Jesse Berger

WHAT IF… ❔ As 2021 ends, it’s time to reflect and consider what’s to come in 2022. As it relates to the pandemic, I have a few questions for my fellow Canadians. #cdnpoli #covid19 🍁✌🏼

I'm going to @TheBitcoinConf in Vegas to provide hands-on EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS! Come for in-person help with hardware, inheritance, privacy and much more. Let's get back to our self-sovereign roots. b.tc/conference - code BTCSESSIONS for 10% off tickets.

@FinanceCanada You mean like an etransfer?

With the recent Royal Assent of Bill C-15, Canada is moving forward on a framework for stablecoins. The Department of Finance has begun the development of regulations to support safe, reliable digital payment options for Canadians.

GOGGLE CRACKED BITCOIN! Nope. Google Quantum AI just published a new paper showing ECC-256 (Bitcoin’s curve) could theoretically be cracked with <500k physical qubits. Not a big deal for Bitcoin. - Still pure theory. No one has hundreds of thousands of error-corrected qubits. - Most BTC sits in addresses where the public key is never exposed until you spend (don’t reuse addresses). - Bitcoin can soft-fork to quantum-resistant signatures years before any real threat arrives. HODL calmly. We’ve got time. Paper here: quantumai.google/static/site-as…

Mega Thread - The Childhood Vaccine Placebo Myth Is a true saline placebo used w/ the 💉’s on the childhood schedule? All evidence I’ve provided is directly from the manufacturers insert or safety reports. This is not my opinion so take it up with FDA & Pharma if you’re mad.

This is Canada. The nation has turned into a delusional feminized orgy of suicidal empathy and rejection of reason.

Someone put this diagram together and it deserves to be read slowly. Three of the most disturbing psychological experiments in modern history placed in a Venn diagram with COVID policy sitting precisely at their intersection. They were not wrong. Most people know the Milgram experiment. Ordinary people administering what they believed were lethal electric shocks to strangers because an authority figure in a white coat told them to continue. We wrote about this. COVID replicated it at planetary scale, the doctors, the neighbours, the employers, the family members who enforced mandates with a zeal that had nothing to do with science and everything to do with institutional obedience. But the other two are equally important and far less discussed. The Asch Conformity Experiment demonstrated something even more fundamental. Solomon Asch showed in the 1950s that a significant majority of people will deny the evidence of their own eyes will give an answer they know to be factually wrong, simply because everyone else in the room is giving that answer. Not because they were threatened. Not because they were paid. Because the social pressure of the group was sufficient to override direct sensory experience. This is what masking a healthy population, cancelling Christmas, and demanding that people treat their neighbours as biological threats actually accomplished. It was not about any of those things specifically. It was about training an entire population to override their own perception and defer to the group consensus, however absurd that consensus became. And then the Stanford Prison Experiment. Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 study abandoned early because it spiralled so rapidly out of control, showed that ordinary people assigned roles of authority over other ordinary people will, within days, begin to abuse that authority in ways they would have found unthinkable before the role was assigned. The guards became cruel not because they were cruel people but because the structure gave them permission and the institution backed them up. We watched this happen in real time. The COVID marshals. The border agents turning families away. The hospital administrators barring visitors from dying patients. The teachers reporting parents. The neighbours calling police on children playing in parks. The HR departments gleefully processing terminations for the unvaccinated. Ordinary people, handed a role and a uniform of institutional approval, discovering capacities for cruelty that their pre-2020 selves would not have recognised. Now go deeper. Because the institution at the centre of this, the one that has connected these threads across decades is not an accident of history. Stanford sits at the intersection of centralised medicine, defence research, and the surveillance architecture that has been constructed around human attention and behaviour for the better part of a century. The Stanford Research Institute. The connections to MKUltra the CIA’s mind control programme that ran from the early 1950s and included everything from Mexican mescaline experiments to the weaponisation of LSD on unwitting subjects, overseen by figures who moved seamlessly between military intelligence and the medical establishment. From General Groves who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the deliberate suppression of radiation health data to Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA chemist who ran MKUltra’s most extreme programmes. The through-line is not conspiracy. It is institutional continuity. The same networks. The same funding streams. The same willingness to use human beings as experimental subjects in the service of power dressed as science.

