Post AXlaQS4AiieCouNs2a by realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
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(DIR) Post #AXlZZNXSp5cjQjmIIC by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-07-16T22:52:06.097Z
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I feel like the CEO of Blackrock pumping #Bitcoin is a concrete sign that it's failed to exist as a useful currency to advance liberty. Some would argue it was never intended for this, but even now there are people who will sloganeer Bitcoin fixes this in the face of censorship and financial repression.#MoneroOrBust? More and more I start to side with those that argue that currency is the wrong battle in the first place when it comes to attempting to hold the powerful to account. (pun intended)
(DIR) Post #AXlZgXVMATksMmCseO by realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
2023-07-16T22:53:22.310581Z
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@gabriel Huh? All currencies and securities are susceptible to manipulation.If you want to avoid that, use the ones that have the least amount of attention.
(DIR) Post #AXlZgm4c0CH5YAoEXw by icedquinn@blob.cat
2023-07-16T22:53:26.195664Z
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@gabriel the statehoods hate monero, so its doing something right
(DIR) Post #AXlaF6wku00M8KVWNc by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-07-16T22:59:38.526Z
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@realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world To be fair, there are many who erroneously believe that bitcoin can't be manipulated. While it is possible to maintain sole custody of your own digital assets, you naturally can't prevent others from playing shell-games and other schemes.My overall point is largely in response to much of the web3 & nostr world that acts like in 2023 Bitcoin is still in early-days and ready to revolutionize liberty online any day now. Examples like this to me are concrete proof that this couldn't be further from the truth.Much of the "blockchain tech" companies seem identical to big tech in culture and approaches. They just use the simplest impression of being different to sucker people in. This is why all else being equal, I think the fediverse is objectively superior to nostr and other web3 attempts at the same thing.Doubling down, I agree with you but arguably everything is on the radar these days.
(DIR) Post #AXlaQS4AiieCouNs2a by realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
2023-07-16T23:01:39.915488Z
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@gabriel True. I frankly don’t think that crypto isn’t much different than fiat currencies, except that they are by default inflation-resistant. You can buy existing coins but you can’t make new ones on the fly.But since they’re not used commonly as a primary source of currency, I prefer to treat them like digital stocks rather than actual money.
(DIR) Post #AXlaqR397e3TCFIIbY by raintrees@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-16T23:06:22Z
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@gabriel bitcoin is similar to real estate: A way to short the US dollar. The FED and Treasury are devaluing the dollar pretty darn fast, assets (gold, land, bitcoin) are a way to hedge (not lose value or not as fast).So bitcoin can be used to route around tyranny. And if that is done enough, that tyranny will fall via starvation/lack of funding.
(DIR) Post #AXlbMbuyFZuSAboRKy by xianc78@gameliberty.club
2023-07-16T23:12:11Z
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@realcaseyrollins @gabriel >But since they’re not used commonly as a primary source of currency, I prefer to treat them like digital stocks rather than actual money.There's Bitejo which is like a Monero eBay/Craigslist.https://bitejo.com/@AnarkioCrypto could probably tell you places where you can buy and sell using Monero.
(DIR) Post #AXlcloirsZyP4qjceW by harblinger@shitposter.club
2023-07-16T23:27:58.151698Z
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@gabriel I've listened to bitcoin maximalists and they go a bit soft when it comes to Monero. I like Monero. I think a good gauge of usefulness when it comes to "magic internet money" is: "what are the drug dealers using?"Skin in the game effect.Going forward BTC might end up mostly as an international settlement network between countries and financial institutions, where audit transparency will be valuable...and finally trying to equate liberty with monetary systems is probably a fool's game, it's a tool, like a gun or whatever
(DIR) Post #AXlcwiFUI08gBUBhi4 by realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
2023-07-16T23:29:54.293848Z
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@lnxw37a2 Can you arbitrarily make new stocks though? I at the very least have never seen that done before.
(DIR) Post #AXlggYns2UQC4ap7ui by volkris@qoto.org
2023-07-16T23:56:45Z
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@gabrielI really don’t see this clip as pumping Bitcoin.It sounded like a pretty tame description of cryptocurrencies in general, contrasting them with other potential asset classes.
