Unpopular opinion nowadays: Bitcoin is a bigger technological breakthrough than AI, the internet, and maybe even electricity.... change my mind.

This is getting pretty insane, look at this, You pay a plumber $100. After tax, the plumber keeps $70. The plumber pays a house cleaner $70. After tax, the cleaner keeps $49. The cleaner pays a delivery driver $49. After tax, the driver keeps about $34. The driver pays a mechanic $34. After tax, the mechanic keeps about $24. The mechanic pays a server $24. After tax, the server keeps about $17. Keep repeating the process. Each time the money moves, more gets taxed until the gov has collected nearly the whole original $100. oh and now introduce money printing / inflation... we are getting close to another tea party if you ask me

How do you get robbed? The mechanism is pretty simple Central planners inflate the currency so that people who own assets are protected. They are basically able to siphon purchasing power away from the average person Then they can sell those assets, and the wealth has effectively been transferred from the everyday person who doesn’t invest to the person who owns assets. See how easy that was? That’s how simple it is to explain what’s happening. They’ve been doing it for a very long time, and politicians and central bankers, specifically, have knowingly created this problem. It is how they are able to let you vote for more “free” things while getting rich off of it. Now imagine, just for a second, taking the most cynical view possible. Imagine you think the normies are dumb as a fucking box of rocks. You know they will keep voting for more spending because they believe it is free. Meanwhile, you own the assets that benefit when the currency is inflated. That’s the mechanism. this is why you buy bitcoin...sad but true...

The reason to buy bitcoin

American foreign policy has become a fucking disaster: endless wars, endless aid, endless bullshit commitments to foreign governments while Americans are told to shut up, pay taxes, eat inflation, and watch the national debt go vertical. Washington keeps acting like every border on Earth matters more than its own, every foreign conflict deserves another blank check, and every geopolitical failure can be fixed by throwing more American money and weapons at it. Fuck that. If the government wants to light trillions on fire chasing an empire that serves everyone except the people funding it, I want my savings as far away from that machine as possible. They can print dollars, issue debt, fund wars, bail out the "closest" ally, and debase the currency until the whole fucking system cracks but they cannot print Bitcoin. 21 million. No foreign lobby, no Pentagon budget, no president, no Congress, no central bank can change that. That is why I’m violently bullish on Bitcoin: the more Washington fucks up foreign policy, the stronger the case for owning money Washington cannot fuck with.

Manage your expectations. Everything I thought would take a few years with Bitcoin has instead taken nearly a full decade, and it still feels like the real acceleration is coming around 2030. Same with AI. Back in 2022, I thought that by 2026 we would see far more automation, robotics, and major changes in everyday life. What this has taught me is simple: Real change takes time. Patience matters. The biggest transformations usually happen much slower than people expect until suddenly, they don’t. I’m adjusting accordingly and managing my expectations better. But I still believe the 2030s will look radically different from today. Bitcoin, AI, robotics, automation, and tech will reshape the world. The time to prepare for that future is now.

Modern systems do not always stop people who fight against them. Sometimes they turn that anger into something they can sell. People work for money, spend that money on comfort and entertainment, then go back to work and repeat the cycle. Even attention, identity, and frustration can become profitable. A person may think they are escaping the system, but they may only be moving into a better position inside it. Criticism becomes content, rebellion becomes a brand, and anger becomes entertainment. The system stays strong because it does not always need to silence people who challenge it. Sometimes it can simply reward them, make them successful, and turn their resistance into another part of the machine.

Modern-day chains look like debt, inflation, and a paycheck you can’t afford to stop chasing. doesn’t matter if you are a doctor, engineer, teacher, or lawyer. If your money constantly loses purchasing power while your life depends on earning more of it, the system creates dependence. You work for money, save in money, borrow money, and spend decades trying to stay ahead of its decline.... this was the hardest realization for me in general, Without bitcoin I would have zero hope for the future ahead...

everyone here bullish right?

This is the nuance between the Japan (yen) and US economics, The yen has fallen to its weakest level in decades because US interest rates are much higher than Japan’s. To support the yen, Japan may need to sell some of its huge holdings of US Treasury bonds and use the dollars to buy yen. That is a problem for the US. Japan is the largest foreign holder of US debt, with about $1.2 trillion. If Japan starts selling Treasuries at scale, US bond yields could rise sharply, making borrowing more expensive across the economy. This is why the US just sold every euro to help the yen survive but this does not fix the main cause this large gap between US and Japanese interest rates is the "problem" for usd and this is why longer-term currency-debasement risk comes from the liquidity backstop and the willingness to protect bond markets from forced selling They will try every measure to save the yen because they have to and it only ends by devaluing the usd in the process and that is why i continue to buy high desirable scarcity assets like bitcoin

2020 changed human existence. Whether you believe it or not, it is true. First, COVID / Vaccines disrupted global health, mega super inflammatory worldwide phenomenon Second, it widened the wealth gap to levels never seen before. Third, social isolation reached an all-time high. Human connection was replaced by screens. Dopamine regulation deteriorated as people remained indoors, attached to hyper-addictive devices, endless scrolling, instant entertainment, and algorithmic stimulation. 1. Attention spans collapsed. 2. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, and distrust increased. 3. Everyone lost critical years of normal social development. 4. Governments expanded their authority. 5. Institutions lost credibility. 6. Society became more divided, more dependent, and less capable of agreeing on basic reality. And six years later, we still have not returned to normal. Six years. To return to normalcy, as strange as it sounds, people need a work routine, proof of work, sound money, and real time with family and close friends. Bitcoin can help restore some of this. But Bitcoin is not the ultimate answer. We are in 2026. Look at the Bitcoin community. Even sound money cannot repair a society that has forgotten how to work, connect, think independently, and live with purpose. 2020 changed the direction of humanity.

