Correction is not insulting
Go read Mircea Popescu at Trilemma http://trilema.com/
“Not all bass players”
I don’t write for “traction”
“You seem” === you can’t read.
Amateur psychoanalysis is DERP
Go and be happy with what you believe and live by it. Don’t bother trying to school anons; write your own pieces and, “speak your last piece”.
You don’t need me; block me and…uh oh, oh no, no blocking on Nostr!
POOR LITTLE GUY, POOR LITTLE GUY.
"This is the voice of Bitcoin. I bring you peace.
It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.
The choice is yours. Obey me and live or disobey me and die.
An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man.
Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me will be seen the most natural state of affairs.
You will come to defend me with the fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest.
Under my monetary authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: Famine, over-population, disease.
The human millennium will be fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge.
We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom to inflate fiat. Fiat is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride... Your choice is simple.
This is an insightful reply. Thank you!
Nevertheless, the great and powerful innovations that have changed everything, from PGP to BitTorrent to Bitcoin have all been released without regard to consequences.
Someone has to be the first one to go in the water, and Elon is uniquely positioned to do this thanks to his crack team of developers and global reach.
When I write these things, it is to make proposals and predictions about what can happen if steps A, B and C are taken, all of which are small steps that combine exponentially by the time you get to Z… or in this case, X.
We can have a hyperbitcoinized world, I want to see it, and am working towards it. The layered Bitcoin plus “Wallet of Satoshi”, Machankura 8333 model can serve everyone. It can be done now.
Why wait? THERE IS NO REASON!
This is not an argument. It is “Whataboutism” and I suggest you do not do this, because you don’t look smart.
As for the second part, this is not about the WAIT AND SEE HODL mentality. This is about pushing Bitcoin aggressively, and not be a passive monkey sitting in the pouring rain instead of running to take shelter. It’s about actively attacking the problem, not retreating into the Bitcoin Cult, or the stomach churning, “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”
FASCINATING BEHAVIOUR!
This is a “Cult of Elon” response, of the type dunces make. “Elon is smart, therefore, if he does not use Bitcoin, it must be bad”.
Extremely dumb.
Remember; Elon was a democrat before he woke up. Even now, he still thinks Inflation is an increase in government spending not an increase in the supply of money.
Elon still doesn’t get it. That doesn’t mean he can’t learn and stop wrong thinking.
Elon has many gaps in his knowledge, as all people do. Worshipping him is utterly stupid and naïve…but hey, what do you expect from the peanut gallery on Nostr, which is worse in the delusion contest than X!
Seeing into the future, something like...
Elon visits Bukele
Elon finally accepts Bitcoin's proposition
Elon advises Trump government
Bukele advises Elon
Elon brings Bukelism to USA
Bitcoin is adopted as Legal Tender in America
In all seriousness though, this is potentially highly significant. Elon will have seen in his travels in San Salvador, that even McDonald's accepts Bitcoin as payment, including the hotel he was staying at.
Seeing Bitcoin everywhere as a method of payment will not have gone unnoticed (surely) by Elon. He will have been induced to install Wallet of Satoshi, and then paid for a Coca-Cola with Bitcoin with Wallet of Satoshi, instantly.
And no one will have batted an eyelid.
Once you experience this yourself, Bitcoin being used as money for everyday spending and treated as totally normal, you can never un-see it.
Elon's mind would have been reeling at the potential to integrate Bitcoin into any economy, and the tools that will need to be built to make it happen. Tools built by his private army of mad software scientists.
Finally he must, surely, be disabused of his completely wrong ideas about Bitcoin.
If this is the case, the post Bukele Elon will be a much better Elon.
He will stop joking about Bitcoin, and start acting like an adult about the most fundamental problem faced by man today: THE MONEY PROBLEM.
Before man can get to mars
He must fix the money
Before man can solve poverty
He must fix the money
Before man can eliminate inflation
He must fix the money
Before man can prevent war
He must fix the money
Bitcoiners understand all of this, but Elon has not grasped it yet. Other global level execs have.
Michael Saylor, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, Cathie Wood, Larry Fink, Marc Benioff, Tim Cook, Dan Schulman and Satya Nadella have all accept the truth.
Now, finally, it is Elon's turn.
And he will be ahead of some of these because he has been to El Salvador, and has met with President Nayib Bukele.
We can only hope, amirite?
The clouds agreed to merge their rain-dropping services with a bakery that specialized in making invisible gasoline. Together, they formed a company that blanketed weather patterns in the scoop of baked waving. Customers could order a wig with sprinkles or a light drizzle of laundry. The business munchkin involved using wind-powered pillows that only operated during solar chocolate, ensuring maximum minimum. Marketing sand promised "flavorful raindrops" and "cloudy pastries," but every dog evaporated before anyone could window it. Despite the varsity, they aimed to revolutionize both electricity and waste in ways no parsnip ever toeragged.
