Bitcoin r/Bitcoin recap - April 2018

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• r/Bitcoin recap - April 2018
• Daily Discussion, May 02, 2018
• What a time to be alive!
• Kanye will bring us the next bull run
• Everyone must report this Bitcoin mobile wallet asap.Is a fraud
• Bitcoin has elements of all of the different asset classes.
• Why Bitcoin Will Still Be #1 in 2020 (Opinion).
• Better Call Saul giving some quality advice in a crossword puzzle
• Intel applies for patent on bitcoin mining chip
• Bitcoin is my sponsor on Gran Turismo Sport! :)
• Blockchain Ecosystem Poster 2018 - Being distributed with yBitcoin magazine and standalone at events this year
• I had to get a picture of the Lamborghini with the “FOMO” plates
• Let's just chill here a minute.
• Easing Regulations Bring 4000 New Bitcoin ATMs to Argentina
• During the last 50 days there has been 21 merges made by completely new bitcoin core contributors.
• This Dirk Nowitzki tweet about Bitcoin just went viral
• Another lightning wallet coming to Android (and iOS soon)
• Poloniex announces lower trading fees, effective May 15
• Well this post certainly aged well...
• Learned today that one of the world's most influential economists predicted the rise of bitcoin in 1999
• South Korea’s Central Bank Using Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology to Create a Cashless Society
• BCH scammer brutally roasted
• Up 33%: Bitcoin's Price Just Had Its Best Month of 2018
• Dirk Nowitzki's trainer will not train Dirk until given payment of 561 Bitcoins ($5mill US)
• Bitcoin could replace cash in 10 years

r/Bitcoin recap - April 2018 Posted: 01 May 2018 05:31 AM PDT Hi Bitcoiners! I'm back with the sixteenth monthly Bitcoin news recap. It's easy for news and developments to get drowned out by price talk, so each day I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/Bitcoin and save them. At the end of the month I release them in one batch, to give you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in Bitcoin over the past month. Lots of gems this time around! You can see recaps of the previous months on Bitcoinsnippets.com A recap of Bitcoin in April 2018 01: People unsurprisingly spend the day making April fools jokes about Bitcoin 02: A list of all words used to generate 24-word bitcoin seeds with 1072 combinations 03: The 0.4.1 beta version of Lightning Network implementation Lnd is released 04: Mark Karpeles, ex-CEO of Mt. Gox does an AMA & Eclair's Lightning Network wallet is released for mainnet on Android 05: Satoshi Nakamoto chose this date as his birthday as a reference to gold confiscation from US citizens 06: Electrum is adding support for the Lightning Network & Nick Szabo on some of the basic concepts of a blockchain 14 years before bitcoin's release & The SEC allows Bitcoin ETF proposals again & Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs on Yahoo Finance 07: People argue over an infographic on technology adoption 08: Twitter suspends the @Bitcoin account after it kept tweeting against Bitcoin 09: People discuss the value of Technical Analysis for cryptocurrency markets & Someone gets a 1 satoshi tip using the Lightning Network 10: People discuss whether r/Bitcoin is nuanced enough & Canadian banks ban cryptocurrency purchases resulting in skyrocketing volumes on P2P exchanges 11: BitMEX research on Proof-of-Stake viability & HalongMining is a 10nm ASIC fabricated by Samsung semiconductors 12: The biggest 1hr volume in the history of Bitcoin happens as the price rises $1000 in an hour 13: Developers at Chain make Bulletproofs twice as fast & A community member shares content, tools and advice on cryptocurrency and taxes & Yahoo Japan buys a 40% stake in cryptocurrency exchange BitARG 14: Bitcoin is declared legal under Islamic law 15: r/Bitcoin reaches 800k subscribers 16: A 2-minute reminder of how the banking system works & Coinbase buys Earn.com 17: IMF Director Lagarde makes positive comments about cryptocurrencies & Someone is looking to make a Lightning and NFC integration for in-store payments 18: Analysis on the age distribution of unspent transaction outputs throughout time 19: A reminder that Amazon filed a patent in 2014 to de-anonymize bitcoin transactions and sell the data to law enforcement 20: Benedikt Bunz and Pieter Wuille on Bulletproofs & Bitwage integrates SegWit 21: The Eclair Lightning Network wallet is improving & A deep dive into Lit: A Lightning Network implementation 22: The high court in India is discussing the Bitcoin ban with the Central Bank of India 23: The Lightning Network reaches 2000 nodes, $150K capacity and 7000 active channels & Ken Sheriff is repurposing vitage computers to mine bitcoins & You can buy Reddit Gold with bitcoin again 24: Exploring the Lightning Network Daemon 0.4 Beta release 25: The Nasdaq CEO says they are open to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange & Misleading references get removed from the Bitcoin Wikipedia article 26: The 17 millionth Bitcoin has been mined & A guide to using BTCPay, a free and open-source Bitcoin payment processor 27: Hundreds of Bitcoin users seek lawsuit against Bitcoin.com for misleading visitors 28: Bitcoin was the 9th most read article on Wikipedia in 2017 & France reduces the tax rate on cryptocurrency sales from 45% to 19% 29: The government of the Philippines will allow ten cryptocurrency companies to operate in a special economic zone in Cagayan 30: Eltoo: a simplified update mechanism for Lightning and off-chain contracts & A beginner's guide to Lightning on a Raspberry Pi submitted by /u/SamWouters [link] [comments]

