Bitcoin Uncensored? Great show!

A lot of people think my interview with Roger Ver was a turning point when I left the church of Bitcoin maximalism In fact, I started questioning it when the culture became obviously non-libertarian during the pandemic Asking Gary Gensler’s SEC to label everything other than BTC as an unregistered security Defending KYC & weird surveillance practices, by saying that at least the service is “Bitcoin only and doesn’t support any shitcoin” Slaying guys like Andreas Antonopoulos who honestly is the reason many of us stuck around Pushing idiots with nothing interesting to say to speak on conference stages just because they are “bullish” Shitting on projects that have been nothing but nice and supportive to Bitcoin (Litecoin, Zcash) and others that do what Bitcoin cannot (Ethereum, Monero) Replacing reason with dogma and enforcing everything with a weird sense of self-confidence that stalls progress Acting like any network upgrade is an attack, despite intensive testing on other compatible networks Vilifying developers to the point that they ragequit to build something else, while those who stay are incentivized to play along with the meme culture just to earn a paycheck Worshipping Saylor, who is against the values of Bitcoin’s early days Sucking up to politicians and selling out to government agencies because “everything is good for Bitcoin” and “Honeybadger don’t care” Pretending that a federation like Liquid is decentralized and the L-BTC token is actually bitcoin (the market chose Ethereum for this use case, lol) Repeating lies about Lightning Network’s success, when the project has been stagnating in terms of liquidity for years Acting like bitcoin adoption in El Salvador (mostly custodial, surveilled by the state) is going the way it’s supposed to and other countries should copy the same example Looking the other way while bitcoin payments get replaced by stablecoins and BTC adoption was in fact higher a decade ago Changing history and erasing the contributions of OGs only to appeal to institutional investors that may make the number go up (who still remembers Gavin Andresen or Mike Hearn?) Making up narratives on the go, manufacturing fake news in order to manipulate the market sentiment and get another pump Suppressing conversations about serious improvement proposals, which would help Bitcoin scale to 8 billion people and offer monetary fungibility Keeping builders away from Bitcoin with a hostile and cocky attitude which assumes victory before any significant battle has been won Not giving a fuck about the disappearance of privacy products & research (Ethereum raised millions of dollars to defend the Tornado Cash devs, while bitcoiners simply shrugged when Samourai devs got arrested) Normalizing a culture of complacency where you’re afraid of saying something wrong (or even remotely different from the social consensus) because you might just be excommunicated Promoting sheepish mediocrity while pushing away radical reformists (Paul Sztorc, Jeremy Rubin) Forgetting history (today was UASF day, does anyone still remember?) Never giving the benefit of the doubt to other networks that build cool shit, only because they have tokens which compete with bitcoin —————————- I could go on all day, but I am sick of the hypocrisy and double standards. Toxic Bitcoin maximalism is an inconsistent mess A fucking death cult that leaves no true Scotsman standing Though it may seem like a resilient culture, it ultimately leads to fragility via stagnation ————————

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I hereby open the season for Mario Paint marketing Bitcoin Takeover podcast, baby! Show me your shameless self-promotion in Nintendo’s finest 1992 creative tool (which they just added to Nintendo Switch)

Happy 10th anniversary, Ethereum! Thank you for proving me (and an entire class of BTC maxis) wrong, you’ve always managed to DeFi the negative expectations To learn more about the Bitcoin 2.0 origins of the project, listen to my interview with Vitalik Buterin https://www.youtube.com/live/l8vt5P3chwk

My girlfriend has painted this beautiful still art Pepe, featuring the Satoshi era Bitcoin “BC” logo If there’s any art collector out there who would like to buy this, hit me up! It’s for a good caise: she’s trying to pay for med school to become a dentist! 🦷

Been seeing lots of reports about bitcoin OGs who sell their early 2010s bags to institutions That’s cool, but the question is: what will they buy now? Pretty sure they will get nice houses & cars, but they will also search for the next bitcoin. So what’s the next bitcoin?

Finally caught up with the Creed movies, watched all 3 of them in co evenings. As a fan of the Rocky franchise, they’re great – and the ones in which Sylvester Stallone plays Rocky are even better. But they aren’t as memorable as the first 4 Rocky films, not even close. Mostly because Creed 1 & 2 copy story elements and lean too much on characters from the original series. And also because Creed’s struggles feel less meaningful and his training montages aren’t as cool as Rocky’s. Anyway, they’re nice if you’re into boxing and motivational storylines. I use them for boosting my motivation to hit the gym!

Get a Lexus hybrid, they said It’s reliable, it’s bulletproof, it lasts forever Toyota/Lexus hybrids? The best in the industry! 10 year warranty! Oh, it’s hot outside? Hybrid system malfunction. Can’t drive 1m to the nearest service, gotta call a platform to pick you up. Fuck this shit, I’m gonna sell this hybrid junk and get a gas guzzler that never lets me down. Any recommendations?

Dude someone puts a gun to your head and you pretend it’s non-lethal because you can’t verify the authenticity of it? It’s really stupid. Closed source software you cannot verify in any way can already steal your bitcoin today. What are we even talking about?

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“Japan defines the laws of physics, getting nuked is impossible and nobody is ready for that truth”

Had it serviced a couple of months ago, the mechanics told me that it’s in great condition and will last 15 years easily with no major repairs 😂

In about 3 hours I will interview He’ll talk about BIP 360, the threat that quantum computers might pose for Bitcoin, plus some RGB stuff Winternitz or Lamport signatures? Tune in to learn more!

I miss the time when luxury in a car meant leather seats and little to no plastic As opposed to having a large touch screen tablet in the middle of the dashboard and RGB ambient lights

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Next year: “If you buy stocks in a Bitcoin Treasury Company but the bitcoin itself gets stolen, you still have the same underlying asset because an Excel entry exists on somebody’s computer. Nothing has changed. Bitcoin Treasury Companies = BTC, few understand this.”

These are some of her recent paintings. She can also do digital art on her iPad (see my profile pic). You can message her on telegram at annie.dst

The Supra Cycle price model aka a line I drew on a chart 2 years ago turned out to be a much more accurate price prediction model for bitcoin than anything your favorite bitcoin bull ever said this is what precision looks like!

I did my best to compress the information into something anyone can read. Might write a proper book too if there’s demand for it.

Back in the gym for another intense workout Today I’m wearing the BitKit t-shirt that I received from at BTC Prague this year I wasn’t kidding when I said I have a lot of conference t-shirts to wear!