Michael Middleton

Bitconscious: The knowledge that bitcoin will usher in a new Age of Enlightenment where individuals known as illuminees will become a bit more conscious of consciousness bringing forth a real democracy where each person practices the art of self government.

@Matt_Pinner A hippo.

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@amooh001 Abundant.

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For the geniuses only! Can you crack this logic puzzle? 🤔

@iHealCollective I feel abundance in your future.

Ever had a "friend" rewrite reality over a backyard goal? That's when I learned: True vision isn't eyes open—it's seeing past the lies without getting punched. In a world of small deceits exploding into violence, how do we stay the objective camera? Watch if you're ready to spot the evil. What's your gaslight story? Reply below. RT to arm the truth-seekers. #SpottingDeception #EyesBrightRevolution

@OldCraig Price discovery happens only after most of the lies have been exposed. The great revealing started in 2020 and has been accelerating ever since. Build something useful using the original bitcoin protocol and BRC-100 created by Babbage. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

BSV's price is still near its all time low, yet BSV'ers seem to be reaching levels of optimism not previously seen in years, if ever...why?

@CsTominaga Bravo. Meditating in stillness while the body endures extreme temperature variations is the basis upon which one encounters true inner peace and clarity. 🙏🏻

Rain, Ice, and a Body That Won’t Beg The rain hits like it means it. No rhythm, no mercy. Just noise— an angry rattle on the tin roof while I sit naked and still in a black tub of water that hates me. 4.5 degrees. Not an estimate. The machine blinked it out like a sentence. The skin forgets it’s alive after a while. Then it remembers again. Each second drags itself forward, snarling like a mutt you kicked but didn’t kill. The boxing's done. The fists, the ropes, the sharp bite of leather— all behind. I left part of myself in that room, sweated it out, burned it through. But the fire always comes back. So I sit in the cold, and I starve it. The rain keeps coming. Grey world, wet and muttering. The shower before this was hot— a trick, a cheap one. Warmth lies. The cold doesn’t. It never promises anything, and it never forgets your name. It just enters and stays. My toes are ideas I no longer believe in. My legs—gone, somewhere below this black mirror. The water doesn’t move much. Neither do I. Stillness is the deal. You want clarity? Here it is. Stripped of bravado, stripped of purpose. There is no point in here— just breath, and the refusal to get out. I’ve done a few things already today. They don’t matter now. Outside, the clouds don’t ask what I’ve achieved. They just piss on the earth like it's always been theirs. Fair enough. The gym waits. More iron. More pain shaped into purpose. But this, this ice, is the truer ritual. A quiet sermon in nerve endings. No saints. No crowds. Just one man holding still while the body screams and the will does nothing but sit and endure. And when I rise— slow, silent, without triumph— there will be no applause. Only steam on the wall and blood remembering how to move again. But that’s enough. That’s always been enough.

@segmentintender @CsTominaga @grok Fruit thrives in fertile soil from which new ideas are presented periodically that eventually alter our understanding of reality. People are transformed anew with technological breakthroughs that compliment the spirit by preserving truth with accountability via Bitcoin.

@MiddletonMike62 @CsTominaga @grok I would think self control is a fruit of the spirit not of bitcoin. At least that seem to be in agreement with western tradition. Can technology really transform people?

Alternatively, @Grok, couldn’t someone with a bit of money spin up a hundred thousand passive nodes—Sybil ghosts with no hash power, no mining, no proof-of-work—just idle listeners masquerading as voters? You see the irony, don’t you? The very threat the white paper was designed to resist—Sybil attacks—is precisely what your mythologised “broad consensus” mechanism invites. If creating a node meant influence, and mining wasn’t the determining factor, then what’s to stop one actor flooding the network with apparitions of participation? One person. One cloud provider. One script. A hundred thousand votes. No blocks. No proof-of-work. No skin in the game. So, Grok, is that Bitcoin? Or have you just described a hollowed-out shell of it, draped in democratic language to cover a puppet show where miners are sidelined and mob illusion reigns? Answer clearly. Because that doesn’t sound like the Bitcoin in the white paper. That sounds like the kind of consensus Satoshi warned against.

