I delude myself into believing we can reverse engineer their efforts to kill us and achieve control over them. Sure it is delusional but better i choose it over their delusional efforts to control us.
(Today's rant for my majority-altcoin twitter audience. Enjoy.)
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I'll let you all in on a deep dark secret:
Bitcoiners aren't actually terrible people that hate fun.
We're just really, really tired of watching well-intentioned, passionate people getting yoinked into the exact same scams we once did, and also like we did, become instantaneously filled with confidence that "this altcoin is different!"
It's not.
Every crypto token, from number 20,000 on the marketcap rankings all the way up to #Ethereum, is just a glorified reincarnation of fiat, where a centralized entity (CEO, dev team, foundation, etc.) has copy/pasted #Bitcoin's code, added a few tweaks to make sure they can award themselves free units and the power to change the monetary policy whenever they want, and plastered "DECENTRALIZED!" all over their website despite being anything but.
A currency that has no consensus monetary policy, which can be (and is) changed all the time by a central authority, does not solve anything. It just replaces the central bankers of the traditional system with a fancy new flavor of fiat lord: the incompetent-yet-charismatic nerdguy who follows the orders of whichever VC puppetmaster funded him.
And now that all of these create-your-own-central-bank projects have transitioned to #ProofOfStake, the consolidation of power will even further accelerate, as those who started the game with the majority of the tokens out of the gate can sit on their stack and suck up allllll the voting power necessary to push through the aforementioned changes that enrich the top holders.
Rinse and repeat, until there are no more lemmings left to throw their fiat cuckbucks into the void.
I hate to break it to you...but this upward-siphoning flywheel, where the original creators end up with all the power and wealth (which they then use to buy bitcoin)...was the plan the whole time. ( https://twitter.com/WhyBitcoinOnly/status/1587646799250178048 )
Fiat currencies like #ETH have been attempted for hundreds of years, and they've never worked. Not once. So why are people suddenly getting excited about them now that they have a fancy logo and cartoon monkeys hyping them up?
In a sentence: great marketing, ever-louder megaphones atop Mt. Stupid, and a glaring lack of monetary history due diligence.
#Bitcoin was created specifically to alleviate all of the problems explained above:
-No leader
-No proof-of-stake funneling of manipulation abilities to the rich
-Completely fixed monetary policy (21M cap, 10min blocks, halving every 210,000 blocks until cap is reached)
-Not trying to fulfill a hundred different "utilities" that can just be done better with a normal database
Simple, beautiful, immutable...and the most revolutionary catalyst for human freedom any of us has seen in our lifetimes...perhaps in our species' history, considering how critical of a role money has played in every society since the earliest bonebags were slangin' seashells for chickens and mud huts.
So yes, when a new class of .eths shows up every year thinking that storing JPEG hyperlinks on Vitalik's inefficient database is the greatest thing of all time, then fills the public discourse with regurgitated altcoin marketing drivel to further confuse the general public into thinking Bitcoin is a degenerate gambling toy, many of us will be very blunt in our dismissal of your claims. (The majority of us were once there ourselves, after all: https://twitter.com/benwehrman/status/1640378823274266635 )
I'll wrap up this rant with 2 helpful knowledge-bombs:
1) A list of fantastic follows for those who can't stand the bluntness of "toxicity" that those like myself dish out:
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Not only are these folks far more chill in their approach (as opposed to yours truly the flaming rage-monster 🤪), every one of those names is significantly smarter than me in the realm of Bitcoin and finance. Follow them all.
2) Did you know The Bitcoin Standard, that book all of us crazy laser eyes keep trying to beat you over the head with, is FREE to read online?
📙👇
nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak the legend has even encouraged people to use that free link if they can't afford to buy the book, for the good of the #SoundMoney cause: ( https://twitter.com/Rothmus/status/1647077277790879745 )
Do your future self a massive favor. Bookmark that PDF, grab a notepad, and take the dive into the resource that pulled so many of us bitcoiners out of our "crypto" phase, and into the world of maniacal maximalism. The worst that can happen is you obtain a better understanding of why we're so militantly BTC-only.
Love y'all. Enjoy the rest of your week, and if you have any questions regarding the above, don't hesitate to ask!
-Ben 🤙⚡️
What rubbish. You are the one practicing centralised thinking. You rant about things as if you hold a complete understanding of everything. GTFU
Be so much nicer if it said adapt to nature instead of control. What is it with human wanting to control everything?
Why bitcoin? Is it a code thing or a it was first thing? Or neither😆