(DIR) Post #AXlpAZ8i9YZVR7OG4u by demitasse@pleroma.narrativerry.xyz
2023-07-17T01:46:53.857071Z
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@realcaseyrollins @lnxw37a2 stocks can split and you get more shares based on your existing shares. Also anyone can IPO and issue stocks if they have the resources
(DIR) Post #AXlpDkeln0Gm1au8tk by demitasse@pleroma.narrativerry.xyz
2023-07-17T01:47:28.917149Z
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@harblinger @gabriel liberty and guns go hand in hand though
(DIR) Post #AXlq5XOnIU5aXo4yVk by harblinger@shitposter.club
2023-07-17T01:57:11.217131Z
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@demitasse @gabriel exactly my point, so does having a monetary system that isn't in the control of tyrantsbut trying to say that any tool in particular, gun or coin, will advance liberty is difficult. Second order effects (guns getting into the hands of warlords, bitcoin in the coffers of BlackRock and chain analysis in the hands of the CIA...) are hard to predict and to say that any one thing will advance liberty becomes a sort of "fool's game". Each tool can have properties that advance individual liberty, but it's not easy to say something will "advance liberty" without saying "Ooh I didn't think of that" later
(DIR) Post #AXmWTQFLjl5xO1jWVM by atyh@h.atyh.net
2023-07-17T09:52:07Z
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@gabrielThe threat that bitcoin now poses has nothing to do with the bitcoin pop culture on social media. That is a creation of the west. The recent bank collapses were the opening big gun salvo. But it did not go as planned, and they jumped the gun.When the smoke cleared, what was left was the rubble of the "crypto market" with bitcoin standing in the middle largely unscathed. I suspect Blackrock's recent move is a resulting strategy adjustment.The way they performed some of their trades looks like they were trying to take down one of the largest bitcoin only funds. The attempt failed. It made it rise. So expect salvo 3 soon.Fink told the truth when he was asked. He suggested that the increasing internationalization of bitcoin holdings has given it a certain resilience to market stresses. What he omitted is they are the ones trying to apply the stress.But from what I have seen this week, it may be too late. They may have to let the mask slip to resort to extreme measures.People, especially in the myopic west do not understand the widely distributed hold bitcoin now has in Central and South America, Africa, Russia, and in some parts of the west. There are economies that are entirely bitcoin centric now. These exist outside of the western social media bubble, which is not real life.Bitcoin has moved beyond the reach of the terrorist, black market, money laundering, and criminal propaganda weapons. Except for easily influenced neo-libs in the west who are inherently more propagandized than much of the rest of the world. The Globos options around Bitcoin are narrowing. They can try to make mining and transactions illegal across the world using a series of wide spread cyber attacks resulting in required ID to access the internet, or try to tie it heavily to the fiat systems they intend on collapsing. Blackrock's latest move resembles the latter.
(DIR) Post #AXn9IrEUxVgk6sHwIa by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-07-17T17:07:11.269Z
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@atyh@h.atyh.net My point wasn't to say that Bitcoin is useless or has no value, but rather a counter-point to those who believe that Bitcoin and it's associated communities are sufficient to combat the rapid expansion of digital tyranny.While you're correct that the currency will still be able to exist in some form, I disagree that this is any real win condition. I like what @db8f291dcf949373f5224070cbef4fab80b9a8d3434246aca1fe34114cc51dd0@mostr.pub said earlier: They broke medicine. They broke gold and silver. They broke cash. They broke water. The broke air. And most importantly, they broke the people. They break everything and do so intentionally. And what cannot be broken is manipulated in their favor. To think there isn't a scheme to benefit themselves and screw all of us somehow is just to deny historical realities.This is the root of the problem, acting like we're all saved because bitcoin itself may be invincible ignores the pragmatic reality: We aren't and neither is anyone else. Unless your proposing every liberty-minded individual in the west move to these bitcoin economies, people have to contend with the forces they're up against here. Westerners have had Bitcoin for over a decade and it hasn't saved us, or does it have to pump higher for that to happen?For what it's worth, I know you're not as naive as the kind of person I had in mind when making the original post, but to take it as me saying "Bitcoin is doomed" is missing the point. It doesn't have to disappear if it's been tamed.RE: https://mostr.pub/objects/e96110f6026da12336a023963f7ca98028d4be9e7adc4a5dd065bf4cc5f602c1
(DIR) Post #AXnATYTv7F0N5rAOZ6 by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-07-17T17:20:11.621470Z
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@gabriel @realcaseyrollins 1. blackrock could just be signaling loss of faith in the dollar and other reserve currencies, in which case their support is _reinforcing_ their belief that bitcoin will work as advertised2. web3 is pure marketing there is almost nothing there, the few things that are there that are worthwhile (like ENS) are damaged and not enhanced by association with the label3. the fediverse isn't better than anything until it gets out from under centralized dns and client-server
(DIR) Post #AXnB1nx46Ylev289Eu by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-07-17T17:26:30.890Z
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@Moon@shitposter.club I'd argue client-server isn't inherently bad, unless you're talking about user auth in which case I get your meaning.With the client server model you cansmooth out the limitations between different devices. Like having your "big box" store all your media and use thin jellyfin/kodi clients on other devices. @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
(DIR) Post #AXnBJajNzuD181DIYK by romin@shitposter.club
2023-07-17T17:29:45.716853Z
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@Moon @gabriel @realcaseyrollins the rumours are that blackrock is dumping silk road's btc on the greater fools on the next bull. The dollar will remain safe for the rest of this decade most likely. Yuropoor and Nipland are your canaries in the mine and will collapse much sooner.
