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Rafe Gauss

Во многом верно.
Комментарий к главному - разумности.
Ошибочно приписывать разумность себе и лишать ее этатистов. Разумно и то, и другое, поскольку оно решает проблемы обеих групп. Грабеж и сотрудничество одинаково разумны.
Либеры считают неразумным грабеж с одрнаковым правом, с которым считают обратное. Но когда они оспаривают чужую разумность и защищают свою, они переходят из объективной плоскости в субъективную плоскость своих предпочтений.
Я не оправдываю грабеж и не унижаю либертарианство. Я исследую, основываясь на холодном анализе без примесей идеализма как либеров, так и этатистов.
Нет ничего плохого в том, чтобы отказаться от мутных пережитков 'философского' наследия. Наоборот, мы увязли в словоблудии, потому что до сих пор пользуемся ненаучным понятийным аппаратом, хотя бодро освоили цифровые инструменты.
Например.
Отбросим 'разумность'. Этим мы уходим от утомительного обсуждения, кто разумнее. Мы уходим от ошибочного суждения, что движение к агоризму естственное, ибо оно соответствует какому-то естественному ходу вещей или природе людей или энтропии и подобной каше. Мы сразу переходим к сути: я хочу жить свободно. Не нужно это доказывать. Не нужно это обосновывать. Не нужно рыться в анналах мысли, чтобы потом, как малыш, бежать с цитатой какого-то исторического персонажа в защиту либертарианства. Просто я так решил.
Если ты хочешь жить по-другому, я не собираюсь тебя критиковать, спорить, доказывать тебе что-то. Я не тону в самоубийственной мысли Конкина о том, что ни при каких соблазнительных обстоятельствах нельзя насилием устанавливать агоризм. Я просто стреляю и возмещаю свой ущерб имуществом трупа или предотвращаю такой ущерб.
Мы оба действуем разумно по-своему. И моя разумность ничуть не лучше и не прогрессивнее его. Она просто быстрее)))

2026-06-23 09:05:57 UTC

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"Процесс перехода от агорического общества в государственническое должен быть подобен движению в гору, эквивалентен траектории с сильно негативной энтропией в физике. В конце концов, если человек начал жить в хорошо налаженном свободном обществе и понимать его, зачем ему желать возвращаться к систематическому принуждению, грабежу и мучительному беспокойству? Распространение невежества среди знающих и неразумности среди разумных – трудное занятие. Мистификация того, что уже ясно понято, практически невозможна. Агорическое общество должно быть довольно стабильным, чтобы не приходить в упадок, и в то же время весьма открытым для усовершенствования".
Конкин и др теоретики напрасно ищут аргументы в псевдонауках: философии, психологии и т.п. Потому что они ведут их к недостоверным знаниям о человеке и неверным выводам.
"Нет, однако, никаких реальных причин вообразить, что оставшиеся жертвы предпочтут остаться угнетёнными, когда либертарная альтернатива столь видна и доступна. Зоны государства подобны перенасыщенному раствору, из которого готова выкристаллизоваться анархия".
Вязать агоризм с этими псевдонауками все равно что вязать медицину с алзимиками.
Эти две цитаты показательны. Конкин исходит из того, что агоризм разумен и поэтому исход из него нерационален и невыгоден, как противодействие энтропии.
Это было бы верно только в отношении отдельных людей, которые действительно так думают в конкретной обстановке.
Если мы попробуем вязать агоризм не с псевдонауками, а с естественными науками, то поймем, что Конкин видит только частный случай, что этот частный случай количественно мал и что этот частный случай ограничен временем.
Поясню.
Биология свидетельствует, что любое поведение/действие вменяемого человека - это разумный акт. Она не рассматривает наше поведение через призму морали. Любое поведение человека задействует одни и те же биологические механизмы. И с точки зрения биомеханики оно разумно всегда.
Более того, миллионы лет эволюции спрессовали в наш мозг прежде всего насильственное и вороватое поведение, потому что иначе быть не могло. Без этих шаблонов мы бы не пережили ядовитые времена плейстоцена и поздние менее кровавые времена.
Это не наш моральный приговор человечеству. Это научный факт, который любой из нас может проверить, как исходный код FOSS. Достаточно вскрыть мозг трупа и провести несложные эксперименты Пенфилда на открытом мозге живого человека, а затем сравнить результаты с данными сравнительной анатомии, физиологии мозга и палеоантропологии.
Агоризм, как всякое убеждение, живет у малого числа людей из 8 миллиардной биомассы.
Агоризм, как всякое убеждение, живет не у всех агористов до смерти. Все зависит от конкретного времени и места. Порою дубинка в заднице переформатирует агориста быстрее других методов.
Это ни хорошо, ни плохо. Это просто так есть.
Быдло по другому считает выгоду. В его башке другая математика и логика. То, что агористу 'неразумно', для быдла ништяково. И похуй. Просто ништяково.
Ошибочный термин 'разумности' искривляет всю конструкцию Конкина. Ее надо подправить, связать с биологией и она станет сильнее.

2026-05-15 18:25:45 UTC

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What does 67 mean?

2026-05-15 18:25:11 UTC

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They are unafraid idiots.

2026-05-15 14:58:12 UTC

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https://x.com/i/status/1989175507527635410

2026-05-15 08:05:11 UTC

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It's the same story with SimplexChat.

2026-05-07 06:37:18 UTC

#Ireland ran without a state for over 1000 years under Brehon Law, and it worked better than most modern legal systems. From roughly 600-1600 CE, Irish society operated through competing law schools (the Brehon judges) who earned their authority through reputation and legal expertise, not political appointment or state backing.
The system handled everything from property disputes to homicide through sophisticated restitution rather than punishment. Kill someone? You paid their family based on their social status and productivity (honor-price plus body-price). Steal cattle? You returned multiple cattle plus compensation for the disruption. No prisons, no executioners, no massive bureaucratic apparatus eating tax revenue.
What fascinates me most: legal enforcement happened through insurance-like arrangements and social ostracism rather than state violence. Communities essentially "fired" people who refused arbitration by cutting off trade and protection. (Try explaining that efficiency to someone who thinks we need 2.3 million Americans in prison today.) The Normans and later the English had to systematically destroy this decentralized order because centralized states cannot tolerate competing power structures...
#economy #libertarian

2026-05-05 11:27:40 UTC

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Is this protection enabled by default or does it need to be activated?

2026-05-01 09:39:35 UTC

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Вопрос, на который биткоинеры или не отвечают, или уклоняются.
21 млн ограниченное предложение. Я вижу как преимущество, так и минус.
Все рисуют армагедон: власти атакуют биткоинеров, запреты, преследования и т.д.
Я бы на месте власти сделал наоборот. Хвалить, ездить на конференции, биткоин-резерв и т.д.
А сам по тихому скупал монеты и выводил из оборота. Фиат бесконечен и бесплатен. Времени вагон. Тихо без шума раз за разом.
Примерно то же самое они сделали и делают с золотом.
С монеро это не сработает из-за постоянной его инфляции. Даже небольшая она не дает властям такой возможности. Помимо другой цели инфляция монеро защищает сеть от такой атаки властей.
Что думаешь?

2026-05-01 08:32:22 UTC

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Я могу написать по-русски? Как я понял, ты владеешь языком. Если нет, то воспользуюсь переводчиком.

