BIP-110 proponents will spam JPEGs of Tiananmen Square and Muhammad on the bitcoin blockchain to get the support of CCP and IRGC state-controlled mining operations.
I’m very skeptical this will work, but it’s an interesting test.
This should be obvious by now to the cryptobros: the only reason their altcoins even exist is because Bitcoin has been extremely successful.
So a Bitcoin tax exemption is the #1 priority. Everything else is secondary and should just be grateful to exist at all.
From a policy lobbying perspective, Bitcoin voters want a prosperous nation, whereas the crypto industry wants interest payments from taxpayers and regulatory clarity for altcoin casinos. Maybe these two visions are compatible, maybe they're not, but they're certainly different.
In our brand new sit-down, I handed @saylor every anti-Bitcoin argument the internet has and he responded to ALL of them.
I dare any Bitcoin critic to watch this interview and not reconsider at least one of their arguments.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Michael Saylor address Bitcoin bear market and negative sentiment
8:37 Big Tech was once doubted but ultimately won
10:22 Why Bitcoin didn’t hit higher price predictions
16:57 Long-term return expectations
23:12 Why retail didn't participate in last bull market
33:55 How is $STRC performing?
56:49 Handling the critics and volatility cycles
1:13:54 Is quantum computing a threat to Bitcoin?
1:33:47 What's the strongest argument against Bitcoin?
1:35:53 Does Strategy's Bitcoin cost basis matter?
1:43:30 Bitcoin mentioned in the Epstein files
A rogue leftover Biden appointee at the IRS is trying to sneak this through.
This is information that French tax authorities sold to violent foreign criminal gangs, causing a wave of kidnapping and torture of bitcoiners.
Immediate action is needed @SecScottBessent
waay back in 2020, I designed the L402 protocol to solve authentication+payments on the web for machines 🤖 -> https://t.co/VRcO8bdsiw
flash forward to 2026, and now the machines are intelligent, kicking off a new era of personal AI agents
with the latest advancements in AI, the L402 protocol is more relevant than ever
today we're releasing a suite of CLIs, skills, and MCP servers to enable agents to *securely* transact on the web ⚡️
So, you're listening to Roger Ver and, as a anti-establishment skeptic, you think his "bitcoin is hijacked" spiel makes a lot of sense?
You've heard that Bitcoin was "co-opted" by Epstein, powerful corporate elites, the deep state or the US government?
Listen to this.
“Bitcoin is essentially a ticking time bomb. The spring is extremely compressed.”
@BitcoinPierre joins to dicuss:
🔸Why BTC is deeply mispriced
🔸Why AI will use Lightning as money
🔸How Elizabeth Warren’s war on Bitcoin collapsed
YouTube: https://t.co/dAxnRSe783
Who hired this no-name contractor to implement the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
There needs to be accountability.
The government should have at least used reputable custodians, or sovereign-grade multisig with DoW, DHS, and Treasury.
We can't tolerate incompetence anymore.
The Monopoly analogy in this is hilarious and completely inapplicable because the banker who can keep printing money out of thin air always wins.
Everything he said in here is wrong. Bitcoin was always meant to replace central banks and payments networks, not just payments networks. Satoshi was very explicit about this in his early emails.
"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust."
To Mike's point about the payments use case "failing", that is objectively false. Bitcoin payments have been on a steady rise for years as second layers like the lightning network mature and become more user friendly.
To his point about credit creation, it is possible to create a free banking system on top of bitcoin that incorporates credit via something like ecash mints backed by bitcoin.
And to think that bitcoin's supply distribution schedule will lead us to a world in which the few hoard bitcoin while others can never accumulate it, this is objectively false and can be observed in on-chain data, which proves that the supply has become more distributed over time. This year especially.
We're excited to announce that leading Bitcoin analysts will be joining the live Q&A of our Q3 earnings call tomorrow at 5 PM ET: @natbrunell, @AdamBLiv, @BitcoinPierre, and @werkman.
Bitcoin has been trading almost sideways for the past year after a massive rally from the 2022 lows. Three factors: OG whales taking profits after an epic decade, tech traders rotating into NVDA and other LLM-related opportunities, and commodity traders rotating into gold.
These are external and temporary negative catalysts. Bitcoin's intrinsic utility and fundamental value have only increased over the past year.
Bitcoin continues to be the most undervalued asset in the world.
New major release: 🥕 Taproot channels!
🥕 full taproot support including splices
🪙 on-chain operations are now ~20% cheaper
🕵️ on-chain footprint is indistinguishable from a standard p2tr wallet as long as the channel isn't force closed
🤹 new multi-wallet support on mobile
Available on Android & iOS (2.7.0), and server (phoenixd 0.7.0).
Next up: V3 transactions and 0-fee commit txs to completely shield channels from on-chain feerates fluctuations.
Bitcoin + New Founding finally collide.
Link below to my conversation with Alexander Leishman (@Leishman).
We talk flaws in the current financial system, bitcoin-related theological considerations, advice for beginners, Alex's story founding @River and building to 3,000 business clients + $2.5B in bitcoin under custody.