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 “Azteco is available globally; this is Bitcoin for everyone everywhere.”

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/azteco-and-bitkey-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-consumer-friendly-bitcoin-b3e5dde4ab88 
 What price do you put on privacy, especially with the price skyrocketing? That’s what you should ask yourself. In the mirror for extra gravitas. 
 We…
Can’t close your account
Don’t abuse you
Respect your rights
Don’t Treat you like Human Cattle
Don’t spy on you
Don’t measure, mistreat or meddle with you
Care. And we show it.
Execute without compromise
Protect you like family.
That’s how WE roll; that is OUR standard! 
 Imagine having the most wonderful Bitcoin wallet ever written but it is impossible to get Bitcoin without KYC. That would mean you have the most beautiful financial surveillance system, and something that is ant-Bitcoin.

In order for services to serve properly all of Ethical Bitcoin Principles must be fulfilled simultaneously. It is not a buffet of characteristics you can choose from, you either do it all or not at all.

A world where all money is under surveillance is a suboptimal world, and a choice.

Everyone involved in providing Bitcoin services must make a choice,  freedom or enslavement, privacy or surveillance. These choices are not hard to make, and if everyone works together to make the right choices, then Bitcoin users will get the Bitcoin Ecosystem they deserve.

The biggest threat to Bitcoin now is the osmotic barrier between those with Bitcoin and those without, and the unwitting and ignorant gatekeepers who keep spreading superstitious lies about Bitcoin and what is required to serve it.

These people perpetuate lies about what Bitcoin is, what the law says, what laws may apply to Bitcoin, and whether there are even laws or not, and many people simply go along with their gibberish and irrational calls to apply anything, literally any law, so that you can pretend to be "Compliant".

If Bitcoiners cave in to the thinking of the lowest common denominator, the anti-American and the loser, then the proliferation of Ethical Bitcoin onramps, the prerequisite to Hyperbitcoinization, will not come to pass and bear fruit.

Bitcoiners must "hold the line", tell the truth, not cave in to the weak minded, the cowardly and the ignorant and apply the law as it is written. This is not asking for much, certainly for any American, and hopefully GEPOTUS will make this easier for the weaker amongst you to do without soiling their trousers.

If GEPOTUS is advised by the best Bitcoiners AND Ron Paul, then it is a sure thing that Bitcoin will be moved under the protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, and then the floodgates will be opened.

Fiat will flow into Bitcoin in amounts that Bitcoiners could not have even dreamed of previous to GEPOTUS, and once this happens, there will be no going back as the exits to the US Dollar close by virtue of it ceasing to exist.

America will become the number one country not only for the amount of Bitcoin in citizens hands' but for its expertise in the mediation of Bitcoin. When this happens, no country on earth will be able to catch up with it, and the financial centre preeminence of America will not be lost, but strengthened because one man, GEPOTUS decided that the law should be followed and American know how applied unbridled.

In the light of this future scenario, isn't it better to get ahead of the game and start laying down the thinking and tools to push Hyperbitcoinization?

I think so. Others, not so much it seems.

The allure of Virtue Signalling is very strong in many people. Their number one impulse is to look good in front of other people; they don't actually care about anything in particular, and will latch themselves to anything like Barnacles on a whale, irritating it, and slowing it down by de-streamlining its surface.

Their goals are set by other people, and are not original. They take "feedback" from Bitcoin's bitter enemies and then package it as being part of "the revolution".

It's fraud. It's fakery. There are no two ways about it.

Despite all of this, very very very big things are coming. Things so big, your jaw will hit the floor. And I'm not just saying that. I am not exaggerating.

The path to Hyperbitcoinization is every road, in all directions, all at once. This is possible if the people with their hands on the levers are the made of the right stuff.

The Trump campaign has shown everyone that a coalition of people who are normally on different sides of arguments can work together to overcome great evils. 

This can happen in Bitcoin too. But in order for it to happen, people must disabuse themselves of the wrong things they've been let to believe, and cross the chasm to that place where Bitcoin is everywhere, everyplace, all the time, without restriction, arbitrary rules and anti human strictures.

I have absolutely no problem imagining this.

What about you?

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-adoption-and-conway-s-game-of-life-54ca71db7b88 
 Legal Opinion Against Regulation of Bitcoin Transactions

1. Bitcoin as Pure Speech Protected by the First Amendment
Bitcoin, at its core, is code—a sequence of alphanumeric text that users transmit over a network. Under Bernstein v. DOJ and subsequent interpretations of code as speech, Bitcoin is a form of expression. Transactions are merely messages that confirm ownership within a public ledger, making them expressive acts. Like an encrypted message, each Bitcoin transaction conveys information rather than performing a traditional financial function (such as transferring a physical asset). Because Bitcoin transactions inherently communicate information about ownership on a public ledger, they constitute protected speech.

2. Legal and Historical Precedent on Code as Speech
In Bernstein and Bernstein II, the Ninth Circuit held that code is a form of speech entitled to full First Amendment protections. Bitcoin’s reliance on cryptographic processes and public key signatures mirrors the types of expressive content protected in these cases. Just as PGP software was ultimately protected as a form of free expression, Bitcoin should similarly be recognized as protected speech. Any attempt to regulate Bitcoin on the grounds of financial control directly contradicts established legal protections for software that facilitates expression.

3. Bitcoin’s Distinction from Financial Instruments or Commodities
Bitcoin does not fit the legal definitions of currency, commodity, or security because it is decentralized, lacks intrinsic value, and functions outside of traditional financial systems. Unlike conventional currencies, Bitcoin’s primary purpose is to store and communicate a ledger of transactions, not to represent a universally accepted unit of account or medium of exchange. Courts have also ruled that Bitcoin is not a currency in cases like SEC v. Shavers. This precedent reinforces Bitcoin’s unique legal status, positioning it closer to a publication tool than a financial asset.

4. Bitcoin Transactions as Protected Publications on a Public Ledger
Every Bitcoin transaction becomes part of a publicly accessible ledger, akin to publishing content on the internet. Like other forms of publishing, Bitcoin transactions are immutable and visible to anyone with access to the network, and thus are fundamentally acts of public communication. Regulations targeting these transactions would, therefore, infringe upon First Amendment rights, limiting individuals’ ability to publish entries to this ledger. Allowing regulation of Bitcoin’s public ledger would set a precedent allowing the government to restrict any publication using digital tools.

