The globalists put on conferences that literally tell us what they have planned. That is what their 'agendas' are - for 2030 and 2050. People tend to call these conspiracies, even though you can watch their meetings and read all of their plans.

You know what is the last thing standing in their way of realising these agendas? Free speech. They want to 'vaccinate' us against speech, as the EU have said.

They need ultimate control over not only every platform that spreads their propaganda, but also our ability to discuss and voice opposition to these things. They will continue to arrest and slander anyone who stands in opposition. They will continue to enact "hate speech" laws and label voices of reason as extreme and far right.

Our right to expression is directly under attack because we are hampering their efforts when we laugh at the media, when we call climate change a scam, when we say vaccines are inherently unsafe, and when we say fiat is one of the greatest scams and systems of slavery ever devised.

They have no defense against the truth, so these bastards will use any tactic they can to ensure people are too terrified to voice an authentic opinion.

The bitcoin network just had a +2.99% difficulty adjustment.

Here’s the empathy. The harsh reality of bitcoin adoption was true then and it’s still true now. The same feeling you have about people who were earlier than you will be had by people who were later than you about you. Bitcoin still has 100x + to go. The ultimate kindness is to make people aware of this reality and offer them help and resources to position themselves in order to take advantage.

"why aren't people using bitcoin" - me for 14 years

"why aren't people using nostr" - me for 2 years

It's going to be another 12 years for nostr isn't it 😭

oh well, lots of time to build stuff. bitcoin NGU should help fund the latter at least :D

If you weren't naive, you wouldn't be complaining about that people are flowing to Bluesky instead of Nostr.

You think that most people are sophisticated enough to magically grasp that organically decentralized protocols fare better than "centralized platforms" in a context of censorship ?

Get your fingers out of your anuses, guys.

Technology adoption is not necessarily driven by "rationality". Think about people who still traveled on horseback even if cars were far superior.

I think it's a pretty lively scene

This is copied/stolen from #anchorite

Topic: Bitcoin price discovery

More and more #bitcoin is taken off exchanges, but nonetheless the crab market continues to keep poking bitcoiners in the eye.

I asked Grok:

"If we ignore bitcoin futures trading, is it possible that trading of "paper bitcoin" on crypto exchanges has such volume that it affects the bitcoin spot price?"

Grok's conclusive remarks were:

"The sentiment from posts on X and broader market analysis suggests that while spot ETFs and direct ownership of Bitcoin are significant, the derivatives market's volume and its impact on price cannot be understated. This indicates that even without considering futures, the trading volume of what might be colloquially termed "paper Bitcoin" on crypto exchanges could indeed affect the Bitcoin spot price through mechanisms like sentiment, arbitrage, and leveraged trading. However, the exact extent of this influence would require detailed market data analysis beyond what's typically available in public discussions or general insights from X posts."

Comments?

Excluding futures, can trading of "paper bitcoin" negatively affect bitcoin price discovery in theory or practice?

Who is selling their ARK/21 ETF position? Down 2,642 btc the last two days. The ETF now only holds 45,367 btc.

That’s ~5% sold in two days. Not good hodling technique. #bitcoin

Learn the onchain basics.

Realised Cap

MVRV

SOPR

if you can master those, you will be 5x better at picking market opportunities and risks than the average bear.