The author of BIP-177 is John Carvalho. As we can see, the campaign to distort Bitcoin is picking up pace. The dots are connecting. These people want to create a situation where we no longer have 21 million bitcoin—but 2.1 quadrillion. And with that shift, the price of bitcoin doesn’t stay at $105,000—it becomes $0.00105. That’s not a minor adjustment. That’s a complete destruction of Bitcoin’s memetic, economic, and psychological framing. At this point, I consider it an attack on Bitcoin. It’s an attempt to rewrite what makes Bitcoin work—scarcity, clarity, narrative integrity. And it’s happening right as Bitcoin is breaking through the $100K psychological barrier, a moment that should be uniting us, not opening the door to confusion. If you use Bitcoin, believe in Bitcoin, or build on Bitcoin—it’s time to stand up against this. We are not stupid. We are not passive. And we will not let the truth be rewritten to fit someone’s agenda.

We need to stop dumbing everything down just to make Bitcoin “easier to sell.” Bitcoin is not a plug-and-play fiat product. It’s a paradigm shift. It’s part of a larger transformation—the digital era, the cyber economy, the rise of decentralized systems. This moment demands reflection, learning, and focus. Mass adoption through oversimplification is a fiat mentality. Push-button thinking. Automatic mode. No responsibility. But Bitcoin is responsibility. It’s self-custody. It’s running a node. It’s upgrading yourself, not just your wallet. If we want to thrive in this new world, we can’t adapt everything to laziness. We need to challenge people to rise, to study, to become sovereign participants—not just passive consumers. Oversimplification isn’t adoption. It’s sedation. And it’s a dead end. View quoted note →

I’m sick of millionaires with Bitcoin businesses stepping up like VCs, trying to decide what’s “good” for Bitcoin. First it was OP_RETURN. Now it’s BIP-177—change satoshis to bitcoins, rewrite the unit, dilute the meme. This isn’t about the people. It’s about selling Bitcoin more easily for their business. BitKey. UX. Onboarding. Whatever. But let this sink in: The moment Bitcoin stops being $105,000 and becomes $0.00105, everything changes. The story changes. The signal dies. The magic is gone. This isn’t the will of the network. It’s the convenience of the few. And it ends here.

Now @jack is pushing BIP-177 to change satoshis to bitcoin. Are these people crazy?! Turning 21 million bitcoin into 2.1 quadrillion “bitcoins” isn’t just bad branding—it completely nukes the most important meme in Bitcoin’s history. This isn’t just a bad idea. It’s a recipe for confusion, dilution, and long-term cultural fragmentation. We’ve spent 15 years building absolute clarity around one of the strongest memes in monetary history: 21 million Bitcoin. 100 million satoshis each. Simple. Elegant. Untouchable. And now, right on the edge of global adoption—now—they want to rewrite the script? This doesn’t feel like UX optimization. It feels like a narrative hijack. A subtle takeover—not of the protocol, but of how people think about Bitcoin. And that’s just as powerful. Maybe I’m paranoid. But changing the unit, the name, and the supply right before mass onboarding doesn’t just feel tone-deaf—it feels strategic. Like rewriting the map while millions are just beginning to find their way. I’ve never heard anything more short-sighted, more dangerous, or more fundamentally disconnected from what makes Bitcoin work. It’s not a UI bug. It’s a memetic monument. You don’t demolish it for clicks, smooth UX, or vanity campaigns. You protect it—because mass adoption is coming. And what people adopt must be the truth, not a convenient lie wrapped in “accessibility.”

People say parabolic growth isn’t new. That we’ve seen it before. And yeah—that’s true. Tulips. Dotcoms. Tech stocks. We’ve had bubbles, booms, and breakouts. But Bitcoin isn’t just another asset riding a hype curve. It’s not just a clever form of digital scarcity. It’s a domain shift. Most assets grow within a system. Bitcoin is changing the system itself. It redefines property rights in cyberspace. Turns energy into trust. Removes the need for centralized enforcement. Establishes a truth anyone can verify—but no one can rewrite. Gold didn’t do that. Stocks didn’t do that. Even the internet didn’t do that—it carried information, not value. Bitcoin is the internet of value. It’s not a website. It’s not an app. It’s not a company. It’s a decentralized protocol that encodes sovereignty into code. So if you’re only looking at Bitcoin through the lens of price, or even software, you’re missing the forest. Zoom out. You’re witnessing the first true native money of the digital realm. A multi-century shift from meatspace value systems to cyber-resident value networks. Unfolding in our lifetime. And that’s why I’m here—not just as a spectator, but as a defender of the principles. Not to tell Bitcoin what it should be. But to learn what it already is—and protect it as it continues to unfold.

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