It's so incredibly hard to hear someone go off about "how expensive everything is" and how "we dont get paid enough" and "how low wages are"...

Then explain to them that inflation literally causes all of this, and that the reason it feels like running on a treadmill is because **by default you get poorer if you dont get at least a 7% raise every year.**

And then they say "but nobody would buy anything if money got more valuable, it would ruin the economy."

Mothafukr you are LITERALLY linking the chains that you complain about weighing you down.

Yeah, if money got more valuable, we'd stop doing anything interesting or consuming anything, because it might be cheaper in the future. It's a fact, experts have confirmed it.

For example, since I became a Bitcoiner, I have stopped driving, eating, working, cut the internet, gone on vacation, stopped feeding my animals, and no longer pay for home utilities, because it'll be cheaper in the future.

Bitcoin is money.

And it must be preserved as such. Money is the ultimate tool for distinguishing what's important from what's not. Every civilization that successfully scaled needed to invent it. Those that didn't remained stuck at a certain level, unable to deal with the information overload. Its people became lost in the games of lies and deception, as they resorted to inferior substitutes to serve as currency.

Bitcoin needs to do one thing - be a decentralized ledger tracking who owns how much value, independent of any trusted third party. That's it.

As Bitcoin continues to be increasingly successful, it's understandable that specific people will propose changes to gain more power or to shape Bitcoin to suit their specific needs. However, just because they try doesn't mean they should be allowed to. If we let Bitcoin's purpose become diluted to accommodate every use case, we'll end up pleasing none. Demand for a decentralized, always-available, general-purpose database is infinite. Everyone wants to write THEIR data into such a source of truth.

If the data they're writing represents monetary transfers of value (especially from those who have a lot of sats to those who don't) - we should absolutely encourage and facilitate this.

But if the data they're writing is a personal expression of vanity or a scheme designed to trade their 1 sat for more sats from someone else, we should absolutely call them out. More importantly, we should actively work to prevent such schemes from succeeding and from being built on top of Bitcoin.

If people want to play zero-sum games and build "decentralized world computers", Ethereum already exists. That experiment has run its course over the past decade, and even its benevolent dictator & prophet Vitalik had to admit failure and propose a new five-year plan to make Ethereum "as beautifully simple as Bitcoin".

Use Bitcoin the way you use money in your life - to focus your efforts and separate truths from lies. Help others do the same. Remember: you don't change Bitcoin; Bitcoin changes you. And those wanting monkey jpegs on the blockchain, elaborate technical experiments, personality cults, or thrilling zero-sum games should be directed toward Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, or whatever shitcoin currently boasts the largest marketing and R&D budget.

Rando:

RANT!!!!!

Working full time. No university detours, no backpacking sabbaticals. I chose the straight path, the “responsible” one, the one society often quietly champions when it wants you to hurry up and be a functioning adult. So I did. No drinking, no clubbing, no “silly little purchases” to clutter my conscience. I spend thoughtfully, cautiously sometimes, not at all. And yet, here I am: genuinely struggling to eat two meals a day.

It’s humiliating, honestly. I’ve put groceries on payment plans. Think about that for a second?????? breaking up payments to buy eggs and pasta. I’ve stared at digital baskets, playing God with dinner ingredients, asking myself “what’s the cheapest way to feel full?” Not happy. Not healthy. Just full.

My friends? They’re out. Concerts, dinners, weekend getaways, shared stories with geotags. Me? I say “no” so often I’ve become a ghost at the group chat. Not because I’m antisocial. Not because I don’t want to be there. I physically cannot afford the transport there, let alone the meal or activity waiting on the other side of that journey.

And the worst part? I’m doing everything right by conventional standards. Working. Sacrificing. Living frugally. Avoiding debt wherever possible (although that’s a battle I’m losing now too). Still, the math just never adds up. I am stuck at the intersection of “doing enough” and “never enough.” Debt is piling not because I splurged, but because I existed.

This isn’t burnout. Burnout implies you had fire to begin with. This feels more like erosion. A slow chipping away of spirit. Of dignity. And what’s left is this hard, quiet question: How is this supposed to be normal?

Because I’m not lazy. I’m not wasteful. I’m not reckless. I love my life, I love my friends and I love where I live, but I’m miserable at the same time, money is a constant in the back of my head. I’m walking a 2 hour commute just to make it to work because I can’t afford the train fare, which has gone up in price again btw FFFFFFFFFUCK LONDON.

