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I think you're right. Best we can do is one foot in, one foot ...

2026-03-13T08:19:30+01:00

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I think you're right. Best we can do is one foot in, one foot out.

Beautiful tiger

2026-03-13T05:41:26+01:00

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Beautiful tiger

And this is why they need to censor the internet so that ...

2025-12-30T12:39:23+01:00

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And this is why they need to censor the internet so that information like this cam be crushed.

Or just eat real food

2025-12-29T06:17:12+01:00

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Or just eat real food

NOSTR is so hot right now

2025-12-17T12:48:59+01:00

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NOSTR is so hot right now

Sorry, who's the terrorist??

2025-12-17T12:44:05+01:00

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Sorry, who's the terrorist??

They are literally murderers. Blood on their hands. I remember ...

2025-12-14T13:53:38+01:00

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They are literally murderers. Blood on their hands.
I remember seeing ads all over the UK advising pregnant women not to wait but to get vaccinated immediately.
This after there was ZERO testing on pregnant women and during an 'unexplained' surge in miscarriages.
Sick sick cunts indeed.

'The Council has agreed.' And how about all the people ...

2025-12-14T13:49:57+01:00

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'The Council has agreed.'
And how about all the people who never voted for you cunts? Did they agree?

Another fantastic article. They just seem to get better and ...

2025-12-14T13:46:26+01:00

Another fantastic article. They just seem to get better and better! This one very important...
Are you a real Bitcoiner??

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As a Bitcoiner have you ever considered what would happen should Bitcoin fail? By "fail" I don't mean anything catastrophic happening to the base layer like the big blockers winning, but something more subtle like if Blackrock and the JP Morgue were to successfully neuter it via paper bitcoin, regulatory capture and thus permanently confining it to "digital asset" status without it being a medium of exchange.

The purpose of this inquiry is not to spread FUD or dish out black pills, but it's to peel back the layers of what Bitcoin truly represents, to each of us individually. Hopefully this little exercise in introspection will make some of us realize what it is we truly desire and the kind of life we would like to have.

The Collapse Has Already Happened

I recently wrote in a previous essay, that societal collapse due to monetary failure happens gradually, then all at once. The cataclysmic event eventually recorded in history books is always inevitable to those who understand the significance of preceding events; the seeds that, as the saying goes, always yield their harvest.

Based on my own assessment, nothing stops this train and it’s only a matter of time until we see everything come tumbling down like Humpty-Dumpty. If that is true, then the only rational thing to do is to build anew on a Bitcoin standard before the inevitable history defining monetary collapse eventually shows up.

This essay extends that argument from a different angle. Where my previous piece examined the inevitable collapse of everything fiat, this one asks: What's your plan if Bitcoin fails, or at minimum, if the hyperbitcoinization you've staked your hopes on doesn't materialize in your lifetime?

The Wrong Kind of Victory

We are always touting how Bitcoin has already won and how hyperbitcoinization is just around the corner. But what does that mean really to say Bitcoin has already won? Does it mean that something technically superior to fiat money is now in existence? The existence of technically superior money is not victory. Betamax was technically superior to VHS. The Dvorak keyboard is ergonomically superior to QWERTY. Superiority alone guarantees nothing in markets shaped by network effects, institutional capture, and human psychology.

Or does it mean a critical mass of people, a remnant, will start their own Bitcoin country? Perhaps. The uncomfortable truth is that Bitcoin hasn't won anything. Not yet anyway. Why do I say so? Well for starters, the vast majority of people still measure Bitcoin's value based on its fiat price, the very system it was designed to render obsolete. That alone is a contradiction so enormous that it borders on tragicomedy. It shows that while Bitcoin was designed to exist outside the fiat system, most Bitcoiners do not.

Living in Enemy Territory

The fiat financial system is controlled by central banks. It's their system. They own the pipes. You can't participate without their permission, usually granted via onerous licensing requirements.

Bitcoin was supposed to be the alternative to this permissioned system. Instead, it exists as a guest in the fiat ecosystem. As we've witnessed repeatedly, Bitcoin's price can be manipulated and suppressed by institutions like the JP Morgue. The reason is simple, while Bitcoin may be fully decentralized at the protocol level, the fiat on/off ramps remain at the mercy of the banksters.

That’s to say nothing of the fact that key economic inputs like energy, food etc., are still to be priced in Bitcoin. This might seem trivial, but stop and think about proof-of-work. PoW anchors a digitally created "commodity" to the physical world via energy expenditure during mining. In other words, PoW is a bridge between the physical and digital realms.

Without key economic inputs being priced in Bitcoin, price discovery is left at the mercy of the wolves of Wall Street and their trading algorithms.

The Chokepoints We Normalized

Since the banksters control the on/off ramps, centralized exchanges became the dominant way most people acquire Bitcoin today, not peer-to-peer as originally envisioned. While this brought efficiency, it created a fatal chokepoint that allowed the legacy system to roll out licensing requirements, letting the KYC censorship vampire slowly sink its teeth into the orange coin.

Pseudonymity was compromised the moment exchanges came into the picture and this spelled danger given the transparency of the blockchain. Compromised pseudonymity coupled with centralized chokepoints are a recipe for disaster. Wasn't the whole point to have a fully decentralized system through and through?

This isn't to say peer-to-peer methods don't exist, they do.; but it's pointing out the fatal financial chokepoint that exists especially when one's Bitcoin journey starts with taking a selfie, scanning your ID and providing your physical address. Aren't these the some of the same constraints that make fiat a permissioned system? If so, why did they become normalized?

How Bitcoin Actually Fails

This is why asking "What will you do should Bitcoin fail?" becomes critical, because our way of imagining failure is usually wrong. Most imagine that Bitcoin will fail with a great thud or a nuclear explosion. Not so. Bitcoin's failure (as well as success) will occur a day at a time, one bad decision at a time, one compromise at a time. Failure is a few errors in judgement repeated everyday.

Failure looks like convenience. It looks like custodial services disguised as “innovation.” It looks like ETFs absorbing supply until Bitcoin becomes a zoo animal: admired, priced, but no longer free. I will not bother discussing how Coinbase has become one of the largest custodians for institutions thus creating another centralized chokepoint, the centralization of mining and mining pools, the core vs knots controversy, as well as the so-called strategic Bitcoin reserves (SBRs) that the suitcoiners are constantly touting. These are either growing pains or possibly symptoms of a much bigger problem.

I acknowledge the fact that Bitcoin is still in its early phases and a lot of these issues can be overcome, however the window is slowly closing to remove these centralized chokepoints and vulnerabilities. Especially given that the fiat collapse has already happened.

When Money Dies, Virtue Dies With It

Adam Fergusson’s When Money Dies is often misread as a technical history of Weimar hyperinflation. In truth, it is a study of moral disintegration that follows when money collapses. Fergusson shows that when money loses its integrity, society loses its sense of proportion. Signals invert. Prudence is punished. Speculation is rewarded.

That inversion is no longer confined to history books. The New York Post recently ran a story about actress Milana Vayntrub launching a wildfire relief initiative called Only Philanthropy. Donations were solicited through “flirty and tastefully risqué” content inspired by the OnlyFans model, raising over $500,000 for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.

At first glance, it appears innovative. Benevolent, even. On closer inspection, it is neither a solution nor progress, it is a symptom. When disaster relief must be mediated through eroticized attention markets, the problem is not creativity. The problem is that core institutions have failed so completely that charity must now borrow the incentive structures of soft pornography to function.

The Pornification of Value

The OnlyFans model exists in large part because attention, particularly sexual attention, can be monetized, often more lucratively than traditional professions. Today, some content creators on these platforms reportedly earn income that rivals, or even exceeds, what many engineers, doctors, and elite athletes make. For example, collectively, OF creators amassed $6.6 billion in 2023 alone, surpassing the NBA's total payroll of $4.9 billion, with some models outpacing LeBron James' earnings through non-nude content.

