cryptoquotes 1.0.1 → 1.1.0

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+ data/Anthony_Pompliano,_Bitcoin_Cheerleader.yml
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  data/Bitcoiner.yml
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+ data/Bitcoiner_(BCH),_Cash_Is_King.yml
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+ data/Bitcoiner_(BTC).yml
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+ data/Cameron_Winklevoss,_Bitcoin_Billionaire.yml
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  data/Crypto_US$_Stablecoin_Printer.yml
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+ data/Jorge_Stolfi.yml
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- # Crypto Quotes
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+ # Crypto Quotes - I HODL, you HODL, we HODL! - BREAKING: BITCOIN JUST BROKE $22 000!
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  cryptoquotes library / gem - incl. oracle tool to get a random crypto quote of the day on the command line - on the new new "in math we trust" ponzi economics - on get-rich-quick blockchain secrets - on bitcon maximalists, scammers, morons, clowns, shills & bagHODLers and more
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  - Patrick McKenzie
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- Bitcoin manipulated well before tether started to manipulate it...
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+ BREAKING: BITCOIN JUST BROKE $22,000!
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- See "A Bot Named Willy: Did Mt. Gox's Automated Trading Pump Bitcoin's Price?"
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+ We have just reached escape velocity.
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- - Nouriel Roubini
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+ > Austrian Maximalist I comments:
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+ >
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+ > 1 Bitcoin = 1 Honda Civic
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+ >
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+ > Soon:
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+ >
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+ > 1 Bitcoin = 1 Tesla, then
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+ > 1 Bitcoin = 1 Lambo, then
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+ > 1 Bitcoin = 1 Super Yacht
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+ >
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+ > Austrian Maximalist II comments:
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+ >
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+ > Just keep HODLing until 1 Bitcoin = 1 Moonbase
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+ - Bitcoiner
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  ```
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  ```
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+ or
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+ ```
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+ Right now at the all-time high (ATH) no one who has HODL is down. That's a good feeling.
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+ I HODL, you HODL, we HODL!
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ >
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+ > I bought at the all-time high (ATH) and I'm UP.
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+ ```
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  ## Sources
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  The crypto quotes sourced from
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- [100+ Crypto Quotes - On the New New "In Math We Trust" Ponzi Economics - On Get-Rich-Quick Blockchain Secrets - On Bitcon Maximalists, Scammers, Morons, Clowns, Shills & BagHODLers and More»](https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes)
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+ [100+ Best of Crypto Quotes - I HODL, you HODL, we HODL! - BREAKING: BITCOIN JUST BROKE $22 000!»](https://github.com/openblockchains/crypto-quotes)
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+ ###################
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+ # Alex de Vries, Bitcoin Sunstainability Researcher, Founder of Digiconomist
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+ Bitcoin electronic waste generation is at 10.324 kilotonnes per year
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+ (comparable to a country like Luxembourg) - see bitcoinelectronicwaste.com
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+ A footprint of 91.2 grams per unique transaction
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+ (equal to the weight of 1.4 'C'-size batteries or 2 golf balls).
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+ date: 2020-12-30
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+ source: https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1344290390296424448
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+ The latest Bitcoin energy consumption index is 77.782 TWh per year
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+ (comparable to a country like Chile) - see bitcoinenergyconsumption.com
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+ The energy footprint per unique transaction is 690.8 kWh (enough to power 1 U.S. household for 23.7 days)
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+ > Austrian Maximalists comments:
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+ > Bitcoin will drive a renewable energy revolution.
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+ date: 2020-12-29
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+ source: https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1343920982990467073
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+ Bitcoin's TWh usage results in a carbon footprint of 36.95 MtCO₂
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+ (comparable to a country like New Zealand) - see bitcoinenergyconsumption.com
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+ The carbon footprint per unique transaction is 327.50 kgCO₂ (equivalent to 725,861 VISA transactions)
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+ date: 2020-12-29
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+ source: https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1343920982113841152
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+ Note that the share of fossil fuel based energy has been on the rise this year
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+ due to the growing popularity of countries like Kazakhstan.
