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@Heccles94 We all see the effects. Unfortunately you are way off mark for the cause

As a Nurse, I see daily the things that affect people. I see the effects poor housing, financial strain + social isolation have on mental health. The system needs to change. It has stopped serving people long ago. That’s why I’m standing as a Green Councillor for Lake South.

@Heccles94 Total public spending (Total Managed Expenditure or TME) in 2025-26 is forecast at around £1,370 billion, against receipts of about £1,232 billion, resulting in a deficit of roughly £138 billion.

Government income is well over 1 trillion pounds. Welfare is 330 billion. Ignore the right wing lunatics.

UK billionaires hold £772.8 billion Confiscate every penny, & it funds the country for just 7.8 months So what’s really broken, the billionaires, or the system burning through cash

That community note is something else

@Vivek4real_ Dalio fudding to fill his bags

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 RAY DALIO JUST DROPPED A MASSIVE WARNING AGAINST BITCOIN: “BITCOIN DOES NOT HAVE PRIVACY. ANY TRANSACTION CAN BE MONITORED.” “CENTRAL BANKS DON’T WANT TO BUY BITCOIN.” “AND THERE ARE ALSO QUANTUM COMPUTING ISSUES.” “IT’S A RELATIVELY SMALL AND CONTROLLED MARKET.”

The soaring cost of living is suffocating, but let’s not pretend that this is some unstoppable phenomenon. This is caused by politicians, and it can be solved by politicians - just different politicians who have the courage to do what needs to be done, however unpopular that may be. Above all else, we need to brutalise the size of the state. I mean brutalise. Like nothing that has ever been seen. A public sector bonfire that is visible from space - that is what Restore Britain would do. We would deliver a Britain that lives within its means. In fact, we would be forced to go further. The immediate priority has to be paying off the national debt. Vast interest repayments on that debt are a boot on Britain’s neck. Billions and billions, just spent on interest. No household could live like that, so why can we allow the country to do so? This is debt in our name. It's on us. Our children and grandchildren. What an inheritance that is. We need to cut the debt, not just the deficit. I am going to be entirely honest here. That will be painful - really, really painful. There are no easy solutions, no easy times. We had that, and it’s led us here. To hard times. We now need hard solutions. That’s just the honest truth. Don’t like it? Don’t vote Restore Britain. I’m not promising some utopia like the others. I’m telling the truth. What a mad idea that is. There is one answer, and one answer only. Hack down the size of the state, and drastically reduce tax. Bring it all down, in a way that’s never been seen before in Britain. And yes, that will mean the state does less. GOOD. I want hardworking families to keep more of THEIR money, and they can decide how it’s spent. Thresholds raised, rates slashed. VAT, alcohol duty, fuel duty - all cut. Resist the stealth taxes they all pretend don’t exist. We will REWARD work. I think the state is bad. I think the individual is good. I trust the individual to make the decisions that are best for them and their family. I do not trust the bureaucrat to spend your money in the best possible way. Do you? Growth only comes from the following things. A far smaller state. Lower taxes. More people working. Fewer people scrounging. Cheaper energy. Stronger borders. A secure society. Actual production. I want the Government to do a very small list of things, but to do them very well. Protect our people, protect our borders, protect our interests. Other than that, no thanks. That is the only way to get the cost of living under control, there is no other way. We must crush parasitic Britain. There is now a political party dedicated to doing exactly that. Restore Britain.

Yes.

All the leftie wonks can’t comprehend this because they don’t build, they extract.

@TicTocTick If you burry a titanium seed card in your basement today, a million years from now it will still be a store of value because its independent. Gold is not a store of value because it needs gold atoms ⚡️ . If there’s no gold atoms tomorrow, there is no gold tomorrow.

If you burry a kilogram of gold in your basement today, a million years from now it will still be a store of value because its independent. Bitcoin is not a store of value because it needs electricity ⚡️ . If there’s no electricity tomorrow, there is no Bitcoin tomorrow.

@willywoo @grok how does this thesis hold assuming government adoption happens before quantum computing can release the lost coins? Wouldn't it be in the interest of governments to release the coins slowly to avoid hurting themselves?

Unfortunately the next 10 years is when BTC is most needed. It's the end of the long term debt cycle, it's where macro investors and sovereigns run to hard assets like gold to shelter from global debt deleveraging. Hence gold moons without BTC.

12 YR TREND BROKEN. BTC should be a valued a LOT HIGHER relative to gold. Should be. IT'S NOT. The valuation trend broke down once QUANTUM came into awareness. Don't read this post if you want to stay high on hopium instead of seeing things as they are.

