Bitcoin Daily Discussion, February 19, 2019

Daily Discussion, February 19, 2019
Wow!!!!! I just noticed that the "₿" symbol is now the first currency when u long press $ on Google keyboard.
Could a Global Reserve Currency be on the Cards for Bitcoin?
Upgrade Man!
I'm Dumb, Don't Get Scammed Like Me
At 88, my grandmother is able to text, FaceTime and stream YouTube videos to a TV. She encouraged me to attend a Lightning Hackathon and she’s ready to take the lightning torch next! She can even be the oldest person to do so!!
Chuck Norris got Bitcoined'
Lightning Network finally kicks in!
Bitcoin USD LocalBitcoins Trading Volume Quadruples in the past Week
Things about corn
Rakuten Would Add Support for Bitcoin As Soon As March
Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing
I spent most of 2018 working on this Bitcoin primer to give back to the community. The Trust Machine (Art of the Problem)
Google keyboard enables Bitcoin symbol on iOS - a big endorsement from the web giant
To the moon please!
New banking policies (increasing transaction fees and negative interest rate) are about to drive Bitcoin mass adoption
You can now book 550,000+ hotels worldwide with BTC using Travala.com
Why isn’t Bitcoin banned everywhere? – Hacker Noon (really really good article, the best one i read so far)
Colombia is processing 10x the volume of P2P Bitcoin transfers as it was in 2017.
Current market sentiment
A Spanish bank is going to charge 5€/month to clients that do not agree to share personal data
We created history here by conducting a ⚡️ Lightning transaction to possibly the oldest living person at 88 years old!
Blockstream - MuSig: A New Multisignature Standard
How to run a bitcoin full node alongside ProtonVPN and still accept inbound connections to port 8333 using split-tunneling
PSA: ~461 days to the next halvening
Bitcoin Foundation Attempts To Put An End To The NY BitLicense Once Again

Daily Discussion, February 19, 2019

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST

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Wow!!!!! I just noticed that the "₿" symbol is now the first currency when u long press $ on Google keyboard.

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 11:32 PM PST

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Could a Global Reserve Currency be on the Cards for Bitcoin?

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 04:24 PM PST

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Upgrade Man!

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 04:55 AM PST

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I'm Dumb, Don't Get Scammed Like Me

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 08:30 PM PST

I recently went to send a small amount of bitcoin to my lightning wallet. I searched for "generate qr code for bitcoin" on duckduckgo.com and clicked on https://bitcoinqrcodegenerator(dot)win/. Turns out this site is a scam that alters what was on your clipboard and sends your bitcoin to a different address. I'm very embarrassed at my carelessness, but relieved that I only lost about $50. A few lessons I took away from this:

Always check that the address you paste matches the one you copied (I know, this is obvious, but still).
duckduckgo.com has a built in QR Code generator, simply type the letters "qr" followed by the address you want a QR code for.
When you do make a stupid mistake, share it with others so they don't get ripped off too.

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At 88, my grandmother is able to text, FaceTime and stream YouTube videos to a TV. She encouraged me to attend a Lightning Hackathon and she’s ready to take the lightning torch next! She can even be the oldest person to do so!!

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 03:12 PM PST

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Chuck Norris got Bitcoined'

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 10:22 PM PST

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Lightning Network finally kicks in!

Posted: 19 Feb 2019 02:17 AM PST

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Bitcoin USD LocalBitcoins Trading Volume Quadruples in the past Week

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 09:30 PM PST

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Things about corn

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 10:35 PM PST

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Rakuten Would Add Support for Bitcoin As Soon As March

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 10:05 PM PST

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Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 08:42 PM PST

https://www.coindesk.com/mining-giant-bitmain-posts-500-million-loss-in-ipo-financial-filing

Mining hardware giant Bitmain lost about $500 million in the third quarter of 2018

The company had also previously reported $2.8 billion of revenues for the first half, so the $3 billion figure for the first nine months works out to third-quarter revenues of just about $200 million.

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I spent most of 2018 working on this Bitcoin primer to give back to the community. The Trust Machine (Art of the Problem)

Posted: 18 Feb 2019 06:35 PM PST