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+ This is only expected to rise further: Reuters News -
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+ Kazakhstan in talks on $700 million in cryptocurrency mining projects
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+ date: 2020-12-16
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+ source: https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1339200659120291841
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+ Fact: the majority of energy used by bitcoin miners is still sourced from fossil fuels.
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+ Here's another independent study released just this month confirming that:
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+ Bitcoin Carbon Footprint - Mining Pools Based Estimate Methodology
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+ Also note that even surveyed miners earlier this year didn't claim more than 40% "green".
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+ date: 2020-12-16
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+ source: https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1339197079105785861
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+ The latest Ethereum energy consumption index is 14.014 TWh per Year/1.3 Mil US households (+0.45%) -
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+ see ethereumenergyconsumption.com
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+ 33 KWh per unique transaction (powers 1 US household for 1.1 days)
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+ date: 2020-12-24
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+ source: https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1342123482281349121
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+ ###
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+ # Anthony Pompliano
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+ #
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+ # Bitcoin Cheerleader, Off The Chain Investment Newsletter Writer (100 000+ Subscribers)
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+ REMINDER: Bitcoiners don't want to sell their Bitcoin and now institutions want exposure measured
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+ in the billions of dollars to the asset.
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+ The only way to accommodate everyone is for the US dollar price of Bitcoin to appreciate rapidly.
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+ To the moon! Number go up!
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ > To $50,000 we go!
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+ date: 2020-12-28
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+ source: https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1343551836716986370
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+ Bitcoin just hit a $500 billion market cap for the first time in history.
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+ Rest in Peace (RIP) bears. To the moon! Number go up!
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+ date: 2020-12-27
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+ source: https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1343006112174452738
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+ I always say it is nearly impossible for an investor to have twenty good ideas.
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+ They have one to five, but lack the conviction and confidence to build heavily concentrated positions.
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+ My single best idea for last few years was Bitcoin.
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+ It is beautiful to see a thesis materialize.
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+ To the moon! Number go up!
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+ date: 2020-12-26
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+ source: https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1342966733209014273
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+ Bitcoin is the single most important piece of technology that has been created in the last few decades.
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+ It is saving lives, increasing freedom, and giving millions of people hope around the world.
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+ To the moon! Number go up!
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+ date: 2020-12-21
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+ source: https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1340865556669448194
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+ There are an increasing number of buyers, yet a decreasing amount of available Bitcoin.
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+ Any economics 101 student can predict what happens next.
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+ To the moon! Number go up!
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+ date: 2020-12-23
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+ source: https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1341533141350174722
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+ Bitcoin in circulation: $0.5 trillion.
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+ Fed Reserve notes in circulation: $2.02 trillion.
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+ This will flip by the end of 2021. We are watching disruption in real time.
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+ To the moon! Number go up!
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ > Sound money vs unsound money, the results are predictable.
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+ date: 2020-12-28
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+ source: https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1343551250793639940
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+ The market has rendered a decisive victory for Bitcoiners.
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+ When investors needed a safe haven asset, they ran to the hardest money that's ever been created.
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+ To the moon! Number go up!
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+ date: 2020-12-24
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+ source: https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1342095879252156416
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+ Bitcoin Classic (BTC) is ridiculous; in what world is paying $15 to move a mere $90 ok?
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+ This is literally worst than PayPal, Western Union and my bank COMBINED
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+ (it costs the same if I were to send with all three TOGETHER).
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+ I clearly see the use-case for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) now.
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+ source: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/kf3zmu/this_is_really_ridiculous_in_what_world_is_paying/
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+ WOO NUMBER GO UP!!!
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+ Who needs adoption when you can have institutional investors!
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+ Why bank the unbanked when you can bank the banks!
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+ Bring out the champaign because NUMBER GO UP!!!
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+ Am I price posting right?
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+ source: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/ketidd/woo_number_go_up111/
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+ BREAKING: BITCOIN JUST BROKE $22 000!
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+ We have just reached escape velocity.
