In 2000 Bill Joy wrote an article entitled, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us”. it was published in Wired magazine. Californian technologistas are sometimes very pessimistic and often very bad at predicting the future. There’s no reason to believe that the future has to be a bad one or that any of the tools that are being invented now are going to be the tools that destroy mankind. Over and over again dire predictions about how technologies are going to end mankind, will cause terrible catastrophes and other fear porn guff have been trotted out again and again; it’s always by the same class of people who are more or less the same age. They are super pessimistic, un religious, ignorant, normally super rich and desperate to control other people. These people need to be ignored. First of all, spreading unwarranted FUD is unethical (AnthropogenicGlobal Warming for example), second there’s no technology that man has inside computers that can’t be switched off, even if it were to become a problem, which there’s no evidence that AGI is going to be. The choice everybody faces is whether we’re going to live like a bunch of frightened children, or are we going to live like men and go to the stars and do all those other things. If everybody’s frightened of every single invention that comes forward and goes into the market, man will never get anywhere, and I’m personally sick and tired of reading the fear from people who don’t have powerful imaginations and to want everything to stay the same forever. These same people are terrified of bitcoin and they’re very very scared that if it gets big, deflation will happen and the economy will be destroyed. Of course they’re totally wrong. Bitcoin is not dangerous and the fear mongers will be ignored. However this is a perfect example of how these technologists who are scaremongers don’t really understand what they’re talking about, are men of low degree and low character and are antihuman. It’s up to the people who create things to do things responsibly and to not let inventions get out of their labs that are dangerous. Sometimes bad things are going to happen, but the greater risk is to not do things, not experiment and not move forward. The fact of the matter is the future doesn’t need YOU. And that’s YOUR problem, not OURS.

The text below is the complete reason why Elon and the ID Card fanatics are 100% wrong. The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving license. 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

ONCE AGAIN, BEAUTYON'S 21 RULES FOR BITCOIN AS A TOTAL REMEDY FOR FALLEN CULT HERO SAYLOR'S 21 RULES FOR BITCOIN, NOW WITH EXTRA ANARCHISM! 1/ You don’t need to understand Bitcoin to be able to use it. 2/ Nobody cares what you are for or against in maths. 3/ Nobody needs to grasp Bitcoin to do what Bitcoin was designed to do. 4/ Bitcoin is not powered by chaos. Bitcoin is extremely orderly. It is fiat and evil KYC Statists who are for chaos and murder. 5/ Bitcoin has nothing to do with gambling. Bad analogies are anti-Bitcoin. 6/ Bitcoin can’t protect you. 7/ No one owns Bitcoin. It is not an asset or a coin. 8/ The price of Bitcoin doesn’t matter. 9/ Bitcoin is not about winning and losing. 10/ The Matrix is a Science Fiction movie, not reality. 11/ Computer illiterates think knowledge is required to use Bitcoin. 12/ Bitcoin does not destroy models. It enforces them. 13/ Orange Pills are toxic. Don't eat them. 14/ Statists who pretend to be Bitcoiners think there is no problem with fiat. They are gravely mistaken. Don't follow them. 15/ Bitcoin is for everyone. On Bitcoin’s terms, not the Statist’s terms. 16/ Learn how to to think. 17/ Bitcoin can’t change people. It is not LSD. 18/ Laser eyes on avatars can’t make Bitcoin change the world. 19/ Bitcoin is not a person or a pronoun. It does not need and cannot understand “respect”. 20/ Sell your Bitcoin when you need to. Don’t be stupid always. 21/ Stretch out with your hate. Hate the state. 22/ Read Saifedean’s books. Read Murray Rothbard. 23/ Read Frédéric Bastiat 24/ Hoarding Bitcoin is like hoarding the cure for cancer. Don’t.