The modern attention economy already rewards intimacy more than craftsmanship, virality more than virtue, spectacle more than service. This is not prudish moralizing but it is an economic signal. When eroticized content consistently outcompetes sustained skill and long-term contribution in income generation, the incentive structure has inverted. When money dies, virtues follow. OF's rise isn't liberation; it's a symptom of this rot, where bodies become currency in a system where actual currency falters.

The Only Philanthropy model intensifies this inversion. Imagine that to direct capital to wildfire victims, tragedy became a marketing hook, a cultural logic rooted in eroticized exchange. Disaster relief has now become a side effect of fetishized attention markets. Relief is contingent on titillation. For the victims, the implicit message is devastating:

Your pain was not enough. It required sexualized attention to be noticed.

In other words ‘Only Philanthropy’ is not just a fundraising story but a revelation of a decaying society in which traditional institutions no longer fulfill their moral obligations and economic rewards accrue to attention markets divorced from long-term societal value. When victims of catastrophe must compete in the attention economy, the problem is not innovation, the problem is that money is dying, and with it, the moral compass of those who depend on it.

This twisted society where sex work is the dominant industry isn’t the world i imagine most of us want to leave for our children.

The Real Question: What Are You Building For?

So with this in mind, I ask again; What would you do if Bitcoin fails? Would your entire world shatter? Would you literally lose everything?

If the answer is yes, you've misunderstood Bitcoin entirely. You've merely treated it as number go up technology (NgU) and a get-rich-quick scheme, a speculative asset, a ticket to Lambos and moon. You've confused the signal for the noise.

Bitcoin isn't about NgU. Bitcoin is about freedom.

It's a freedom transfer protocol disguised as money. It's a tool for opting out of a system that steals your energy through inflation, surveils your transactions, and controls your economic participation through permissioned access. It's the ability to save in something that can't be debased, transact with someone without asking permission, and preserve purchasing power across time and space.

If Bitcoin "fails" in the sense that it never becomes the global reserve currency, but you've used it to build a parallel economy, establish peer-to-peer trade relationships, develop skills outside the system, and construct a life less dependent on institutions designed to extract from you, then Bitcoin succeeded. For you. In the way that matters.

The question isn't whether Bitcoin wins some abstract victory over central banks. The question is whether you're using Bitcoin to build the kind of life you want to live, regardless of what the broader world does.

Freedom as First Principle

Bitcoin is fundamentally a freedom transfer protocol. Its technical properties; decentralization, permissionlessness, censorship resistance, fixed supply, are not ends in themselves but means to a more profound end: individual sovereignty and freedom of economic action.

This reframing changes everything. If Bitcoin is primarily a freedom protocol, then its "success" cannot be measured in fiat price appreciation or institutional adoption. Such metrics represent category errors, attempting to measure revolutionary potential using the yardstick of the system being overthrown. Bitcoin's success is not measurable in dollars.

Instead, success must be evaluated by freedom metrics. How many people can transact without permission? How many have escaped financial surveillance? How many have achieved genuine monetary sovereignty? How robust are peer-to-peer networks? How resistant is the system to coercion and capture?

By these measures, Bitcoin may already be failing. not despite its rising fiat price, but partially because of it. High prices attracted institutional capital, which demanded institutional infrastructure, which required regulatory compliance, which necessitated surveillance and control. The very success we celebrated may have contained the seeds of capture.

The Choice Before Us

When you truly understand Bitcoin as a freedom protocol, then the relevant question is not "when Lambo?" but "how free?" Your decisions, daily and cumulatively, determine the answer.

Will you acquire bitcoin peer-to-peer despite inconvenience? Will you run your own node despite technical barriers? Will you measure your wealth in bitcoin terms rather than fiat proxies? Will you accept bitcoin for your labour and goods? These are not trivial questions. They represent the difference between genuine revolution and mere asset class diversification. They separate freedom-seekers from number-seekers. They distinguish those building parallel systems from those merely seeking better returns within the existing system.

More fundamentally, they reveal your time preference and time preference is civilization's bedrock. Contrast this with the high time preference of speculators waiting for NgU. They want wealth without work, freedom without sacrifice, revolution without risk. They treat Bitcoin as a lottery ticket rather than a foundation for building. If Bitcoin becomes merely another vehicle for high time preference behavior, it will have failed at its deepest level, regardless of its fiat price.

The uncomfortable truth: you cannot build a low time preference civilization on high time preference behaviour. You cannot achieve freedom through convenience. You cannot create parallel systems by taking the path of least resistance through KYC'd institutions. Every shortcut is a compromise. Every compromise is a step toward capture

The Remnant and The Path Forward

History suggests revolutions succeed not through majority adoption but through committed minorities, what Albert Jay Nock called "the Remnant." These individuals remain uncompromised by expedience, unbowed by institutional pressure, unwilling to trade principle for convenience. They understand that freedom is not granted but seized, not negotiated but exercised, not purchased but practiced.

If Bitcoin fails, it will fail because we chose convenience over sovereignty, because we measured success in fiat terms, because we normalized the very surveillance and control mechanisms Bitcoin was designed to obsolete, because we forgot that freedom; real freedom demands sacrifice, vigilance, and uncompromising principles.

Build Anyway

What I've learned is that the people most worried about Bitcoin "failing" in the technical sense are those who've invested nothing but capital. They bought an asset. They're waiting for a return. They've built nothing, changed nothing, learnt nothing new.

The people least worried about Bitcoin failing are those who've used it to fundamentally restructure their relationship with money, work, and freedom. They've:

Learned to run a node, verifying rules rather than trusting institutions

Established peer-to-peer trade relationships outside KYC'd rails

Developed skills that create value independent of fiat employment

Built businesses that accept Bitcoin and pay employees in Bitcoin

Created local circular economies where Bitcoin flows without touching fiat

Taught others what they've learned, expanding the remnant

These people understand something crucial: The victory isn't Bitcoin replacing the dollar. The victory is building a life where it doesn't matter if it does.

This is why the question "What will you do if Bitcoin fails?" is so clarifying. It reveals whether you're building on Bitcoin or simply betting on it. Whether you see it as a freedom protocol or just another speculative asset. Whether you're part of the remnant or just another tourist waiting for NgU.

The Remnant Builds in the Dark

The fiat system will not go gentle into that good night. It will fight. It will try to co-opt. It will regulate, capture, and neuter every threat it can. Paper bitcoin, ETF wrappers, KYC requirements, mining restrictions, node criminalization, every tool will be deployed.

Bitcoin might "lose" in the sense that it never overthrows the fiat regime. The central banks might successfully contain it. Hyperbitcoinization might not happen in our lifetimes. Even if Bitcoin were to cease existing today, the genie is not going back in the bottle. There is now verifiable proof that decentralized money can exist without the blessing of the state, and whatever replaces it will be even better, in the same way that Bitcoin was a better invention than previous attempts at digital money.

That said, the remnant will persist; because they're not building for hyperbitcoinization. They're building because the alternative, remaining fully captured by a system designed to extract and control, is unacceptable. They're building because money is dying, institutions are failing, and someone needs to construct something worth inheriting.

They're building because freedom isn't something you wait for permission to have. It's something you take, one transaction at a time, one node at a time, one relationship at a time.

So ask yourself: If Bitcoin "fails," what will you have built? What skills will you have developed? What relationships will you have established? What freedom will you have claimed?

If the answer is "nothing", if your entire Bitcoin strategy is "buy and hold until moon", then you're not a Bitcoiner. You're a speculator cosplaying as a revolutionary, and should the system co-opt Bitcoin, you'll move on to the next thing, having learned nothing and built nothing.

