Pulling the plug on the money printer is the ultimate solution, but as long as the fiat system remains in place and the Islamic regime in Iran can print its currency into worthlessness while funding foreign proxy groups to advance its ideological ambitions, the only realistic option is to bomb this brutal regime out of existence.

You can stop supporting someone if you don’t like their decisions. But he never said anything about being selective. He made too much noise about not donating to them at all. And that was not the only point. That was just one of the final straws.

I haven't followed Michael Saylor closely for a long time. While many people follow the news about Bitcoin’s price closely, I’m far less interested in it. I already understand the core reasons why Bitcoin goes up in value and have seen the cycle repeat enough times and that it has dips here and there on the way. So the talk about it does not interest me that much.

That said, credit where it’s due: when I first discovered him through Robert Breedlove’s interview series, he genuinely opened my eyes to several important concepts that still shape my thinking today. However, constantly listening to someone whose commentary revolves almost entirely around price? No thanks.

I started pulling away when he made a big deal about not donating to Bitcoin developers and pushed hard for ossification (even though I actually see ossification as a likely prediction - but far in the future). The final straw was when he bragged about paying for the pizza on the pizza day with fiat instead of Bitcoin. The logic baffled me: by spending fiat, you’re still spending the money you could have used to buy more Bitcoin. So there's not a huge difference really.

As for$MSTR, I wish him well, but I believe he’s playing with fire. It's not gonna hurt us though. Even if the company were to go bankrupt, I think the impact on Bitcoin’s price would be temporary at most. Anyone who doesn’t own MSTR shares and simply holds their Bitcoin in self-custody will be just fine.

I only caught wind of his recent MSTR hype over the past years because Sina was covering it at the time and I was helping him with editing the videos. And about STRC, I literally know nothing.

Overall, while I’ve learned a lot from Saylor, he has largely lost relevance for me in the Bitcoin space.

That would be the point that ecash qualifies as a layer?

Theoretically, yes, but some of my friends inside Iran who are way more technical-savvy than I am have tried to do so but failed. They have shifted towards setting up a Matrix relay and communicating through that.

Thanks for the chat, Efrat :)

Well, we do want the return of monarchy - a return to our days of democracy, freedom, and glory.

Some highly customized configurations do work.
A very small minority of people have access to Starlink. Since the internet is now whitelisted, some VPS providers in Iran are still operational. They create tunnels between these VPS servers and Starlink connections to provide access to the open internet. However, such setups require significant technical expertise, are too expensive for most end users, and carry substantial risk for both providers and users.

Yes, that was the worst time of my life!