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Excellent explanation of why Bitcoin will become a store of value 1st, price will stabilise then onto being a medium of exchange 💰. Courtesy of @real_vijay @vijayb_24615/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vijayb_24615/…

@RupertLowe10 And then 4yrs later a different party gains power and undoes it all........the answer you're looking for Rupert is Bitcoin & it only takes 39mins to understand why: youtube.com/watch?v=YtFOxN…

Inflation is the tax that makes all of us poorer. It makes your food shop more expensive, clothes more expensive, fuel more expensive. Everything. It impoverishes the British people. This is not random. This is not accidental. This is not irreversible. It is the direct result of government choices. When the state grows too large, spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much, the value of our money is steadily eroded. This is not complicated. Prices rise, and savings are punished. Wages fall behind, and the country becomes poorer. Ordinary British men and women feel worse off even if they are working harder than ever. With those on the lowest wages suffering the most. The economy is failing those who work hard and contribute, yet feel less and less reward. I detest it. For decades, politicians have tried to pretend there are complicated solutions to this problem. There aren’t. There are straightforward solutions. That doesn’t mean they’re painless, but they are straightforward. So far, no political party has had the courage to outline the way forward. We will. Restore Britain will. If you want to bring inflation down and keep it down, you must radically shrink the size of the state. This is non-negotiable. Government spending drives inflation, endless borrowing drives inflation, constant intervention in the economy drives inflation. And when the state grows larger and larger, it must fund itself through either taxation, borrowing or money creation. All three ultimately push prices higher. It makes your money worth less. It makes your food shop more expensive. It is that simple. If the state prints billions and billions (Quantitative Easing) , what happens to the existing money? It all becomes worth less. This is so painfully obvious. Yet what does the state do? Cheered on by gopher politicians? Print, print and print some more. A Restore Britain would do the five following things, brutally and rapidly. - Drastically cut Government spending. - Radically reduce tax. - Brutalise the size of the state. - Ensure that the country lives within its means. - Ban money printing (QE), without explicit parliamentary approval. Is this a painless process? No. It is not. I am not going to tell you otherwise. It will be painful, it will be difficult. There will be immense cuts. I am simply being honest with you all. But it is necessary. It is the only way. When you allow businesses to grow, allow people to keep more of their own money and remove the bureaucratic dead weight suffocating the economy, production increases. More goods are produced, more services are delivered, and prices stabilise. A smaller state means a stronger economy, and a stronger economy means stable prices. Inflation is kept under control. For too long Britain has gone in completely the opposite direction. Taxes are at record highs, the state is larger than ever, and inflation has punished every household in the country. Every single one. Nobody has been exempt. But it is the poorest who suffer the most, and that is simply unacceptable. Restore Britain will reverse that. You cannot tax, borrow and spend your way to stable prices. You cannot regulate your way for lower inflation. A small responsible state puts the people, not itself, first. What do we have? A state that now taxes, wastes and then misappropriates. The only real path to low inflation is a smaller state and a freer economy. That leads to a richer people. That leads to a cheaper food shop. A cheaper pint. A cheaper tank of fuel. That is Restore Britain’s aim. If you want the Government out of your lives, and more of your own money in your pocket, with that money worth more? There is a political party willing to take the painful steps to deliver that. Restore Britain.

@Keir_Starmer Your No.1 priorities over past 2yrs (not overnight): Cost of living - Feb '26 - FAILED ❌ Smashing the gangs - Aug '25 - FAILED ❌ Protecting Brits - Feb '25 - FAILED ❌ Safe communities - Aug '24 - FAILED ❌ Wealth creation - June '24 - FAILED ❌

Tackling the cost of living is my government’s number one priority. National Living Wage and the Pension Triple lock increased from April. Rail fares frozen. Extending free school meals, 5p fuel duty and capping bus fares at £3. Change does not happen overnight, but change is happening.

@PeterMcCormack @flexi_time @BangorUni Get a grip Pedro

@flexi_time @BangorUni I’ve tried to read it and it sounds like my mate Dave when he’s pissed.