But if you've used Bitcoin to fundamentally restructure your life, to build parallel systems, to establish sovereignty over your own economic participation, then Bitcoin has already won. For you. In the only way that matters.

The collapse has already happened. The question is: What are you building in the ruins? Build peer-to-peer. Build without permission. Build like your freedom depends on it, because it does.

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2025-12-14T10:17:31+01:00

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Something weird is happening with my #pardonsamourai interview with Keonne on YouTube….

Views didn’t budge for several hours yesterday, then I checked them before bed and it was close to 1000.

Checked again today and views are *DOWN* to 295 and again not moving…

Maybe it’s just a bug…

https://youtu.be/F_oQ3fgxkkI

Gloves and mask are off completely now and everyone can see the ...

2025-12-13T06:59:36+01:00

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Gloves and mask are off completely now and everyone can see the EU are simply unelected criminals. Well, anyone who chooses to look, that is.

Banksters gonna bank

2025-12-13T06:58:00+01:00

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Banksters gonna bank

Very nice! Good length too 🥰

2025-12-13T02:08:06+01:00

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Very nice! Good length too 🥰

He's stacking and he wants your bitcoin

2025-12-13T00:31:35+01:00

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He's stacking and he wants your bitcoin

Cunts.

2025-12-11T12:44:46+01:00

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Cunts.

Criminal gangsters in suits. Wake up, EU!!

2025-12-11T12:33:27+01:00

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Criminal gangsters in suits. Wake up, EU!!

Another very, very good article. Thank you #naddr1qq…cekx

2025-12-11T02:21:58+01:00

Another very, very good article.
Thank you

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A Response to Aurore Lalucq’s Monetary Authoritarianism

I have rarely encountered such a concentrated distillation of economic fallacy, political coercion, and anti-liberty sentiment as exists in Ms. Lalucq’s recent proclamation on the digital euro. Her statement deserves not mere disagreement but thorough intellectual demolition, for it represents everything that sound money principles and human freedom stands against.

The False Dichotomy: A Classic Statist Manipulation

“Anyone who opposes the digital euro is going against the euro and the European Union.”

This opening salvo reveals the authoritarian mindset at its finest. Let me translate: “Submit to our monetary surveillance apparatus, or you are an enemy of the state.” This is naked intimidation dressed in bureaucratic rhetoric.

The state’s monopolization of money has been history’s greatest theft. The digital euro represents the culmination of this theft, which is the conversion of monetary control into total monetary surveillance and control. To oppose this Orwellian nightmare is not to oppose Europe; it is to oppose the very debasement of European civilization.

The European Union is not synonymous with freedom, prosperity, or sound money. It is a bureaucratic monstrosity that has systematically eroded national sovereignty, individual liberty, and market coordination. To suggest that opposing a surveillance currency is tantamount to opposing Europe itself is to commit the most egregious conflation; equating a continent’s people, culture, and economy with a supranational political apparatus.

Money as “Political Institution”: The Core Falsehood

“Money is not just a means of payment. It is a political institution that must be protected and supported.”

Here we arrive at the ideological heart of darkness. Money, Ms. Lalucq declares, is a “political institution.” This statement is economically illiterate and historically reversed.

Money emerged from the market as a spontaneous order, as Carl Menger demonstrated in his ground-breaking work on the origins of money. It arose not from political decree but from the voluntary interactions of individuals seeking to overcome the double coincidence of wants problem inherent in barter. Money is fundamentally a market institution that political actors have hijacked, corrupted, and weaponized..

When Lalucq celebrates money as a “political institution,” she is celebrating theft, inflation, financial repression, and the systematic impoverishment of savers and wage earners. She is celebrating the mechanism by which governments finance wars, welfare states, and bureaucratic expansion without direct taxation, the invisible tax of inflation.

The digital euro doesn’t “protect” money, but it weaponizes it. It transforms currency from a medium of exchange into an instrument of total financial surveillance and control. Every transaction monitored. Every purchase tracked. Every economic decision subject to bureaucratic approval or denial.

The Myth of Democratic Money

“Mine is that of Europe, the euro and democracy.”

The invocation of “democracy” in defence of centralized monetary control is perhaps the most brazen Orwellian inversion in Lalucq’s statement.

Democracy, real democracy, means choice. It means the ability to vote with your feet, your wallet, your economic decisions. A truly democratic monetary system would allow individuals to choose which currencies they use, which forms of money best serve their needs, and which monetary networks align with their values.

The digital euro represents the opposite of monetary democracy. It is monetary totalitarianism; a single, mandated, surveilled currency issued by an unelected central banking cartel that has systematically destroyed the purchasing power of European savings through negative interest rates and quantitative easing. It’s democracy for the institutions not for the citizens.

The European Central Bank, like all central banks, operates under bureaucratic management, accountable not to market discipline or consumer choice but to political expediency and technocratic planning.

What True Monetary Freedom Looks Like

Contrast the vision Lalucq offers with the monetary revolution that Bitcoin represents. Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper outlined a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that requires no trusted third party, no central authority, no political institution. It is money that cannot be inflated, cannot be seized without your consent, cannot be surveilled by default.

Sound money, money with reliably scarce supply, has been the foundation of every flourishing civilization. The gold standard’s abandonment didn’t free humanity; it enslaved us to central banking manipulation and perpetual currency debasement.

Bitcoin offers an escape route; not through politics but through mathematics, not through democracy but through voluntary adoption, not through institutions but through individuals. It is the denationalization of money that Hayek could only theorize about, made real through cryptographic innovation.

We live in an era of technological deflation where productivity gains should make goods cheaper and improve living standards. Instead, monetary inflation obscures these gains, transfers wealth from productive workers to financial speculators, and creates artificial boom-bust cycles.

The digital euro would amplify these destructive dynamics while adding surveillance and control mechanisms that previous monetary regimes could only dream of. It represents the perfection of monetary despotism.

The European Project: A Collectivist Fantasy Born in Envy

Let’s discuss the elephant in the room that Lalucq conveniently ignores: the European Union itself is a failed experiment in supranational collectivism, and the euro is its most spectacular economic failure.

The European Union didn’t emerge from spontaneous market cooperation or voluntary association. It was engineered by political elites seeking to create a bureaucratic superstate capable of rivaling American economic and geopolitical dominance. The project’s architects, Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, and their intellectual descendants, never trusted markets or individuals. They believed that technocratic planning from Brussels could somehow succeed where Soviet planning had failed.

Jean Monnet was explicitly clear about the main goal of forming the EU:

“The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present. They must be merged into a federation.”

This was never about cooperation. It was about subsuming sovereignty under bureaucratic institutions headquartered far from the people they govern.

The strategy was diabolically simple; incrementally transfer sovereignty from nation-states to unelected European institutions under the guise of “integration” and “cooperation.” What began as a coal and steel community metastasized into a regulatory behemoth that now dictates everything from the curvature of bananas to the wattage of vacuum cleaners.

The euro itself, launched in 1999, was never primarily an economic project but it was a political project designed to irreversibly bind European nations together and create a monetary union that could challenge dollar hegemony. The economic warnings were ignored. The structural incompatibilities between Germanic and Mediterranean economies were dismissed. The inability to adjust exchange rates was handwaved away. Political ambition trumped economic reality.

The results? Catastrophic.

The Euro: A Quarter-Century of Monetary Destruction

Since its launch in 1999, the euro has been an unmitigated disaster for European prosperity, purchasing power, and economic dynamism. Let’s examine the empirical record that Lalucq’s ideological cheerleading conveniently omits:

Purchasing Power Annihilation: The euro has lost approximately 40% of its purchasing power since introduction. What cost €100 in 1999 now costs roughly €167. This is systematic theft from savers, pensioners, and wage earners. The ECB’s explicit 2% inflation target is a commitment to devalue your money by half every 35 years. This is monetary policy?

