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Robert Allen retweeted
This is the mindset of a kindergartener.
I haven't heard of anyone that got wrecked by @lnbits and @arcbtc immediately got on X to warn people.
@nvk spent two days pretending there wasn't a problem while people were having their life savings stolen.
Robert Allen retweeted
NVK blocking Coldcard hack victims like myself, and memoryholing how his product provided a software RNG by default, should be a glaring unavoidable red flag for everyone. I'm dead serious.
It's sociopathic to try and blame *their code review failure* on victims like this and retroactively act like the software RNG wasn't provided with zero caution or warning of any sort.
This proves further that NVK and his products are a complete joke. Every serious engineer I've spoken with shares the same sentiment.
It's just a matter of time before another scandal because it's clear the company culture is unchanged. And their so-called "security" is directly downstream of that.
Beware.
Then why did your product’s default path and instructions not align with this? Bare minimum in hindsight of course, but don’t sidestep your companies failure and blame the users of your devices that followed instructions, bought directly from you, stamped the metal plates, never connected to a computer or exposed keys in any way.
Take some ownership beyond an apology for the RNG and do something for the people that have been royally fucked by this. People get it: bugs happen, things get hacked - but the actions in the wake of such events are what matter. Even the liquid and Binance situations were resolved responsibly, timely, professionally and positively for the users. Not saying you need to have all the solutions but at least TRY.
Robert Allen retweeted
"Hey, I'm one of you. Therefore trust me."
Satoshi Sound on affinity scams: instead of doing the due diligence, people just go along with the person and trust them.
Slay your heroes.
@SatoshiSound in the full episode. S15 E11
Robert Allen retweeted
Watch how institutional power is not merely normalized, but openly celebrated in Bitcoin's social layer.
Wealth, status, access, and proximity to power are elevated, while Bitcoin's founding principles, including sovereignty and the separation of money and state, are ridiculed.
The values of the fiat system Bitcoin was created to challenge are being repackaged as Bitcoin's path to success.
On November 5, Mars Spits Bars takes this worldview to BTC Inc's Bitcoin Amsterdam, on a Whale Pass-only panel titled:
“BIG BITCOIN: IN CONTROL?”
The CAPTURE articles documents the institutional relationships and mechanisms of influence.
Bitcoin's social layer is the final line of defense against complete institutional capture.
But if that very social layer is being conditioned to celebrate institutional power, ridicule principled opposition, and attack those exposing its concentration, who exactly is left to resist it?
Robert Allen retweeted
Luke is correct.
If sufficient Bitcoin ends up in the hands of Wall Street, it’s over for Bitcoin for many years. They will suppress its price discovery like they did with gold for decades.
Robert Allen retweeted
Adam Back and Blockstream controversies continue to mount. Researcher NatInfoSec has been posting about this for months. Give this a read if you're interested in Adam Back, Bitcoin, BSTR and the Liquid Network natinfosec.substack.com/p/fr…
Robert Allen retweeted
Andrew Jones is an American Christian who has spent the last 30 years of his life guarding and studying the Durupinar Formation in Eastern Turkey.
He’s always known that this was the resting place of Noah’s Ark…and this year, he is finally able to prove it to the world.
Robert Allen retweeted
Meryl Streep is a brilliant actress. That isn't the point.
C.S. Lewis wrote Aslan as Christ. Male. He. The Son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea.
Netflix has chosen a woman to give voice to that explicitly male Christ figure.
This doesn't happen in a cultural vacuum. For years, Hollywood has been deliberately breaking the connection between biological sex, gender and identity, particularly in stories presented to children.
Male becomes female.
Female becomes male.
And eventually the audience is expected to pretend there are no differences. As if they weren't there.
Now that treatment has reached Aslan, one of the most recognizable representations of Jesus Christ in children's literature.
This is not “artistic vision.” This switch from male to female of a representation of Christ in literature is both disrespectful of C.S. Lewis' original work and and the man himself.
