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BitcoinMike
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20 years ago today Oceanic flight 815 crashed on a mysterious island
Wanted to post my thoughts on Whitney Webb, hopefully others out there feel the same.
For all of us our thoughts and opinions become shaped by our experiences, I don’t personally know Whitney’s experiences, but I do feel the black pill doomer nihilism approach is not for me.
I believe Whitney lives in a box, that box for her is that governments and powerful people can control everything. I think she fails to draw a line of where those powers end and the events of human history that force change. She has a hard time grasping the concept of emergent phenomena, maybe in Whitney’s mind the government can stop black holes from happening.
Bitcoin is one of these emergent phenomena’s and I respect the position she comes from, but I also contend that every time humans have been caged they find ways to free themselves, because it’s not in our nature to be caged. If Whitney believes this is all captured, I ask her to propose a rational solution otherwise it comes off as nihilism. The solution of everything needs to grow food and live off the grid is not good enough for 8 billion people. This isn’t the dark ages, we have complex modern technologies that make life way more bearable than it has ever been.
My final message to Whitney is as bad as you feel the world is today, relative to past this is the best time to have ever lived in human history and one-hundred years from now they will scoff at us like we do the 1800s. I hope she can come out of this box of nihilism and into some hope somewhere. Yes Bitcoiners are hope peddlers. A person needs hope to build something better.
“Let your hopes, not your hurts shape your future”
MLK
Listening to @Peter McCormack new show, yes I will listen to whole four hours. View quoted note →
Random, but I have the Carmen San Diego song stuck in my head
I just don’t understand how anything can have intrinsic value. I’m trying to engage in healthy debate with gold bugs.
What does this even mean? Stabilize its value? 
Listening to Jack Mallers and Peter Schiff, Jack definitely the adult in the room. I wish someone would attack Peter’s claim of no use case when bitcoin is energy and eating at methane.
Peter is a terrible debater lol
Can someone explain to me when an on chain transaction that you wait 24 hours for becomes free of fees? Don’t the miners get something for every transaction processed
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I have a skill for orange pilling people in short time frames.
I find repetition feels like the best way to learn something. For me I can listen to @Jeff Booth say the same thing over and over and it ingrains deeper into my brain. Not because he’s some sort of guru, but because what he says can’t be attacked no matter how hard we try.
Will nostr ever have a YouTube like platform?
I see we are trying to move people to nostr after the Pavel arrest. Well done Bitcoiners
@Jeff Booth has taught me so much. Before anyone has a kneejerk reaction to @Margot Paez / jyn urso piece here, it does have aspects of truth. My impression is that like me Jeff feels this is a new system, something that makes other systems obsolete and yes they are aspects of communism in it through the idea of community, there are also aspects of capitalism.
I look at bitcoin similar to the jet propulsion engine, it makes everything before it pale in comparison. I think it’s time we peel ourselves away from the stigma that all these words have and move forward.
Remember that context with everything is key.
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Bitcoin has died 477 times and this has every article posted about it lol
