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Video description from YouTube: Bitcoin’s BIP-110 soft fork briefly split the chain—but the failed Bitcoin fork may have proven the opposite of corporate capture: nobody, from Michael Saylor and BlackRock to miners and node operators, can unilaterally change Bitcoin’s rules. Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan and U.S. Treasury spent an estimated $87 billion defending the yen as Jamie Dimon exposed what truly supports the dollar’s reserve-currency status. This episode connects Bitcoin consensus, mining centralization, self-custody, hashrate, fiscal dominance, inflation, capital flows, and the accelerating search for neutral digital money. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Bitcoin Splits In Two 00:57 Forks Explained Fast 01:39 BIP 110 Chain Freeze 03:17 Infiltration Claims Emerge 05:49 Mining Pools And Censorship 07:10 Why The Fork Failed 08:25 Culture Shift And Custody 10:44 Mining Centralization Reality 12:56 Japan Defends The Yen 13:53 Fed Shadow Mandate 15:13 Dollar Backed By Military 17:17 Clarity Act And Bitcoin 18:25 Zooming Out The Big Picture 19:08 Final Take And Questions

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#94 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web It’s important to pass key life lessons to next generations. Even when young, investing in personal development can create a lasting impact. Even as young children, they can learn to take their personal development seriously and start working on goals. It’s our job to invest in the future generations. (Link is below)

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Key Life Lessons To Pass To Next Generations

Investing in personal development can create a lasting impact https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/key-life-lessons/

Life Power Tip Do something for your body and mind today. Unless we have daily practices in place (such as a meditation, yoga, walking, deep breathing, social contact, reading, listening to empowering audios etc.), we may find that our body and mind reserves gradually deplete, as we get busy with our daily “doing”. What could you regularly schedule, to raise your energy? Action Go for a drive without a specific destination, only to explore. Challenge Do your most challenging jobs, first, today. Quote Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. -Buddha Clearing Create guidelines to help you stick to systems that you have put in place. Question How do you benefit by keeping clutter in your life? Affirmation I choose to have a champion mindset. Uplifting Extra Enjoy and share 36 Forward Steps Facebook Moments from 2020, the top 3 most popular Forward Steps Facebook posts for each month in 2020. I spent the day going through all 2020 Forward Steps Facebook posts in the stats area to check out which fared best. Feel free to share this page with friends. (Link is below)

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36 Forward Steps Facebook Moments In 2020

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#93 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Enjoy these 495 positive quote images (in 5 collections). They are terrific for sharing at your social profile pages or sending to friends in an email. When you click on an image, to enlarge it, you’ll then see various sharing options across the top of the image. (Link is below)

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Positive Quote Images All 594 For Sharing

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Life Power Tip Do something for which you have a passion. Do you know what you love? When was the last time you engaged in your most loved past-times? Create a list of your passions and loves, and then take action in a few of those every month. Time is like money; it is a resource and a tool for our lives when we specifically allocate it. There are plenty around you who are ready and willing to use it for you. Today, you get on the road to deciding how your time will be spent in the future. Action Go camping for a night. Challenge Do your least favorite part of any jobs first. Quote There is transformational potential which sits in the fifth position, in the center of the wheel of life. That transformational energy is what we want to experience every single day. -Joseph Rael Clearing Consolidate your loans into one and cut up your credit cards. Question How did your canoe travel today? Were you in control of the paddles? Affirmation I choose to feel more and more efficient. Uplifting Extra Self talk is one of the most powerful methods of changing your life. Quite simply, it’s the most direct method of upgrading the programs your brain uses to run your life. It can bring you amazing happiness, fantastic relationships, outstanding abundance and glowing health. Don’t miss this chance to discover the power of self talk for yourself. It’s powerful and it can change your life starting today! (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/self-talk/ 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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Needing some sanity today. Thanks @Jeff Booth

Is Bitcoin still decentralised and secure? Is it still on a trajectory for being used as money? Will we ever have a truly free market? @Jeff Booth Miners appear to be captured, they’re signalling they want spam and CSAM for a fee. Some say BIP-110 was a small number of people trying to change the rules. They tried to roll back Core Devs’ changes, v30+ represents less than 15% and that minority is pushing a change nobody agreed too.