Man has never been “a part of nature”. Man was created by God as described in Genesis, and the only laws he is governed by were written by God, and those laws are under God’s absolute control. It is not true that distractions distance us from what is real; the problem with “modern man” is that he is extremely and willfully ignorant, and always eager to believe any lie that is told to him. He loves evil and lies rather than good, lies rather than the truth, and speed rather than punctuation. The problem modern man faces is The State, just as the USSR suffered under Communism, modern man in the West suffers under Crony Capitalism, The State, and the Federal Reserve system. These are discrete problems all of which are completely soluble without resorting to cereal box philosophies, navel gazing and pointless dead end abstractions and avoidance of bitter hard truths. The State as a “construct” in the modern era is almost totally evil, as described by Murray Rothbard in his “Anatomy of the State”: https://mises.org/library/book/anatomy-state Ignorant people who don’t know the fundamental basis of everything cannot begin to unpack the present situation man is in and identify the true source of the problem. They have to resort to hand waving, Fruit Loop Logic and nonsense, none of which provides a clean, practical way out based only on the truth. And yes, there IS absolute truth; it is discoverable and communicable and not hard for ordinary people to understand. Refusing to face this fact is pure thumb sucking infantilism and cowardice, two of the basic plagues suffered by coddled, weak and ineffectual Western men. People talk about things not being grounded in reality, but when that reality is exposed to them, they refuse to accept it, shrink away from it like worms that have had salt sprinkled on them, and not only that, they choose to go along with the evil and support it and the State that is the main distributor of it. They refuse even to tell anyone that the evil exists and that they hate it. To add insult to injury, they wax vaguely with half baked philosophies that are dead ends because they communicate nothing, show no way out, are habiutally non specific and greatly unhelpful. Modern day financial systems are completley corrupted by the State, especially the Federal Reserve Dollar which is so pernicious and toxic, the destruction of it was in his own words the greatest triumph of Andrew Jackson who declared, “I killed the bank”. Today, the weak men can barely take their chubby, grubby fingers to clack out its name on their keyboards as they Virtue Signal to stupefied drug addle fans while collecting people’s government documents just so they can use “their own money”. If the truth must be “handed down by a CEO” then let it be handed down by a CEO. This is infinitely preferable to a CEO who does not believe that there is such a thing as truth, and even worse, a CEO who knows the truth but goes along with evil for expedience and keeps his silence. And furthermore, the truth is not rooted in who man is; the truth exists outside of man, and is imposed upon him by his creator. Bitcoin as money (it is not money, it is a database that can be used AS money) is a powerful tool precisely because it denies weak men the opportunity to corrupt it, just as they abuse consumers by forcing them to obey the evil and unethical rules laid down by the Fiat State. There is no getting around this, and “I was only following orders” will not cut it either when the records are examined. Bitcoin spreading everywhere through Ethical Bitcoin companies and tools are what is going to change everything, and as everyone has seen, it only takes a handful of CEOs to make global unambiguous beneficial change happen for hundreds of millions of people. This work is in progress. Believing in fantasy will not help anyone. Pouring hope onto tools that cannot work is infantilism and ignoring reality. It is ignoring the problem and running away and hiding from it, just as the Cereal Box philosophers ignore the nature of the State and refuse to put it in its place as the true source of of the fiat problem and the war machine problem and the distortions, perversions, poisoning and dumbing down of all mankind. This refusal to face reality head on is why Bitcoin had to be written in the first place; generation after generation of weak, distracted infantilized men who refuse to think and solve problems made it necessary for machines to solve their problems for them. Bitcoin is one such machine, and you can be sure more are coming, because man would rather run away and hide from solving his problems rather than take his medicine and lead. Bitcoin removes the power of the State to lie about money. Communication tools that allow anyone to say anything do not solve the problem of the character of man or solve the problem of The State; men of good character can facilitate free communication, so all that is needed are a few good men. Computer solutions can’t solve the problems caused by the character of man. In the case of Bitcoin, they can constrain man’s ability to cheat, but man is still a liar and cheater by nature. That will not change in this world. A platform that is built to carry any lie to anywhere is not a solution that can fix the world’s problems. Of course people who think the back of a box of Frosted Flakes is the ultimate source of truth cannot understand this. And no one needs them to be able to either. Bitcoin was written to supersede these weak people and to constrain them and their “votes” and it will succeed. Just watch. In the meantime, by all means waste your time on niche fad networks that will not move the needle, while men with huge platforms and guts liberate hundreds of millions of people to change the world. One man with guts and a vision can change everything; this has been proven again and again. Men who run and hide cannot change anything and never will. History will judge them accordingly, if they are even remembered. No amount of fad citing and fashionable talk can substitute for real contributions to the problems faced by man. Only action can help, and refraining from evil. These are the unavoidable facts, and the way the world actually is. If you refuse to face this, you are part of the problem, and will be swept away with the Statists. That is your fate, and you will deserve it, because you were warned, and refused to rise to the challenge. https://mises.org/library/book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto

