TraderRic

BRICS pay homage to Craig Wright nicknamed Pumpkin Man. Craig & Devs created 1mil+ trans/sec Teranode BIS mBridge description same as Teranode. BRICS Unit runs on mBridge Unit’s 1st mint on Bitcoin Whitepaper Anniversary Conclusion: Unit runs on BSV @CsTominaga

@CsTominaga Just like the sucker fish on a shark provides a service, day traders & speculators provide a valuable service. A robust trading community of short term traders provide the liquidity for larger long-term players to enter and exit an asset.

There’s something else I have to admit, and it sits alongside everything I’ve said about failure and change. I’ve been wrong in how I’ve approached what I wanted to achieve with Bitcoin. Not in the sense people will assume. Not in the slogans. Not in the arguments you see thrown around. But in something quieter, and more fundamental. I thought that if something was right, if it worked, if it demonstrated what it was built for—a scalable system, digital cash—then people would move toward it. But people don’t move like that. People don’t choose systems because they are right. They choose them because they are familiar, because they profit, because they fit into what already exists. #BTC exists in that world. People have made money from it. That is what it represents to them. And that is their choice. I don’t have to agree with it for it to be real. What I wanted is something else. Not dominance. Not forcing adoption. Not telling people this is better so you must use it. I wanted to demonstrate what the system was for. That’s it. A functioning, scalable digital cash system. But wanting that does not mean people will want it. Most won’t. Banks won’t. Large companies won’t. The systems that already exist have no reason to replace themselves with something that changes the balance they rely on. A few will see it. A few will use it. But most will stay where they are, because that is what systems do. They preserve themselves. I knew that, intellectually. I did not always act like I understood it. I pushed as though correctness would carry the day. It doesn’t. People carry the day. Incentives carry the day. Habit carries the day. And what I want is only one thing among many. Making money is not the goal for me. For most people, it is. And that difference matters. It means I cannot expect alignment. It means I cannot assume adoption. It means I have to accept that what I am building may not be what most people choose, even if it works exactly as intended. That is not failure of the system. It was a failure of my expectation. And like everything else I’ve said, that sits with me now in a different way. Less anger. More acceptance. And a clearer understanding that demonstrating something is not the same as having it embraced.

@CsTominaga Perspective is everything. You can view it as a failure. Hopefully learn from it. He took advantage of a human need. You could also view it as confirmation, you are human and as such perfection is not possible. Everyday as a human is better than being a machine.

I wrote something I have never written before. Not a technical paper. Not a legal argument. Not a rebuttal. A confession. Christian Ager-Hanssen showed images of a computer in his office remotely accessing my hard drive. Not my machine. His. Reaching into what I believed was sealed. That should have been enough. It was enough. But I did not accept what it meant. Not immediately. Not with the urgency it demanded. Because accepting it meant admitting something I was not ready to admit: I had failed. Not through ignorance. Through pride. I knew insider threats. I could lecture on them. I could explain exactly how trust becomes the channel of intrusion. And when it happened to me, I still hesitated. I still tried to reason my way around the obvious. I still believed I was the kind of man to whom this could not happen unnoticed. That belief was wrong. Worse — I did not pick up the phone. There were people who had stood by me for years. People whose judgment I trusted. People who would have told me what I could not tell myself. I did not call them. I thought I should understand it first. I thought I should carry it alone. That was not discipline. That was vanity. This piece is the beginning of something longer. A book. But it starts here, with the hardest part — the part that is about me, not about what was done to me. New on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/singulargr…

@BITCOINFUNDMGR Quick note: on the chart ⬆️ that middle red circle is today and the horizontal line is 6815.

We might not actually hit our Target for the drive up. But we came more than 60% of the way, for the next trade, you're going to have to be a subscriber.

@CsTominaga @m_murfy Developers are people too. They want to build on a successful block chain where users will use what they create. If they perceive a chain is successful because of an escalating price, it becomes self-fulfilling. An escalating price creates interest; it is human nature.

@CsTominaga @m_murfy The token price acts much like a stock price for a company, it becomes the barometer of success for that project Speculators believe a stock chart contains all the relevant fundamental knowledge about the company Price going from lower left to upper right is very important

@CsTominaga @m_murfy The HODLers of today are the spenders of tomorrow. An appreciating price because speculators want to make money cures many things. If Amazon sees that pool of wealth, they will create a payment channel to capture it. An economy gets created.

@CsTominaga Craig, you absorbed all their blows. Being socially scorned must have been very painful. The psyop needed to demonize a person. Demonizing the tech does not affect the public emotionally. Demonizing Craig Wright and driving the BSV price lower is the entire psyop.

Bitcoin needs exactly what it now has the chance to become: unchangeable in practice because there is no longer anyone left who can be cornered into changing it. No one to shame. No one to threaten. No one to flatter. No one to drag into some meeting and tell that history requires compromise. History requires no such thing. What it requires is that the protocol be left alone long enough for the market to do what markets do. Companies can compete. Implementations can compete. Services can compete. Node operators can compete. Miners can compete. Architects can compete. All of that is healthy. All of that is proper. But they compete above the protocol, not over the protocol. That distinction is the whole game. A better company is not a better protocol. A better node implementation is not a better protocol. A better database, router, API layer, wallet stack, or execution engine is not a better protocol. It is simply competition on top of a stable base. That is how real systems evolve. Not by rewriting their laws every time some vain little engineer wants to prove he exists. So yes, Satoshi is dead. COPA killed him. And in doing so, whether they understand it or not, they may have done the one useful thing history required of them. They removed the person. What remains is the protocol. And if you do not yet understand why that is the best possible outcome, time will educate you. Twenty years from now, when the noise has faded and the vanity projects are dead and the governance addicts have exhausted themselves, what will matter is not who won an argument in a courtroom, or who wore the mask best, or who received the adoration of the insecure. What will matter is that the protocol remained. Stable. Fixed. Scalable. Untouched by all the little men who thought they were larger than it. Long live a stable protocol.

