Some choice words from COPA's closing arguments:

"it is clearer than ever – clear beyond doubt – that Dr Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto."

"Dr Wright has been shown to have lied on an extraordinary scale, and it is difficult to think of a precedent for what he has done."

"He has invented an entire biographical history, producing one tranche after another of forged documents to support it."

"Even when the extent of his dishonesty and forgery was exposed to him in cross-examination, he doubled down, forging further documents during the trial"

"In short, he has attempted a very serious fraud upon the Court. To give fair warning, COPA will ask after judgment that the papers be referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions for consideration of prosecution for the offences of perjury and perverting the course of justice."

Judgment and consequences are coming.

Makes sense, it’s just the markets being ruthlessly efficient. Which we’ve needed for a long time when it comes to gbtc

#Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange cannot be ignored. Without the ability to transact Bitcoin permissionlessly, it will end up captured and neutered like gold is.

The coping and seething always gives me a chuckle. Imagine being this salty lol

While everyone was calling bitcoin a tulip bubble craze, the actual scam blowing up in front of everyone’s eyes was ESG.

A completely nonsensical investment strategy that made everyone believe they could make money by neglecting reliable energy and pushing diversity quotas.

Price discovery mode activated 🚀

Gabor Mate, mD via The Myth of Normal - Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

I fucking love this guy

While I agree that Bitcoin is digital property, it is also a currency. The best on in fact. He's way off base in understanding that.

All prices falling forever when measured in #Bitcoin!

If you think the past ride is something, watch as the rest of the ~ 7.9 Billion souls on this planet start to understand it, buy it, and contribute their time to this open and honest protocol.

Almost unimaginable from the paradigm most people are measuring from.

When people ask me what bitcoin is going to do next week.

Someone just said I tweet like I’m delusional.

Isn’t that the point tho?

I was moved to tears several times at Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira.

The quality, sincerity, generosity, kindness, respect, and encouragement which characterize the interactions I had is on a level I’ve never before witnessed or experienced.

All those people, with a shared passion and dedication for the mission, humbled by all which it represents, interacting with each other as fundamentally equal, but experientially and intellectually unique, creates the best possible foundation for friendship, for mutual understanding, for helping and supporting each other, or for just hanging out and basking in the shared experience, and whatever forces are generating it.

It’s become such a consistent occurrence (though more pronounced each time) that it’s easy to forget just how special it is.

Bitcoin (only) conferences aren’t ‘industry events’, they are little wormholes to the future that flash open for a few days so people can feel what things are like when we orient and express our actions around such a form of truth - as represented in, accessed through, and propagated by, bitcoin.

‘Number go up’ is great and necessary, and none of this would happen without it, but it’s a ‘means’, not an ‘ends’.

What is experienced between people when they are so humbled by the truth, and so lifted and liberated by its presence, is the true nexus of creative inspiration, from which all that is good and beautiful may spring. That is the true ‘ends’, which we might simply understand to be alignment with the generative force we call ‘love’, and the products thereof.

Not the phony, wishy-washy, ‘everyone can be right’ kind of ‘love’, but the one which allows for argument and debate, honest feedback and opinion, while remaining grounded in a paramount aim that is movement toward Truth, which subordinates any divisive differences to this, ultimately uniting, shared objective.

Anyways, Bitcoin Atlantis just reminded me how incredible what’s happening here really is, and how much of a pleasure and honour it is to be sharing it with you (you know who you are).

Thank you.

🧡

Increasing questions from clients and business interviews about spot #BitcoinETFs are forcing tradfi money managers and analysts to come out of the woodwork from whence they were previously hidden.

It’s amazing to watch and read the horribly uneducated and genuinely arrogant takes about #Bitcoin from those who were hoping to avoid the topic indefinitely.

Popular talking points:

“Tulips!”

“Rat poison!”

“Used by criminals!”

“Boils the ocean!”

“Wastes energy!”

“Tax evasion!”

“Not real money!”

“Anarchy!”

“Blockchain, not Bitcoin!”

“Sooo volatile!”