If all the countries on Earth switch to Bitcoin, tariffs will not work to protect the US Dollar. All the countries of the world rejected the American CDMA mobile phone standard for GSM and America capitulated. I'm afraid, due to mismanagement of previous US Administrations starting with Nixon, the US Dollar is finished. For the second time in US History. The only way out for America now, to preserve its position as the number one country for the mediation of money world wide, is to go full Bitcoin. That means immediately making Bitcoin Legal Tender in the USA and removing and forbidding all regulations that seek to control it, under the First Amendment pretext. When this happens, the genius of America will catapult Bitcoin to global reserve currency status via Silicon Valley. No other currency on Earth will have the internet as its backbone. The Ruble, the Euro and all other currencies would be exsanguinated as people all over the world sell their government issued fiats for Bitcoin. America wins again. America wins again because it will be the global hub for Bitcoin. All the expertise of how to handle it and work under its necessary limitations will rest with American know how, and no one on earth has a Silicon Valley with global penetration to rival America. China will have two choices in this global battle for reserve currency status. They will lose this battle because they are linguistically locked away from the rest of the world, that does not use it's poisoned apps. Only America has the opportunity to re-capture the "Guardian of the Reserve Currency" status, but this time, they will do it by merit, not by deception (The Federal Reserve). Essentially, America now has a second chance to preserve its power. How they are getting so many breaks is bewildering; Trump himself being the most exceptional second chance. Like all real Americans, I love Trump. There is no one like him; he embodies the American way of life, optimism, "Can Do" attitude, fearlessness and power. I hope he sails into office and keeps his promises to steer America towards peace while delivering prosperity by restraining, constraining and reducing the Federal Government. If anyone can do it, Trump can. The US Dollar however, is a real problem, and all foreign governments (the most recent one being Nigeria, which has now abandoned the Dollar for the Naira when it comes to oil purchases), are sick and tired of the vulgar, impudent, corrupt, and murderous behavior of previous US administrations. Trump can change all of this. By symbolically abandoning the US Dollar, and blaming the Federal Reserve for it, he can pivot back to "Real American Money + Bitcoin" Gold, Silver and Bitcoin. Will he do it? We're all going to find out!

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Carbon dating of dinosaurs has been100% falsified. The Earth is not “billions of years old”. The account of the creation of the world as found in Genesis is true. Abandon fiat education, Darwinism, Keynesianism and Scientism, “Bitcoiner”.

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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It was a pleasure to spend several hours talking with one of the great minds of our time @elonmusk

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

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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The great and the good are waking up. I’ve had it admitted to me today in private that, “The Laser Eye movement is a dead end.” This is significant. It has always been true that the death of the Bitcoin Cult was inevitable. The Cult was like a, “Universal Basic Income of software”; unsustainable, uneconomic, irrational, hyperbolic and infantile. This doesn’t mean that Bitcoin is dead, obviously; the contrary is the case. Bitcoin is about to experience a multi front boom of the kind very few people have the capacity to conceive of. Wallet download numbers are going to explode. Ubiquitous non Exchange retail Bitcoin delivery is about to appear. The “Consumer Bitcoin” era is upon you. It’s going to be…EMOTIONAL.

An entire generation of potentially capable people have been brainwashed into accepting feelings as a substitute for substance. These people can’t solve problems and are “Great Masturbators”, that can’t solve problems, interact with consumers or measure their own performance. These people are breaking off into a parallel society where people don’t measure their the value of their workers or themselves.

It’s hangman time. Winner gets an ZAP from ME. You get one clue, “NOT SINGULAR”. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This contest lasts 24 hours. The judges decision is final! REPLY WITH YOUR GUESS RITE NAO. ↴

If people who ran the platforms in the west did what they knew was right there would be no problem. The actual problem is the people who own platforms do what is wrong, even when they know it is wrong. “Multipolarity” will not solve the problem of western men who shy away from boldness or taking direct correct decisions for their users and companies. Asking for other people to do the job you should be doing is the same as pushing the problem into the technical sphere through “decentralisation”; it’s failing to live up to your responsibilities. Leaders of properly run companies are exactly that; LEADERS. They don’t do things by consensus, or defer to every opinion or allow themselves to be distracted or diverted. They have strict hierarchy where the CEO has final, absolute say on everything important. And history shows this is correct, from Trump, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, to Steve Jobs; companies led by LEADERS succeed in serving the public through strength. And this is all about serving the public. If you fail to do that, you’ve failed. Thankfully in Free Market Capitalism, Natural Law is the rule, not theory: LAW. And make no mistake; all cultures at every scale are not equal. Some work better than others. Failing to accept this is suicidal. But “You do you”!

