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I saw Occupy Wall Street taken over by controlled opposition before my very eyes and now I am seeing Bitcoin taken over by the same people.

Calling it right now Bitcoin is now irrelevant in the west. Taking it back will be a massive battle and the only people who can are in the Global South. Bitcoin has been broken as a movement.

mleku 2y ago

the movement has always been constantly harrassed. just read about the blocksize war and the dirty tricks, smears, and various tactics that have been tried. as a Go programmer i see the marks of manipulation all over the codebases of various bitcoin and lightning related things too.

the reason why bitcoin survives is because it has to, and this is a bulwark upon which more things are being built and we are creating a refuge for the righteous and it's not about adoption, it's about giving the people who see through the financialising fiat slavery game and want to get out of it, and in doing so, are helping others who also want to do so.

they tried to fork bitcoin a thousand times, and there is still one bitcoin. the rules got set in stone by about 2012 and they will not change, and it will still be possible to replicate valid blocks even with a sub 16 version, probably forever.

but the physical places, bro, if you are still in a big Western city, you are half asleep and complacent and are still not getting it.

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Ray Youssef 2y ago

Tell me Bout the dirty tricks of the block size war? Which side was doing it and how ?

mleku 2y ago

i didn't study it real close, there's a book about it, but all kinds of fud, smears, sock puppets, ultra bad takes, and deceptive proposals. even lawsuits i think. kreg keeps doing the lawsuits thing too, he lost against someone last year. and not to mention the several hard forks and all the victory laps from vitalik and co.

it was bad then and it will be even worse now that the value has gone better than 10x and even more people are trying things. look at drivechains, still big blockers, still craig fricking wright, udi, all the scammers...

there hasn't been a hard fork of bitcoin in over a decade and i suspect there won't be one for at least another decade, the longer it stays the same the more likely it is going to stay the same longer.