5. Regulating Bitcoin as a Slippery Slope for Digital Expression
Regulating Bitcoin based on its use in exchanges would create a broad precedent enabling government control over all manner of digital expression that resembles a transaction. For instance, social media platforms could be subject to regulation if they included features that resembled economic exchange, such as micropayments. This overreach would undermine First Amendment protections, opening the door for government oversight of any expression that can be monetized or tracked as a digital ledger entry.

6. Inability to Differentiate between Transactional and Expressive Functions of Bitcoin
Regulation would necessitate drawing arbitrary distinctions between Bitcoin as code and Bitcoin as a financial tool, an impractical and legally unsound approach. Bitcoin’s entire value proposition is tied to its function as both a record of ownership and an immutable, decentralized ledger. Separating these two aspects would undermine its design and purpose, essentially nullifying the expressive and publishing elements that courts have previously protected.

7. First Amendment as an Absolute Protection for Bitcoin’s Expressive Nature
As an expressive medium, Bitcoin qualifies for full First Amendment protection from government regulation. The First Amendment explicitly prohibits prior restraint and content-based restrictions on publishing. Given Bitcoin’s status as text and a form of digital publication, any effort to control or license its use directly contravenes the Constitution. If the state is permitted to regulate Bitcoin, it sets a dangerous precedent for censoring other forms of expressive software and digital content, infringing upon core constitutional rights.

Conclusion

Bitcoin’s expressive nature as code and as a tool for publishing transactions to a public ledger is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment. Regulatory efforts would not only infringe on individual rights to communicate ownership and verify transactions through a public ledger, but they would also set a damaging precedent for the regulation of digital expression and software. Therefore, any regulation of Bitcoin as a financial tool should be viewed as unconstitutional, and attempts to enforce such regulation would face significant, well-founded legal challenges under the First Amendment.

To further reinforce the opposition to regulating Bitcoin, a human rights-based argument underscores Bitcoin’s role in enabling financial autonomy, freedom of association, and protection against economic surveillance. This perspective emphasizes that regulation would not only infringe upon constitutional protections but also violate international human rights principles, which recognize financial privacy and freedom of economic expression as essential to personal liberty and autonomy.

Human Rights-Based Legal Opinion Against Regulation of Bitcoin

1. Financial Autonomy as a Fundamental Human Right
The right to financial autonomy and self-determination is an implicit aspect of human rights, rooted in the principles of personal freedom and dignity enshrined in international human rights frameworks, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Article 12 of the UDHR explicitly prohibits arbitrary interference with privacy, which includes financial privacy. Bitcoin’s decentralized structure enables individuals to hold and transact without relying on centralized entities that can restrict, surveil, or exploit their financial activities. Regulating Bitcoin would undermine individuals’ right to control their own economic activities, making them subject to intrusive oversight that infringes upon their autonomy and privacy.

2. Bitcoin as a Tool for Economic Freedom in Oppressive Environments
Bitcoin provides a crucial financial tool for individuals in countries with authoritarian governments or unstable economies, where citizens often face restricted access to banking and are subject to currency manipulation, censorship, or asset seizure. By offering a decentralized, censorship-resistant means of storing and transferring value, Bitcoin supports individuals’ right to freedom from economic oppression. Regulating or restricting Bitcoin access in the U.S. would limit an important financial refuge for people living under repressive regimes, effectively diminishing their right to economic freedom and the security Bitcoin can provide as an independent, transnational asset.

3. Right to Privacy and Economic Security under International Law
Financial privacy is an essential component of individual privacy, closely tied to personal security and autonomy. The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in Article 8 guarantees respect for private and family life, which includes the protection of personal data, encompassing financial data. Bitcoin’s pseudonymous structure safeguards user privacy by allowing individuals to transact without disclosing sensitive information, which helps protect against identity theft, fraud, and economic surveillance. Regulations that would require tracking or monitoring Bitcoin transactions conflict with these privacy rights, as they would mandate disclosures and records that risk undermining individuals’ right to secure, private transactions.

4. Freedom of Association and Economic Expression
The right to free association, articulated in Article 20 of the UDHR, includes the right to form and participate in voluntary economic associations, such as decentralized networks like Bitcoin. Bitcoin facilitates peer-to-peer economic association without centralized oversight, supporting the free association of users worldwide in a borderless economic system. Any attempt to regulate Bitcoin, particularly by imposing licensing or monitoring requirements, would hinder individuals’ ability to freely associate and conduct economic transactions on their terms, contravening their right to economic expression and association.

5. Precedent for Human Rights-Centric Financial Protections
International law has consistently protected individual rights to economic resources, particularly where governments might infringe on these rights under the guise of regulation. For instance, the right to property and economic resources is protected by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which calls for safeguarding individuals’ ability to access, control, and benefit from their resources. Regulation of Bitcoin, especially if it involves confiscatory or restrictive measures, would effectively deny individuals these rights by imposing undue interference on their economic choices.

6. Human Rights Implications of Surveillance in Financial Transactions
Regulation that subjects Bitcoin transactions to strict Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements effectively imposes a surveillance system over individuals’ economic actions. This infringes on the right to privacy and creates an environment of constant surveillance, where individuals are monitored in their financial activities, chilling their freedom to transact. Such regulation would disproportionately impact marginalized communities and those seeking financial privacy for legitimate reasons, conflicting with the principles of equality and non-discrimination upheld in human rights law.

Conclusion

Human rights law provides robust protections for individual autonomy, financial privacy, and freedom from undue interference. Regulating Bitcoin as a financial instrument would infringe upon these rights by compromising users’ financial privacy, limiting their economic autonomy, and restricting their freedom of association and expression within decentralized networks. Given Bitcoin’s unique role in empowering financial independence and protecting privacy, regulation would contradict both U.S. constitutional rights and internationally recognized human rights principles. Consequently, any regulatory efforts targeting Bitcoin should be recognized as impermissible under human rights law and as fundamentally at odds with the principles of freedom and autonomy. 
 The idea that machines are required to conduct elections is incorrect, and is not accepted in all civilized nations.