Just gifted my new baby niece her 1st bitcoin wallet for an enforced 18yr HODL, feels good 😁 She'd stacked sats within 30mins of birth 💪 Via a hardware wallet (not expecting it to work in 18yrs) & some v nice backup seed plates from @bitcoinbackups (highly recommended)

Thought I recognised that name 🤨 Nige will be high on mETH soon

@thecoastguy Platforming this blatant fraudster makes me hope you've bought a lot of BSV Neil 🤞

Talking Bitcoin with Dr Craig Wright. youtu.be/8AwBQ95Be3Q

I share one bearish observation on here and people lose their f-ing minds. They also assume I'm short. No. I'm just not a shill. The recent viral piece about how bitcoin is in IPO mode and we all need to relax seemed to me pretty accurate. Bitcoin is distributing and that's good. Bitcoin has won and it's a bit boring now and OG's are taking their billions and buying yachts or gold or AI / quantum stocks, and this is all very normal and expected, so chill. But that also just felt... empty. It felt like cope. Like, think about where we were before institutional adoption and Trump victory. The price was lower, but the narrative was amazing. We--all of us in bitcoin--were in on a profound secret. We were building better money for a better world. The world was either laughing at us or fighting us, but we knew we would eventually win. After all, nothing stops the train of debt and debasement. Nothing stops the control-freak impulse to censor and surveil us either. And bitcoin wins every time financial and legal authorities abuse their power. (All still true, btw.) The bitcoin hate, much more common then, actually fueled us. Environmental critics were so off base, so embarrassingly misinformed, that confronting them with facts was actually sporting. We ratio-ed GreenpeaceUSA into oblivion, eventually winning decisively as they handed over "the skull" to David Bailey in Vegas like Cornwallis surrendering to Washington at Yorktown. Good times. Similarly, the human rights angle was (and is) unknown by a lot of mindless fiat elites who had never reflected on their financial privilege. We won those debates handily too, time and again, as people started to realize what bitcoin is, its potential for empowering billions and disintermediating banks, disempowering chronic debasers and authoritarians. Vibes were incredibly high. Then Wall St. stepped in with the ETFs. The water cooler talk about bitcoin changed a bit. Rather than resistance money, it was an uncorrelated asset and a hedge against risk and inflation, but one now available in a nice wrapper that your investment advisor knew how to handle. It wasn't a threat to dollar hegemony. Instead, it worked hand-in-hand with stablecoins to advance the dollar and American interests. Ok. I actually buy that I guess, at least near term. All good, ok? Price went up. But the bitcoin brand itself again shifted just a bit in its meaning. It became, rather than a people's movement to reform money, more of a new thing for your retirement fund. Gold 2.0. Not a bad thing by any means, but... a different vibe and not quite as sexy. Next was treasury companies, promising to exploit every financing trick in the book to port debt appetite from dollars into bitcoin. Ok, well again, this was to be expected. Who wants to hold dollars these days? Why shouldn't floundering companies pivot to stacking bitcoin? It worked for Strategy, after all. Bitcoin twitter became stock talk. Not a lot of focus on f-you money, more like f-you levels of wealth from PIPE investments. Again, nothing wrong with this, but it once again shifted the tightest associations with bitcoin, as an idea. Bitcoin was somehow now a corporate thing, a finance thing. Bitcoin, despite being a financial instrument... didn't use to be a FINANCE THING. Finance bros hated it. It wasn't a CORPORATE THING either. Corporations wouldn't look twice at it. In some ways, it was anti-finance, anti-corporate. Now, it's good that finance bros and corporations are coming around (the vast majority still haven't!) but that's a brand shift, a vibe shift too. Michael Saylor has been a tremendous advocate for bitcoin, don't get me wrong. But contrast his image--billionaire CEO conquering the fiat world of other billionaire CEOs in a contest of getting richer--with @aantonop, who declared bitcoin "punk rock, not smooth jazz" and promised that bitcoin would "bank the unbanked billions." These are very different mascots for very different brands. Next, Trump was elected and promised bitcoin-friendly regs and a strategic bitcoin reserve. This was undoubtedly better for bitcoin than the alternative. No question. David Bailey was ingenious and resourceful in making it happen. But... the vibe shifted again, as ideas of the orange coin and the orange man fused in the collective imagination. Ok, so at the same time all this winning is happening, privacy-protecting open source development is targeted by the same admin, and bitcoiners don't seem to care about that so much as the number just continuing to go up. I am proud of @bitcoinpolicy's work on this, but it's not the central focus of bitcoiners more broadly, or at least that is my impression. Would happily be corrected. So it's in this context that we observe price hasn't even gone up that much, despite this embrace of bitcoin by the federal government and Wall St. and despite the many brand compromises, each of which pushes us farther from the cypherpunk core. What is happening on bitcoin twitter these days? Well, our enemies have stopped posting much. Occasionally you get some old crank like Hanke providing us some target practice. But after we crossed $100k, most critics have learned not to make price predictions. The left wing departed twitter altogether for bluer skies. We turned on each other instead to debate, not even a consensus change but relay policy... and if anyone comes into this debate they see nasty infighting and csam speculations. Luke is crapping on the Treasury Secretary of the US, paying homage to bitcoin? Truly unappealing, and I wouldn't want any of my normie friends to visit right now. We have a drawdown in price after some crab action. No big deal and not nearly what we've been through before, but in absolute terms, a lot of investors are down slightly. And it's now that we're told longer-term holders are selling to the ETFs and treasury companies. And we're told hey, don't worry it's the IPO moment for OGs. Relax, it's ok, they need to cash out, e.g., $9b of bitcoin to provide for their families. Don't worry, it's like the early days of Amazon. I don't know, man. That is all true, but it is a lousy narrative compared to where we came from even a few short years ago. "Be the exit liquidity for OGs, they deserve it" doesn't hold a candle to "be your own bank." Something about this felt really empty and depressing. So I tweeted. To be clear... nothing has changed about bitcoin itself. It is just as much freedom money as ever. Moreso, as we improve privacy and utility. It's still a global, permission less censorship-resistant network anyone in the world can be a part of. It's still a monumental step forward in how we store and transmit value. It is all of the things it ever was. And the future is brighter than ever. I remain all-in on bitcoin with my capital, my time, and my reputation. But I will also always tell the truth about how I see things, and right now I think we need a better focus and brighter narrative. We need to remember who we are and what bitcoin is. Thanks for reading.

