There seem to be 2 kinds of people who love freedom:

- Those who also accept accountability
- Those who try to reject accountability

This was always the difference with pre-2023 Bitcoiners and shitcoiners. It's the difference with the pro-#BIP110 monetary maxis and Coretards now.

Satoshi designed Bitcoin to be digital money that's inextricably linked to (and dependant on) reality. He understood that freedom without accountability isn't really freedom at all.

Vitalik created Ethereum because he wanted a system where he set ALL the rules, reality be damned.

Those with high time preference believe that Vitalik's version of "freedom", free from all accountability or connection to reality, is real freedom. After all, there's no one to stop you. You can do literally whatever you want. You are a god of your own little virtual universe.

But those with low time preference know that's a lie. They know that no one can escape accountability, and that's a feature, not a bug. They humbly remember that we live in a bigger universe, that accountability is the key to freedom, and that we ignore it at our own peril.

So now we have Vitalik-like, high time preference, (m)ETH heads, who call themselves "BiTc0iN MaXiS", screeching about "cEnSoRsHiP" when an extremely conservative soft fork (BIP-110) is about to make it harder for them to rule their little universes without accountability.

These useful idiots dump gigabytes of spam on your node, your property, where you're forced to store it forever without getting a sat for it. And if you shut it down, the network is centralized a little more.

But they don't care about that; they only care about getting their way.

"Run a pruned node"
"Your node doesn't matter"
"Just don't relay our spam"
"Taking Bitcoin back to how it was for 14 years is censorship!"
"You must hate freedom if you want Bitcoin to just be freedom money again."

They say they love freedom, when they really just hate reality.

They'd probably shake their fist at God for creating gravity while they fall from a cliff they just stepped away from.

They undoubtedly get SO frustrated when they can NEVER force 2+2 to equal 5.

The universe must hate freedom! It must be pro-censorship!

It's all so tiring. 🙄

But ultimately, such people don't matter. From Michael Saylor to that troll with 9 followers and a monkey jpeg avatar who just called you a retard, they're all the same. They've each chosen to touch the stove of accountability over and over again, rather than just humbly learn.

Bitcoin will continue to move forward and prove all the Peter Schiffs and the Elizabeth Warrens and the Dan Peñas all wrong.

And it will similarly prove all the Vitaliks, and the Andy Backs, and the Portland HODLs all wrong, too.

They can either get over themselves & profit, or... not.

Bitcoin is money.
Money is the foundation of civilization.
Fix the money, fix the world.

But burden the money, centralize control over it by discouraging the running of nodes, and dilute its functionality with other "use cases", and you break the money.

... and therefore the world.

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Nodes enforce Bitcoin's supply schedule, but also all other rules in Bitcoin's protocol. If you run a node, YOU are in charge of Bitcoin, and miners, developers, and exchanges work for YOU, full stop.

If you're not running your own node, then you're trusting a stranger's node to tell you what Bitcoin is and isn't.

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The miners' economic incentives make it so they work for the node runners, not the other way around. This is why the only way for #BIP110 to fail would be for the miners to somehow ignore those incentives. It's not impossible, but it's incredibly improbable.

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A friendly reminder that today marks 250 years since we were last at this point in the Revolutionary Cycle...

And the convergence of several other cycles at their turning points, including a 500-year Awakening cycle (not pictured).


Happy 4th of July.

Buckle up.

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For the poll, I almost chose the first option, but then I remembered: when widespread Bitcoin adoption happens (assuming we fix the spam problem and Bitcoin doesn't turn into Ethereum), its price won't flatten out, but will continue to rise with global GDP. So it'll never be boring!

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And the Liquid Network doesn't just provide faster settlements; its sidechain never records transaction amounts in its blocks, so going from the main chain to Liquid and back to the main chain is a great (and easy) way to clear your bitcoin's history and restore your privacy!

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Though I would strongly discourage anyone from using a hardware wallet made by a shitcoiner. So just stick with the @SeedSigner, instead.

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