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Pierre Rochard
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Afaik professional investors have to carefully read all of the SEC filings to already know the answers to those questions before purchasing securities.

One of the reasons I’m focused on BTC as savings technology.

I agree there are good arguments to avoid getting into debt, I just don’t think “I have to persuade the lender to buy bitcoin instead of lending fiat” is a good argument.

At the University of Wyoming’s Blockchain Stampede conference we did a deep dive on the value of Bitcoin, the role of mining, and how it balances electricity grids.

Thank you Matthew Skrlac for the invitation to speak and for organizing a great conference!

“Free” was something I pushed for at Kraken, it simplifies for users, abuse can be detected, and routing fee revenue is greater than cost. nostr:note1cftkjsu2g9mpu90wzn57m4etht7y96vfs0awq2ttcunvpymdckaspjpqe5

I don’t have any insider info, but it seems like they had to outsource deposit/withdrawal functionality to a third-party due to regulations, and it seems like that third-party happens to not support Lightning. I don’t know if the lack of support is for regulatory reasons or just not a business priority.

If you’re right they’ll get attacked, and if I’m right they will decentralize in response to that attack. That’s what I mean by anti-fragility of censorship resistance.

You’re welcome to pour resources into pre-emptively tilting at windmills, but I have to pushback when someone claims that Bitcoin is not censorship resistant when they have no censored transactions as evidence.

Transactions being censored is a hypothetical problem.

Mining can’t be monopolized, it’s the most competitive industry in the world.

Anyone can fabricate arbitrary centralization metrics and declare a hypothetical of theoretical censorship-resistance, for example 100% of hashrate is on planet Earth.

Might just take longer to accumulate censored transactions in the mempool

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We discussed a wide range of topics: savings technology, Lightning, government strategic reserves, and life philosophy

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I still remember when I first saw a Max Keiser clip in 2011, he was talking about silver and JPM.

I never would have guessed that a decade later we would be together at the inauguration gala of El Salvador’s President. Hugely grateful for Max’s energy and humor, a hero of bitcoin!