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If leftists agree with something widely understood by right-leaning people, their response is not "hey I think this is something we have common ground on" and leave it at that.
It's "we need to reclaim it from the right!"
I hate that.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
To the British intelligence agents reading my tweets, I want to make it absolutely clear that I do not condone sarcasm, irony or having fun on the internet.
When I was part of the team that launched AOL UK in the 90s, I warned law enforcement that within 30 years, members of the public would be using the internet to spread laughter, mock politicians, and share funny pictures.
I’m deeply disappointed that my warnings weren’t taken seriously. We’ve now reached the point where children are hurting the feelings of politician by making them look like rabbits.
This is completely unacceptable. I trust the authorities will act before someone adds floppy ears to another politician.
Video game characters nowadays are just vessels of their writers and the deranged woke ideologies they hold.
No surprise the studios that employed them are going under now.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
Embedded in this is this childish view that everyone is owed a great quality of life, and even worse, any failure to receive that is the fault, not of nature, but of the selfish failings of other men.
And this false belief is then weaponized to justify the destruction of the beautiful and the good.
It is a rapid uprising of the weak and the resentful.
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BREAKING: Volkswagen announces a European rival to Tesla’s “flying” Roadster
Some insane confirmed features:
1. Top speed limited to 110 km/h
2. Automatically reports speeding to authorities
3. Automatically turns off the AC if outside temperature is below 35°C
4. Car will not start when public transport option exists on your route
5. Built-in system reminds you how much CO₂ your trip produced
Launch expected after EU regulatory approval in 2068
It is truly completely over for Tesla
Businesses have to treat customers properly because their relationship is based on money. The free market provides the incentives. The law protects the contracts.
Wouldn't it be nice if the relationship between us and our government is based on something more than the shaky trust me bro social contract we hold with them currently.
What if our leaders were decided by the sum of the rational decision-making ability that is baked into all of us that is "how much will this thing cost me?"
Accountability would be a requisite for a government to hold power. They run out of money they are out. They fail to deliver on their promises, they are out.
What would this do to the whimsical charade that is our election process, which will always advantage candidates who promises to spend rather than those who promise to reign-in.
This proposal written up by my friend Brendan is a step in this direction. Mad enough it might just work.
Oh hell ya! Away for the weekend and come back to the release. I very much enjoyed meeting and having the discussion with @knutsvanholm where he stress tested the philosophical underpinnings of my book.
For those who are interested, democracy is the sacred cow underpinning modern western ideology - but democracy is flawed. The state of our communities is a result of democracy working as designed.
The idea is we can fix the flaws of democracy by leveraging the properties of money as both a communication medium and a language.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
Don't mine with this piece of shit.
Introducing:
Stratum 2 Datum converter, now on by default on stratum servers for XBT mining.
Every block found on our XBT stratum carries the same coinbase layout as a DATUM gateway. You don't need to run a gateway to mine here; run one if you want to build your own templates.
If an update is pushed by the XBT devs that changes the layout for DATUM, then we will just update our stratum 2 datum converter.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
I wrote an article about what really happened at Metaplanet, in plain English, and why so many of the influencers are quiet about it.
Any Kent Bitcoiners at a loose end tomorrow?
If you're in London, it's 50mins from St Pancras.
app.cluborange.org/KFNbOZzs
Got to get opinions outside of Bitcoin. Crypto friend of mine sent me this. You can be a degen crypto trader and still find value in the sanity of bitcoin
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Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
This is the first time I mostly hold BTC as an investment. For the NGU.
Before, it was the biggest no-brainer far beyond that.
It was the exit. The rock solid, unfuckable-with store of value. Separation of money from state. No third parties. Sovereignty. Digital truth in the form of a lean monetary ledger.
Those qualities have, in my opinion, eroded a lot. Slow capture. More centralization. More relativizing and fiatizing of what Bitcoin is for. And there are seemingly no brakes. Just cheering when the people who still wanted Bitcoin to be money, not data storage, lost.
Nodes decide, not miners. That used to be shared ground. Now it will get you ridiculed.
I do not see the current trajectory, governance capture, or mining concentration reversing, not with the current attitude and behavior from the suits, the influencers and the social layer in general. That is why my faith in the project today is much weaker than it used to be.
I am not calling the Blake2b chain Bitcoin.
I am glad the fork happened. It is a live attempt to reassert principles a lot of us thought were settled: monetary protocol, hostile to spam, nodes enforcing rules, miners do not get to veto by selling block space for JPEGs and other non-monetary use.
Whether it works at any meaningful scale is unknown. The energy around it is real. That resonates more with me than victory laps from people who treated BIP-110 as a joke and then celebrated when centralized hashpower blocked it.
My position:
I am not selling my BTC.
I am not telling anyone else to sell.
I intend to hold both sides for now.
Nobody should be buying or selling either side of this split yet. The dust has not settled, liquidity is a joke, and rushed claim tools are how you lose funds.
I urge everyone to make their own, well researched and responsible decisions.
Most of my attention and interest now goes to the chain that still treats spam as spam, instead of inviting more of it and saying the debate is settled.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work.
He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.
Two years later, it was over. 🧵
Bitcoin, the longest chain might be in the process of fiat capture, but it's still a lot less fiat than fiat. The ultimate capitulation to fiat world is to sell it for fiat.
