“Any buyer of Signature must agree to give up all the crypto business at the bank, the two sources added.”

Wait WHAT, the government making explicit decisions on who gets a bank account.

https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1636197706648506368

So, yea, that's confirmed then, political hatchet job, sorry @NeerajKA

1/ Bitcoin maxis are a dying breed. While there was a time where ~everything except Bitcoin was basically a scam, that hasn't been true for a long time, and the smart money has moved on to figuring out which projects are going somewhere, and which are straight pump-and-dumps. 2/ This is particularly damning to Bitcoin b/c, instead of its most vocal proponents explaining why Bitcoin is great and unique, its most vocal proponents spend all their time just attacking other projects. Sure, some of them are scams and may deserve it, but it doesn't help BTC.

1/ I don’t work for @TBD54566975, but let me share why I’m excited for what they’re trying to build.

Fiat on- and off-ramps to bitcoin is only a “solved” problem for those of us who have reasonably stable banking relationships (ie those who need bitcoin most can’t get it).

https://twitter.com/brockm/status/1431319757966376968

2/To reach those for whom Bitcoin is needed the most, we can’t rely on a few large providers. Large, heavily regulated fiat ramps have a very high per-customer cost, forcing them to focus on the highest value customers, not those in Lebanon or those without banks accts.

@uriklarman @bloXrouteLabs So all that to say "we encrypt the blocks and will relay from anyone", which doesn't in any way address the issue. Sure, in theory one pool can relay the block for another pool because the other pool is getting censored by bloxroute, but, why would they? @uriklarman @bloXrouteLabs Worse still, obviously all pools will disable any kind of multi-hop-to-get-to-bloxroute stuff because it just costs them money in terms of relay time (we've seen pools do wayyyyy worse for financial reasons, like turning off validation wholesale)!

1/ Just got the FIBRE stats page updated for the network architecture I switched to a year+ ago. For those who missed how awesome FIBRE is and how low-latency block relay is (mostly) a solved-problem, keep reading bitcoinfibre.org/stats.html 2/ The top graph is the most important one, and shows (by default in log-scale) the time it takes to send a block around the globe in excess of the Speed of Light. Right now it shows that 92% of blocks got to every node in under 10ms more than the SoL between servers!