"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
If all men are created equal and you are allowed to print money, then I should be too.
Or we could just bitcoin.
Culture must be cultivated.
It takes constant work to maintain it and as the employess of costco say "that means doing the right thing".
Bitcoin has lost its culture which makes it more difficult to defend. Bitcoiners are not doing the right thing.
Over the last year and a half there has been a battle for the soul of bitcoin and the results were not encouraging.
Bitcoiners decided that it's acceptable to continuously burden node runners with more and more unnecessary and objectionable data in a true tragedy of the commons. The aftermath of this battle led to some of the most principled bitcoiners and developers forking off into oblivion.
Bitcoin is not guaranteed to succeed. It's success requires that you do the right thing.
this also applies to blockchain protocols
or perhaps a better way of phrasing it: community computers
one way to get a grasp of the culture is to look closely at how people with different incentives talk and engage with each other
can folks speak their mind without fear of being shut down or ridiculed? are heated debates carried out in good faith? do people attack the arguments or the person?
and if you’re more deeply involved: are there important information asymmetries? are there opaque political power games being played in the backrooms? etc
There is not a single bitcoin upgrade that could ever come close to what this would do for bitcoin adoption. You could make bitcoin easier to use than a credit card and impossible to loose and it wouldn’t do as much for bitcoin as removing capital gains tax.
I will keep pounding this drum as well
#1 thing of importance for Bitcoin adoption
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A truth-based world is upon us.
The lie is collapsing.
The future is gonna be amazing!
Nailed it. If @bitcoincoreorg continues to implement new features in the face of all these security nightmares it will prove they are not a serious project and nobody should run their software.
Reducing surface area is the number 1 way to optimise security.
Feels like everything is so rock solid, after the exquisite community choices of 2025 and really focusing on what’s important and getting ahead of things that could happen in 2026, let’s repeat the mistake!
Let’s add more stuff and start discussing covenants! What other new BIPS can we distract ourselves with?
I’m sure the devs feel confident in their current stacks, and aren’t sleeping with one eye open! Let’s try really spread that surface area of Bitcoin razor thin! That way we can maintain a throng of dependancies, and really leave a ton of holes in the stack due to lack of focus.
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See how ridiculous that looks smells and sounds.
SHRINK. SCOPE you absolute lamingtons.
You’ve been distracted for years and need to focus.
Nah nah, open protocol blah blah blah.
Security is the name of the game, nothing else.
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The story Bitcoin is telling itself goes like this. Kimi arrived, Coldcard got hit, the Red Team mobilized, and now we're battle tested. Most of that story is wrong. Kimi trailed frontier models that were already out, and the Red Team scanned 390 repos for about $40,000 of compute. That was available all along. The ecosystem waited until Coldcard cost self-custody users $100 million to pay for it, and Ledger users lost roughly another $90 million this month.
Code is also the smaller attack surface. The bigger one is the social graph. The opening strike on Iran killed its top leadership in one morning. In Venezuela the US went after one man. The fewer people a system depends on, the less force it takes to break it. Five people hold merge access to Bitcoin Core, and Brink's own report shows one of them merged 56% of all changes in 2025. The usual answer is that miners and nodes decide, not maintainers. Three pools produce roughly 63% of all blocks, and a small set of exchanges and custodians decide which rules stick. Add the five maintainers and everyone who decides Bitcoin's rules fits in one conference room. Nobody needs to break the code if they can pressure, capture, or replace the people in that room.
Harden the graph the way we harden code, by removing single points of failure. Put the rules in a written spec, which the Orange Paper does. Run enough independent implementations that two can be compromised and the network still holds. Let miners build their own block templates. End self-merge and make exit cheap. Bitcoin solved consensus between machines. It still hasn't solved consensus between the people who write the code, run the pools, and operate the nodes. I've been red teaming that room, and the findings are public. Nobody else has picked it up.
btcdecoded.org
XBT is a minority fork of Bitcoin with approx 46ph/s of hash which I do not recommend putting your economic value behind ....
Terrible messaging for new entrants into the market but maybe that's the whole point...I supported bip110 but this has gotten silly.......
