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    Bitcoin Daily Discussion, April 02, 2019

    Daily Discussion, April 02, 2019

    Posted: 02 Apr 2019 12:00 AM PDT

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    r/Bitcoin recap - March 2019

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:29 AM PDT

    Hi Bitcoiners!

    I'm back with the 27th monthly Bitcoin news recap.

    For those unfamiliar, 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.

    A recap of Bitcoin in March 2019

    Adoption * Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square shows off his Bitcoin full node (2 Mar) * The Lightning Network passes 30k channels and has nearly 7k nodes (3 Mar) * Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square buys a Bitcoin hardware wallet (8 Mar) * The North Korean government reportedly owns $650M in cryptocurrency (8 Mar) * Bitcoin is an official scrabble word (15 Mar) * The Lightning network now has over 1k btc in capacity (16 Mar) * A discussion on using bitcoin on Venezuela as the electricity was down (18 Mar) * The Tor Project has started accepting bitcoin directly (19 Mar) * Someone buys a sandwich in Bern using the Lightning Network (26 Mar) * SegWit adoption is at an all-time-high of near 50% (27 Mar) * ZebPay becomes the first exchange to add Lightning payments for its users (28 Mar) * The average number of transactions per block is at an all-time-high of 2700 (31 Mar)

    Development * Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, will support 3-4 developers to work on Bitcoin Core free of commercial interests (20 Mar) * The alpha release of Lightning Loop, a non-custodial service that makes it easier to receive bitcoin on Lightning (20 Mar) * Blockstream announces its new Blockstream Green wallet (20 Mar) * Eclair mobile now supports receiving Lightning payments on mainnet (28 Mar) * A plugin to accept Bitcoin Lightning payments at WooCommerce stores (31 Mar)

    Security * The director of Institutional Sales at Coinbase states their previous blockchain analysis provider was selling customer data to 3rd parties (3 Mar)

    Mining * A small bitcoin mining operation with solar energy at home (12 Mar) * On a Canadian oil field, natural gas with nowhere to go powers a bitcoin-mining operation (29 Mar)

    Business * Some people delete their Coinbase accounts to protest their acquisition of a hacking team that sold spyware to human rights abusing governments (2 Mar) * US retail company Kroger abandons Visa due to high fees and considers integrating bitcoin's Lightning network (4 Mar) * Coinbase says it will transition out its ex-hacking team staff to appease users, without clarifying the issues with sold customer data (5 Mar) * UnionBank in the Philippines adds a Bitcoin ATM in its flagship branch at the central business district (8 Mar) * Bitmain is facing multiple lawsuits after misleading investors (10 Mar) * According to a Fidelity executive there are hundreds of institutions interested in cryptocurrency investments (12 Mar) * Switzerland's biggest online retailer starts accepting bitcoin (19 Mar) * A company is developing a cryptocurrency wallet accessible through WhatsApp (25 Mar) * As promised Gemini finally implements native SegWit support (27 Mar) * A Bitcoin Suisse advertisement at Zurich airport (28 Mar) * Japan's biggest electric railway and subway operator is considering cryptocurrency integration (29 Mar) * A cryptocurrency bank in Kiev (29 Mar)

    Education * Nick Szabo on how Bitcoin ensures independence of money from politics (1 Mar) * A story book about Bitcoin (19 Mar) * A 200+ page PDF introducing the Lightning Network and BOLT (20 Mar) * An article on how market cap is misleading and what Bitcoin's market dominance really is (22 Mar) * An introduction to the Lightning Network for non-tech savvy people (27 Mar)

    Regulation & Politics * 98.3% of Money laundering cases don't involve cryptocurrency according to Japan's police (1 Mar) * Thailand's SEC clarifies its stance on cryptocurrencies (1 Mar) * Andrew Yang is a Bitcoin-friendly US presidential candidate (16 Mar)

    Archeology (Financial Incumbents) * Deutsche Bank and Citigroup are part of a $9B Russian money laundering operation (5 Mar) * The Central Bank of Germany admits that credit is created by devaluing the currency of everyone else (14 Mar) * Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles found guilty by Tokyo's court and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison (15 Mar) * Henry Ford on what people would do if they understood our financial system (28 Mar) * Ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan explains how the US can pay any debt because it can infinitely print money (28 Mar) * JPMorgan is the top job poster on Indeed.com for "Bitcoin", "Blockchain" and "Cryptocurrency" jobs (31 Mar) * One of Sweden's largest banks, Swedbank, may have been used to launder $5.8B over the course of a decade (31 Mar)