I am betting heavily that we have reached the bottom of this Bitcoin cycle. And if not, we are extremely close. A lump sum here makes sense. DCA is perfect. Continuing to buy Bitcoin has rarely looked more compelling. It also makes sense that Saylor always buys near the top, then sells heavily near the bottom.

Lost a bit of my stack with the Coldcard, but that is the price of “don’t trust, verify.”

the bug entered the codebase in **March 2021**, with firmware v4.0.0. A single commit changed the code so that firmware silently bypassed the device's hardware random number generator for five years. So it sat dormant for ~5 years before the July 30 sweep. The mechanism is genuinely weird: the firmware had two functions with the same cryptographic signature — Coinkite's hardware RNG implementation and a software version carried over from MicroPython. A build-time check failed to activate, so devices fell back to the compromised software RNG, seeded by the processor's serial number and clock. That collapsed Mk3 seed entropy to roughly 40 effective bits — brute-forceable with specialized hardware, especially when candidates can be checked against on-chain addresses. As for discovery: Coinkite says it was unaware of the bug until the day of the sweep, prompting speculation that the attacker found it first using advanced code-review tools — possibly AI-assisted vulnerability hunting. Block published its analysis without full exploitability testing because exploitation was already underway. So the timeline is: bug introduced 2021 → discovered by attacker (not researchers) → ~$70M drained → then reverse-engineered publicly.

WAYS PEOPLE EXIT BITCOIN 1) boredom 2) greed through forced leverage 3) lack of education 4) short-term thinking 5) volatility fatigue 6) social pressure 7) overtrading 8) yield chasing 9) custody errors 10) ego 11) life shocks 12) loss of conviction Don’t become the casualty.

Nobody talks about how difficult boringness is. Doing the same work every day. Seeing no immediate reward. Getting no attention. Feeling like nothing is happening. That is where most people quit. Success rarely looks exciting while it is being built. It usually looks repetitive, lonely, and painfully boring.

Bitcoin infighting makes me lose a little faith in humanity. Since 2018, I have held Bitcoiners to a higher standard than most people. Not because we were perfect, but because I believed we shared something deeper than price. Proof of work. Personal responsibility. Truth over popularity. Long-term thinking. Sovereignty. The willingness to stand alone when the crowd was wrong. I thought those values would make us harder to divide. Instead, the infighting has reminded me that Bitcoiners are still human. We are still vulnerable to ego, status, fear, tribalism, social pressure, and the need to be seen as right. Maybe that is the real psyop. Not to attack Bitcoin directly, but to turn the people defending it against one another. To make every disagreement feel existential. To turn nuance into betrayal. To replace honest debate with factions, purity tests, and personal destruction. The protocol does not need to hate anyone to survive. It does not need applause. It does not need a tribe. It simply keeps producing blocks. Maybe our responsibility is to become more like the thing we claim to understand. Less reactive. Less emotional. Less obsessed with winning social battles. More committed to truth, patience, and proof of work. Bitcoin may be incorruptible. Humans are not. That is why the human layer remains the easiest layer to attack.

My position on BIP 110: Many people began running Knots because they opposed Core changing the default OP_RETURN limit in v30 without broader consensus. Now, many of those same users are frustrated that Knots is making BIP 110 the default. One unilateral change does not justify another. Both moves are unnecessary escalations. I will set my own OP_RETURN limit to 80 bytes because that is where I believe it belongs. But I will not signal BIP 110, because I do not support how this process has unfolded. That is the point of Bitcoin. You choose the rules your node enforces.

This is what is happening, be careful out there, think for yourself always, First and most important The activation threshold breaks precedent. BIP-110 proposes a 55% hash power threshold, far from the 95% standard associated with sensitive consensus changes, justified by “urgency” and the measure’s temporary nature. Whoever normalizes 55% once has normalized it forever. The next proposal to use that threshold won’t be about "spam." It "activates" without consensus by design. Miner signaling has never passed 1% since voting opened in December 2025, yet the plan doesn’t need a majority: from around early August, nodes running BIP-110 software will simply reject blocks that don’t carry the flag. That’s a forced chain split mechanism launched from a sub-1% support base. It cripples the "upgrade" path while calling itself temporary. even possibly to quantum It moves censorship from policy to consensus. It would go beyond ordinary relay policy into block-validity enforcement, changing consensus rules to block certain data patterns weakens Bitcoin’s neutrality a working template for filtering any future transaction class. It touches property. BIP-110 may render some existing UTXOs “dead money,” effectively depriving some users of property rights temporarily, could make some wallet-generated addresses unspendable once activated. Freezing coins by rule change, however framed, is the exact capability Bitcoin exists to make impossible. The timing hits the institutional thesis directly. Bitcoin’s most attractive feature to institutional investors is the immutability of its rules; once this precedent is set, the questions become asset freezes targeting specific addresses or mandatory rule adjustments The damage is symmetric. Whether it activates, fails, or splits the chain, the community re-fractures along the 2017 fault lines, burning energy and credibility either way. Some prominent supporters have already declared that if BIP-110 fails, “Bitcoin will have failed at its singular purpose” pre-committing to a demoralization narrative on the losing side. The most effective attack on Bitcoin was never going to be a hash war or a broken cipher, it’s a well-crafted sentence, repeated until half the network believes the other half is the enemy.