Great playing and singing! Haven't decided what to run when I do get a node, but probably not Core 30 without reconfiguring the value anyway.

You mean the stuff about a year ago that someone had managed to extract the secret with some crazy apparatus when having physical access? (can't remember if it was X-ray laser or what it was - expensive thing anyway)

Seems kinda shitty to do, but does it make it insecure?

It's a catch 22. If the current system were to actively block any information of the new, or even punish those who spread it, either legally or technically, the new can't bootstrap. And if allowed to continue without protest, I'm sure they'll sooner or later find a way to mandate ISP:s to block and/or report usage of the new system.

Power in cold storage...

What I want is to be able to choose if I want one or not. Before even considering it, it would have to come with extremely strong guarantees of privacy, open source, completely reviewed by many, tested for a couple of decades for safety, etc.

What I fear is that not having one won't be an option, it being required by society (not necessarily government) in one way or another, literally not possible to live without, and it of course being a complete ad-, surveillance-, "nudging"-, etc. filled system, always connected to HQ. I think this is the more likely outcome, like what has largely happened with smartphones.

Where is the money printer located? In de basement!

It is more about what people put in these words. Not particularly related to this context, but "take responsibility" is a phrase used by governments (at least the Swedish one, but I think more too) to say "abide by the laws that we have made" or "do what we want in excess of the laws that we made" when talking about citizens and companies, and "put more laws in place" when talking about themselves. I don't think many bitcoiners agree with that definition. If that definition is on one end, and "hold your own keys, store them securely" etc. is on the other end, that's quite a wide spectrum.

"Stay open to self reflection" The people I'm talking about are extremely selective about this. If the "self reflection" reinforces the beliefs they already have, they'll do it, otherwise no. Probably a human thing, and to some extent the opposite of self reflection, but they brag about it consistently. Bordering, if not outright, hypocrisy.

"Be confident" - not in something I don't understand. That's downright lying, and can be dangerous. (e.g. "sure, I'll take down this tree..."). I believe this is part of an American/European difference, that I've noticed since someone pointed it out. Americans see Europeans as defeatist, not confident, while Europeans see Americans as bragging and arrogant. While we probably think similarly enough, we communicate it way differently.

"stop being offended" - It's a false premise to begin with that you can control your emotions - what I guess you're getting at is you can refrain from showing it to others, and that is the definition of taking shit from people. A big reason we have got to the point we have in overreach by governments is precisely because either too few people are offended, or too few people are showing it, through letters, protests, etc.

Probably very true, despite another value that is at least verbalized often by the same people, that of thinking for yourself and doing your own research... I'd say this is a situation where "watch what they do, not what they say" would be an appropriate saying...

True. I'm with you here - I don't think you have joined them yet, but I wouldn't have expected Guy to write this 6 months ago - maybe I don't know him enough, even though he has his own takes at the end of pretty much every podcast episode, but I have seen this change in several other Bitcoin podcasts over time. They get more and more hateful (not saying Guy is hateful - yet) of everyone not conforming to this and a bunch of other more-or-less random things, though the same things everywhere.

In order to stick with the theme, I deleted a long answer to write a short one: It seems like bitcoiners/nostriches are one by one joining, and trying to spread, a psychologically masochistic cult whose unwritten motto is: blame everything on yourself, take whatever shit people throw at you (except fiat and shitcoins) and change yourself to suit others.

This will probably receive hate, and so will probably your comment, for "blaming others of your own problems" "victim mentality" etc. because they can't handle the truth that people are different and come from different circumstances - Empathy=0.

One of the worst currently is China though. But I agree that surveillance capitalism is also a problem.