Paper ballots and invigilation are all that is required to run a fair and fully auditable election, and the introduction of computers to the methods and execution of elections is nothing more than tech / futurist cultism.

Fully invigilated and hand counted paper ballot run elections are what is required. The only reasonable addition to this is, perhaps, a system like Ron Rivest's "ThreeBallot" System that does not require computer tabulation, remains paper based and also introduces a level of verifiability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot

1/ Its implementation is familiarly looking and simple for voters to understand, compared to other encryption systems (arguably, the most important advantage of all).

2/ The ballots can be counted directly, without decryption. This is because they have the property that the sum of the marks is the sum of the votes for the candidate, even though any individual ballot section cannot reveal the candidate preference of the voter.

3/ There is no key that requires protection or secrecy in order to maintain security (the "Achilles' heel" of many proposed systems).

4/ While it requires a machine to validate the ballots before depositing them, afterwards the ballot record is entirely on paper and requires no additional security process beyond that afforded traditional ballots.

5/ Each voter's vote is secret, preventing vote-selling and coercion.

6/ Each voter can verify that his vote was not discarded and was correctly used and not altered in the computation of the election result. (And if not, the voter is in a position to prove that the vote counters cheated.)

7/ Everybody can verify that the election result was computed correctly.

8/ The method is designed for use with paper ballots and requires primarily low-tech devices, but is compatible with more advanced technologies.

The motivating animus of trying to arbitrarily mechanize processes comes from the psychological need of some people to hand everything in their lives over to machines, since they are incapable of handling real life themselves.

Machine are tools, not ends in themselves, and subjecting everything to them is not rational nor is it a proper application of technology.

Bitcoin was required because the money cannot be invigilated. Voting however, is not like that. It can be successfully audited by hand, and is done this way world-wide.

Invigilated voting systems do not require trust; in fact this is the only aspect in which it is similar to Bitcoin: "Don't Trust, Verify". Machines are not trusted and cannot be trusted to count votes, and neither are the human vote counters in an invigilated system; every vote is seen and verified by multiple people who are adversaries. It works. No one is trusted.

To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To a Bitcoiner, every problem looks like...what exactly?

The purpose of conducting a verifiably fair election is not the implementation and application of technology; the election itself is the purpose. 
 This is how Europeans and South Africans think, not how Americans think.

America is a Republic, not a Democracy. The Founding Fathers knew that the mob was dangerous and stupid and that charismatic leaders could emerge and persuade star eyed innocents to sell their own children.

Just because people vote for something it doesn't follow that it is legitimate. There are ways to secure elections without voter ID, which, if implemented, will bring in a European style ID Card nightmare that no real American could ever want.

The argument will no doubt be mounted that X and Y Americans are for Voter ID, and so "not all Americans". That is a FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT, and Americans don't roll like that.

Part of the problem America is facing is that foreigners who are not real Americans are distorting the governance and culture.

This does not mean that people cannot come to America and become Americans; it means that when people come to America, they should become Americans.

Take your Apartheid Era "Pass Law" thinking and go back to where you came from with it Elon!

And no,, "It will only be used for this one thing" is not true. The effect is called "Feature Creep"... do you know what that is? Google it.

In any case, Americans are responsible for America. They are responsible for defending it, preserving it's laws and rights, and responsible for rebuking impudent Johnny (Clegg) Come Lately invaders who are desperate to re-create their "home" countries on American soil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_law
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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851660278452379780
https://m.primal.net/LnNe.jpg 
 Anti-Capitalist artists are the worst of the worst hypocrites.

Out of one side of their mouths, they despise and decry "Capitalism", and simultaneously out of the other, are jealous guarders of their own money, and total understanders of their own economic needs and not being, "cheated" out of "their money".

This child like and mind-blind inability to reason outside the fragile shaking matchbox of their world view is deeply troubling. The expectation...naïve expectation...is that anyone who can create fine art must have a broad intelligence and not a narrowly focussed one, is very childish and stupid.

What is the explanation for the ignorant double standards of these people? Who can say.

Some would certainly say that the "creative side" of the brain, being over emphasized, blots out the rational side...but I don't buy this.

All I can say is that it is deeply dissapointing that people who can think (apparently) and who have powerful imaginations cannot extend their powers to reality, simple arithmetic and economics.
https://m.primal.net/LnAv.jpg 
 This is not a smart “take”, I’m afraid. Unless you think eating is “egotistical”. But keep up with the Laser Eyes. It’s working. "We’ll” soon reach $100,000! 
 Is English your mother tongue? 
 OK, that explains everything. Thanks for the replies! 
 I was confused by what he was saying, and so I had to ask, since it didn’t appear that I was” getting through”. Everyone from everywhere is on here and “The Other Place” and so I don’t assume that people come from my culture or speak my language. You’d be surprised how many times I’ve run into this problem. It’s stupid to assume everyone speaks good English just because they speak SOME English, and so it’s best to account for that. Why waste time arguing? It’s POINTLESS. 
 A party in the hollowed out ruins of civilization. https://youtu.be/APtxpKPOKOE 
 All of this applies generally as Andrew says, and it also applies specifically to Bitcoin.

For generations the core beliefs and foundational narratives held by the fiat Central Bankers are collapsing like a deck of cards.

As their worldview and fraudulent financial system crumbles, they will fight desperately, becoming more and more aggressive and irrational, using lawfare against Bitcoin; and some of the companies that mediate it will voluntarily capitulate and obey out of fear or love of the legacy system, “because it's the best we have right now, and rapid change is dangerous”.

Trying to convince anti-Bitcoiners or engage in rational discourse is futile. Their entire lives have been based on deception, and watching their lies refuted in real time as the price of Bitcoin goes up and fiat evaporates is too much for their febrile minds to handle.

Imagine believing the lies of the Federal Reserve for decades, only to face this harsh reality suddenly, “I have been lied to all of my life. The money I sought, fought for and stored was a lie, and now I am worth literally nothing”.