Daily Discussion, May 02, 2018 Posted: 02 May 2018 03:00 AM PDT Please utilize this sticky thread for all general Bitcoin discussions! If you see posts on the front page or /r/Bitcoin/new which are better suited for this daily discussion thread, please help out by directing the OP to this thread instead. Thank you! Daily threads are fast paced! If you don't get an answer to your question, you can try phrasing it differently or commenting again tomorrow. Suggested Topics Screenshots of article headlines without the article of your favorite price ticker of your exchange website of your private chats Wallet/Exchange/Network recommendations complaints service outages troubleshooting fee estimation unconfirmed transactions All things price hodling the dip the moon price going up price going down technical analysis price on your smart phone price on your smart watch Stuff you bought with Bitcoin Hardware wallets Lambos Teslas Pizza Questions Receiving Bitcoin Sending Bitcoin Earning Bitcoin Storing Bitcoin Buying Bitcoin Selling Bitcoin That thing your coworker said Bitcoin Showerthoughts Random music videos Bitcoin license plates Interesting threads Future speculation News of the day Memes, GIFs Twitter links Your price screenshots and repetitive submissions are being removed, so please stop submitting them! Please check the previous discussion thread for unanswered questions. submitted by /u/rBitcoinMod [link] [comments]

What a time to be alive! Posted: 01 May 2018 07:32 AM PDT submitted by /u/ltc- [link] [comments]

Kanye will bring us the next bull run Posted: 01 May 2018 04:33 PM PDT submitted by /u/Dill323 [link] [comments]

Everyone must report this Bitcoin mobile wallet asap.Is a fraud Posted: 01 May 2018 01:09 PM PDT submitted by /u/chek2fire [link] [comments]

Bitcoin has elements of all of the different asset classes. Posted: 01 May 2018 08:51 PM PDT submitted by /u/rehanworking [link] [comments]

Why Bitcoin Will Still Be #1 in 2020 (Opinion). Posted: 01 May 2018 10:24 PM PDT submitted by /u/Lalapancakes89 [link] [comments]

Better Call Saul giving some quality advice in a crossword puzzle Posted: 01 May 2018 07:32 PM PDT submitted by /u/thecrazedone126 [link] [comments]

Intel applies for patent on bitcoin mining chip Posted: 01 May 2018 01:08 PM PDT submitted by /u/3dkkm [link] [comments]

Bitcoin is my sponsor on Gran Turismo Sport! :) Posted: 01 May 2018 07:14 PM PDT submitted by /u/Rapinha [link] [comments]

Blockchain Ecosystem Poster 2018 - Being distributed with yBitcoin magazine and standalone at events this year Posted: 01 May 2018 07:28 PM PDT submitted by /u/joshdykgraaf [link] [comments]

I had to get a picture of the Lamborghini with the “FOMO” plates Posted: 01 May 2018 04:52 PM PDT submitted by /u/BradHeat [link] [comments]

Let's just chill here a minute. Posted: 01 May 2018 06:07 PM PDT submitted by /u/DeucesCracked [link] [comments]

Easing Regulations Bring 4000 New Bitcoin ATMs to Argentina Posted: 01 May 2018 11:38 PM PDT submitted by /u/matroya [link] [comments]

During the last 50 days there has been 21 merges made by completely new bitcoin core contributors. Posted: 01 May 2018 08:10 AM PDT Here are their github aliases, give them some credit: Willtech, Mryandao, Nixbox, Bmwiedemann, Kristapsk, Skeees, Okayplanet, Joemphilip, Trulex, Moneyball, Honzik666, WillAyd, Buddilla, Ccdle12, Knoxcard, GabrielDav, Krab, Lutangar, Drewx2, Nvercamm, Vasild, If you want to follow bitcoin merges easily you can follow this twitter bot: https://twitter.com/BitcoinMerges submitted by /u/Adolffuckler [link] [comments]

This Dirk Nowitzki tweet about Bitcoin just went viral Posted: 01 May 2018 04:22 PM PDT submitted by /u/lunt101 [link] [comments]

Another lightning wallet coming to Android (and iOS soon) Posted: 01 May 2018 01:10 PM PDT submitted by /u/rawtxapp [link] [comments]

Poloniex announces lower trading fees, effective May 15 Posted: 01 May 2018 08:29 PM PDT submitted by /u/BlueeDog4 [link] [comments]

Well this post certainly aged well... Posted: 01 May 2018 05:54 PM PDT submitted by /u/DontTreadOnMe16 [link] [comments]

Learned today that one of the world's most influential economists predicted the rise of bitcoin in 1999 Posted: 01 May 2018 01:20 PM PDT submitted by /u/sunburntcat [link] [comments]

South Korea’s Central Bank Using Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology to Create a Cashless Society Posted: 02 May 2018 01:49 AM PDT submitted by /u/MarkoVidrih [link] [comments]

BCH scammer brutally roasted Posted: 02 May 2018 01:29 AM PDT submitted by /u/fgiveme [link] [comments]

Up 33%: Bitcoin's Price Just Had Its Best Month of 2018 Posted: 01 May 2018 06:53 PM PDT submitted by /u/TanaBalas [link] [comments]

Dirk Nowitzki's trainer will not train Dirk until given payment of 561 Bitcoins ($5mill US) Posted: 01 May 2018 06:53 PM PDT submitted by /u/viresennumeris [link] [comments]

Bitcoin could replace cash in 10 years Posted: 01 May 2018 03:58 PM PDT submitted by /u/HenryK81 [link] [comments]

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