In the end, if Bitcoin is the money everyone is using, the State will have to start accepting it for the payment of taxes. This will have many advantages for the state, as they can "Micro Tax" activities; something that is beyond the ability of the Geriatrics to conceive. There will be an interim stage however, where the State demands that you pay it in its money, meaning you have to convert Bitcoin to fraudulent fiat. They will see, as they need to change the exchange rate twice per day, that the situation is untenable, and this will spur them on to switching to Bitcoin. Bear in mind that once they have collected their own money as taxes, no one in the real economy will accept their money for goods and services, requiring them to buy Bitcoin just to pay salaries and live. There is another scenario however, that indicates that the life of coerced money forms can persist indefinetly if properly managed: THE TALLY STICK. The Tally Stick was literally a piece of wood sawed along its length with a random zig zag that the British Crown would accept as a payment method for settling tax bills. The power to enforce payment methods backed by violence is how this worked so well: It's hard to describe the great depth of genius behind the concept of the Tally Stick. By doing this, the crown managed to create money out of nothing, and build a sound economy on it, whilst remaining at its centre as the essential manager. Bitcoin with its jagged edged keys made of text is very much like a Tally Stick, but without an issuer or the need for saws or supervision. All of this is missed by the vast majority of Bitcoiners because they're ignorant. Nevertheless, it is possible to build different kinds of economies on Bitcoin, and if used by the replacement central banks, can be the fundamental base layer like the Tally Stick. FASCINATING!

You can’t “Stack Sats”, to use the Bitcoin Cult lingo, without there being a means to distribute Sats to Stackers, and no, not everyone is an US American with a bank account, genius. Also, the entire rest of the world switching to Bitcoin, and not just Americans, will cause a sea change in the dynamics of many problems. Think GSM vs CDMA. America can lose international standards wars. That’s proven. The fundamental layers of Bitcoin are powerful enough to make the dream of hyperbitcoinization come true, if the people who maintain the tools and businesses eschew infantilism like Ordinals and “Assets on the Blockchain” and “Stablecoins”; perhaps the most egregious affront to Bitcoiner sensibilities and ethics. The inventor of Ordinals has now “moved on to other things” having left behind a literally indelible legacy of shame, with his acolytes continuing to pollute and burden maintainers of the public record. He’s the personification of one of the great remaining problems facing Bitcoin: Infantilism. "Dollars on Bitcoin” is the direct result of slave mentality and infantilism. The Austrians understand the dynamics of the problem of the Federal Reserve, but amongst them Saifedean is almost unique in correctly applying Austrianism to Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Cult on the other hand have proven not up to the challenge with their distractions, infantile absurdities and nonsense. They refuse to accept the basic argument implied by Bitcoin; the Federal Reserve Dollar is a corrupt criminal enterprise that is irredeemable. Thankfully many other countries are waking up to how they’ve been enslaved by Keynesian thinking and turned into Cargo Cults with their Central Bank funny money printed abroad and delivered in Security Theatre stocking rituals. These countries now have the means to free themselves from fiat prostitution, and it’s now highly probable that they’ll do it, thanks to the constant streams of provocations and humiliations doled out by Uncle Sam. Victory for America means allowing Bitcoin to be used as money and accepting it for the payment of taxes, not geriatric gibberish like “Strategic Reserves”, which as Saifedean correctly asserts, will not be permitted by the owners of the Federal Reserve System, who are the actual owners of America.

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It's nice that politicians are pandering to bitcoiners, but promises are cheap. There is a major insurmountable obstacle to the US govt buying bitc...