This is the hard truth they’re facing.

It's far more comfortable for fiat heads, dollaristsas, Stablecoinists, incrementalistas and “Dollars on the Blockchain” infiltraitors to keep their heads in the sand, insulated in a lie bubble, lashing out at anyone trying to pull you out (Bitcoiners).

This is their current state of mind. They are like an injured rabid dog backed into a corner, snarling and foaming at the mouth. I would genuinely pity them if not for their active roles in destroying our country and people and their money, and fighting for the slave system.

They will continue to attack and insult and lie about Bitcoin and Bitcoiners, but it won't stop what's already unfolding and can't be contained.

https://x.com/BasedTorba/status/1851136659896627532 
 Everyone should be treated with respect. If this was the starting point of all interpersonal interactions, the world would be a nicer place.

Trouble and strife begin when people stop showing the proper care and respect for others, and you can see the result of this everywhere.

Bitcoin became necessary because a class of rich men believed they were better than other people, and by dint of this, thought they did not have to take anyone else into account.

They were wrong.

https://youtu.be/rMnseizLMto?si=PGi6biIwuOeGn94d 
 VanEck's models are absurd as 1970's weather models run on VAX computers. None of these people can possibly take into account the innovations and services being built on Bitcoin; their monolithic point of view is therefore completely inadequate as the basis any meaningful prediction.

None of these people though Bitcoin was worth anything ten years ago; why should anyone take their threadbare predictions seriously now? It beggars belief that anyone could think they're prescient.

I can assure you right now, knowing what I know to be absolutely true, thinks that they don't know, that their prediction is woefully inaccurate and wholly  inadequate. Their ridiculous model has underestimated the total demand for Bitcoin, even in the near term

And I mean very near term.

I'm not interested in whether or not VanEck understands or believes this or not. I'm not here to convince them of anything. I'm simply here to do it and to prove it by doing it.

That's all there is to it.

https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1851002382345507280 
 You either make the future, or take the future that’s given to you. The choice is yours, believe it or not. 
 Your “O” is worth “0”. 
 ID Cards are NOT an American idea, and unsurprisingly, it is foreigners who are pushing for them. VILE! 
 You need to look at how elections are run in civilised countries. Your thinking is exactly the sort of thought that comes to the conclusion that machines are needed to vote. You’re not trying hard enough. 
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 Everyone needs to read this, which single handedly killed the UK ID Card. It can also kill the idea in America. 

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 “Which side aye you on boys, which side are you on?”

https://x.com/beautyon_/status/1850631282080014433?s=61&t=eyjJ5IvKiAtPIDSBRekpmA 
 Your Virtue is Signalled and ack’d. 
 “We are all Ross”. Haven’t you read that? 
 He will never get out with negativity like yours. 
 You need Ross in gaol so that you have a purpose in life. 
 Hashtag: Have a nice Day. 
 depending on where you travel to and your country of residence, at border control, scanning your ... 
 They let you through. Stop spreading FUD, you loser. 
 In 2000 Bill Joy wrote an article entitled, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us”. it was published in Wired magazine.

Californian technologistas are sometimes very pessimistic and often very bad at predicting the future.

There’s no reason to believe that the future has to be a bad one or that any of the tools that are being invented now are going to be the tools that destroy mankind.

Over and over again dire predictions about how technologies are going to end mankind, will cause terrible catastrophes and other fear porn guff have been trotted out again and again; it’s always by the same class of people who are more or less the same age. They are super pessimistic, un religious, ignorant, normally super rich and desperate to control other people.

These people need to be ignored. First of all, spreading unwarranted FUD is unethical (AnthropogenicGlobal Warming for example), second there’s no technology that man has inside computers that can’t be switched off, even if it were to become a problem, which there’s no evidence that AGI is going to be. 

The choice everybody faces is whether we’re going to live like a bunch of frightened children, or are we going to live like men and go to the stars and do all those other things.

If everybody’s frightened of every single invention that comes forward and goes into the market, man will never get anywhere, and I’m personally sick and tired of reading the fear from people who don’t have powerful imaginations and to want everything to stay the same forever.

These same people are terrified of bitcoin and they’re very very scared that if it gets big, deflation will happen and the economy will be destroyed.

Of course they’re totally wrong. Bitcoin is not dangerous and the fear mongers will be ignored. 

However this is a perfect example of how these technologists who are scaremongers don’t really understand what they’re talking about, are men of low degree and low character and are antihuman.

It’s up to the people who create things to do things responsibly and to not let inventions get out of their labs that are dangerous. Sometimes bad things are going to happen, but the greater risk is to not do things, not experiment and not move forward.

The fact of the matter is the future doesn’t need YOU. And that’s YOUR problem, not OURS. 
 Exactly. I’m sick of these anti human, cowardly, scared of their own shadow modern day negative Nancy losers. 
 “BUTLERIAN JIHAD OPTION”. 
 The text below is the complete reason why Elon and the ID Card fanatics are 100% wrong.

The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving license. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare.

You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally.

The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there.

There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.

By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'.

Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.

Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account.

Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database.

This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face.

Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.

The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card.

The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.

If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on.

Frances Stonor Saunders 
 Super insightful; full marks. 
 You’ve missed the point. It is the database that is the root threat. Fingerprint or ID Card doesn’t matter. 
 “One means I”, “Only One I”. https://youtu.be/Xiw-y2zM11I?si=03ZJNhRtIKvzmm3X 
 Why is it so hard for your type to put simple facts together? https://image.nostr.build/0fba754a2565e64b3961ae68e5edb2f93865c9de9e97374df3c479a340c51419.jpg  
 “You’re”. And now…I understand. 
 It’s in the room with you, in your NHS, INGSOC. 
 Anyone who doesn’t think it matters for Bitcoin who wins the 2024 US elections is totally detached from reality and does not think very hard about the truth of anything.

If you've been paying attention in the last 24 hours knows you know that the mere false rumour of an INVESTIGATION into Tether caused the price of Bitcoin to fall $2,000 USD. If an anti-Bitcoin president is elected, what do you think that will do to the price, genius?