BIP-110 Activation Stream. Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin Mechanic, Luke Broyles, and Luke de Wolf join Knut Svanholm to watch the activation of BIP-110 https://www.youtube.com/live/h3X6viAOBhU A segment from the transcript spoken by @Bitcoin Mechanic 1:21:121 hour, 21 minutes, 12 secondsTo me, it's you got to care. my conversations with miners, um, they've all just not cared enough to understand 1:21:191 hour, 21 minutes, 19 secondsany of this stuff. They were like, "Bip 110, uh, okay, I'll check it out." And then they look at it and they're like, "No, we we decided not to support it." 1:21:281 hour, 21 minutes, 28 secondsI'm like, "What? That's not how this works, guys." And if you cared, you would realize that's not how this works. 1:21:351 hour, 21 minutes, 35 secondsBut it's become how it works. The lie became the truth. Now miners are in charge of what remains on this other 1:21:421 hour, 21 minutes, 42 secondsside. Um, I don't know how you can get around that. Um, you can't make people care about stuff. That's just not a 1:21:501 hour, 21 minutes, 50 secondsthing. So, I I really do think that most of what I've spoken to in the mining world, like up to a week before the 1:21:591 hour, 21 minutes, 59 secondssoftwork activated, they've never even heard of it. And it's not because the information isn't out there. It's just because they aren't interested. Like 1:22:081 hour, 22 minutes, 8 secondseven making block templates was like, we don't know how to do that. And I've spent the last, you know, year and a half explaining to miners, this is how 1:22:151 hour, 22 minutes, 15 secondsyou run a Bitcoin node. And it's just amazing how little they know about it. 1:22:201 hour, 22 minutes, 20 secondsUm, they have other areas they're interested in. I think in 2017, they just were paying much more attention. 1:22:271 hour, 22 minutes, 27 secondsThey were against us, but they at least they cared. Now, like conversations with Bitman and stuff, it's just all about AI. most miners are only talking about 1:22:351 hour, 22 minutes, 35 secondsAI and they're they just don't really have that much interest in what Bitcoin is or you know like Fred Teal from Mara 1:22:421 hour, 22 minutes, 42 secondssaying the other day like oh Bitcoin died as a medium of exchange you know these are I don't know how to tolerate stuff like that and watch it and say 1:22:511 hour, 22 minutes, 51 secondsyeah I can those guys are going to do what uh the network passionately advocates for they just aren't in it in 1:22:581 hour, 22 minutes, 58 secondsthat way you know that's how I feel about it and it's not the numbers right we had twice the amount of people, but 1:23:061 hour, 23 minutes, 6 secondsit still it still doesn't motivate them to say, "All right, I'm going to to become an activist in this, or I'm going 1:23:141 hour, 23 minutes, 14 secondsto avoid a long-term issue with Bitcoin security model by respecting this movement because it's much less 1:23:211 hour, 23 minutes, 21 secondscorruptable than what we would have to become in unison to deny it." I think that would that requires low time 1:23:301 hour, 23 minutes, 30 secondspreference and that's not really what's going on in that part of the industry. 1:23:351 hour, 23 minutes, 35 secondsUh I also think that a major mistake on our side is minor signaling because it became the focus of everything. It's a user activated soft. It was going to 1:23:441 hour, 23 minutes, 44 secondsactivate today no matter what the miners did. But we asked miners what looked like permission again and they didn't grant it. And that meant every sailor 1:23:511 hour, 23 minutes, 51 secondstweet was like there's only been this many blocks signaling therefore it's been rejected by the miners. And um this 1:23:591 hour, 23 minutes, 59 secondsis this is a real blunder of psychology because it's never up to them and presenting it as being up to them by putting in any MASF logic at all 1:24:081 hour, 24 minutes, 8 secondsmisleads everyone. You know, everyone wanted SegWit doesn't matter. Two miners have said no and you asked their permission and they didn't give it. 1:24:151 hour, 24 minutes, 15 secondsTherefore, you're not getting it. That was why we had to fight that entire war and that is uh why a lot of people have the perspective they do on bit 110. All 1:24:231 hour, 24 minutes, 23 secondsyou did was have thousands of node runners say I want this thing and then the remaining node runners say I don't care. That was the end of Bit10's 1:24:301 hour, 24 minutes, 30 secondsdebate. But miners also didn't care and therefore they didn't flip a bit and that meant that people said okay well it's been denied then that's a problem. 1:24:401 hour, 24 minutes, 40 secondsI don't and I would make this I'm going to have to do it. I'm going to have to make a client that signals readiness for the next h havinging. And then when no 1:24:481 hour, 24 minutes, 48 secondsone runs it, I'm going to say the next hinging's canceled cuz miners didn't signal for it. And if anyone says that's not how it works, I'm going to say, 1:24:551 hour, 24 minutes, 55 secondswell, that's how everyone uh gauged Bit10 support. Apparently, you need to ask miners permission whether they can do things like that. And if they don't grant it, it doesn't happen. 1:25:051 hour, 25 minutes, 5 secondsI don't that lesson apparently needs to be granted here or the next UASF just needs to not ask minor permission at all because people just think it's up to them and it just isn't.

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop" - Confucius

#92 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web These inspiring, positive cartoon lessons for our lives inject a little humor into self improvement messages. Collections of inspiring quotes helped build this collection of cartoons. Inspiration can be found in many places and these cartoons are a fun vehicle for sharing short lessons for life. (Link is below)

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15 Positive Cartoon Lessons For Life

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Life Power Tip Do something for someone else. Are you feeling a bit flat, down or low on energy? Do something for someone else. Surprise someone with a pleasant surprise. It need not cost money. It may be a bunch of flowers from your garden for a neighbor. It could be writing a simple letter or postcard to someone you have not been in touch with for a while. Be courteous when driving, or stop and give a pedestrian right of way. Listen rather than talk when meeting with a friend. Action Give yourself plenty of time for everything today. Challenge Do the one thing you know that will make you be more organized. Quote Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -Thomas A. Bennett Clearing Place related items inside each other e.g. suitcases and travel bags. Question How did you value your gift of life today? Affirmation I choose to always be organized. Uplifting Extra Your life can be anything you make it. As shown in an uplifting, online, cinema film for those interested in personal development. In a stunning twist of fate, Jason (the main character) is transported through time and realizes that his life can be anything he makes it, now that he has been given the tools. (Link is below)

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Your Life Can Be Anything You Make It

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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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