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People swooning over RFK's pledge to make the US Government horde Bitcoin are completely wrong to think it is a clever move. It isn't. What it does is prove that RFK has been brainwashed into the Bitcoin Cult "Hodl" mindset, which is an unfortunate, but short term aberration. What the correct policy is is that Uncle Sam should begin to take Bitcoin as a method of payment for all US Taxes. By doing this, Uncle Sam will begin to build up a Fort Knox level hoard of Bitcoin, collected through the normal process of government, which everyone must accept. The people saying that the US Government should have a strategic Bitcoin Reserve are making the claim that Uncle Sam should make a bet against the Federal Reserve. That's crazy. Niy of course, Bitcoiners know that the Federal Reserve isn't Federal at all, and is a private consortium created to steal from the American people. But we're not talking about that today. The correct strategy is to allow Americans to pay taxes in Bitcoin. To incentivise this, a 1% discount should be offered to all taxpayers paying in Bitcoin. If this were the policy, Uncle Sam would very quickly develop a large hoard of Bitcoin, through the normal process of government. ************* I WANT YOUR BITCOIN! *************

The Bitcoin cultists think that Nostr could prevent Biden's handlers from making statements on his behalf. They're totally delusional, obviously. Let's say that Biden needed to use a fingerprint to Tweet. All someone would need to do is take his finger, whether attached to him or not, to make a Tweet "as Biden". And all the delusional drones who think, "signing proves identity." are just that; completely delusional and unaware of how anything actually works: https://medium.com/@beautyon_/beach-boy-bitcoin-64f62bed4c7e Noster can't fix everything, and neither can Bitcoin; and there is a class of Bitcoiner that has shifted this narrative from "Bitcoin fixes this" to "Nostr Fixes this". It's the same Bitcoin Cult under a different name. People who think software services like X, Bitcoin and Nostr are "technologies" betray their complete lack of understanding of what a technology is. Services are not technologies; they are made out of technologies. And if you think a "signing key" will protect the launch procedure from being hijacked, you really don't understand how signing keys work, probably never used GPG, and are ignorant of the history of Cryptography. Which is fine. No one can be expected to know everything. These things are being said because it is important for people who prefer not to be ignorant hear them to reign in the drooling fanboyism that masquerades for insight. They throw around words like "Open Source" and "Centralized" not knowing what these things mean or whether or not practical use can be made of them. They also don't like it when "Open Source" is used against them as intended, when their work is forked and someone makes a copy of it for profit. Publishers of books are the worst offenders in this, breathlessly talking about "Open Source" whilst protecting their books with copyright. One of the rare exceptions is Boldrin and Levine's "Against Intellectual Monopoly" that you can download for free AND buy on Amazon. Not so clever people think they're being smart by finger pointing Boldrin and Levine for selling their books thinking they're not available for free, only to be silenced by pointing to the URL where they are. How pathetic.

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Thankfully, Bitcoin can't suffer from the delusions of these people, who are toxic and retarding of the expansion of Bitcoin's use. Once again, if Bitcoiners can't overcome the voices of these people then it was always doomed to fail. So far. It is THEM that are failing, not YOU.

"Huxley" by Ben Mauro is a graphic novel series set in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi universe. The story follows two scavengers who discover an ancient robot named Huxley and embark on an adventure that could alter the fate of the galaxy. The series is known for its richly detailed artwork and complex world-building, reflecting Mauro's extensive experience as a senior concept designer and art director for major gaming franchises like "Halo" and "Call of Duty," as well as films like "The Hobbit" and "Elysium". In addition to the graphic novels, the Huxley universe spans various media, including NFTs, games, and a planned feature film. The narrative explores themes of survival and discovery in a world devastated by a nuclear holocaust, with surviving humans building flying cities and adapting to harsh conditions on the ground. The game "Huxley: The Dystopia," a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS), was developed by H-Studio, a division of the South Korean company Webzen Inc.. If Webzen, the company that wrote this game decided to use a shared MySQL database with Ubisoft Montreal, the owners of Rainbow 6 Seige, the players of HUXLEY: The Dystopia would be able to enter their Rainbow 6 Seige login details to use the in game money “Renown” in HUXLEY: The Dystopia. Instead they decided to use the options below, both of which allow access to users of other databases. Coinbase uses its own MySQL database to keep track of who has bought what Bitcoin or Etherium; why are their databases different to the databases running at Ubisoft? They’re not different. THEY’RE EXACTLY THE SAME. Therefore the question is this, “why are databases in Coinbase treated differently to databases at Ubisoft or Webzen or…Nintendo?” And in case you didn’t know, genius, Bitcoin is just another database. It is not money at all, any more than Renown is. No one has managed to provide an explanation for this different treatment of identical databases. It’s perplexing. And I can tell you right now, that when people pretending to understand Bitcoin who are tasked with making legal judgements about it are asked this question, they have no answer. They are silent. These legally trained non field experts are in fact imposters who don’t understand anything about Bitcoin, video games, databases, webhooks, webviews, iframes, software or anything about the contexts, realities, facts and common practices that are now decades old. It’s also incredible that so many people “in Bitcoin” are also impostors; claiming that Bitcoin is money, that it is fundamentally different to MySQL and that it should be treated differently in law to any other database. These people explanation for these deceived “Bitcoiners” is that they’re in a cult. What is your excuse? https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794

