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A perfect day to consolidate UTXOs, starting with a fee of ~1 sat/vB. 🤩

GM and happy anniversary! 🎂 🚀 Sixteen years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto initiated the first Bitcoin transfer by sending 10 Bitcoin to Hal Finney, in block 170.

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Unbeknownst to most of the world, they had just initiated a financial revolution that persists to this day. The second tansfer was also initiated on January 12, 2009, in block 182::

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Since then, #Bitcoin continuously proves to be the most important tool of our financial freedom.

Former European Commissioner Thierry Breton stated that the EU canceled Romanian elections and would do the same in Germany if necessary: "We did it in Romania and we will do it in Germany, if necessary." - Thierry Breton Elon Musk describes the EU's interference, which resulted in the cancellation, as "tyrannical behavior." Here is a video with English subtitles: #Romania

Emperors buy lands, plebs buy Bitcoin. 🤩

It seems there is no safe shortcut to abundance. Of course, it sounds boring to tell someone that hodling Bitcoin and DCA-ing is the easiest path to escape fiat slavery. Few will believe you, and even fewer will follow the advice. A member of my extended family recently asked me about trading Bitcoin with leverage. Someone who is not technical, who has no prior trading knowledge, let alone knows what it means to trade with leverage. Someone who struggles to reset their password for an online account. Then I remembered that I had given him all the information that would have helped him escape slavery. On May 24, 2019, I created a Bitcoin wallet with him. I transferred him 0.00101467 BTC (worth €7.30 at that time) when the price was @ €7,200.63. I showed him the power of DCA, and I thought he understood, because he showed me how he had bought some Bitcoin from an ATM. I have no idea what deviated him from his course, the fact is that he no longer has any wallet or Bitcoin. Since May 24, 2019, Bitcoin has risen 1216%, and the only shortcut to getting here is to have patience, during which you can study better what Bitcoin is. But hey, who has time for that? We have a saying that goes: "God gives you, but He doesn't put it in your bag." If I were rude, I could have reminded him of this...

I'm not good at orange pilling, and that's why I don't make it a goal in itself to do it. But I have observed a characteristic that is common among most people who end up holding #Bitcoin for the first time. "Okay, but how will I change back into 'money' when Bitcoin is even more valuable?" The best answer to this is that meme with Neo from The Matrix. The time will come when you'll finally understand there will be no need to convert to fiat because Bitcoin, not USD or any other currency, will be the holy grail of standards. There will be no need to sell a valuable asset to buy and hold another less valuable one. It will be the ultimate medium of exchange, allowing you to purchase what you need directly with Bitcoin. I don’t know if fiat will become obsolete, but what I do believe is that transitioning through fiat will ultimately be pointless. Another issue with those who are orange pilled is the idea that Bitcoin is 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚, and the regret that they didn't discover Bitcoin earlier, that they didn't pay attention to it at the right time and now it's too expensive. Bitcoin will always be too expensive because its very finite nature gives it this characteristic. It's going up forever... And there’s a fitting meme here. A picture is worth more than a thousand words. Those who understand Bitcoin are winners, as are those who think in Bitcoin rather than fiat.

Happy New Year to all bitcoiners and advocates of #freedom of expression! One of my resolutions this year is to not feed the beast. In the EU, the new #MiCA laws are merely a step toward limiting our freedoms, more restrictions will come. It is our choice to either submit and comply or to opt out and establish a parallel society of free individuals who answer to no one. #Bitcoin is under attack, as are we, those who use this wonderful creation. P2P, Lightning, mixing pools are our weapons, but it is not enough. To make them obsolete, we need to increase the pool of those who do not interact with the system under their control. #OptOut of fiat, if you have the opportunity, do not use their corrupt system, think and act in Bitcoin, not in fiat. Regarding freedom of expression, our tyrants have thought of something even more evil. The European Commission wants to eliminate chat encryption and to monitor all chat messages of citizens. This is Orwellian-level surveillance. Those who only submits without responding in any way is implicitly an accomplice who assists them in their dirty purpose. #Nostr can be our answer in the fight against the tyranny. Kudos to all those who build new things here, your support is invaluable. 🙏 2025 must be a year in which the fight of the advocates of freedom intensifies, we must not sleep while the beast works. ✌️

#Hola Merry Christmas everyone!

Lucas Ontivero @lontivero @ Labitconf Precauciones y herramientas para ofuscar mi trazabilidad en Bitcoin "Bitcoin es por naturaleza trazable, en esta charla exploraremos ciertas precauciones, acciones y herramientas que podemos aplicar para reducir nuestra exposición." #Bitcoin #Privacy

#hola and GM frens!

#hola y feliz cumple #HODL! 🎉🎉🥳 HODLing hizo su debut en una publicación en el foro bitcointalk por el miembro de la comunidad GameKyuubi el 18 de diciembre de 2013. En ese momento, Bitcoin coqueteaba con la marca de $1,000 por primera vez después de haber subido de alrededor de $130 solo ocho meses antes.