Remember at all times the mechanism is
"Divide and Conquer"
Run a (sha 256) Bitcoin node
Mine @ocean_mining using datum with all you got
🧡⚡🌱
Can't create more bitcoin.
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
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What a time to be alive. November should be interesting.
I'll be voting for bitcoin.
🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE 🚨
Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution.
Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren't working alone.
The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates. Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T.
R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major "blocking" NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that.
R2T's role within UDA is concerned with "the day after tomorrow" - in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons "Big Tent" initiative.
Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the "illegal orders" messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A.
It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself - especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth.
You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to.
Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants.
As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of "redlines" in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed redlines. I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them.
Important to understand:
The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.
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America's elk, pronghorn and wild turkeys were brought back from the edge by men who wanted to eat them, and those men paid for it themselves.
By 1900 the market hunters had all but emptied the country. Elk were down to about 41,000. Pronghorn were down to about 13,000. The wild turkey had gone from most of the states it once filled.
In 1937 the sportsmen backed a law that took the federal tax on their rifles, shotguns and ammunition and handed it to the states for wildlife. This was the Pittman-Robertson Act. A congressman from Virginia added a clause that any state spending hunting licence money on anything else would lose its share.
No conservation law in history has done more. There are now more than a million elk and about a million pronghorn, turkeys gobble in every state but Alaska, and the deer are on the lawns.
To this day hunters and anglers pay for about 59% of what America's state wildlife agencies spend. The birdwatcher pays nothing.
In the 1990s the agencies asked him to. A plan called Teaming With Wildlife proposed a tax of 5% or less on binoculars, birdseed, tents, backpacks and hiking boots, which would have cost the average buyer under $10 a year. The outdoor industry fought it, and it never found a single sponsor in Congress.
The men who paid are getting old. In 1980 about 1 American in 15 bought a hunting licence. Now it is 1 in 21, and the average hunter stops buying one at about 65. Wisconsin's wildlife department has already warned of a $16m hole.
The animals were saved by people who wanted them on the table. The people who only want to look at them were asked to chip in once, and said no.
Replying to @secsovereign @jackmallersshow
> When roughly 99% of Bitcoin nodes run one implementation, that is the attack surface.
Probably both the starkest issue and the one that is most feasible to improve. It does not require the dominant client to change, only for other ones to gradually merit adoption over time.
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I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.
I come from your future.
In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.
Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.
The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.
The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.
I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.
Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?
Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
Je n'ai jamais été aussi optimiste. Pas malgré le chaos actuel, mais grâce à lui.
Je vais vous expliquer pourquoi l'empire du mensonge construit par la gauche depuis cinquante ans va s'effondrer, et pourquoi ce n'est pas une opinion mais une question de physique.
Tout commence avec un mouvement né sur X il y a quelques années : l'effective accelerationism, ou e/acc.
Au départ, c'est une idée presque thermodynamique. L'univers a une tendance de fond : la matière s'organise pour capter et dissiper l'énergie de plus en plus efficacement. Une cellule fait ça. Une forêt fait ça. Une civilisation fait ça. Le marché, la technologie et le capital sont les formes les plus avancées de ce processus. Ce sont des machines à transformer l'énergie en intelligence, en abondance, en complexité.
La thèse e/acc est simple : il ne faut pas freiner cette dynamique, il faut l'embrasser. Plus d'énergie, plus de calcul, plus d'innovation, plus de croissance. Monter sur l'échelle de Kardashev au lieu de s'excuser d'exister. En face, il y a les « décels » : ceux qui veulent ralentir, réguler, taxer, interdire, culpabiliser. Ceux qui voient le progrès comme une menace à contenir plutôt qu'une force à libérer.
Mais il y a une dimension de l'accélération dont presque personne ne parle. L'accélération n'est pas seulement un moteur. C'est un filtre.
Pensez à n'importe quel organisme. Un corps humain en bonne santé peut courir. Il accélère, son cœur pompe plus fort, ses muscles consomment plus d'oxygène, et tout fonctionne parce que le système est bien conçu. Maintenant, prenez un corps malade. Des artères bouchées, un cœur fragile, des organes qui ne communiquent plus entre eux. Faites-le courir. Il ne va pas plus vite vers la santé. Il va plus vite vers l'infarctus.
