BITCOIN BRISTOL

BITCOIN BRISTOL / SATOSHI CIDERS Sat March 21st from 6.15pm at The Old Fish Market BS1 1QZ. Meet Bristol Bitcoiners, ask dumb questions.

Nearly three million Britons petition against your policies. Your regulator is a toothless international laughing stock. Private companies fight for our rights to privacy while you, the government, attack them. Your Ministers get community noted for inaccuracy. The founder of Wikipedia himself is fighting for us harder than you are. When do you look in the mirror, @UKLabour and @darrenpjones, and change course? Better be before 2029...

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]

New @start9labs is beautiful. The accompanying Start Tunnel is the revolution that was needed for the home-server to be genuinely usable without the horrible workarounds required before (Tailscale/Tor/DDNS etc). It just works. 0.4.0 will be in public beta any day now but the current alpha release is stable and I'm happy to recommend it.

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare. In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do. And the cost? Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

Had a hotel bar convo with normies last night. They were all history buffs, and they asked if I liked history… I told them I’m not a huge history buff but that I knew a lot about the history of money, the different types of money and how ultimately, central powers were always able to capture the money at the expense of the actual value producers in every society we’ve had etc. I pointed to the fact that money is a language that can direct the course of history more than any other factor They were all blown away that they knew so much about history but had never really thought about monetary history and how it constantly changed the course of humanity One person even said “oh are you into cryptocurrency and Bitcoin?” And I said, well yes this all does lead to Bitcoin as the first money that can’t be captured but I’m not going there, and stuck to monetary history. With their reactions, l guarantee that those 4 people left with an itch to learn more about the history of money Once you understand the history of money, you won’t have to pitch “Bitcoin” I’d even suggest to stay away from the word altogether and plant curiosity that ultimately leads to Bitcoin anyway

Which Linux Distros will and won't comply with Age Verification mandates. github.com/BryanLunduke/D…

Britain just announced they are planning to BAN the sale of crossbows and hunting arrows.

Is the country headed for total collapse?

“Do you believe someone who arrives on a boat illegally should get full access to the country?” “YES!!” yells the crowd. WE. ARE. COOKED.

I find it frustrating that none of these "guardians" of Linux and open source have reacted to the OS-level age verification law: - Linux Foundation - Open Source Initiative - Free Software Foundation - Software Freedom Conservancy

Moderators of the r/Linux subreddit are now censoring posts which talk about Age Verification. Not only are posts being removed, but I’ve heard from multiple Reddit users who have been banned from r/Linux for expressing opposition to Age Verification.

We need much greater restriction on the foreign ownership of UK farm land.

The biggest advantage of DCA is not price. It’s discipline. A recurring buy plan removes the pressure to time the perfect entry and helps turn intention into consistency. In Bitcoin, that matters more than most people think.

@SprinterPress @2B7C89526

🇮🇷 IRGC: If attacks continue, we will destroy the entire energy industry in the Persian Gulf The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has stated that Iranian forces will destroy the entire gas and oil industry of the Persian Gulf countries if Iran's energy sector is targeted by attacks again. "We warn you again that you have made a big mistake by attacking Iran's infrastructure. If this happens again, further attacks on your energy infrastructure and that of your allies will not stop until complete destruction, and our response will be much harsher than tonight's attacks," the IRGC statement released Wednesday evening said, according to Al Jazeera.

⚡️The professional middle is entering a slow liquidation. That is what is coming. A lot of six figure workers still think they own scarce cognition. They do not. What they actually own is a seat inside an organizational diagram that is about to be rewritten. For twenty years, companies paid armies of people to summarize, coordinate, package, analyze, report, reassure, sell, recruit, and administratively maintain complexity. AI is about to reveal how much of that layer was never true scarcity. It was overhead wearing prestige. That is why this gets dangerous. The people in that layer built expensive lives around the illusion that their salaries were durable. Big mortgages. daycare. two income households. private schools. lifestyle debt. identity fused to title. So when the compression starts, it does not feel like a normal labor shock. It feels like your class position is being revoked. A person loses the job and suddenly realizes the house was never a fortress. It was a fixed-cost trap financed by continuity. The next 12 to 18 months are likely to be ugly because companies have finally been handed a believable excuse to thin the white collar herd. They can say AI. They can say efficiency. They can say macro caution. They can say market conditions. The language does not matter. The result does. Fewer seats. Longer hiring cycles. More ghosting. Lower offers. Higher bars. More people with impressive resumes chasing jobs beneath prior status. The market will keep telling itself this is temporary. A lot of it is structural. And the cruelest part is that this probably will not arrive as one cinematic crash. It will arrive as social downgrading. The title gets softer. The comp gets cut. The search takes longer. The savings get chewed through. The role accepted is smaller than the last one. The family says it is fine. The person knows something has broken. That kind of decline is much more psychologically destructive than one violent break because it makes people live inside the decay of their own ranking. Housing is where this becomes visible. The professional class was supposed to be the stable bid under the market. If enough of them lose income security while carrying large mortgages, the house stops being optionality and becomes a restraint device. People stop moving. Listings freeze. Spending contracts. Families become geographically trapped because leaving means crystallizing loss or taking a much worse payment elsewhere. The labor shock and the housing shock start feeding each other. Society is about to discover how much of the tax base, consumption base, and institutional calm sat on a white collar class whose value was inflated by a pre-AI information economy. That class thought it had made it because it was paid well. A lot of them were just being temporarily overcompensated to keep the administrative machine running. When the machine needs fewer humans, the paycheck premium gets repriced hard. Bottom line: A lot of six figure jobs are going away. A lot of the people in them will not get equivalent replacements. The pain will concentrate in the salaried professional class with high fixed costs and no ownership cushion. The official data will lag the lived reality. The social mood will get darker long before the statistics fully admit why. The real truth is simple: The next phase is the collapse of professional security. The middle is about to learn that income is not the same thing as safety.

If you don’t own a log burner, then now is the time to get one fitted.

@rationalaussie @NorfolkBitcoin Cheery as ever ;)

This is the big one. Events are now in motion which are extremely difficult to wind back. The Iran War will bring the entire system to its knees. There will be a protracted and bloody war followed by a brutal financial, social and economic reset. Prepare accordingly.

Remember, they made you drink from cardboard straws and pay for your own environmentally friendly shopping bags, all so they could fly private jets and drop bombs whenever they wanted.

The UK's censorship agency, Ofcom, issued 4chan with a giant fine today. We responded to Ofcom with a giant hamster today.