Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein, about people evading taxes with bitcoin: “NSA has ‘em”

Bitcoin is a tech stock, whether you like it or not. Not a digital commodity galaxy brain store of value sound money whatever Most people buy it because they hope it becomes the money of the future. Something that you can use for all payments. And when it drifts away so much from this expected outcome, don’t be surprised that these people sell their bitcoin and look for something else that looks promising. The US dollar is still king, cash still rules everything around us, and Bitcoin no longer poses a threat (or even competes) with the status quo.

Someone should do a Taylor Swift “Blank Space” parody Except that it’s from the point of view of Matthew Krater and the chorus goes “I got a Blank Slate, Coretard and I’ll write your name”.

2013 was the most important year in Bitcoin history It’s when traditional finance guys came up with “Bitcoin 2.0” to lay the foundations of DeFi (Counterparty, Mastercoin, Ethereum) It’s also when cypherpunks created Zerocoin & Zerocash to improve Bitcoin’s privacy with zero knowledge proofs The sad part is that Bitcoin itself didn’t benefit too much from this due to the community’s conservatism. The happy part is that today we have Ethereum + Solana for the contracts/DeFi side and Zcash for the ZK privacy side.

What I like about altcoins is their ability to do what Bitcoin cannot and test ideas that are too experimental for Bitcoin. Privacy, contracts, scalability, anything that is useful to the entire open source money world. What I don’t like about altcoins is arrogance, zero sum thinking, stagnation & virtue signaling. You were not the first one to hit the market, you don’t have the largest community of users, your coin is not the most accepted for payments of them all, and it most likely underperforms Bitcoin for bear market saving. Act like it, build cool stuff to compete for users and market share. Push the research beyond the known boundaries. Refine the user experience. Give people something so cool they didn’t know they wanted it. But don’t stagnate and simply add more years under the belt.

You should really listen to this Time stamps in the description https://www.youtube.com/live/nWeTcQHyryw

The Knots filterooors are basically torrent seeders who only want you to download the acting part of the porn.

Will interview Jonathan Bier in 11 hours (10:30 AM UTC) As the author of the popular book “The Blocksize War”, he will discuss the various similarities between 2017 and today’s filter wars. Might talk about Faketoshis and other colorful characters in Bitcoin too!

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Time and time again, we see get confirmation that the traders are clueless The best traders are capable of manipulating the market sentiment & narrative for their own gain. The worst traders believe in their own TA astrology. But the winners are always the value investors who understand fundamentals.

In 6 hours I will interview Curtis Green He’s currently fundraising to get a pardon from the Trump presidency to regain his civil rights If you want to ask him questions, you will have to donate to his cause. He’s got some incredible Silk Road stories to tell, get ready! https://youtube.com/live/zokF5izqteA?feature=share

You don’t want to miss my interview with Curtis Green Going live in 19 hours (8 PM CET/2 PM EST) OGs know him as Chronicpain and Flush The rest of the world respects his Bitcoin OG credentials But now he seeks a presidential pardon from Trump! Why? Find out in S16 E59 👇🏻 https://youtube.com/live/zokF5izqteA?feature=share

2017: bitcoiners are fighting, ethereum rises 2025: bitcoiners are fighting, zcash rises

According to the criteria presented by @Murch in BIP 3 Taproot shouldn’t have been activated because no established project has deployed support for it on a main net software release 🙃

On Saturday I will interview a true OG: He loves poker He served as Silk Road admin He mined bitcoin and later zcash Had his coins stolen by corrupt feds DPR allegedly wanted to have him killed Now he wants to get pardoned by Trump His name is Curtis Green. Stay tuned!

It feels good to know that the information I’ve given to my podcast listeners over the last year has potentially made them rich!

Complacency never leads to positive outcomes. Don't surround yourself with complacent people. Don't invest in projects or companies whose culture promotes complacency. And most importantly: don’t allow yourself to become complacent.

So you want another bitcoin civil war to which the market reacts positively? Like hey guys, it's so cool that you can't agree on anything and you're not improving Bitcoin in any meaningful way. Take my money, I want to invest more of it in this. The future of money should look exactly like this: a bunch of nerds divided into "Knotzis" and "Coretards". Now that's an interesting way of wasting my life savings!

If you want to learn more about BIP 444, listen to my interview with @Super Testnet https://www.youtube.com/live/mIJy1uXBAuo

A fan of my podcast made a YouTube channel on which he posts short clips from various interviews With only 36 subscribers, he gets more views on some clips. This is how I know that YouTube is shadowbanning my account and content 🙃