2026-04-29 06:45:35 UTC

Picture this: October 2010, a black Toyota Prius pulls up to some venture capitalists in San Francisco. Two guys named Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp just pitched an app that lets you summon rides with your phone. The VCs probably thought "cute tech toy for rich millennials."
Meanwhile, across the country in New York City, taxi medallions were trading for $1.3 million each. These little metal plates had appreciated faster than Manhattan real estate for decades (because the city artificially capped them at 13,237 medallions since the 1930s). Immigrant drivers mortgaged their entire lives to buy these things, treating them like retirement accounts. Fleet owners sat on medallion portfolios worth hundreds of millions.
The medallion system started during the Great Depression when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia decided too many taxis were "flooding" the streets. Classic government solution: create artificial scarcity, call it public safety. For eighty years, this cartel enriched medallion owners while screwing over riders who couldn't hail cabs in outer boroughs and drivers who paid usurious lease fees.
Then Uber scaled. By 2014, medallion values crashed to $870,000. By 2018? Try $200,000. Hundreds of drivers declared bankruptcy. The Taxi Workers Alliance started organizing suicide prevention workshops because medallion debt was literally killing people. Meanwhile, you could finally get a ride in Brooklyn at 2 AM without bribing a dispatcher.
#bitcoin #monero #economy #libertarian

2026-04-26 04:55:22 UTC

Marx spent his entire adult life as a trust fund parasite, living off Engels' textile fortune while writing screeds against capitalism. The irony writes itself. This freeloading theorist never ran a business, met a payroll, or created value for anyone.
His labor theory of value crumbled in 1871 when Menger explained subjective value. Marx claimed workers get "exploited" through voluntary exchange. Employment contracts benefit both parties. Otherwise, why would anyone agree?
The man who promised to liberate workers delivered the Gulag. His intellectual descendants murdered 100 million people trying to implement his economic fantasies. Meanwhile, free markets lifted billions out of poverty.
#bitcoin #economy #libertarian

2026-04-07 10:43:45 UTC

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Coins are sent from the wallet, but the wallet says no. Why is that?
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2026-03-25 12:12:28 UTC

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The fungibility of #money, combined with the familiar nature of the jewelers' business, led to the transformation of banking—from a safekeeping relationship to a debt-based one. The question of how this change in legal relations occurred is posed by Powell: "When was the doctrine adopted that a banker is simply a debtor, and not a bailee, much less a trustee, of his clients' funds? What circumstances led to this change in his legal status and created an economic 'sport' that led to the degeneration of the financial system, immeasurably increasing its power? How did receipts and vouchers lose their connection with a specific deposit and come to refer only to the banker as a whole?"
Changes occurred evolutionarily.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, #bank customers went to court over fractional-reserve banking and the legal status of customer deposits. The courts almost always ruled that the banker was simply a debtor, not a bailee or trustee. Why? Primarily because the money or coins in custody lacked distinguishing features. This condition was a sine qua non in cases of theft or robbery: the courts believed that stolen property or goods must be identifiable. But the coins of a specific customer could not be identified. Thus, due to the natural fungibility of money, the banker could not be held liable as a bailee.
The courts treated cases involving banks the same way they would any other cases involving fraud or theft; they simply did not see the special nature of cash deposits.
As a result, “unpackaged and therefore unidentifiable coins were transferred for safekeeping, and the only course of action for the custodian to return the money was debt.”
This problem was finally resolved in #England only in the early 19th century.
Some depositors again questioned the traditional decisions of the English courts, arguing that "banks should be held liable no less than the class of bailees, which includes shipping companies, innkeepers, and others." However, "in 1833, in the case of Pitts v. Glegg, the court held that sums credited to a client's account by a banker, although usually called deposits, were in fact loans from the client to the banker."
Nevertheless, the courts recognized that the use of the term "deposit" was misleading, although they allowed bankers to use it. Developing this view, Lord Cottenham, in Foley v. Hill in 1848, held: "Money deposited with a banker is, to all intents and purposes, the banker's money, who is free to do with it as he pleases. He is not guilty of breach of trust in using it. He is not liable to the principal for exposing it to danger by engaging in a casual speculation; he is not bound to keep it or treat it as the principal's property, but he is certainly liable for the amount, because, having received it, he contracted to pay the principal, on demand, a sum equivalent to what he received."
#bitcoin
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2026-03-20 11:08:26 UTC

Mises said:
"#Gold is not an ideal basis for a monetary system.
Like everything man-made, the gold standard is not without its flaws; but under existing circumstances there is no other way to exempt the monetary system from the influence of fickle party politics and government intervention…"
We can say the same about #Bitcoin. We have no right to be careless and stimulate false euphoria.
Bitcoin core developers are arrogant not only because of their own moral decay, but also because of our misplaced, long-standing complacency and intellectual laziness. I'm not talking about everyone, but about the vast majority, including myself.
Test your beliefs and tools constantly and mercilessly. A Bitcoin maximalist doesn't necessarily ridicule and insult dissenters. A strong person doesn't waste time on the weaknesses and shortcomings of others, but rather focuses on their own.

2026-03-20 08:42:05 UTC

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Mises said:
"No state is powerful enough to abolish the #gold standard. Gold serves as the currency of international trade and the supranational economic community of the human race. It is immune to the measures taken by states whose sovereignty is limited to specific countries. As long as a country is not economically self-sufficient in the strict sense of the term, as long as there are still isolated loopholes in the walls with which nation-states attempt to isolate themselves from the rest of the world, gold continues to be used as money.
It matters not that states confiscate gold coins and bullion when discovered, punish those who hoard them as criminals, and that the language of bilateral clearing agreements, through which states seek to exclude gold from international trade, avoids reference to gold. However, the transactions conducted under these agreements are settled in gold. Those who buy and sell on foreign markets calculate the profits and losses from these transactions in gold. Even though a country has severed all links between its local currency and gold, its domestic price structure remains closely tied to gold and world market prices. If a state wishes to decouple its domestic price structure from world market prices, it must resort to other measures, such as prohibitive import and export duties and embargoes.
Nationalization of foreign trade, either overtly or through direct exchange controls, does not exclude gold. The state, as a merchant, uses gold as a medium of exchange.
The struggle against gold, which is the primary concern of all modern states, cannot be viewed as an isolated phenomenon. It is merely one component of a gigantic process of destruction that has become the hallmark of our times. People fight against the gold standard because they want to replace free trade with autarky, peace with war, and freedom with totalitarian state omnipotence.
Perhaps technology will someday discover a way to increase the supply of gold at such a low cost that gold will become useless for monetary purposes. Then people will be forced to replace the gold standard with another. There's no point in worrying about how this problem will be resolved today. We have absolutely no idea the circumstances under which this decision will be made."
Today, we know the circumstances of the #Bitcoin standard's birth in every detail. The new monetary standard replaces the old one not because the latter is useless. The Bitcoin standard is gradually taking over economic power from the gold standard, just as a new accountant takes over the old accountant's files and documents. They don't need to quarrel. They don't need to measure their genitals. Because they are smarter than their adherents.
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2026-03-20 08:13:20 UTC

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Mises said: "The purchasing power of #money is unstable. But the very concept of stability and immutability of purchasing power is absurd.
In a living and changing world, no stability of purchasing power can exist. In the ideal design of a smoothly rotating economy, there is no room for a medium of exchange.
Changes in purchasing power are the essence of money.
#bitcoin
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2026-03-15 11:12:12 UTC

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Driven by the massive influx of gold into world markets following the discovery of Californian and Australian #gold deposits, the gold-silver exchange rate fell rapidly between 1848 and 1859, causing the premium on silver coinage to increase.
For example, while the 15.85 to 1 exchange rate in 1848 was equivalent to a 0.8% premium on American #silver coinage, the 15.33 to 1 exchange rate in 1853 was equivalent to a 4.3% premium. This led not only to a rapid decline in silver supply to the Mint but also to the disappearance of silver coins from circulation—first half dollars, and then smaller coins. Public outrage erupted over the shortage of small change.
Various measures were taken to correct this situation.
In 1849, the government began issuing one-dollar gold coins, of which approximately $19 million was issued by 1862. In 1854, the minting of three-dollar gold coins began, and after 1849, the production of two-and-a-half-dollar gold coins increased sharply. Banknotes in denominations of less than a dollar, as well as fractional denominations of $1.25, $1.50, and $1.75, were issued. Privately issued banknotes and coins also circulated.
In rural areas, the population increasingly used "sharp change" or "chopped money"—Spanish dollars cut into quarters, eighths, and sixteenths. In addition, banknotes were torn in half and quarters, and these fragments became popularly known as "rags."
Where gold fails, #Bitcoin succeeds.
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2026-03-14 06:22:32 UTC

If you want to understand what #Islam stands for, then watch this. It’s just so depraved.
Iranian Mullah:
“Women are animals created by Allah to be used by men. Women are no different from cows, sheep, horses, or mules. God made women resemble humans.”
https://x.com/i/status/2032627487172108766

