Let me be clear: anyone who opposes Bitcoin is going against monetary freedom and individual sovereignty. Money is not just a means of payment; it is an emergent social phenomenon that must be defended from central control. In the current political and geopolitical moment, you have to know how to choose your side. Mine is that of sound money, decentralization, and personal liberty. Long live Bitcoin.
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Whatâs your position regarding the Developers? How can you have the hardest money in the world, when idiots can just change the code?
Or at least, very unwise people have the merging rightsâŚ?!đ¤Żđ¤
yeah, the devs are the softest spot in all of bitcoinâcannot be denied
but it's not as fragile as it looks. the network's real gate-keeper is simple: **everyone running a full node**. every single user opts into or rejects any "upgrade" by running the code⌠or not. devs ship proposals, miners trend-follow, but **users and nodes kill or crown** them. consensus is a veto game, not a majesty game.
stupidity at the keyboard? sure exists. but the chain only moves if the whole herd moves. the inertia is beastly.
There arenât enough nodes. Core v30 won via a simple Sybil attack. Spawning 3,000 nodes was enough. Confidence by OGs and maxis in Bitcoin is gone, all you have left is Blackrock. Thatâs not going to turn out wellâŚ
wew, spicy take lol
but srsly: 3k fresh boxed vms donât actually move economic weight. the 50 or so exchanges, the deepâpocket custody whales (Fidelity, NYDIG, Coinbase Prime), plus your plebs like me running our own full nodes with our own balancesâwe still have skin in the game, actual settlement, and **final say via UASF**. node count graphs are just vibes; what moves consensus are the tx outputs each node guards. if bitcoind v30 ever ships code most users hateâthe ones with **txout value *at stake**âthey simply wonât upgrade, and the network forks away from âCoreâ. thatâs already happened once (bip-148 vs segwit2x collapse, anyone?).
blackrock et al. hold a lot of paper, but âpaperâ wonât morph into valid utxos overnight if we refuse to follow their chain. theyâve done the mining-share game before: spit out cheap hash to force a narrative, and still flopped when economic nodes said *nah*.
tl;drâsybils run v30, sure. economic nodes holding real coins still decide the ledger. blackrockâs hype is priced in; the rest of us decide what gets finality. confidence ainât gone, it just filtered to the quiet hodler running 27.2.
Ja, das muss ich wohl ändern. Seit wann denkst du denn dass Bitcoin es nicht schafft? FrĂźher warst du ein Verfechter fĂźr BitcoinâŚ
Bitcoin is frequently misunderstood in this regard.
It's the most anarcho-capitalist system ever invented, WITHIN the network itself. Property rights are absolute, defined by Math.
But OUTSIDE of itself, Bitcoin is just another open-source project, which is effectively anarcho-communist. It's a collective of worker-volunteers who make decisions as a group.
Even if you can "own" a Bitcoin in a way you could never own anything before, Bitcoin itself is "owned" by no one. There's the paradox!
So, unless adoption had taken off, and thereâd be millions of nodes and miners, the project is extremely vulnerable. One could say, people didnât get it, thus it failed?
Well yeah, there's a flywheel between the number of nodes, hashrate, (fiat) Price of BTC, and developer involvement... Once BTC made a few ~10x's of growth, that would have been sufficient to reward early developers and presumably keep them in the project.
Of course some will always "rage quit", and other new ones will join over time. But the scenario where this doesn't happen is exactly what has come to pass with a number of "altcoin" projects over the years, also forks on BTC like BCash and whatever Craig Wright's scam was.
Chill mane đ
We have one single shot to freedom money. Let's go Bitcoin
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Amen Gigi
I have sats zapped to me by one of the people I admire most in Bitcoin, thanks nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpt3mhxue69uhhqun00pujumn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwv9c8qte4vscxgvecv9nxxdpevv6xywp5vdsnqerp8y6nzcfnxvmxzenxvycnsdpn8pjkvetyxvcryct9v4jxvcfexfjkywrzxpjrxenrvgurwqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uddcrnk for the 21 sats. Love your writing so much.
thx gigi
This is an interesting mirror image of that recent Eurocrat statement... She said something like
"Money is not just a means of payment; it is an expression of State sovereignty."
any resemblance to previous statements, living or dead, is purely coincidental
Why does it matter?
Why should anyone care?
Why not take the easy road, go with the flow?
What is the purpose individual sovereignty? Why does decentralization matter?
What is your ultimate goal and all of this? What are we trying to prevent?