Economic Stagnation: Eurozone GDP growth has consistently lagged behind the United States. While America, for all its own monetary sins, at least maintained some dynamism, Europe has suffocated under the twin burden of monetary rigidity and regulatory excess. Youth unemployment in Spain, Greece, and Italy has regularly exceeded 40-50%, creating a lost generation.

The Sovereign Debt Trap: Unable to devalue their own currencies, peripheral European nations were forced into deflationary spirals and austerity programs that enriched Frankfurt banks while immiserating Greek, Portuguese, and Spanish citizens. The euro didn’t create prosperity, it created a creditor-debtor hierarchy with Germany as overlord.

Negative Interest Rate Insanity: The ECB’s negative interest rate policy, charging banks to hold reserves, destroyed the traditional banking model, punished savers, and created massive asset bubbles. This is what passes for monetary “stability” in Brussels’ Orwellian lexicon.

Capital Misallocation on Epic Scale: Through quantitative easing programs, the ECB purchased over €5 trillion in government and corporate bonds, systematically distorting price signals, subsidizing zombie companies, and creating artificial demand for government debt.

The euro hasn’t brought Europe closer to American prosperity levels but has accelerated European decline relative to America. This is the monetary union Lalucq demands Europeans rally behind? This track record of failure and impoverishment?

The Regulatory Strangulation of European Innovation

The euro’s failure is merely one symptom of Europe’s deeper disease which is the belief that bureaucratic regulation can substitute for market competition and entrepreneurial innovation.

Consider the recent spectacle where the European Union slapped a €140 million fine on X (formerly Twitter), not for genuine harm to consumers, but for alleged violations of the Digital Services Act’s reporting requirements. This is the Brussels model in microcosm:

Can’t compete? Regulate.

Can’t innovate? Fine those who do.

Can’t build? Tear down.

It is the enforcement arm of a worldview that sees innovation as something to be tamed, not unleashed. This is the same worldview driving the digital euro. A worldview where the state monitors platforms, the state controls communication, the state designs money, the state monitors transactions, and the state punishes dissent through regulation and fines.

Where is the European Google? The European Amazon? The European Apple? The European SpaceX? They don’t exist because they can’t exist in Europe’s toxic regulatory environment. The EU’s response to its innovation deficit isn’t to reduce barriers, cut taxes, or unleash entrepreneurship; it’s to impose GDPR compliance costs, Digital Markets Act restrictions, and now, Digital Services Act penalties on companies that had the temerity to innovate elsewhere.

Europe’s digital policy is not about safety or fairness. It is about maintaining a managed, compliant society, where the bureaucratic class remains unchallenged and unaccountable

Instead of reforming, deregulating, or embracing market dynamism, the EU is doubling down on surveillance, monetary consolidation, and punitive governance. Why? Because once a bureaucratic superstructure begins to fail, it does not liberalize, but it clamps down.

The Geopolitical Reality: Europe’s Self-Inflicted Irrelevance

Lalucq invokes “the current political and geopolitical moment” as justification for the digital euro. Let’s be honest about Europe’s geopolitical position: it is becoming irrelevant precisely because of the policies Lalucq champions.

Europe has:

Energy dependence created by abandoning nuclear power and sanctioning Russian gas without viable alternatives

Military dependence on American protection while free-riding on defense

Technological dependence on American and Chinese innovation

Economic stagnation driven by regulatory excess and monetary manipulation

Demographic decline exacerbated by welfare state distortions

The digital euro won’t fix any of this. It will merely give Brussels technocrats another control mechanism to manage decline rather than enable revival.

If Europe wants true monetary independence from dollar hegemony, the answer isn’t creating a European version of the same flawed fiat system. It’s embracing neutral, decentralized monetary networks that no nation-state controls. Bitcoin offers this path. The digital euro offers only a change of monetary masters from Washington’s Federal Reserve to Frankfurt’s ECB. Neither deserves your submission.

The genuine geopolitical threat to Europe isn’t lack of monetary centralization but the loss of economic competitiveness caused by excessive regulation, monetary manipulation, and bureaucratic sclerosis. Europe is falling behind not because it lacks a digital surveillance currency but because it has strangled innovation, entrepreneurship, and market dynamism under layers of political control.

Europe doesn’t need more centralization. It needs radical decentralization, deregulation, and a return to market principles. It needs less Brussels, not more Brussels with better surveillance tools.

Conclusion: Choose Freedom, Not Tyranny

The battle over the digital euro is the monetary front of a larger civilizational struggle between two visions: one where individuals are free to make their own economic decisions, build their own futures, and live their own lives; another where technocratic institutions manage, monitor, and control every aspect of economic existence “for our own good.”

To oppose the digital euro is not to oppose Europe, it is to defend the possibility of a free Europe. It is not to oppose monetary innovation, it is to defend genuine innovation over technocratic control. The digital euro must fail. Not because it won’t work technically, it probably will work perfectly at doing exactly what it’s designed to do. It must fail because what it’s designed to do is incompatible with human freedom, human dignity, and human flourishing.

Every person who opposes the digital euro, who refuses to use it, who adopts Bitcoin instead, who speaks out against financial surveillance, who demands monetary freedom, they are not enemies of Europe. They are defenders of everything Europe, at its best, has represented: individual liberty, cultural flourishing, technological innovation, and the dignity of free peoples.

Now that's a real health secretary! Not some obese tranny ...

2025-12-09T14:53:06+01:00

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Now that's a real health secretary! Not some obese tranny like last time 🤣🤣🤣

And that's how they've managed to brainwash me into ...

2025-12-09T14:33:54+01:00

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And that's how they've managed to brainwash me into actually thinking that communism is a great idea

There's no doubt in my mind that all these banksters were ...

2025-12-09T12:17:00+01:00

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There's no doubt in my mind that all these banksters were quietly stacking at the same time they were handing out FUD

Excellent #naddr1qq…tqng

2025-12-09T08:17:59+01:00

Excellent

quoting naddr1qq…tqng

Only one of these can be true if you ask me but most people that oppose any reforms to US government vaccine policy hold at least two of these contradictory views, sometimes all three.

Indemnity of vaccine companies from litigation is critical to avoid these companies being sued out of existence.

Vaccines are safe and effective. People should get them without fear.

The US legal system makes it hard for individuals to get relief from the abuse of powerful corporations.

At this point I'm surprised if people are unaware of number 1. Makers of vaccines are indemnified from lawsuits from people who have been damaged by their products. In a world where most people support individuals over corporations this policy stands out as extremely peculiar. OK, lets say that its true that the risk of litigation is just too big of a risk for companies to bare. I can get that. I don't agree but I can understand thinking that.

What I don't get is how you can say this and also say vaccines are safe and effective. If they are so safe and effective then why do the companies need this protection. Mind you... these companies pretty much single-handedly sponsor all media, online and traditional. If one is just a nut for not getting every vaccine that is introduced to the market why do we need number 1? If we need number one how can number 2 be true?

Now we get to number three. Most people I have encountered or listened to for any length of time on vaccines believes corporations have corrupted the government and legal system. While they hold this belief they also believe number 1. Companies need protection from the people.

This is one of the most illogical topics I have ever encountered in my lifetime.

I will add a couple caveats. I think it is logically acceptable to realize that yeah, there is risk in creating a product that may be safe but its long term consequences are unknown. And, at the same time think that most vaccines are largely safe and effective. That's not a position I hold but its not crazy. The problem is that the messaging from the system and the pre-RFK establishment is not reasonable at all.

During the Covid fiasco we were force-fed lies by Fauci and his clones at every level of government. He misrepresented the Covid shots as vaccines knowing it was a completely different technology. On the rare occasions he was asked pointed questions about the unknowns and risks he would come back to the bromide. Vaccines are safe and effective. If you believe that, fine. But these shots were are new relatively untested technologies. They aren't just a new formula. They are a new kind of technology. They weren't even classified as vaccines when they were being developed. This was done mid-scam to give the companies the protection in number 1.

