Humanity is going to do just fine without an immutable database of arbitrary data, but is completely fuçk3d if we don't have Bitcoin as MONEY. We only get one chance. Run Knots, hurry up.

If bitcoin was highly valuable as money by the entire world population, and the block subsidy was zero, and fee revenue for miners was next to nothing, how much would an ASIC cost? Very little right? Does that make it easier or harder to get 51% of all of them and attack Bitcoin? The cheap machines would be attractive to attackers, but also to those with wealth wanting to defend their own wealth. What's important is not precisely calculating today what percentage of attackers and defenders there will be then, but acknowledging the fact that fees are not required for the competitive nature of mining to remain, and that being that case, it still defends Bitcoin, and all talk of tail emission should be stopped immediately.

If you imagine being an outside observer of the entire universe, you'll see an incredibly vast and highly complex system that sparsley sprouts pockets of replicative self-aware blobs (life), unable to fully appreciate what exists, and mostly just absorbed with themselves rather than all that exists.

Provide value to humans, receive value in exchange, store excess in sats. Don't try to cheat reality with leverage and "borrowing against your Bitcoin".

My public official statement for the record, and any future subpoenas. I, @parman_the, will NOT downgrade to the next version of Bitcoin Core (v30). I do not support or welcome any data that v30 will invite. In addition, I will aggressively filter all non financial data (indiscriminately with no knowledge of content or external meaning) to the best of my ability. I wish to distance myself from this attack vector. My own software, Parmanode has disabled v30 downloads. I will continue to buy bitcoin aggressively and use it to store my wealth, but have no interest in the arbitrary data storage capabilities of Bitcoin. I will help anyone who wishes to do the same.

If you draw a dick on a bank cheque, the teller can ask you to rewrite it - your money can still move. Same with Bitcoin and filters. That is not censorship, it's rules of the house.

Was blocked by Peter Todd today after I called out his evil for celebrating the attack on Russian civilians. True colours on display, and no amount of contribution to Bitcoin should give anyone a free pass for being evil.

I hate censorship. Filtering out non-monetary data on Bitcoin is objective, and is not censorship at all... Because Bitcoin isn't a general speech platform - it is a specific speech platform allowing the movement of bitcoin. There already exists an unstoppable speech platform, notes and other things transmitted over relays (NOSTR). No transfer of Bitcoin from one address to another can be censored from Bitcoin. Payments are essentially censorship resistant. Arbitrary data is not, and should not be - that'd be inventing a different purpose for Bitcoin. If a particular transfer got blocked because it has arbitrary data, the exact same transfer can be reattempted without the arbitrary data and it will get through. Inscriptions data inside an "if false(data)" block is objectively not part of the attempts to make a financial transaction. It is objectively added on as arbitrary data. It can be filtered out without stopping the movement of that particular UTXO. The perpetrator can simply republish the transaction without the arbitrary data and the exact same satoshis will move where they want it to go. Does this kind of argument have a place, Gloria?

Let's aim for zero government, in the same way that we aim for zero rape.

ParmanodL has a new recycle bin:

I used bitcoin again today by not selling any.

Sounds awesome. It would be very helpful if you could list all potential weakness and trade offs, or is it perfect in every way?

When watching a Netflix series, it's fun to play the game, "which character isn't randomly gay?"

Quick reminder, cholesterol is not a toxin and neither is CO2

My website, with my FREE #Bitcoin educational guides and articles is getting a lot of hits... If you'd like to advertise on the site, kindly GFY. 😜

It's important to have a government, otherwise it'll be the Wild West, and whoever has the most guns will control the population and make up whatever rules they want. Wait.

When your wife is upset and yelling about something stupid, don't say, "cool story, mate" - nothing good happens.

If government had it's way, ALL interactions between humans would be regulated.

Did you know, door manufacturers, after October 31, will no longer produce doors with locks, because locks on doors don't stop crime. I could explain but the way locks work is quite technical, you wouldn't get it. Instead, I'll get Shinobi to run Adam Hack's X account to explain to people how locks technically work (eDuCaTiON) to distract them from what's going on. There will also be debates and forums on spaces. If you don't like it, just use windows instead of doors, or build your own doors.