“Now, with Gods help, I will become myself” ❤️ GM

Bitcoin is hope but people fear change, nihilism and hedonism will proliferate for a while yet.

“Ownership is what you can defend. The only form of intellectual property is a secret.” - @jimbocoin 🃏

When fiat NPCs think you’re weird, pay them no mind. To be “normal” in fiat clown world of Sodom and Gomorrah would be the bigger insult. Be kind and revolt!

In the nicest way possible, GFY.

Keep going, be kind. PoW will always beat the alternative. Shortcuts always cost more (time / money) and things rarely go as planned.

“It’s co-opted, used as a SoV only” “No one uses it as freedom money” This is false, defeatism or intentionally deceptive logic to justify shitcoins. Time will continue to show this, there are many places missing in the secondary picture. Oh how far we’ve come, and how far we have yet to go! 🧡

I love going to conferences. Because I usually never actually go to the conference itself. I go to see the plebs, it rejuvenates my soul. To connect with more likeminded folks, see what your friends and others are working on, to share ideas, to be heard, challenged, accepted. To strive for more, to honor the social contract. Every time Erik & I are going to the same conference, we get an air bnb for it and throw a hobo bbq. It’s always better than hotels, you get to decompress with the boys in a more luxurious and comfortable setting. The BBQ has zero expectations, so it’s always a raging success 😂 this year was hilarious, @Rod Palmer 📯 Bugle News #40HPW🎧 got nuked! And someone actually brought something to grill 😆 We also got to go @swissalice wedding, which was beautiful and officiated by the one & only @UNCLE ROCKSTAR. Their vowels were as perfect as anything human can be, and I wish them all the best 🧡🤝 The reminded me of another aspect that I love when “going to these conferences”, it’s where plebs meet the love of their lives, and in the end, love ultimately always wins (thank god). Thank you to all I saw, I’d missed you, and I am cheering for your success! I won’t be at another conference for a very long time, as I’m starting a family. God bless you all and I look forward to our next hobo bbq 🧡

“Well… this paragraph seems quite prophetic to what’s happening today…” - dirtbag commenting on this pastebin from 2012! Line 1335. https://t.co/YxajQr70sJ If I were the US Government and had co-opted the "core" Bitcoin dev team, you know what I'd do? I'd encourage ground-up alternate implementations knowing damn well that the kind of people dumb enough to work on them expecting to create a viable competitor anytime soon aren't going to succeed. Every time anyone tried mining with one, I'd use my knowledge of all the ways they are incompatible to fork them, making it clear they can't be trusted for mining. Then I'd go a step further and "for the good of Bitcoin" create a process by which regular soft-forks and hard-forks happened so that Bitcoin can be "improved" in various ways, maybe every six months. Of course, I'd involve those alternate implementations in some IETF-like standards process for show, but all I would have to do to keep them marginalized and the majority of hashing power using the approved official implementation is slip the odd consensus bug into their code; remember how it was recently leaked that the NSA spends $250 million a year on efforts to insert flaws into encryption standards and commercial products. With changes every six months the alts will never keep up. Having accomplished political control, the next step is pushing the development of the Bitcoin core protocol in ways that further my goals, such as scalability solutions that at best allow for auditing, rather waiting until protocols are developed, tested, and accepted by the community that support fully decentralized mining.