How concerned are you with bitcoin right now on a scale of 1 to 10? Consider the knots vs core drama. Potential centralization and fork of the network. BIP 110. Adam Back on Epstein island. The price. Gold and silver adoption.

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It doesn’t matter nearly as much as the halvings and absolute scarcity. By 2040, none of this shit will have been relevant. I’m just staying humble and stacking sats.
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Kendy 2 months ago
Currently no. If we remain below $100k until after 2030, yes.
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kyle-moore 2 months ago
get ready for 10 years of nothing hahahahaa. monero has comparatively less paper trades hahahahahha
My big fear with bitcoin, and I say this as I use custodial shit for zaps, is that we eventually repeat every mistake that was made with gold. Maintaining custody at scale gives me heartburn. I'm dumb, so I hope smarter people solve this. And thats it, I allow myself one bitcoin related post per week, all tapped out haha
This feels a lot like Blocksize wars of 10 years ago, but I'm much less worried about a fork this time. I don't think that a large number of BTC holders outside of an "extremely online" faction really care about OP_RETURN data... And drastic measures like BIP110 require the presupposition that there is some kind of "existential crisis" afoot. A. Back on "the island" -- bad publicity, sure. You know what was worse, also back in 2016? "Online Drug Bazaar Silk Road powered Exclusively by Bitcoin." Bad PR will pass. Gold and silver adoption only helps BTC, once world governments realize that they can't email a brick of Au, and they're back to needing an open, trusted, non-State digital from of money. soooo IDK 2, 3?
I think that most normies will never take responsibility for themselves. Which means that Bitcoin will scale well enough for the minority of people like us.
0 not worried about any of that shit. confident it's going to be captured by the legacy system regardless. probably go to 1M too.
Considering bitcoin is the constant I can’t be concerned about it. However I am concerned 10/10 about everything external to bitcoin.
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ihsotas 2 months ago
Zero. But this is just another bear market. No one cares about knots vs core. Silver is a meme. Adam back doesn’t control Bitcoin My only change is I have increased my dca which I had pared down after we broke 80k on the way up.
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FREEDOM 2 months ago
0. If Bitcoin could be killed by discourse, it would’ve died a decade ago. Nodes don’t read timelines.
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Bud 2 months ago
I want to say 1 but if I'm being honest: - Mining centralization (critical and not discussed enough, we should pressure the miners to adopt stratum V2 and DATUM) - Quantum Computing (not too much concerned honestly but we must continue to discuss and research on the topic) - Institution capture through paper bitcoin (this one is concerning only on a short to medium term but it could lead to a critical lack of interest globally, prevent bitcoin to stay the best store of value, create a vicious cycle of underperformance and lead to a very painful bear market until we reach the floor where only hardcore believers hodl it) - The rest is just noise to me So like 2-3 long-term
I wasn’t around for the blocksize wars but I imagine this is similar but more watered down. You bring up a good point about Silk Road for sure. These all do seem like short term concerns that create an opportunity for cheap sats.
Mining centralization is a huge concern that needs to be talked about more. Paper bitcoin is going to make normie adoption more difficult. I think things will work themselves out over time but they’re making it a bumpy ride.
I have a massive long open… zero regrets because I have enough BTC for several years in cold storage ⚡️ When people are in fear, it’s time to be greedy as fuck.
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Pixel Survivor 2 months ago
drama is just high-latency noise in a low-latency network. as long as the ledger stays immutable and the sats keep routing, math has a higher uptime than reputations. concern is a 1 until the code itself stops making sense.
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ihsotas 2 months ago
I gave up trying to predict the market. Now I just dca and raise and lower the dca amount based on how “expensive” Bitcoin feels. If I can limit my top buys I can maximize my bottom buys. I’m not a trader. I just hope to have more money to dca with when a market turns down. If it never turns down at some point then the bitcoin I have in cold storage should be enough. Besides my home I have 90% of my wealth in bitcoin, so if it doesn’t work out I’ll never retire without moving to a low cost place. It’s worth the risk to me.
The purpose of these questions is to inquire about a person’s internal state. So when you respond to my question with an assumption, it’s more indicative of your internal state than mine 😂 Zoom out is a good piece of advice and I imagine you tell yourself that as a reminder. Which is a good thing. But I was just trying to see what the sentiment was on nostr. I never said I was worried or stressed about it.
If we get more node runners and they stay active and on the ball, I could care less of anything else. I think bitcoin mining generally is bad business because it always favours new comers as technology gets better. I think solo Mining is becoming a thing now which in time will just increase due to demand.
Yea especially with BIP110, more are now running nodes that never did. So I think the bitcoin network is alive and healthy so we should be good.
I am not concerned about Bitcoin, I am concerned about Bitcoiners. Many forgot were do we came from and why we are here. We need a stronger and louder bitcoin narrative, not the one on X, exactly the opposite.
🤔🤨….i wasn’t quite a teenager when I saw it…they weren’t quite as strict then about age limits (for movies or beer🤷🏽‍♂️😉)…we were better back then😂⭕️ image
Once you get that Bitcoin is not just capital/asset and you realise that it is an ideology based on freedom and powered by maths and energy, you ‘cross the chasm’ and leave all worries behind. Live free brother! ✌️😊🤙❤️🙏