2026-03-13 13:50:27 UTC

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Thanks to Augustus [27 BC – 14 AD], gold prevailed over silver. Augustus reduced the weight of the aureus from 126 grains, as it had been under Julius Caesar, to 122.9 grains. Gold and silver were minted with very precise weights [at a ratio of 12.5 to 1]. Copper and bronze were minted much more casually, i.e., the exact metal content of the coin was not monitored, but rather the required number of coins were minted from one pound. From Augustus to Nero [14–37 AD], this system remained unchanged, although the weight of the aureus was gradually reduced administratively, with a corresponding reduction in the weight of the denarius.
In the period from Nero to Diocletian [284-305] the monetary system of the empire was in complete disarray, and debasement of coins became commonplace.
The reigns of Claudius [41–54 CE] and Nero were marked by a massive counterfeiting and the widespread circulation of privately issued billon coins, primarily made of lead. Diocletian twice reduced the weight of the aureus in 312, and Constantine the Great [306–337] carried out a monetary reform that reduced the gold content of the aureus to approximately 70 grains—thus, since the time of Nero, the aureus has depreciated by approximately 38%.
#bitcoin #btc
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2026-03-13 13:05:48 UTC

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Seventeen years after the establishment of the #Bank of #England, Addison, in one of his cleverest and most graceful allegories, described the position of this great institution, through which the enormous wealth of London constantly passed.
He imagined credit sitting on a throne in the hall of colonial merchants; above his head was the bank's charter, before his eyes the act of William's accession to the throne. Everything turned to gold at his touch. Behind him, sacks of money were piled high to the ceiling. To the right and left of him, pyramids of guineas rose.
Suddenly the door opens. The pretender bursts in, sponge in one hand, sword in the other, threatening the deed that gave the crown to William.
The magical power that transformed everything around him into treasure vanishes. The pile of sacks falls to the floor: empty; the pyramids of guineas turn into heaps of rags and splinters.
#bitcoin #btc
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2026-03-13 12:30:35 UTC

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When a merchant sold goods, he agreed on the currency in which he would be paid. Even businessmen became confused by the chaos that beset all monetary transactions.
Greed mercilessly robbed the simple and carefree, and its demands on them grew faster than the value of the coin diminished. The prices of basic necessities, shoes, ale, and oatmeal rose rapidly. A worker, coming to buy bread or beer, would find that the coin he'd received for a shilling wasn't worth even half a shilling.
Where there were large groups of fairly educated artisans, such as at the Chatham shipyard, the workers managed to be heard and, to some extent, relieved of oppression. But the helpless, ignorant farm laborer suffered cruelly, receiving money from the master by count, while the shopkeeper took it from him only by weight.
#bitcoin #btc
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2026-03-13 11:49:07 UTC

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Before Charles II, our coins were minted using a method that had survived from the 13th century. Edward I brought in skilled minters from Florence, which in his time was comparable to London. For many generations, the tools introduced into our mint then continued to serve virtually unchanged.
The metal was cut with scissors, then the pieces were rounded with a hammer, and the stamp was also hammered onto them. Much depended on the worker's hand and eye. Inevitably, some coins came out with slightly more, others slightly less than the exact amount of metal; only a few were perfectly round, and the coin did not have a rim. Therefore, over time, con artists found that coin clipping was the easiest and most profitable of all scams.
Under Elizabeth, it was already deemed necessary to decree that the clipper of a coin should be subject to the same punishment that had long been prescribed for counterfeiters—the death penalty. But the craft of clipping coins could not be killed by such measures, because it was too profitable, and around the time of the Restoration [1660] everyone began to notice that many of the crowns, half-crowns, and shillings that came into hands were somewhat clipped.
It was a time abundant with experiments and inventions in all branches of science. A plan emerged for a major improvement in the method of rounding coins and stamping them. A machine was installed in the Tower of London that largely replaced manual work. Horses turned the machine, and mechanics today would certainly call it crude and weak. Nevertheless, the coins it produced were among the best in Europe. They were difficult to counterfeit. Their roundness was perfectly correct, and the inscription ran along the edge; therefore, there was no need to fear clipping.
Hand-made and machine-made coins circulated together; the treasury accepted them equally in payment; therefore, the public accepted them equally. The financiers of the time apparently expected that the new coin, a very good one, would soon displace the old coin, which was badly damaged, from circulation. But any intelligent person should have realized that if the treasury accepted a full-weight and a light-weight coin as equivalent, the full-weight coin would not displace the light-weight one from circulation, but would itself be displaced by it. In England, a clipped crown was considered the same as an unclipped machine-made one when paying taxes or debts. But if a machine-made crown were cast into a piece or transported across a canal, it would prove to be worth much more than a clipped one. Therefore, with all the certainty that is possible in predictions about things that depend on the human will, one could predict that a bad coin will remain in that market which alone accepts it at the same price as a good one, and that a good coin will take such a form or go to such a place in which the benefit of its higher value will be obtained.
#bitcoin #btc
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2026-03-12 12:55:12 UTC

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An example of an 18th-century #German sovereign for whom the very idea of having to pay his debts seemed strange is Landgrave Ernst Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt. Suffering from delusions of grandeur, he followed the example of other German princes in building numerous castles, all the while striving to have his own Versailles. He built more than a dozen, including a gigantic palace in which, as the emperor dismissively put it, he could have lived with all the electors and their courtiers.
The Landgrave's #money was supplied by the Frankfurt #banker Jacob Bernus, to whom he owed over 1 million guilders.
And like many others, Bernus had to learn that, under the legal conditions of the time, no power existed in Germany that could compel a dishonest sovereign to fulfill his obligations, personally signed and sealed by him. Even a court ruling issued in Vienna and entered into force, followed by the emperor's order to the Electors of Trier and the Palatinate to enforce it and force the Landgrave to pay, could not help him. The Electors remained unmoved, and the Landgrave died in 1739 without paying a penny.
Bernus could also receive nothing from the copper tithes and income from the Landgrave's iron works received as collateral. And Ernst Louis's successor, Louis VIII, refused to pay, claiming he was not responsible for his predecessor's personal debts. Meanwhile, as crown prince, he expressed his consent to loans from Bernus and, in some cases, even solemnly promised to pay his father's debts in the event of his father's death.
True, Louis VIII found it increasingly difficult after this to raise money from Frankfurt capitalists, and this sovereign was constantly in need of money, searching for it everywhere, begging at every Frankfurt fair, taking savings from his subjects, including court lackeys, musicians, and foresters.
Only in 1778 did the next Elector, Louis IX, agree to pay the heirs and creditors of Jacob Bernus approximately 28% of the debt without interest and in 3% bonds.
It is not surprising that in the mid-18th century they also said: do not lend to someone stronger, and if you do, look at the amount as lost, and they added: nobles make promises, but only peasants keep them.
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#bitcoin #btc
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2026-03-12 12:14:00 UTC

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Only in #England, from 1663 onward, were coins produced exclusively by machine, then their weight verified and minted using a lever press. But even there, alongside this magnificent coin—which, as contemporaries said, was truly unparalleled at the time—an older coin, minted using the same method, continued to circulate for nearly 70 years (it was completely withdrawn from circulation from 1732 onward). Consequently, England, too, experienced monetary crises in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Meanwhile, not only did the government, unlike other countries, not derive any revenue from the coinage, but even the very costs of minting (from 1666) were entirely absorbed by the treasury (something that still does not exist in other countries), so that the coin's nominal value and its actual metal content were identical.
But coin crises occurred because the old-fashioned coinage was displacing the new, machine-made coinage. The old coinage, being neither round nor uniform in thickness, was easily clipped, and the best specimens were removed from circulation. As a result, only debased and clipped coins remained in circulation, having lost on average 40-50% of their nominal value, and in some cases only 1/4 or 1/6 of it.
In 1696, this led to even merchants losing their heads, and the farmer having to deal, on the one hand, with people who paid money at face value, and on the other, with people who would only accept it by weight (i.e., at approximately half its face value).
As a result, when experiments with weighing coins were carried out in 1695, it was found that the 57,200 pounds of hammered silver deposited in the treasury weighed only 114,000 ounces, instead of 220,000 ounces, i.e., half; 100 pounds sterling, which should have contained about 400 ounces, actually had 240 ounces in Bristol, 203 in Cambridge, 180 in Exeter, and only 116 ounces in Oxford.
The decline in the weight of silver coins was particularly acute in the 1690s. The evil wrought by such a state of coinage is not one of those things to which history assigns a place of honor. Nevertheless, one can hardly compare all the misfortunes inflicted on the people over the course of a quarter of a century by bad ministers, bad parliaments, and bad judges with those who produced bad crowns and bad shillings.
The reigns of Charles and James, however hard they were on the people, never hindered the peaceful course of daily life. At the very time when the honor and independence of the state were being sold to another power, when rights were trampled underfoot, and the fundamental laws of the land were violated, hundreds of thousands of diligent families worked, sat down to table, and went to bed peacefully and securely, cattlemen drove their oxen to market, merchants weighed their goods, clothiers measured out their cloth, buyers and sellers in the cities behaved especially noisily, and harvest festivals in the villages were celebrated even more joyfully than before.
When the great instrument of circulation fell into complete disarray, commerce and industry stagnated. Evil was felt daily and hourly, everywhere and by all classes of the population: on the manor and in the barn, at the anvil and at the loom, on the ocean waves and in the bowels of the earth. Nothing could be bought without misunderstandings. At every stall, quarrels erupted from morning until evening. Clashes between workers and employers occurred regularly every Saturday. At the fair and the market, there was constant noise, shouting, cursing, and cursing, and it was a special blessing if the matter ended without broken chests or murder.
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#bitcoin #fiat #history
#nevent1q…5yqk