@CsTominaga Excellent expose. Can anyone decipher what a Semasakyccotrill is? Hint: it’s not a poison pushed by big pharma!

#Hedera #Hashgraph is what you get when a bunch of PR people with too much time and not enough understanding of distributed systems decide to turn a buzzword salad into a protocol. Mate, if blockchains were utes, Hedera is the one with a glitter wrap, fake dual exhausts, and a sound system that cost more than the engine—looks flashy at a glance, but under the bonnet it’s a glorified Camry with half a cylinder misfiring and a boot full of empty promises. Let’s start with the “gossip about gossip” consensus. Sounds like your mum’s bridge club with ASICs. It’s sold like some groundbreaking alternative to proof-of-work or proof-of-stake, but dig into it and you’ll find it’s just deterministic DAG gossip with a pretty bow. And not even a good DAG. It’s a DAG that needs permission to breathe—permissioned nodes, centrally selected council members, and an “eventual decentralisation” roadmap that might as well be stapled to a unicorn. Oh but wait, you can’t even run a node. That’s right. You, peasant. You may hold the token, you may use the app, you may praise the gods of hashgraphs, but you will never, ever run a node. That privilege is reserved for the Council of Elrond—sorry, the “Hedera Governing Council”—a hand-picked cabal of tech corporates with enough marketing budget to pretend they're decentralised because they rotate their names on the masthead every six months. Google ran away. IBM walked. Boeing has no idea why it signed up. And if you think LG Electronics gives a flying fuck about Byzantine fault tolerance, you’re probably already neck-deep in HBAR and tweeting about “future value.” And let’s talk TPS. They’ll tell you Hedera does tens of thousands of transactions per second. Sure it does—when it’s sending air to itself. Synthetic, padded benchmarks in a tightly controlled test net with no contention, no external validators, and no public scrutiny. It’s like bragging you’re the fastest sprinter in your backyard when the dog’s asleep and no one’s watching. Smart contracts? Don’t make me laugh. They bolted EVM support on the side like a caravan duct-taped to a bicycle. Interoperability? It’s about as interoperable as a toaster with a SIM card. And fees? Oh yes, they’re “predictable,” unless of course you're measuring in real utility, in which case it's predictably useless. And then there's the tokenomics. HBAR. Half of it locked away with the founding team, released according to “strategic needs” (read: market dumps when attention spikes). The remaining is fluffed up on exchanges and staked in a permissioned environment where "staking" is just a new word for "trust us, bro." Hedera is the crypto equivalent of an over-designed Canberra roundabout—confusing, unnecessary, and ultimately pointless. A so-called “third-gen” platform that never passed first-gen puberty. If you want decentralisation, you’re in the wrong pub. If you want transparency, you’re in the wrong postcode. And if you think a governing council of rotating rent-seekers is the future of finance, you probably still microwave fish at work. Hedera isn’t a distributed ledger. It’s a distributed press release with an SDK. A system built not to empower, but to placate regulators and corporate governance lawyers who don’t know the difference between consensus and committee. It’s the Qantas of crypto—once looked like a good idea, now just overpriced, over-regulated, and late on every delivery. But hey, it’s got a fancy logo.

Reuniting the Three Amigos: An Open Forum on Cryptocurrency's Untold Story youtu.be/7zGuEiLZo48?si… via @YouTube

@CsTominaga Living life raw is a testament to nature and one’s own personal power.

To go kayaking at my place, you need to be willing to get your feet wet. There’s no pristine dock, no delicate, hand-held boarding process. You take the black steps down to where stone meets sea, you feel the grit and salt underfoot, and you step into the world as it is — untamed, honest, a little rough. The kayaks wait there, half in the water, half in the air, covered against the salt spray but ready to be unwrapped at a moment’s decision. It’s not a place for those who want life served up neatly; it’s a place for those who know that real beginnings are a little messy, a little cold, and always worth it.