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+ > Austrian Maximalist I comments:
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+ >
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+ > 1 Bitcoin = 1 Honda Civic
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+ >
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+ > Soon:
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+ >
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+ > 1 Bitcoin = 1 Tesla, then
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+ > 1 Bitcoin = 1 Lambo, then
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+ > 1 Bitcoin = 1 Super Yacht
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+ >
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+ > Austrian Maximalist II comments:
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+ > Just keep HODLing until 1 Bitcoin = 1 Moonbase
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+ source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/keohud/breaking_bitcoin_just_broke_22000/
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+ Imagine not buying Bitcoin at $22 - $30 because you think you missed the bus at $10 ...
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+ I am here to tell you it's the same now with $22 000 - $30 000.
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+ Buying at $10 000 versus $22 000 won't matter in the long run.
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ > I cured my fear of missing out (FOMO) at $9 000, $11 000 and $20 000,
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+ > by buying without waiting for the dip.
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+ source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/kezft0/imagine_not_buying_btc_at_22_30_because_you_think/
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+ Right now at the all-time high (ATH) no one who has HODL is down. That's a good feeling.
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+ I HODL, you HODL, we HODL!
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+ > I bought at the all-time high (ATH) and I'm UP.
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+ source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/keiyld/right_now_no_one_who_has_hodl_is_down_thats_a/
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+ ######################################
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+ # Cameron Winklevoss, Bitcoin Billionaire
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+ There are 3.5 billion smart phones on the planet.
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+ All of them can hold bitcoin. None of them can hold gold.
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+ Bitcoin is the future. Number go up! To the moon!
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+ > Fact Checker comments:
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+ > To be precise, none of the smart phones hold any bitcoin. Bitcoin is on the blockchain.
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+ > What you hold in a smart phone is only the private key to sign transactions for your bitcoin on the blockchain.
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+ date: 2020-12-12
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+ source: https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1337787787244937216
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+ Bitcoin will overtake gold. I can't say when,
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+ Number go up! To the moon!
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+ date: 2020-12-12
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+ source: https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1337804473725558785
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+ Over the years many many people have told me that their financial advisor
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+ believe in yourself, build your own conviction, and don't let
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+ the "experts" distract you from your genius.
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ > We're still in the first inning. Number go up!
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+ date: 2020-12-20
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+ source: https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1340700733755318281
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+ ###################################
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+ # Jemima Kelly, Financial Times Alphaville
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+ The idea that you can get out of your bitcoin position at any time and the market
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+ Because if people start to sell, bad things might happen!
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+ date: 2021-01-07
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+ source: https://www.ft.com/content/af686b47-dbb8-426c-b530-27898891bd16
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+ date: 2021-01-07
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+ source: https://www.ft.com/content/af686b47-dbb8-426c-b530-27898891bd16
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+ date: 2021-01-07
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+ source: https://www.ft.com/content/af686b47-dbb8-426c-b530-27898891bd16
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+ ######################
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+ #
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+ # Jorge Stolfi, Computer Scientist
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+ Bitcoin is a Ponzi.
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+ Investing in bitcoin, like "investing" in lottery tickets, is a very negative-sum game.
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+ Thus the investors, as a whole, are always in the red, and their collective loss only increases with time.
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+ date: 2020-12-31
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+ source: https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
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+ date: 2020-12-31
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+ source: https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
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+ The observation that investing in cryptocurrencies is a ponzi scheme is not new or a cheap shot.
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+ Among many others, it was expressed in 2014 by economists Nouriel Roubini of New York University
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+ date: 2020-12-31
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+ source: https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
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+ Objection! The operator must lie to investors about the source of profit in a Ponzi!
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+ date: 2020-12-31
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+ source: https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
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+ such as that it will "one day" replace credit cards, replace national currencies,
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+ protect people's savings from inflation or confiscation by government, make banks obsolete,
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+ starve governments to death by depriving them of taxes or "money printing",
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+ allow free internet trade of drugs and other illegal items,
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+ end corruption, poverty, and inequality, etc. etc. etc.
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+ date: 2020-12-31
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+ source: https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
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+ Objection! By that definition the U.S. Dollar (USD$) is a Ponzi!
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+ date: 2020-12-31
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+ source: https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
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+ date: 2021-01-04
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+ source: https://twitter.com/JorgeStolfi/status/1345873579116818437
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+ # Michael Saylor, Business Intelligence Billionaire, Founder, Chairman & CEO of Microstrategy
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+ after a lifetime of experience and months of analysis,
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+ Seems rational to me. Number go up! To the moon!
