Is Bitcoin sliding into a Bear market: My 12-month predictions
How Bitcoin Core's developers are attacking its Sovereign/Monetary use
Started doing more research on how Bitcoin Core's developers have been attacking its sovereign/Medium-of-Exchange use a while back and it's wild. The post became too long for email just from covering: 1. SegWit (BIP141): The “Witness Discount” and Block-Weight Accounting 2. Taproot (BIP340–342): Easier Complex Scripts and Data Embedding 3. Liberalized Data-Carrier Policies (OP_RETURN and “Standardness”) 4. Replace-By-Fee (RBF): From Opt-In to Broad Default 5. Relay and Mempool Settings that favor Large Players 6. Legal-Risk Externalities shifted to Node Operators 7. Increased Block Weight → Centralization Pressure 8. Convenience Defaults: Assumevalid, Pruning, and Checkpoints 9. Deprecation of Non-Standard Scripts 10. Fee-Market “Purism” — No Priority for Payments 11. Lightning Network Bias — L1 as Settlement Only 12. Governance Activations Show Who Sets the Rules 13. Quiet Merchant De-Feature: BIP70 Payment Protocol Deprecation 14. Removal of “Priority by Coin Age” & Free Relay (historical) 15. Dust Limits & MinRelayFee Floors as Gatekeepers 16. Core v30: OP_RETURN/data-carrier expansion (policy) 17. Core v30: RBF ergonomics tilt further to replaceability (wallet/API surface) 18. Core v30: Multiple OP_RETURNs per tx Have written this in as simple as possible terms for non-developers. Will post later when done. image
Why Bitcoin is in a Lose-Lose situation with the BIP-444 Soft Fork
Bitcoin's mining centralization problem (Hashrate ≠ Freedom) - TL;DR Hash power is coordinated by a small number of mining pools. At times, the top 2-3 pools reach or exceed 51%. These pools decide which transactions go into blocks by setting templates and policies — including filters and OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) lists. Individual miners chasing predictable payouts delegate that power upstream. As a result, a regulator only needs to influence a few pool operators, not thousands of ASIC owners.
Elon Musk's grandfather was arrested in Canada for being part of a cult hell-bent on installing a technocracy. The cult used to meet each Monday evening in the basement of a public library. image Now, Elon Musk, the poster boy of technocracy is the richest man in the world, "pro free speech" and "pro humanity". Started from the bottom now we here. Many will have seen the chart depicting a dollar's worth over the years. image I'd like to see a chart depicting discernment over the years 😂 Every single one of Elon's companies is run by the government, but the plebs love the "entrepreneurship". - SpaceX - national security launch monopoly. - Tesla - green-transition industrial policy vehicle. - Neuralink - brain–machine interface R&D under DARPA watch. Elon Musk — The Heroic Technologist: - Turns state agendas into heroic challenges ("colonize Mars", "accelerate sustainable energy"). - Makes highly complex state projects legible to the masses (rockets, EVs). - Redefines what is possible, i.e., multi-planetary destiny. https://controlplanecapital.com/p/public-facing-elites-using-myth-making
Bitcoin Ossification Client (BOC) — Community-Defended, Minimal-Change, Adversary-Hard https://controlplanecapital.com/p/bitcoin-ossification-client-boc-community TL;DR Bitcoin is a fixed-supply, Proof-of-Work-secured, UTXO-validated settlement network that anyone can fully verify on consumer hardware. Its base layer resists censorship by making it costly — not by trusting gatekeepers. Its rules are simple, explicit, and operationally testable. If a change makes sovereignty harder, or hands control to perimeters, it isn't Bitcoin. Ossify the base. Keep it livable. Adapt through optional layers. That's how Bitcoin survives adversaries who are richer than all of us, and how ordinary people keep the keys to their own money.