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To me 1BTC = 1BTC means nothing more than what it literally says, and is equal to $1 = $1. What more it could mean does not explain the emergent process that is the valuation of a monetary good. It cannot be planned, it can not be understood in full, it is what happens if it happens. This is the magic of a free market. And I am in no doubt that homo sapiens will reach consensus on this important topic.

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I see constant talk about how Bitcoin is the way of the future, how it's the answer, the solution to the corrupt and mismanaged fiat system, a revolution, a way to put the power back in the hands of the people, digital capital, how it has so much utility, how it is the perfect money...

But I never

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see anyone talking about how we'll actually value it in a future where it has achieved the goal that everyone idolizes. Why? Why does it feel like there's no true long-term plan?

Lots of people say "don't value your Bitcoin in fiat", but they just stop there. They don't even bother with trying to extend that thought. I feel like this is a mistake to not take it further.

Imagine a future where Bitcoin has become our new primary store of value and we no longer value Bitcoin in fiat. How will we value it at that point? What will one BTC be representative of?

How will we determine this new system of value? How will we arrive at a consensus for it? Will this somehow naturally and organically grow out of the decentralized nature as the system becomes more and more widespread and adopted and used, similar to the dynamics involved in the emergence of the first currencies? Or will there need to be some form of committee formed to make a decision about how we value BTC? Will governments play a role in this?

All the talk of "0.1 BTC is all you need" and "whole coiners" is all purely based on fiat, and doesn't address anything about the long term future of Bitcoin.

I was wondering if people can tell me if any thought is actually being put towards this. I'd like to read about any progress towards this, or about thought experiments for it, or see videos or listen to podcasts that discuss it. So any kind of recommendation of reading materials or other information would be greatly welcome.

Memes and pithy hype quotes aren't going to do shit for us. If this truly is a revolution, we need plans, and we need to ask the hard questions and deal with the tough discussions and start to think about the goal we all dream of actually being realized. Memes and parroting "stack sats" are the lowest of the low hanging fruit.

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How is this different for you than pricing other free market goods or for example public traded stocks. Does it matter what the unit of account is? Shells, gold, fiat money or bitcoin? We have had many systems for measuring distance, weight and value. Bitcoin is nothing more than the evolution of money.

“175 million people in some form are involved in this world of Bitcoin and crypto and all of the others. So they said, Let’s be nice to them at least until after the election”.

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Trump @ Bitcoin conference 2024, Nashville

This is peak Youtube. What a worthless piece of garbage where channels can have 317k subscribers and 300k people watching an Ai video of Elon Musk telling people to send bitcoin and double their money.

Convenience or necessity? Can I know your seed phrases then?

But i practiced a lot, all kinds of scenarios. But in the end its the seed phrases that make you hardware wallet and vendor independent. That’s a comforting thought.

When restoring from seed phrases i did not use the original keystore file. I created an entirely new setup based on the same seed phrases, probably even in a different order and confirmed i could see the funds and transact them.

As long as you tested the setup and have the seed phrases there can be no disaster.

I created a multi sig with sparrow and three cold card, tested it every way I could, including restoring from seeds. Everything cool. I did have one glitch where one coldcard in the multi sig said invalid transaction when signing when psbt was created with sparrow. When psbt was created with blue wallet the same colcard device would sign it. Loading the multi sig config again on that device solved that. Reported this to coinkite support got a we don’t care response, probably Sparrow.

I think the Chinese miner-ban was also a blessing. Imagine not truly knowing what a substantial miner-ban would mean for bitcoin. Same with the silly ordinals. I think they will not survive and only make the network stronger by having been part of the evolution of Bitcoin.

IMHO Ordinals are a blessing. They teach us what it means to be a permission-less network. They prepare the network for worse. Without them a bigger attack could come as a nasty surprise. Ordinals are part of growing up. I suspect more Ordinal-like attempts will be made, and why not? It's a permission-less network. Miner are free to exclude them.