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Bitcoin Is Dead

Bitcoin Is Dead - Track Every Bitcoin Obituary Since 2010

Bitcoin has been declared dead 475 times since 2010. Track every obituary with original quotes, critics, and historical prices.

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How is it that everyone who has Bitcoin and who truly understands it would not be a Bitcoin Maxi and would want Bitcoin to be just another databank instead of money? Aren't there enough platforms on earth for storing data and spam? I must be so naive when it comes to understanding humanity. 🥺 Why would we ever be fully in favor of the fiat tyrants, the banks and governments tightening the noose on our lives? Read the white paper again. 🧡 Understand what we hold and how the world was given a hopeful future in 2009. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Listening to @npub1ahxj...5ech and @npub1s33s...252p Video description from YouTube: BIP-110 has divided the Bitcoin community more than anything I've covered in years, and a lot of the argument has played out as people shouting past each other online. Matt Kratter of Bitcoin University, one of the proposal's most vocal supporters, joins me to break down Bitcoin's civil war. Matt makes his case, I push back where I have questions, and we talk about why this debate has gotten as heated as it has. In this episode: • What BIP-110 would actually do, and why supporters say it would stop spam on the Bitcoin network • What a chain split would look like, and Matt's honest answer on whether he expects one • The arguments against BIP-110, including whether the data simply moves elsewhere • Why the debate turned so personal, and what Matt says to people it's driven away Timestamps: 00:00 Who is Matt Kratter? 03:29 Working for Peter Thiel 05:11 How Bitcoin University started 08:07 What made Matt a Bitcoiner 10:23 Bitcoin is about sovereignty 14:56 The email attachment analogy for OP_RETURN 17:34 History of Core and Knots 19:38 What BIP 110 actually does 21:45 Why one change didn't need everyone's approval 23:01 How many nodes are running? 26:59 Who really decides Bitcoin's rules 32:18 Could this split Bitcoin in two? 35:52 Can spammers just get around it? 40:23 Why Matt calls this a civil war 42:05 What happens to your coins in a split 44:44 Why have attacks gotten so personal? 48:05 Will Matt Kratter call Michael Saylor 49:14 Separating money from the state 51:57 Who's putting spam on the blockchain? 55:05 Will this hurt Bitcoin’s neutrality 57:19 BIP-110 signaling Saturday 1:06:28 For Matt this is "life or death"

Hail! In the background you can just make out the screeching sounds of black cockatoos or galahs. 🌧️

If you hadn’t spotted this earlier, watch it before Saturday! Thank you @npub1s33s...252p In this video, Matthew discusses some steps that Bitcoiners can take to prepare for BIP-110 mandatory signalling beginning this Saturday.

#91 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Most people confuse busyness of mind with wisdom. Overthinking arrives as a feeling of seriousness and importance. Turn overthinking into clear, insightful thinking, overthinking makes life feel stuck in rehearsal mode. Here’s how to name the loop, give worry a time and place, run small experiments and turn mental noise into insight. Simple rules, big clarity, less drama. (Link is below)

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Turn Overthinking Into Insightful Thinking

Overthinking makes life feel stuck in rehearsal mode https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/turn-overthinking-into-insightful-thinking/

Life Power Tip Do something different today. You cannot think outside the box when you are sitting in one! Do something that is not ‘business as usual’ for you. You will be amazed at the new ideas that will simply begin to flow. Action Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. Challenge Do something uncharacteristic today. Not something too ‘bad’ though! Quote Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues. -Tony Robbins Clearing Consider purchasing under the cabinet organizers for your bathroom. Question How could you simplify your life today Affirmation I choose organized spaces in which to work. Uplifting Extra Think about times in your life when everything just clicked. Maybe you were so focused on a project that time flew by. Maybe you had a conversation that led to an unexpected breakthrough. That’s flow and it’s not random. It can be created on purpose and you don’t need to fight life into submission. The smarter move is to learn how to work with it. When you’re in flow, things line up naturally. The right opportunities show up, the right people appear and progress feels effortless instead of forced. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/the-flow-factor/ Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

