Is every other fiat asset going to be debased?

The beauty about Bitcoin is that it's a self-realization tool. Giving the people the option to not be exposed to fiatry shenanigans.

Depending on how confidently you answer this question, you get your answer.

I disagree. That's is an attention span and time preference issue.

It punishes you for doing nothing. But it doesn't reward innovative and valuable output necessarily.

"Survival of the fittest" is a misinterpretation of evolutionary theory. The ones that survive are the fittest. If you die you die. Being the fittest today is not a guarantee of survival in the future. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

While cooperation is a long term trend, competition is the environmental pressure driver. Cooperate to what end? There is no assured final destination.

Bitcoin is not the first tool to allow that. It is just the best we've had in history.

Can this be done remotely?

https://ln.cluborange.org/i/BMHIOK5c

Core v Knots is like any other political debate.

If any bitcoin implementation is to hold the status of reference implementation, I'll hold their maintainers and defenders to the same standards I hold politicians, bankers and CEOs, in that I dont trust them or what they say at face value.

Core crowd is behaving like the situation party, Knots like the oposition. People claiming their side is the source of truth are sheep.

The world is better with many implementations of bitcoin. Just like the world is better without a single central control goverment.

The world is better because both Core and Knots exist, but no one should trust whatever their supporters say at face value.

I am very skeptic of Core folks right now. I think they are failing miserably at making people feel at ease. While I understand that is not their core skill, because they hold a very privileged position as maintainers of the reference implementation, I do expect that thry try harder.

War and violence have been in a historical downtrend even before fiat and bitcoin as well. Humanity has been moving towards more peaceful conflict resolution systems for millennia. current armed conflicts, lasting decades are a consequence of fiat systems "protecting the economy" from any crisis at any cost, than war is just signed off as a crisis, instead of bad political work.

I disagree.

But I will say that it depends on what you mean by fix it. I think the use of violence will be attempted under a bitcoin standard. I also believe it will be proven VERY penalizing for the perpetrator.

Under a bitcoin standard the financial cost for wars is not as easily obfuscated.

Fiat protects the economy in times of crisis, war being a crisis, allowing for wars to last far beyond any ideological justification has degrated beyond public support, since objectives are not ever reached to completion.

Making it expensive is the fix. Its not about suddenly everyone forgets that violence is a thing.. it just makes sure that the incentives for violence are very small compared to peaceful conflict resolution, in the short and long terms.

is there a way for self custodial lightning to work if one of the parties is offline?

I agree in sentiment.

but I don't think this could have gone down any differently. there was no way the us government would do Bitcoin only reserves. it's the best strategy in the long run for the country and people. but not for politicians. realistically, it was never going to happen.

for the hopeful, game theory will create the incentives for other nations to create their own portfolio.

then, I think Pierre said it best

https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1896257173828829329