"I actually did this kind of backwards. I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper." ~ Satoshi on the Cryptography mailing list Read that again! Satoshi didn't: ❌ Write a white paper and promise to build it ❌ Raise money to fund development ❌ Release a roadmap with future milestones ❌ Launch a token before the product He: ✅ Wrote the entire code ✅ Solved every problem ✅ Proved it worked to himself ✅ THEN wrote the white paper "I think I will be able to release the code sooner than I could write a detailed spec," he added. Bitcoin launched with working code, not promises. Compare to every other project: - 50-page white papers - "Coming soon" roadmaps - Token sales before product - "Trust us, we'll build it" Satoshi Nakamoto: "Here's the code. It works. Now let me explain it." That's the difference between builders and marketers.

Hey Ontario Bitcoiners. I'm reaching out because I've got a cool new product that I'd like to demo live at a meetup. If you're in southern Ontario and run a meetup and are interested in hashrate heating, hit me up. @CanadianBTCPod @CdnBitcoinConf @TheRulersBroken @bitcoinwell

Calling all local Toronto creatives-this one's for you: an intro to Bitcoin and what a financially sovereign mindset looks like. I'm joined by fellow author & BTC Mentor Jesse Berger. Expect an engaging, fun session. #Torontoartists #Bitcoin

@JM_speakss "Didn't you buy gold to avoid dollars?" That said, I just realized your original question was about SoV and not MoE, so my first reply probably isn't the right approach.

@jayberjay Wouldn’t his response be that he can just liquidate some by selling it for dollars and use it that way? What would you say to that?

My 36 year old best friend said he’d rather buy gold than bitcoin because it’s a better store of value and you can hold it in your hands. What would you tell him if you were me?

@JM_speakss Truth be told, owning the gold was very painful. It essentially did nothing for the ~12 years I owned it. I'm glad the GFC led me to the sound money trade in 2008, but it was the wrong time (and wrong vehicle). Luckily, what I learned then helped grok the right vehicle (BTC).

@jayberjay Wow good job bro wish I was as smart as you. Went through half a decade of pain before I finally got my life tg

I used to have 4 houses. The cash flow was great when interest rates were low. In canada we are not locked in to an interest rate for 30 years like the US. We have to refinance every 3-5 years and renegotiate our life. Then Covid happened…my tenants stopped paying me rent and my interest rates exploded from 2% to 6%. I was in the hole 5 figures every month and held 3 different jobs just trying to survive. And just like that…my “assets” turned into liabilities. Zero peace. Watching everything I built slowly suffocate. Thats when it really clicked for me. The bank and the system owned the houses and I owned all the risk. So I sold everything and bought bitcoin. Never been more at peace. Funny how people call Bitcoin “risky” but never question a system where one rate hike can wipe out your entire life.

@JM_speakss Aside from my own home, I was never interested in RE. It seemed like too big of a headache (tenants, maintenance, etc) and I was averse to the extra leverage. Starting my career just before the GFC radicalized me on sound money early on: first gold (~2008), then Bitcoin (~2017).

@jayberjay Never will I hold houses ever again. Bitcoin only. Have you ever been in real estate?

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"I’m proposing a simple guiding principle for our industry: Do not push financial products you would not want your family to use. The same way social media execs don’t let their kids use TikTok, don’t build something you know does more harm than good." 💯

Apparently the judge ignored all of Adamson’s unrefuted evidence from six experts witnesses, and ignored fundamental questions of law and precedents brought up in written and oral arguments. Expect an appeal.

Sigh. thestar.com/news/gta/adams…

Propaganda is a helluva drug

Chief Justice Richard Wagner must recuse himself from these proceedings, should the SCoC grant the Libs leave to appeal. Failure to do so will bring the administration of justice into disrepute….or what’s left of it.