And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a perfect encapsulation of....something. Nostr is actually about what people think they represent; "Freedom, self sovereignty, Bitcoin". It doesn't have to solve a real problem; all it has to do is make people feel good about themselves, so that they can, "identify" with it. Meanwhile, in the real world that they're hiding from, access to Bitcoin is being made harder and harder by the EU () while they Virtue Signal and spray around tiny amounts of "Sats", the origin of which is never accounted for. Nostr is an easy place to be and hide; you don't have to take responsibility for what you're doing (or failing to do) in the real world, and you can openly Virtue Signal in several areas simultaneously. It's crack for Virtue Signallers. Of course, none of this has anything to do with the idea behind Nostr, which is just software. This is a "people problem", a problem of the character of some users, and obviously, this brush cannot be used to paint all Nostr users. It's endlessly fascinating! image
3. Is bitcoin safe? Yes, bitcoin is safe if you take care. image
In the end, if Bitcoin is the money everyone is using, the State will have to start accepting it for the payment of taxes. This will have many advantages for the state, as they can "Micro Tax" activities; something that is beyond the ability of the Geriatrics to conceive. There will be an interim stage however, where the State demands that you pay it in its money, meaning you have to convert Bitcoin to fraudulent fiat. They will see, as they need to change the exchange rate twice per day, that the situation is untenable, and this will spur them on to switching to Bitcoin. Bear in mind that once they have collected their own money as taxes, no one in the real economy will accept their money for goods and services, requiring them to buy Bitcoin just to pay salaries and live. There is another scenario however, that indicates that the life of coerced money forms can persist indefinetly if properly managed: THE TALLY STICK. The Tally Stick was literally a piece of wood sawed along its length with a random zig zag that the British Crown would accept as a payment method for settling tax bills. The power to enforce payment methods backed by violence is how this worked so well: It's hard to describe the great depth of genius behind the concept of the Tally Stick. By doing this, the crown managed to create money out of nothing, and build a sound economy on it, whilst remaining at its centre as the essential manager. Bitcoin with its jagged edged keys made of text is very much like a Tally Stick, but without an issuer or the need for saws or supervision. All of this is missed by the vast majority of Bitcoiners because they're ignorant. Nevertheless, it is possible to build different kinds of economies on Bitcoin, and if used by the replacement central banks, can be the fundamental base layer like the Tally Stick. FASCINATING! image
You can’t “Stack Sats”, to use the Bitcoin Cult lingo, without there being a means to distribute Sats to Stackers, and no, not everyone is an US American with a bank account, genius. Also, the entire rest of the world switching to Bitcoin, and not just Americans, will cause a sea change in the dynamics of many problems. Think GSM vs CDMA. America can lose international standards wars. That’s proven. The fundamental layers of Bitcoin are powerful enough to make the dream of hyperbitcoinization come true, if the people who maintain the tools and businesses eschew infantilism like Ordinals and “Assets on the Blockchain” and “Stablecoins”; perhaps the most egregious affront to Bitcoiner sensibilities and ethics. The inventor of Ordinals has now “moved on to other things” having left behind a literally indelible legacy of shame, with his acolytes continuing to pollute and burden maintainers of the public record. He’s the personification of one of the great remaining problems facing Bitcoin: Infantilism. "Dollars on Bitcoin” is the direct result of slave mentality and infantilism. The Austrians understand the dynamics of the problem of the Federal Reserve, but amongst them Saifedean is almost unique in correctly applying Austrianism to Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Cult on the other hand have proven not up to the challenge with their distractions, infantile absurdities and nonsense. They refuse to accept the basic argument implied by Bitcoin; the Federal Reserve Dollar is a corrupt criminal enterprise that is irredeemable. Thankfully many other countries are waking up to how they’ve been enslaved by Keynesian thinking and turned into Cargo Cults with their Central Bank funny money printed abroad and delivered in Security Theatre stocking rituals. These countries now have the means to free themselves from fiat prostitution, and it’s now highly probable that they’ll do it, thanks to the constant streams of provocations and humiliations doled out by Uncle Sam. Victory for America means allowing Bitcoin to be used as money and accepting it for the payment of taxes, not geriatric gibberish like “Strategic Reserves”, which as Saifedean correctly asserts, will not be permitted by the owners of the Federal Reserve System, who are the actual owners of America. FASCINATING! image
LET THE RECORD REFLECT: "ATOMIC JURISDICTION" @Beautyon_ on Russia and Bitcoin: 2012 - 2024 https://x.com/search?q=bitcoin%20russia%20(from%3Abeautyon_)&src=typed_query image
