Actually, I think you are a normie.

Now do one for nostr!

Brain rot one-liners such as these inclines me to press the unfollow button.

I was referring to the entire line of "research". And, I wasn't really implying that you are stupid. Not having considered everything, or not having assumed all perspectives, does not qualify for stupidity.

Sure, I want Bitcoin to succeed as an MoE. Not sure if my whole identity relies on it. Maybe some does. Perhaps that was my point. I see myself as an agent set on its success - because it'd be interesting. And, success often depends on your ability to bind yourself.

When it comes to progress, objectivity does not exist, ever - not even after a fact - because it's the winners that get to look back.

I'm happy your research have worked out for you. You posting it on social media made me think you wanted some counter- and/or perpendicular arguments. I'll admit though that giving feedback without pissing people off is quite challenging.

Having loosely followed your journey, my conclusion is basically that you have let yourself be convinced that Bitcoin is a bad idea by AI. While a lot of what you write makes sense, what is missing is a sense of agency and possibility. It's all very boxed in, and gives a fatal and nihilistic impression. It may be due to the inherent limitations of AI, but also a result of only looking at the money - without considering yourself as an active agent. From the top of my head, I'd recommend you read David Greaber's The dawn of everything - or bring it to recollection. For me, that book really underlined that, yes - most of the times your "Controllers" will screw you over - but sometimes, if the circumstances are right, you get to sever their heads from their bodies and things develop in a different direction for a while.

Causality, correlation, covariance and coincidence are very difficult concepts to understand and separate. Especially today, when the confusion is monetized more than ever.

Let us all trust the new narrative!

Spark is garbage from the outset. We'll see about how Ark actually helps trustless p2p exchange of bitcoin. I think it won't. Lightning is also becoming increasingly centralized, hostile/useless for nodes with pleb-reasonable capacity, and dominated by morons selling nothing but needless complexity and surveillance. Thus far, I'm not impressed.

Busy bodies for the win!

I don't think I'd pay for social-media-via-nostr. SN has some threshold of quality. Nostr may be uncensored, but most content is of brainrot quality. Nostr doesn't fix social media, just like Bitmessage and similar stuff doesn't fix free speech. Uncensored usually just means more space for crazies.

ho bitcoiners that start with 1BTC? Sounds expensive.