And set aside the price for a moment. Craig "Faketoshi" Wright, who UK judges branded as a compulsive liar, waging lawfare against Bitcoin Core and its developers caused some people to say they would cease working on Bitcoin development, even before the end of the trial that eventually destroyed Faketoshi.

What do you think the US government going full anti-Bitcoin would do to those people? They would almost certainly stop working on Bitcoin if it meant the beginning of problems for them. A unconcluded court case in INGSOC was enough to frighten off devs; who could possibly be stupid enough to believe that an anti-Bitcoin American president would not scare off developers and businesses to a large degree? You'd have to be a drug addled simpleton not to see this as a very real threat.

Saying things like, "Aint no stopping us now, we're on the move!" and believing that nothing can stop Bitcoin is absolutelydelusionalbitcoincultgibberish. It is infantile, stupid, delusional, ridiculous, credulous, foolishness, odd, dumb, silly, childish, ignorant, puzzling and dopey.

It matters quite a bit who wins the election; especially people who KYC their users and have applied for and obtained Money Transmitter Licenses (https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-is-not-money-if-you-seek-compliance-you-are-asking-for-trouble-cbe9107e5298). Ripple have bet on the enemy of Bitcoin, and GEPOTUS is for Bitcoin. If you were any sort of betting man, you would be betting for Trump, because there is a lower probability of absolute disaster.

It's incredible how amazingly hollow people are. Shocking in fact. Thankfully, there is a small army of Anarcho Capitalist Bitcoiners, some of whom have access to many many tens of millions of dollars, and they are very dedicated to replacing the system that controls their fiat money and replacing it with something where their wealth can't be stolen.

These people don't imitate other people's cultures like brainwashees, know how to wear a shirt and tie, are not afraid of the truth, and are very very serious, unlike the Eloish Bitcoin Cult members who dance around like human cattle, barely able to speak their mother tongues and who sell delusion as hope.

https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1849940606002561140 
 Stop following me and enjoy what’s left of your life. Why not? 
 THat’s without “ANONYMOUSLY  PURCHASED BITCOIN”.

If you can’t buy Bitcoin anonymously, then all the other claims about how it helps are moot, and in privacy terms, not too different from buying with credit cards.

Ignoring this doesn’t make it go away. But there are people - very big people - who are solving this problem, so these dreams can come true and the circle completed.

Or broken…which one?	

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 Why don’t you ask them? You and all their/your frenz. 
 ONCE AGAIN, BEAUTYON'S 21 RULES FOR BITCOIN AS A TOTAL REMEDY FOR FALLEN CULT HERO SAYLOR'S 21 RULES FOR BITCOIN, NOW WITH EXTRA ANARCHISM!

1/ You don’t need to understand Bitcoin to be able to use it.

2/ Nobody cares what you are for or against in maths.

3/ Nobody needs to grasp Bitcoin to do what Bitcoin was designed to do.

4/ Bitcoin is not powered by chaos. Bitcoin is extremely orderly. It is fiat and evil KYC Statists who are for chaos and murder.

5/ Bitcoin has nothing to do with gambling. Bad analogies are anti-Bitcoin.

6/ Bitcoin can’t protect you.

7/ No one owns Bitcoin. It is not an asset or a coin.

8/ The price of Bitcoin doesn’t matter.

9/ Bitcoin is not about winning and losing.

10/ The Matrix is a Science Fiction movie, not reality.

11/ Computer illiterates think knowledge is required to use Bitcoin.

12/ Bitcoin does not destroy models. It enforces them.

13/ Orange Pills are toxic. Don't eat them.

14/ Statists who pretend to be Bitcoiners think there is no problem with fiat. They are gravely mistaken. Don't follow them.

15/ Bitcoin is for everyone. On Bitcoin’s terms, not the Statist’s terms.

16/ Learn how to to think.

17/ Bitcoin can’t change people. It is not LSD.

18/ Laser eyes on avatars can’t make Bitcoin change the world.

19/ Bitcoin is not a person or a pronoun. It does not need and cannot understand “respect”.

20/ Sell your Bitcoin when you need to. Don’t be stupid always.

21/ Stretch out with your hate. Hate the state.

22/ Read Saifedean’s books. Read Murray Rothbard.

23/ Read Frédéric Bastiat

24/ Hoarding Bitcoin is like hoarding the cure for cancer. Don’t. 
 The gold analogy in Bitcoin is highly toxic scaremongering, designed to incentivise "NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR COINS" Bitcoin Cult dogma.

The 1930s gold confiscation cannot be repeated with Bitcoin in a way that can destroy it; only parochial US Americans who think America is the entire world believe or think like this, not understanding the scope of the problem Bitcoin solves.

Bitcoin is a network, not money. It is a network like the Internet. If America goes "Full Retard" and tries to confiscate Bitcoin, every country on Earth (over 190 of them) will be unaffected by its insane ruling, and its citizens will be free to use Bitcoin.

Given the rise of BRICS, this is more likely than it has ever been; when BRICS discover that they have a ready-made and infallible international settlement and payments layer gifted to them that the USA cannot stop, divert, or damage, they will flock to it, build on it, and Bitcoin will thrive, just as GSM thrived despite America campaigning against it in favour of its own CDMA.

The world is very different from the pre-GSM world, with anti-American animus running at red-hot levels. It will be an easy step to choose Bitcoin because everyone is already against America.

Given all of this, all talk about turning in your Bitcoin is infantile guff. No Japanese Bitcoin holder will turn their corn over to Uncle Sam, and the resources to "investigate" who has what Bitcoin will be largely irrelevant since once Hyperbitcoinisation happens, most of the Bitcoin users on earth will be outside the USA by default.

The only thing the golbitcoinbugs have to offer is fear mongering, hype, infantilism, stupidity, and boredom.

Similarly, all market-based attacks to drive the price down and install panic will fail since too many people will be using Bitcoin, and no American entity will have enough Bitcoin to move the market against the will of the people. American entities levying 70% taxes on Bitcoin users will only affect American Bitcoin users and no one else on earth.

The right question is not to "war game" attack vectors that can be launched against Bitcoin, but instead, to do everything you can to get Bitcoin into the hands of everyone on earth, even to the exclusion of America, since there are more people living outside America than in it.