Its wild that in 2025 these three things still are allowed to stand as legitimate beliefs held by the vax maxis. Pick one. Only one can be true. You can't have two let alone three.

https://stacker.news/items/1320656

Never been a better time to switch to Linux. Ditch this awful ...

2025-12-08T12:39:25+01:00

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Never been a better time to switch to Linux. Ditch this awful surveillance tech brought to you by the world's biggest criminal

"Two weeks to flatten the curve" springs to mind... ...

2025-12-07T02:47:58+01:00

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"Two weeks to flatten the curve" springs to mind...

What's the difference between governments and organised crime? One of them is organised.

It's time now

2025-12-07T02:44:04+01:00

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It's time now

Yesterday

2025-12-07T02:43:33+01:00

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Yesterday

She's absolutely right and she witnessed first hand how ...

2025-12-07T02:42:30+01:00

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She's absolutely right and she witnessed first hand how little power the PM has over the banksters

* Unless governments are involved

2025-12-07T02:41:34+01:00

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* Unless governments are involved

Yes please #note1l98…rypk

2025-12-07T02:34:16+01:00

Yes please

quoting note1l98…rypk
Here's an idea
Let nature do its own thing
Stop fucking with it

#haiku

If you're stupid enough to take ozempic, you deserve ...

2025-12-03T14:28:52+01:00

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If you're stupid enough to take ozempic, you deserve everything coming your way. Just wish people that dumb were not allowed pets

Ohhh think of the kids.. Fuck right off you mass surveillance ...

2025-12-03T14:16:41+01:00

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Ohhh think of the kids.. Fuck right off you mass surveillance pushing slave mongering CUNT.
But hey thanks for the great marketing for Nostr and freedom tech! Come and try to stop us over here bwaaahahahahahaha

Totally. She doesn't even believe her own lies, really ...

2025-12-03T14:15:11+01:00

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Totally. She doesn't even believe her own lies, really struggling to read that script.

Spot on #note1zux…z4sm

2025-12-03T14:11:36+01:00

Spot on

quoting note1zux…z4sm
One can learn a lot from a government.

Unable to change the facts? Change the narrative.

Narrative being questioned? Round up a base of human shield activists and ignore the concerns of those who say they've been harmed.

Population unrest, public health in decline? Declare a common enemy, shift blame abroad, preferably on a country that speaks an entirely different language.

Bored? Experiment on children, undermine family in the name of protecting yourself from fear of imagined future possibilities projected from your traumas.

Hurt? Encourage fathers to waste their lives away from their sons over the one-sided lies of the greedy.

War ending? Stoke division to keep the funding fawcet going.

Gangsters in suits

2025-12-03T12:34:56+01:00

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Gangsters in suits

And this big boy just last week. But to be fair, I was definitely ...

2025-11-29T10:26:33+01:00

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And this big boy just last week. But to be fair, I was definitely in his territory and not the other way around!

Ooof. I got one of those recently too. Certainly spiced up my ...

2025-11-29T10:24:36+01:00

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Ooof. I got one of those recently too. Certainly spiced up my day!

Oops

2025-11-29T10:21:09+01:00

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Oops

#naddr1qp…llya

2025-11-28T14:44:36+01:00

quoting naddr1qp…llya

There exists a dangerous mythology in our modern society, the belief that only the government, with its concentrated power and commandeered resources, can achieve breakthrough innovation. This superstition manifests whenever society faces a crisis, spawning calls for a "Manhattan Project" for energy, climate change, cancer, or whatever challenge captures the political imagination.

The COVID-19 pandemic birthed Operation Warp Speed, the latest incarnation of this hubris. Yet both the Manhattan Project and Operation Warp Speed reveal not the triumph of central planning, but its profound costs, costs measured in squandered wealth, violated rights, and opportunities forever foreclosed.

The newly announced Genesis Mission, explicitly modeled after the Manhattan Project, is not an exception. It is the culmination of 80 years of the state perfecting the art of centralizing knowledge, capturing industry, and redistributing risk upward while socializing failure downward. It is also something more dangerous than its predecessors: a covert bailout mechanism for AI firms whose financials are collapsing under the weight of trillion-dollar compute requirements and unprofitable scaling fantasies.

AI's Reckoning

The timing tells you everything. Earlier this month, CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, floated the idea of federal loan guarantees to spur the build out of chip factories in the US. Furthermore, OpenAI, Silicon Valley's golden child, faces a $207 billion funding shortfall by 2030 according to HSBC projections.

Despite explosive revenue growth, the company will remain unprofitable through decade's end. Its compute commitments reach $1.4 trillion by 2033, with data center rental bills alone hitting $620 billion. Even under wildly optimistic scenarios, doubling paid subscriber conversion rates, capturing significant digital advertising share, achieving miraculous operational efficiencies; OpenAI still requires massive capital injections to survive.

This isn't an outlier. Oracle's debt recently surpassed $100 billion, partly to fund AI infrastructure. CoreWeave and similar companies that lease data centers have borrowed extensively to finance expansion built on unproven revenue models. If these revenues don't appear, and current conversion rates suggest they won't, lenders face catastrophic losses. Credit default swaps on Oracle's debt have already spiked. A wave of AI-related defaults could spill into broader debt markets, creating systemic financial risk.

The economy's dependence on AI has reached crisis levels. AI-related investment accounted for roughly half of GDP growth in early 2025. Four companies; Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta will spend $344 billion on AI capital expenditures this year, equivalent to 1.1% of GDP. Without this spending, economic growth would have been a dismal 0.8% in the first half of 2025 instead of 1.6%. Barclays estimates that a 20-30% stock market correction could slash GDP growth by 1 to 1.5 percentage points. If AI investment growth simply stopped, not even declined, just stopped growing, another 0.5 points disappears.

Enter the Bailout

David Sacks, Trump's "White House A.I. & Crypto Czar," initially promised "no federal bailout for AI." That lasted 18 days. After the Wall Street Journal published its analysis of the economy's dangerous AI dependence, Sacks reversed course: "We can't afford to go backwards."

The Genesis Mission provides the mechanism. By establishing federal AI infrastructure that private companies can access, the government creates a customer of last resort. Section 3(c) directs the Secretary of Energy to "identify Federal computing, storage, and networking resources available to support the Mission, including both DOE on-premises and cloud-based high-performance computing systems, and resources available through industry partners."

Translation: taxpayers will purchase computing resources from private AI companies unable to find commercial buyers. The federal government absorbs excess capacity, providing revenue to firms facing catastrophic shortfalls. This is a bailout through procurement, less obvious than TARP but functionally identical.

The "approved private-sector partners" framework ensures politically-connected firms receive preferential access to federal dollars. The order's "standardized partnership frameworks" and "cooperative research and development agreements" formalize the wealth transfer from taxpayers to failing AI giants. Those who overleveraged during the boom get rescued. Prudent competitors get squeezed out. Startups without political connections get nothing.

Sound familiar? It should. This is 2008 all over again, except instead of "too big to fail" banks, we have "too strategic to fail" AI companies. The justification shifts from financial stability to national competitiveness, but the mechanism remains identical: privatize profits, socialize losses, and use fiat money printing to hide the cost.

The Surveillance State Infrastructure

Governments bailouts aside, this EO paves the way for comprehensive government control over AI development and deployment. In other words,the Genesis Mission doesn't just rescue failing companies, but it builds infrastructure for technological authoritarianism.

The order establishes an "American Science and Security Platform" monopolizing AI research infrastructure: federal supercomputers, cloud computing environments, AI models, datasets, experimental facilities, and research workflows. Access requires meeting "security requirements consistent with its national security and competitiveness mission, including applicable classification, supply chain security, and Federal cybersecurity standards."

