Fair enough.

Any thoughts on the Brave browser?

To all my friends in the Bitcoin community, this most recent video by nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p is a must watch, regardless of which side of the Core/Knots debate you’re on. Learn about:

1) Protective measure being taken for the Bitcoin Protocol.

2) Potential outcomes.

3) Personal Operational Security.

4) Some things to not do.

Best wishes to all.

https://youtu.be/7XSqt_oUR9U?si=ODi3vVACS0OHbnQ5

As is typical of all forms of gambling.

Most people will never be satisfied if their wants are tied to material possessions.

Everyone should adopt Rumble. YouTube is anti-freedom, except when it comes to allowing total scammers to run adds.

Best Bitcoin introduction video ever made. Share it with those you love.

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You are a great asset to Bitcoin.

The deeper you dig, the less reasonable the changes seem. The more dangerous the changes seem.

I love the label ‘Bitcoin Puritan’ and find it humorous someone would think that’s an insult. OK. I dare you. Call me a Bitcoin Puritan to my digital face.

The strongest evidence Satoshi Nakamoto was first and foremost a world-class economist is the simple fact that he coded for function over stunning wizardry. He sought and created the perfect peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

Some coders have the true ethos of Bitcoin ingrained in their souls. For these technical masters who honor Bitcoin as a monetary network, I have the utmost respect. I want to do all I can to support them.

But many coders are the greatest threat to Bitcoin. Coders want to code. They want to prove their genius with new fluffy ideas and fantastical use cases. They can't just leave Bitcoin as the perfect money protocol and help harden it against quantum threats, etc.

Coders cannot be content building their blockchain-based non-monetary use cases on Solana or ETH. Why? Because Bitcoin is the best, and they want to be associated with the best. They have the uncontrollable urge to tinker with perfect money. They neither understand the true need for Bitcoin as a purely monetary network nor the long-term effects of their actions.

Of course, there is also the obvious possibility that some coders want to create or amplify Bitcoin's vulnerabilities for some deranged purposes that are too numerous to speculate on in this post.

"May some grand individuals, combined with divine intervention, be empowered to protect and preserve Bitcoin as a pure, perfect, and enduring monetary protocol." This is my prayer.

For years, I've been trying to find out what a Bitcoin Maxi is. Turns out they're really easy to identify.

1) Maxis self-custody

2) Maxis run a Knots node

Are you a Bitcoin believer who also holds Bitcoin ETFs and Bitcoin Treasuries? If so, what's your long-term strategy? Have you planned your exit into Bitcoin self-custody?

What is the purpose of Bitcoin? Sovereignty through self-custody. Anything else is a distraction.

No honest person who looks at the facts thinks Core is working in the best interest of Freedom Money.

That’s what I’m talking about!!!

What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a modern money protocol that empowers every human being with the freedom to transact and save without government oversight or influence. Value stored in Bitcoin cannot be debased or inflated away.

Bitcoin has perfected the desirable properties of money like portability, scarcity, verifiablity, fungibility, divisibility, and durability.

Everyone who understands these truths and the positive worldwide changes Bitcoin offers will do all they can to preserve it.

Study Bitcoin. Buy Bitcoin. Self-custody Bitcoin. Transact in Bitcoin. Save in Bitcoin.

Literally, a whole new world awaits.

How many of you have opened some software on your computer or phone to find code changes were implemented that no one asked for or needed? Don't blame the Devs, they are just trying to prove their worth and stay employed.

The same thing is happening with Bitcoin Core. Developers are smart and creative individuals who want to code. Unfortunately, it appears many do not understand the Bitcoin ethos, and more importantly, the truly monumental change Bitcoin is for the world economy and every human on Earth.

If they did understand and respect the Bitcoin ethos, they would undoubtedly show more reverence, long-term strategic planning, and check their hubris at the door. Bitcoin Layer 1 is not the place for timechain experimentation and coding Wizardry. Bitcoin Layer 1 is the place for a hardened Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Period. Stop. The End.

Everyone needs to see this.

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I don’t swear very often, but when I do I’m probably thinking about Bitcoin Core Devs.

Bitcoin was created to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that can free the world of the tyrannical government control of money. Layer 1 should be protected at all costs. Just because something is possible or technically ’valid’ doesn’t mean it should be done. Anyone who cannot grasp and respect the long-term potential of the monetary network has no business anywhere near Bitcoin code. Maintaining Bitcoin layer 1 is a sacred responsibility, not some techno-wizard’s blockchain playground.

And those plants couldn’t be more correct.

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Agreed. And thank you for sharing yours.

IMHO that means monetary transactions only. No image or other non-monetary data warrants the bloat created down the road on the main chain. Even the Bitcoin white paper doesn’t need to be imbedded in the Bitcoin time chain. Just because something can be done, doesn’t mean it should. It helps to think long-term and all users. Hardware requirements for node runners has already become much more expensive and 3rd world plebs deserve their financial sovereignty just as much as we do.

Why not keep anything above 80 bytes on a Bitcoin Layer 2? Any reason this stuff must be included on Layer 1?

You lost me with ‘this.’ Which ‘this’ are you referring to? 😂 I guess I’m too slow to keep up.

That doesn’t really respond to the preference that Bitcoin be a monetary transaction protocol for the peer-to-peer electronic cash transfers. If someone wants to play with blockchain file storage, Solana looks like a great option.

How about we just keep Bitcoin as pure money. I can find the Bitcoin white paper in two seconds on the internet. In fact I have a copy saved to my hard drive.

RFK Jr on totalitarian governments.

1- Every power the government takes from us will never be relinquish voluntarily.

2- Every power the government takes from us will ultimately be abused to the maximum extent possible.

3- No one in the history of the planet has ever complied their way out of totalitarian control.

Lessons:

1- Every capitulation is a signal to the oppressors to impose new forms of torment, torture, compliance, or obedience.

2- Every time you comply, you get weaker.

Maybe it’s the media’s fault? Whatever it is, I doubt the families of the dead people think it’s all ‘fake and gay.’

I’m pretty confident you’re also known as AA on X.

Congratulations and best wishes.

People ask if Bitcoin is a religion. I dont' think so. But it's backed by math and code. Bitcoin is truth in money and all truth has a spiritual undertone.

My strategy is to buy the bitcoin first using the fiat I would have used to buy something I was going to buy anyway. Obviously, don’t spend your stack. Actually I buy more Bitcointhan I’m going to spend in fiat. 👍🏼

Does this count as manual labor?

Isn’t it more accurate to say that people don’t trust themselves with cold storage solutions?

Nailed it. Morons! We are governed by Morons. What does that say about the people who elect them?

My friend, nostr:npub10zsum2w6qv39w34fa83ttk8js793adly5g6u0ngt5e2qt6qqavtq6fken2inspired this gem... With Bitcoin, you're always buying the bottom, because "it's going up forever, Laura."

I feel the same.

Not selling my Bitcoin for Fiat, but using it as much as possible every day. Just making fire to accumulate more than I use. HODL go up!

I’m sure that orange tag on his ear is NOT a coincidence.

Happy to join nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p today. Love the regular stream of quality content Matthew provides. Happy to support him. https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/

I’ve been feeling this all day.