#Bitcoin Art #thread 🧵
2/ This piece is inspired by the Rai stones used for hundreds of years as money on the Yap Islands in the Pacific, which I first learned about in @saifedean’s The Bitcoin Standard.🙏 More than that, this piece is a synthesis of old money and new.
Nov 5, 2021 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
1/ "Remember, remember the 5th of November."
Today marks the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot when Guy Fawkes and others failed in their attempt to assassinate James I.
How did the Guy Fawkes mask become a symbol of Anarchists, Bitcoiners and Freedom fighters?
Let's dive in🧵 2/ Known by many simply as the "Anonymous mask," the modern iteration of the Guy Fawkes mask owes its creation to David Lloyd, who illustrated the original "V for Vendetta" graphic novel by Alan Moore in 1982.
Apr 24, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
1/ No one has the right to say that #Bitcoin wastes energy.
There are only personal preferences and markets and those who would impose “morality” on markets.
What about central banks? What about wars? In my view THOSE waste energy.
#thread👇
2/ And what about all the good that Bitcoin does? The freedoms it preserves? Is it so difficult to comprehend that maybe just maybe #Bitcoin is helping people’s lives more than central banks and war?
Jul 19, 2020 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
1/ The bitcoin rabbit hole is at first pitch black darkness, then an earthy darkness, lit by a dim orange glow, roots and beetles poke out from the dirt. You see a white fluffy tail, but before you can ponder Mother Nature, you fall, head first into the loamy void..
2/ From somewhere in the darkness you hear yelling, no wait, not yelling, ranting, the kind of ranting that makes more and more sense the more that you hear it, it’s the voice of @maxkeiser! Damn right! Tear up those racist dollars bills! But then...
Sep 9, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ "The Spacecat in the Spacehat"
Bitcoin is old, we can do it better! We've read Satoshi's white paper, THRICE! To the letter!"
"We’ll make transactions cheap! So you can spend at the mall! And the network itself will be a computer for all!”
2/ Forget about sound money! That doesn’t matter! Do you really want to sound like a maxi mad hatter?”
“Don’t worry about hashrate or inevitable bugs; your bags are underwater? Ask Vitalik for hugs!”
