Thought of the week from Marty Bent:‌‌‌
Distribution of nodes.

Distribution of hashrate.

Distribution of private keys.

The level of distribution across these layers of bitcoin will determine whether or not it proves to be sufficiently robust and resilient.

Always operate with this in mind.

Thought of the week from ODELL:
The blue check is the first step in Elon's plan to bring the chinese social credit score system to the west. He is intentionally making twitter unusable for those who do not verify their identity. If you cannot resist the temptation of the blue check in its current form you have already lost - what comes next will be much darker.

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MARTY'S BENT

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