    Fun & Other * A proposal for the symbol of a satoshi (3 Mar) * An overview of proposals for the symbol of a satoshi (4 Mar) * Someone posts what they think Brock Pierce has planned for Mt. Gox (4 Mar) * Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter & Square, is buying $10k in bitcoin each week (5 Mar) * A discussion on the need for a satoshi symbol (or unit) at all (6 Mar) * A video of gambling using the Lightning Network (6 Mar) * An economic historian who thought Bitcoin was a delusion now admits he was very wrong (7 Mar) * Someone makes a headline-only Bitcoin news overview (11 Mar) * Someone's grandma is saved from getting scammed for $2000 by a bitcoiner (13 Mar) * A huge Bitcoin B ATM in Bucharest (14 Mar) * Bitcoin street artist in paris receives 1 btc in donations (20 Mar) * Someone buys btc for their 14 year old daughter after she earns her first paycheck (23 Mar) * People use Lightning and the Blockstream satellites to send "immutable news" to oppressed and authoritarian areas (23 Mar) * Mining bitcoin on a GPU in 2014 (28 Mar) * People discuss why they invest in bitcoin (29 Mar) * The Genesis Block Bar in Kyoto (31 Mar)

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    Good to see you again

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:46 PM PDT

    Everybody stay calm!

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:52 PM PDT

    moon?

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:43 PM PDT

    One thing I learned from riding all the BTC bull & bear markets? That $20,000 Bitcoin will be just another tiny blip on the price chart.

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 03:15 PM PDT

    BTC surges past $4,700. The bull market has begun...

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:55 PM PDT

    Good Guy Bitcoin

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 10:58 PM PDT

    BTC above 4300, bullrun??

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:40 PM PDT

    Edit: 15 mins after the post, price shot up to around ~ $4700. Where do guys think the run will stop?

    submitted by /u/oxhaed
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    Do not be surprised if Bitcoin goes straight to $6,000.

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 08:35 PM PDT

    There is no historical resistance between $4,200 and $6,000. Look out!

    submitted by /u/Rainbow-Bright-
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    The real fools

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:53 AM PDT

    Wall Street falls for the April Fool's prank

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 10:33 PM PDT

    Shorts just got rekt $400 million in liquidations

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 10:18 PM PDT

    Lightning Network Capacity crossed $5 million USD mark and is 44% up in the last 30 days

    Posted: 02 Apr 2019 12:17 AM PDT

    Bitcoin Hits 5000$

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 11:08 PM PDT

    Remember the main truth. Just HODL! Do not sell, guys

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 10:32 PM PDT

    Bitcoin is now above 5000.

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 10:21 PM PDT

    WTF just happened? Is this people pulling out of the sterling for "safe" crypto?

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 10:34 PM PDT

    MASSIVE PUMP

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:44 PM PDT

    I've sat here for the past 20mins and watched this pump before my eyes. Anyone else get hyped about it? Haha feels good.

    Edit: I'm thinking a green lambo, thoughts?

    submitted by /u/NukeThe_Fish
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    Bitcoin to reach 10k by 8 am Eastern standard Time.

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 10:27 PM PDT

    Says no expert anywhere. Just a random guess to get people fired up ;)

    submitted by /u/eleven8ster
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    "Bitcoin is a bit like the immortal undead. Every time you think it's dead and buried, it just kind of jumps back out again."

    Posted: 02 Apr 2019 02:10 AM PDT

    Finally I have my own bitcoin & lightning full node!Casa ⚡️⚡️

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 01:50 PM PDT

    Static Channel Backups merged on LND ⚡️

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 05:27 PM PDT

    Congratulations - Resistance is ruptured and you survived the bear market ! Lets continue to build / and spread the gospel !

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:51 PM PDT

    500m$ Liquidated in "BitMEX"-Proof Here...

    Posted: 02 Apr 2019 12:17 AM PDT

    Sorry mods idk if I'm allowed to post this but 6+% on the 1 minute chart????

    Posted: 01 Apr 2019 09:43 PM PDT
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