At what point does “inclusion” become the deliberate erasure of the source material, and a mockery of the Christian faith at its center?
Robert Allen retweeted
I can't stop laughing. No face coverings except Burka's, so this legend turns up in Portsmouth identifying as a gender fluid Muslim woman.
This is brilliant.
Give this man a knighthood. 🤣
Robert Allen retweeted
Seinfeld Bitcoin Highlights 🎬₿
A montage of all the Seinfeld Bitcoin clips so far!
If you’ve been enjoying them, please retweet and follow. More on the way.
Robert Allen retweeted
As a father to 4 girls, my hatred for feminism grows stronger by the day.
It is pure POISON to the mind.
They literally HATE God's design for marriage, having children, and motherhood. They hate everything that is beautiful and actually feminine.
I am glad though, that it has the inherent fatal flaw of low organic replication.
The only way for it to spread is through TV shows, movies, books, social media, and the education system.
This is why homeschooling is more important now than ever.
Fathers especially, must be extremely discerning as to what they allow their daughters to consume while under their care.
My personal strategy for my home and my children is to practice Psalm 101:
"I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.
No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes."
Robert Allen retweeted
Stop taking diet advice from walking skeletons and fake TV doctors who profit from your sickness.
[🎥IG: primalresistance]
Robert Allen retweeted
There are so many stupid sayings in Bitcoin that teach people to be lazy and compliant. “Everything is good for Bitcoin.” “Bitcoin is inevitable.” “No one can change Bitcoin.” They all mean the same thing… relax. Do nothing. Bitcoin will protect itself.
That creates a “free-rider problem”. Everyone benefits if Bitcoin stays decentralized and censorship-resistant, but only the people who actually defend those properties pay the price: time, money, risk, public conflict, reputational attacks.
Everyone else waits, assuming they will get the protection either way.
Combine that with social engineering that makes dissent personally costly, anyone who challenges recognized authority is mocked, isolated and made socially radioactive, until even associating with them feels embarrassing to the weak minded and people begin policing the boundary themselves.
And then there are people who anthropomorphize - almost deify- Bitcoin, as if it has agency, a survival instinct and some supernatural ability to protect itself. If you’re excited about bitcoin and used to stupid arguments from fiat land it’s easy for the brain to do this.
Free-riding produces passivity. Social punishment makes it self-enforcing.
Meanwhile, defending Bitcoin is a diffuse interest. Exploiting it is concentrated, coordinated and highly profitable.
That is how a small organized minority defeats a large passive majority.
I want people to really think about how stupid and downright insane the phrase "Everything is good for Bitcoin" is.
It's a technology that seeks to separate money from state and prevent the entire parasite class from stealing almost everything from >99% of the planet.
This means there is huge incentive by the most powerful people on earth to destroy it by any means necessary.
And Bitcoin is not magically immune to every one of their tactics.
The most successful to date has been infiltration and subversion and it is everywhere for those willing to look.
BIP110 is an expression of an uncaptured network, and its opposition was purely and revealingly concerned with the artifacts of that.
Do we need large OP_RETURNs or upgrade hooks for a new op code before Sep 27? Or OP_IF in taproot or an address type not used in over a decade?
No - we just don't want upgrades from non-technical, non-economic users that lack consensus as that cannot be *permitted*!
So now we are left with the "Bitcoin is permissionless, so you have to let people turn it into file storage" bros becoming irate that we are leaving, once again without permission.
The unsalvageable dumspter fire that we spent the last three years fighting, in public, for no-brainer upgrades to, is captured.
This has been demonstrated, again clearly to everyone willing to look, as it has become impossible to make progress unless working within the appropriate political channels rather than operate forthrightly in public.
That is just another fiat system. Decision making was deferred to captured industry players.
Those entities are incapable of doing what is required to separate money and state as they require the state's permission to exist.
