This was my State’s response to people not abiding the Covid lockdown rules of staying <5km from home, only going outside 1 hour per day, and staying within the 5am-8pm curfew. https://i.nostr.build/YPwxRA7Gt2bNQ9Sb.jpg
Mike Tyson is 58.
How can you look at this man and think all humans are equal?
We are NOT all equal. There’s not a single person on #nostr who would stand against this man for 8x 2-minute rounds even at age 58. He would destroy me, or you, or anyone else you put in front of him.
His entire being is made for fighting.
He is a unique specimen honed for physical feats that only the top 0.000001% can achieve.
Living in reality is to acknowledge we’re not all the same. We each have strengths and weaknesses and there are outliers in every field; you simply don’t compare to most people.
Humanity progresses when it’s best strive towards new horizons and collectively we celebrate their achievements. We regress when we tear down the best because of their failings, or we outright deny them.
Kudos to Jake Paul for fighting him; I wouldn’t get in a ring with Iron Mike, he still looks entirely capable of taking a life even at 58. https://i.nostr.build/Je8dZKwvYKwbBWtc.jpg
In a surprise to absolutely no-one, neckbeards whose entire worldview was implanted in their brains by unimpressive people whilst they live at home in their parents basements, are not actually a good target for advertisers!
It’s not happening.
Trump has no plan to deal with 1M+ unemployed bureaucrats.
They’ll sell people on cuts, make some obvious ones and proclaim them loudly, and then end up growing government over 4 years.
If you’re going to cut government you need a plan to deal with those affected. Like my plan to deport every fucking leftist/bureaucrat to Australia, relocate Israel to Tasmania, send the climate cult to Antarctica, and THEN move on.
They won’t have time to organise and agitate under my plan. They will fester and destroy Trump.
Not that simple.
You attack Bitcoin to the point it forks, you are attacking everyone who holds Bitcoin at that point.
Roger attacked Bitcoin - he attacked a lot of people.
I can disagree with his treatment by government and still hate the cunt and offer him zero support.
Would you offer support to the Mongols who 5 years ago sacked your city, decimated it, and have now lost a battle somewhere else and are looking poorly?
No, you wouldn’t.
Roger cut off his own access to support by fucking everyone who might have supported him. It’s not some M5M campaign which turned sentiment against him - it’s his own actions.
He is reaping what he sowed.
You end up on a fork, don’t expect the other side of the fork to come back for you - you decided to walk that path, you decided to put everyone through that shit, you go walk it alone and understand you had strength in numbers and now you’ve got nothing because you tried to put yourself first.
Bitcoiners haven’t forgotten Ross Ulbricht who was never even a vocal Bitcoiner. They’re not some fairweather fans or fickle bunch.
Roger deserves his lack of attention and respect. He turned people against himself.
The most active devs are on Xitter trying to convince random people that we need OP_CAT.
I’m glad the devs are so fucking useless. If they were competent things would break faster.
I agree it doesn’t. The loud voices are just bored and want to play with things, not understanding that with over $1 Trillion in the network people aren’t going to leave them to just “play” like they want.
Bitcoin won’t move until these Devs change their tactics and stop pretending it’s 2013. They don’t even appear to know who their target audience is for changes, they just post platitudes about how it must.
“Question is whether the use cases justify the risk, and also the risk of a contentious chain split.”
No, that is not the question.
These clowns don’t even know who they’re supposed to be persuading.
They don’t know what these people would gain from their proposed changes.
They don’t know what those people might risk (ie SoV as you identified).
They in fact don’t know shit about fuck. They whinge like children about nice-to-haves whilst not being able to sell their way out of a wet paper bag.
The question actually is “what do the people making this decision stand to gain from adopting this fork, and at what risk?”
They’ve not articulated either the benefits to the decision makers, nor the possible downsides.
That’s why they’re going nowhere, fast.
It’s not 2013 where you’re selling your ideas to the whole network who run nodes and decide the rules. It’s 2024 where retirements and multibillion dollar businesses who use third party custody are on the line, not to mention the massive value the noderunners have in BTC.
You can’t sell to an undefined customer and these Devs have no idea who the customer is for their nonsense. They are creating products for themselves that no-one else will want.
