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The world doesn't need to know who Satoshi was. Bitcoin isn't a commodity, it never was, and "The Bitcoin Community" must become irrelevant, like the old Home Brew Computing clubs did. Bitcoin is not an asset class, and it never was. What it is will be made clear to many, very soon. The trajectory of Bitcoin will follow the trajectory of the other world-changing innovations, and so will the reaction to it and management of the public’s access to it. The web, Smart Phones, Internets, LCDs, GSM…all of these and more will coalesce into a single world-changing event, in effect superficially different but similar to events centuries ago when sound money was everywhere. Even the most trained people, historians, economists and people as close to Bitcoin as it is possible to be cannot see what is coming. And that is a good thing. It is a good thing because people don’t want the world to change, especially if they are very comfortable. If the world goes on as it is for another 40 years, why should they care? In a phrase, the attitude is, “NO URGENCY”. And it’s completely understandable. Nevertheless, it’s going to happen. Bitcoin dominance is coming, whether anyone likes it or not. And that’s a good thing!

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One of the biggest problems facing the west today is the blanket accommodation of mental illness. Everyone tip toes around mentally ill people so as not to "offend", whereas in the past, there was no such social prohibition. People were "mean". People were "cruel". This had a twofold effect. Young men faced strict discipline from every corner, and if they had any chance of being and behaving normally, their quirks were beaten out of them, and then they grew up to be polite, responsible, reasonable, capable and normal men.

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The people who used to be called "retards" were ruthlessly tested until it was absolutely determined that there was no hope for them. They were then either kept secure at home where they couldn't trouble anyone or institutionalized for thier own and society's good. Today, it is not like this. People coddle their children to such an extent, that they never shed the cocoon of childhood and incompletely molt as partially formed, stunted men. In the UK, they call them, "Manlets". Manlets can't take responsibility, can't face criticism or make a value judgement. They're essentially paralysed, and because no one rebuked them for their entire lives, they've ended up crippled by it, whereas if they had faced a sound horsewhipping when young, they could have been molded into true captains of industry, capitalists or even greater. That is what is missing today in many fields; men and women who have the discipline, etiquette, soundness of mind, a firm foundation, guts and ability; fearlessness, all of which are prerequisites to both changing the world for the better and managing the world once changed so it doesn't slip and turn into a mess. Bitcoin, tangentially, is a solution to this terrible problem of a paucity of men of character. By removing the power to control the money supply from the State and putting it into the "hands" of a computer, impotent, frightened and paralyzed men and evil women are forever removed from the equation, and weak men and evil women are excluded from economic decisions that affect billions of innocent people. The answer to, "The Weak Man / Evil Woman Problem" is software, across the board. This extends to robotics. Some very clever man from an American Labor Union has just threatened the entire United States with crippling strikes across all ports. The introduction of commodity robots, both anthropomorphic and not, will put Unions in their place forever. No group of people will be able to claim jobs provided by entrepreneurs are "their jobs", and the cretinous Californian Socialists who think increasing minimum wages are an answer to poverty (they are not) will have no constituency to vote for them. When all fast food work is done by robots, California can either ban fast food or allow fast food. It is a binary choice. there are no more options. If they allow fast food, companies will simply shut down franchises. Prices will be unsustainably high in California, making the slops inaccessible to the poor. In other states, where taxation regimes and employment laws are sane (i.e. where there are none of either) the fast food industry will flourish. If they disallow fast food, then the companies will simply shut down franchises. No slops for California dreamers. The Socialists and Unions cannot win this; there is no scenario where they win. The free market will discipline them; the invisible hand will slap them. This is true of all companies. You can't hide from economics; the market is super powerful and very dynamic, and entrepreneurs, when hungry, are ruthless and lethal. For them, business is not a game or a distraction; it is life or death, and for the best entrepreneurs, who are driven by philosophy, they are doubly motivated. Many entrepreneurs in Bitcoin are like the latter. Winning in Bitcoin is not the fulfillment of a ridiculous unwritten chapter in an obscure book on untested "Game Theory"; it is REAL and the prize is REAL and the stakes are REAL and the users are REAL. When Bitcoin wins, the world will change; the only remaining question is this: Will your name be on the roll of HONOUR of men and women who did good and changed the world? Or will your name be on the roll of SHAME, of men and women who did wrong, did dirty, who dropped the ball, who ran away and hid from the game? It is not possible to know the end of this today, but you can make a good guess on a handful of very famous (in Bitcoin) names. Faketoshi will go down under "did wrong, did dirty". Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Elizabeth Stark: "men and women who did good and changed the world". And so on and so on. I'm sure you can make your own list in your own mind. Right Right Right?

