Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

In return for a loan deal with the IMF, El Salvador had to give up some of its pro-bitcoin policies. It only made the Bitcoin law better.

Bitcoin Magazine

The IMF Just Improved El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law

In return for a loan deal with the IMF, El Salvador had to give up some of its pro-bitcoin policies. It only made the Bitcoin law better.

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

Governments and institutions buying up large amounts of bitcoin is not without risk, but there is only one thing you can do about that...

Bitcoin Magazine

Governments And Large Institutions Can Buy All The Bitcoin They Want (Except Yours)

Governments and institutions buying up large amounts of bitcoin is not without risk, but there is only one thing you can do about that...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

If you listen to only one podcast this week make sure it's this one.

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

$100k

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

I suspect we haven’t seen any Bitcoin protocol upgrades since 2021, at least in part, because the proponents of proposed soft forks aren't convinced a UASF would be successful. And if a UASF wouldn’t be successful, maybe the upgrade is not worth doing in the first place…

Bitcoin Magazine

The Lack Of Soft Forks Is Due To A Lack Of Interest— Not A Lack Of Process

Bitcoin Core developers will dedicate their time and energy to whatever part of the codebase they find most interesting or important to work on. So...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

As I said...

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AARON: Trump Does Not Give A Damn About Bitcoin

Trump is providing lip service to Bitcoiners, but that does not mean he will continue to be an ally of Bitcoin if he does get elected for a second ...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

As the upcoming Trump administration is gearing up to establish a regulatory landscape facilitating full-on anything-goes multicoinery, and with Gary Gensler gone, we could well see the most atrocious scam coins proliferate and soar— before they inevitably implode.

Bitcoin Magazine

Gary Gensler’s Departure Is No Triumph For Bitcoin

As the upcoming Trump administration is gearing up to establish a regulatory landscape facilitating full-on anything-goes multicoinery, and with Ga...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

In his Take from Wednesday, Shinobi argued that the surge of institutional bitcoin adoption will lead to premature ossification of the Bitcoin protocol. While I share his concern to an extent, I am less convinced this is necessarily true.

Bitcoin Magazine

No, BlackRock Won’t Ossify Bitcoin

Shinobi argued that the surge of institutional bitcoin adoption will lead to premature ossification of the Bitcoin protocol. While I share this con...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

I don’t think Donald Trump actually changed his mind on cryptocurrency much at all since three years ago… I think he just wants in on the scam.

Bitcoin Magazine

Trump’s Coin Is About As Revolutionary As OneCoin

I don’t think Donald Trump actually changed his mind on cryptocurrency much at all since three years ago… I think he just wants in on the scam.

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

Probably my most controversial Take yet.

Bitcoin Magazine

No, Today Is Not Bitcoin’s Birthday

Yes, Bitcoin was first proposed via Satoshi’s white paper on October 31, 2008, but that doesn't mean today is Bitcoin's birthday.

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

As someone who wrote a book on the origin story of Bitcoin I felt I still had to watch Money Electric— perhaps just to comment on it in a Take. Even watching it for that purpose was a waste of my time.

Bitcoin Magazine

Money Electric: Being Distracted By Nonsense

As someone who wrote a book on the origin story of Bitcoin I felt I still had to watch Money Electric— perhaps just to comment on it in a Take. E...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

Bitcoin Magazine

The ECB Economists Aren't Exactly Wrong About Bitcoin (They’re Just Useless)

A recent paper from the ECB in which the authors claim the existence of Bitcoin could impoverish non-holders and latecomers drew the ire from many ...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Is No Fait Accompli

Bitcoin is no longer the experimental new project it was over a decade ago, but it can still fail.

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

In Bitcoin, Explained 95, @Sjors Provoost and I discuss the new Bitcoin Core 28.0 release. 👂👇 https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-95-bitcoin-core-v280

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

Bitcoin Magazine

AARON: Trump Does Not Give A Damn About Bitcoin

Trump is providing lip service to Bitcoiners, but that does not mean he will continue to be an ally of Bitcoin if he does get elected for a second ...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

Bitcoin Magazine

AARON: Ocean’s DATUM Is Tackling Bitcoin’s Most Pressing Problem

Ocean's DATUM is since this weekend putting transaction selection back into the hands of hashers, benefiting Bitcoin's censorship resista...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

Is there a way to create a link to your Nostr? (So people can easily find it, similar to linking to your Twitter feed?)

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

The phrase "and then they fight you" has been overused to the point of fatigue in this space. But this really is it.

Bitcoin Magazine

Developing Financial Privacy Tools Was Today Criminalized By The Dutch Court

A breakdown of today's ruling in the Alexey Pertsev, Tornado Cash developer, case in the Netherlands and the implications this will have for o...

Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

Junseth back at it 👌

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Aaron van Wirdum 1 year ago

It's a bit hidden in the rhetoric, but Shinobi raises an important point in this article. With CoinJoin, does everyone... - send money to each other - send money to themselves (Technically, you can't really trace sats over the blockchain; each transaction destroys UTXOs and creates new UTXOs.)

Bitcoin Magazine

Samourai Did Nothing Wrong, Self Custodial Tools Are Not Money Transmitters

A reaction to the indictment charges against the Samourai developers yesterday, and the patently absurd distortions of reality, prior regulatory cl...