Lukas Hansen

@primal_app @LynAldenContact

585 days later we now have a gif button.

@adam3us My take is that both sides hate spam, but one side think it's solvable, the other side does not. Like big blockers thinking that increasing the block size was a good solution to get fees down. I think the insiders know better, maybe they are motivated by something else.

Maybe filter bip proponents hate spam more than they care about Bitcoin immutability and store of value; analogous with the big blockers who wanted cheap scale more than they cared about immutability and store of value.

@jimmysong shitcoiners

Sunday Survey: Which of these is the hurts Bitcoin the most?

@BenJustman Why would anyone use the "For You" page? They feed you cancer to trick you into doom scrolling instead of just scrolling your own feed with people you want to hear from.

I came to Twitter for Bitcoin and now there's not a single Bitcoin tweet on my "For You" page. RIP

@Mandrik @SlyGoomba I think it's often used as a stand in for "people who got in the cycle before me". I think it's people who got in, in '13 or earlier, but then again, I'm from the class of '16, so that would also be the preceding cycle. Class of '13 probably think it's '09, '10 and '11.

@SlyGoomba Bro 2021 is not OG

If youre an og bitcoiner(class of '21 or earlier) and been wondering where class of 24/25 is. Theyre all in The Bitcoin Army.

@r0ckstardev @Tesla @parkeralewis Wasn't this basically what Parker did to come up with "Gradually, then suddenly" from "Slowly, then all at once"?

@Tesla @parkeralewis #Bitcoin 👀

Slowly, then all at once

@Cryptonix4real @MerlijnTrader When you need to pay taxes, just buy bitcoin with the fiat you would have used, and send the bitcoin. This could also drive up your avg. purchasing price, lowering your taxes, if you choose to sell later on. Don't know if they would allow that though.

@MerlijnTrader Pay your taxes in fiat since that value decreases over time. Keep your bitcoin as that value increases over time. Let the government buy its own bitcoin. Don't give it yours.

BREAKING: THE U.S. JUST UNLOCKED THE BIGGEST BITCOIN DEMAND DRIVER IN HISTORY. Congress just introduced the Bitcoin for America Act. Americans will be able to pay federal taxes in Bitcoin with zero capital gains tax and every BTC going straight into a national strategic reserve. The math is brutal: IRS collects $5.2 trillion a year. Even 5 % opt-in is $260 billion in annual BTC inflows. 10 % is $520 billion. No ETFs. No mining subsidies. No speculation. Pure, unstoppable, taxpayer-driven accumulation. This isn’t a bill. This is monetary engineering at planetary scale. - Bitcoin becomes de facto state-backed collateral - Volatility gets absorbed by sovereign scale - Scarcity intensifies while adoption normalizes One law turns the IRS into the world’s largest Bitcoin buyer. Bitcoin won’t replace the dollar. It’s about to start backing it. The domino has fallen. The reserve is loading. Get positioned. History doesn’t wait.

@jimmysong Right now, probably shit-coiners. long term, governments.

Sunday Survey: Who are Bitcoin's biggest enemies?

@PeterMcCormack @DavidGNI And where would this bunker located? :p

@DavidGNI I will hold a spot in the bunker for you

The year is 2031. You scan your Digital ID to unlock your car because Labour decided keys are “far-right.” Your car won’t move until you top up your Travel Credits, which now cost £14 per mile. You can only drive to Approved Destinations. Anything else triggers “Journey Denied: destination inconsistent with Collective Productivity Goals.” Every EV is an internet-connected tax meter on wheels, so Rachel Reeves can adjust the mileage tax in real time. The in-car radio automatically plays the Government Safe Speech Channel, looping the new national mantra: “No hurty words. No hurty thoughts. Be kind. Be compliant.” Phrases like “tax cut”, “small government” or “this is fucking insane” deducts points from your Social Conduct Score. A warning notification pops up every five minutes reminding you that “Driving is a privilege granted by the State. Gratitude is mandatory.” And just before you arrive, your dashboard flashes the latest Labour message “Remember, freedom causes anxiety. Let government help.”

