➡️ CAMP NAKAMOTO 6/18-6/21 NH ⚡🏝️

Linked below are my group chats on X. Ya'll are welcome to join the ones that are relevant to you. 1) Bitcoin Education app/discussion: 2) Christian Bitcoiners 3) Bitcoin Beats (Bitcoin music fans, artists) 4) EDM Bitcoiners 5) Local events (in-person, NH, MA)

@Spaceball_One @jayythewave Good point

@jayythewave @NEEDcreations They make it. They just won’t play it on air

i don’t think white dudes realize how much we miss them making music like this

@BeefButterBTC 💯💯

@NEEDcreations TA is astrology for finance guys

WE'RE SAVED!! Lmao 😂Just adjust your lines and you'll sleep easy tonight! #bitcoin

BREAKING: INDIA IS SELLING GOLD TO BUY BITCOIN. IT'S HAPPENING 🚀🚀 - sources

@keithlangley27 @izamamaa Omg yes. Core memory

@izamamaa I remember this song because it came on in an episode of Malcolm in the middle when Reese learned how to drive

Sum 41’s “In Too Deep” turns 25 this year. Absolute pop-punk classic.

@predyx_markets lol that's awesome

What are the odds of this happening?

I would say you need at least 5-10 channels to well connected nodes to start to get some routes. Does Kraken even use lightning on their platform? haha I'm not sure... You can take a look at my channels if you'd like. I connect to Bitcon focused companies who use lighting all day every day...if you open to some of the same ones as me, and open to me, I guarantee you'll start to see routes. amboss.space/node/0383c1b59…

@NEEDcreations @gladstein I've had my channels open for quite a while, but they still haven't routed any payments. Which nodes would you recommend connecting to in order to get routing activity?

I currently only have about 0.01 BTC of liquidity on my node throughout 14 channels, yet, I still route 235+ txns per week and earn 390+ sats in fees (passively, with ZERO channel management). Lightning and bitcoin micro payments are very much widely adopted. cc @gladstein

@w_s_bitcoin @21BitcoinMaxi @grok @claudeai thanks @claudeai

@w_s_bitcoin @21BitcoinMaxi @grok literally can't do it. keeps spitting out the same chart over and over. I'll try @claudeai

Bitcoiners need to realize this so they can smack the "bitcoin has been flat for the last 5 years" FUD in the face! It's only flat if you smash bought your net worth 5 years ago and neither bought nor sold anything all the way to today. This is why DCA and Chill is such an effective strategy. Ppl are so highly regarded with this "bitcoin is flat" FUD.

I agree with much of your SegWit history but I think you are applying different standards. You argue BIP148 was justified because economic consensus mattered more than miner signaling. Fair enough. But then you dismiss BIP110 solely because it lacks sufficient support. How do you know that before the market has had a chance to express a preference? You also say users decide what software they run. I agree. If that’s true then the fact that a proposal is implemented in Knots rather than Core shouldn’t be decisive. Users are free to reject it … just as they were free to reject BIP148. And one factual point … BIP148 did not have overwhelming consensus across the entire ecosystem. It was highly controversial and many people warned of chainsplit risks. History ultimately judged it successful but that outcome is not evidence that consensus already existed beforehand. Isnt the real principle that users should be free to choose their software and the market should decide? If so, that principle should apply consistently even to proposals we dislike.

Some Alpha for the kids: The block size wars didn't start in 2017. They started years earlier when Gavin Andresen began pushing for 20 to 30 megabyte blocks. A lot of us pushed back hard because we believed Bitcoin needed to stay small and permissionless. We wanted anyone to be able to run a node over Tor or even broadcast transactions over ham radio if they had to. By 2016 the Hong Kong Agreement was made. Miners and some developers agreed to activate SegWit first followed by a 2 megabyte hard fork. Luke Dashjr wrote the code but Bitcoin Core refused to merge it into their repository. Jihan Wu got so angry about this that he posted his infamous "fuck your mother" tweet. Miners then refused to signal for SegWit even though Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 had been running on roughly 90 percent of the network for almost a year. On top of that Bitmain and ViaBTC were mining empty blocks using covert ASICBoost while fees were going through the roof. We wanted malleability fixed and Lightning to move forward but we were being hijacked by Jihan Wu. That is why BIP 148 was justified. The whole point of BIP 148 was that economic nodes were going to activate SegWit on August 1st no matter what. We had overwhelming industry support and nearly 90 percent of nodes were already running the software. The high threshold was only there as a backup in case miners changed their mind. We never expected it to reach that level because economic consensus was already there. Compare that to today. BIP 110 does not have anywhere near that kind of economic support across the ecosystem. The people behind it claim they are being censored but the truth is most people simply think the idea is bad. Activating a soft fork like this with only 55 percent hash power would be an attack on Bitcoin. You cannot compare the two situations. Both the big blockers back then and the BIP 110 crowd now made the same mistake. They have their own implementation called Bitcoin Knots, yet they remain obsessed with trying to control what Bitcoin Core does. No one can force users to run any specific version of Bitcoin. The software is backwards compatible for a reason. Users decide what they run, and unfortunately for the BIP 110 crowd they dont have a monopoly on "users".

I'm seeing a lot more engagement from Bitcoiners on X right now than expected from such a drawdown. Usually, the engagement comes from euphoria after price rises. Bullish

@zdforcier oh for sure, only 0.1 - 1% of the population uses self-custody based off my calculations. So by that measure, Bitcoin is way less adopted

@NEEDcreations 0.5% more like. There’s a lot of black pills which I’ve taken recently. Going to control what I can control, and part of that is accepting the world and people for who/what they are more than constantly trying to change things.

@w_s_bitcoin @21BitcoinMaxi honored to be your 2nd star bro <3

@ChadSlimeBased Ask him to 10x it next time bro. Will make you grind EVEN HARDER

Told my landlord to double my rent Just makes me grind harder

@w_s_bitcoin @21BitcoinMaxi is it not accurate?? I'm sure you could verify pretty quickly for me 🙏

@NEEDcreations @21BitcoinMaxi I wouldn’t trust anything AI makes when it comes to charts like these

@21BitcoinMaxi @w_s_bitcoin It's an old chart. But I asked Grok to update it and posted from our company account :) x.com/603BTC/status/…

@NEEDcreations @w_s_bitcoin Why did it stop at 2021?

I hear you. We all thought Bitcoin would be more globally adopted than the 5-10% we see now. It seems no one really cares about self-custody, which is the most powerful thing about Bitcoin. Very disheartening for someone who sees the magic of bitcoin like us. Not everyone can be saved. Just keep stacking for you and your family.

@NEEDcreations My cost basis is below this and I’m annoyed. It’s not about the money, it’s about the lack of growth towards the aspirational goals which got us into Bitcoin.