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+ > Completely rational. Up by more than 50% already.
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+ date: 2020-12-18
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+ source: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1329096002960240641
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+ storing it over time without power loss,
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+ and channeling it across space with negligible impedance. Number go up! To the moon!
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+
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ > And it's all represented in this: 21,000,000.00000000
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+ >
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+ > Austrian Physicist comments:
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+ > The science on this is legit respecting the laws of thermodynamics.
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+ date: 2020-11-11
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+ source: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1330150691671846919
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+ Banks once offered savings accounts yielding 5% annual interest, taxable.
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+ Today, banks offer 0% interest, or you can choose the Bank of Bitcoin,
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+ offering a savings account currently yielding more than 100% annual interest,
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+ tax deferred. Number go up! To the moon!
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+ date: 2020-11-20
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+ source: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1329789802020040706
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+ The signal is monetary expansion everywhere.
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+ The problem is people are going to lose half their wealth in a few years.
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+ The solution is Bitcoin. The rest is noise.
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+ Number go up! To the moon!
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+
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ > Bitcoin is the king of all assets in the world.
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+ date: 2020-11-27
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+ source: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1332317650786127880
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+ You can struggle to comprehend complicated charts, analyze arbitrary assets,
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+ time terrible trades, and prioritize puzzling portfolios,
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+ or you can buy bitcoin.
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+ Number go up! To the moon!
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+
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ > Just buy and HODL bitcoin. It's that simple!
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+ date: 2020-11-29
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+ source: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1333040529005826049
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+
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+ Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software,
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+ offering a global, affordable, simple, and secure savings account
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+ to billions of people that don't have the option or desire
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+ to run their own hedge fund. Number go up! To the moon!
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+ date: 2020-12-17
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+ source: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1339567288547241985
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+ Bitcoin is the world's best treasury reserve asset and
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+ the emerging dominant monetary network.
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+ It is the solution to the store of value problem faced by
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+ every individual, corporation, and government on earth.
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+ Number go up! To the moon!
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+ date: 2020-12-16
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+ source: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1339244576314454021
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+ I have purchased over $1.3 billion in bitcoin in past months and
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+ would be happy to share my playbook with you offline -
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+ from one billionaire to another.
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+
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+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
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+ > The easiest way to put a billion dollars into Bitcoin is
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+ > to put a million dollars in and wait. Number go up!
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+ date: 2020-12-20
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+ source: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1340679387998527489
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  source: https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/
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- The Bitcoin "Nakamoto Scheme" have no central operator.
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+ An investment scheme backed by introducing new investors...
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+ ...and not backed by income-generating assets can be called a number of things.
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+ I leave it to you to decide what name you will choose.
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+ date: 2017-10-13
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+ source: https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/10/13/basecoin-bitshares-2-electric-boogaloo/
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+ A stablecoin that is collateralized by itself is a complex and fragile
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+ "Nakamoto Scheme" - an automated hybrid of a Ponzi and pyramid scheme -
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+ doomed to fail.
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+ A stablecoin that is collateralized by real assets and structured correctly
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+ is not a stablecoin, but a unit trust.
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+ date: 2017-12-10
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+ source: https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/10/stablecoins-are-doomed-to-fail/
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+ A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors.
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+ Ponzi schemes are named after Charles Ponzi. In the 1920s, Ponzi promised investors a 50% return
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+ within a few months for what he claimed was an investment in international mail coupons.
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+ source: https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/ponzi-schemes
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+
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+ Ponzi Schemes. With little or no legitimate earnings,
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+ Ponzi schemes require a constant flow of new money to survive.
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+ When it becomes hard to recruit new investors,
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+ or when large numbers of existing investors cash out,
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+ these schemes collapse.
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+ source: https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/ponzi-schemes
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+
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+ - quote: |
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+ Ponzi scheme "red flags" - High returns with little or no risk:
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+ Every investment carries some degree of risk,
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+ and investments yielding higher returns typically involve more risk.
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+ Be highly suspicious of any "guaranteed" [number-go-up to-the-moon] "investment" opportunity.
