Bitcoin will never reach global adoption without alignment toward a gift economy. Status by fiat metrics: social media followers, zaps accumulated, fiat wealth accumulation, credentials, luxury signaling, net worth and even hierarchy in Core development is the main source of friction. Merchant and adoption of BTC as a medium of exchange is impossible if it rejects an economy based on giving and gaining status by kindness or selflessness. Satoshi Nakamoto remains the purest example of this. https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/satoshi-nakamoto

If you are not debating with your ai, you are brainwashing yourself. Truth and consensus cannot come from centralizing knowledge and reality to a single authority.

@Roland @Adam Back @Blockstream A publicly documented fact the BIP-110 debate deserves to know: Fulgur Ventures is the lead investor in Blockstream’s latest funding round. Fulgur Ventures also invested in Alby. An Alby developer this week launched OP_RETURN Social — a base-layer data protocol explicitly designed to be “BIP-110 compatible.” Paid ads are already being run on Nostr to seed adoption before lock-in. This is coordinated conflict of interest. The financial relationships are documented. The timing is not a coincidence. When the same VC funds both the infrastructure company AND the developer opposing the UASF that threatens that infrastructure - that’s not organic opposition. Undisclosed conflicts of interest belong in the open. Highly unethical and unprofessional. If you support core, it’s time you started to think about why we use Bitcoin and if this is the kind of immature and antisocial behavior you want to support. #bip110