As the year draws to a close, here's my 2 sats on the future of #Bitcoin and humanity.
I agree with nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak about freedom of choice, and with nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk about miners choosing how they build their blocks.
However, we're not living in a libertarian utopia, and individuality always loses out against coercive collectivism. There are many different attacks against Bitcoin happening simultaneously right now, but they all one thing in common: dividing the community, and potentially the chain, eventually.
At the end of the day, an individual can win a boxing match, but not a war. And to protect the individual rights of our children, and their children, we need an army to match the endless onslaught that Bitcoin will face forever.
My fear is that attacks like Ordinals, OP_CTV, ETF's etc will lead to fractures in the community, resulting in smaller and smaller forks, rendering Bitcoin defenseless against the banking oligarchs.
There's a fine line between collectivism and a strong community of principled individuals, and I can only hope that the economic principles of Bitcoin hardens the principles of this community against the seductive lure of castle building instead of fortress building.
Bitcoin represents opportunity, probably the LAST opportunity humanity has to build an escape hatch out of a dying empire as it attempts to enslave each person and their offspring in debt forever.
Either Bitcoin is freedom tech that affords individuals the right to transact and save or it becomes a fractured ghost of itself, absorbed into the debt matrix.
2024 will likely prove to be a pivotal year testing this resolve, and I wish you all strength, fortitude and happiness as the banking cartels drive nails into their own coffins.
Thank you to whoever zapped me ;)
Just wish it would show on the note too...
Since I can't zap back, I'll simply refrain from redeeming the Zeus hodl invoices.
It should take 24 hours for your funds to return.
I see two zaps to my Zeus address, but nothing related to this note... How do I tell who sent the zaps????
Yeah, they'll likely attempt to control the market and all 'legal' payment rails.
But it's much easier to control physical and centralised digital markets than a decentralised one ;)
Since they can't kill Bitcoin, they can only hope to co-opt it into something they can control...
As we cannot stop them, so they cannot stop us.
If anyone sees this note and would like to #zap it, I'd zap the amount right back.
Since setting up my node at home with tor and a Zeus address, I haven't seen if zaps work...
Definitely is a bit of a challenge, with many options. But self sovereignty has never been about convenience 😉
The #Bitcoin rabbit hole is lined with lessons in philosophy, economics, culture, history, fitness, health, etc.
The #lightning rabbit hole is lined with spikes and razors. 🤣
I'm not giving up though. Already learned heaps setting up a useless routing node. Getting it useful seems to be the most tricky part without emptying your wallet in the process.
Better to just burn it. Dumping means taking money from other scammed people who bought it.
When attempting to create a routing node, those sats pile up pretty quickly...
Phew. Seems to have been some glitch with my node and wallet state. Restarting it at least now shows the correct balances. Man, this shit can really give you ulcers.
Fuck #lightning. Seriously, just lost 20 million sats on terminal.lightning.engineering trying to open channels, and it simply timed out. No history, no tx id's, nothing. Poof, gone.
The circuses was a distraction from the Vatican secretly acquiring and hoarding all the gold during the collapse of the Roman empire.
Today we're being distracted in a million different ways while massive wealth transfer is taking place globally.
We need to ridicule all ideas that attempt to subvert #Bitcoin.
If I wanted to destroy #Bitcoin, I'd simply dilute it with shitcoins.
Merry Christmas 🎄 to all you psychopaths and degenerates!
If you want to become a sat Millionaire, start with a Billion and open some #lightning channels 🤣