Similar story. Happens with a lot of mainstream services. I'm convinced that they've got 99.99% of their used tagged precisely due to cookies, fingerprints, etc.
I assume any user that's "unknown" is a red flag and automatically deactivated.
Contraversial Post:
https://nostr.download/9e42d1558568c1e6a522adbe0866b71daf3f6c3dc919f04e16f62086d67fa132.mp4
BITCOIN IS DESTINED TO FAIL ON ITS CURRENT TRAJECTORY.
No reality where BTC overtakes Gold
Intro
First things first I should straight up tell you the reader, that BTCs explosive growth is not organic. Companies like 3 Arrow capital showed you can greatly game the system with shitcoins, absorbing that economic energy and channeling it into real world assets and Bitcoin where there had to be at least one sound asset to legitimize the whole effort of decentralized money. With the collapse of firms like Binance and 3 Arrow, Wall Street has completely gamed the ebbs and flows of crypto capitalization. Dont believe me? We are at the end of a Crypto Cycle in 2 months and there hasnt been a hint of Shitcoin appreciation completely locking up the volitality of Bitcoin to be constant more or less by 10% of a target price set by Blackrock, Microstrategy and a few influencial holders of BTC from sanctioned states like North Korea and Iran, interestingly enough Russia has joined that sector. I should note alot of the downward pressure is also the US selling btc to slam the price down but I cant prove that, and Coinbase where most btc from major btc Miners globally end up. Turns out you can centralize mining if the BTC isnt being spent in the real Economy. Save this idea for later.
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Wall Street/CIA carefully plans BTC corruption
Behind every Influencer that you watch daily, every podcast economist with a British and Canadian accent with 20 years experience in tradfi and every "Libretarian" that is promoting Trumps executive orders as genius is essentially a funding campaign by the CIA to ensure you stick to Americas financial institutions.
How? Before I get to that point lets talk about some recent discoveries and procliamations by the US government.
In truth I debated with myself how to approach this topic, I could bore all 10 of you with a 100 page essay of connecting the dots in the news to paint my picture of the current reality, but i decided to tackle this a different way.
How is bitcoin failing from its fundamental mission?
Peer to Peer money, that was Saitoshis initial description of Bitcoins success, not BTC being valued by the BIS as collateral for a loan. The idea for success is that people pay their employees in bitcoin, the employees go into the real networked economy and spend that BTC earned. Thats what a real economy looks like, and when the CIA was tasked to eliminate such a threat as alternative shadow banking networks and money not tied to Usury, (which is debt based money designed to take everything from a country to a small group of non christians historically), They knew shutting down BTC wouldnt work in the long run because you cant kill an idea BUT you can corrupt it.
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Lets talk about some recent disturbing news
What triggered me to finally speak out was this bit of news about Tether this year aggressively and increasingly selling off bitcoin on their balance sheet in favor of slowly replacing it with Gold, Gold miners and Gold leveraged companies.
I knew it was happening as early as May but in June, Tether completely understood the geopolitical realities of whats coming. Similar to Bukele recently buying 50 million in Gold which is more than the entire budget of BTC daily buys this year. That sale was a panic buy because Bukele already established mining plans for Gold in El Salvador last yeat theres no need to buy it but the current political situation is moving quickly to a completely two stack divided global economy.
The problem with Western countries is that theyve been convinced that ultimately what matters to a country is its balance sheet. Number goes up means you can afford anything doesnt matter how that number goes up, the change now which Russia and China for the last decade has been warning about is that this will change. It doesnt matter how high the number is if Nations that produce the things you need are no longer buying the scheme.
That brings us to news number 2 China being threatened with War and Sanctions is in a position where it must hit the global reset button.
This year China officially opened up its economy by essentially creating a Gold backed Yuan returning economics back to the traditional Gold started prior to the 1970s. There are numerous Gold vaults outside of China in Brics nations like in Saudi Arabia, UAE that states that Gold is tethered and exchangable into Yuan and vice versa. China has no control over those vaults thus this solves the trust problem about using the Yuan as a reserve currency in Major economic hubs around the World. This is also just the beginning, if this works very rapidly the world will return to Gold as the basis or measurement of economic value.
This is not a pipe dream, constantly we hear the US capital markets are the deepest and most mature, however again this doesnt matter if the US provides no value at all behind those markets besides the threat of terrorism and War. This isnt a hard concept to grasp for those living outside of the US and Europe, its just a institutional brainwashing and fear of what will happen if its impelemented.
Essentially whats going to happen is that countries will be forced to make a decision within 5 years or increasingly less. Go to War with the US or join Chinas Reset plan where Gold is the reserve and Russia heads the design of the BRICS international settlement layers. In the past this process should have take 20 years but now the US has become more and more desperate to solve its critical materials and energy problem which completely locks up the US ability to wage unlimited forever War and create terrorism. Its a Mafia style system not one really run my any metrics of sustainability.
