TL;DR: CoinSpice scours the Twittersphere to shine light upon the top crypto tweets of the week. Bitcoiners embrace war is good rhetoric in a strange new turn. A price prediction bet for last year is called out publicly. Rhett Creighton pledges to cover PANDA hack losses. Bitcoin OG praises Ethereum as the project to beat in 2020, and so many other hilarious and infuriating posts.

Tweets of the Week: #9 War is Good for Bitcoin

The targeting of a top Iranian military leader by the Trump administration this week, once again, outside, real-world politicking into Bitcoin. For most of those involved in the early days, Bitcoiners were largely peaceniks and often touted peer-to-peer electronic cash as a possible way to defund wars.

Drone strikes on the largest mining facilities would incentivize decentralization. — Nick Szabo 🔑 (@NickSzabo4) January 4, 2020

Looking back, it can seem a little preposterous, starry-eyed, but at least it was in a countercultural direction and overtly toward peace. As is often the case, pragmatism forces its way in, and now we have relatively benign, matter-of-fact statements about drones and decentralization … and the realization war might be good for Bitcoin in terms of price.

To the extent folks look for alternative ways to avoid capital controls and inflation, this is undoubtedly true. One cannot help recalling canards of wars being good for an economy, however. Intuitively, all those munitions, uniforms, tanks, and ships being built could rev up Gross Domestic Product for sure. Nevermind the stacking of bodies across the world. And if it were indeed economically true, why not simply order instruments of war to be constructed without their being used, skipping mass murder altogether, and just sink those tanks, ship, etc. in the ocean? Maybe we’re losing the plot.

#8 What Bitcoin Cash Did in 2019

#7 Ethereum Might be 2020’s Project to Beat

I found @CryptoKitties the most interesting cryptocurrency-related project of 2018. @PoolTogether_ the most interesting of 2019. I dunno what I will find interesting in 2020, but it will probably be built on Ethereum. — Gavin Andresen (@gavinandresen) January 1, 2020

#6 Covered

I’m PERSONALLY going to accept Full Responsibility for the Hack I will cover ALL Losses for anyone who contributed (total losses were $5k) Also, we forgive the admin and hope he comes back to #800cc He hacked us good, but $PANDA and #800cc NEEDS hackers 🚀🐼💵 — John Everett “Rhett” Creighton [#800cc] (@Rhett800cc) January 1, 2020

#5 Thanks for Being a Good Sport! Happy New Year!

Bitcoin did not hit the $28,000 as predicted by @RonnieMoas when we made the bet in Vegas in 2018. Ronnie – please post proof of payment of the donation and thanks for being a good sport! Happy New Year! Cc:@WorldCryptoCon @joelcomm https://t.co/J0AWRHUN1F — Vinny Lingham (@VinnyLingham) January 1, 2020

#4 Public Service Announcement

I did not used to shit on my ex boyfriend. He wanted me to and I never did. My ex friend now shits on him, please don’t send me direct messages asking me to shit on you. — bit carla (@Bitcarla) January 1, 2020

#3 Some Say Wilson is Satoshi

Only need a single global currency. Currently that's Bitcoin Cash. It's not just merchants though.

Needs to be their suppliers as well so that they don't need to convert it into local fiat — Phil Wilson (@_Phil_Wilson_) January 2, 2020

#2 Start More Wars, Number Go Up

If the pump is because a war is starting then we need to start more wars — BITLORD (@Crypto_Bitlord) January 3, 2020

#1 A Product That Went Nowhere Fast

So….a few exchanges testing to….a few exchanges testing. Talk about a product that went nowhere fast:( — Matt Corallo (@TheBlueMatt) January 4, 2020

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