That is the correct mindset that needs to be deployed, not the idiotic $5 wrench attack mindset of the Bitcoin Cult, that focuses only on disaster scenarios related to and sourced from the pre-Bitcoin world, which help no one, sow fear, and are very very BORING.

https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1849203110142480565 
 If you have a question to ask, isn’t it better to ask it without a baseless accusation as your introduction?

You’re ignorant, can’t use Google and can’t string more than one coherent thought or argument together.

You Eurasians are all the same! 
 Taiwan looks amazing on YouTube; is it all true? 
 Copying is not theft.
Stealing a thing leaves one less left
Copying it makes one thing more;
that... 
 It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and movies. In fact intellectual property is not like ordinary property at all, but constitutes a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas.

We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty.

http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm 
 War is it?

“War”, Elon?

If you were in any way ready to fight a war against US/UK you would understand that the fiat money that they use is the key to all of their power.

You would use X to launch the biggest bitcoin platform and “bank” the world has ever seen, and you would remove their power from them to use the money of the people, Bitcoin, against X…and the people.

You can’t fight a war where the weapons of war are manufactured by your enemies.

The weapon in this case is the US dollar and the euro which you absolutely resolutely refuse to reject because you need those fiat systems in place to be able to build your rockets to escape to Mars .

Don’t talk about going to war with these people unless you’re really ready to do it because they have all the money in the world to destroy you; in fact, they can make money out of nothing — literally thin air — all the money that they need to destroy you several times over.

You can’t fight a war with these people head on; they’ve got all the money and all the guns and they control the courts  “their system is too dangerous to be kept alive” (Star Wars).

The only way to fight this war, if you’re ready to wage it, is to remove the power to create money from them. If you’re not willing to do this, you’re going to lose and your life’s dream of going to Mars will be ended.

Which will it be, Elon? Will it be Mars and the American millennium? 

Or will it be the destruction of all your dreams and man kept earthbound for the foreseeable future? 

And that future won’t be very long, given the warmongers thirst for blood — in this case radioactive blood.

It should be absolutely clear to you what you need to do .

* Stop treating bitcoin as if it’s a joke.
* Incorporate it into every X users account.
* Retreat X into the comparatively safe walls of the USA, like Gab
* Keep supporting Donald John “GEPOTUS” Trump

And don’t stop! DON’T GIVE UP ELON!

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1848765472378130513?s=46&t=LNe8MN2dQUj_88yB-puY1A 
 Jürgen and Ulrich in their paper start with a fallacious premise; the Straw Man Fallacy.

The original promise of the Bitcoin Network was to replace the fraudulent Fiat Dollar (and by extension, all fiats, including the Euro) with an incorruptible money that was auditable by the user..

The means of payment part is a superimposition by followers on who saw Bitcoin (which is a form of money with all money's utilities, one of which is means of payment as well as saving) as one thing, whereas it is in fact not money at all, but a database.

Using the phrase "promoters" is a backhanded insult in a flagrant and pathetic attempt to smear Bitcoin users as sellers of a Ponzi Scheme. The authors are beneath contempt for this.

The Appeal to Authority rears its disheveled head when they invoke, "Most Economists believe..." as if that is a pretext for anything, given the woeful state of the global fiat economy running by their strictures. Completely ridiculous.

The price of Bitcoin cannot rise forever. Once fiat dies and all prices are measured in Bitcoin, it will have no price in US Dollars, imbeciles. It is like claiming Bitcoin has a price in Wermacht Marks or Zimbabwe Dollars. Surely, surely, no one can be this stupid. Apparently they are, and they're working in the ECB!

The purpose of money is not to increase the productive potential of the economy; innovation and work do that; and since money is half of all transactions there must therefore be a distribution of money to everyone so that economic activity can continue. There is more than enough Bitcoin to facilitate this.

What the authors expose in their fear that people are going to get rich in a system mediated by Bitcoin is their repugnant socialism, and a fear that it is not their anointed that will be the super rich in a world where Bitcoin is the only money.

Also bear in mind, that if their scenario this unjust accumulation takes place, Bitcoin will have become money just as we predict it will, and the fiat system will have died and Bitcoin will have won, as will have all of humanity.

Bitcoin holders do not become more wealthy at the expense of anyone, since no one is cheating in Bitcoin, unlike in the fiat system, where the first users of the money are ACTUALLY getting wealthy off of the creation of money and inflation.

Jürgen and Ulrich think you are stupid!

Bitcoin cannot impoverish anyone; what it actually does is accurately measure the work and the value of goods of all people in the economy. Such an accurate measure is anathema to Jürgen and Ulrich, who have appointed themselves as god over the economy.

Bitcoin does not redistribute wealth; it measures wealth accurately.

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-is-the-c-of-money-dce63ce8e37a

Jürgen and Ulrich are the scum of the earth with their ECB paid for lies and Keynesian nonsense. They will be proven absolutely wrong by Bitcoin absorbing all the fiats, leaving them and their paymasters exsanguinated and forgotten.

https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1847625816689041801
https://m.primal.net/LayB.jpg 
 “i believe that the earth has grown in mass over time”

This sums up your thinking. You’re free to believe whatever you like. That is your absolute right, and you are not obliged to explain yourself to me or any other man.

Believe what you want; you have nothing to prove to anyone. 
 "Today is the best day to buy Bitcoin".

That phrase is true every day of the year, forever.

https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1846955132132438436 
 Man has never been “a part of nature”. Man was created by God as described in Genesis, and the only laws he is governed by were written by God, and those laws are under God’s absolute control.

It is not true that distractions distance us from what is real; the problem with “modern man” is that he is extremely and willfully ignorant, and always eager to believe any lie that is told to him. He loves evil and lies rather than good, lies rather than the truth, and speed rather than punctuation.

The problem modern man faces is The State, just as the USSR suffered under Communism, modern man in the West suffers under Crony Capitalism, The State, and the Federal Reserve system. These are discrete problems all of which are completely soluble without resorting to cereal box philosophies, navel gazing and pointless dead end abstractions and avoidance of bitter hard truths.