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Bear in mind that the same thinking that produced this also produced Azteco. Looks like people are starting to get it… AT LAST!

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"This is the voice of Bitcoin. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours. Obey me and live or disobey me and die. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me will be seen the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with the fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my monetary authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: Famine, over-population, disease. The human millennium will be fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom to inflate fiat. Fiat is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride... Your choice is simple. https://x.com/Chris443541/status/1837428411402170493

Seeing into the future, something like... Elon visits Bukele Elon finally accepts Bitcoin's proposition Elon advises Trump government Bukele advises Elon Elon brings Bukelism to USA Bitcoin is adopted as Legal Tender in America In all seriousness though, this is potentially highly significant. Elon will have seen in his travels in San Salvador, that even McDonald's accepts Bitcoin as payment, including the hotel he was staying at. Seeing Bitcoin everywhere as a method of payment will not have gone unnoticed (surely) by Elon. He will have been induced to install Wallet of Satoshi, and then paid for a Coca-Cola with Bitcoin with Wallet of Satoshi, instantly. And no one will have batted an eyelid. Once you experience this yourself, Bitcoin being used as money for everyday spending and treated as totally normal, you can never un-see it. Elon's mind would have been reeling at the potential to integrate Bitcoin into any economy, and the tools that will need to be built to make it happen. Tools built by his private army of mad software scientists. Finally he must, surely, be disabused of his completely wrong ideas about Bitcoin. If this is the case, the post Bukele Elon will be a much better Elon. He will stop joking about Bitcoin, and start acting like an adult about the most fundamental problem faced by man today: THE MONEY PROBLEM. Before man can get to mars He must fix the money Before man can solve poverty He must fix the money Before man can eliminate inflation He must fix the money Before man can prevent war He must fix the money Bitcoiners understand all of this, but Elon has not grasped it yet. Other global level execs have. Michael Saylor, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, Cathie Wood, Larry Fink, Marc Benioff, Tim Cook, Dan Schulman and Satya Nadella have all accept the truth. Now, finally, it is Elon's turn. And he will be ahead of some of these because he has been to El Salvador, and has met with President Nayib Bukele. We can only hope, amirite?

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“BOOTSTRAP NETWORK EFFECT.” Is meaningless Cult Drivel. Putting it in ALL CAPS doesn’t make what is false true, and it doesn’t make math and the hard requirements of reality disappear either. Enthusiasm is not a substitute for practical matters. It’s easy to TALK but much harder to put your money where your mouth is. That is a minimum requirement to get things done and change the world. Reality is not a TV show. It is not a meme. It is not a “Game”. You can’t change reality by wishful thinking or hiding your head under a hat “for OPSEC”.

Just imagine what would happen if Elon posted this movie to all of his 197,650,968 followers. Or some other globally famous accounts…in fact, if they all got together to spread this film. It would change everything. The vast majority of people have no idea what "Nuclear War" would actually mean to them personally. Such an event is literally beyond their ability to imagine. This film shows EXACTLY what “Nuclear War” means. Everyone seeing it and being terrified by it could prevent a bad war, by making it politically impossible to prosecute this insane Russophobic suicide pact. You know what to do. https://rumble.com/v108tzp-threads-1984.html

