Bringing back #Bitcoin #SkepticismSundays 😎

One of the things that showed me the intellectual honesty of the Monero community and helped to force the community to stay grounded in reality and always laser focused on their core ethos was their weekly "Skepticism Sunday" Reddit threads. These threads allowed the community to come together, ask hard and skeptical questions about the design of Monero, the privacy provided, the economic approach, and much more.

In my time in Bitcoin I've never seen anything similar, but the nuanced and high-signal crowd on Nostr seems like a perfect fit to fire things up and see how it goes.

The goal of this thread (which I'll post weekly on Sunday's) is for discussing the uncertainties, shortcomings, and concerns some may have about Bitcoin. Things like what makes it difficult for you to use Bitcoin, what pain-points you have, etc.

NOT the positive aspects of it.

Discussing things with a critical thinking approach and level-headed discussion helps us learn where Bitcoin and its community can improve and go from there.

P.S. -- I try to take a break from social media on Sundays so I will follow up and reply whwre I can tomorrow!

starting a Proof-of-Work fork where we care about the number of leading-2s not leading-0s

NEVER FORGET THE PEOPLE WHO ENABLED CSW. HIS FRAUD HAS BEEN OBVIOUS FOR SEVEN YEARS.

You won't find shipcoiners on Orange Pill App since everybody has to pay to join. 😉

You won't find shipcoiners on Orange Pill App since everybody has to pay to join. 😉

This actually looks really good

I just found a website in my new area of a huge community of ppl just giving away plants and seeds! FOR FREE! 😲🥹

Think that's an Odell thing. The salute started a while back and I think I've seen him say that.

BTC Co has visa gift cards, physical and digital, that may work.

Possibly with gift cards from the Bitcoin Company or Bitrefill.

that is the sifference my fren. an adult chopping their dick off is their perogative and i dont care. but children are not capable of handling peer/societal pressures.

“Freedom Tech” is just another cringe VC buzz word at this point Matt you can do better.

i had my mind blown by a couple of female teachers explain this to me. they told me they actually encourage the children to explore identities and sexual preferences.

i compared it to tattoos. i love art and symbolism but how many adults regret their tattoos as they age and mature and figure out their place in this world.

There's a funny feedback loop over in the AI community on Twitter.

People who are excited about AI follow a lot of what the leading tech moguls in the industry say. So, relatively minor comments from them elicit major reactions and discussions from the community. They'll be like, "What does mean when he says he's nostalgic about the current era? Something big must be about to change!" Or if they say something ominous the community fanboys will be be like, "OMG they must be reaching dangerous points of general AI!"

But then of course the people who make the comments are aware of these reactions, so now it's a known lever for them to pull to keep hype going. So clearly, some of them make those types of opaque comments knowing that each one leads to a discussion frenzy, which then further incentivizes that loop to continue.