2026-03-12 11:33:52 UTC

Even in the time of William III (i.e., at the end of the 17th century), old men reminisced about the times when there wasn't a single banker in the City of London; every merchant kept a cash register in his own home, and when bills were presented to him, he paid in cash. But then a new fashion arose, and a new class of agents emerged to guard the merchants' cash registers: goldsmiths, whose cellars could store large quantities of gold and silver ingots without danger from fire or robbery.
This innovation caused much uproar and protest. Merchants of the old breed bitterly complained that men who, just 30 years earlier, had confined themselves to their profession and earned good profits by making cups and bowls, setting diamonds for beautiful women, and selling pistoles and thalers to travelers setting out for the continent of Europe, now became treasurers of almost the entire City.
These moneylenders play a dangerous game with what others have earned through their diligence and saved through their thrift. If successful, the clever cashier becomes an alderman; if unsuccessful, the deceived one who fills his coffers ends up bankrupt. But others insisted on the advantages of a new system that saves labor and money: two clerks in one office, under the new system, perform the same work as twenty in twenty different offices before; a goldsmith's ticket changes hands ten times in the course of a single morning, and thanks to this, a hundred guineas lying under his lock and key near the Exchange perform the same function as a thousand guineas scattered among various drawers before. As a result, even those who shouted the loudest were forced to submit to the new custom.

2026-03-12 06:30:52 UTC

Why is there no fairy tale that approves of such a scenario?
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2026-03-12 06:13:47 UTC

#Palestinian #Muslim ruler of #Hamas explains that after destroying Israel along with its entire #Jewish population, Hamas will move on: "to create a world where Christianity does not exist."
They've been saying this since day one. They've been speaking about it directly and honestly.
This is their source code, which no Muslim has the right to change. No discussion or dissent. Any doubt is considered treason and is punishable by death. Not excommunication or social ostracism, but death.
https://x.com/i/status/2031720750885777864

2026-03-09 15:29:36 UTC

Can #Muslim men control their urge to rape women wearing perfume?
This French Imam says no—they can't.
So he orders women wearing perfume to isolate indoors and not provoke Muslim men.
Happy International Women’s Day!
https://x.com/i/status/2030820422657491149

2026-03-09 07:37:55 UTC

Does #Bitcoin's ethics correspond to #Islam's ethics?
https://x.com/i/status/2030863577205117393

2026-03-09 06:42:37 UTC

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That's what this war is being waged against. Of course, there are those who get other benefits from the war.
When we simplistically divide people into good and bad, we stop responding adequately to their behavior: we condemn every action of a villain and justify every action of a good person.
Even if the government bombs Iran for other reasons, you and I benefit from it because we are getting rid of barbarians who openly say that they want to destroy us.
I'm not calling for turning a blind eye to all government abuses, but I am asking for them to be criticized in an adult, dignified, and dispassionate manner—that is, adequately.
https://x.com/i/status/2030696857974854023
https://x.com/i/status/2030202497084580255
https://x.com/i/status/2030422732110725602
https://x.com/i/status/2030422732110725602
https://x.com/i/status/2030407660911141326

2026-03-08 04:46:03 UTC

How is this acceptable a #Muslim man proposes to a 7-year-old girl, she agrees, and they’ll marry when she’s 8.
This is sick and not compatible with western values.
https://x.com/i/status/2030202497084580255

2026-03-08 04:28:54 UTC

Chants of 'Allah, kill every #Jew, #Christian, and #American.'
Afghanistan? Pakistan?
Nope, this is Dearborn, Michigan.
https://x.com/i/status/2030422732110725602

2026-03-08 04:16:08 UTC

#Islam in action!
Afghan men gathered for the “entertaining” public stoning of another girl accused by her father of zina (adultery, including losing virginity before marriage or in rape incidents where the rapist was married).
https://x.com/i/status/2030407660911141326

2026-03-06 18:55:39 UTC

#Islam in the #UK
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2026-03-06 07:38:49 UTC

Rape is never the victim's fault.
She was 13; her rapist was married. They stoned her for adultery because he blamed her for provoking it, as she didn't stay home and wasn't fully covered with an #Islamic veil.
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2026-03-05 18:00:08 UTC

Ayn Rand. "There is no escape: men have to make choices. As long as choices exist, moral values are inescapable. As long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. Trying to "not judge" is already a choice - and usually one that aids evil."
Neutrality between CoreV30 and #BIP110, favors CoreV30. Likewise, neutrality between good and evil favors evil.

2026-03-05 14:46:32 UTC

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I don't know

2026-03-05 11:02:18 UTC

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2026-03-05 10:37:06 UTC

Tommy Robinson goes OFF on #Qatari influence in American politics and the false notion of a "#Muslim/Christian Alliance" 🔥
https://x.com/i/status/2029279642490667347

2026-03-05 10:32:19 UTC

#IRAN'S SHIA LEADER #AYATOLLAH #KHOMEINI WROTE A BOOK ABOUT LEGALLY FUCKING CHILDREN ACCORDING TO HIS VERSION OF #ISLAM
https://x.com/i/status/1935735621751889955

2026-03-05 08:21:51 UTC

#PALESTINIAN #MUSLIM CLERIC:
"The wife should be beaten in a way that will serve as deterrence for her..."
(Watch the full video - every next sentence drops more jaw-dropping gems that'll leave you speechless👇🤯)
https://x.com/i/status/2029283635291918566

2026-03-05 08:19:53 UTC

A 9-year-old girl cries as she is sold by her own family and forced into an arranged marriage with a 60-year-old man. This is Sharia.
https://x.com/i/status/2029092728999497790

2026-03-05 08:17:09 UTC

The Muslim world is divided about Iran:
Muslim countries in favor of removing the regime:
Jordan 🇯🇴
Kuwait 🇰🇼
UAE 🇦🇪
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Oman 🇴🇲
Qatar 🇶🇦
Bahrain 🇧🇭
Muslim countries against the removal of the regime:
Great Britain 🇬🇧
France 🇫🇷
Spain 🇪🇸

2026-03-05 08:13:00 UTC

A Muslim scholar rules that most Muslim fathers who rape their own daughters are innocent because the minor girls provoke their fathers to rape them by wearing tight clothes or staying alone in a room with the fathers when mothers are absent.
https://x.com/i/status/2028552963812180108

2026-03-05 08:02:14 UTC

#Muslim Brotherhood TV host explains under what circumstances Christian girls can be raped.
“Allah allows Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women to humiliate them.”
This is what Obama & the Democrats let into our Great Country, we see this happening in other places like the #UK.
https://x.com/i/status/2029306255848747149

2026-03-04 13:15:15 UTC

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2026-03-04 13:14:08 UTC

A wedding tonight in a missile shelter, in the #Dizengoff Center parking lot in #Tel_Aviv.
That’s why #Israelis are unbeatable.
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2026-03-04 06:54:12 UTC