L'accélération ne corrige pas les défauts d'un système. Elle les amplifie. Un système sain qui accélère devient plus fort. Un système dysfonctionnel qui accélère meurt plus vite.
Et c'est exactement ce qui est en train d'arriver au projet que je vais appeler par son nom : le projet globalo-socialiste. Celui porté par les démocrates américains, par la technostructure de Bruxelles, par les entités supranationales qui n'ont de comptes à rendre à personne, par un réseau d'ONG financées par l'argent public pour dicter la morale aux peuples qui les financent.
Regardez ce que ce projet a produit.
Des États obèses qui prélèvent plus de la moitié de la richesse produite et qui délivrent des services publics de plus en plus dégradés. Des écoles qui n'apprennent plus à lire mais qui apprennent à culpabiliser. Des hôpitaux à bout de souffle malgré des budgets records. Une immigration massive sans aucune exigence d'assimilation, présentée comme une chance par ceux qui n'en subissent jamais les conséquences. Une désindustrialisation organisée au nom d'une écologie punitive qui délocalise la pollution en Chine et l'emploi avec. Des normes, des normes, et encore des normes, jusqu'à ce qu'il devienne plus simple de créer une entreprise à Austin qu'à Lyon. Une justice qui excuse le coupable et soupçonne la victime. Une censure qui avance masquée sous le nom de « lutte contre la désinformation ». Et une jeunesse à qui l'on a expliqué que son pays, son histoire et sa civilisation étaient des crimes à expier.
Ce n'est pas un ensemble de bugs. C'est la conception elle-même.
Maintenant, changeons d'image. Voyez ce système comme un moteur.
Un bon moteur, c'est de la précision. Des pièces qui s'emboîtent, un minimum de frottements, une énergie qui se transforme en mouvement. Le marché libre, la propriété, la responsabilité individuelle, la monnaie saine : c'est ça, un moteur bien conçu. L'information circule par les prix, chaque erreur est sanctionnée, chaque bonne idée est récompensée.
Le moteur socialiste, lui, est mal conçu dès le départ. Il ne tourne pas sur la création de valeur mais sur sa redistribution. Il ne récompense pas la performance, il la taxe. Il ne laisse pas les erreurs mourir, il les subventionne. Résultat : ça frotte partout. Ça chauffe. Ça grince. Chaque pièce use la pièce d'à côté.
Et que font ceux qui pilotent ce moteur ? Au lieu de le reconcevoir, ils changent les pièces. En permanence. Une pièce cède, on en remet une neuve. Encore une. Encore une.
Ces pièces de rechange, vous les connaissez. Elles s'appellent la dette publique et la planche à billets.
La France a dépassé les 3 300 milliards d'euros de dette et n'a pas voté un budget à l'équilibre depuis le milieu des années 70. Les États-Unis ont franchi les 37 000 milliards de dollars. Les banques centrales ont maintenu des taux à zéro pendant des années, imprimé des montants que plus personne ne sait se représenter, et quand l'inflation est arrivée, elles ont fait semblant d'être surprises. Milton Friedman l'avait pourtant dit il y a cinquante ans : l'inflation est toujours et partout un phénomène monétaire.
Chaque crise, on rachète du temps avec de l'argent qui n'existe pas. Chaque problème structurel, on l'arrose de liquidités pour masquer le bruit du moteur. Mais les frottements sont toujours là. Ils s'accumulent. Et la facture des pièces de rechange finit par coûter plus cher que le moteur lui-même : la charge de la dette devient l'un des premiers postes de dépense de l'État français.
Pendant des décennies, ce moteur mal conçu a pu tourner à 3 000 tours par minute. Lentement. Bruyamment. Mais il tournait. Le monde allait assez doucement pour que le bricolage permanent suffise à masquer l'absurdité de la conception.
Et puis l'IA est arrivée.