This is a panopticon under construction. Every researcher using the Platform operates under constant surveillance. Queries, methodologies, and results become subject to government review. "Highest standards of vetting and authorization" means extensive background checks, financial disclosure, and ongoing monitoring. Security clearances exclude foreign nationals, academics without clearances, and anyone valuing privacy. Controversial research gets suppressed. Dissent gets punished through access denial.

In a December 2024 interview with The Free Press, a16z co-founder Marc Andressen, recalled a meeting that he had with the then Biden Administration and described how they vowed to take “complete control” over AI technology. When Andressen countered that this would be impossible, citing that the math behind AI is taught everywhere, they responded, “During the Cold War, we classified entire areas of physics and took them out of the research community, entire branches of physics went dark and didn’t proceed. If we decide we need to, we’re going to do the same thing to the math underneath AI.”

Given the current stagnation in the physics arena, thanks in large part to the “restricted data” doctrine, this did seem like a credible threat. Yes, today a different administration is in charge but this EO seems to paint a dire picture of the government wielding its power to direct AI development. What’s to stop a different administration in future to repurpose Genesis towards more militaristic priorities? After all, the Platform's current "national security and competitiveness mission" ensures military priorities will dominate.

The Department of Energy, historically responsible for nuclear weapons, will operate the Platform, guaranteeing that weapons development, surveillance technologies, and military applications receive priority. Researchers using the Platform may find their work conscripted for military purposes without their knowledge or consent. For example, a scientist developing AI for cancer diagnosis might discover her models repurposed for target identification

Furthermore the Platform's data provisions enable unprecedented appropriation. The order mandates incorporating "datasets from federally funded research, other agencies, academic institutions, and approved private-sector partners." No opt-out mechanism. No compensation for valuable datasets. No guarantee that sensitive research remains under researchers' control.

If you've received federal funding for medical research, can the government seize your patient data for AI training? The order suggests yes. Universities conducting AI research face pressure to contribute data or risk losing federal support. The coercion is economic rather than explicit, but coercion nonetheless.

Section 5(c)(ii) directs establishing "clear policies for ownership, licensing, trade-secret protections, and commercialization of intellectual property developed under the Mission." When researchers use government computing resources and federal datasets, who owns resulting AI models? The government will assert broad intellectual property claims, expropriation without compensation.

The Immunity Clause

Here's where it gets truly dystopian. Section 7(c) states: "This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person."

Read that carefully. The government explicitly insulates itself from legal accountability. Citizens harmed by the Mission have no recourse. Researchers whose data gets appropriated cannot sue for compensation. Universities coerced into participation cannot challenge the order in court. Companies whose intellectual property gets seized have no legal remedy.

Well I guess that doesn’t matter as long as America wins the AI race against China right? When the state wields vast power over private actors while immunizing itself from accountability, you don't have rule of law, you have tyranny.

From Innovation to Extraction

The Genesis Mission marks the AI industry's evolution from innovation to extraction. Early-stage industries thrive on entrepreneurial competition. Diverse approaches compete. Successful firms profit; failures exit. Creative destruction allocates resources toward sustainable uses.

But as industries mature, leading firms increasingly pursue profit through political means rather than market competition. They seek regulatory advantages, government subsidies, and barriers protecting them from challengers. The industry becomes extractive, using political power to transfer wealth rather than create value.

This extraction will intensify as bailouts become routine. Each time AI companies face shortfalls, they'll demand federal assistance. Each time the government provides relief, dependency deepens. Eventually, the industry becomes indistinguishable from defense contractors, nominally private but functionally integrated into government, surviving through political connections rather than market performance.

The Path Forward

The Genesis Mission isn't about innovation. It's about consolidating control and protecting politically favoured firms from market consequences. It transforms AI from a competitive industry into a government-directed cartel, sacrificing dynamism for stability, creativity for control.

True innovation doesn't require concentrated power. It requires freedom, freedom to experiment, freedom to fail, freedom from political interference. The greatest technological advances emerged not from government direction but from decentralized competition among independent actors pursuing their own visions. Bitcoin is an example of one such innovation.

History's verdict on centrally planned innovation is unanimous. From Soviet genetics to America's "War on Cancer," political direction of science produces waste, corruption, and failure. The Genesis Mission won't defy this pattern. It will perfect it, building an apparatus that survives not through results but through political necessity, extracting resources indefinitely while delivering promises perpetually deferred. Just like the Manhattan Project eventually led to a slump in nuclear technology advancement, the Genesis Mission is going to have the same effect on AI development.

Ah that's great, thanks guys.

2025-11-27T14:21:15+01:00

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Ah that's great, thanks guys.

Absolutely disgusting. This is why Fuck KYC.

2025-11-25T11:53:03+01:00

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Absolutely disgusting. This is why Fuck KYC.

But how else are the bankers going to profit? #note1vw5…x7m4

2025-11-23T00:53:14+01:00

But how else are the bankers going to profit?

quoting note1vw5…x7m4
War is so stupid to begin with, if it was merely people on foot on both sides battling it out like the olden days and it was just people on the front lines affected and they all consented to be there, fine whatever, still stupid but you do you.

But now days when we have nations with nukes and drones and we are just striking civilians with them, this is 100% wrong and NEVER justified, EVER.

Nicked

2025-11-22T14:25:26+01:00

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Nicked

Love to see it

2025-11-22T11:44:43+01:00

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Love to see it

And legitimise large scale theft, destruction and murder.

2025-11-22T11:26:15+01:00

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And legitimise large scale theft, destruction and murder.

This would have been a much better response to that ...

2025-11-21T01:36:41+01:00

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This would have been a much better response to that "journalist"

LFG

2025-11-20T02:16:02+01:00

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LFG

Total legend this guy. I heard him talking years ago and he ...

2025-11-20T02:10:42+01:00

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Total legend this guy. I heard him talking years ago and he described cancer as "a divine tap on the shoulder". I've never forgotten it.

100%

2025-11-17T14:36:08+01:00

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100%

Totally insane. I just zapped you 2 months salary

2025-11-17T14:35:04+01:00

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Totally insane. I just zapped you 2 months salary

Are you watching Pluribus? Raises many interesting questions ...

2025-11-17T14:31:54+01:00

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Are you watching Pluribus? Raises many interesting questions along these lines

Oh and also because I don't know many Torygraph readers who ...

2025-11-17T02:11:40+01:00

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Oh and also because I don't know many Torygraph readers who are not boomers!

Sorry, you're quite right that this is not specific to ...

2025-11-17T02:10:29+01:00

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Sorry, you're quite right that this is not specific to boomers. I guess I was subconsciously referring to my family

Trust the science?! How well did that work out?!

2025-11-17T02:09:06+01:00

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Trust the science?! How well did that work out?!

Fair point. Then again, the mainstream does have to play a ...

2025-11-17T02:07:52+01:00

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Fair point. Then again, the mainstream does have to play a careful game as they're really skating on thin ice here.

Maybe you don't care but I'm not sure you can speak for ...

2025-11-17T02:06:30+01:00

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Maybe you don't care but I'm not sure you can speak for the rest of the world. I personally know dozens of people who were injured by it and at least 3 people very likely killed by it. It's especially sad because most of those people thought they were doing the right thing.

Governments (and the other evil forces involved) need to be held accountable.

Nothing we didn't know already, but it's good to see this ...

2025-11-16T12:25:04+01:00

Nothing we didn't know already, but it's good to see this in the mainstream press. Should wake up a few more boomers.

This man should be in prison for mass murder.

2025-11-16T10:30:08+01:00

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This man should be in prison for mass murder.

This aggression will not stand, man

2025-11-16T04:04:43+01:00

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This aggression will not stand, man

Didn't we already play this game in 2008?