The entire problem in blockchain is not technical. It is psychological. People do not want responsibility. They want a leader. They want a villain. They want someone to worship when price goes up and someone to blame when it goes down. They do not want to build, compete, market, sell, and deliver. They want the coin to rise while they sit still, and then they want to call that “community.” So they invent mythology. Ethereum gets its geek priesthood. Bitcoin gets endless arguments about who should be Satoshi. If they cannot have a god, they manufacture resentment. If they cannot control the protocol, they try to control the narrative. If they cannot build anything useful, they demand rule changes so they can feel relevant. That is the perverse part. They keep trying to turn a protocol into a personality cult. Bitcoin does not need leaders. It needs rules. Fixed rules. Stable rules. Predictable rules. A protocol is not a company and it is not a political party. It does not need a chairman, a committee, or a philosopher king. It needs to remain set so people can build on top of it without wondering which self-appointed genius will “improve” it next quarter. Companies need leaders. Teams need leaders. Projects need leaders. They compete with each other in the market. They compete on service, reliability, cost, performance, and execution. They do not compete by rewriting the protocol every time they lose an argument. That is the distinction people keep missing. The protocol is fixed. The businesses are not. The protocol is neutral. The companies are not. The protocol does not care who you are. The market does. So no, Bitcoin does not need a god. It does not need a priesthood. It does not need a hero to bless every transaction. It needs people to stop behaving like entitled children and start behaving like adults. Build something. Sell it. Support it. Compete. If society wants it, it survives. If it does not, it dies. That is personal responsibility. That is capitalism. That is the point.

More than any other feature of Bitcoin, it not being controlled by anyone is the most important by far.

@BTFDGreg As I awaited the trial i was hopeful for a win but I never suspected a rigged event. I instantly knew when I saw Mellor pre-announce his judgment (basically COPA's talking points verbatim), and saw his physical demeanor was incongruent with his words that the trial was fake.

He sure did!

@BWDaugherty @CsTominaga @Codenlighten1 He never begged for that show trial. He wanted a real trial with an impartial judge. I think your hurt feels are robbing you of your intelligence.

@traderric @CsTominaga @Codenlighten1 The trial he begged for?

Oh, poor, poor Bryan. One can almost hear the faint echo of relevance slipping away. There is, I suppose, a peculiar tragedy in discovering that the world has no particular use for one’s opinions when they are unaccompanied by any tangible achievement. And so, rather than retiring gracefully into the quiet dignity of enjoying life, you return—again and again—to the stage, armed not with substance, but with the weary comfort of insult. “Craig GPT… laughable,” you say. Quite. When one cannot engage with an argument, one may always sneer at its existence. It is the intellectual equivalent of stamping one’s foot and declaring victory. Ad hominem, after all, is the final refuge of the unarmed mind. It requires no understanding, no effort, and—most importantly—no risk of being correct. Do continue, though. It is not often one encounters such dedication to irrelevance presented with this level of confidence.

@BWDaugherty @CsTominaga @Codenlighten1 Ignore "their" narrative, the fact is the current state of that trial is a suspended sentence that can be re-activated if he were to re-enter their jurisdiction.

@BWDaugherty @CsTominaga @Codenlighten1 I said nothing about the substance, all i said is throwing that trial in his face is out of bounds after the risks he has taken for Bitcoin. No one reading this took the same risks as Craig. Think Sadam, Qaddafi, Lberty Reserve. 👇

@BWDaugherty @CsTominaga @Codenlighten1 This is my personal opinion, based on watching the decisions made and the demeanor of the Judge. I have no evidence of wrong-doing by Mellor.

@BWDaugherty @CsTominaga @Codenlighten1 Hey Bryan, that is absolutely the LOWEST thing you could have said. Now you want to throw that corrupt Judge's crap ruling in Craig's face? What an arse you are.

@BWDaugherty @BgansEth @CsTominaga @Codenlighten1 This is my personal opinion, based on watching the decisions made and the demeanor of the Judge. I have no evidence of wrong-doing by Mellor.

@BWDaugherty @BgansEth @CsTominaga @Codenlighten1 It doesn't matter what evidence Craig would have brought to Court, they were there to lynch him. If I were Craig, I would have held back the best evidence. If COPA was trying to get him to reveal it, he should have done the opposite.

@Codenlighten1 @BWDaugherty @BgansEth @CsTominaga A. The judge is in charge of what evidence is allowed in, not Craig. B. Perhaps there is a better time, of Craig's choosing, to do a public signing. I would think there are a million better venue's than a hostile Courtroom doing COPA's bidding (my opinion).

@traderric @BWDaugherty @BgansEth @CsTominaga Two Pieces of evidence would have been only things necessary and everyone knows this: 1. Ninja suit to satisfy those who wanted REAL PROOF of circumstantial evidence..and then 2. Sign with private key for the rest of the masses who believe controlling keys is only evidence needed

@BITCOINFUNDMGR Will it get above 6660?

Okay. I was wrong about the gap up.

@LukeGromen @Ma1973sk Isn't US reserve currency status dependent upon that Maritime power?

@LukeGromen @Ma1973sk Those ships are going through the Iran tollbooth. A nail in the coffin of US Supreme Maritime Power.

Good news, right @LukeGromen ?