Thank you Natalie, I remember following your channel in 2020 when you only had maybe 1000 subs. I thought, something special about this one. You helped orange pill me and loved all the back stories how people got into Bitcoin. The best! 💪
Just this one act has changed everything. Would be amazing if he actually ends the Ukraine war.
Can't see how he will help Israel pallestine?
I see what you mean.
I interpret woke as being politically correct. Modern context examples imo, transgender, equality, pronouns, identifying as, etc.
I do agree with some of these principles, but how they go about it doesn't work. Eg. Equality, increasing number of women into certain job roles just to get the numbers up or men into women's roles. You just end up getting poor calibre of people doing jobs. I do believe that women can perform equally as well if not better in some roles which are dominated by men. But forcing it, won't work.
Transgender stuff the whole thing seems absurd. If a guy wants to act feminine and dress up as woman or woman wants to dress manly, thats fair enough. If you do this people will look at you weirdly. Because that's how people are. Very judgemental. To go as far as mess with your biology with hormones, drugs, chemicals, medical procedures. thats just a form of mutilation. Most medicines imo are also unsafe stay away.
We just need to rotate the 8 to make infinity. ♾ Bitcoin going to ♾
Woke is just another word for utter stupidity. The magnitude of the stupidity is so massive, we needed a special word. Woke.
How often do channels stay open for a long time? When they are closed then a fee is created for the miner right?
I remember hearing you can keep channel open but sell some of the bitcoin back onto main chain so fee created in the process. ?? Not sure if that's right.
So seems like could keep a channel open indefinitely trading bitcoin via lightning. Then no fees for miners. So this applies to smaller transactions below $1000.
Bigger transactions above $1000 will be done on chain. So fees from bigger are considerable.
As price of Bitcoin goes up, then threshold for doing transaction on lightning will go higher because fees for onchsin goes up.
So are you saying in the future people will be transacting eg. $10,000 transactions on lightning. Per transaction for example?
Just thinking it through in my head.
I haven't learned lightning properly, just heard its really good, instantaneous transactions, next to no fees for really small transactions etc.
Yeah I know its embarrassing Trump with his shit coin. But if he puts US on Bitcoin reserve all countries round the world will FOMO.
I hope he follows through. 🤞
Doesn't the Lightning network solve the issues at hand.
Lightning network doesn't support miners? Because its a layer on top? I'm not sure what's your point
Ouch! That sounds really painful. 😔
Running is over rated anyway.
80k!!!! Really going for it. I was awake last night couldn't sleep and thought lets see what's happening with bitcoin price. Was up til 8am. Slept in.
Heard from Nostr user ₿itcoin ∞/21m Qatar are buying Bitcoin.
Do u get the feeling everyone is scrambling to get as much Bitcoin before Trump announces it and sends the price to the moon?
I take weirdos any day to normies. If u a normie I'm running a mile. 🏃♂️
I’m out at 💯 K
So #LFG get it done and I’m gone. You won’t have to deal with me nor my cringe 😬 anymore … nostr:npub1zgg4ze3q44dl09vnnjf9c5dhrn0l5exadz8rqwqke58frq8enj6qlamtr3 nostr:npub1d5ygkef6r0l7w29ek9l9c7hulsvdshms2qh74jp5qpfyad4g6h5s4ap6lz you can have all the dumb women back and I’ll stay quiet 🤫 
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100k we just getting warmed. You gonna miss the party. 🥳 🚀
Former CEO of Sotheby's, Tim Smith discusses a startling finding after going down his #Bitcoin rabbit hole journey with @TimKotzman
“All of the work of the S&P 500, all of the value created there is actually the money printer.” https://video.nostr.build/b7dca10e6be0b578bd8fca1727a3d97e6b15a5d348729eb5f376922295266a58.mp4
💯
This boy SAVED the INTERNET… but couldn't save himself.
10 years ago, he was persecuted by his government, and ultimately paid with his life.
Aaron Swartz is a modern hero that most people DO NOT KNOW.
But they should.
Aaron was creative, focused, and brilliant.
At 14, he invented RSS; He dropped out of Stanford; At 19, he was in the first Y Combinator class; He co-founded Reddit.
Most likely, if he were alive today, he would be involved with #Bitcoin.
But that’s not EVEN 1% of what he did for us 🙏
Let’s take a look 👇
From a young age, Aaron believed in an OPEN INTERNET. In computers as a tool for LIBERATION.
"But wait, wasn’t the internet always open?"
No.
Believe it or not, there was a time when they wanted you to REGISTER your ID before you could browse or send an email.
He believed that PUBLIC LEGAL RECORDS and SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH should be accessible to everyone.
But in the U.S.,
• 98% of scientific articles are behind paywalls; and
• ~80% of legal records are too.
Imagine being sued and still having to pay to view the documents?
https://video.nostr.build/2af872c7a7d1b74ce0fb8d42369a87df45a7ee2d23df006d287b58ac60fcfe26.mp4
Aaron's war had 3 major battles.
The first was against PACER.
A legal records database.
PACER is PAID... but it was "free" in 17 public libraries.
With friends, Aaron wrote a script on a USB drive, plugged it into a USB port, downloaded 2.7 million documents... and SET THEM FREE.
https://video.nostr.build/21b565dd1742bc950748be2ac0e0ce2868f4b94c54d1da9321a198c49fe85d1e.mp4
No charges were made against the group.
