As we stand on the edge of 2025
Thanks to everyone who was around for Collider V1
V2 did not quite make it out this year, but its closer than ever, everything it was always meant to be, even more...
Here we come 2026 !
Happy New Year Everyone ๐๐ฅณ
Thrilled to announce Collider V2
is competing in the @avax BUILD GAMES 2026 ๐บ
So much work & history has gone into V2
can't wait for everyone to see โฐ๐
@HealthRanger there are quantum resistant algorithms #btc will need to update to within 10yrs max - perhaps its last existential threat (along with CME)
@ronin21btc Someone needs to educate @billmaher on what $btc actually is and does, not to mention ~80% of the power consumption is from clean excess energy that would have gone to waste otherwise
https://t.co/BszDFKNgN2
Let me kind of explain what happened during the blocksize wars.
Most people are not technical enough to weigh in on the tradeoffs of increasing the blocksize, or (at the time) to evaluate the proposed alternative, the lightning network, and say how well it would work.
Thus non-technical people had to rely on technical experts to inform them.
There were are large number of technical experts who argued that the tradeoffs to increasing the blocksize were minimal and that lightning couldn't possibly work the way it was being pitched.
These technical experts were all censored. Their posts were deleted and their accounts banned. Most just left for other coins.
So when you have non-technical thought leaders like Saifedean, Peter McCormack, Tone Vays, Stephan Livera, etc they had to rely on the non-banned technical experts to tell them what to think.
And those technical experts knowingly and intentionally lied to them. They knew lightning would work like dog shit. But it was considered a "noble lie" to win the blocksize wars.
So you got what was essentially propaganda repeated for years. And now all those people have egg on their faces because for years they peddled the narrative that was given to them by these experts and it couldn't be more clear at this point that they were just repeating a lie.
So now bitcoin is basically a custodial coin as a result of it.
Early #Bitcoin adopter, Davinci Jeremie, believes that Satoshi worked for the NSA and his security clearance gave him the knowledge to develop Bitcoin without leaving any back doors for the government. ๐คฏ
OK I'm calling it
The tide has turned in the narrative around Bitcoin & energy
In last 90 days
- Cambridge admit #Bitcoin energy calculations overstated
- 2 academic papers (incl MIT) state environmental benefits to Bitcoin
- KPMG report Bitcoin has positive ESG rating