(DIR) Post #AXnBMZ18pDk0gMw4m0 by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-07-17T17:30:14.224358Z
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@gabriel @realcaseyrollins allow me to clarify, I mean that right now activitypub IDs are URLs which point to individual accounts on a server (of which there may be only one, which is slightly better.) this doesn't need to be eliminated completely, just AP implementations need to be able to handle pure P2P users.My other point is a little more provocative, but I think that technology that has a hard requirement on DNS at any part of the process is not viable freedom-securing technology at all.
(DIR) Post #AXnBPrcQ7em3F3wjCa by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-07-17T17:30:51.892Z
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@Moon@shitposter.club Yep, sadly I wholeheartedly agree.@realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
(DIR) Post #AXnBbASOQGH6qxe7Oa by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-07-17T17:32:51.004141Z
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@romin @gabriel @realcaseyrollins btc isn't actually fungible so if they do that I assume they will be detected. But maybe nobody can do anything about it and they kill the legitimate uses of the network.
(DIR) Post #AXnBvh2sy7GXiUVDsG by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-07-17T17:36:36.818384Z
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@gabriel @realcaseyrollins Work toward this end is already in progress. Mastodon probably won't support it, or not for a very long time but people that need it just won't use Mastodon.
(DIR) Post #AXnCCkvLnlsqfV7916 by bonifartius@qoto.org
2023-07-17T17:39:43Z
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@gabriel @realcaseyrollins @Moon well, the name resolution can happen by any means. onion domains suck for memorability but are a start.. i think others like gnunet have some nice ideas like the gnu name system.
(DIR) Post #AXnCO1ZCGUUpTD7p20 by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-07-17T17:41:41.230155Z
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@bonifartius @gabriel @realcaseyrollins petnames are good enough for privacy systems. names don't need to be unique, global and memorable for privacy systems.
(DIR) Post #AXnCdPgyqhZYdc6Vc0 by bonifartius@qoto.org
2023-07-17T17:44:28Z
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@gabriel @realcaseyrollins @Moon for reference https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html it's totally understaffed and underfunded like any gnu project now, but there are some very nice ideas
(DIR) Post #AXnCjmRNBUn2vaq7cm by demitasse@pleroma.narrativerry.xyz
2023-07-17T17:45:41.809309Z
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@gabriel @atyh @db8f291dcf949373f5224070cbef4fab80b9a8d3434246aca1fe34114cc51dd0 it has already happened. it has been neutered since 2017, and the wall street take over under blackrock's blessing is the final nail in the coffin of bitcoin. It was cool while it lasted
(DIR) Post #AXnCkU2P5gxe8tUnoW by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2023-07-17T17:45:48.595738Z
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bitcoin was never supposed to be a final solution to the problems that the likes of blackrock representbut it puts us on a closer-to-equal-footing with the likes of blackrockit doesn't fix this but as long as we can buy monero with bitcoin, it serves as part of the off-ramp out of this situation
(DIR) Post #AXnCpAIjtkLCNXMwXQ by sargoysmuck@poa.st
2023-07-17T17:46:39.158892Z
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@jeffcliff @gabriel The ledger was the drawing power for me.
(DIR) Post #AXnQJdo63lK3yrtm1g by amszmidt@mastodon.social
2023-07-17T20:17:49Z
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@bonifartius @gabriel @realcaseyrollins @Moon staffed implies someone is employed. GNU is run by volunteers. We need more hackers, always.
(DIR) Post #AXoGlagaS7zA1e2Cpc by atyh@h.atyh.net
2023-07-18T06:05:32Z
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@gabriel @db8f291dcf949373f5224070cbef4fab80b9a8d3434246aca1fe34114cc51dd0 I think you have some idea of how serious I am about this stuff. I don't really reveal how much.I am operating under the assumption that everything in the old system is doomed. All of it. The whole thing is going to collapse. It is collapsing. And there are two paths leading out...a populist reformation, and the Beast.This time, right now, is for people who recognize this, to begin taking drastic actions to prepare replacements. To build parallel systems. For me, in the trade realm, that looks like making contacts with small business owners, farmers markets, etc, and talking to them about alternative currencies.Im not playing games here. I dont talk about everything Im doing, because I dont want it on the internet.As of today, the only digital currency that has any real world operating use cases in this kind of situation, is bitcoin.Everything else is either luxury hobby money for first world internet nerds, or 'crypto' scams for people who like to attend conferences at airport hotels.Bitcoin is actively being used right now, by significant numbers of people in Central and South America, Africa, and increasingly in Asia. To escape inflation, to buy food. Were talking about villages that now operate primarily in bitcoin. What that means, is that replacement tech exists. My focus here is based on the belief that fiat collapse is the primary weapon which will be used to funnel everyone into the Beast financial system. And I have already determined, and made peace with the fact, that I am willing to go out fighting their plans at the root leverage points... information, trade, food, shelter, power, health, defense. My whole life is being directed this way. Expand the Kingdom in joy, as an act of war. And Im going to have fun while I do it. Because.. F them, and joy is my inheritance.Bitcoin is a real tool which can help. It does not provide salvation. Its only a tool. It is GOING to be attacked. May even be taken down. But make them do it, to show even more people who they are.