@willywoo Good point, but aren't "OG's are selling" a reference to the explanation as to why we've basically been flat for 2 years. The OG's are selling above $100k and the selling pressure is immense, compared to previous cycles. Am I reading too much into that one phrase?

@Laukess It stems from a misunderstanding of the metric. Everyone is freaking out over a chart that has a misleading name, you want lots of LTH supply to move to STH because that's what happens in a bull market. Lot's of money comes in to buy coins from prior investors.

“OGs are selling” Long term holder is a misnomer. Definition: any coin that has aged more than 5 months in a wallet address. LTH supply will drop in bull markets because those coins move to new investors. In 2025 it also means a custody rotation to launch a treasury company.

@BTCBreadMan refreshing take.

Unpopular opinion: I don’t give a fuck about spam on the Bitcoin blockchain, and I never have. If you are retarded and want to pay fees to put non-monetary bullshit into blocks, you have the right to do so. Knock yourself out, ya dummie.

@real_vijay thank fuck they didn't

Imagine how many bitcoins you would have if you were doing this in 2014.

@MorosKostas Would this include people who receive subsidies?

My spiciest deeply-held view is that being on welfare should void your right to vote until you are off of it (not counting retirement benefits and certain Veteran's programs). The status quo is too busted. Politicians are incentivized to try and purchase votes by handing out free shit that is paid for by the taxpayers (or increasingly, unsustainable debt). Then people on welfare are incentivized to vote for whoever will keep handing it to them. It's perverse.

@rot13maxi surly it should be Bitcoin Cash-jr

Bitcoin CashJr

@r0ckstardev Was the P2P stage not live streamed? Was only able to find the WAGMI stage stream.

Bitcoin is already, by far, the best privacy coin. What is left now is to teach the history of how we got here - recognizing pioneers like Wasabi and Samurai - and learn from it. Even more importantly - spread the knowledge on how to use the right tools: eCash, Boltz swaps, @RoboSats, solid wallets like @AquaBitcoin and @BullBitcoin_, and merchant platforms such as @BtcpayServer. It's critical that most Bitcoin stays no-KYC. Anything less than a supermajority pushes us toward a dystopian future - one already previewed in Sweden, where anyone can legally look up your home address and Bitcoin holdings in a public, government-mandated registry. I don't think anyone sane wants to live in the chaos of that type of world. See you today at @LuganoPlanB P2P Stage @ 3 PM where I'll be talking with @sethforprivacy, @giacomozucco, Max and Odell about one of my favorite topics. No privacy, no freedom ✊🗽

@bitgould CISA was the one thing I was looking forward to when taproot was about to activate. Following the activation it seemed like all talk about it on twitter died down, and I was sort of disappointed. I don't know anything about CISA on a technical level, maybe it just takes more time

Combining Payjoin with CISA makes private bitcoin transfers cheaper than not using them.

@jimmysong Alts dying would be better for bitcoin long term, so I would be fine with a $60k dip or more. That said, I don't think the price of bitcoin has any impact on whether or not people think they can make money on them. I think it's more about time

Sunday Survey: How much of a dip in Bitcoin price would you take to eliminate altcoins?

@adam3us Leaving off carbon steel is criminal.

Bitcoiners winning too hard? Need something to fight about? Stainless steel vs cast iron

@knutsvanholm @giacomozucco Shitcoiners call themselves bitcoiners, so we needed a new term that they wouldn’t call themselves. That’s what makes the maxi label so useful.

Back in the Blocksize Wars, that cycle's lead shitcoiner, Vitalik Buterin, introduced the term "Bitcoin Maximalists." The lead shitcoiners of today are calling us "Bitcoin Puritans." Ironically, we might have stumbled upon the one thing shitcoiners are actually useful for...