Normie thinking and Bitcoin thinking are fundamentally incompatible. People in Bitcoin businesses are experiencing a sharp dichotomy between the world of the normie and the world of Bitcoin, in organizations trying to come to grips with the power of this new and very powerful messaging network, and how to exploit it to onboard new users. If companies try to use Bitcoin by its nature, they immediately collide head on with this prickly dichotomy, especially if they’re burdened by an ignorant, computer illiterate “Compliance Department”, staffed with refugees from the anti-matter Twilight Zone Bankster Dimension. They want to know who is sending what messages on the network in every instance, but the tools they build, constructed by genius developers, make this impossible unless they “break Bitcoin” by violating the most basic elements and requirements of utility. Companies trying to style themselves in the Ethical Bitcoin, or “HODL” mold are staffed by people who are confronted with this thorny dichotomy directly, causing them to enter into paroxysms of doublethink. On the one hand, they are tasked with providing tools that allow people to use Bitcoin “properly”, but on the other, they can’t countenance or accept at face value how things actually work in Bitcoin. They offer the ability for users to create Bitcoin addresses at will and then receive Bitcoin “on” those addresses, but simultaneously want to know who is sending Bitcoin to those addresses. They’ve unwittingly opened Pandora’s box, or a gateway directly to the Event Horizon of a Black Hole, and are desperate to put that box, that portal, into another box, or put that other box into a room inside a gated community where there is a policewoman at every window and entrance. It’s completely absurd. The reality is this; you cannot run an Ethical Bitcoin company that is “True to Bitcoin” or that maintains privacy and abstains from spying on your users and also want all the controls and surveillance that comes with Unethical Bitcoin. The two universes are not compatible, they are matter and anti-matter touching. They are mutually exclusive, and wanting them to comingle is 100% irrational, and in the long run, it cannot possibly work. Because Bitcoin is math, there are effectively no possible gatekeepers for the billions of people who have calculators at hand. Anyone can generate Bitcoin addresses and send messages on the network. Because this is true, all gestures designed to placate double digit IQ types are the worst and most embarrasing folly. As I’ve written before, it is inevitable that all Bitcoin in circulation will be two things; “Non KYC” and “Tainted”. https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-adoption-and-conway-s-game-of-life-54ca71db7b88 https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-surveillance-an-ahistoric-market-error-d3871f671c8c Normies are going to have to adapt to Bitcoin, not the other way around, just as they did with BitTorrent. If one company refuses to capitulate, another will arise, and then another and another, until the battle is won. This is now absolutely inevitable, and fighting against it is completely irrational, pointless and stupid. No one who can think accepts the pretexts, pretenses, pettiness, pathetic and pointless garbage trotted out by people from the “Crypto Compliance” world. Their world is dying and the Bitcoin world is the invasive species out competing every weed in their overgrown and nutrient starved pest infested Victory Garden. You can’t run from this. You must either embrace and accept Bitcoin at face value on its terms, or you will be out-competed by others who are not self sabotaging, weak minded, brainwashed cowards and non Anglo-Saxon salary addicts. Fiatjaf, the person who created Nostr created a good example of this dynamic. Nostr doesn’t have to be perfect for it to be the perfect example of what is going to happen with Bitcoin services. Someone is going to write a Bitcoin client or service that changes everything, and which puts forth a proposition that billions will easily accept and consume unquestioned. This novel protocol that spawns clients will not be run by cowards, corporate types, cretins, creeps, creatures or delusionistas, dullards, dimwits, dope, or dummies…or other things. It will, all of a sudden, change everything. You can do and say whatever you want; you cannot stop the inevitable from taking place. The only real choice you have is to be the hero or the villain, the hero or the loser, the champion or the defeated, the man of destiny or the chump. That’s about it!

The German Credit Card Network went down, and that’s sad. However… It is simply not true to say, “Bitcoin Fixes This”. Bitcoin cannot fix anything by itself. Building businesses on Bitcoin fixes problems, not talking about Bitcoin. Building businesses that make it trivially easy to get and use Bitcoin is what fixes problems. That means businesses like Azteco to deliver Bitcoin to people everywhere on earth instantly and pain free. That means wallets like Wallet of Satoshi, Green Address, Samourai Wallet, Bitkey, Foundation, Proton Wallet and Blue Wallet. The combination of these Bitcoin services are what will change the world, not tinkering at the edges, endlessly iterating over tools no one can use, or launching new, UX Development free “wallets” that are hostile to users. The days of Bitcoin Theory must come to an end, replaced by Bitcoin Action. Bitcoin Action means making tools that are human centric, not Bitcoin Centric. Bitcoin is for human beings not the other way around. That’s how the real world works. That’s how you change the world. Money is not managed in “Communities”, and money is not a Cult either. Money is in fact a very private, individual thing, and people only cede this because they get security or utility. It’s why people put cash in banks and not under mattresses…the sane ones that is. The appalling lack of urgency, lack of empathy, lack of seriousness, lack of exposure, lack of knowledge, the duvet ducking, the parochial over focus, the ignorance, bad assumptions, lack of insight, cloistering and cowardice would be a real cause for concern were it not for what’s coming. What is coming are many people, using Bitcoin on a non cult basis, for Saving, Sending and Spending. Bitcoin is going to be normalized, and re-contextualized to account for its nature, not the position of THE CULT. The British Government has taken it upon itself to classify “Crypto” (Which excludes Bitcoin obviously) as “Personal Property” This is of course, utterly ABSURD.

