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Guy Swann
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“The Guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know.” Adjectives: Smart/Sexy Host of Bitcoin Audible 🎧
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TheGuySwann 5 months ago
A piece of brilliant UX that mobile OS has adopted is the “shake to undo.” I discovered entirely by happenstance in a situation where it was exactly what I needed. 😆 image
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TheGuySwann 5 months ago
Happy Bitcoin Independence Day 🔥🫡 On this day in 2017, the USAF community movement (user activated soft fork) successfully executed the flag day to activate the Segwit upgrade after years of the Blocksize Wars and failure to reach any real agreement on a fork. Instead, an unwavering community of users running full nodes decided they would activate SegWit regardless, and miners can either accept Segwit transactions or not. Essentially the user community called the bluff of the SegWit2X business+mining group who continuously pushed as if they had control over what software would be running the Bitcoin network. Instead, the conviction & viral growth of the USAF movement was substantial enough to scare the majority of the hash power and businesses to abandon S2X to prevent forking themselves from the network of users. Shortly after the USAF execution on the network, Bitmain, Ver & Co forked their own coin, Bitcoin Cash (Bcash) to remove segwit and produce 8MB blocks. Even though the debate continues in some corners of social media, this day marked the official end of the Blocksize Wars.
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TheGuySwann 5 months ago
Why do so many engineers fail to grasp the difference between building an app, and building money? #Bitcoin wasn’t built to impress software engineers. It was built to change the world. Let's get into Read_889 - "Bitcoin for Engineers" by @Brunswick 🔗 image
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TheGuySwann 5 months ago
A big barrier to #Nostr that I think many will reject outright is the lack of “sign in with Apple” or similar option to use Nostr apps. Which is why I think tools like @OpenSecret are extremely powerful and should be a widely adopted standard.