@BasilTheGreat @RupertLowe10 the peoples knight. @RestoreBritain_

Rupert Lowe was told he's probably blown any chance of him receiving a knighthood after organising the rape gang inquiry His response: "Don't Care" Make this man Prime Minister

Under a Restore Britain Government, parents would have the right to take their children out of school for a limited number of days per year without getting fined. Assuming the child is developing well, and attendance is otherwise good, families will be entitled to spend that time with their children as they see fit. I strongly believe that parents should be the decision-maker in a child's life. If they believe that a family holiday will provide benefits to their son or daughter, that is their decision. That power belongs to the family, not the state. For many, the costs during holidays are simply extortionate - it is the difference between going or not. Often parents just pay the fine regardless as it's cheaper than the hiked price difference. It's insanity. Where is that money going? I sincerely doubt it is being spent well. Time away with the family can bring enormous value that school simply cannot. A small policy change that would make a big difference to British families. Of course this needs to be done reasonably and sensibly, but Restore Britain is unashamedly pro-family. That will resonate across our political party's entire policy platform.

I am today launching Restore Britain as a national political party. Join us. restorebritain.org.uk/join_us

I was there during the blocksize wars. What really happened is that Roger had a business using Bitcoin and depended on cheap on-chain transactions. He was super passionate and wanted businesses to flourish using bitcoin, but when fees spiked his business suffered. In his view adoption by businesses (and in specific his own) was vital for Bitcoin’s success. He couldn’t believe people would choose a path where his business would have to stop using Bitcoin. He simply wanted to use Bitcoin as digital cash. In his passion he was willing to compromise on decentralization, go for the quick fix, a blocksize increase. What he didn’t understand was that his business (and the handful at the time) in the grand scheme of things didn’t matter, but how could he, he put tons of effort into it. Next to that, Lightning, as a scaling solution, was mostly theory. He teamed up with the ‘corporate bitcoiners’ at the time to push for big blocks. We (the UASF proponents) didn’t want to compromise on decentralization. We understood that a short-term solution (a blocksize increase) to save a few companies was not worth it. It was better to first try long-term solutions, as Bitcoin needed to be used for centuries, even if that meant (unfortunately) a few companies would have to go out of business. The analogy I used at the time was internet’s scaling solution. In the early days of the internet there was a similar problem. There was too much traffic, and routers often were bottlenecks. The quick (and expensive) fix, was to replace routers with more capacity (blocksize increase equivalent). But instead, through scientific research, we got smart algorithms (deployed via firmware updates) that allowed existing routers (think of nodes) to have much better efficiency. This was a much cheaper and better solution. Bitcoin SegWit came forth out of scientific research. Today, Bitcoin can be used as digital cash through Lighting. We got instant transactions, better than Roger’s zero conf transaction method at the time.

Just some of the messages I got from BCH core devs during the Bitcoin Blocksize Wars in 2017 while they were pushing their big block agenda. I used logic instead, learnt, listened, researched and made my own mind up for myself and my exchange. Going against the majority of other exchanges and miners around the world. We were on the right side of history. Don't listen to the loudest most aggressive voices, DYOR and listen to calm sensible logic.

Add Keir Starmer's newfound concern for victims of Peter Mandelson's bestie to his backflip on whether women can have penises and his U-turn on the Rotherham grooming gangs enquiry. Starmer is indifferent to harm done to girls and women unless it threatens his career. #StarmerOut

Soo much #Bitcoin moving from weak hands to diamond hands. It's beautiful

Can someone smarter than me explain why this is happening? Genuinely curious I thought crypto was supposed to protect you against decline in the dollar The dollar hegemony is starting to show cracks but the asset class is tanking. How does that make sense? Meanwhile gold, silver and copper are having their best years in a very long time. So what even is the thesis behind crypto anymore?

They want Britain to apologize for slavery. We already did. In 1840. Prince Albert - Queen Victoria's husband - gave his first public speech in Britain at Exeter Hall to 4,500 people. He stated: 'I deeply regret that the benevolent and persevering exertions of England to abolish the atrocious traffic in human beings have not led to a satisfactory conclusion.' This was 7 years after Britain abolished slavery throughout the Empire. Britain abolished it in 1833. The Ottoman Empire continued until 1924. The Arab slave trade ran into the 1960s. We didn't just stop. We apologized that we couldn't stop everyone else faster. And 185 years later, they're still demanding we apologize. Enough.

@DaleVince @grok How much government money has Dale accepted through his businesses and charities

We need to change the tax system - we need tax justice.