If you are concerned that because Blackrock holds a bunch of Bitcoin that this means they control it:

Monetary power has nothing to do with how much of some arbitrary unit you own, it’s in how much **the market WANTS the unit you are holding.**

Money is a PROXY for securing and exchanging wealth. Not wealth itself.

Amazon or Blackrock or [insert huge corporation] cannot control Bitcoin simply because “they have a bunch and are super wealthy” for the exact same reason they don’t control any of their markets without their customers.

It’s the same as saying that Amazon could lose almost all of their customers but still control the retail market because “their company is so big.” The ONLY reason they have power or wealth is because customers want to use their service. Take that away and their stock, their streaming service, their servers, their website, all of it is worthless. Their wealth vanishes in a literal instant without customers, because the value of all of those things IS the size of the market that desires them.

Blackrock forking with “So MaNy CoiNs” doesn’t mean anything if nobody wants them. The value of those coins is explicitly a reflection of how much OTHER PROPLE are willing to directly sacrifice to get them. Because nobody wants another sh*tcoin. The market has proven this over, and over, and over, and over again.

If you think people would be willing to sacrifice more in order to hold Blackrock’s sh*tcoin fork, than to own real Bitcoin… then I have fiat to sell you.

Smash-buy at €50k?

When you are literally a Nazi, but also an Anarchist and a Marxist, in addition to being an incorrigible heathen and a Christian fundamentalist, and a shameless whore for oligarchs.

Then you might be me.

(Must be close to an election, again.)

I am tired of grown men telling me that my opinions about their software architecture make them feel unsafe.

No já se obávám že to bude kombinace…

Vládní stran jsou buď plná idiotů, nebo goebbelsů. To už se zapomnělo jak dopadly zajišťovací příkazy?

Když by tenhle zákon tlačil okamura či bureš hned by se mluvilo o tom že se snaží nastolit novou totalitu. Když je ale hodně pravděpodobné že příští vláda bude obsahovat minimálně jednoho z nich tak jim to nadělen i s mašličkou!

YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE RULES

Yeah well, you're right, professional whores have more dignity than plandemic nurses and doctors 😂.

i was just staring at a piece of code with a bunch of huge numbers made out of progressively longer series of the number 58 multiplied... essentially the squared, cubed, etc etc power series

and then i thought, what is this? 58? #58k gang is back?

and then i noticed... oh yeah, bitcoin addreses used to be base 58

they didn't make them 64 because there isn't enough letters and numbers to do that (62, sorry, need two more ciphers)

so, anyway, just reminded me, the 58 meme and bitcoin, it's been a thing from very early on

they picked base58 because if you take that base62 set, and remove all the similar symbols, I, 1 l, and 0, O, o, leaving only one out of that set each (not sure how `i` got in there since its similar to 1, I, l) but remove 4 from all digits and upper and lower case and you have 58

we won't see 58 again though, until 580K

maybe that's where the next price level will sit for a while too

Dude I dunno. I think my immediate family will still sleep through this cycle. Next one maybe.