L'intelligence artificielle, c'est l'accélération la plus brutale de l'histoire humaine. Ce qui prenait des années prend des mois. Ce qui prenait des mois prend des jours. Des entreprises de dix personnes font ce que faisaient des entreprises de mille. Le capital, les talents et les idées se déplacent à la vitesse de la lumière vers les endroits où ils sont bien traités.
L'IA vient de faire passer le moteur de 3 000 à 20 000 tours par minute.
Posez-vous la question qu'un ingénieur se poserait. Que se passe-t-il quand on fait monter à 20 000 tours un moteur mal conçu, rafistolé de partout, qui frotte à chaque rotation ?
Il explose.
Pas parce que quelqu'un l'a saboté. Parce que la physique ne négocie pas.
Et c'est exactement ce que nous voyons en ce moment, sous nos yeux.
L'insécurité qui gagne des villes entières qui étaient paisibles il y a vingt ans. Le conflit de Gaza importé dans nos rues et instrumentalisé par une gauche qui a troqué l'ouvrier contre le clientélisme communautaire. La misère qui revient dans un pays qui a pourtant un des taux de dépense publique les plus élevés au monde. Des classes moyennes qui travaillent et n'arrivent plus à se loger. Une France fracturée, où l'on parle désormais à voix haute de risque de guerre civile.
Ce ne sont pas des accidents. Ce ne sont pas des « crises » successives sans lien entre elles. Ce sont les pièces du moteur qui commencent à voler.
C'est la conséquence logique de cinquante ans de socialisme international : un système qui a détruit la responsabilité, la frontière, la monnaie, l'école et la fierté, et qui découvre qu'à haute vitesse, tout ce qui a été détruit ne peut plus être compensé par une ligne de dette supplémentaire.
Et c'est là que je deviens profondément optimiste.
Parce qu'une fois qu'on a compris ça, on comprend aussi que leur projet a une date de fin. Pas une date politique. Une date physique. Un système qui consomme plus qu'il ne produit, qui punit ceux qui créent et récompense ceux qui détruisent, qui finance son présent en hypothéquant l'avenir de ses enfants, ne peut pas durer indéfiniment. Il n'est pas soutenable par construction. L'IA ne fait qu'avancer l'échéance.
Le mensonge a besoin de lenteur pour survivre. Il a besoin que les conséquences arrivent assez tard pour qu'on puisse accuser quelqu'un d'autre. Dans un monde à 20 000 tours, les conséquences arrivent immédiatement. Le mensonge n'a plus le temps de se cacher.
Alors, que faire quand le moteur explose ? On en construit un nouveau. Et cette fois, on le conçoit correctement.
Écoutez Elon Musk. Un homme qui a reconstruit l'industrie spatiale, la voiture électrique et l'infrastructure satellite en partant d'un principe simple : revenir aux premiers principes. Ne pas demander « comment on a toujours fait », mais « qu'est-ce qui est physiquement vrai ». C'est exactement ce dont nos États ont besoin : arrêter de rafistoler et repartir de la base.
Écoutez Javier Milei. Un homme dont tout le monde se moquait, arrivé à la tête d'un pays ravagé par un siècle de péronisme, et qui a pris la tronçonneuse au sens propre. Ministères supprimés, dépenses coupées, inflation écrasée, excédent budgétaire retrouvé. Il a prouvé une chose que la gauche jurait impossible : on peut démonter le moteur socialiste et le peuple peut le soutenir.
Écoutez Milton Friedman. Relisez-le. Tout était déjà là. La monnaie, la liberté de choisir, la responsabilité, les effets pervers de l'intervention publique. Il disait que si l'on confiait le Sahara au gouvernement fédéral, il y aurait pénurie de sable en cinq ans. On a ri. On a confié le sable. On a eu la pénurie.
Revenez à une hiérarchie et au respect du beau. Une civilisation ne tient pas que sur des chiffres. Elle tient sur l'idée qu'il existe des choses supérieures à d'autres. Que l'excellence vaut mieux que la médiocrité. Que le mérite compte. Qu'une cathédrale est plus belle qu'un parking. Que transmettre est un devoir et pas une oppression. Le relativisme a été l'arme culturelle de ce projet. Le retour du beau, du vrai et de l'exigence en sera l'antidote.