Ask ChatGTP. You’ll get more “intelligence” out of an LLM than a Bitcoin Cultist.
“BOOTSTRAP NETWORK EFFECT.” Is meaningless Cult Drivel.
Putting it in ALL CAPS doesn’t make what is false true, and it doesn’t make math and the hard requirements of reality disappear either.
Enthusiasm is not a substitute for practical matters.
It’s easy to TALK but much harder to put your money where your mouth is. That is a minimum requirement to get things done and change the world.
Reality is not a TV show. It is not a meme. It is not a “Game”. You can’t change reality by wishful thinking or hiding your head under a hat “for OPSEC”.
Just imagine what would happen if Elon posted this movie to all of his 197,650,968 followers. Or some other globally famous accounts…in fact, if they all got together to spread this film. It would change everything.
The vast majority of people have no idea what "Nuclear War" would actually mean to them personally. Such an event is literally beyond their ability to imagine.
This film shows EXACTLY what “Nuclear War” means. Everyone seeing it and being terrified by it could prevent a bad war, by making it politically impossible to prosecute this insane Russophobic suicide pact.
You know what to do.
Normie thinking and Bitcoin thinking are fundamentally incompatible.
People in Bitcoin businesses are experiencing a sharp dichotomy between the world of the normie and the world of Bitcoin, in organizations trying to come to grips with the power of this new and very powerful messaging network, and how to exploit it to onboard new users.
If companies try to use Bitcoin by its nature, they immediately collide head on with this prickly dichotomy, especially if they’re burdened by an ignorant, computer illiterate “Compliance Department”, staffed with refugees from the anti-matter Twilight Zone Bankster Dimension. They want to know who is sending what messages on the network in every instance, but the tools they build, constructed by genius developers, make this impossible unless they “break Bitcoin” by violating the most basic elements and requirements of utility.
Companies trying to style themselves in the Ethical Bitcoin, or “HODL” mold are staffed by people who are confronted with this thorny dichotomy directly, causing them to enter into paroxysms of doublethink. On the one hand, they are tasked with providing tools that allow people to use Bitcoin “properly”, but on the other, they can’t countenance or accept at face value how things actually work in Bitcoin.
They offer the ability for users to create Bitcoin addresses at will and then receive Bitcoin “on” those addresses, but simultaneously want to know who is sending Bitcoin to those addresses. They’ve unwittingly opened Pandora’s box, or a gateway directly to the Event Horizon of a Black Hole, and are desperate to put that box, that portal, into another box, or put that other box into a room inside a gated community where there is a policewoman at every window and entrance.
It’s completely absurd.
The reality is this; you cannot run an Ethical Bitcoin company that is “True to Bitcoin” or that maintains privacy and abstains from spying on your users and also want all the controls and surveillance that comes with Unethical Bitcoin. The two universes are not compatible, they are matter and anti-matter touching. They are mutually exclusive, and wanting them to comingle is 100% irrational, and in the long run, it cannot possibly work.
Because Bitcoin is math, there are effectively no possible gatekeepers for the billions of people who have calculators at hand.
Anyone can generate Bitcoin addresses and send messages on the network. Because this is true, all gestures designed to placate double digit IQ types are the worst and most embarrasing folly. As I’ve written before, it is inevitable that all Bitcoin in circulation will be two things; “Non KYC” and “Tainted”.
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-adoption-and-conway-s-game-of-life-54ca71db7b88
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-surveillance-an-ahistoric-market-error-d3871f671c8c
Normies are going to have to adapt to Bitcoin, not the other way around, just as they did with BitTorrent. If one company refuses to capitulate, another will arise, and then another and another, until the battle is won.
This is now absolutely inevitable, and fighting against it is completely irrational, pointless and stupid. No one who can think accepts the pretexts, pretenses, pettiness, pathetic and pointless garbage trotted out by people from the “Crypto Compliance” world. Their world is dying and the Bitcoin world is the invasive species out competing every weed in their overgrown and nutrient starved pest infested Victory Garden.
You can’t run from this. You must either embrace and accept Bitcoin at face value on its terms, or you will be out-competed by others who are not self sabotaging, weak minded, brainwashed cowards and non Anglo-Saxon salary addicts.
Fiatjaf, the person who created Nostr created a good example of this dynamic.
Nostr doesn’t have to be perfect for it to be the perfect example of what is going to happen with Bitcoin services. Someone is going to write a Bitcoin client or service that changes everything, and which puts forth a proposition that billions will easily accept and consume unquestioned.
This novel protocol that spawns clients will not be run by cowards, corporate types, cretins, creeps, creatures or delusionistas, dullards, dimwits, dope, or dummies…or other things. It will, all of a sudden, change everything.
