Yes it depends. I mean, of course, the moral interests.

The "maximalist" question is interesting. I am a maximalist in terms of working for the best interest of my family. I'm not working on behalf of bitcoin. That would make me a slave to it. As I take care of my family, I seek the most moral route to do that I can find. Bitcoin is that route for me, and I don't think it's relative. In other words, bitcoin is objectively moral. As such, no one can convince me to pursue another way. That's the power of the idea for the everyday guy and why I don't worry about the "maximalist" fights.

This seems to disregard the many people who aren't involved in anything you've described. They stack bitcoin (and use it in different ways as I do) in order to take care of their families with as little interference as possible. Every revolutionary cause has to deal with reality, and almost none succeed. That's an interesting study in itself. Bitcoin is a powerful idea, and as such, it's going to go many directions as revolutionary causes often do. As a powerful idea that works remarkably well technically, it has legs, regardless of the personalities and divergent actions they take. The revolution was never going to go in a straight line, and it was always going to get captured in certain ways (it's people afterall). I think, though, regardless of all the things you described above, the revolution will go forward because bitcoin actually works for people like me, the sort of average guy looking to take care of his family and sees that the fiat system cannot provide those long-term values I require to do so. This might very well be me being naive, but I've been in since just after the block-size war, and bitcoin has repeatedly liberated me from the cuffs the system tried to place on me.

I love all tyrants.

if a country can't govern or protect itself, a tyrant is necessary.

that's the way it works. It fixes itself in time.

hope that's me.

Did a 4am memo go out on Israel's genocide?

the best way to never retire is to buy 5-10 acres of raw land and tame it.

Me too. it was all because a sports radio guy talked about it every day in the fall of 2017 and because all the shitcoiners were buying up the graphics cards, which I needed for a video editor upgrade. I had been a lightweight gold guy until then.

I've been to this prison in Bryan. Ghislaine could literally walk away if she wanted to. Last time I was there, there was no fence. Of course that works both ways. Remember, Ghislaine didn't kill herself. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-prison-florida-texas.html

I was suspicious they were also behind the capture of DNA information through companies like 23andMe

good take. The giants needed us too, though. Many of them are gone for various reasons and needed us to pick up the banner after thr block-size war. Bitcoin could have died then, but enough of us rejected b-cash and became hardened in our resolve through the 2018-2020 bear market and the 2021 winter. I'm glad to be a part of the story. Historically speaking, all first decade adopters will be viewed as the monetary visionaries/pioneers.

Are they? Or are they going to let the banks print a shitload of stablecoins? Maybe there isn't a difference.

It was harrowing. Then I spent the next few days up in the mountains watching the planes come in. The left turn was nuts.

how so?

gm all 15k of you.