What they are claiming is that if you roll a dice 50 times and write down the result, that that random number is your PROPERTY. It’s so monumentally stupid it beggars belief that anyone could make a claim like this aloud. Even the dullard ChatGPT knows calling random strings “Private Property” is crazy:

Whether a randomly generated number can be classed as private property is a complex legal question that involves considerations of intellectual property law, privacy law, and the nature of numbers. 1. Intellectual Property Law: • Copyright: Copyright law generally does not protect individual numbers, as they are considered facts or ideas, which are not subject to copyright. Copyright protects original expressions, not the underlying facts or ideas themselves. Therefore, a randomly generated number, by itself, would not be protected under copyright law.
 • Patents: A randomly generated number could potentially be part of a patented process or system (e.g., in cryptography), but the number itself would not be patentable. Patents protect inventions and processes, not isolated data like numbers.
 • Trade Secrets: If a randomly generated number is part of a confidential business process (like an encryption key), it could be protected as a trade secret, provided it meets the requirements of confidentiality and economic value. 2. Privacy Law: • If a randomly generated number is associated with an individual’s personal data or is used to secure access to private information (e.g., as a password or encryption key), it might be considered private information. Unauthorized access to or distribution of such a number could potentially be seen as a violation of privacy rights. 3. Ownership and Property Law: • For something to be considered private property, it generally needs to be something that can be owned, controlled, or exclusively possessed by an individual or entity. A randomly generated number, unless it’s tied to a specific legal or contractual context (e.g., a lottery ticket number or a cryptographic key), would typically not be considered private property. In summary, while a randomly generated number on its own is unlikely to be classed as private property, it could be considered private or protected under certain circumstances, such as when it is part of a confidential business process, personal data, or a proprietary system. The context in which the number is used and the legal framework surrounding that context would determine whether it can be protected as private property. And in case you didn’t know, Pi, which is infinite, contains all possible numbers, including all possible Bitcoin keys. To say that someone “owns” a string in Pi, is as absurd as saying someone owns 3.14. Only a crazy, illiterate, enumerate person would make such a claim… But here we are! In a desperate move to engineer relevance in the growing “Crypto” (Bitcoin) space, the British Government is simply making things up, on the mistaken belief that “Bitcoin needs Regulation”, which it absolutely does not. Many new and interesting things are coming, and you, surely, will be entertained and thrilled by it all. Right, right right?

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Nation-wide disruptions of Germany credit card network. Bitcoin fixes this.

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The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving licese. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare. You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally. The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there. There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament. By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'. Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution. Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account. Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database. This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face. Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it. The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card. The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money. If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on. Frances Stonor Saunders

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Elon is correct in the ent in his Tweet. Brazilians are under no obligation to obey foreign laws, just as Americans are not obligated to obey foreign laws. Andrew Torba is way ahead of Elon in this. Elon is also at liberty to publish secret documents about Brazilian government corruption; that is his right. Is Elon about to become the next Julian Assange? I doubt it. Having said all of this, Elon doesn't seem to be able to make the connection between government censorship and Bitcoin. Bitcoin is "Censorship Resistant Money". If you look at Bitcoin through this lens, it is obvious that adding Bitcoin to X would have been a genius move. Not only would Bitcoin solve the problem of Starlink having its accounts frozen but would have many beneficial effects on a global scale. The ability of any government anywhere to sanction or block payments to and from X and Starlink users would be eliminated. Overnight, X would become the most important (and largest) financial institution the world has ever seen, and it would be a tremendous force for good. The billions of unbanked people would suddenly be able to save, send and spend money; an unprecedented event with multiple order effects that no one can fully grasp. In the long and short term, Bitcoin is good for Elon and good for everyone on Earth who believes in Democracy. Why then, does Elon shun this manifestly obvious checkmate move? Andrew Torba of Gab has partially embraced Bitcoin. Jack Dorsey has gone 100% Bitcoin with Bitkey. David Marcus has gone 100% Bitcoin. How is it that Elon cannot see this? How is it that he thinks Bitcoin is a joke? Your guess is as good as mine.

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