Honestly how are people affording to live, I work a full time job, share a flat with 4 people, and still feel like I need another full time job, I get paid a decent salary for my far and experience, one that is SUPPOSED to cover atleast a months worth of wages. People keep telling me to put money aside and save and invest in my future, BUT I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY LEFT HALFWAY THROUGH THE MONTH?!? After rent and groceries and transport and debt is paid I am genuinely left with nothing. How are people earning this much money?

I fucking hate it here.

Is it a CRISIS ??? Really ? .. Suits have gotten too PLUMPY :-) .. I would say 7 % is healthy .. cuz bonds had a lost decade .. why would you invest in anything that cant even beat inflation ... The reason 60 - 40 died was low yields .. and retired people ( like me ) moved to a 30:30 :30 portfolio .. with zero exposure to Bonds ..

It's called The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver

suits are saying there is a sovereign bond crisis

they only just realized mandibles then bitcoin standard is in play

shit, already? I'm only 1/3rd through the book! gotta hurry

Sim, na minha opinião creio que o Brasil pode estar a caminhar lentamente para o futuro de uma espécie de Argentina, com maior inflação, etc. Ou seja o Real a desvalorizar lentamente, etc.

Por outro lado há uma forte forte comunidade Bitcoiner/libertária, principalmente no sul.

Não me admirava nada que o Brasil se dividisse eventualmente por exemplo. Mas lá está é uma possibilidade remota.

Portanto creio mais na hiperinflação nacional e na correcção de austeridade eventualmente. É o caminho mais longo mas em que todos aprendem.

Sim, em comparação a Portugal, temos uma demografia melhor, mas já entramos no ponto de inflexão.

Nós anos 80 pouco menos de 40% da população tinha menos de 14 anos e 60% de 15 a 64.

Hoje 20% tem menos de 14 e 70% está na segunda faixa etária.

Com taxa de fecundidade de 1,5, tudo indica que até 2040 já começaremos a ver um decréscimo populacional.

O que seria uma "banhada"? Pergunta de brasileiro kkkkk

Eu nunca entendo essa vibe "fugere urbem". É negar a divisão do trabalho.

Propriedades físicas são confiscáveis, inclusive terras férteis. Acho q o sucesso no futuro é conciliar propriedades intangíveis como bitcoin com qualidade de vida. Isso será possível sim com táticas de camuflagem social.

Não ter coisas ligadas ao seu nome, alugar tudo o q for possível, divertir-se com serviços e n com bens caros. Andar leve e pronto para correr em caso de ataque estatal. Esse é o futuro.

Eu compreendo que existam pessoas anti-Trump, pessoas que odeia tudo Trump diz ou faz. A meu ver, o que não faz sentido é dizer que o Biden foi o óptimo presidente, ou com a vitória da Kamala estaria tudo óptimo.

Eu acho que Trump identificou o problema fulcral do mundo, só que as soluções que tem apresentado têm sido péssimas. Além disso, perder-se em batalhas desnecessárias, em fait-divers.

Grande parte dos cidadãos do mundo ocidental, ainda não se apercebeu do problema que tem em mãos. O mundo que vivemos nos últimos 50 anos está a colapsar, está a chegar ao seu limite. O sistema FIAT permitiu um grande desenvolvimento e aumento da qualidade de vida, mas é insustentável. Vivemos demasiados anos acima das nossas possibilidades, foi uma qualidade de vida artificial, as dívidas são insustentáveis, foram anos após anos a antecipar as receitas, agora essas dívidas têm que ser pagas.

Os cidadãos ainda não se aperceberam que as próximas gerações terão que ter obrigatoriamente uma pior qualidade de vida, que a dos seus pais. Claro que é triste, mas é a realidade, não podemos ignorar o óbvio, isto está a frente dos nossos olhos. A negação da existência de um problema, nunca é a solução. A procrastinação não é uma solução, só agrava ainda mais o problema.

O grande problema é esse, como vão ser pagas essas dívidas?

Trump já percebeu que o atual modelo económico chegou ao fim, é altura de mudar. Só que tem falhado redondamente na solução.

Mas uma coisa é certa, a “solução” do Biden ou da Kamala não é viável, ou seja, adiando e aumentando ainda mais o problema, através da criação de mais dívidas e da expansão monetária.

É altura de acordar!

I agree, the system was not nearing its end and things worked, although keep an eye out for the boomers who are part of the change. They are around. Look at George Bodine, Jeff Booth, Larry Lepard, Donald Trump, Max Keiser, Stacey Herbert, Michael Saylor, Adam Back, Howard Lutnick, just to name a few of many.

The ones who are tired and no longer wanting to learn, we'll simply need to feel empathy for them. Many or most might survive with support of children. 🧡✨