Drivechains

Alright people, we are playing a game of chess here. The one thing, the absolute one thing, we can't do is give up the king. To give up the king, in my humble opinion, is to mess up the base layer. This mistake would disrupt the delicate incentive structure that ensures sound money. That sound money pegs the extremely fragile credit markets and out-of-control G7 policymakers that are creating clown world with their CB fiat policies.

We don’t need the sound, pegged, money to move fast, we don’t need the money to do smart swoopty things, we just need it to be pegged, immutable, and digitally sailable to actually stop the madness of clown world.

By introducing a whole lot of technical complexity to the base layer and potentially screwing with the incentives all so we can connect to a bunch of centralized shitcoin projects is like playing offense with the king when you’re down 7 pieces and the other player still has their entire back row at their disposal.

A. Why the rush!?

B. Why not just go use Monero if you need that level of anominity in your transactions. Why do you have to have it in a wrapper via drivechains?

C. Why risk the king without deep understanding and testing of the technical risk and potential change to incentives?

The beauty of Bitcoin is you can build it and softfork it, and we’ll let the community vote with their nodes. BUT, I for one, have no use for drivechains (that doesn’t mean everyone is like me). And as a result, I will not be updating my node and running any attempted “secret” softfork updates by the miners.

Freedom tech *has to* win users by being better tech. It's never going to win on the freedom aspect alone - especially when the masses don't grasp the need.

Your value to the movement is how you educate the masses. If Twitter is still a more effective way for you to reach a wider audience, then you should be on there. If a blue check helps you reach that audience, then you should have one.

People who already "get it" will continue to build better tech on and around nostr all while you continue to educate the people that don't yet "get it". These are mutually beneficial efforts.

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Bitcoin va a explotar y muchos van a decir ya es tarde

Went to an antique store to peruse and see if I can find a deal. I found a ring that legitimately looked like gold, in addition it had the 14k stamp. The ring was being sold for $15 - I should have known that there was an issue based on the price. However, drunk off the thought of making a +$200 profit and to converting to #Bitcoin, I bought the ring and went to a gold buyer. Unfortunately buyer notified what my gut was screaming at me - that it’s not real 14k gold, and it was actually copper. The moral of the story is that precious metals are not a viable option for currency due to this type of debasement and forgery. This is why I love #Bitcoin and I was hoping to accumulate more. I guess I’ll wait for my next paycheck so I can do my regular DCA. 🧡🙏🏼

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Pro-#Bitcoin US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr holds between $100,000 and $250,000 of BTC

People are just nicer here.

Just spend the last four and a half hour listening to the nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and Balaji rip.

2 x PoW on a rainy Wednesday with lots of coffee.

Hope you all are doing great🫂