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+ source: https://www.investor.gov/protect-your-investments/fraud/types-fraud/ponzi-scheme
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+
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+ - quote: |
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+ Ponzi scheme "red flags" - Avoid too-good-to-be-true "investments" with claims like:
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+ - "To the moon! To the mars!"
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+ - "Number go up!"
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+ - "Yearly return of 300+% in 2020!"
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+ - "Could quadruple in 2021 and rally to $100,000!"
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+ soure: https://www.investor.gov
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+ The only way to pay out old Bitcoin investors is to get money from new investors.
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+ The only difference with a genuine Ponzi scheme, is who pays the old investors.
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+ It's not the "fraudsters", but exchanges. Neat!
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+ date: 2020-12-30
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+ source: http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoin-is-not-a-literal-ponzi-scheme/
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+ - quote: |
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+ One argument against Bitcoin being a Ponzi scheme, is that there's no intent to deceive.
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+ Really? You have thousands of Bitcoin "personalities" spewing out crap daily.
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+
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+ > I believe gold is sunsetting, whereas bitcoin is just starting.
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+ >
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+ > I believe the current (or what I call the legacy) system is broken.
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+ > And bitcoin fixes this.
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+ >
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+ > -- Changpeng Zhao ("CZ Binance"), Bitcoin Billionaire, Binance Exchange Founder
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+ date: 2020-12-30
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+ source: http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoin-is-not-a-literal-ponzi-scheme/
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+ - quote: |
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+ For the next three and a half years, block rewards will be worth 6.25 Bitcoins,
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+ or around 200,000 USD at current prices.
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+ Remember – there's one block reward every ten minutes, so that's $28M per day.
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+ That's a lot of money, and a huge incentive for miners to buy new ASICs and run them, burning electricity.
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+ [...]
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+ In a perfect market equilibrium, the cost of mining Bitcoin is equal to the rewards.
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+ It's never the exactly the case, but it's a good rule of thumb for evaluating how much it costs to run the network.
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+ date: 2020-12-30
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+ source: http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoin-is-not-a-literal-ponzi-scheme/
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+
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+ - quote: |
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+ Forget the meme that "Bitcoin transactions are cheap".
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+ The true cost of a transaction isn't the "transaction fees" - those are indeed manageable,
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+ a few dollars per transaction - but the cost of maintaining the network.
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+ As the Bitcoin network currently processes around 300,000 transactions per day at a cost of $28M
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+ (plus transaction fees), the true cost of one transaction is around $100.
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+ date: 2020-12-30
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+ source: http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoin-is-not-a-literal-ponzi-scheme/
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+
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+ - quote: |
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+ Over 200 cryptocurrency exchanges live off of trading fees.
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+ Transaction fees and bid/ask spreads, multiplied x-fold when traders put on leverage,
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+ stand for billions of dollars per year.
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+ It's safe to assume that exchanges make more money than miners, as a whole.
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+ date: 2020-12-30
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+ source: http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoin-is-not-a-literal-ponzi-scheme/
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+
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+ - quote: |
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+ Now you have Tether and USDT. 22 billion almost dollars governed by a five-page disclaimer
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+ that USDTs are backed by whatever Tether wants, at whatever valuations Tether finds convenient.
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+ No credit rating, no bank, no auditor, no offices, no CEO and CFO, no guarantee whatsoever.
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+ date: 2021-01-08
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+ source: http://www.tr0lly.com/uncategorized/tether-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose/
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+
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+ - quote: |
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+ The USDT/USD peg is founded on the premise that people won't try to cash out en masse.
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+ As long as they don't, USDT printing can continue.
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+ date: 2021-01-07
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+ source: http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/the-tether-press-and-bitcoins-speculative-mania/
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+
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+ - quote: |
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+ Why should Tether spend all its money (it is theirs, after all -
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+ USDT holders don't have a legal claim on Tether's reserves)
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+ trying to save the crypto markets, when they collapse?
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+ How many years would it take them to rebuild their war chest,
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+ assuming that crypto bounces back?
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+ Why not party on a yacht in Monaco instead?
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+ date: 2021-01-08
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+ source: http://www.tr0lly.com/uncategorized/tether-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose/
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+
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+ # Tyler Winklevoss, Bitcoin Billionaire
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+
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+ - quote: |
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+ The U.S. Dollar is no longer a reliable store of value.
