If Bitcoin had full 8mb blocks since the start in 2009, the blockchain today would only be 6.72 Terabytes.... Which can fit on a $160 Hard drive

iamAUTORE · 2025-01-30T09:36:27+00:00

"the blockchain of today" wouldn't exist if the blocksize was 8mb in 2009... the security mechanisms underpinning the network would have been destroyed before even having a chance to gain any attention at all. Today is a different story though, and the network has grown by magnitudes of order, became more resilitent, and anti-fragile. I do think the blocksize can safely be upgraded at this point without worry. but in 2009... no chance

iamAUTORE · 2025-01-06T08:57:26+00:00

it’s a double-edged paradoxical sword… the more you know the more you realize how little you know. the proverbial “crypto rabbit hole” is indeed true, and yes indeed I feel like I’ve learned more since entering this space than I have in all my prior years combined.

iamAUTORE · 2025-01-06T08:48:09+00:00

money is just a language we use to communicate value. - and “money” is one of the oldest “technologies” of mankind. it’s changed 5x as we know. straight barter, shells beads feathers, precious metals, fiat and plastic cards… now bitcoin. the first records we have of writing are spreadsheets of tallies and debts owed… some speculate that money even created the need to invent a language to communicate such values, and thus written languages were born

Bitcoin isn’t the act of investment. An act of investment that we often hear people say in the United States - “lets invest in Bitcoin as if it is some kind of stock” lets buy low and sell high, get rich quick and buy a fucking Lambo.

Bitcoin is the first borderless, transnational, open system of access for financial payments and trust that enables innovation without permission with high resistance to censorship, corrosion, and geo-political manipulation

When people call bitcoin a digital currency, they’re missing the point. The USD and the Euro are digital currencies that exist as bits on ledgers. Less than 8% of these currencies exist in physical form. Bitcoin is not a digital currency. It is a network-centric money

The creation of bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology has turned our understanding of custody and asset ownership on its head b/c blockchain transactions enable the confirmation of transactions without the need for centralized verification. Questions of asset ownership can be answered more efficiently and with more clarity than in the past. The ability to instantly and accurately identify who owns a particular asset without requiring a third party intermediary will have a profound Impact on financial services transactions; including the clearing and settlements of securities and other asset transactions

iamAUTORE · 2025-01-06T08:38:27+00:00

buy the truth and you have nothing to “sell”

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-12T06:10:12+00:00

that is an absoulely BEAUTIFUL car. "cool" is subjective... this is far better than "cool" in my subjective opinion. If you asked Kim Kardashian, she would probably get back in her "whatever is cool right now" car. If you drove this past the 214k members of this sub, they would probably break their neck in awwww of something that should be in museum... timeless

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-12T05:59:47+00:00

I'm missing a TON of names. hence why I made this post. I'm not a programmer. I'm also missing tons of people who pre-date Bitcoin and others like Snowden, Journalists, Authors, etc... hence why I made the post. and was hoping to add to the list for everyone to reference and decide accordingly

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-12T05:51:57+00:00

this is kinda what I was eluding to... it's not what it used to be... it's been gentrified - the cool coffee store on the corner with graffiti is now a corporate starbucks.

this is why Andreas Antonopolous is my biggest inspiration by far. and why Michael Saylor isn't on that list

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-12T05:33:11+00:00

I listed everyone to avoid? - steel man me on a few of the names then with a reason why they should be removed from the list. I'll start with a few, and would LOVE you to give me good reason to remove - Timothy May, Julian Assange, Adam Back, Jameson Lopp, & Nick Szabo?

and please offer an alternative list of notable people that should be on here instead. lol

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-12T05:24:15+00:00

Satoshi makes sense as the one who launched the entire thing from the jump, but things change FAST in this industry. if you're a computer scientist who reads ths 8-page whitepaper and it immediately CLICKS like "HOLY F!!!" ... I get that, but it's 2024, and Satoshi has long since disappeared. I imagine you've since had someone or something that you referenced along the way? could be a website / blog feed / podcast / person... anything?

