"We are still very early in our understanding of the theoretical computer science behind reusable proof-of-work networks. "Digital Gold Theory" will get the price of "Bitcoin" to $1M per "coin" by 2030, but the real fun starts after that, when the public begins to understand and accept the deeper theoretical computer science behind PoW that has begun to emerge over the last few years, like "Power Projection Theory" and "Digital Matter Theory." That will be when we see the price run away to $100M . Many people have no idea what's coming." - @JasonPLowery
"If you are following Bitmaps or Digital Matter Theory, you're right about Bitcoin beyond your dreams, friend" - @MoneroNakamoto
"$NAT is Bitcoin's first gamechanging upgrade; it's Bitcoin 2.0" - unknown chinese community member
"Bitcoin network is the physics layer and digital physics produces commodities like $BTC and $NAT. DMT is determined by physics." - @TheBlockRunner
Embrace the mission. Embrace the meme. The world is $NAT ready
Our understanding of $NAT deepens our understanding of Bitcoin - and vice versa.
$NAT is the only token in crypto that contributes not just monetary value to Bitcoin, but emotional value too.
Nothing like this has ever existed before.
🚨 @arkham Intel is officially tracking $NAT on their explorer.
Arkham doesn't index arbitrary noise; they track whales, smart money, and institutional flow.
The ultimate on chain intelligence grid is now monitoring the thermodynamic movement of the Second Subsidy.
NFTs and Ordinals are dead.
@opensea is a sinking ship, @MagicEden performed their vanishing act, @Pumpfun could bring it all back, but they’re asleep at the wheel.
So we built pump for NFTs and put Bitcoin in the driver's seat.
Welcome To The Era Of Substance 🟧
https://t.co/FoJ2tsX1jA is officially LIVE! 1/ 🧵
Now that we’re live, now what?
Typically when a new token launcher goes live all that happens is a wave of new shitters enters the market.
https://t.co/FoJ2tsX1jA makes things way more interesting than that.
👇 is a simple breakdown 🧵 of how to get involved and begin your NAT creation journey 1/
• Hashrate: SpiderPool weaponizes $NAT on their front page.
• Institutions: TradingView officially indexes DMT-NAT/USD.
• Exchanges: KuCoin publishes 4th educational article on DMT.
The foundational pillars of the Second Subsidy are fully online. 🚀
Wow! @SpiderPool_com now promotes NAT to everyone that visits their website
Huge respect for their continued commitment to supporting sustainable miner-revenues
They will always be remembered for being the first to integrate @tap_protocol in order to distribute NAT to miners 👏
Oh no, NAT again...
Kucoin writes a 3rd article on ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247 in 3 weeks and discusses Bitcoin's declining security budget solution.
Mentions of DMT, @tap_protocol and Bitmap.
Is this a sign?
https://t.co/7F4n895QUb
The NATwork Effect outlined in the NATpaper is playing out right now.
NAT is a first-of-its-kind, non-arbitrary token.
But for Bitcoin-backed substance to reach its full potential, it can’t remain isolated.
It has to establish itself across every vector of crypto.
Salute 🫡
I'm an crypto OG since 2013, buying my first BTC at an average of 80$ . I have seen it all since then. Mt. Gox, The first altseason, ETH ICOs, Luna crash, FTX etc.
Digital matter theory is the only thing that has felt real all those years since I bought BTC.
ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247
The map is bleeding orange. 🧡
From SpiderPool, F2Pool & AntPool in the East to Luxor (USA) - the global pincer is complete. $NAT isn't just in the security budget; we ARE the budget.
Tethered by physics: as long as BTC lives, NAT breathes. The grid is alive.
BREAKING NEWS
Luxor Mining, one of the biggest mining pools in the USA, has officially claimed its NAT mining rewards.
Everyday NAT moves closer to its goal of becoming vital infrastructure to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Is Bitcoin the 🛡️Roman Empire? If nothing changes, are we heading toward the same story: imperial overstretch?
📍I’ll start with the core thesis.
1️⃣If Bitcoin’s price does not grow aggressively, we may see a new wave of small miners shutting down. They simply won’t be able to remain profitable after another margin compression. That would push more hashrate toward the largest pools, increasing mining centralisation.
From there, the pressure could move through the system: weaker players drop out, hashrate concentrates, and larger players start looking more seriously at AI/HPC infrastructure, because they already have data centres, energy contracts, and access to cheap electricity.
Some people may say. This won’t happen! Bitcoin has already proven many times that it can find a way out of any situation. No need to exaggerate, just wait long enough, and everything will be fine.
Fair enough. Let’s look at the opposite extreme, the one that actually sounds optimistic.
2️⃣Let's imagine that Bitcoin keeps doubling after every halving. This is awesome! Miners are fine, the industry survives, and the network looks stronger than ever. But suddenly, another problem appears. The more valuable Bitcoin becomes, the more attractive it becomes as a target for attack.
And if the security budget does not grow in proportion to the value the network protects, the gap between the potential upside of an attack and its cost widens.
This logic is not new. We can find an example in human history⬇️
🗡The Roman Empire.
For almost two centuries, Rome showed amazing resilience. Military power, territory, roads, cities, taxes, culture, wealth, fear, and respect from its neighbours. All of it worked like one machine.
But after the empire reached its peak, an old problem of large systems started to show up: there was too much value, the borders were too long, threats came from too many directions, and the amount of controllable force was no longer enough to cover everything at once.
At some point, Rome became too large, too rich, and too complex for its own security model.
👀Attacking the empire started to look like a rational bet. Its opponents could be weaker than Rome in absolute terms, but the empire could no longer be everywhere at once. Even relatively weak tribes could see a massive system where certain areas could now be attacked with an acceptable risk/reward.
That is the analogy I see with Bitcoin⬇️
If the value of the network keeps growing while the security budget after each halving becomes increasingly dependent on price and fees, the question becomes whether miners will survive.
🟰The real question is whether the network’s protection will rise alongside the value it promises to protect.
And before someone argues about the financial rationality of an attack, I want to clarify something: I am not talking only about a direct economic attack for profit.
For states or large political players, the motivation may differ. A reputational hit. A blow to trust. A demonstration of weakness. An attempt to weaken a global neutral asset that cannot be controlled through normal methods.
...and as Bitcoin grows larger, the circle of players for whom such an attack may start to look acceptable widens. Today, only a few can realistically afford it. After several more halvings, if the security budget continues to grow, that circle could become much wider.
So I would frame the question more precisely:
Is Bitcoin gradually becoming a digital empire where accumulated value grows faster than the ability to defend it against external pressure❓
What do you think: if Bitcoin in 2026 has already become the Roman Empire, which century of the real Roman Empire would it correspond to❓
#Bitcoin #BitcoinSecurity #RomanEmpire
Mining basics: rewards, difficulty, and hardware
A beginner overview of block rewards, mining difficulty, and common setups.
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