People swooning over RFK's pledge to make the US Government horde Bitcoin are completely wrong to think it is a clever move. It isn't. What it does is prove that RFK has been brainwashed into the Bitcoin Cult "Hodl" mindset, which is an unfortunate, but short term aberration. What the correct policy is is that Uncle Sam should begin to take Bitcoin as a method of payment for all US Taxes. By doing this, Uncle Sam will begin to build up a Fort Knox level hoard of Bitcoin, collected through the normal process of government, which everyone must accept. The people saying that the US Government should have a strategic Bitcoin Reserve are making the claim that Uncle Sam should make a bet against the Federal Reserve. That's crazy. Niy of course, Bitcoiners know that the Federal Reserve isn't Federal at all, and is a private consortium created to steal from the American people. But we're not talking about that today. The correct strategy is to allow Americans to pay taxes in Bitcoin. To incentivise this, a 1% discount should be offered to all taxpayers paying in Bitcoin. If this were the policy, Uncle Sam would very quickly develop a large hoard of Bitcoin, through the normal process of government. ************* I WANT YOUR BITCOIN! ************* image
The Bitcoin cultists think that Nostr could prevent Biden's handlers from making statements on his behalf. They're totally delusional, obviously. Let's say that Biden needed to use a fingerprint to Tweet. All someone would need to do is take his finger, whether attached to him or not, to make a Tweet "as Biden". And all the delusional drones who think, "signing proves identity." are just that; completely delusional and unaware of how anything actually works: https://medium.com/@beautyon_/beach-boy-bitcoin-64f62bed4c7e Noster can't fix everything, and neither can Bitcoin; and there is a class of Bitcoiner that has shifted this narrative from "Bitcoin fixes this" to "Nostr Fixes this". It's the same Bitcoin Cult under a different name. People who think software services like X, Bitcoin and Nostr are "technologies" betray their complete lack of understanding of what a technology is. Services are not technologies; they are made out of technologies. And if you think a "signing key" will protect the launch procedure from being hijacked, you really don't understand how signing keys work, probably never used GPG, and are ignorant of the history of Cryptography. Which is fine. No one can be expected to know everything. These things are being said because it is important for people who prefer not to be ignorant hear them to reign in the drooling fanboyism that masquerades for insight. They throw around words like "Open Source" and "Centralized" not knowing what these things mean or whether or not practical use can be made of them. They also don't like it when "Open Source" is used against them as intended, when their work is forked and someone makes a copy of it for profit. Publishers of books are the worst offenders in this, breathlessly talking about "Open Source" whilst protecting their books with copyright. One of the rare exceptions is Boldrin and Levine's "Against Intellectual Monopoly" that you can download for free AND buy on Amazon. Not so clever people think they're being smart by finger pointing Boldrin and Levine for selling their books thinking they're not available for free, only to be silenced by pointing to the URL where they are. How pathetic. Thankfully, Bitcoin can't suffer from the delusions of these people, who are toxic and retarding of the expansion of Bitcoin's use. Once again, if Bitcoiners can't overcome the voices of these people then it was always doomed to fail. So far. It is THEM that are failing, not YOU.
"Huxley" by Ben Mauro is a graphic novel series set in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi universe. The story follows two scavengers who discover an ancient robot named Huxley and embark on an adventure that could alter the fate of the galaxy. The series is known for its richly detailed artwork and complex world-building, reflecting Mauro's extensive experience as a senior concept designer and art director for major gaming franchises like "Halo" and "Call of Duty," as well as films like "The Hobbit" and "Elysium". In addition to the graphic novels, the Huxley universe spans various media, including NFTs, games, and a planned feature film. The narrative explores themes of survival and discovery in a world devastated by a nuclear holocaust, with surviving humans building flying cities and adapting to harsh conditions on the ground. The game "Huxley: The Dystopia," a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS), was developed by H-Studio, a division of the South Korean company Webzen Inc.. If Webzen, the company that wrote this game decided to use a shared MySQL database with Ubisoft Montreal, the owners of Rainbow 6 Seige, the players of HUXLEY: The Dystopia would be able to enter their Rainbow 6 Seige login details to use the in game money “Renown” in HUXLEY: The Dystopia. Instead they decided to use the options below, both of which allow access to users of other databases. Coinbase uses its own MySQL database to keep track of who has bought what Bitcoin or Etherium; why are their databases different to the databases running at Ubisoft? They’re not different. THEY’RE EXACTLY THE SAME. Therefore the question is this, “why are databases in Coinbase treated differently to databases at Ubisoft or Webzen or…Nintendo?” And in case you didn’t know, genius, Bitcoin is just another database. It is not money at all, any more than Renown is. No one has managed to provide an explanation for this different treatment of identical databases. It’s perplexing. And I can tell you right now, that when people pretending to understand Bitcoin who are tasked with making legal judgements about it are asked this question, they have no answer. They are silent. These legally trained non field experts are in fact imposters who don’t understand anything about Bitcoin, video games, databases, webhooks, webviews, iframes, software or anything about the contexts, realities, facts and common practices that are now decades old. It’s also incredible that so many people “in Bitcoin” are also impostors; claiming that Bitcoin is money, that it is fundamentally different to MySQL and that it should be treated differently in law to any other database. These people explanation for these deceived “Bitcoiners” is that they’re in a cult. What is your excuse? https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794 image