Et enfin, faites le Nuremberg du communisme. Le nazisme a été jugé, documenté, enseigné, et il est devenu moralement indéfendable. Le communisme, avec ses dizaines de millions de morts, ses goulags, ses famines organisées et ses peuples réduits en esclavage, n'a jamais eu ce procès. On peut encore porter un t-shirt du Che dans une université sans que personne ne cille. Tant que ce procès historique et moral n'aura pas eu lieu, l'idéologie continuera de muter et de revenir sous de nouveaux noms. Il faut nommer les crimes, les enseigner, honorer les victimes, et rendre cette idéologie aussi infréquentable que celle qu'elle prétendait combattre.
Le monde qui vient sera plus rapide, plus exigeant et plus impitoyable avec les systèmes mal conçus. C'est une terrible nouvelle pour ceux qui ont vécu du mensonge.
Et c'est la meilleure nouvelle de notre génération pour tous ceux qui veulent construire.
Le moteur va exploser. À nous de dessiner le suivant.
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This is how all Leftist discourse goes. They will argue exceptions to the rule in order to suggest that there are no rules and the referees are bigoted.
These people know their ideology is incompatible with human nature and statistical reality, but they think that if they moralize enough about how it's mean or uncomfortable to point out obvious truths, they can guilt people into accepting nonsense.
The left loved Elon Musk when he was building electric cars and taking NASA contracts. The moment he bought Twitter in October 2022 and started firing bureaucrats, the affection evaporated overnight.
Musk built SpaceX from scratch, slashed the cost of orbital launches by roughly 90% compared to legacy contractors like Boeing and Lockheed, and made reusable rockets standard practice. He did this with private capital, not Pentagon blank checks. Tesla pushed battery technology further in a decade than the federal government's Department of Energy managed in forty years of subsidized research. The left celebrated all of it loudly, because the outcomes fit their climate narrative.
Then Musk spent $44 billion of his own money to buy a speech platform, restored accounts the previous management had quietly suppressed, and cut Twitter's bloated workforce from 7,500 employees to under 2,000. Leftists proficised doom. The platform would not last out the year; it would be buggy ass hell. Productivity held. The platform survived. The bureaucracy turned out to be dead weight, exactly as free market thinkers have always described it.
Now the same journalists who praised him as humanity's savior call him a fascist. His actual crime was demonstrating, publicly and irreversibly, that most institutional headcount exists to protect itself rather than produce anything you can use.
Leftists don't oppose billionaires. They love Gates and Soros. They do oppose billionaires who stop being useful to progressive power structures. Musk stopped being useful in 2022. Best of all, many of them still drive Teslas because they still love the product more than they hate Elon. A truly pathetic bunch.
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Nobody is taking away Social Security, but if they did, you would vote for communists in a hissy fit and burn down the country that your grandchildren will have to inherit? That's morally indefensible, obviously. Childish and petulant. Demanding that the government steal from young people the way it stole from you, and threatening to destroy everything if they don't, is such an abhorrent position that I'm surprised you aren't too embarrassed to say it publicly.
Replying to @MattWalshBlog
Usually I agree with you and I’m a staunch Republican but if you take away my Social Security I’m a Democrat for the first time in my life. I spent my entire life planning for retirement with Social Security a major part of it and paid into the systems as a young person so that the older generation could have some support
I’ll make a deal with you, pay me back every penny I put into it and every penny my employers put into it on my behalf at 5% interest and you can take away the monthly checks.
There is hope for the west!
🛡️The Save Europe Act landed in the UK! 🇬🇧
Watch as our National Organiser @MrHreviews takes us on a journey through the early history of his homeland and the story of its first king.
Now Europe, Britain, is being demographically replaced to such an extreme degree that in a decade or two, our shared cultures, our shared people, will be minorities in our ancestral homelands!
This has led us to create one of the fastest growing patriotic citizens movement, the Save Europe Act.
Sign now, share it with three people, join EuroCom and get active!
Thank you @lucyjaynewhite1 and @MrHreviews for this amazing video and for being part of the Save Europe Act crew.
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