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Lets return to Wall Street/CIA plans for BTC
Theres alot more in the news but I have to cut this short. But lets just talk about how the BTC trajectory cant be sustained.
First we have to come to the conclusion that in order for btc global value to continue it requires two things. Peer to Peer real world economics in order to assert a native value for commodity produced like an employer needing to pay his employees in btc because thats what the employee perfers, or the alternative a value placed upon on it by existing moneys with the value of peer to peer transaction like the US dollar aka Microstrategy using debt to create the demand side pressure inflating the price.
The argument is well what about Gold, why does that get a pass? Because China, India and Russia the biggest GDP by PPP economies just said so.
Without the peer to peer real economh aspect the CIA figured they could use the principals of BTC to actually help the US agenda.
We've had a successful soft coup of Argentina by Milei promising to use BTC to usher in a new economy reality, and then immediately sent the Gold to the UK and Israel oh and selling off natural resources to Black rock and exclusivity rights meant for the state like access to water to Israel. And now currently that same playbook was deployed by Donald Trumps promise of a BTC national reserve.
This will never happen, but the promise is all thats needed to win an election but more importantly the need to keep society hopeful and calm. Instead the first thing approved was a stablecoin/CBDC establishment more on that later.
To note Canadas previous election had a bitcoin candidate promising both loyality to the US/Israel in a trump style campaign but that failed and now Conor Mcgregor a bitcoin candidate again is attempting the same in Ireland without a single hint of a economic plan only loyality to the US and Israel in a Trump style campaign.
This style is literally formulated in a lab now and many opposition leaders parroting the same points without a plan or reason, only bitcoin and the desire to stop immigration by going to war for US/Israel, problems created by Neoliberalism fabricated in the halls of the US and Israel.
The only assured thing in their plan is support for a CBDC/Stable coins to manage Crypto interactions with Bitcoin etc.
But to note a completed CBDC system will be introduced before any attempt to allow Wall Street to fully allow BTC value to flow freely and under the very watchful eyes of the bitcoiners that will just let it happen. Why?
Because in America, Greed always wins even against the individuals basic intuition to survive.
You want a million dollar BTC, then accept that the USD centralized digital and also that you concede to becoming sanctionable if you ever decide you are independent of our slave system.
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Conclusions
So lets draw some conclusions, at the moment its clear the US and Western Countries will not allow BTC economies to organically grow and the final nail planned is stable coin usage. Stable coins are de facto CBDCs because to get a stablecoin wallet you will have to be KYCd.
That only leaves BTC as savings, that is completely fine because then Wall street can control the price and flows of value nothings fundamentally changed in this scenario, you anon wont spend your btc and so like a house youll use The US institutions for loans thus the Usury balance is kept and secured they still own you and can sanction you for political instability.
The added bonus is the US can use this new system to kill their debt on paper while continuing the agenda of terrorism and War trading citizens lives for 1% well being in their bunkers.
Meanwhile the World splits into 2 reserve currency status, where eastern nations use Gold/Yuan/Multipolar currency reserves and the American empire including Europe will increasingly see more activity of trade using a US CBDC/Stable coin between banks. European Euro for instance will fade in relevance for goods and services, American banks and political system wins.
Generally agree.
BTC has been usurped by the banks and quarantined as a traceable store of value. The peer to peer use case has been a failure outside of niche micro communities (so far).
The strategy was always to control and KYC the on/off ramps and they've been quite successful with this. Maxis cheered this process on as their bags appreciated.
The genius act is the successor to Kissinger's highly-successful petro dollar scheme. It will expand international demand for dollars and treasuries - both essential to keep the USD system afloat. Frankly, it's genius.
This also creates a de-facto CBDC system. All genius-compliant stablecoins (including Tether and USDC) can blacklist any wallet with a single phone call. No due process necessary. Most dont even realize this, as sanctioning wallets will continue to be extremely rare until the system has established hegemony.
As you said, there will be two competing systems - gold backed and BTC "backed." Both will be defacto CBDCs. This will trend towards a bipolar world order (vs. multipolar).
I see this as bullish for BTC price, but bearish for humanity. There's significant potential for conflict as the two systems wrestle for hegemony. This will be the Layer 0 battlefield of the 21st century.
Even more concerning is how disempowering the Stable Coin Digital Currency (SCDC) system will be for everyone but the controllers of the smart contracts' private keys and the AI chainalysis operators. Orwell's dystopia seems quaint in comparison to our current trajectory.
So what can the plebs to?
1) Don't give up cash money without a fight.
2) Buy Bitcoin AND physical gold (hedge your bets).