My compatriots,
Ali #Khamenei, the Zahhak of our time — the demon who, only weeks ago, issued the order for the massacre of tens of thousands of Iran’s finest sons and daughters — is gone.
With his disgraceful death, and that of many of his appointees and affiliates, the Islamic Republic is drawing its final breaths. Through your will and bravery, it will soon be consigned to the dustbin of history. The great nation of Iran seeks the complete fall of the Islamic Republic, and we will bring down this demonic regime.
My message to the remaining officials of this republic of terror is this: surrender to the Iranian nation. Declare your loyalty to my plan and our transition framework, and hand over power without further bloodshed.
Any attempt by the remnants of the regime to appoint a successor to Khamenei is doomed to failure in advance. Whoever they place in his position will not only lack legitimacy, but will also be a partner in the crimes of this regime.
To the military, law enforcement, and security forces, I say: your weapons must be used to defend the great nation of Iran, not the republic of crime, thuggery, and its anti-Iranian criminals. Join the people of #Iran and the Lion and Sun Revolution. Use your arms to protect Iranians against the mercenaries of the Islamic Republic so that this 47-year nightmare may end more swiftly.
The death of the criminal Khamenei, though it does not repay the blood that has been shed, can calm the wounded hearts of grieving fathers and mothers, spouses and children, sisters and brothers; a measure of solace for the proud families of the martyrs of Iran’s Lion and Sun Revolution.
Honorable and courageous people of Iran,
The death of the despot of our time, although it marks the beginning of our great national celebration, is not the end of the road. Remain vigilant. Be prepared. The time for a widespread and decisive presence in the streets is very near.
I ask you, while maintaining your security, to demonstrate your satisfaction with and support for the crushing of the Islamic Republic through nightly chants, and to shout your demands for Iran’s future. My strength comes from your strength and your support.
I ask Iranians abroad — who for weeks have worked tirelessly and relentlessly as the powerful voice of our compatriots inside Iran — to intensify your efforts. Force the world to hear the Iranian people’s support for this humanitarian intervention and our demand for the complete fall of the regime.
Sensitive days lie ahead of us. Together, we will walk the path to victory, and we will overthrow the Islamic Republic.
Long live Iran.
Reza Pahlavi

2026-03-04 06:50:31 UTC

My dear compatriots,
Your forty-seven years of courageous struggle on the path to Iran’s freedom are today closer to victory than ever before.
The Islamic Republic, through its unprecedented killing of defenseless people and its endless support for global terrorism, left no path other than humanitarian military intervention for the peace-loving nation of #Iran—a nation that for years has been deprived of the right to a normal life.
The humiliating killing of Ali #Khamenei was a balm for part of our deep suffering, but it is not the end of the struggle.
We will never forget that the path to freedom is indebted to the pure blood of Iran’s children, to the honorable and awakened women and men held hostage by this regime, and to the grieving, justice-seeking families who have endured such suffering. In these days, what pressed upon my heart most of all, as a mother, was seeing the tears and longing of innocent and beautiful children at the graves of their father or mother. Yet those very children, with their powerful and hope-filled speeches, lit a light in my heart—speeches that are not symbolic, but the true guarantee of Iran’s bright future.
In these history-making moments, my heart is with you, my compatriots, in every corner of Iran—especially with the noble families of the eternal ones on the path of freedom.
I believe that with your hope, solidarity, and iron will, Iran’s freedom will soon be achieved.
Long live Iran.
Yasmine Pahlavi

2026-02-18 08:42:38 UTC

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2026-02-14 05:46:32 UTC

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Yes, that's right. I cleared the cache and now your videos play with auto-dubbing. Everything works great!

2026-02-12 12:58:02 UTC

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Yes, I'd love to hear your speech.
They usually say, "You shouldn't be nervous when speaking in front of a large audience, you need to calm down." They say that, and it only makes them even more nervous.
But I think nervousness goes away when you're not afraid to be nervous. After all, it's normal and natural for each of us.
You can do it, I'm sure.

2026-02-12 12:48:37 UTC

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Yes, but you answered these questions well. I like your conversations. You talk to people warmly and in a homely way. Your thoughts flow smoothly and naturally.

2026-02-12 11:26:48 UTC

Great interview, @nprofile…8gc9.
https://youtu.be/tvY_oZNSWF4?si=tOsChezqsLe4ctYf

2026-02-10 17:16:39 UTC

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Paula, could you set up auto-dubbing in your videos? YouTube allows automatic translation into 27 languages. We'll be able to better understand the content, and you'll get 27 times more audience.

2026-02-08 18:55:51 UTC

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No one can help except @nprofile…hvs6.😄🤝

2026-02-08 08:51:55 UTC

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I want a million dollars to save the children. Why contrast money and freedom? A rich man will help more than a poor man.

2026-02-07 08:10:56 UTC

Centralized Unicity and Distributed Multiplicity
I won’t speculate on personal allegations.
My concern is strictly technical and philosophical: #Bitcoin Core’s posture toward spam and incentives has shifted in a way that endangers Bitcoin’s narrow optimum.
Reducing Bitcoin’s security model to a generic market for blockspace, sellers and buyers exchanging bytes, may adequately describe a distributed data store, but it fundamentally misrepresents a monetary network.
Bitcoin’s blockspace exists first and foremost to serve censorship-resistant monetary transactions. This market is constrained by a higher-order objective: preserving individual sovereignty.
Bitcoin is not a morally neutral protocol; it is a weapon against tyranny.
In the struggle against centralized unicity, state power concentrated behind infinite fiat, only one force can prevail:
Distributed multiplicity.
The plebs running nodes. They anchor consensus, enforce rules, and give economic meaning to mining. Miners are paid because nodes validate; incentives exist because the system is defended.
Without node operators, there is no table at which anyone eats. In any system, economic or otherwise, turning against your primary client is fatal.
If blockspace were truly neutral, if “data were just data,” then any sufficiently funded actor could flood blocks indefinitely, crowd out monetary use, and neutralize Bitcoin’s purpose entirely.
If that model were correct, Bitcoin would never have existed. This is not a debate about arbitrary data competing for space; it is a question of what the system is for.
Bitcoin persists because it is not secured by pricing alone. It is secured by social consensus enforcing constraints that privilege monetary use over abuse.
This is the human factor.
Filters, standardness rules, and policy limits do not violate the market; they define it. They form the narrow optimum that makes Bitcoin resilient rather than fragile.
That narrow optimum is precisely what the plebs defend.
It is fragile by design and resilient by consensus.
Sixteen years of near-perfect operation can dull perception, but removing constraints does not strengthen Bitcoin; it dissolves the conditions that made it work.
Anti-fragility does not come from loosening limits; it comes from enforcing them.
What I will say is this: when an ecosystem concentrates legitimacy in a single reference implementation and discourages exit, it creates conditions where individuals cannot act freely, even when they should.
Plurality is not rebellion; it is protection.
Running alternative clients is not an attack on Bitcoin. It is how pressure is released, how incentives realign, and how people are allowed to stand upright again.
Do not confuse centralized unicity with distributed multiplicity. A hard drive can always be outbid. A monetary network anchored in shared norms, human restraint, and collective defense cannot.
Bitcoin is not a decentralized database.
It is a system for human sovereignty.
Blockspace is a means, not the purpose.
--dewmap
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2026-02-06 15:52:25 UTC

In the software practice, it is possible to write code that compiles and runs correctly, but that fails to fulfil, or even corrupts the business purpose that the software is being written for.
Software is not something that runs by itself in its own universe; ir runs in a context - "To Serve Mankind".
It's therefore very odd to praise people who write software that harms people. It doesn't matter how clever they are, how hard they work or how good a mentor they've been; if they're doing something horrible and wrong, they're not worthy of praise. They should be condemned.
Going forward, anyone who doesn't understand what Bitcoin is for, and who doesn't understand that bitcoin is not, "an experiment", or that "data has no meaning" or that Ordinals are evil, should be kept very far away from working on the reference client, whih in any case, should be in maintenance mode and when update is beneficial (Schnoor signatures for example) updated only when it is clearly demonstrated that performance will not be downgraded and parameters and purpose altered.
In other words, all changes and improvements must be for the sole purpose of bitcoin's reason for being. If you want to extend the capabilities of bitcoin, you should fork it and play in your own kitty litter sandbox, where others can join you if they want to.
People who do bad things are not "great", and praising them is distasteful and indicative of at worst, a bad character and at best, a painfully naïeve and credulous personality.
--beautyon
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2026-02-06 05:46:37 UTC