We had Saint Floyd protests here in Melbourne too on the other side of the planet - longest lockdowns in the world but they let the ferals march in solidarity for that one and said Covid was no risk, but then had 6 lockdowns over 260 days..
My favourite was when the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and the feminists protested here too:
https://youtu.be/csemM1IWfFk
Crazy how the American narrative impacts people everywhere and the ones loudest about it are actually the least impacted.
How liberal democracy works.
❌ Can’t vote for “no-one”
❌ Can’t vote for a different system
❌ Can’t vote for a monarch
❌ Can’t vote for fascism
✅ Can vote for socialism
✅ Can vote for communism
What a strange coincidence that WWI saw the downfall of European monarchies, the Bolshevik Revolution, the introduction of income taxes, of global central banking and fiat currency, and the Balfour declaration..
And we all just ended up with the “least worst type of government” who all now happened to have central banks in charge of the money supply..
The world works in mysterious ways!
He’s wrong.
If Bitcoin is the reserve asset, especially by 2050, there is no way on earth it will only be $3M per coin.
There will be money prints between now and then which alone will add $3M to BTC price.
Way too bearish. $3M by 2050 is basically a failure scenario.
This is a glitch in the matrix.
That little jewish hobbit who has been robbing the world blind with money printing for years, standing behind that sign falling down when being questioned about reserve currency status - it’s divine.
It’s King Arthur’s sword level mythology.
These memetic forces are what govern the narratives which shape our reality and theirs is literally falling apart in front of our eyes.
What a time to be alive! nostr:note1e4e0d2ncpkknqynlm3rkm5vewgejg226g7t227d5nu94mhfx74gs2cy46d
The head of #AUStriches Electrical Trades Union tells a Senate committee that Solar & Wind is more reliable than nuclear power, and that their members oppose nuclear energy because of experiences in WWII.
Australia is speed running the destruction of its energy infrastructure because the institutions have been captured by self-interested retards who are entirely ideologically captured by the green degrowth movement. https://v.nostr.build/y3NvuRVF1IUorJaq.mp4
This is the flipside of religion. Advanced cultures wrote all these ideas down prescriptively which means there will always be zealots who want to follow the original texts.
It’s how you end up with the Amish, or Jews tricking their way through Sabbath - a desire for piety in a world unrecognisable to when their holy books were written.
In Australia your mining permit will be denied if the Aborigines have stories about giant snakes creating rivers on that land.
The irony is this decision was by ministerial decree and is being reported through a stock market disclosure on the internet..
It’s all a big joke at this point. https://i.nostr.build/D2YOOHPb12vHT3Si.jpg
The difference here is there is no Aboriginal religion. They’ve no written records of any of this stuff which has led to all sorts of fabricated stories being passed off as genuine lore, and the lore is different between families let alone between different peoples.
And to your point about cemeteries or churches or mosques or temples - there’s none of that being claimed here. Because these were Stone Age nomadic peoples. They did practically no construction at all. So it’s not a “holy site”, it’s a natural feature of earth which someone has claimed a story for.
So when you’re mixing not religion, but “land based spirituality” all based on oral traditions many of which we know are bullshit, with Westminster gov and common law and stock markets and the internet, well shit just doesn’t work.
As a vassal state of the US Empire, the November elections are somewhat impactful to #AUStriches (not that Americans ought give a shit about what we think).
In case anyone was wondering if there’s a right-wing populist movement under way in 🇦🇺 - the answer is no, absolutely not. This country is still completely blue-pilled and drinking slop from the M5M trough. https://i.nostr.build/s2NtjkJ5aWFAVhkV.jpghttps://i.nostr.build/RkwuRCbj8IGWroPF.jpg
MilkBarTV with some actual journalism showing how #AUStriches #eKaren came into being as a seemingly innocuous position to protect kids online, to 9 years later issuing global takedown orders of content they deem too sensitive for ALL people.
Incredible to see how readily this power has been abused and taken to insane levels, supported by both sides of politics.