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Surely this is some kind of joke! 🫣😲😳 Video description: A California tech startup called Reflect Orbital was just granted FCC approval to test orbital space mirrors designed to bounce sunlight down to Earth at night. While pitch decks promise clean solar energy 24/7, scientists, pilots, and privacy advocates warn this creates severe light pollution, threatens eye safety, and privatizes the night sky through an outdated legal loophole. In this video, we break down how Reflect Orbital’s test satellite works, why the FCC approved it despite 12,000+ public objections, the risks of a 50,000-satellite megaconstellation, and what this means for you when natural darkness becomes a commercial service. Chapters 0:00 - Intro 2:30 - The Regulatory Loophole 3:08 - Why Scientists Are Concerned 4:43 - What You Can Do

Thank you @npub1d9dg...6h5w and @npub1j87r...3hzx 🧡 Timestamps 00:00 Trailer 01:00 Matt's Bitcoin Journey 02:00 ColdCard Breach 07:34 Backing Up Your Seed Phrase 09:06 Self-Custody Must Survive for Bitcoin 21:37 Imp of Running a Node 25:52 Different Nodes 29:30 Michael Saylor and BIP110 31:11 BIP110 Explained 35:00 Arbitrary Data 39:30 Core as Ethereum 45:10 Soft Fork Explained 53:00 What To Be Aware of 100:11 Why BIP110 will Pass 106:45 Chaos Coming/Bitcoin Captured 110:00 Find Matt Hill

What a month and it ain't over yet! 🫣😲🧡

Do this before Saturday 8 August 🧡

More sunshine than rain today, though had some lovely rainfall overnight. ☀️👍

Listening to @npub1s05p...eyhe again today. 🧡 00:00:00 Institutional Capture and the Systemic Fork 00:04:47 The 1999 Dotcom Collapse vs. Bitcoin Adoption 00:09:56 Why True Free Markets Demand Deflation 00:14:14 The Mathematical Insolvency of Global Debt 00:19:05 Banking History, Gold Reserves, and Absolved Risk 00:24:23 Bureaucracy, Regulations, and the Path to Surfdom 00:30:05 Deconstructing Digital Credit and the Saylor Debate 00:35:14 Defending Individual Agency with Private Nodes 00:39:53 Moving from Debt Leverage to Equity Abundance 00:44:41 Investor Psychology and the Visionary Mindset 00:49:50 Hard Tech Solutions: Funding Breeze and Fedimint 00:55:00 Book Recommendation and Closing Thoughts

#90 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web ​Enjoy reading Will’s book review of Linchpin by Seth Godin. Linchpin covers a topic that every person who wants to thrive in the workplace should work on being indispensable and irreplaceable. Seth argues that you must be a linchpin in order to succeed. A linchpin is something that holds together the whole organization, similar to a keystone for a bridge. If the linchpin or keystone gets destroyed or removed, everything falls apart. (Link is below)

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Be Irreplaceable (And Why You Need To Be)

Enjoy reading Will's guest article book review of 'Linchpin' by Seth Godin. https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/be-irreplaceable/

Life Power Tip Divide a large sheet of paper into 4 areas. In each quarter, write one of each of these four questions: What is important to me? What do I love to do? What am I good at? What was I born to do? Write your top 9 answers to each. Relax and do not make this a significant and serious exercise. Then rank each question’s nine answers, in order of importance to you. Action Give others the benefit of the doubt more often. Challenge Do something today so you feel that you are living, rather than merely existing. Quote Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Gandhi Clearing Combine duplicate boxes, containers, and bottles of things. Question How could you re-allocate funds to better serve your life goals? Affirmation I choose to feel that my environment supports me. Uplifting Extra The Forward Steps 100 Life Power Tips on MP3, is a free audio that you can listen to at leisure, to find for yourself an empowering thought or fresh life power tip. Trigger a newly inspired action, enhancing our day-to-day experience of life, keeping you empowered and motivated to act, for achieving your personal goals. Step forward, just a little further each day, by listening to 100 short and quick thoughts on this audio. (Link is below)

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Download your FREE 100 Life Power Tips MP3

100 Life Power Tips Free MP3 from Thea Westra at Forward Steps @forwardsteps http://www.forwardstepsblog.com/free-100-life-power-tips/

Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

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“People continue to underestimate the threat Bitcoin poses to the system and refuse to understand the lengths to which that system will go in neutering it.” - @npub1wnlu...n3wr