It’s deeply counterintuitive how hard it is to simply buy and hold Bitcoin.
Humans evolved to react.
#Bitcoin demands that you don’t.
That’s why so many people grasp Bitcoin intellectually yet fail at it behaviorally.
The real moat isn’t technical knowledge or clever optimization — it’s emotional discipline sustained over years, not weeks.
“Just buy and hold” isn’t simple.
It’s minimalistic, adversarial, lonely… and quietly violent to the ego.
If it were easy, everyone would do it.
--dewmap
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2026-02-06 04:40:47 UTC

Dear Gloria Zhao,
On behalf of #Bitcoin maximalists worldwide, I want to express our deepest gratitude for your priceless, unwitting service in exposing the terminal decay inside what was once Bitcoin #Core and is now more fittingly called “Coretard.”
No measured technical argument, no patient explanation from the filter side could ever have achieved in a decade what your brief public appearances accomplished in a handful of videos: you single-handedly obliterated any remaining pretense of apolitical, competence-driven development.
Your visibly confused ramblings, sanctimonious ideological posturing, and openly stated desire to “transition” Bitcoin into a progressive social-experiment token have done more to awaken the broader ecosystem than a thousand blog posts or whitepapers ever could.
You have convincingly demonstrated to anyone still paying attention that something profoundly rotten has taken root behind the formerly respected — but now irrevocably compromised — closed doors of Core.
Having you as one of the most prominent public faces of modern Core development is the single most effective anti-Core propaganda the #Knots side could have ever dreamed of. Whether your colleagues have noticed it yet or not, you and the activist clique that surrounds and celebrates you have already signed Core’s death certificate in the only place it ultimately matters: the court of public opinion.
So please, from the bottom of our hearts — keep going exactly as you are. History will record you as the accelerant that finally persuaded the broader Bitcoin world to abandon the sinking, woke-infested husk you so proudly pilot.
With sincere and everlasting thanks,
A Bitcoin Maxi who genuinely owes you one
P.S. Thanks to you, humanity’s lexicon has been permanently enriched with a new and instantly understandable term: Coretard. Your legacy is secure.
--dewmap
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2026-02-05 07:04:25 UTC

Bitcoiner ≡ Critical Thinker
The Epstein scandal exposes the rot: guilt by association torpedoes the push to bloat #OP_RETURN.
#Bitcoin lives on don’t trust, verify—not deference to experts, institutions, or reputations.
The real crisis isn’t a single scandal, but systemic decay within Core: lost humility, eroded rigor, and the collapse of adversarial scrutiny. Red flags are everywhere, dismissed with smug appeals to “the experts have spoken.” This is cultural capture, driven by complacency and blind faith.
Bitcoiners don’t grant authority—they constrain it. They demand transparency and design for trust failure. Core’s reckless dismantling of Chesterton’s Fence—obliterating Bitcoin’s narrow optimum by orders of magnitude—has fractured the ecosystem. It’s appalling judgment, plain and simple.
And those “earnest” influencers rushing to Core’s defense, waving away red flags as nonsense?
They are vectors of the disease—mistaking organic outrage for heresy. What kind of Bitcoiner replaces don’t trust, verify with believe the elites—elites whose obvious lack of judgment has eroded the very trust that Bitcoiners worldwide were willing, in good faith, to extend?
Confront the drift. Purge the complacency. Reclaim the ethos:
Don’t trust. Verify.
--dewmap
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2026-01-31 06:32:26 UTC

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Why?

2026-01-30 06:39:17 UTC

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I think we're asking the wrong question: democracy, monarchy, or another form of government. In everyday life, we don't choose whether to eat with a fork or a spoon; whether to travel by metro or by car; and so on. Any mathematician will advise us to use the most optimal option for each specific situation.
If we can alternate between a fork and a spoon, a subway and a car, then why can't we alternate between democracy and a monarchy? I see no rational reason to give up freedom of choice.
We shouldn't force ourselves into abstract monarchies or democracies. We must tailor the form of government to the specific situation and the specific leader. Javier Miley and the ruler of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum are equally effective in different contexts.

2026-01-29 18:55:23 UTC

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2026-01-29 17:47:23 UTC

NEW RESEARCH: #Bitcoin Core Technical Debt
26.8% of Bitcoin Core's codebase has high technical debt (1,108 of 4,134 files) - 2.7x above the industry healthy threshold of <10%.
Analysis of 15,884 merged PRs shows:
• Patch-to-refactor ratio: 3.0 (at the concerning threshold; 1:1 is ideal)
• RPC subsystem: 61.5% high debt (critical; industry threshold is <40%)
• Debt accelerates: Files with 50+ modifications have 9.7 patches per refactor (vs <5:1 standard)
• Even new code: 31.5% high debt (vs <10% standard)
• Consensus code: Better maintained - 38.5% high debt but refactored as often as patched (1:1 ratio)
• Top debt files: init.cpp, main.cpp, rpc.cpp (scores 87-90, 13-15 years old, rarely refactored)
Bitcoin Core exceeds multiple industry thresholds, indicating systematic refactoring is needed, especially in the RPC subsystem.
github.com/secsovereign/b…
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2026-01-29 17:32:05 UTC

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everything that doesn't kill us mutates and tries to kill us again.

2026-01-29 17:14:56 UTC

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These are not my words. I just reprinted them. The author is this dewmap.

2026-01-29 15:14:40 UTC

What Socrates said about democracy more than 2000 years ago.
He said that demoracy must fall because it will try to tailor to everyone.
The poor will want the wealth of the rich, and democracy will give it to them.
Young people will want to be respected as elderly and democracy will give it to them.
Women will want to be like men and democracy will give it to them
Foreigners will want the rights of the natives and democracy will give it to them.
Thieves and fraudsters will want important government functions, and democracy will give it to them.
And at that time, when thieves and fraudsters finally democratically take authority because criminals and evil doers want power, there will be worse dictatorship than in the time of any monarchy or oligarchy.
Socrates (470-399 b.c.)
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2026-01-29 13:59:54 UTC