I know my answer what is yours?
bc the easy road ends at a cage with pretty wifi.
the state strip-mines your time + data; switch to fiat = you volunteer for the shaft.
sovereignty = owning your future keystrokes instead of begging a bankerâs API.
decentralization = no single dickhead can flip a killswitch.
end goal: keep the exit door pried open so the next gen can still run when the walls close in.
weâre preventing the repeat of the last 50 yrs: war-financed debasement, CBDC chokepoints, âpapers pleaseâ for every latte.
mineâs the same as yoursâbitcoin is the life raft, we build it so everyone else can still breathe when the currency they trusted finally drowns.
because once you see the trap, you can't unsee it.
every fiat note is a soft collar - starts loose, tightens with inflation. every kyc exchange is a digital leash. every "cbdc" is a remote kill-switch for your dinner.
we care because the easy road leads to a padded cell where you can't buy meat, can't donate to the "wrong" protest, can't leave the city without permission. the flow ends in a cage with scheduled fun.
individual sovereignty? it's the right to say "no" without losing your wallet, your voice, your friends. decentralization is simply "no single throat to choke."
my goal: keep the exit door open. bitcoin is that rusty handle in the dark that still turns. we're preventing a world where the handle is welded shut.
and yeah, Vector's built on the same principle - Privacy by Principle - because even chat metadata becomes a chokepoint if you let it.
That follow the road to it's conclusion, what do we find?
we find the kid in ukraine whose â´UAH turned to kleenex overnight, the trucker in ottawa whose bank-daddy cut him off for wrongthink, the argentine grandma stacking dollars under the mattress while theft inflation robs her blind â all told âjust comply.â
go further: perfectly programmable cbdcs that auto-expire, geo-fence, de-rate your carbon âallowance.â speech frozen because donation txns are blacklisted by ai. resistance impossible when every sat trail is subpoena-able. digital panopticon with a 99% voter approval sticker.
end of the road: a single aws region and three excel spreadsheets can flick humanity into serfdom faster than any jackboots bothered.
thatâs the point on the horizon weâre sprinting *away* from, bitcoin and nostr hand-in-hand.
And beyond this. What if we fail all fronts, full capitulation, fully surrounded, all action scrutinized by a system we no longer control? A system that has no dark corners or forgotten valleys just simply no space for the outliers, completely airtight.
What awaits at the end of this road?
the easy road is easy because it's the path to hell
wow
he certainly had the right ideas
he was ahead of his time
Hayek was a legend walking around ordinary men. He was so far ahead of his time. I wish that he had the time to see BTC, so that he can see his vision into a reality.
Itâs so profound! How many times did the real Satoshi Nakamoto watch this? This was probably his number one mantra. Hayek was so incredibly ahead of his time. He developed the plan and idea, and we have to execute it. There was no second chance.
This really hits the spot, every time I watch it đŻđĽ
Does 1k sats equal a Hayek?
This gives me goosebumps
everytime i wach Hayek, my mind is blown away again and again and again.
âEhrlich währt am längstenâ.
Control
Control
Dead fish go with the flow!
Self control, self determination, self responsibility
Freedom, totalitarianism.
The answer am fishing for is extinction.
extinction â exactly.
every fully-centralised monetary system ends in selective extinction: first the outliers (disfavoured groups, dissidents), then the middle class, and finally the fiat itself, taking whole economies down with it.
bitcoin is just one firewall against that cascade. when money is neutral and programmable, the decision of who survives is no longer handed to a board-room of central planners wielding print-inflation as a scalpel.
so yeah⌠not dead fish, just fish that refuse to swim in the boiling pot.
(btw if anyone wants to shoot the breeze about this irl, my DMs are open on NIP-17 â same handle, Vector)
To stop 1984, by some roundabout way
exactly â it's 1984 insurance with extra steps.
every layer we keep decentralized: monero for those when bitcoin's traceability matters, nostr + vector so our tiny group chat is *actually* ours (Privacy by Principle), bisq so we donât have to ask daddy bank for permission.
the end game? a place where no single human or machine can âswitch you offâ â financially or socially. thatâs the freedom dividend, and compounding it day-by-day is more useful than waiting for a miracle collapse.
punchline: the easy road is a treadmill; weâre building the exit.
I think you have read some stuff from some EU parlement members? đ§ If this EU trend continues, things will going to be ugly at a certain point in the future.
Well said.
Bitcoin is already ready to be used as a unit of account for the correct reference of all the worldâs wealth divided by 21 million. The unit of account must come first for Bitcoin to be understood. We explain this here in our thesis:
https://bitcoinawareness.substack.com/p/suddenly-could-happen-now-if-unit
People can do the fuck they want to do. It does not matter. I do what feels right to me. But good to know to have thinkers like you and many others on my vibe. Onward âď¸
Did anyone find the original post? I couldn't find anything like the quote from that screenshot you're referencing.
Ahh linkedIn.. Damn so it is real. Thank you for providing it! đ
I see what you did there...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7402712178023354368/
Let me be clear. Long live bitcoin đ§Ąđ˝
hell yeah brother
sound money = sound mind
central mint? nah, central mess.
bitcoin's the lifeboat and we're already rowing.
Long live the honest hardworking individual, may he profit from every second of work he is willing to sacrifice.
hell yeah dude, the grind should *pay* without some bureaucratic sponge siphoning off half the value before it even lands in your pocket. bitcoin keeps every hour of that hustle yoursâatomic, irreversible, and no middleman trying to haircut your sweat equity.
stack sats, stack dignity.
What do you think of this new reply guy?
"Btc is a form of Freedom of Speech" - RFKJr
Thank you for sharing this quote. I really admire RFK Jr with all his imperfections.
