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Daniel Ƀrrr
@csuwildcat
Director of Digital Assets @ Proof. Previous: Gemini, Block, started decentralized identity @ Microsoft, fought for the Web @ Mozilla. Libertarian 🗽
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Jul 4, 2018
    5 things that'll drive authoritarians nuts over the next 10 yrs: 1. Universal, interdiction-resistant, P2P gig economy 2. Growth of untraceable cryptocurrency txns 3. Commoditization of 3D printed guns 4. Uncensorable social posts for all 5. Ubiquitous encrypted comms/apps
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Jun 19, 2021
    I'm DYING folks 🤣 The World Bank just mockingly refused to help El Salvador w/ its Bitcoin acceptance implementation...but now there's a plot twist: their own 1944 charter requires them to accept the legal tenders of member countries, so World Bank *itself* MUST accept Bitcoin
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Sep 10, 2025
    Replying to @nic_carter
    I don't even regard myself as Right, but I've been slowly radicalized against leftists - they're a violent cancer that must be cut out of the body of this nation if it's to survive.
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Nov 8, 2021
    GM. I have some personal news: 5 years after establishing Decentralized Identity at Microsoft, where I had the opportunity to work with great folks developing open source DID infrastructure (e.g. ION), standards, and products, I am joining Square to lead Decentralized Identity.
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Mar 17, 2019
    Replying to @ChrisMurphyCT
    1/ Chris, you're sadly mistaken - the cheapest, easiest, most efficient weapon of mass murder is a common box truck you can rent at U-Haul. The Nice France terrorist used one to kill 86 and injure 458 in *60 seconds*, which is ridiculously more efficient than any gun ...
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Jan 26, 2018
    BCash is like Litecoin, but with longer block times, far less features, and a small, centralized group that controls every aspect of it. Wait, why does BCash exist again?
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Mar 25, 2021
    After years of effort by Microsoft and a community of contributors, ION — the open, public, permissionless Layer 2 Decentralized ID network running on Bitcoin — was launched this morning. It's time to build the decentralized future of identity we deserve. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/identity-st…
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Jul 19, 2018
    In which @TheCryptoDog punks a US Congressman so hard with facts that put his blatant hypocrisy on blast, the Congressman DMs him and taps out:
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Feb 15, 2021
    Bitcoin uses less energy than clothes dryers, yet you don't see all these disingenuous hypocrites talking about how they can Save The Planet™ by simply hanging up their clothes and waiting a bit longer; they wouldn't dare subject themselves to the indignity of mild inconvenience
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Mar 17, 2019
    Replying to @csuwildcat and @ChrisMurphyCT
    3/ Furthermore, gun bans are ineffective against premeditated murderers intent on committing such crimes. This line of policy is largely a fool's errand that is more security theater than anything, and you'll infringe on peaceful people's rights without achieving your stated goal
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Jun 19, 2021
    Replying to @csuwildcat
    In summary: after World Bank tried to publicly mock El Salvador by rejecting any association with their use of Bitcoin as legal tender, it turns out World Bank's own charter will now force them to implement the capability to both accept and pay nations in #Bitcoin 🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Mar 17, 2019
    Replying to @csuwildcat and @ChrisMurphyCT
    2/ unfortunately, mass murderers are primarily interested in mass murder, not mass gunder or mass semi-autoder. This is more or less a supply/demand problem - they demand murder and seek tools to do it - logic would suggest they'd adopt far more deadly alternatives, like trucks.
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Jun 5, 2021
    We've asked 11 people, half men and women, and no one at this "crypto party" can identify the saying on the shirt. Lame
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    Daniel Ƀrrr
    @csuwildcat
    Jun 9, 2021
    The entire Bitcoin network uses 4x less energy than clothes dryers. Here are the numbers for *just the US*: - 130M US households - Avg household uses 12,000 KWh/yr (EPA) - Dryers are 6% of household energy use (EPA) = 720 KWh/yr - 720 KWh * 130M = 93.6 TWh - Bitcoin uses ~90 TWh
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    Elizabeth Warren
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    Jun 9, 2021
    Bitcoin requires so much computing activity that it eats up more energy than entire countries. One of the easiest and least disruptive things we can do to fight the #ClimateCrisis is to crack down on environmentally wasteful cryptocurrencies.
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