2025-11-15T06:07:24+01:00

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Didn't we already play this game in 2008?

You talking to me?

2025-11-15T04:48:20+01:00

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You talking to me?

It's almost 2026 and some people are still wearing face ...

2025-11-15T04:46:29+01:00

It's almost 2026 and some people are still wearing face masks. Outside. Alone. Will they ever take it off? Has the vaccine damaged their brains that badly? I would feel sorry for them if it wasn't thanks to their ignorance and blind compliance that the evil forces managed to pull this whole thing off.

He does write some excellent posts. This is maybe not his ...

2025-11-14T10:30:54+01:00

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He does write some excellent posts. This is maybe not his finest... Although he kind of has a point, no?

Spot on

2025-11-10T11:54:53+01:00

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Spot on

Won't stop people calling you a cunt on NOSTR. You absolute ...

2025-11-10T11:52:24+01:00

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Won't stop people calling you a cunt on NOSTR. You absolute Cunt.

In case you didn't know already, we do not live in a ...

2025-11-07T12:13:33+01:00

In case you didn't know already, we do not live in a capitalist society.

quoting note16np…d9mz
Translation: A bubble is brewing in AI and I want the taxpayer to cover my behind when things go south.

nevent1q…4daj

Oooof that doesn't look right. Good luck, fren.

2025-11-07T12:11:00+01:00

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Oooof that doesn't look right. Good luck, fren.

Very important question

2025-11-07T12:09:39+01:00

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Very important question

Are you wasting each moment of this miraculous life by imagining ...

2025-11-07T12:07:04+01:00

Are you wasting each moment of this miraculous life by imagining what might make you happy in the future?

You know, like a village 🤣

2025-11-03T03:07:03+01:00

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You know, like a village 🤣

It works if there's clearly defined boundaries and ownership ...

2025-11-03T03:06:29+01:00

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It works if there's clearly defined boundaries and ownership rather than all sharing.
Each individual (or each family) has their own shit: My house, my patch of land, my veges, my responsibilities. Of course there should be trade of goods and services between residents, but the communal model inevitably leads to conflict as it can never be "fair" while individuals have different wants, needs, skills, incentives, etc

Wouldnt touch either of them with a barge pole but yes I'd ...

2025-11-03T02:55:14+01:00

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Wouldnt touch either of them with a barge pole but yes I'd also love a few minutes of "quality time" with them both. I'm thinking broken-glass-baseball-bat-pliers-kind-of-fuzzy-times

Love to see it. Bit rich calling miners illegal while this whole ...

2025-11-02T11:40:21+01:00

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Love to see it.
Bit rich calling miners illegal while this whole bitcoin thing is only necessary because of decades of government criminality...

What I don't get is why does anyone put up with this? I would ...

2025-11-01T12:15:04+01:00

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What I don't get is why does anyone put up with this? I would instantly close my account if my bank tried something like this.

It's happening #note1z0r…gqcy

2025-11-01T12:00:41+01:00

It's happening

quoting note1z0r…gqcy
He who has eyes, let him see

nevent1q…krn4

Turns out spyware takes up a fair bit of space

2025-11-01T10:54:55+01:00

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Turns out spyware takes up a fair bit of space

He was trying to solve the problem they created!

2025-10-31T12:09:01+01:00

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He was trying to solve the problem they created!

Pre-Covid I would have agreed. Now I think there's truth in ...

2025-10-31T05:42:29+01:00

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Pre-Covid I would have agreed. Now I think there's truth in all of them, except flat earth of course 🤣

Congratulations

2025-10-29T13:06:41+01:00

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Congratulations

Good morning psychos and weirdos. Enjoy this wonderful day ...

2025-10-29T13:04:52+01:00

Good morning psychos and weirdos. Enjoy this wonderful day ⚡🌱💪🙏❤️

I mean of course technically it's chicken, but it's ...

2025-10-29T05:28:21+01:00

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I mean of course technically it's chicken, but it's another example of fake fiat food.. Devoid of nutrition and loaded with toxins. The poor animal pumped full of chemicals just so it can survive such unhealthy and unnatural conditions until harvest.
It's better to eat nothing at all than to eat sick animals. Or their eggs.

Not even "chicken" in my book

2025-10-28T06:24:03+01:00

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Not even "chicken" in my book

A pretty simple test is how orange is the yolk. Pale yellow is a ...

2025-10-28T06:23:05+01:00

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A pretty simple test is how orange is the yolk. Pale yellow is a sure sign of high PUFA intake.
It follows that the taste would also be different but I can't honestly say I've tried the Pepsi challenge.

#note1nlp…xxe8

2025-10-28T06:18:06+01:00

quoting note1nlp…xxe8
The Tea…

#bitcoin

What's stopping you?

2025-10-28T06:16:55+01:00

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What's stopping you?

Fishy as in not organic. Some kind of test perhaps? I believe the ...

2025-10-22T03:01:39+02:00

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Fishy as in not organic. Some kind of test perhaps?
I believe the next manufactured crisis will be a cyber attack with internet blackouts, so that they can convince the masses that everyone needs digital ID to use the internet. My feeling is that this is somehow connected.
#DontTrustTheseCunts

It didn't affect me at all but my spidey senses tingle ...

2025-10-21T13:36:59+02:00

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It didn't affect me at all but my spidey senses tingle nonetheless.

Nostr event nevent1qqsqtp7war3grdy23x9g7qx00rxzvhus3c3jer8a83y3d0whtluvfaqzyqzmhg5zzzglqv4tgkfh43t0gx879dj728wwns3z02skrfvjp05qj35a4yn

2025-10-21T13:35:37+02:00

Is it just me or did this AWS outage thing smell fishy?

Let him have his moment. I'm sure he's making the most of ...

2025-10-21T11:22:35+02:00

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Let him have his moment. I'm sure he's making the most of this opportunity to quietly convert his gold to bitcoin.

Guilty as charged.

2025-10-21T11:17:24+02:00

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Guilty as charged.

Brilliant. #naddr1qq…5dvv

2025-10-21T07:16:31+02:00

Brilliant.

quoting naddr1qq…5dvv

Mission Briefing: The Transformation Protocol****

Every operator knows that combat changes you at the cellular level. You don’t return from the field the same person who entered it. The mission rewires your threat assessment, sharpens your situational awareness, and strips away every non-essential impulse until only the objective remains. Bitcoin does the same thing to your mind, except the battlefield is temporal and the enemy is your own broken relationship with money, time, and value.

You don’t “invest” in Bitcoin. You deploy into a theater of operations where every decision carries consequence and every block is contested territory. The moment you take custody of your first satoshis, you’ve crossed the wire. You’re no longer a civilian watching from the sidelines. You’re an active combatant in the longest asymmetric warfare campaign in human history, and the mission parameters are simple: hold your ground, maintain operational security, and never break formation.

The Reorientation: From Consumer to Operator

In conventional warfare, the first 72 hours of contact fundamentally alter a soldier’s psychology. The chaos becomes signal. The noise becomes data. Fear converts to focus. Bitcoin initiates the same transformation, but across a longer timeline. Your first bear market is your first firefight. Your first cold storage setup is your first patrol in hostile territory. Your first time ignoring a 40% drawdown while friends panic-sell is your first time holding the line when everyone else breaks.

The fiat world trained you to be a consumer, a reactor, a victim of monetary policy you can’t see and inflation you can’t escape. Bitcoin retrains you as an operator: proactive, strategic, mission-focused. You start asking different questions. Not “what can I buy?” but “what can I build?” Not “what’s the price?” but “what’s the signal?” You begin measuring time in blocks, not quarters. You start thinking in decades, not news cycles. Your time preference drops like a stone through water, and suddenly you’re operating on a frequency the fiat system can’t even detect.