After 7yrs helping organise @BitcoinWales meetups, it's time to take a step back for a variety of reasons, hopefully others will continue it as I'll defo be a visitor 🫡

I got reported to HMRC this week by Ebay 🤔 I'd sold £550 worth of things & it's imperative the Gov know this. Makes me proud to be British.

@ryan_wain 'I'm sorry', but surely it's an advert for not incompetently releasing criminals who should still be in jail/deported 🤷‍♂️

I’m sorry but this is a live advert for facial recognition technology. Ignore the cries of dystopia - dystopia is a sex offender walking our streets as an outdated manhunt fails in realtime. Live facial rec finds faces on wanted list in crowds, at speed and catches criminals.

@Keir_Starmer The cost is our freedom you cock womble

I recently spoke with someone buying a house with her partner. She told me that she had to pay just to verify who she was. With digital ID that could be done in seconds and wipe out the costs. Digital ID will save you time and money.

Took less than 4wks to go from digital ID being introduced to protect the border by 'blocking' illegal migrants from working to your bank requiring it..... Digital ID will make the governments control of our lives easier.

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As Neil amplifies the BSV PR Chief and Faketoshi, I'd love to know @thecoastguy's thoughts on why he believes Craig created Bitcoin. Please enlighten us Neil.......

Neil is subtlety trying to tell you he thinks Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto 😬

@Saifedean: "Hello XXX, I'm publishing a new edition of the Bitcoin Standard, and I need a new preface to replace Saylor, who in turn replaced Taleb." XXX: pack all belongings, contacts witness-protection program, changes name, undergoes plastic surgery, hides in remote Patagonia to escape THE CURSE :D

@CedYoungelman Maybe when bitcoin is priced per sats, not per btc

At what Bitcoin price do you think retail wakes up? I’ll go first. I don’t think they’re coming for a long time.