Avatar
William ₿ Travis
3b8f17fb8a9f0c769b5819cf3caea3922a6844d4f7f7684aed9f6571bb26be46
Been buying bitcoin since 2018. I particularly like http://river.com. The Bitcoin White Paper http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Christ is Lord.

I get it, frankly. I fell for it the first term. We want someone to come along and fix this shit. But I don't think there's anything stopping this train.

Not sure why you're singling out Trump. This was going to happen regardless of who was president. He's just the mouthpiece. This is BlackRock and JP Morgan seizing the means of production. Understand who you're dealing with.

Please, please don't pull your membership tokens out of the club's coat closet coffer. We keep then in there for you to use later. Seriously, we love you.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/more-americans-are-tapping-their-401ks-for-cash-it-should-be-a-last-resort-says-cfp.html

First, decide what you value and start working in that area to share those values with others.

Then,

live cheap;

get married;

have kids;

dca bitcoin.

I won't ever say "never sell your bitcoin." The stuff is money meant to be spent. I've talked before about how I've used my bitcoin to buy land and other things I value more than the bitcoin.

I am, however, comfortable saying "Never waste your bitcoin."

Spending meaningful amounts comes with a significant future cost.

nostr:nevent1qqsz2j8jlxzrrclhjnpm4shpr5eq57p7myh2qwk8cemny5ew83fy8zqprdmhxue69uhhwmm59ejx7amwd9ek7mn5dpjh2upwvdsj7q3qym56klev354vx7gr47gtu2s6aahj4j7kn860ykw243adx0fqqrqsxpqqqqqqz2zlg0x

you're giving one of the richest men in the world 20k? Is this a shaming ritual?

Is this a dip? yeah, no. We've gone +13x in 5 years and are still going up. Don't worry. bitcoin is working exactly as it should.

.

who's getting wrecked in this scenario? Even the people who own the houses are by-in-large so way above water on their equity.

In my view, the problem is with the municipalities. Many counties are leveraged to the hilt on muni-bonds that were financed on the promise of increasing property tax. These counties are about to get destroyed. Too bad. They should default, but the Federal govt won't allow it. It's their chance to bail them out and further tighten the controls across the empire.

true. that's money disappearing from the system.

I agree. They tend to be more interested in where you're sitting that whatever crazy bug in running around inside their brains.

I'll stick with my siamese and tabby. The only move for an hour a day.

This is just a reminder that the world is not any more the way it used to be.

someday I will not longer need my bitcoin, but today is not that day.

It's very difficult to let go of narrow materialistic assumptions. People clearly struggle with a lack of understanding of transcendental realities and why the source of those realities are important.

The other thing, and spiritually sensitive people will confirm, there is a detectable "voice" that is supernatural. Not everyone is capable of hearing that voice since it, in the view of many, doing so depends on a functioning pineal gland.

As to the voice itself, I will assert that there's a hierarchy within the voice (in other words, it is multiple voices), and the highest one is God. That one voice is called the Word and is synonymous with love (why the understanding the transcedentals is so critical).

I don't expect an agnostic to understand this, but millions of people throughout history have with no difficulty.

Everything is designed to keep you from reproducing.

The commies are here to tell you not to drink raw milk...yeah, they buried it, but we know that's the agenda.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/im-a-neurologist-to-keep-my-brain-safe-and-healthy-i-always-avoid-these-foods.html

Very few people are going to have capital in the next era. So either the world is serfdom (which is quite likely to happen within 10 years) or it will look roughly the way it does now. In the meantime, what Saylor is doing is probably building the capital pool for that era. I just don't know who's going to distribute it. That actually is a very interesting question.

I was expecting something more about us being children of God, and when we are secure in Christ we are transformed by the Holy Spirit over time into the people we are meant to be.

A lot of people think my interview with Roger Ver was a turning point when I left the church of Bitcoin maximalism

In fact, I started questioning it when the culture became obviously non-libertarian during the pandemic

Asking Gary Gensler’s SEC to label everything other than BTC as an unregistered security

Defending KYC & weird surveillance practices, by saying that at least the service is “Bitcoin only and doesn’t support any shitcoin”

Slaying guys like Andreas Antonopoulos who honestly is the reason many of us stuck around

Pushing idiots with nothing interesting to say to speak on conference stages just because they are “bullish”

Shitting on projects that have been nothing but nice and supportive to Bitcoin (Litecoin, Zcash) and others that do what Bitcoin cannot (Ethereum, Monero)

Replacing reason with dogma and enforcing everything with a weird sense of self-confidence that stalls progress

Acting like any network upgrade is an attack, despite intensive testing on other compatible networks

Vilifying developers to the point that they ragequit to build something else, while those who stay are incentivized to play along with the meme culture just to earn a paycheck

Worshipping Saylor, who is against the values of Bitcoin’s early days

Sucking up to politicians and selling out to government agencies because “everything is good for Bitcoin” and “Honeybadger don’t care”

Pretending that a federation like Liquid is decentralized and the L-BTC token is actually bitcoin (the market chose Ethereum for this use case, lol)

Repeating lies about Lightning Network’s success, when the project has been stagnating in terms of liquidity for years

Acting like bitcoin adoption in El Salvador (mostly custodial, surveilled by the state) is going the way it’s supposed to and other countries should copy the same example

Looking the other way while bitcoin payments get replaced by stablecoins and BTC adoption was in fact higher a decade ago

Changing history and erasing the contributions of OGs only to appeal to institutional investors that may make the number go up (who still remembers Gavin Andresen or Mike Hearn?)

Making up narratives on the go, manufacturing fake news in order to manipulate the market sentiment and get another pump

Suppressing conversations about serious improvement proposals, which would help Bitcoin scale to 8 billion people and offer monetary fungibility

Keeping builders away from Bitcoin with a hostile and cocky attitude which assumes victory before any significant battle has been won

Not giving a fuck about the disappearance of privacy products & research (Ethereum raised millions of dollars to defend the Tornado Cash devs, while bitcoiners simply shrugged when Samourai devs got arrested)

Normalizing a culture of complacency where you’re afraid of saying something wrong (or even remotely different from the social consensus) because you might just be excommunicated

Promoting sheepish mediocrity while pushing away radical reformists (Paul Sztorc, Jeremy Rubin)

Forgetting history (today was UASF day, does anyone still remember?)

Never giving the benefit of the doubt to other networks that build cool shit, only because they have tokens which compete with bitcoin

—————————-

I could go on all day, but I am sick of the hypocrisy and double standards.

Toxic Bitcoin maximalism is an inconsistent mess

A fucking death cult that leaves no true Scotsman standing

Though it may seem like a resilient culture, it ultimately leads to fragility via stagnation

————————

This seems to disregard the many people who aren't involved in anything you've described. They stack bitcoin (and use it in different ways as I do) in order to take care of their families with as little interference as possible. Every revolutionary cause has to deal with reality, and almost none succeed. That's an interesting study in itself.

Bitcoin is a powerful idea, and as such, it's going to go many directions as revolutionary causes often do. As a powerful idea that works remarkably well technically, it has legs, regardless of the personalities and divergent actions they take.

The revolution was never going to go in a straight line, and it was always going to get captured in certain ways (it's people afterall).

I think, though, regardless of all the things you described above, the revolution will go forward because bitcoin actually works for people like me, the sort of average guy looking to take care of his family and sees that the fiat system cannot provide those long-term values I require to do so.

This might very well be me being naive, but I've been in since just after the block-size war, and bitcoin has repeatedly liberated me from the cuffs the system tried to place on me.

yes. lucky. that's it. nothing about vision or risk tolerance. Just luck. and maybe stupidity.