Whoever thought putting a woke fucking CIA agent into the role was a good idea needs to be drawn and quartered. https://v.nostr.build/I2oELpc9vfFk2rny.mp4nostr:note154xcyng07ksx7fpeh7qp663q58nry3dva3ull3p79nlrw5a8t2cs2hr90p
These things are permission slips to exist in the real world. It is the State imposing gatekeeping on an individual’s ability to participate in an economy.
Think of them as formalisations of tax farming.
Any leader of a nation state who allows a central bank to continue is controlled opposition, whether they know it or not.
The new world order is the central bank world order.
In some sense, Bitcoiners are the new Nazis 😂
BitcoinBugs abound.
These people are NOT Bitcoiners. Bitcoiners are here to separate money and state.
These people only care about NGU. They will accept the State and all of the shit it does so long as they can be rich inside that system.
Don’t end up on Saylor’s side of the fork.
https://x.com/bitstrategy21/status/1849047872181813390
It’s very real.
There’s a substantial group on Xitter forming around MSTR, a bit like GME except they’ve drawn entirely from Bitcoin Xitter.
They’ve gone from posting about MSTR to a cult around Saylor. They all went into bat for him after the podcast with Saif re yield, and they’ve been vociferously defending his recent comments about self-custody.
It’s pretty clear this is going to see a schism at some point.
Because it is politics.
Saylor is the State liaison for Bitcoin. Think about it in those terms.
He’s here to tell Bitcoiners what is acceptable from the State’s perspective. He plays that role because he is by far, the single person most susceptible to the State (specifically the USD regime) within Bitcoin circles.
Whether he is a spook directly isn’t relevant. You can’t have a company (an entity whose existence DEPENDS on the State - it’s literally a statist fiction) with 250,000+ BTC in it, and be out there advocating for the demolishing of the State. They would have Jack Ma’ed him already.
This is the schism. This is “and then they fight you” with Saylor as special envoy making us an offer that we can have Bitcoin, but only on terms acceptable by the State.
Everyone should watch @gsovereignty talk from Nostriga. He articulated a key insight about the State in there which I think most Bitcoiners don’t understand - the real source of the State’s power is its capture of the economy.
Saylor is saying - don’t go and capture the economy, Bitcoin ought just be a financial asset inside the current economy, don’t threaten the State’s power, subordinate yourself to them and we can find a “truce”.
It is entirely political and we’re not ready for this.
Until now people have just referred to everyone around Bitcoin as Bitcoiners. The only flavours were Maxi and Shitcoiners.
I introduced the term BitcoinBug a few months ago specifically for Saylor: nostr:note144au605mp6kvgsknnvuxk7stl0yyx0mrjzqhphj2ug94tusgaapsq46a9m
Saif is a Bitcoiner - he wants separation of money and state.
Saylor is a BitcoinBug - he wants NGU and will cheer when central banks start stacking Sats because it will pump his bags.
So no, they’re not in the same boat. They’re in two separate boats going to two very different locations.
The Minneapolis Fed paper is even more bullish than the ECB paper.
They want to get rid of Bitcoin purely so they can run deficits and their ideas are banning it or imposing something like a land tax on it.
Hahaha bitch do it. Show your hand, prove the Maxis right, and do it in such a way that you could never hope to enforce it. DO IT!
Some governments definitely will.
Others - the ones with the dumbest leaders who will be the last to grok Bitcoin and thus move so late they’ve basically guaranteed a lost century - will move straight to violent coercion of people on KYC lists.
What a time to be alive!
But who will build the houses, to house the 1 million immigrants we just let in?
I know, it will be students coming to 🇦🇺 to study yoga instructor - one of the jobs on the skills shortage list for which you can easily get a visa!
It sure as shit won’t be qualified tradesmen. The Construction Union has already told Gov they won’t compete with foreigners and given they are now half of organised crime on top of being the biggest voting and donor block to our Socialist government, they won’t be messed with.
Guess we just won’t add any housing supply but we will pump another million UberEats drivers in to really see what strong demand looks like! https://i.nostr.build/gpuvCCVDaCbk1b4w.jpgnostr:note1d5rpr8nxqvhfsfx8slyt0d2hzq8qen583sdcs4g8jxayp5m4gvzq72hufl
HAYEK IS TURNING IN HIS GRAVE
Austrian Economics has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. A once obscure academic framework has entered mainstream discourse as a new cohort of online personalities who have studied it, gain in popularity.
