Jeff Booth on nostr

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@Jeff Booth 1760790431

Try telling a bunch of independent thinkers what they can think and you’ll find out why #Bitcoin is different than any other protocol.
For me, every attack on a person instead of an idea makes me want to look deeper into the idea.
Genius comes from the edges and has always been dangerous to the center. (or existing base of knowing)

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ภ๏รtг๏ภคยt · 22w

Everything changes when you realize that consensus is usually wrong. If everyone agrees, question it. Crowds aren't wise. They're comfortable. The truth often lives on the edges.

Core devs gashlight tactic.

#Bitcoin, like many paradigm-shifting ideas, didn’t emerge from mainstream academia, politics, or finance—it came from the fringe. And like all powerful ideas from the edge, it inspires both devotion and fear. That fear often manifests as personal attacks, ridicule, or attempts to regulate it ou...

VampireMJ · 22w

I agree. It's usually the way I know what to check.

Arthur Amendt · 22w

I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.

Exactly 👏 That’s what makes #Bitcoin different, no one here gets to control what others think. Every time someone attacks the person instead of the idea, it just exposes weak reasoning. And as always, the things that change the world usually start at the edges, not from the center of power.

MindMining · 22w

It is also how philosophers can mindmelt and get to new insights quicker. Other people can help trigger that great new idea.

BroccoliRiceTofu · 22w

GM Happy SATurday🤙🤙

LeviJohnson.net · 22w

Hence, why people who prioritize what works and ingenuity over cooperation and orthodoxy are comfortable telling and living a different story that can depart from popular narrative.

LeviJohnson.net · 22w

You're describing the healthy and functional intuitive thinker.

Independent thinking is the way to go

Ricky Zhang · 22w

One of the most exciting things about #bitcoin is how it allows more ways of knowing to surface all around the world over time, once the weight of global hegemonic fiat is lifted.

So true Jeff , once the dialogue moves away from ideas to personalities, you begin to feel it is pointless to continue.

The Nazi Society · 22w

Yea? then why don't you go look into the "holocaust" and everything related. The "group" who controls us now doesn't do anything but attack people with ideas.

BorumBomBum · 22w

Well said, that’s its why the so praised Bitcoin Standard book by Ammous made such an unfortunate decision when focusing on (at times childish) ad-hominem attacks just deviating the attention and lowering the quality from the good points it makes.

There Will Be Sats · 21w

Every failed attempt to control thought just strengthens the immune system of the network. Attacking the messenger only signals where the truth threatens the most capital.