How to reply to a PoS shitcoiner:

PoS has been around for thousands of years, it's nothing new. Government money is proof of stake, as are company shares.

Egyptians, Romans, and Chinese were using this 2000+ years ago. Italian city states perfected it 800 years ago. Stake based systems are not new.

Using stake to solve the Byzantine General's Problem is also not new. Cypherpunks have been working on this shit since the late 80s.

The cypherpunks on the mailing list (that Satoshi sent the white paper to for peer review) are literally the people who created the *entire body cryptographic of work* used by proof of stake coins today (stake based byzantine fault tolerance). They are well aware of the fundamental limitations of stake based BFT because they are ones who came up with it in the first place...

If Bitcoin was proof of stake *you would never have heared of it* because it wouldn't have survived 5 minutes of peer review by any real cryptographers.

Time-based difficulty-adjusted PoW *is* the breakthrough and is the *only* reason you and anyone has ever heard of a "blockchain".

The failure modes of stake based BFT are well known, and it fails *every time* for a number of reasons, but if you are betting on a shitcoin to increase in value then the failure mode will probably involve the fact that stakeholders have an incentive to increase the supply to benefit from the cantillion effect.

Mathematical fact: you cannot deploy external capital to defend a system that is secured by internal history (stake). This is why stake based BFT does *not* secure against attack by a state or central bank, which means *anything* secured by PoS MUST comply with governments.

Bitcoin's value proposition is that Bitcoin let's you do things that bankers and governments *don't want you to do*. If bankers and governmensts can nuke your shitcoin, then you do what they say or they nuke it.

What's the value proposition beyond CBDCs if your shitcoin ultimately has to comply with governments and bankers?

You cannot out-stake a bad actor who has aquired sufficient stake to fuck with the system, your only option is to fork them out. Then it becomes a competition between charismatic personalities convincing the market to follow their authority (their fork) instead of the other guy.

So how do you solve the problem of removing a bad actor without requiring some form of authority? Read the Bitcoin white paper. Satoshi knew exactly how stake based systems fail, that's *exactly* why he used proof of work instead.

Run a node.

Imagine being an early member of that first society. 🧡

As much as I love #bitcoin, it is only the beginning as far as the wake up call needed for humanity.

Fixing the money will in fact help fix the world, but without population controls and the realization that overpopulation and overconsumption are THE much more massive problems that also need addressing, we will only be delaying the inevitable demise of the human race.

Stop. Having. Children.

You are only condemning them to a life of misery and servitude.

Just because you have dreams of a picture perfect family and can fool yourself into believing your own “happiness” doesn’t make it so.

You are being sold a lie, except you are paying for it with someone else’s life.

#childfree

Daughter: Mom, sometimes you talk about #bitcoin  too much.

Me: Darling, if you knew how many times I want to talk about it but hold back you’d be really proud of me.

Daughter: Try just a little harder.

Besides Russia, what do you think he has crazy takes on?

I am becoming pretty confident that America is getting broken! People who are running this country can’t manage it properly and doing everything against the freedom principals it was built on! The saddest part is that I have been living here for the past 7 years and I’m witnessing this collapse right in front of my eyes! The only way to fix this shame is a adopting freedom of money ➡️ #Bitcoin ! The fight for this change going to be epic and hard one but this fight will be in the peaceful way! Teaching, and spreading the message! Thankfully we have a #nostr to spread it without worrying of censorship! Resist !