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- The Dangers of Bitcoin Trapping http://qntra.net/2015/02/the-dangers-of-bitcoin-trapping/ 2 comments
- It seems like more and more countries will see the danger in letting the US wage economic warfare on whoever it pleases and will seek to adopt the open monetary protocol that is Bitcoin https://apnews.com/article/us-sanction-options-russia-ukraine-49557915cbd254b01d5cb2f210803b47 10 comments bitcoin
- Bitcoin Isn't Any More Dangerous than the Euro https://mises.org/wire/bitcoin-isnt-any-more-dangerous-euro 6 comments goldandblack
- The Great Hypocrisy Exposed – Governments Say Bitcoin Is a Dangerous Scam, but Tax You on It. It is time for the truth to be seen by the majority of people. https://inbitcoinwetrust.substack.com/p/the-great-hypocrisy-exposed-governments 53 comments cryptocurrency
- No bitcoin believer: Bank of England rate setter warns of imminent danger of crypto assets https://www.cityam.com/bank-of-england-rate-setter-warns-of-imminent-danger-of-cryptoassets/ 17 comments cryptocurrency
- Great explanation why Lightning is a dangerous experiment that threatens the future of Bitcoin https://www.yours.org/content/bubbles--technocrats-and-lightning-6809f9f37c6f 9 comments btc
- Elite Dangerous Radio Sidewinder now accepting donations in Bitcoin Cash https://www.radiosidewinder.com/donate/ 8 comments btc
- Jordan Belfort: Bitcoin is Now a Huge Danger https://dowbit.com/jordan-belfort-bitcoin-is-now-a-huge-danger/ 3 comments btc
- We are in danger of losing net neutrality. I feel like the path bitcoin is taking lately is a direct reflection of what the internet would be without net neutrality. Huge fees and high waiting times. it’s time to take a stand and take charge of our liberty once again! https://www.battleforthenet.com 274 comments btc
- Bill Gates: "640K ought to be enough for anyone" - Core developers: "a 1.6 KB/Sec Bitcoin network is already dangerously high." https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/79ebzs/bill_gates_640k_ought_to_be_enough_for_anyone/ 8 comments btc
- Israeli Bitcoin Association Announcement Regarding Dangers of ICOs https://bitcoin.org.il/files/Public_Announcement_Dangers_of_ICOs.pdf 3 comments btc
- Is there a danger of a 51% attack on Bitcoin Cash? https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6r4ozq/is_there_a_danger_of_a_51_attack_on_bitcoin_cash/ 3 comments btc
- Since MyCelium is supporting UASF, is it dangerous to manage my Bitcoin with this wallet. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6nve2n/since_mycelium_is_supporting_uasf_is_it_dangerous/ 25 comments btc
- Bitcoin unlimited is an expression of freedom. And freedom will always be misconstrued by paternalists/statists as something dangerous. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/how-bitcoin-unlimited-users-may-end-different-blockchains/ 62 comments btc
- F2Pool is setting a dangerous precedent by applying Bitcoin principles to Ethereum https://ipfs.pics/QmRpsTog5sk17q3GMTZxsn2FLGJyiHQFVLf3TqnfSHdnz7 213 comments ethereum
- Normal users understand that SegWit-as-a-softfork is dangerous, because it *deceives* non-upgraded nodes into thinking transactions are valid when actually they're *not* - turning those nodes into "zombie nodes". Greg Maxwell and Blockstream are jeopardizing Bitcoin - in order to stay in power. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4mnpxx/normal_users_understand_that_segwitasasoftfork_is/ 33 comments btc
- "Bitcoin is the most dangerous open-source project ever created." http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html 147 comments politics
- Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html 1465 comments technology
- US Senator Ted Cruz Warns a CBDC Would Be ‘Profoundly Dangerous,’ Says Idea Is Backed by People Who Hate Bitcoin https://dailyhodl.com/2023/04/28/us-senator-ted-cruz-warns-a-cbdc-would-be-profoundly-dangerous-says-idea-is-backed-by-people-who-hate-bitcoin/ 117 comments cryptocurrency
- The Dangers of KYC – Top 10 Personalities Rekt With the Celsius Scam. We also learn that some so-called Bitcoin maximalists hold Sh*tcoins ... https://inbitcoinwetrust.substack.com/p/the-dangers-of-kyc-top-10-personalities 34 comments cryptocurrency
- First Bitcoin ETF Is Already in Danger of Breaching a Limit on Futures Contracts https://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-bitcoin-etf-already-danger-181607336.html 18 comments cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin funds are reaching the masses. Why crypto critics say it’s dangerous https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/19/sec-bitcoin-funds-crypto-516218 21 comments cryptocurrency
- #Privacy is absolutely fundamental to cash and individual liberty. CSW's stance on this is inexcusable in the post-Snowden era. A tool of global financial surveillance is a dream worthy of the NSA. If that's what #Bitcoin $BCH is to enable, it will be dangerous to its users. https://twitter.com/BitcoinCashFans/status/1034452195180195841 11 comments btc
- [poll] Bitcoin is first-and-foremost money; the only thing we really need to do is take off the 1-MB training wheels and let her fly. Given the danger of script complexity as illustrated by 'The DAO,' is the SegWit Omnibus Changeset still on the table? https://bitco.in/forum/threads/wall-observer.27/ 9 comments btc
- A Bitcoin riddle: who demonizes miners, says pools are dangerous, forces controversial software cuz moarrr decentralization!, says Bitcoin needs fixing to scale worldwide https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9uogcu/a_bitcoin_riddle_who_demonizes_miners_says_pools/ 6 comments btc
