This was, is, and will alway be the fight:
HARD MONEY Vs EASY MONEY
SOUND MONEY Vs UNSOUND MONEY
BITCOIN Vs FIAT
BITCOINERS Vs CENTRAL BANKERS
TRUE Or FALSE
Whichever side you're on, it's your choice. The Battle might not end in your lifetime, so enjoy the ride, building nostriches with bitcoin.
Good morning Nostriches!
The Fiaters built the world they wanted to see with the technology they had control over at that time. We the Bitcoiners are build the world that we want to see and live in with the technology we have control over. Except that, this time around it's about the individual.
Let us get to work!
The entire book is available for free online:
https://blog.bitmex.com/the-blocksize-war-chapter-1-first-strike/
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"The contention was essentially about four somewhat interrelated issues:
1. The level of blockspace available in each Bitcoin block Essentially, whether the eventual state should consist of surplus capacity available in the blocks, or consistently full blocks.
2. How to modify the rules of the Bitcoin protocol - Whether the rules on the validity of Bitcoin blocks should change relatively easily, or whether they should be more robust and only change in exceptional circumstances, with broad support from all interested parties.
3. The significance of the nodes of ordinary users - The extent to which, if any, validating nodes of the ordinary end users had a say in enforcing Bitcoin’s protocol rules.
4. Time preferences - Whether Bitcoin was like a tech startup which should prioritise gaining market share in the short term; or if it was a long-term project, a new global money, and one should think decades ahead when making decisions."
That's the whole point of bitcoin, isn't it?
The functions and qualities of money are two different things. The problems with the world today is the fact the fact that we've lost both. To end Bitcoin exists: Bitcoin is the solution, the best.
#mineTheOCEANWay
I used to think I knew this "hot take" until that moment when I got almost the whole of Bitcoin story. Say Hi to the Fed Reservers for me.
Great podcast!
But thank God Bitcoin is now not fully controlled by investors only. Being a bitcoin investor and at the same time a Bitcoin developer is above all the greatest. If you own any bitcoin, why should you not care to study the open source code and seek to contribute to it? At least it's your life savings, right?
The whole point for me is: Bitcoin is for everyone. We don't need investors making the decisions while the rest of us follow, just like they do in the mainstream. There is more to Bitcoin than meets the eye.
Beauty lies in human ingenuity. Artificial intelligence can't compare.
If I cannot mine, I will definitely study the codebase. Just trying to be more technical now because what lies ahead in the coming years is going to be interesting.
#bitcoinIsMoney
#mineTheOCEANWay
Yes, Bitcoin is real and hope, yet, a leap of faith is required to opt out of the fiat system into the Bitcoin world. And, that same faith is required for sustenance in the Bitcoin world.
Bitcoin is a solution to the problem. All we have to do is implement it, because there is no better solution than Bitcoin. It's a total waste of time and energy focusing on the fear-mongering problem (fiat). Bitcoin is both a defensive as well as offensive technology, if you pay attention to it. Any threat from the State is a sign of fear and weakness. Bitcoin is unstoppable and the State knows it better.
#runYourNode
#theOCEANWay
“O! Ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted around the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her as a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.”
— the unknown, impecunious pamphleteer Tom Paine
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