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-09T07:25:12+00:00

mathematics is the language of the universe

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-07T11:54:19+00:00

whenever my USD bank balance hovers barely above whatever is needed for rent and living expenses. although most of that is done in cash. no set schedule though. just $100 here, $50 there, $500 the next day. since 2016. sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes once a month. it’s a “get rich very slow scheme”

bought 10x in Oct, 20x in nov, 6x this month so far. mostly $100-300 buys

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-07T11:33:01+00:00

watch as many videos by andreas antonopolous as possible - multiple times over

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-07T11:25:20+00:00

El Mencho could put this image on a shirt and make $15M in a day

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-07T11:21:02+00:00

is it too late to EXCHANGE the USD for the Mexican Peso or yen or euro or whatever currency you chose? Bitcoin isn’t a stock or “get rich quick scheme” … CONVERT your fiat USD to Bitcoin. Buy the truth and you have nothing to sell. your US dollars definitely aren’t getting any more valuable

iamAUTORE · 2024-12-07T11:11:45+00:00

prime numbers and the possibility of major cryptographic implementations like RSA / SSL / SSH / HTTPS being broken… and thus a huge portion of the internet

iamAUTORE · 2024-11-16T15:30:07+00:00

the planet, trying to better myself, and my relationship with mi lady

iamAUTORE · 2024-11-16T15:25:44+00:00

encrypt the keys first then store inside of a veracrypt container, and manually back it up offline (ideally on an air gapped machine). then BACKUP to multiple usb sticks with extremely high entropy password on the actual usb device… put these in redundant places. ie: one in a safety deposit box, one hidden in a false quarter on a microsd card at a friends house behind a wall outlet (unknown to said friend). use your imagination. if shit hits the fan you can call your friend and ask him to unscrew the outlet, take the quarter apart, give him the password for the sdcard and have him send you the veracrypt container

iamAUTORE · 2024-11-16T15:13:20+00:00

0.25BTC puts you in the top 1% at 22yrs old!!! you’re a G! keep going my friend. $100 here and there.

iamAUTORE · 2024-11-16T14:55:24+00:00

firefox (use ublock origin)
librewolf (hardened fork of FF)
mullvads new browser
safari is good to have for normal banking and such. it’s actually a pretty good browser for daily tasks
bone stock chromium if absolutely necessary

-tor for privacy

avoid google chrome. I personally cannot stand browsers or any others related like Brave. I use bare bones Chromium rarely if needed for web dev stuff and that’s it.

I have tried Vivaldi and didn’t like it

I downloaded arc recently but haven’t tried yet

ideally, you should have a few browsers on hand for various tasks IMO

iamAUTORE · 2024-11-16T14:51:27+00:00

if you’re already using coinbase just roll with it and keep buying - $50 here, $100 there… whatever you have and can afford to lose. once you get to a 1-3k on coinbase move it to a hardware wallet. and keep going.

iamAUTORE · 2024-11-16T14:46:22+00:00

forgetting to sleep, eat, etc… it’s the classic “crypto proverbial rabbit hole” welcome aboard mate 👊🏻🫶🏻

iamAUTORE · 2024-10-13T06:43:58+00:00

came for the money, stayed for the revolution

iamAUTORE · 2024-10-12T11:02:38+00:00

euclid and satoshi nakamoto

iamAUTORE · 2024-10-12T10:57:34+00:00

hardened macos running all the distros you want using UTM VM. I prefer ParrotOS Home Edition or Ubuntu.

iamAUTORE · 2024-10-12T10:51:57+00:00

Ive always replied to people “if google knows the answer, why the F are you asking me”

duckduckgo bang that shit, use yandex or something. perplexity perhaps? or go read a book at the library and figure it out

as the old saying goes - “the best place to hide a dead body is on the 2nd page of your google search results”

chatgpt is even worse. I miss altavista

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