This is the reorientation. This is what it means to go from spectator to participant in the largest coordinated non-violent revolution ever attempted. You don’t just hold Bitcoin. You hold the line.

Nostr: Encrypted Comms for the Resistance

Every spec ops team needs secure communications that can’t be intercepted, decoded, or shut down by adversaries. That’s Nostr. Not a platform. Not a company. A protocol for censorship-resistant communication operating on the same philosophical architecture as Bitcoin: decentralized, open-source, permissionless. No CEO to pressure. No server to seize. No algorithm to manipulate your intel.

In military operations, compromised communications mean mission failure. In information warfare, compromised platforms mean narrative capture. Nostr solves for this. Your keys, your identity, your message. Relay operators can’t deplatform you because you’re not on their platform—you’re on a protocol that exists everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. Ban one relay, you still broadcast on 50 others. It’s the digital equivalent of guerrilla radio during occupation, except the occupation is happening to the entire information layer of civilization.

Bitcoin fixes money. Nostr fixes speech. Together, they form the communication and economic infrastructure for a parallel society that doesn’t ask permission from the existing power structure. They’re not trying to reform the system. They’re replacing it, one node and one relay at a time, while the system argues about regulation and compliance and control. By the time the legacy institutions realize what’s happening, the new infrastructure will be too distributed to kill.

The Long War: Psychological Endurance Operations

Spec ops missions aren’t won with overwhelming force. They’re won with patience, precision, and psychological endurance. You don’t storm the objective on day one. You gather intelligence. You build networks. You wait for the exact moment when conditions align, and then you execute with overwhelming speed and clarity. Bitcoin is the same campaign.

This is not a get-rich-quick operation. This is a multi-generational siege. The central banks have centuries of institutional momentum, regulatory capture, and monopoly on violence. They have nukes and navies and the ability to print money whenever they need it. What they don’t have is mathematics on their side. They can’t change the 21 million cap. They can’t reverse the difficulty adjustment. They can’t corrupt a network that 60,000 independent nodes verify every ten minutes.

Your mission as a Bitcoin operator is simple: survive long enough for the system to exhaust itself. Stack sats. Run a node. Self-custody your keys. Maintain operational security. Don’t get caught up in the noise. Don’t break discipline chasing shitcoins or leverage trading or promises of 100x returns. That’s how operators get separated from their unit and picked off. The mission is survival, accumulation, and transmission of knowledge to the next wave of recruits.

Every block you hold is territory denied to the enemy. Every person you orange-pill is a force multiplier. Every transaction you make on Lightning is a sortie behind enemy lines. The war isn’t loud. It’s quiet, relentless, and compounding. You’re not fighting to destroy the old system—you’re just refusing to use it, and building something better in parallel. Eventually, the old system collapses under its own weight, and when it does, the Bitcoin standard will already be operational.

Battle-Hardened: What the Mission Does to You

War changes you. So does Bitcoin. You become harder to manipulate because you’ve learned to ignore price volatility and media narratives. You become harder to control because you hold your own keys and your own voice. You develop pattern recognition that cuts through propaganda because you’ve spent years distinguishing signal from noise in the most adversarial information environment ever created.

You learn to operate with uncertainty, because the mission timeline isn’t defined and the enemy doesn’t follow conventional rules. You accept that most people won’t understand what you’re doing until long after it matters. You stop needing external validation because the protocol itself is validation—every block proves you’re on the right side of thermodynamics and mathematics.

Most importantly, you develop the psychological fortitude to hold your position when everything around you is chaos. Markets crash. Governments threaten. Media attacks. Friends ridicule. None of it moves you, because you’ve internalized the mission at a level deeper than emotion. You’re not reacting to price. You’re executing a strategy that plays out over decades, and you’ve already made peace with the discomfort that requires.

This is what Bitcoin does to an operator. It strips away the fiat mindset—short-term, consumptive, reactive—and replaces it with something older and more durable: discipline, patience, and absolute conviction in the mission. You don’t become a Bitcoin maximalist because you’re stubborn. You become one because you’ve seen the enemy’s strategy, run the numbers, and realized there’s no other rational play.

The Mission Continues

The war isn’t over. It’s just entering a new phase. More operators are deploying into the field every day. More nodes are coming online. More Lightning channels are opening. More Nostr relays are spinning up. The infrastructure is being built in real-time, under fire, by people who understand that this is the only mission that matters.

You signed up for this the moment you took custody of your first satoshis. You crossed into hostile territory, and there’s no going back. The fiat world is behind you now. Ahead is the long, grinding work of holding the line, training the next generation, and building parallel systems that make the old ones obsolete.

Stay sharp. Maintain discipline. Trust the protocol. The mission continues, block by block, until it’s complete.

End transmission.

Try offering a few % discount for payments in bitcoin. It worked ...

2025-10-20T13:29:46+02:00

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Try offering a few % discount for payments in bitcoin. It worked wonders for me and I orange pilled a lot of people that way.

It is a stroke of genius

2025-10-20T13:07:47+02:00

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It is a stroke of genius

Prepare accordingly! #note13a7…g9cw

2025-10-19T12:55:41+02:00

Prepare accordingly!

quoting note13a7…g9cw
⚡️💬 Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering...

❌Your salary has lost 50% of its value
❌Your bank is blocking your withdrawals
❌Transfers take weeks

This is the reality for millions of people. Here's how they survive ⤵︎

🇦🇷 ARGENTINA

Inflation at 211% in 2023. The peso is collapsing. Argentinians have responded by setting up underground currency exchange offices. "Les cueva" exchanged $91 billion in 2024. The government is trying to tax them. Too late…

🇱🇧 LEBANON

In 2019, banks froze ALL withdrawals. Nothing has changed since then! The Lebanese have been unable to access THEIR own money for five years. The solution? WhatsApp has become their new bank. They exchange USDT among themselves for everyday expenses. There are now 248,400 active wallets (+1700%) since the freeze.

🇻🇪 VENEZUELA

Since 2008, the bolivar has changed its name three times. With each change, zeros have been removed and economies destroyed. Now, 50% of transactions under $10,000 are made in stablecoins. 1,388 businesses accept cryptocurrency despite the crackdown.

🇳🇬 NIGERIA

Nigeria is the second country in the world in terms of crypto adoption. Why? The local currency (Naira) has lost 70% of its value in two years. So Nigerians have rushed to crypto and moved $59 billion to avoid disaster. While the West debates, Africa builds.

🇹🇷 TURKEY

It's the same story for the Turkish lira, which continues to plummet. It has lost 88% of its value since 2018... The statistics are clear: $22 billion in volume per year despite the fact that crypto payments are prohibited. The system adapts. Or dies.

🗣️ Cryptocurrency is not speculative for them. It is pure survival.

And given the state of Western economies, we may have to adapt very quickly in the coming years...

That's why I'm all in on Bitcoin and Nostr for the reasons I've already explained at length.

Thank you fren

2025-10-19T05:01:03+02:00

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Thank you fren

A Permaculture Kingdom

2025-10-19T03:57:48+02:00

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A Permaculture Kingdom

How did his balls not get in the way?

2025-10-18T12:35:43+02:00

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How did his balls not get in the way?

True.

2025-10-18T12:32:36+02:00

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True.

Bye then, dickhead.

2025-10-18T06:37:56+02:00

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Bye then, dickhead.

I think they'd find it much harder to pull off a second time ...

2025-10-18T06:32:48+02:00

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I think they'd find it much harder to pull off a second time round. A lot of people woke up and continue to wake up. Certainly normies gonna normie and there will always be a mass compliance, but I believe the dissenters will be a surprisingly large group too.

Agreed.

2025-10-18T06:30:57+02:00

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Agreed.

What is the meaning of life?

2025-10-18T03:08:35+02:00

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What is the meaning of life?