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The open mindedness that brought Bitcoiners to Bitcoin is, very often, NOT consistently applied to all areas of inquiry. Many Bitcoiners are charlatans masquerading as paragons of open mindedness, conveniently paying little to no attention to the gains associated with being open minded with respect to Bitcoin. This particular subgroup of Bitcoiners are "keep up with the Joneses" types who saw other people getting wealthy faster than they were. They're not open minded. They're profit minded which isn't necessarily bad, but when open mindedness and profit mindedness come into conflict, opportunity cost exists on both sides, and ignoring the unknown is a good way to get blindsided so it's typically wisest to pay the cost of learning and remain open minded.
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↩ replying to Marks
Without going deep into the physics of Bitcoin, I’ll try to keep my response where most people can hopefully understand. Believing in both Bitcoin and centralized quantum computing is a contradiction. Bitcoin is a decentralized, open source process where energy crystalizes into immutable information, it’s physical and auditable. It defines a quantum not through speculation, but through energy: each UTXO is a conserved quantum of entropy, resolved through irreversible work and recorded in an open ledger defined by absolute scarcity. It is the only system in existence where the conservation of energy and information is not an axiom—but a measurable outcome. Truth is computed/earned through work and verifiable scarcity. Centralized quantum computing by contrast, demands belief without verification. It promises revolutionary computation, but offers no distributed audit, no open-source standard, and no observable output. The threat it poses is not a proof, it is a story told from behind the closed doors of state-funded/corporate-funded laboratories, veiled in unverifiable math and black-box error correction schemes. This is the split: Bitcoin is measured. Quantum computing is assumed. To fork Bitcoin’s protocol in response to this speculative, unverified narrative is to betray the very principles that give Bitcoin its meaning. It would be a reversion from energy to fear, from verification to fiat science. You either believe in a world where truth is conserved through proof-of-work, or you believe in a world where truth is declared by authority and simulation. If the threat can’t be publicly observed, measured, and reproduced, it’s not a threat. It’s a theory. Convincing people to fork out of fear is the only way to stop Bitcoin. Bitcoin computes the quantum from first principles; centralized quantum computing attempts to simulate on top of quantum particles it does not fully understand. The entire idea of superposition is complete nonsense. Bitcoin measures without bias, CQC imposes bias by privileged observation without ever defining what a measurement is. What would a quantum computer look like if it wasn’t centralized in a lab, but decentralized globally, open source and fully auditable?
Satoshi’s words are not infallible gospel from on high. We have 15 years of operational experience running, improving and using Bitcoin. Not everything Satoshi did was correct. He should not be used as an appeal to authority.
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↩ replying to Kayne
I would empathize with that until I read Bitcoin is Venice. If, from first principles, capitalism is defined as the actions directed towards the preservation of capital in all of its forms, then no, I view bitcoin as the ultimate form of capitalism Capitalism as it is presented today as the peak greeed and profit seeking at all costs, that yes, it will die
The normalization of a consistently available (and consistently implemented) Testnet experience across wallet apps is necessary for the next level of self-custody adoption. As is, without the ability to test-drive the bitcoin ecosystem as a whole risk-free, normies are intimidated into 3rd-party custody solutions - if they're not being scared away from bitcoin altogether.
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The freakin seed oils man 😂 if I do any amount of research I always return to the conclusion that seed oils themselves aren’t a health issue (especially compared to anything that comes from an animal) and it’s more so the processed foods themselves that pose health risks. But people on here will NOT hear that and are very determined that animal fats #ghee is the way to go even though there is data out there wazoo that shows otherwise 😅
that we have ever lived in a global free market.. we haven't.. small bunch of maybe 100 people ultimately run the world (central banks) - they are fucking cockroaches. BTC is the killer but its spraying slowly slowly block by block.. #bitcoin
Over the long term (50+ years), bitcoin will become corrupt, just as all human systems do. The young generation at that time will need to make their own coin, starting with a fresh blockchain. (They may even just take a copy of btc's code.) They will do this to regain freedom, and to undo the gradual corruption that our kids and grandkids will implement.