There is nothing more strange than people cosplaying as nonconformists who are in fact ultra conformists, taking on every trend, sacrament and lunacy of the State and putting it on as a badge of honor. What utter nutcases! They think that by doing this, by accepting everything, they're being "Open Minded" but in fact, what they're demonstrating is they've been brainwashed to be MKULTRA level "Blank Slated". They will accept literally anything that comes out of the TV, embrace it, reflect it and promote it on command. Even their petty, wafer thin arguments and insults are taken from the playbook of the State. That's why they use CIA created terms like "Conspiracy Theorist", thinking that using that term is completely destructive of any argument put to them. These "men" are the "Useful Idiots", and as I've said before, there are many Useful Idiots in the Bitcoin Cult. If these people really understood the effects that Bitcoin as money, the only money, on their beloved "Society", they would turn on it and fight to the death to destroy it. They delude themselves that Bitcoin is "A Community" and other feel good nonsense as a psychological self protection denial strategy to excuse themselves from participating and promoting an idea that is 100% corrosive to their ideologies...which are, of course, not their ideologies at all, but that are in fact, ideologies trained into their disorderly Blank Slate minds by the State. Once again, this is why it is so important to get the people who actually control things on side with Bitcoin, because it is those people who are brainwashing the members of The Bitcoin Cult, in addition to being in control of the major rails. Once the Blackrocks, Banks, Rail Operators and different Nation States have all adopted Bitcoin, then they will brainwash their millions of hapless minions to accept it too, on whatever terms they're told to accept it. And they will accept, and promote and protect it, as if it was theirs and the idea came from them. It is already proven that even "Hard Core" Bitcoiners can be switched from "Bitcoin Only" to "synthetic dollars too" as a completely acceptable idea, so it is abundantly clear that no real thinking or philosophical positioning or ethics are at work with them. And don't even start on the purely anti-Bitcoin Ordinals debacle. These people are as leaves in the wind, followers of fashion; "Brown is the new Black", grasping at every fad, distraction and nonsense. They can be told that night is day and they will truly believe it, and repeat it, without torture ( This is "Blank Slate" thinking, which in many ways, is worse than The Bitcoin Cult, because at least with the Cult, education is taking place with people who can be caused to join through careful persuasion. The "Blank Slaters" ( just accept anything they're told no matter how crazy or counterintuitive or anti-Bitcoin it is. No thinking or discernment is going on of any kind. YIKES! Despite all of these problems, it is clear that Bitcoin is on a trajectory to do what it was designed to do, and the cosplaying, reality denying, wind blown, upside down circus clown, joiner, brainwashed, "Vassal of the State", shallow, uninspiring Useful Idiot class are already diminishing in influence. Is it their own fault? I don't believe it is. Brainwashees are victims of the State. They have been poisoned and systematically erased by vicious liars who have horribly mistreated and permanently damaged them. It's not their fault. In the parallel universe one planck length away from this one, these people are virtuous, discerning, un gullible and very useful. They are not altcoiners, time wasters, Ordinal fans, threadbare hangers on or infantilized. They are problem solvers, not problem shirkers. They don't shrink from a challenge. They are strong, resilient, brave and patient; they're careful and powerful. They are not objectionable. They have intellect with discipline; they use power for constructive purpose. They are logical. And lest anyone be in doubt, they're a riot to be with. But that's the parallel universe. You are inhabiting this universe. And...that's...interesting...isn't it?!