But the FBI began to take notice.
That had only been the beginning. That boy would still challenge the system.
The following year, Aaron would enter the biggest fight of his life — and the greatest battle in internet history against censorship ✊
"SOPA/PIPA" 👉 if you're over 20, you probably still remember these acronyms.
A bill to "combat piracy"... which was just an excuse for the government to shut down ANY SITE, without warning.
Some companies loved the idea.
But those who loved the internet fought back.
And then, something wonderful happened.
We still knew how to fight against online censorship.
In a coordinated response, the biggest websites on the internet "went on STRIKE."
Wikipedia and Reddit went offline. Google turned black.
Protests also erupted in the STREETS.
But...
... but people have short memories.
This battle was won.
However, the NEXT one would be the LAST for young Aaron.
This MIT security camera was the final straw that ruined his life 👇📹
JSTOR was Swartz's final target: the largest database of academic papers in the world.
Aaron wrote a script to download MILLIONS of papers, over the course of months, using his MIT access, in a small room.
MIT has a rebellious culture.
But the FBI could no longer tolerate the boy's defiance.
With the video evidence, the U.S. prosecution charged Aaron with 13 crimes. Up to 50 years in prison.
In January 2011, he was arrested by undercover agents near the Harvard campus.
From then on, he was legally tortured.
Two years later, he would be found dead at home.
"Aaron would be 38 years old today.
He was accused of 'pirating' scientific papers funded with public money.
Facing up to 50 years in prison, he took his own life.
Those he inspired continue to democratize access to science.
Let us remember him."
*These are the words of Susan, his mother.
After his death, the charges were dropped by the government.
Aaron never considered entering a 'plea deal'. He would have faced millions of dollars in legal costs.
The father of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, published a short poem at the time that says it all:
“The world was a little worse for his passing,
But a lot better for his being.”
Aaron wasn’t a unanimous figure. You may disagree with his methods.
But he was faithful to his ideal.
He was genuine. Firm in what he believed.
He was a person who used his prodigious skills not to enrich himself, but to make the internet fairer, and the world a better place.
Aaron had worked with Virgil Griffith (former Ethereum, now imprisoned for "teaching about crypto" to North Koreans).
He knew Elizabeth Stark (from Lightning).
He was friends with Zooko.
And he wrote about #Bitcoin — on the DAY he was arrested (1/6/11)! 😢
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
Curious? To learn more about the story, start with this documentary (on YouTube) 👇
[https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ](https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ)
We’ll finish with an excerpt from the "Manifesto for Free Access," by Aaron himself:
"Information is power. But, like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come to the light, and, in the tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to the private theft of public culture.
We must take information, wherever it is, make our copies, and share them with the world."
RIP, Aaron ✊
He should have just gone on the run like Snowden. He could have continued his amazing work anywhere in the world.
He does sound like an amazing person. Even the best of us can feel as though we are trapped into a corner.
Let him be remembered for the genius he was. 🙏
I use Amethyst. On Amethyst can go to back up keys and get nsec any time. Not sure if its as straightforward on other apps.
Its difficult to get the message across.
Gold comparison for me is a great way to visualise what's happening.
For me realisation why most assets go up in price because money is flawed, people scrambling to find a better store of value, was the clincher.
Bitcoin is best / safest store of value.
Bitcoin is better than any store of value out there hands down.
I've tried too, but have given up trying to convince people.
Go go Trump ✊✊✊
Bitcoin reserve 🤞
Great video Brian. The way you Luaghed your ass off when Bitcoin motoring, lol, so contagious
Starmer will be remembered as the most gruesome PM in history.
Time for bitcoin to sky rocket 🚀
I'm in denial seeing this. But not surprised either. I'm from UK. Yeah most people very negative towards Trump. So glad he won. Trump all the way! ✊✊✊
On chain metrics help hugely to predict the future behaviour of HODLers
Around the 100k usd Bitcoin price we will see large sell side pressure
Good to remember when getting carried away with 10x dreams from here!
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100k big psychology price point. Yes expect to see a sell off for sure. 💯
For the last 3 months I been tracking Bitcoin Open Interest very closely. The leverage in the system is way too high. When the leverage is high, then whales come along and either sell or buy to liquidate the longs or shorts. And then they can get back into / out of the market with at lower or higher price to make a profit.
So currently we have over 24 billion leverage, more longs than shorts, which historically is too much leverage. Previous cycles once we hit ATH (especially after election) it sky rockets. I'm not so sure this will happen yet, I think it will grind higher at much slower rate. Unless leverage is flushed out. The only way to flush out leverage is to have a big drop (get rid of longs). This will get rid of weak hands and then we have perfect formula for it to sky rocket.
Thats my take on it. I don't trade, but I like to try understand why we sometimes get these sudden pumps or dumps.
Once leverage drops, then price I think will rip. I've been seeing how bitcoin on exchanges is lowest its ever been and demand is just growing and growing. Im Very very bullish. Just this unhealthy leverage is making me short term cautious.
I use https://coinalyze.net/bitcoin/open-interest/
to see leverage.
Don't stand in the way of Bitcoin. Its a force to be reckoned with. 💥