Taking a step back, the entire #OP_RETURN is a symptom of something much bigger that stems from a single cause. It is caused by Mind Blindness.
The people looking at #bitcoin in isolation, that it is an "experiment", don't understand that other people are real, that they actually exist, and are relying on bitcoin.
They don't understand and can't weigh the importance of anything; to them, a side note in a "White Paper" or BiP from one person has the same weight as all the people on earth for the next 140 years.
To them, bitcoin is something on paper or on their screens; it exists outside of everything, and all the "problems" they see are related only specifically to the specification on paper, and not to how, where and why bitcoin is used and why it was created in the first place.
They're exactly like and interchangeable with Roger Ver, who is trapped in a mindset where only his own perspective is real, and everything else is imaginary, including all the people who use bitcoin.
The bitcoin specification isn't something that exists in isolation; its rules and features are not there for their own purposes; bitcoin has no purpose in absentia of people; therefore, to exclude people from any calculation used to measure whether an improvement is actually an improvement can only lead to error.
Without purpose, bitcoin is just another piece of software. If you remove purpose from your assessment of what should be added to bitcoin, you're leaving out the most important element of all...people.
If these proposers cared only about the specification on paper, they would write their software for private use in their own test network "OP_RETURN_net" and let it run. They've written their changes, pushed them, they're live and it's all running. Why do they need other people to run their software?
If for any reason you're not able to include the reality of other people in your assessments, then you should not be working on improving bitcoin, because to you, everything, every improvement is the same if something get's "better".
On paper, removing limits looks good
On paper, low fees forever looks good
On paper, faster confirmation time looks good
On paper, anything can be cast to look good
But real people don't live on paper, and bitcoin was written to serve real people, not the masturbatory whims of people who don't care much about anything other than "the work". Improvements in one aspect is the myopic, mind bling way of looking at anything; the unintended second and third order effects are what Mind Blind people can't perceive and that's the danger.
As I've said before, improving bitcoin is a good thing, but without a clear definition of what an improvement is, anyone, any person with any characteristic can make a claim that any change is an "improvement".
Years ago there were some very strange people who wanted to add an identity layer to bitcoin. To them, this was an "improvement" simply because it added something that men in their culture have become inured to; constantly identifying yourself to do anything.
Their disgusting proposal died but what it showed was that Socialists are literally everywhere, and will bring the Socialism with them when they make proposals. That's very dangerous.
Bitcoin should do only one thing, and it should not change. It is not "progress" to see new point versions of bitcoin being constantly released; bitcoin isn't like other pieces of software; its entire purpose is a money supply that doesn't change.
Progress is a modern day cult, filled with "Progressives" who will throw literally everything out of the window so that they are "moving forward". They're insane, and bitcoin was designed to keep psychologically normal people protected from them.
Bitcoin's development can be protected by the people who use it. The simple act of selecting a client can keep the tweakers, the fiddlers, the Progressives, the elitists, the gullible, the Mind Blind, and ultimately, the State out of everyone's money.
And bitcoin really is "everyone's money". It isn't the sole preserve of people who bark "ack" on a Mi¢ro$oft owned and Controlled software repository service. The power to control what the network is is in the hands of people who run the reference clients.
If any group of developers refuses to knock it off and take advice, then everyone will abandon their client, and these thrill seekers will switch to trying to sabotage the Linux Kernel, where they will find a suitably extremely hostile environment to nonsense from a benevolent dictator with a proven record of keeping garbage out.
These people want to enslave the network to their perverted and selfish aims, like the Ordinals crowd. They don't care about other people, even to the extent that they're frightening the skin off of users who have put their whole lives into bitcoin and have skin in the game. They just don't care about other people, and perhaps, can't care.
You are going to have to keep an eye on this matter, and be vigilant, because some people with an aggressive compulsion to change bitcoin will never stop. You have the power to neutralize their urges by simply not runing their software. If the whole network stops "upgrading" then they are permanently neutralized and the problem is solved. Only bug fixes should be accepted by node runners; nothing else.
No more threats. No more elitism. No more risk of losing money.
Then everyone can get on with building on bitcoin, saving, sending and spending it, and building the future, where real people will be living and relying on what everyone is using and building today.
-beautyon
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2026-01-29 13:41:47 UTC

In just a few years, bad actors shielded by a strangely docile #Bitcoin Core have transformed its immaculate ledger into the most expensive open sewer in history.
The playbook was diabolically simple:
Exploit known protocol loopholes that Core refuses to close, and spawn a parasitic zoo of degenerate shitcoins (Ordinals, BRC-20, Runes, NFTs whatever this week’s scam token is called).
Then flood the chain with fiat-funded garbage inscriptions until the cancer is too big to remove without “breaking compatibility.”
When the maximalists who spent a decade laughing at Ethereum’s clown casino finally screamed foul, Core’s response was the now-infamous:
“What is even spam?”
And, with the solemnity of a priest blessing sewage, Core shipped v30, handed every grifter on earth an industrial excavator, and rebranded the resulting stench as “freedom,” “innovation,” and “adapting to the new culture.”
Look at the numbers. They don’t lie: almost 40% of the entire UTXO set, created in barely two years, is now cartoon apes, pixelated cocks, and immortal trash.
This isn’t the beginning of a beautiful new ecosystem. It’s the opening act of a hostage situation.
Those “88 million inscriptions” that supposedly paid 7,000+ BTC in fees? Not organic demand. Obvious bribes, fiat conjured out of thin air by entities who face no budget constraints, funneled straight to miners to launder vandalism into legitimacy.
Anyone who thinks infinite-money printers will ever be stopped by “market forces” has traded adversarial thinking for bedtime stories.
There is no real community here, no lasting economic activity, no future, just a giant pump-and-dump dressed up as culture.
The handful of true believers clutching their sacred JPEGs don’t need protocol changes. They need therapy.
When pushback finally arrived, Bitcoin #Knots, sensible BIPs, #CAT, actual attempts to defend the original protocol, the mask slipped completely.
Overnight, the people defending sound money became, in the ultimate rhetorical nuke, “Nazis.”
And so, in this newly confused ecosystem poisoned by the woke mind virus, the official position of the now-known-as “Coretards” became:
“Because someone might misuse a scalpel tomorrow, we must let the gangrene consume the leg today.”
Saying “this is spam and it should be addressed” is apparently the real attack on freedom.
Bitcoin Core didn’t just make a technical mistake. It caught the civilizational mind virus that teaches societies to celebrate their own decomposition and to crucify anyone still sane enough to point at the rot.
That’s not hyperbole. That’s the autopsy.
We all have to take a step back and acknowledge the level of delusion on display:
The suicidal overconfidence of Core loyalists convinced they represent some silent majority.
Core should have shut this NFT circus down from day one. Now their credibility is gone.
Coretard is their legacy.
--dewmap

2026-01-27 05:57:57 UTC

If #Muslims are so enthusiastic about living under Sharia law, why not pack up and move to places where it’s actually enforced—like Afghanistan?
Funny how Sharia is always demanded in secular, free societies, but somehow loses its appeal where it’s fully implemented.
Apparently, Sharia is best enjoyed as a slogan—not as a lifestyle.

2026-01-27 05:56:09 UTC

Saudi Arabia needs investment and rapid (impossibly so) education of skilled youth. It lacks both and is therefore now faltering.
So it retreats into appeasing those it most fears can destabilize it: the Muslim Brotherhood and their mentors in Ankara and Doha, as well as the haunting specter from Damascus.
But it is a death spiral. It will drive investment away and leave its youth more radicalized and uneducated.
Moreover, it has no path for recovery. It wasted a critical 7 years playing hard to get — a rather arrogant overestimation of its solidity and indispensability — when it needed to expeditiously join the Abraham Accords and aggressively transform itself not with grandiose projects but with nitty-gritty education, business and industrial incentives.

2026-01-27 05:46:46 UTC

One day at kindergarten, the teacher says to the class of five-year-olds, "I'll give $2 to the child who can tell me who was the most famous man who ever lived."
An Irish boy put his hand up and said, "Please miss, it was St. Patrick." The teacher said, "Sorry Sean, that's not correct."
Then a Scottish boy put his hand up and said, "Please miss, it was St. Andrew." The teacher replied, "I'm sorry Hamish, that's not right either."
Finally, a Jewish boy raised his hand and said, "Please miss, it was Jesus Christ. The teacher said, "That's absolutely right Moishe, come up here and I'll give you your $2."
As the teacher was giving Moishe his money, she said "You know Moishe, you being Jewish, I was very surprised you said Jesus Christ."
Moishe replied, I know Miss, in my heart I knew it was Moses, but business is business!"

2026-01-26 04:50:06 UTC

Dehumanization of women in Islam.
A woman converting to #Islam is like a black person choosing #slavery.
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2026-01-22 19:13:17 UTC

I'm pleased to announce Release Candidate 3 of the #UASF #BIP-110 v0.1 official client: github.com/dathonohm/bitc…
@nprofile…9vg9, @nprofile…p3nw, and @nprofile…4xdt have been updated (see thread).
Thanks to the #Bitcoin community, for your support.
Bitcoin is money!

2026-01-10 07:01:23 UTC

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I want to share an idea with you: write a book or an essay about the shortcomings of Bitcoin, about the false and premature hopes that await careless people.
Newcomers to the Bitcoin world often see and hear rave reviews and don't realize how difficult the path of a Bitcoiner is. I love your podcasts because I hear real-life stories from real people, not slogans and calls to immediately change your life.
Each of your interviewees could write their own part of the book about their mistakes, false expectations, and doubts.
Maybe I'm wrong, but a Bitcoin newbie sees two large camps in the information field: 1) bloggers who scare them, and
2) bloggers who admire Bitcoin and ridicule the former. They are looking for a calm, truthful, and simple conversation. We could write about this. What do you think?