3) Develop parallel economies using P2P BTC
4) Develop and promote private BTC layer 2 and payment systems
5) Shift from BTC maxis to privacy maxis
6) Normalize Monero and integrate into #3
Any sufficiently advanced retardation is indistinguishable from malice
I'm not 100% sold on "don't exist" but I'm highly skeptical, particularly about respiratory viruses.
Certainly most of the experimental science is bogus.
Things like herpes etc. are difficult to explain without some transmissable component.
It's hard to get by without Google play for many things like maps and banking.
One option is to make a second profile and then enable sandboxed Google play services on the second profile.
So you can have a schizo / crypto profile, and then a hardened normie profile and switch between them.
Essential apps include:
Mullvad VPN
FUTO keyboard
FUTO Grayjay
Signal
Zapstore for keeping apps updated
Adding the follow packs as a section in the Primal app menu would be ideal (so you don't need to login with nsec on a separate website)
Great article. Thanks.
⚡️ It all started on December 26, 2024, exactly 144 days ago. I scraped together just enough to get Primal Premium. I hesitated between Breaking and Alert, but ended up choosing Flash — it reminds me of flash news and of course the zaps. It just felt right.
I register. And here I am on Nostr, alone. No one knows me. No one introduces me. I arrive in a strange land, and I have to make a name for myself.
How do you go about it? There's only one answer: hard work. So I give it my all. Every single day. Until I reached 8,000 notes today, on exactly the 144th day of my activity.
A little proof of work:
➤ 8012 / 144 = 55,639per day
➤ 55,639 / 24 = 2,318
➤ 2,318 per hour every day for 144 days with no vacations!
That's it, I just wanted to mark the occasion with you, next stop 9000 notes or the second million sats while waiting for the 10,000 threshold or I'll give you a little surprise.
That was a short break in your news feed, now back to work 🫡
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Changing the Bitcoin denomination to Sats is a terrible idea, IMO, but there's some merit to the benefits of a "stock split" argument.
Why not call 1/100,000 a Bit and then you can have your cake and eat it too. A Bit would be ~$1 and would be a denomination that people could more easily relate to.
BTC is too large and Sats are too small for familiarity / adoption for transactions. It's a bad idea to redefine either Bitcoin or Sats, but creating a new denomination closer to $1 could provide the benefit they're looking for without all of the problems associated with changing long-standing denominations.
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh, Lord, yeah
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah
Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where their bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing, spreads his wings
Oh, Lord, yeah
Could be either side. There's great talent and good people on both sides.
Forcing them to kill each other is evil
I pray the war will end soon
GrapheneOS senior developer just got conscripted against his will
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Hear me out...
Governments are starting to embrace Bitcoin. If BTC becomes the primary currency for governments, then the transparency of the ledger will ensure transparency in the use of public funds
An ideal outcome would include citizens embracing a private-ledger blockchain, like Monero or Zcash as their primary currency. Conversions between BTC/XMR can be made via permissionless systems
Public for public and private for private
I see some BTC maxis dissing on Monero (or anything other than BTC), but can anyone make an argument that this wouldn't be better than Bitcoin only (for public and private use)?
SOFTWAR AUDIOBOOK - Chapter 5 Part 2 Released
In this section, learn how modern abstract power hierarchies form using software and how they are exploited. Then, we start to outline the theory behind securing cyberspace using physical cost functions and proof-of-power protocols (Bitcoin).
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I haven't read the whole thesis, but I've read a lot of it. I find the last 3rd the most interesting.
One thing that stands out to me is that encryption can serve the same function as Bitcoin / PoW in "chaining down" remote computers. Breaking an encryption key is just as hard as breaking a PoW blockchain.
yes, we will instantiate voluntary "legal" systems. we'll prototype it on Nostr and Bitcoin!
I'm hoping my https://catallax.network is an early probe into this wonderful world.
I think a reputation system is mandatory, but it could just be a low-tech review system.
Agoradesk for P2P crypto transactions was successful with large amounts of money (trust) because traders accumulated large numbers of positive reviews.
So the proof of principle exists. I don't think agoradesk could have been successful without the review system.
This is the plotline of Jurrassic Park
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The thing they never talk about is how long the batteries last
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I find these arguments retarded.
> We have to do X, Y, and Z to prevent a technology that has not yet been invented from becomimg skynet.
They even admit that there's no risk of LLMs advancing to the point of AGI.
AGI technology is currently imaginary and therefore so are the risks.
It's just fear porn to persuade regulators to limit competitors, IMO
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Thank you for putting them all in one post
Food: Gyukaku. It's a yakiniku chain restaurant
Music: Bonobo (electronic music)
Shopping: Find the Burton flagship store and then wander around the backstreets around it
Two Rooms in Aoyama is a good bar for gaijin
Just wander anywhere between Shibuya and Harijuku and you'll find all kinds of shopping, restaurants, and nightlife
