Rob Mackay

@BitcoinPierre @VillanuevaPM Coin base

@VillanuevaPM @RobasMackay Who is the single custodian?

This guy has invested in every part of the financial-industrial complex (which he currently advertises on his X banner!), nothing wrong with that, but he also claims to have left that system? He is suffering from Saylor Derangement Syndrome, fabricating FUD narratives. Bitcoin adoption by the financial-industrial complex is exactly what we should want, along with individual adoption of course. All of the above.

@MochaStrategy @Makelegs @BitcoinPierre The issue isn't centralisation in strategy, it's that it's centralised with custodians

@Makelegs @RobasMackay @BitcoinPierre 💯 This. It would seem to me that people who protest Strategy's "centralization" of Bitcoin are really just expressing frustration as they realize that, contrary to their unrealistic fantasies, Bitcoin was never actually going to solve the problem of wealth inequality.

@NancyRPearcey @LilaGraceRose Tks Nancy ... warm and close with my daughter- challenge accepted!

An award-winning 35-year longitudinal study asked how parents succeed in passing on their religious convictions. The study found two surprising results: First, “having a close bond with one’s father matters even more than a close relationship with one’s mother.” In other words, fathers wield influence, whether they want to or not. Second, the relationship with the father must be warm and close. A father can be a leader of the community, a pillar of the church, a moral exemplar, but if he is perceived as cold and distant, the child will not follow him, will not adopt his spiritual and religious convictions. Here's the study:

This is so sweet. A father prays over his baby girl, reciting Scripture and declaring blessing and protection over her life.  Studies show when a father actively practices his faith, up to 75% of children will carry it into adulthood. A father’s love changes the world.

Bad take. He lost $14m or something like that on celcius and spent more than a year fighting for it back ... not really because he needed it so badly. But because of the principle and because he had the ability to do so. Possibly mainly because there were thousands of others who lost too, and didn't have the ability to do so. If you followed him through it all, you'd be hard pressed to say he wasn't advocating more for others than himself.

@BitcoinPierre Dixon lost money in the celcius ponzi, absolute grifter

@jacob3141592 @BitcoinPierre Hmm not true. Suggests to get more bitcoin every month. What fiat ideas?

@BitcoinPierre I have only heard Fiat ideas from him. Often presented as Bitcoin affiliate.

@BitcoinPierre @ibenaija Well. Feel like it kinda can. Depends on what you mean by hijack.

@ibenaija Bitcoin can't be hijacked by the financial-industrial complex because Bitcoin is permissionless and open source.

@btcjvs @BitcoinPierre Why/how is he conflicted? He has skin in the game, but seems genuinely concerned too. He doesn't profit from concern.

@Cole_Walmsley What do the central banks do with the money? How don't they become the biggest financial institutions in the world and just keep growing ad infinitum?

This is central banking in a nutshell: A group of rich guys go to the king and say: "Hey, you need money for your war. We'll give you all the money you want." The king says: "Great, where's the money?" They say: "We're going to make it up. We'll write numbers in a book and that's your money now." The king says: "What do I owe you?" They say: "You pay us back with interest." The king says: "Where do I get that money?" They say: "You tax your citizens." The king says: "What if I can't pay it all back?" They say: "That's fine. We'll lend you more. Same deal." The king says: "And what do you do with the IOUs I gave you?" They say: "We use them to prove we have money, so we can lend even more money to other people and charge them interest too." The king says: "So you made up money, lent it to me, I tax my people to pay you back, and then you use my debt to make up even more money and lend it to everyone else?" They say: "Yes." The king says: "What did it cost you?" They say: "Nothing." That's literally how the Bank of England started in 1694. The Bank was formed to finance King William's war with France. The king gave the Bank a charter, granting it a monopoly on money. The king could have as much money as he wanted. The bankers could always earn interest. Taxpayers covered the bill. Now replace "king" with "United States Government" and you have the Federal Reserve in 1913. Same story, different country. It doesn't end there. 185 central banks exist in the world today. Across the globe, the governments get as much money as they want, the bankers load their pockets with interest, and the taxpayers pay for it all. Oh, and if you don't pay your taxes, they'll fine you, penalize you, or throw you in jail. The ONLY way out of this is to STOP USING THEIR MONEY. As long as you're using the money that central banks control, the central banks will have control. You have to stop giving them energy. Use a different form of money that they can't control. This is why Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin.