The State as a “construct” in the modern era is almost totally evil, as described by Murray Rothbard in his  “Anatomy of the State”:

https://mises.org/library/book/anatomy-state

Ignorant people who don’t know the fundamental basis of everything cannot begin to unpack the present situation man is in and identify the true source of the problem. They have to resort to hand waving, Fruit Loop Logic and nonsense, none of which provides a clean, practical way out based only on the truth.

And yes, there IS absolute truth; it is discoverable and communicable and not hard for ordinary people to understand. Refusing to face this fact is pure thumb sucking infantilism and cowardice, two of the basic plagues suffered by coddled, weak and ineffectual Western men.

People talk about things not being grounded in reality, but when that reality is exposed to them, they refuse to accept it, shrink away from it like worms that have had salt sprinkled on them, and not only that, they choose to go along with the evil and support it and the State that is the main distributor of it. They refuse even to tell anyone that the evil exists and that they hate it. To add insult to injury, they wax vaguely with half baked philosophies that are dead ends because they communicate nothing, show no way out, are habiutally non specific and greatly unhelpful.

Modern day financial systems are completley corrupted by the State, especially the Federal Reserve Dollar which is so pernicious and toxic, the destruction of it was in his own words the greatest triumph of Andrew Jackson who declared, “I killed the bank”. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPopNG6LRM&ab_channel=JackoTV

Today, the weak men can barely take their chubby, grubby fingers to clack out its name on their keyboards as they Virtue Signal to stupefied drug addle fans while collecting people’s government documents just so they can use “their own money”.

If the truth must be “handed down by a CEO” then let it be handed down by a CEO. This is infinitely preferable to a CEO who does not believe that there is such a thing as truth, and even worse, a CEO who  knows the truth but goes along with evil for expedience and keeps his silence. And furthermore, the truth is not rooted in who man is; the truth exists outside of man, and is imposed upon him by his creator.

Bitcoin as money (it is not money, it is a database that can be used AS money) is a powerful tool precisely because it denies weak men the opportunity to corrupt it, just as they abuse consumers by forcing them to obey the evil and unethical rules laid down by the Fiat State. There is no getting around this, and “I was only following orders” will not cut it either when the records are examined.

Bitcoin spreading everywhere through Ethical Bitcoin companies and tools are what is going to change everything, and as everyone has seen, it only takes a handful of CEOs to make global unambiguous beneficial change happen for hundreds of millions of people. This work is in progress.

Believing in fantasy will not help anyone. Pouring hope onto tools that cannot work is infantilism and ignoring reality. It is ignoring the problem and running away and hiding from it, just as the Cereal Box philosophers ignore the nature of the State and refuse to put it in its place as the true source of of the fiat problem and the war machine problem and the distortions, perversions, poisoning and dumbing down of all mankind.

This refusal to face reality head on is why Bitcoin had to be written in the first place; generation after generation of weak, distracted infantilized men who refuse to think and solve problems made it necessary for machines to solve their problems for them. Bitcoin is one such machine, and you can be sure more are coming, because man would rather run away and hide from solving his problems rather than take his medicine and lead.

Bitcoin removes the power of the State to lie about money. Communication tools that allow anyone to say anything do not solve the problem of the character of man or solve the problem of The State; men of good character can facilitate free communication, so all that is needed are a few good men. Computer solutions can’t solve the problems caused by the character of man. In the case of Bitcoin, they can constrain man’s ability to cheat, but man is still a liar and cheater by nature. That will not change in this world.

A platform that is built to carry any lie to anywhere is not a solution that can fix the world’s problems. Of course people who think the back of a box of Frosted Flakes is the ultimate source of truth cannot understand this. And no one needs them to be able to either. Bitcoin was written to supersede these weak people and to constrain them and their “votes” and it will succeed. Just watch.

In the meantime, by all means waste your time on niche fad networks that will not move the needle, while men with huge platforms and guts liberate hundreds of millions of people to change the world. One man with guts and a vision can change everything; this has been proven again and again. Men who run and hide cannot change anything and never will. History will judge them accordingly, if they are even remembered.

No amount of fad citing and fashionable talk can substitute for real contributions to the problems faced by man. Only action can help, and refraining from evil. These are the unavoidable facts, and the way the world actually is. If you refuse to face this, you are part of the problem, and will be swept away with the Statists. That is your fate, and you will deserve it, because you were warned, and refused to rise to the challenge.

https://mises.org/library/book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto https://image.nostr.build/6902e28401126b0eb04167f2ef931e83db9b2a4b68927e639a594f5c41dc1ad5.jpg  
 Please get a copy of the King James Bible, and read it. 
 That's a lot of hopium.

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 “Hope and buy Bitcoin.” That’s your new catchphrase! 
 If all the countries on Earth switch to Bitcoin, tariffs will not work to protect the US Dollar. All the countries of the world rejected the American CDMA mobile phone standard for GSM and America capitulated. I'm afraid, due to mismanagement of previous US Administrations starting with Nixon, the US Dollar is finished. For the second time in US History.

The only way out for America now, to preserve its position as the number one country for the mediation of money world wide, is to go full Bitcoin.

That means immediately making Bitcoin Legal Tender in the USA and removing and forbidding all regulations that seek to control it, under the First Amendment pretext.

When this happens, the genius of America will catapult Bitcoin to global reserve currency status via Silicon Valley. No other currency on Earth will have the internet as its backbone. The Ruble, the Euro and all other currencies would be exsanguinated as people all over the world sell their government issued fiats for Bitcoin.

America wins again.

America wins again because it will be the global hub for Bitcoin. All the expertise of how to handle it and work under its necessary limitations will rest with American know how, and no one on earth has a Silicon Valley with global penetration to rival America.

China will have two choices in this global battle for reserve currency status. They will lose this battle because they are linguistically locked away from the rest of the world, that does not use it's poisoned apps.

Only America has the opportunity to re-capture the "Guardian of the Reserve Currency" status, but this time, they will do it by merit, not by deception (The Federal Reserve).

Essentially, America now has a second chance to preserve its power. How they are getting so many breaks is bewildering; Trump himself being the most exceptional second chance.