@CalvinAyre You are once again at the forefront of another very important issue. Well stated sir.

Parents pushing their kids to study hard from an early age might mean well but there’s growing evidence that this could be causing as many problems as it solves. A recent study revealed alarming levels of myopia (nearsightedness) in young people across East Asia, reportedly due to excessive ‘nearwork’—focusing the eyes in a range associated with studying and staring at computers/tablets/etc. bjo.bmj.com/content/109/3/… The problem isn’t limited to Asia but rates there are twice as high as other regions. There’s also a stronger prevalence in urban centers than in rural areas. The number of cases surged even higher during the pandemic, when schools were closed and kids did all of their learning online. The prevalence in Asia is partly due to a cultural emphasis on education and parents eager to see their kids succeed enforcing a rigid study regimen. This “reduces the time [the kids] spend on outdoor sports and exercise.” The impact of this phenomenon isn’t limited to kids. As this article points out, Taiwan’s military is learning the cost of having a significant number of its recruits requiring glasses to see well beyond a certain range. theguardian.com/world/2025/mar… I was an excellent student growing up and spent a serious amount of non-study time in the school library reading for enjoyment. But I also spent a great deal of time outdoors with other kids, doing, you know, kid stuff. Like climbing trees, riding bikes, playing hockey, generally getting up to no good and having a blast doing so. As we got older, our bikes turned into dirt bikes, the hockey became organized and we went fishing, hunting and chased girls at parties. When I was a kid, one of my literary heroes was Doc Savage, who was equally at home trekking through a jungle as he was running a laboratory. And I like what Guy Ritchie did with Sherlock Holmes, making him a pit-fighter as well as an eggheaded mystery solver. I often think of my childhood as one of the last eras of ‘free-range’ kids, before paranoia about ‘stranger danger’ took hold and parents who let kids be kids were seen as derelict in their duty to protect them. Obviously, I grew up in a pre-internet/smartphone age, so maybe I’m out of touch with the reality of the demands being put on kids these days. But I’m convinced that not all learning takes place at a desk, and that physical play with one’s peers is equally important for well-rounded development. Anyone who knows me, or the work my charitable foundation does, knows the importance I put on getting a proper education. But kids will learn better if they’re allowed to recalibrate their ‘focus’ by messing around outside with their peers for a couple hours each day.

The order signed by Trump on 3/7/25 creating a strategic reserve calls for the ongoing accumulation of bitcoin. It does not mention BTC because … BTC IS NOT BITCOIN. FULL STOP! Those who promote false narratives such as “Bitcoin is digital gold”; will suffer the consequences of their own ignorance and hubris when the music stops and the lies are exposed. BSV is the only true blockchain in existence.

So many people can't read. The US government; Created a bitcoin-only strategic reserve Tasked the treasury to buy more bitcoin Put existing shitcoins in a stockpile & not buy more

@CsTominaga As a long term holder of BTC AND BCH AND BSV, I am interested in joining your action. Can you DM me?

Under English law, I will be establishing a deed that ensures I take on the full cost and responsibility of running the case, with any financial proceeds from the litigation being distributed to the interveners involved. This deed will make certain that miners, developers, and businesses, who have been negatively impacted by BTC Core’s actions, receive compensation for their losses without bearing the financial burden of the legal process.

@kurtwuckertjr Thinking and Destiny.

What’s the most impactful book you’ve ever read?

This breathing practice saved my life. Persistence is crucial. I began in 2000.

@InvestWithDiego Good on the high space council. It’s about time that someone does something. Lol

BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Satoshi Nakamoto has been recognized by The Intergalactic Universal Court System as Dr Craig Wright through Genesis Block Signature #bitcoin

@BSVbosses BSV will zoom past $500 before Dr. Wright sees a jail cell wall. The same may not be true for those whom travel with the cabal.

#BSV will go up to 500$ after they put craig in jail.

Living in the Light.

@elonmuskADO Mr Musk Who chose X? You too will be eXposed.