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+ Cameron and I (Winklevoss Twins Capital) make the case for $500 000 Bitcoin.
7
+ Number go up! To the moon!
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+ date: 2020-08-27
9
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1299023374392360964
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+
11
+ - quote: |
12
+ In the future, the period in U.S. history known as the 'Roaring Twenties'
13
+ will be about Bitcoin in the 2020s. Number go up! To the moon!
14
+ date: 2020-08-27
15
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1339756580875735047
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+
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+
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+ - quote: |
19
+ > No Coiner asks:
20
+ > I never invested into Bitcoin is it worth it?
21
+
22
+ A: I did and I can tell you it is! Number go up! To the moon!
23
+
24
+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
25
+ > I think he's asking if it's still early to buy? Yes, we're always still early.
26
+ date: 2020-12-18
27
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1339719749928951812
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+
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+
30
+ - quote: |
31
+ > Bloomberg Opinion:
32
+ >
33
+ > Bitcoin is great as a billionaire's speculative plaything.
34
+
35
+ The real story is the bandwagon of billionaires that Bitcoin is creating!
36
+ Number go up! To the moon!
37
+ date: 2020-12-17
38
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1339689632569634817
39
+
40
+ - quote: |
41
+ > Washington Post News:
42
+ >
43
+ > Bitcoin surges past $20 000 for first time.
44
+
45
+ This Bitcoin rally is the most sophisticated investors,
46
+ the smartest people in the room, buying the bitcoin quietly.
47
+ Number go up! To the moon!
48
+ date: 2020-12-17
49
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1339656304772734979
50
+
51
+
52
+ - quote: |
53
+ $23 000 knocked off. Bitcoin now eyeing $24 000.
54
+
55
+ Btw, Bitcoin is just getting started. Number go up! To the moon!
56
+ date: 2020-12-17
57
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1339607487612334081
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+
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+
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+ - quote: |
61
+ When you look up Bitcoin in the dictionary, there's a picture of a hockey stick.
62
+ Number go up! To the moon!
63
+ date: 2020-12-17
64
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1339559489050177538
65
+
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+
67
+
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+ - quote: |
69
+ Bitcoin is pumping above $22 000. The bulls are getting ready to run wild.
70
+
71
+ After being laughed at for years, Bitcoiners will again be considered
72
+ the smartest people in the room this holiday season.
73
+ Number go up! To the moon!
74
+ date: 2020-12-17
75
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1339408302745264133
76
+
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+
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+
79
+ - quote: |
80
+ > "Our fundamental work shows that Bitcoin should be worth
81
+ > about $400 000," says Guggenheim's Scott Minerd
82
+
83
+ Guggenheim believes in $400 000 Bitcoin! Number go up! To the moon!
84
+
85
+ > Austrian Maximalist comments:
86
+ >
87
+ > Why so low?
88
+ > My fundamental work shows that Bitcoin could hit $550 000 in less than two years.
89
+
90
+ date: 2020-12-16
91
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1339310235551477764
92
+
93
+
94
+ - quote: |
95
+ When Elon Musk puts the Tesla balance sheet into Bitcoin,
96
+ we'll have to change the Bitcoin rallying cry from
97
+ "to the moon!" to "to Mars!"
98
+
99
+ > Austrian Maximalist I comments:
100
+ > Let's use solar energy to mine bitcoin with satellites in space!
101
+ >
102
+ > Austrian Maximalist II comments:
103
+ > Tesla would be the first ten trillion dollar company! Number go up!
104
+ date: 2020-12-20
105
+ source: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1340694515074691077
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
3
3
  module Quotes
4
4
 
5
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  MAJOR = 1
6
- MINOR = 0
7
- PATCH = 1
6
+ MINOR = 1
7
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  def self.version
metadata CHANGED
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  --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
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  name: cryptoquotes
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  version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
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+ version: 1.1.0
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  platform: ruby
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  authors:
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  - Gerald Bauer
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  autorequire:
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  bindir: bin
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  - Rakefile
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  - bin/oracle
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  homepage: https://github.com/rubycoco/blockchain