You work for money, but can't store wealth in money as money loses value over time. So you have to save wealth in investments but you get taxed on income and capital gains. You are forced to play this game, and the rules seem unfair.

@Cole_Walmsley Good framing

I've never seen anyone make this Bitcoin argument before: People see Bitcoin as a replacement for fiat. But what if you flipped it around? What if fiat was the replacement for Bitcoin? Imagine Bitcoin is the monetary standard. It’s the money that’s been normal since birth. Decentralized. No one controls it. Can't be inflated. Runs on math and energy. Same rules for everyone, no exceptions. Now someone walks in and pitches you a replacement: "We're going to let a small group of bankers and politicians control the money supply. They can print as much as they want, whenever they want. It'll lose purchasing power every single year. And if you don’t play by their rules, they’ll fine you, penalize you, or throw you in jail.” Would you opt in? Would anyone? The only people that would opt in are the bankers and politicians, the same people who decided that fiat would be money in the first place. Think about that. You never had a choice. You were never given a vote. It was only up to them. Fiat — by decree. The fiat system goes back over 100 years — and central banking goes back even further. That system has entrenched itself into society. It’s created economic schools around its ideas. It’s built entire industries around profiting from it. And it’s made itself the default so no one thinks to question it. Bitcoin is not the crazy idea. Fiat is. It’s just been running so long that people have normalized it, so when an alternative monetary system pops up, people call it crazy. When you flip the script and view the world from the Bitcoin lens, the ridiculousness of fiat becomes obvious. Simply stated... If Bitcoin had come first, nobody would agree to fiat.

What do we always want? More. What do we really need? Enough. Act accordingly.

@RationalMale Nonsense argument. Esp if you made marriage vows and intend to keep your word. More than half the reason a marriage has a dead bedroom is due to him. What kind of a guy walks out?

Gentlemen, barring medical issues, if your wife hasn't desired to have sex with you in 3 months, file for divorce. Better to do it sooner than later. If you get to the 6-month mark, the sex will never come back. Your marriage is over. It's about desire, not obligation.

I'm slightly confused. South africa had barely managed to stop load shedding - look it up if you dont know what it is - due to not enough electricity across the nation. Hence why many installed solar. Hardly stable and abundant surplus power. Likely that a politician has been orange pulled, will use state electricity to mine bitcoin and he will keep the bitcoin himself :-)

Sustainable News media company Renewables Now just covered how South Africa is planning to use Bitcoin mining on surplus solar energy, as part of an ongoing initiative to balance their grid

@MontgomeryToms Who and why?

Britain needs mass deportations!

Thrifty til fifty, then spend til the end ...

@samuel_leeds @firasmodad You legend

I'm buying a church. I’ve made a cash offer of £225,000 to purchase this church, which was about to close and be sold off to developers. I'm fed up with driving past all these churches in the UK that used to thrive, support the community, and feed the homeless. Now, just look at these beautiful church buildings. So many are boarded up, closed down, with developers queueing up to profit from converting them into flats. I simply can't accept that a building built to glorify Jesus for generations can be turned into something solely for profit. So I've placed an offer on a church in my hometown. My plan is to buy it and offer it completely free of charge, with zero rent, to a church willing to worship Jesus here and serve others. What do you think of this idea?

All about expectations and agreements no? What have they agreed about who generally keeps the house tidy? What are the expectations about the tidiness of the house at any given random moment? What's agreed or expected protocol if they both have a bit of spare time and the house is a mess?

@GrnMtnbear 💯💯💯💯

That house is filthy.

@NorthstarCharts *stay

We just followed the charts. It really isn't rocket science...

@NorthstarCharts Any change they say green? If not, why not?