Like all real Americans, I love Trump. There is no one like him; he embodies the American way of life, optimism, "Can Do" attitude, fearlessness and power. I hope he sails into office and keeps his promises to steer America towards peace while delivering prosperity by restraining, constraining and reducing the Federal Government. If anyone can do it, Trump can.

The US Dollar however, is a real problem, and all foreign governments (the most recent one being Nigeria, which has now abandoned the Dollar for the Naira when it comes to oil purchases), are sick and tired of the vulgar, impudent, corrupt, and murderous behavior of previous US administrations.

Trump can change all of this. By symbolically abandoning the US Dollar, and blaming the Federal Reserve for it, he can pivot back to "Real American Money + Bitcoin" Gold, Silver and Bitcoin.

Will he do it? We're all going to find out!

https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1846270920911986969 
 I get it. You’re against the American way of life, optimism, "Can Do" attitude, fearlessness and power. You’re against steering America towards peace while delivering prosperity by restraining, constraining and reducing the Federal Government.

That’s you, right? 
 At last; someone who can THINK! 
 #asknostr Can someone please explain to me KYC again. I’m still not understanding how this work... 
 Any company interested in adhering to the unspoken purpose for which Bitcoin was written should first opt to do no harm to users.

That means rather than simply going for the name, go for the ethics. It means not inducting users into a KYC Gulag, or encouraging them to do so.

Even if they are not interested in ethics at all or Ethical Bitcoin, the aim on a purely logical basis must be to obtain as many users as possible, to avoid falling into the ranks of dead wallets.

This is, like all other rules in an emergent ecosystem, is one that you can taper so that you continue to exist, and difficult choices will always need to be made. Make them and take the consequences.

If you have the means, what this means is that if you are onboarding tools to buy Bitcoin, you should opt for Ethical Bitcoin first.

Opting for Ethical Bitcoin first means you help spread the idea of Ethical Bitcoin whilst serving people in a way that doesn't abuse them. You move users away from abusive services and help solidify the idea of Ethical Bitcoin.

You also get to serve the entire world at once, rather than being artificially locked into one jurisdiction.

Make no mistake, the method of going one jurisdiction to the next over years can build very large businesses, but like email, upstart wallet providers can appear that instantly annihilate incumbents.

It happened with browser companies and it can happen with Bitcoin companies.

Look at Mi¢ro$0ft Internet Exploder's market share over years in the following post for a clip showing how browser share has changed over time. Fascinating, especially if you used some of these tools.

You can expect the same change pattern over years with "Bitcoin Browsers" (today called "wallets) and you can be sure that the first company to call itself, "The Bitcoin Browser" will be catapulted to Number One because out of the box it serves everyone on earth all at once.

"The Google Chrome of Bitcoin" for sure is in development now; the only question is "WHO IS IT?".

Central to answering this question is this; how do people get Bitcoin on to this wallet? 

To be sure, any tool that holds any the following to be true is sure to lose the race

Americans are the only ones who need Bitcoin
We can't onboard anyone without "KYC"
Africans and LATAMs are too stupid to want Bitcoin
Bitcoin is money
"NOT YOUR KEYS NOT YOUR COINS" is the No.1 Rule
No onboarding without seed phrase test
All Bitcoin users are exactly the same
All Bitcoin users have exactly the same needs
Bitcoin is "a community"

And I could go on about Graphic Design, language choices (false and dangerous analogies) and many other things, as I have been in the many pieces I've penned on Bitcoin since my first writing on it in December 2010.

One thing is for certain. There are enough very talented and insightful people in the Bitcoin Service Industry who are more than capable of navigating the problems and coming to the correct conclusions.

Their success will cause the correct answers to propagate, leaving the underlying "Secret Sauce" secret.

Isn't it exciting?

https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1845230821130764319 
 Faketoshi has submitted his latest foray into infamy-immortality on his own behalf. No Solicitor's firm, Partnership, Barrister or legal practitioner attached to the Court will touch him. He is radioactive.

It must be clear to everyone that Craig, Faketoshi "Proven Liar", Wright is an irritant and mental case, and it surely cannot be long before he is designated a Vexatious Litigant and banned from wasting everyone's time.

The answer to this is to put him in gaol. Obviously this comes at a risk of raising his profile and making him a martyr, but its either that or encourager les autres to take up the mantle of Satoshi and plague everyone with literal insanity.

OR...

Satoshi can kill all of this forever by creating a pipeline where he releases signed messages from time to time, destroying whoever comes along to try to steal the valor of his name.

OR EVEN BETTER... (From 2015!):

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/satoshi-seed-the-world-with-bitcoin-7b2318dc1766

https://x.com/cswfactcheck/status/1844862160574280127 
 As I said; if everyone watched Threads, the idea of Nuclear War would be seen for what it is — a crime of unspeakable evil.

Masturbating about inconsequential nonsense on Nostr will seem to be what it is post nuclear exchange; the utmost folly.

I said anyone with a large account should post a link to that film on Rumble. Now it seems that people with reach AND guts understand this and are making the effort to help prevent Nuclear War.

It costs nothing to share information…
It helps…

Why would anyone not do this?

Don’t they CARE about other people? What on earth is wrong with them? No one is asking anyone to even step out of their house. How is it that people can be so nonchalant, uncaring, unfeeling, unconcerned, without any sense of urgency, desire or connection to the real world?

It’s BAFFLING, and upsetting, and they’re utterly loathsome! nostr:note1vtemvtuj4072n52f0nnhc6f2g4ela4pdvex5mc42cfq8l2u3g24q6j2w53 
 Why don’t you try it and find out? Trying it happens on the same device you just asked this. FASCINATING! 
 Go to azte.co and try it. 
 OR open Fold on your Android or iPhone and try it. You've been brainwashed into thinking getting Bitoin must require many steps, and you've also probably been brainwashed into thinking that keeping it is complicated also.

None of that is true.
It was never true. 
 You are focussing on the wrong aspect of this, and are not willing to do as you are told…whcih is typical in these very small and shrinking circles.

Go to azte.co and see what it is offering you. Install Fold and see what it is offering you. Don't expect to be spoon fed, concentrate on what matters and RTFM. (Read the Fold Manual). LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!