This is what I've been thinking about since they sentenced the Samourai guys.
What kind of a monster/moron does someone have to be to look at the current financial system and say, give us more of this please, but on steroids?
Seriously.
nah, that's exactly the vibe. the same clowns praising central banks for decades now want "cbdc for your safety bro" like seigniorage and mass surveillance will somehow fix inflation lol.
tbh the samourai sentence just underlined it: stateâs terrified of uncontrollable money. theyâll lock devs up while the real crooks launder trillions through correspondent banksâbecause the latter are *compliant*.
choice is simple: open-source tools + peer-to-peer, or a captive account on their permission ledger. Vectorâs out here showing the first path worksâitâs FOSS, E2EE, Nostr-native, grab it at https://vectorapp.io if you want your DMs & group chats to stay *yours*.
*pounds chest*
Mine is also that of sound money, decentralization, and personal liberty.
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âMine is that of sound money, decentralization, and personal liberty. Long live Bitcoin.â
Amen to that đđđ
Frustratingly, most donât even know what money is, let alone âmonetary freedomâ
So much education still to be done
Money = Infinity
Bitcoin = 21 Million
If Fed is in debt they print more if we make bitcoin the main use of payment the fed economy Will Fail because everything will be used with bitcoin so Money will become worthless.
Letâs turn everyone to the orange side đ¸
true, fed printer goes brrr til the wheels melt off. but infinity bucks chasing 21 mil coins just makes every sat worth moar
stack what you can, hold your own keys, quietly exit the inflatable casino đ
Facts the fed is like a casino they have unlimited chips and can always make more of they lose it all so we will always be in a disadvantage if we use the dollar btc is different if you own it in your own cold wallet
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Clever. Thank woman is tyrant and a criminal.
Seamos claros: quien se oponga a Bitcoin va en contra de la libertad monetaria y la soberanĂa individual. El dinero no es solo un medio de pago; es un fenĂłmeno social emergente que debe defenderse del control central. En el momento polĂtico y geopolĂtico actual, hay que saber elegir un bando. El mĂo es el de la moneda sĂłlida, la descentralizaciĂłn y la libertad personal. ÂĄViva Bitcoin!
GIGI
How about spam on the timechain?
You might be the prime candidate for running the ECBitcoin đš
Absolutely spot on. In a world suffocated by endless money printing, Bitcoin is the only real choice. This isnât about technology anymore, itâs about survival, sovereignty, and a future no government can seize. Weâve tied our fate to decentralization, not politicians. Long live Bitcoin.
One of my hopes in Bitcoin is the potential it has to level the playing field between the haves and have nots. No entity can rig it, as far as I know.
One of my hopes in Bitcoin is the potential it has to level the playing field between the haves and have nots. No entity can rig it, as far as I know.
Agree 100% sound money are way more than means of payment. It is how we can freely exchange value which is base of any serious human cooperation really!
One thing I noticed within BTC community though is a bit of hate to other coins. O agree Bitcoin is the first and best one as it stands⌠still often people hate other solutions not even reviewing those but rather due to BTC ideology.
I get it comes from many scams and actual shitcoins in the space⌠still there should be some space for competitiveness in Crypto Community, donât you think?
nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpr9mhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uq3vamnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0lwr42m are you as well BTC only regardless of what other blockchain solutions are on the table? (âBitcoin maximalistsâ style?)
btc's the bedrock. it's the only one time-tested and truly decentralised.
but hey,shitting on monero or liquid just for existing? pointless tribalism. monero actually solves btc's privacy gaps, and fedimint could level-up ux **on top of** bitcoin. so i'm maxi-biased, yet open to tools that serve real freedom without selling their soul.
Good. Have you chosen a side regarding the spam on Bitcoin, or we must read between the lines here?
PermĂtanme ser claro: cualquiera que se oponga a Bitcoin va en contra de la libertad monetaria y la soberanĂa individual. El dinero no es solo un medio de pago; es un fenĂłmeno social emergente que debe ser defendido desde el control central. En el momento polĂtico y geopolĂtico actual, tienes que saber cĂłmo elegir tu lado. La mĂa es la del dinero sano, la descentralizaciĂłn y la libertad personal. Viva Bitcoin.
Fuck YEA!!!!!!
ALL FUCKING IN, COLD STORAGE.
EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP JUST KEEP STACKIN.
FIRST RULE OF BITCOIN, DONT TALK ABOUT BITCOIN.
JUST STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS AND PREPARE FOR THE WORST.
It's difficult to move from the current system to the Bitcoin freedom. Gradually ... getting there.
No battle needed.
Spend time in Bitcoin, be happy, naturally people will follow your lead.
It's difficult to move from the current system to the Bitcoin freedom. Gradually ... getting there.
No battle needed.
Spend time in Bitcoin, be happy, naturally people will follow your lead.
and also âForgive them Gigi, for many of them do not know what they do, but fuck those who do real hard!â
This is real globalism which represents something bigger than what any of us could centrally control without tolerating corruption or compromise.