There is nothing more strange than people cosplaying as nonconformists who are in fact ultra conformists, taking on every trend, sacrament and lunacy of the State and putting it on as a badge of honor. What utter nutcases! They think that by doing this, by accepting everything, they're being "Open Minded" but in fact, what they're demonstrating is they've been brainwashed to be MKULTRA level "Blank Slated". They will accept literally anything that comes out of the TV, embrace it, reflect it and promote it on command. Even their petty, wafer thin arguments and insults are taken from the playbook of the State. That's why they use CIA created terms like "Conspiracy Theorist", thinking that using that term is completely destructive of any argument put to them. These "men" are the "Useful Idiots", and as I've said before, there are many Useful Idiots in the Bitcoin Cult. If these people really understood the effects that Bitcoin as money, the only money, on their beloved "Society", they would turn on it and fight to the death to destroy it. They delude themselves that Bitcoin is "A Community" and other feel good nonsense as a psychological self protection denial strategy to excuse themselves from participating and promoting an idea that is 100% corrosive to their ideologies...which are, of course, not their ideologies at all, but that are in fact, ideologies trained into their disorderly Blank Slate minds by the State. Once again, this is why it is so important to get the people who actually control things on side with Bitcoin, because it is those people who are brainwashing the members of The Bitcoin Cult, in addition to being in control of the major rails. Once the Blackrocks, Banks, Rail Operators and different Nation States have all adopted Bitcoin, then they will brainwash their millions of hapless minions to accept it too, on whatever terms they're told to accept it. And they will accept, and promote and protect it, as if it was theirs and the idea came from them. It is already proven that even "Hard Core" Bitcoiners can be switched from "Bitcoin Only" to "synthetic dollars too" as a completely acceptable idea, so it is abundantly clear that no real thinking or philosophical positioning or ethics are at work with them. And don't even start on the purely anti-Bitcoin Ordinals debacle. These people are as leaves in the wind, followers of fashion; "Brown is the new Black", grasping at every fad, distraction and nonsense. They can be told that night is day and they will truly believe it, and repeat it, without torture (). This is "Blank Slate" thinking, which in many ways, is worse than The Bitcoin Cult, because at least with the Cult, education is taking place with people who can be caused to join through careful persuasion. The "Blank Slaters" () just accept anything they're told no matter how crazy or counterintuitive or anti-Bitcoin it is. No thinking or discernment is going on of any kind. YIKES! Despite all of these problems, it is clear that Bitcoin is on a trajectory to do what it was designed to do, and the cosplaying, reality denying, wind blown, upside down circus clown, joiner, brainwashed, "Vassal of the State", shallow, uninspiring Useful Idiot class are already diminishing in influence. Is it their own fault? I don't believe it is. Brainwashees are victims of the State. They have been poisoned and systematically erased by vicious liars who have horribly mistreated and permanently damaged them. It's not their fault. In the parallel universe one planck length away from this one, these people are virtuous, discerning, un gullible and very useful. They are not altcoiners, time wasters, Ordinal fans, threadbare hangers on or infantilized. They are problem solvers, not problem shirkers. They don't shrink from a challenge. They are strong, resilient, brave and patient; they're careful and powerful. They are not objectionable. They have intellect with discipline; they use power for constructive purpose. They are logical. And lest anyone be in doubt, they're a riot to be with. But that's the parallel universe. You are inhabiting this universe. And...that's...interesting...isn't it?! image
"You can't print missiles" Fuentes is very very close to the true reason why Bitcoin was written and its super power. If you can't print money, you can't print missiles. IF it is true that the stockpiles are running low all over the west (it is) then this means that they have to selectively use the weapons remaining to achieve short term goals. IF they wait to attack Iran, this gives Iran time to arm and become a threat. This is the calculation they're making. Russia has won, and cannot be defeated or even realistically challenged. So the calculus is to retreat from confrontation with Russia, saving face if possible, and then using the last of the weaponry on Iran, before a restocking exercise worth hundreds of billions in contracts is agreed. All of this goes away if Bitcoin suddenly becomes the money of the entire world. It will mean all inter State competition on Earth will be for Bitcoin and the people who can understand how it works under the hood. There can no longer be steal taxes of inflation, and lying about what inflation is will not help; fiat is dead. All of this is within grasp, and more and more people are waking up to it. Iran, if it wanted to be really clever would totally abandon all nuclear development and wait for the dollar system to collapse. In fact, they should contribute to its collapse by adopting Bitcoin. Now that would be REALLY clever. Thankfully under President Trump, America is turning pro Bitcoin and will pinch off any possibility of other countries dominating in it. All he has to do is allow the Constitution to do its work https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794 And then America's enemies will fall because the dollar system has collapsed and they will have no means of exchange other than with Bitcoin...which they don't have and can't generate in the short term. SUPER INTERESTING!