- BitMEX Founder Arthur Hayes Says Ethereum Will ‘Definitely’ Outperform BTC, Outlines Danger Zone for Bitcoin Bulls https://dailyhodl.com/2022/09/24/bitmex-founder-arthur-hayes-says-ethereum-will-definitely-outperform-btc-outlines-danger-zone-for-bitcoin-bulls/ 40 comments cryptocurrency
- 80% of Central Banks Are Preparing a CBDC. Facing This Danger, Bitcoin Is Still Your Best Weapon. The threat is becoming clearer. https://inbitcoinwetrust.substack.com/p/80-of-central-banks-are-preparing 43 comments bitcoin
- Eric Martindale has quit Blockstream as the company continues its death spiral and news that SegWit is dangerous while 80% of the Bitcoin network wants to fire them and have a new dev team! https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6kuwnd/eric_martindale_has_quit_blockstream_as_the/ 31 comments btc
- Congratulations to Blockstream and Core for destroying any ETF possibility. SEC will never approve it in an unknown dangerous situation that was never in Bitcoin's script, much less in the start of a war. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5xhchg/congratulations_to_blockstream_and_core_for/ 11 comments btc
- which currency gains the most market share is going to be the winner due to metcalfe's law. If Lightning can fill that txn demand, great. But hamstringing Bitcoin at 1MB now when networks today can CLEARLY handle an order of magnitude increase is just giving alt-coins a dangerous momentum/u/thezerg1 https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4myjk6/%CA%96_adam_back_on_twitter_in_my_experience/d3zs0p8 7 comments btc
- SegWit (and SegWit2x) would be DISASTROUS for Bitcoin. Neither provides market-based blocksize. And both would introduce a new, CATASTROPHIC, "ledger-destroying" attack vector (due to SegWit's dangerous "anyone-can-spend" bug). Both are poison pills for Bitcoin. SegWit & SegWit2x MUST be rejected. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6ibhzx/under_a_segwit_regime_attacks_against_the_bitcoin/ 22 comments btc
- Read this Obama quote on the dangers of encryption and 'black boxes' and how this will foil 'tax enforcement,' and then think about Blockstream's push to move bitcoin to private servers for most transactions and keep bitcoin a mere settlement layer. This would solve Obama's issues with bitcoin... http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-comments-on-encryption-at-sxsw-2016-3 14 comments btc
- If Blockstream were truly "conservative" and wanted to "protect Bitcoin" then they would deploy SegWit AS A HARD FORK. Insisting on deploying SegWit as a soft fork (overly complicated so more dangerous for Bitcoin) exposes that they are LYING about being "conservative" and "protecting Bitcoin". https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5748kb/i_was_initially_in_the_small_block_camp_my_worry/d8p2n8d 25 comments btc
- Pieter Wuille: Pure condescension -- "It would be irresponsible and dangerous to the network and thus the users of the software to risk forks, or to take a leading role in pushing dramatic changes. Bitcoin Core developers obviously have the ability to make any changes to the codebase. . . " https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-July/009515.html 4 comments btc
- CSW writes about a new (non hardfork-change) "They want it, they fork it, without us. Without the apps using our code, our IP etc. Without the companies we have invested in." People should see how dangerous this man and his patent troll company nChain are to Bitcoin Cash survival. https://twitter.com/FloweeTheHub/status/1020216472587636736 487 comments btc
- u/Luke-Jr invented SegWit's dangerous "anyone-can-spend" soft-fork kludge. Now he helped kill Bitcoin trading at Circle. He thinks Bitcoin should only hard-fork TO DEAL WITH QUANTUM COMPUTING. Luke-Jr will continue to kill Bitcoin if we continue to let him. To prosper, BITCOIN MUST IGNORE LUKE-JR. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5h0yf0/ulukejr_invented_segwits_dangerous_anyonecanspend/ 39 comments btc
- Dutch drug dealers that were active on Silk Road sentenced to 4 and 5 years in a Dutch prison. Prosecution seized €100k and 325+ Bitcoins. Judges claim that the concentration of MDMA in their product was dangerously high. They were caught cooking in a freight container in their backyard. http://m.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/05/08/rechter-geeft-online-drugsdealers-tot-vijf-jaar-cel/ 9 comments worldnews
- Brock Pierce's BLOCKCHAIN CAPITAL is part-owner of Bitcoin's biggest, private, fiat-funded private dev team (Blockstream) & biggest, private, fiat-funded private mining operation (BitFury). Both are pushing SegWit - with its "centrally planned blocksize" & dangerous "anyone-can-spend kludge". https://eu4.ixquick.com/do/search?nosteeraway=1&cat=web&language=english&query=%22blockchain+capital%22+bitfury&lui=english&nj=0 35 comments btc
- Bitcoin actually has two areas of "consensus": consensus on the next block to append to the chain, *and* consensus on the rules defining a valid block. Both forms of consensus *must* use a simple majority of 51%. Changing this to 95% would be dangerous, because it would allow 6% to hijack Bitcoin. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4l45p1/bitcoin_is_a_giant_global_consensustron_based_on/ 12 comments btc
- The biggest threat to Bitcoin is Blockstream President Adam "Phd" Back. He never understood Bitcoin, but he wants to control it and radically change it. It is time for Bitcoin users, developers and miners to reject his dangerous ideas and his attempts to centrally control our community and our code. https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/47ucpv/the_rbtc_china_dispatch_episode_10_one_bitcoin/ 59 comments btc