3x , creator of nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm wallet, Nostr presents a novel opportunity to marry social networking with payments in a way that is open and interoperable.
Listen to S14 E14 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast to find out more!
And while you’re at it, make sure you subscribe!
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Edward nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 gave us all a stern warning, and despite the standing ovation, I don’t think most people understood or cared.
Snowden agrees that Bitcoin is the best tool we have to fight the surveillance state, but "Bitcoin has a privacy problem".
The reason we see talks of ETFs and acceptance from the SEC is BECAUSE Bitcoin is not private.
Snowden says it’s not enough for a few to know best privacy practices. Those who have good OPSEC should use that skill to provide privacy to the masses.
Privacy must be the default.
Notice he doesn’t say we should switch to Monero. Monero is a shitcoin. He says the technology to make decentralized, private payments with Bitcoin exists RIGHT NOW, and the minority of us who truly care about freedom need to pay attention to the discourse and stop asking for permission.
In other words, we have to stop accepting "Bitcoin shouldn’t do that because it might cause legal issues".
Separate money from the fucking state https://v.nostr.build/yw85.mov
Agreed! But until we add proper privacy to Bitcoin, Monero and MWEB Litecoin are the best tools with the greatest amount of liquidity 🤷🏻♂️
Gm, if you swipe your credit card for your daily payments and buy bitcoin into cold storage
How are you still separating money and state?
What happened to the Joule browser plugin?
Back in 2018 and 2019, Joule was a really big deal. Users could authenticate or sign up to websites using nothing but their Lightning nodes. It was also great for payments.
According to Michael Bunann, the project was unfortunately abandoned. However, his new project Alby integrates some of the same features.
Find out more by listening to S14 E14 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast 🔥
#alby #bitcoinwallet #joule #joulebitcoin #bitcoinjoule #lightningnetwork #bitcoinlightning #bitcoinpodcast #bitcointakeoverpodcast #btctkvr #bitcointakeover https://video.nostr.build/e375c675a080b2534667dc0e3e32f8c71a8cd54e0a8f525bb50958fc5905c677.mov
In S14 E14 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, nostr:npub1xv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqmclk3x talks about his efforts and ambitions to build nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm , but also expresses views from his previous Lightning network project – a browser extension named Joule.
Listen to Bumi on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & YouTube!
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Bitcoin: 21 million coins
Nintendo Gamecube: 21 million units sold
Bitcoin: millions of coins are lost, fewer are available for purchase every day
Gamecube: millions of units are broken, fewer work every day
Bitcoin: announced in October 2008
Gamecube: discontinued in 2007
Bitcoin color: orange
Rarest Gamecube color: orange
Coincidence? I think not! 
Gm, today is Litecoin’s 12th birthday.
During its existence, Litecoin has been Bitcoin’s incentivized testnet:
1. in May 2017, Charlie Lee pushed SegWit activation and put $1 million as a bounty in a LTC SegWit address. This destroyed the FUD about SegWit and sped up activation on Bitcoin. To this day, the money is still there and worth 10x more for anyone who thinks they can claim it.
2. in November 2017, Litecoin performed the first mainnet cross-chain atomic swap on the Lightning Network. A lot of early Lightning testing was done using LTC, so devs wouldn’t lose their BTC.
3. in February 2022, after years of looking at ways to add confidential transactions for fungibility, Litecoin activated Mimble Wimble Extension Blocks (MWEB). Besides the privacy benefits, this soft fork is also a bona fide block size increase.
MWEB is based on a 2016 proposal by Blockstream researcher Andrew Poelstra, so it’s 100% compatible with the Bitcoin codebase. Since it seems to work pretty well, Bitcoin may use it too if there’s enough user demand for privacy and more scalability.
After activating MWEB, Litecoin also got delisted from a few exchanges that feared that privacy would bring trouble. But this set an important precedent, as the biggest exchanges, payments processors & ATMs still support the coin – which means that confidential transactions are now safer and more normalized.
Litecoin started out as a carbon copy of Bitcoin, with three main changes: block time, supply, and mining algorithm. But now that it finds itself at the avantgarde of privacy and still remains compatible with the Bitcoin codebase, it’s a valuable experimentation layer which, unlike a testnet, has real users and money to be made from exploiting bugs.
So if something works for a while on Litecoin, it’s good enough for Bitcoin too – granted that users want it.
While some folks refer to Litecoin as a “shitcoin” which provides little to no value and inflates the 21 million coins cap, the market disagrees. Litecoin resisted through 3 halving cycles without seeing a drastic reduction in hash rate. This means that the price never went to 0 and the increases kept the miners going.
It outlived all of its contemporaries (nobody talks about Feathercoin, Peercoin and Terracoin anymore), it proved its usefulness in key moments from Bitcoin’s history, and it continues to experiment with features that can be ported 1:1 to Bitcoin.
Happy birthday, Litecoin! #Litecoin #LitecoinFam #LTC
The new Trezor hardware wallet appears to be using the OPTIGA Trust M security chip.
It's an interesting choice, as it's closed source hardware that's powered by open source MIT-licensed software.
OPTIGA Trust M is better than the ATEC608 that's found in BitBox, Passport & Coldcard because:
– there's no NDA, the devs can report bugs to improve the security
– you can verify what the chip does & how it works.
However, it still isn't open source hardware. We'll have to wait for Tropic Square in 2025 to finally get that.
If you’re planning to buy a new Trezor Safe 3 hardware wallet, you can also support my work by using my referral link:
https://trezor.io/?transaction_id=102f90d348c8b3129df4c70c40a6a2&offer_id=133&affiliate_id=4735 
In S14 E13 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Paul Sztorc claims that Bitcoin is in danger of getting replaced.
He also predicts that Fedimint leads to massive rug pulls & Ark probably won’t happen due to the requirement to add the BIP119 soft fork.
What do you think?
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Listen to nostr:npub1xv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqmclk3x talk about building Alby in S14 E14 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast 🎧
He also mentions Nostr zaps, his previous work with Joule, and everything else in between.
The episode is now available on Sporify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube. Please subscribe and leave feedback!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-takeover-podcast/id1451766883?i=1000630890377 
Do Bitcoin sidechains enable scams such as Celsius & Terra Luna?
And if so, isn’t it better to let these projects get built on Ethereum or other centralized chains that do political lobbying?
Find out Paul Sztorc’s answer about scams on Drivechains in S14 E13 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast 🎧
#drivechain #bitcoin #bitcoinpodcast #bitcointakeover #paulsztorc #bitcoinscam #cryptoscam #terraluna #celsius #celsiusnetwork #tusd #bitcointakeoverpodcast #btctkvr https://video.nostr.build/83b521b079f4a789afaea86b922655e8a6884391354324c5280409fe453de984.mov
Bitcoin is cypherpunk, not Austrian.
Moving goalposts to keep up with the latest version of virtue signaling is much worse.
Why does anyone need a huge virtue signaling W from the guy who writes the best books, gives the most memorable speeches, and educated both Joe Rogan and the Senate of Canada on Bitcoin?
He’s done more for education and adoption than anyone else, in a time when promoting Bitcoin wasn’t safe from harsh criticism and accusations of shilling Ponzi schemes for drug addicts.
