👀 Look forward to hearing more

I do enjoy the weed, but I am getting more and more concerned by the people embracing it and questioning how I should be approaching it TBH.

Cyberpunk Bitcoin culture is dead because Bitcoin is being co-opted by the suits.

I think they’re working all attack vectors, including the developers.

I consumed it in some form almost daily from the time I separated from the USAF in 2012 until early October of this year. To be fair aboit it, I got a great amount of utility from it and built an amazing life for myself on top of it, but for the last year I kind of always knew in the back of my mind I was on my way out.

Are the succeeding or failing?

After a long career subverting the civilisation they inherited, the boomer retires with all the wealth they bled from their descendants and with a smug smile they say to themselves, "I deserve this."

I’ve lost a lot of weight, and am about to purchase my first suit since I got married in 2016 🤦‍♂️

I’ve never been more terrified of becoming my parents

Succeeding, so far. Unless we get back to basics. I actually think Bitcoin can survive all attack vectors except by the developers. Because it will just go underground for moving it into the tax realm and track and trace (Lummis Bill), ETFs and treasury companies (paper Bitcoin), Tether and shitcoins (dilution and confusion) etc. But the open back door to the code is killer. IMHO, it’s not about the severity of the change, it’s that the development process is the preferred perimeter to attack (and I’m repeating someone else’s thoughts here): - Cheaper than legislation: Defaults and "safety" framing do the enforcement work. - Plausible deniability: "We're just improving performance". - Asymmetric impact: hits sovereign users hardest; institutional wrappers unaffected. Development-Process Capture = Perimeter Control You don't have to "hack" Bitcoin's consensus rules to influence how the network behaves. You can steer what gets relayed, mined, or socially accepted by quietly shaping the development process — who gets funded, who reviews changes, which features become defaults, how releases are timed, and how communication is framed. If you expect for governments to come out and try to ban Bitcoin, don't because that's not how the system works. Systems don't rely on bans; they use knobs — adjustable defaults, standards, and processes that subtly guide behavior.

I recently quit, too. It's been 40 days since my last intake of THC.

Hell yeah good for you man! Withdrawal sucks, but I’m finally having dreams again and my appetite has started to return too

Agreed. I look forward to the next time we see one another to talk about this progress. I heard you say you quit on a recent episode of RPB, and it only made it easier to continue forward. 🫂

Apes together strong 💪

If your goal is to be less retarded, you’re not doing a very good job…🙄

Its not only the suits. Its shitcoins and shitcoiners. Its the VCs without moral. Its some states, some central banks, organisations like Greenpeace and many brainwashed sheeple. But Bitcoin Culture and Values depend on the Real Bitcoiners and they are alive and kicking.