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The creator of Twitter and Cash App, @Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app called ‘Bitchat’ that doesn't need the internet or cell service.

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Best photos of #bitcoin history - thread 🧵
15 years ago on a cypherpunk email list, a pseudonymous engineer named Satoshi Nakamoto sent the email: "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper"

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Thread of the best #bitcoin papers 🧵

1. The Bitcoin Whitepaper

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Read here: miami.gov/files/sharedas…
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2. Fidelity's "Bitcoin First" Research

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3. NYDIG's Bitcoin Net Zero

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Fidelity manages $4,500,000,000,000.

43,000,000 investors trust Fidelity.

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"I never owned it from like $50 to $17,000, I felt like a moron. Then it goes back down to $3000 again.

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3/ "The problem was Jay Powell and the world’s central bankers going nuts and making fiat money even more questionable than it already has been when I used to own gold."
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