4/9 - By July 2013 the machine was buckling. A backlog of roughly 17,300 customer complaints had piled up, most about delayed transactions. Days before the shutdown, customers filed a class action lawsuit. In June, New York regulators had demanded money transmitter…

5/9 - On the evening of July 12, the site went dark. The notice said the team had "decided that the best way to proceed is to close shop and dedicate the entire team's efforts to creating the next generation of BitInstant." It read as routine maintenance.…

6/9 - @CoinDesk covered the shutdown the next morning as a temporary pause for an upgrade, which is exactly how BitInstant framed it. The "next generation" never shipped, and the company never processed another order.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/20…

7/9 - On January 26, 2014, Shrem stepped off a flight at JFK and was arrested on federal money laundering charges. At that moment he was also serving as Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, then the industry's most prominent advocacy group.

8/9 - The charge targeted the cash model itself. Shrem knowingly let Robert Faiella, an unlicensed dealer known as "BTCKing," push over $1 million through BitInstant without AML checks, reselling them to Silk Road drug buyers. He never filed required suspicious…

9/9 - Shrem pleaded guilty and was sentenced in December 2014 to two years in federal prison. In 2018 the Winklevoss twins (@tyler and @cameron), early BitInstant investors, sued him over roughly 5,000 Bitcoin; the case settled in 2019. BitInstant itself…

Miners will always
- enforce nodes (100% support RDTS)
- follow incentives ($429M at stake)

Slides by @dotkrueger 🔥

Whenever someone tells me I should "worry about my reputation," I giggle a little, because it's quite revealing.

Whether they are genuinely concerned or just trying to threaten me doesn't matter.

What they don't understand is that people who are honest…

I love everything about this!
And congrats @GrassFedBitcoin for becoming the Employee of the Year of a company you no longer work for! 🤣

Satoshi died so that all cryptographers may be free. https://nostr.download/6fd006478e489c7715df3c007e32dece2b1135994aecd15a9602eeb151bfd61a.jpg Whether the body died is secondary. The authority had to die. A living founder becomes a court

The market already prices in a remarkable possibility. https://nostr.download/586875f4da3ea0ffd7d32d65a0b4a2a8f65b9e2ffb879750d732d04e9ed4b215.jpg One of the largest fortunes in human history may belong to someone who has never spent it, ne

Сделка Адама Бэка по казначейству на 30 021 BTC теряет структуру финансирования, Сэйлор назвал антиспам-форк BIP-110 опасным, сложность Биткоина упала на 5% и другие биткоин-новости

Satoshi's Favor inside Bitcoin Quest https://bitcoineducation.quest TLDR: When the community earns 21 points, everyone gets a chance to win 21,000 sats during a 1 hour mining s! ⚡⛏️ Back story I got this idea from Guild Wars 1, an MMORPG PC game that came…

O grande desafio educativo e humano, então, não é despertar um desejo que já é natural, mas sim elevar o interesse para as coisas mais…

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CUANDO COMPRAR Y VENDER BITCOIN?
El Power Law Oscillator te dice exactamente cuando
entrar y salir - sin emociones, solo matematicas

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Dante talks about Bank of China! End of Printing Money Era?Brough...

As @Excellion once told me: every one of us is Lebanese. You just don’t know it yet.

Watch my fellow Lebanese Bitcoiner @V4BTC’s based keynote from @BTCPrague 2026 to understand what Samson meant back in 2019.

They don't understand how good ParmanodLs are

Aonde e o que realmente estamos construindo?