How concerned are you with bitcoin right now on a scale of 1 to 10? Consider the knots vs core drama. Potential centralization and fork of the network. BIP 110. Adam Back on Epstein island. The price. Gold and silver adoption.

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Coinbase paper is a far bigger threat than any of that. It is the only thing I see right now that directly affects the core value proposition.
It doesn’t matter nearly as much as the halvings and absolute scarcity. By 2040, none of this shit will have been relevant. I’m just staying humble and stacking sats.
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Kendy 4 months ago
Currently no. If we remain below $100k until after 2030, yes.
Yeah the paper trading bullshit is concerning but what is happening to gold suggests that they can’t manipulate the price forever
My big fear with bitcoin, and I say this as I use custodial shit for zaps, is that we eventually repeat every mistake that was made with gold. Maintaining custody at scale gives me heartburn. I'm dumb, so I hope smarter people solve this. And thats it, I allow myself one bitcoin related post per week, all tapped out haha
This feels a lot like Blocksize wars of 10 years ago, but I'm much less worried about a fork this time. I don't think that a large number of BTC holders outside of an "extremely online" faction really care about OP_RETURN data... And drastic measures like BIP110 require the presupposition that there is some kind of "existential crisis" afoot. A. Back on "the island" -- bad publicity, sure. You know what was worse, also back in 2016? "Online Drug Bazaar Silk Road powered Exclusively by Bitcoin." Bad PR will pass. Gold and silver adoption only helps BTC, once world governments realize that they can't email a brick of Au, and they're back to needing an open, trusted, non-State digital from of money. soooo IDK 2, 3?
I think that most normies will never take responsibility for themselves. Which means that Bitcoin will scale well enough for the minority of people like us.
3 in the short term. A Little worried about paper Bitcoin, the public perception due to the shitcoin casinos & Epstein FUD. 0 in the long term.
0 not worried about any of that shit. confident it's going to be captured by the legacy system regardless. probably go to 1M too.
Considering bitcoin is the constant I can’t be concerned about it. However I am concerned 10/10 about everything external to bitcoin.
Zero. But this is just another bear market. No one cares about knots vs core. Silver is a meme. Adam back doesn’t control Bitcoin My only change is I have increased my dca which I had pared down after we broke 80k on the way up.
I wasn’t around for the blocksize wars but I imagine this is similar but more watered down. You bring up a good point about Silk Road for sure. These all do seem like short term concerns that create an opportunity for cheap sats.
I haven’t been able to increase my DCA because of the economy but are you surprised the bear market started sooner than expected?
Mining centralization is a huge concern that needs to be talked about more. Paper bitcoin is going to make normie adoption more difficult. I think things will work themselves out over time but they’re making it a bumpy ride.
I just got off a video call, and someone mentioned "Pedocoin/Epsteincoin" being used for child trafficking. People are retarded...
I have a massive long open… zero regrets because I have enough BTC for several years in cold storage ⚡️ When people are in fear, it’s time to be greedy as fuck.
Yeah, the Epstein stuff might be just as damaging to public perception as FTX was.
I gave up trying to predict the market. Now I just dca and raise and lower the dca amount based on how “expensive” Bitcoin feels. If I can limit my top buys I can maximize my bottom buys. I’m not a trader. I just hope to have more money to dca with when a market turns down. If it never turns down at some point then the bitcoin I have in cold storage should be enough. Besides my home I have 90% of my wealth in bitcoin, so if it doesn’t work out I’ll never retire without moving to a low cost place. It’s worth the risk to me.
You know when you visit a shrink and you start talking about your boss and the shrink asks "When did you last talk to your mother?" No! Well me neither 😂
The purpose of these questions is to inquire about a person’s internal state. So when you respond to my question with an assumption, it’s more indicative of your internal state than mine 😂 Zoom out is a good piece of advice and I imagine you tell yourself that as a reminder. Which is a good thing. But I was just trying to see what the sentiment was on nostr. I never said I was worried or stressed about it.
If we get more node runners and they stay active and on the ball, I could care less of anything else. I think bitcoin mining generally is bad business because it always favours new comers as technology gets better. I think solo Mining is becoming a thing now which in time will just increase due to demand.
Yea especially with BIP110, more are now running nodes that never did. So I think the bitcoin network is alive and healthy so we should be good.
Let's say 2.5 🤔 If the bitcoin network cannot handle those things with the hard money/proof of work incentives, it was doomed to fail since day 1.
Dude, you are wasting your time on Lord of the Rings when you haven't seen Blazing Saddles yet? image
🤔🤨….i wasn’t quite a teenager when I saw it…they weren’t quite as strict then about age limits (for movies or beer🤷🏽‍♂️😉)…we were better back then😂⭕️ image
No my buddie that was a year older than me did🤨…he was a farm kid so he was drivin b4 he had a license 🤔😳😂⭕️ image
Once you get that Bitcoin is not just capital/asset and you realise that it is an ideology based on freedom and powered by maths and energy, you ‘cross the chasm’ and leave all worries behind. Live free brother! ✌️😊🤙❤️🙏