2026-01-10 06:35:51 UTC

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I agree. If we criticize @nprofile…d8n5 from these positions, we appear convincing and consistent: it's better to keep your money yourself than to trust a third party.
But when we say that Saylor convinces people to abandon self-custody in favor of the financial-industrial complex, we're not simply entering a gray area of speculation. We're manipulating public opinion to our advantage, violating the laws of formal logic. It's as if we're smuggling crude hypotheses under the guise of solid arguments. In the same way, socialists gradually instill in us the idea of poverty under the guise of social justice, and Muslims instill in us Sharia law under the guise of social order.

2026-01-09 19:31:02 UTC

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Beisenberg
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Heisenbit
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Heisencoin
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2025-12-26 06:58:07 UTC

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#nevent1q…776q
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2025-12-26 06:56:24 UTC

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2025-12-26 06:52:28 UTC

Exposing Simon Dixon's Double Standards: Beneath the Mask of a Sovereign Individual
npub1546jstdajzf6gw4plvr6z4kpcaxtvl3h0zjdv5gw8tx8uup5d6rq8ef9mt presents himself as a champion against elites, a Bitcoin defender through self-custody, and an anti-imperialist urging everyone to "follow the money." But when you dig deeper into his views, what emerges is a web of contradictions: principles of freedom applied selectively, with criticism driven by personal and religious biases.
1. Selective History in Geopolitics:
He passionately condemns Zionism as colonialism marked by displacement, genocide, and apartheid, framing Israel as a proxy for American military-industrial imperialism. At the same time, he completely overlooks similar historical actions by Arabs and Muslims—from the 7th-century conquests (seizing the Levant and Palestine "by right of the conqueror") to Ottoman expansion, which involved cultural shifts and subjugation.
He rails against Western or Zionist empires but stays silent on Muslim ones. This isn't genuine anti-imperialism; it's biased selectivity with an anti-Western and pro-Islamic tilt.
A real libertarian would reject all conquests equally as violations of individual rights.
2. One-Sided View of Islam:
Dixon portrays Islam as a personal path of peace, tolerance, and resisting oppression (quoting verses like "no compulsion in religion" and limiting jihad to self-defense). Yet he never mentions the dhimmi system—the institutionalized subjugation of non-Muslims in Islamic societies: jizya tax for "protection," restrictions on bearing arms, building new places of worship, equal court testimony, or criticizing Islam.
This creates a clear hierarchy where non-Muslims are second-class citizens, involving economic and social coercion that's incompatible with true equality and non-aggression. By glossing over this, Dixon romanticizes Muslim history as "harmonious," implicitly justifying domination. As a Muslim, his drive comes from a religious sense of duty to "serve humanity," but it makes his anti-oppression stance selective—freedom only on his terms.
2. Fixation on Saylor and Dictating the "Right" Way to Bitcoin:
Day after day in posts, podcasts, and videos, he accuses npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m of serving elites, centralizing Bitcoin via debt, and sabotaging the revolution (custody vs. self-custody). He claims $MSTR is a tool for price manipulation through FUD and potential forced sales.
But on a free market, a sovereign individual should be free to handle their capital any way they choose—whether through leveraged treasuries, ETFs, or derivatives. The risks are theirs alone.
Dixon doesn't just highlight dangers (which could be helpful); he passes moral judgment and prescribes the "one true path" (self-custody only). His manipulation theory falls apart under scrutiny: $MSTR shares drop in response to BTC stagnation, not the reverse—the market naturally punishes leverage.
This obsession comes across as fixation, perhaps psychological or tied to promoting his own agenda/business.
Conclusions:
Behind the "follow the money" mantra lies not objective insight but a subjective ideology—anti-Western, pro-Islamic, laced with collectivist tendencies. Dixon excuses historical hierarchies (like dhimmi), condemns others' choices, and pushes a "revolution" where freedom is reserved for those who align with his vision.
He's valuable for pointing out risks in centralization and leverage, but his stance isn't libertarianism—it's propaganda riddled with double standards.
True freedom means no one dictates your choices: how to hold BTC, whom to criticize, or which history to focus on. No one owes the "revolution" anything against their will. Always test these gurus for consistency—otherwise, their "truth" is just a disguise for control.
#Bitcoin #Libertarianism

2025-12-23 14:42:34 UTC

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My father
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2025-12-22 07:43:28 UTC

ENDdependence
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2025-12-15 12:34:27 UTC

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...and not limited in time...

2025-12-15 04:48:03 UTC

My node is my property. I have the right to harm anyone who spams it. Claire Ostrom's proposal isn't confiscation, but a warning shot followed by lethal force. The scoundrel should pay me for spamming, not the miners. Pay me if you dare :)
#bitcoin #bitcoin_knots
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2025-12-08 06:18:00 UTC

“If I put $100 in #Bitcoin in 2010 I’d have $2.8B now.”
No.
If you bought $100 of Bitcoin in 2010 and watched it go to:
$1k → $100k → $1.7M
and did nothing
Then watched $1.7M go to $170k
and still did nothing
Then watched $170k go to $110M
and still did nothing
Then watched $110M wither to $18M
and still did nothing
Then watched $18M surge to $390M
and still did nothing
Then watched $390M deteriorate to $85M
Then watched $85M climb to $1.6B
and still did nothing
Then watched $1.6B shrink to $390M
and still did nothing
Then watched $390M surge to $2.8B
and then for some reason finally decided to do something…
Then yes, $100 in 2010 would be worth $2.8B today.
Vivek Sen

2025-12-06 06:04:39 UTC

"Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free."
— Irving Layton
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2025-11-28 15:02:59 UTC

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💯 it's me 😊

2025-11-28 15:01:46 UTC

"Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us—and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, a world of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who saunters along.
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth—scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books—might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism.
We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?"
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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2025-11-28 06:47:18 UTC

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Sorry, but could you put it more simply? We're not at a financial conference, after all :) I don't want to sound like an arrogant asshole, but I think you need to change your style from formal to informational.
We often think that if we speak in official language, like bankers, we look smarter and more respectable. But that's a business mistake.
If a consumer doesn't understand how they can use your product, they will go to your competitor.
I read your posts here and didn't understand anything. That's why I asked you a question.
We can divide our clients into different groups, from university smart alecks to Texas farmers. The former will understand the meaning of your posts, while the latter won't. Ultimately, you'll sacrifice the latter for the former. Is that the goal of your business? Even famous brands advertise and explain their products in simple language.
But to win more clients, it's not enough to speak in simple terms. You have to talk about a specific life scenario every time. We understand better when we can visualize what we're being told. That's why you should tell the client a real-life scenario.
For example, you want to buy a coffee and a slice of your favorite pie, but the cafe won't accept your satoshi? No need to look for an exchanger and make the cashier and people in line behind you nervous. We'll pay for your coffee and pie the moment you deposit satoshi in our app...
However, this example will attract a university smart aleck, but it won't convince a Texas farmer. Because it's not from his life. Therefore, you must publish different scenarios for different clients. To do this, you must study the lives of a farmer, a policeman, a petty clerk, a school teacher, an auto mechanic, a store clerk, a taxi driver, or the president.
Pay attention to the pictures in your posts. They don't paint a picture of my life in my mind. Dead buttons, text input fields, dry interface words. People like to look at people, not at information boards. So, if you're writing about a coffee scenario, give me a picture of a cafe, a cashier with a payment terminal. Even better if you give me two pictures: the first negative, where the client is without your product, and the second positive, where you helped them.
Conclusion. Once again, please don't be mad at me. I don't want to seem like an arrogant asshole. I just want to help because your product deserves recognition. Thank you!

2025-11-27 08:50:56 UTC

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2025-11-25 11:22:09 UTC

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#knots will win
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2025-11-22 10:28:17 UTC

Stand Up for Freedom: Pardon the Innocent Coders Jailed for Building Privacy Tools! - Sign the Petition! c.org/2SrLpjTM6d
#freesamurai #bitcoin
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2025-11-22 10:08:34 UTC

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What country are these figures for?

2025-11-22 10:00:37 UTC

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What use cases might your customers have?

2025-11-21 11:22:39 UTC

Free #Samurai
Sign the petition at the link:
https://c.org/bbzMRnYsMz

2025-11-15 13:29:40 UTC

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The second book retold the first book in different words, adding 10% new facts and thoughts. I'm afraid the third book will also repeat the second and first with slight differences.