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“Bitcoin isn’t money” Then why is it called bit COIN? #bitcoin #knots #core

The Core people are astoundingly unserious. Mockery and disdain toward the plebs from their ivory tower. No professionalism. No sober educating of the masses to achieve social consensus. No patience. Lots of ridicule and sadistic pleasure as they openly tout running v30. The vibe is “fuck you, haha!” Is it just me? Bitcoin is too serious to allow this attitude at the helm. It’s honestly surreal. Clowns, clowns everywhere. #bitcoin #core #knots

It’s starting to seem like all the “features” were a mistake. Segwit and taproot were great ideas, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? Unknown unknowns and second order effects, in an attempt to “make Bitcoin better”. Feature brain is the wrong mindset for Bitcoin. Put your cool features on layer 2. #bitcoin

How to empathise with your crying baby. Imagine a giant comes by, takes your pants off, lifts up your legs and starts wiping you down with a wet towel. Imagine the discomfort. Now compound this experience by imagining you don’t understand why it is happening, and you are totally powerless to fight it. You’d probably also cry about it. #parenthood #newborn #baby #family

A single default setting was the entire business model of Mozilla Firefox. For those that don’t know, Google paid Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars per year so long as Firefox defaulted to Google search. That is the power of a default. Don’t let anyone trivialise how important changing a default setting can be. Now imagine that Firefox changed its default to Bing, and not only that, also marked that setting for removal entirely - forcing you to accept Bing or use a patched version of Firefox. #bitcoin #knots #core #spam

Bitcoiners tend to be optimistic people. You need to believe in paradigm shifts. That the solution is true and not just a mirage designed to manipulate you. You need to have a large degree of vision, openness and faith. This is why Bitcoin attracts a lot of Christians. They are familiar with employing faith. Many people are trapped in bottomless jaded cynicism - and rightly so! In many ways the world has conspired against you. The manipulation and lies of the world can seem endless. Be careful. Too much cynicism and you will refuse to accept that a “solution” to the control system can even exist in the first place. At a deep emotional level you refuse to believe something true can exist. That something worthy of hope will actually fulfil its promise, rather than being used as the carrot you can never reach. Such people believe Bitcoin to be nothing more than the honey pot of an intelligence agency, or a Ponzi scheme, or both. That even if Bitcoin is true, at least I wasn’t mislead and manipulated! At least I wasn’t scammed. The eternal pessimist will miss Bitcoin. Be careful what your cynical side can cost you. #bitcoin #psychology

Newborns are very serious creatures. They don’t have the childhood wonder yet. Just a bundle of instincts and potential. Instincts designed to keep them alive at any cost so they can realise that potential. #fatherhood #baby

Society has encoded valuable ideas that we should conserve, yet some ideas are wrong or incomplete and should be progressed. In recent history progressivism has been overstimulated in society due to the perception of infinite wealth via government debt. This perception increases risk taking and experimental behaviours as we perceive a large safety margin to tolerate the risk. However this perception is a façade. Resources are indeed finite, and the safety margin is much smaller than it seems. As we transition to a hard money standard, we will see a trend back toward conservatism. There’s a delicate balance between tradition and change that we cannot regulate effectively while under delusions of “infinite” money. #bitcoin #philosophy

You own yourself because control is a necessary property of ownership, and the mind is irreducibly in control of itself. #philosophy #nap

Hard Money prevents war as we’ve known it. All wars in modern history are funded through coercion. If the US had to beg its citizens to contribute $10k per year to fund a “retaliatory invasion”, people would have to truly confront their rage as a personal cost. Most would abate. It would give those who disagree with the war a way to truly cast their vote and keep their conscience clean by simply refusing to pay. It would put the burden of the war directly on the shoulders of the warmongers. Put your own money where your mouth is, not mine. Soft Money lowers the friction for theft to basically zero. Even if you refused to pay taxes, they would just print the money. They don’t need your permission. In fact, they get to pass off inflation as a market phenomenon, blaming “greedy” market actors for “price gouging”. This is how Bitcoin stops war. #bitcoin #war #morality

At what point does morality actually matter? Moral arguments supersede consequences. That is the power of morality. “If we end slavery then who will pick the cotton!?” Answer: no clue. Doesn’t matter. Slavery is immoral. Reality: we’ll develop metal monsters that burn ancient crushed tree juice to automate away the manual labour. The moral argument is our compass to use because the future is unpredictable. If the moral argument is correct, like a perfectly tuned compass, you will find yourself navigating to the future with the optimal circumstances. #morality #philosophy