The OP_RETURN drama in 2 minutes:
https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/articles/op-return-bitcoin-drama-2025
Bitcoin is about to experience a civil war 2.0.
The core developers seem to be acting in suspicious and unreasonable ways.
Bitcoin Knots has grown usage by 700%+ this year.
Bitcoin v0.30 is introducing a concerning change regarding the OP_RETURN filter.
Vote. Run a node.
Spain’s Tax Office accused of coercion, harassment, and privacy rights violations
Who do you think creates and allocates ***the majority*** of money supply?
A) government
B) central bank
C) private banks
D) mix between all
gm pv. anyone out here?
Bitcoin’s killer use case will be global payments.
In a digital world, talent will be outsourced to its cheapest location.
But with traditional payment rails, these workers will get taxed ~50% right out the gate!
Not to mention income tax 20-40% later.
Death, taxes and tax avoidance will always live on.
The fact of the matter though is that the criminal group that does the highest number of violent kidnappings, against we should all be the most concerned to get protection from, is the State.
It's also the one with access to the most dangerous and powerful technology, and completely ruthless in using it against us.
Do not get distracted with the anecdotal cases of non-State attacks.
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the gov won't torture you, and at least you have some control in what gets extorted away.
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The system will collapse. Most people refuse to believe this possibility. Especially the older generations that have heard these warnings time and time again over many decades or the better part of a century.
Can't blame them too much - but one has to remember that a broken clock is right twice in a day. It’s coming, although nobody can predict when.
Society changes when money dies. Take for example the Roman Empire which went fiat by way of diluting the denarius of its silver content
> From a purity of greater than 90% silver in the 1st century AD, the denarius fell to under 60% purity by AD 200, and plummeted to 5% purity by AD 300 (Wikipedia)
People became more degenerate whether by social engineering or just declining societal morals and ethics.
People in occupations that were deemed beneath them also became celebrities in a way. Gladiators, actors, entertainers, chefs and so on went from being looked down on to becoming celebrities. Ring a bell today?
Time will ultimately show us. Better be stacking sats in the meantime.
Bitcoin Education is profoundly important.
As most who have dived in the rabbit hole know, there are an immense amount of concepts, sciences and history to learn.
But without said knowledge, conviction about Bitcoin cannot be reliably built. The only way we reach a world-wide Bitcoin standard is when a majority of the world learns and appreciates its benefits.
We try to help as much as we can by summarizing and hopefully making it more accessible to a greater number of people.
Bitcoin teaches you:
- Game Theory ✅
- First Principles ✅
- Economics ✅
- Simplicity ✅
- Self Reliance and Independence ✅
- Network Effects ✅
- Human Psyche ✅
- Monetary Systems ✅
- Capital Markets ✅
Opt out of fiat education and teach your kids Bitcoin! Hopefully our project helps.
BITCOIN HAS NO PRICE CAP
We say it all the time, but it's literally true.
Learn why 👇
Most simply said - money becomes more useful and more valuable the more people use it.
i.e. its value AND utility BOTH rise as people start using it.
Money is a different type of asset. 🦊
It doesn't have an "underlying value" like a cash flow of a business.
Conventional investing call this an "unproductive" asset but that's a derogatory term for no reason.
The underlying value of money is how widely accepted it is. That's a fundamental network effect.
The main thing that drives people to adopt it in the first place is its underlying properties - which we know #Bitcoin excels at.
1. more adoption
2. more useful
3. more valuable (price up)
The rational response of everyone else is to try to get more themselves, resulting in a positive upward spiral -> 2) and 3) make people want to do 1) more, which makes 2) and 3) go up!
This incentive is the polar opposite of conventional investing.
If a stock gets too expensive, its value decreases because an investor buys a smaller share of the company's revenue for more dollars.
Contrastly, $100 of Bitcoin today is MUCH MORE VALUABLE than $100 of Bitcoin years ago because it is spendable at more places.
This makes it both more useful (utility) and safer (downside risk), which unblock further adoption.
What we described here is a unique positive feedback between price and value.
This feedback loop makes the growth of Bitcoin self-sustaining.
There is no top until EVERYBODY adopts it. 
We’ve been gone for a while
How is everyone doing? 🤙
Today's volatility in Bitcoin is nothing more than the logical path of price discovery, bubbles, leverage, and manipulation as adoption increases by orders of magnitude.
See the gold price during the german hyperinflation to get a sense of how these things naturally work:
- an excerpt from the 2-minute version of Gradually, Then Suddenly (2019) https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/gradually-then-suddenly-bitcoin
That there was never gold related hyperinflation is not exactly true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution
Same situation will arise again when it becomes economically viable to mine the asteroid belt for gold, where it likely exists in even higher amount than in the Americas during the Spanish colonial peak there.
hmm, interesting point!
Bitcoin differs from other cryptocurrencies by its soul.
Reinventing a monetary system takes irrational zeal and an unwavering commitment to a firm vision of the future.
No other project is building a system to last **decades** and face the State head on.
Success for other cryptocurrencies is an exit. At a stark contrast, for Bitcoiners, success is the day when **no exit** is required.
People confused the blockchain revolution as a technological one - “if we can create the most advanced algorithm for securing a blockchain, we will win”. It was always a political revolution.
Going against the state requires hundreds of millions of diehards that believe in a **stable set of values** - clever cryptographic gimmicks cannot inspire and win devotion.
- an excerpt from the 2-minute version of A Most Peaceful revolution, originally posted at
https://2minutebitcoin.org/blog/bitcon-a-most-peaceful-revolution