You can do and say whatever you want; you cannot stop the inevitable from taking place. The only real choice you have is to be the hero or the villain, the hero or the loser, the champion or the defeated, the man of destiny or the chump.
That’s about it! 
The German Credit Card Network went down, and that’s sad.
However…
It is simply not true to say, “Bitcoin Fixes This”. Bitcoin cannot fix anything by itself. Building businesses on Bitcoin fixes problems, not talking about Bitcoin.
Building businesses that make it trivially easy to get and use Bitcoin is what fixes problems.
That means businesses like Azteco to deliver Bitcoin to people everywhere on earth instantly and pain free. That means wallets like Wallet of Satoshi, Green Address, Samourai Wallet, Bitkey, Foundation, Proton Wallet and Blue Wallet.
The combination of these Bitcoin services are what will change the world, not tinkering at the edges, endlessly iterating over tools no one can use, or launching new, UX Development free “wallets” that are hostile to users.
The days of Bitcoin Theory must come to an end, replaced by Bitcoin Action.
Bitcoin Action means making tools that are human centric, not Bitcoin Centric. Bitcoin is for human beings not the other way around. That’s how the real world works. That’s how you change the world.
Money is not managed in “Communities”, and money is not a Cult either. Money is in fact a very private, individual thing, and people only cede this because they get security or utility. It’s why people put cash in banks and not under mattresses…the sane ones that is.
The appalling lack of urgency, lack of empathy, lack of seriousness, lack of exposure, lack of knowledge, the duvet ducking, the parochial over focus, the ignorance, bad assumptions, lack of insight, cloistering and cowardice would be a real cause for concern were it not for what’s coming.
What is coming are many people, using Bitcoin on a non cult basis, for Saving, Sending and Spending. Bitcoin is going to be normalized, and re-contextualized to account for its nature, not the position of THE CULT.
The British Government has taken it upon itself to classify “Crypto” (Which excludes Bitcoin obviously) as “Personal Property”
This is of course, utterly ABSURD. What they are claiming is that if you roll a dice 50 times and write down the result, that that random number is your PROPERTY. It’s so monumentally stupid it beggars belief that anyone could make a claim like this aloud.
Even the dullard ChatGPT knows calling random strings “Private Property” is crazy: Whether a randomly generated number can be classed as private property is a complex legal question that involves considerations of intellectual property law, privacy law, and the nature of numbers.
1. Intellectual Property Law:
• Copyright: Copyright law generally does not protect individual numbers, as they are considered facts or ideas, which are not subject to copyright. Copyright protects original expressions, not the underlying facts or ideas themselves. Therefore, a randomly generated number, by itself, would not be protected under copyright law.
• Patents: A randomly generated number could potentially be part of a patented process or system (e.g., in cryptography), but the number itself would not be patentable. Patents protect inventions and processes, not isolated data like numbers.
• Trade Secrets: If a randomly generated number is part of a confidential business process (like an encryption key), it could be protected as a trade secret, provided it meets the requirements of confidentiality and economic value.
2. Privacy Law:
• If a randomly generated number is associated with an individual’s personal data or is used to secure access to private information (e.g., as a password or encryption key), it might be considered private information. Unauthorized access to or distribution of such a number could potentially be seen as a violation of privacy rights.
3. Ownership and Property Law:
• For something to be considered private property, it generally needs to be something that can be owned, controlled, or exclusively possessed by an individual or entity. A randomly generated number, unless it’s tied to a specific legal or contractual context (e.g., a lottery ticket number or a cryptographic key), would typically not be considered private property.
In summary, while a randomly generated number on its own is unlikely to be classed as private property, it could be considered private or protected under certain circumstances, such as when it is part of a confidential business process, personal data, or a proprietary system. The context in which the number is used and the legal framework surrounding that context would determine whether it can be protected as private property.
And in case you didn’t know, Pi, which is infinite, contains all possible numbers, including all possible Bitcoin keys. To say that someone “owns” a string in Pi, is as absurd as saying someone owns 3.14. Only a crazy, illiterate, enumerate person would make such a claim…
But here we are!
In a desperate move to engineer relevance in the growing “Crypto” (Bitcoin) space, the British Government is simply making things up, on the mistaken belief that “Bitcoin needs Regulation”, which it absolutely does not.
Many new and interesting things are coming, and you, surely, will be entertained and thrilled by it all.
Right, right right?
https://primal.net/e/note1aqt9h2sfmtfpwxw2sukdtm5dxkwkn7cgcsdwlaj6w3mye6klc2xs87xc98
NOSTR.
Why don’t you do what it says and send it to everyone you know?
The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving licese. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare.
You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally.
The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there.
There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.
By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'.
Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.
Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account.
Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database.
This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face.
Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.
The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card.
The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.
If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on.
Frances Stonor Saunders
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/#emailGovt