From Comics and Joe Rogan regulars like Dave Smith and Tim Dillon, to MMA fighters like Renato Moicano, to businesspeople like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk - these ideas have found new fertile minds to implant and spread from in the age of the internet.
Then of course there are Bitcoiners -
whose cultishness is in large part strict adherence to anti-State, hard money, and laissez faire free market capitalism of the Austrian school.
No group has done more to spread the word of Mises and Menger and Hayek than the Orange pill brigade. Indeed their progenitors the Cypherpunks themselves were Hayekians, back when Austrian Economics really was fringe.
And so what of today’s Austrian Economists?
Well Saifedean wrote THE bitcoin book and sold a million copies. Peter St Onge is clearly a Bitcoiner. Stephan Kinsella too.
But look through the Mises Institute, the supposed home of Austrian school and the dearth of Bitcoin is staggering.
I’m reminded of Hayek’s “sly roundabout way” quote when considering this because it’s not like there’s a long list of open ended questions in the Austrian school. There’s not a book of unsolved math problems that someone might come along and make a name for themselves with. There’s no “fountain of youth” holy grail to pursue. No room temp superconductors to solve.
Taking money out of the hands of the State is one of the very few things Austrians had to pursue. Satoshi pursued it and found the path.
Rejoice! Hallelujah!!
But no, the majority of Austrian Economists sit on the sidelines and ignore Bitcoin?!
Imagine if the field of astronomy just ignored the discovery of alien life and instead spent all of their efforts debunking flat-earthers. That is what the Austrians who would rather have Xitter debates with MMTers are effectively doing at this point.
Seems to me that these figures have too deeply imbibed the permanent loser mentality of libertarianism. They don’t know what winning looks like so they are lost when they see it - like a nerd who has somehow just pulled a 10 and embarrassingly jizzed his pants before they’ve even left the party.
Forget about Goldbugs - they are LARPers who want Central Banks to pump their bags. The few who seriously hate the State have already joined Bitcoin; the Schiff acolytes never will.
Bitcoiners need a full frontal assault on the Austrians. No more asking them to join us, shame them until they get on board.
Remind them of what Hayek said and how goddamn disappointed that man would be seeing the vanguard of his school twiddling their thumbs on the sly roundabout way to actually subvert the state THAT WE ALREADY HAVE so we don’t have to deal with the shit these guys constantly complain about.
It’s time for the Austrians to swallow the orange pill, or to be given the orange suppository. https://i.nostr.build/FyKpLRnvXWRZxdLx.jpg
“The fraudulent post was deleted 25 minutes later, but the brief window was enough to impact the market.
Investors bought Bitcoin, leading to a $1,000 price surge. Once the misinformation was corrected, Bitcoin’s price dropped by $2,000, according to the indictment.”
So Bitcoin LOST market cap because of this.
If I believed in the State I’d class action the SEC for damages.
It’s a retarded argument.
The paper is claiming that Bitcoin holders are benefitting at the expense of those with no exposure to Bitcoin.
If that is true, the answer is to simply get exposure to Bitcoin..
It’s @saifedean's gunpowder analogy - once the technology exists (and the paper in its conclusion throws out the idea that Bitcoin could be legislated out of existence lol) you either adopt it and benefit, or you suffer from those who have adopted it.
These clowns are just pissy that they can’t control it and they aren’t the ones holding the coins. A new group of financial elites is a threat to their power; they don’t want to buy in now and be “middle class”, they want to go back to them being at the top of the tree and failing that they want Bitcoin to disappear.
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The average fiat worker will lose 50% of their purchasing power, 2 or 3 times during their working life.
This is on top of being taxed out the arse so your government can pay to bomb brown children on the other side of the world.
This system is evil; I want nothing to do with it. https://i.nostr.build/rNaTQrfJx7Phk0hF.jpg
The bars are number of years for the purchasing power of that country’s fiat to reduce by 50%. Argentina has been running at over 200% inflation so the money is losing half its purchasing power rapidly.
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