#Bitcoin is Programmed for Freedom. Audited every 10 mins engineered to target greed/fraud & prevent war.
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Bitcoin nodes and CSAM: a nuance that keeps getting lost.
A node stores raw bytes, not pictures. Turning bytes into a viewable image takes deliberate effort — and the law generally requires knowledge + intent for CSAM possession.
Wrote up why this matters:
BREAKING: Bitcoin may already be quantum-safe
According to peer reviewed new research by Oxford Physicist Tim Palmer, there likely exists a fundamental ceiling of roughly 400 coherently entangled qubits.
The latest estimates require at least 835 logical qubits to break Bitcoin’s signatures with Shor’s algorithm.
References in comments.
Elon Musk and Steve Jurvetson have commented positively on this research.
17 years later:
- still a new block every 10 mins
- still 21M hard cap
- still never hacked
- still decentralized
- still immutable
- still open source
- still growing
Bitcoin cannot be stopped
In 2010, 99.99% of the world didn't own Bitcoin.
Today? Still 98.7%.
2010: 0.0001% of the world owned Bitcoin. Basically nobody.
2015: 0.07% owned Bitcoin. Still microscopic. The crowd laughed.
2020: 0.6% owned Bitcoin. 99.4% of humanity still trusting fiat.
2026: Maybe 2% own Bitcoin.
Wow! We've cracked above 1%!
Many thinking "it's too late."
And if you're reading this without owning any Bitcoin, you are voluntarily choosing to be part of the 98.7%.
You are choosing to be late.
Every morning you wake up, your money is worth slightly less than yesterday.
Every single morning. Weekends included. Holidays included.
There is no pause button.
Normie Logic: Bitcoin is an abstraction but my bank balance is a representation of the amount of dollars I have to spend.
Reality: You don't "have" dollars. You have permission to access a digital ledger entry.
Permission that requires the bank to stay solvent, the government to not freeze your account, the FDIC to honor its backstop, and the Fed to not print your purchasing power into dust.
That's not "having money."
That's renting access to a database controlled by people who can change the rules mid-game.
Bitcoin?
You hold cryptographic proof of ownership enforced by thermodynamic security.
No "business hours."
No freeze button.
No middleman.
No permission.
Your bank balance is a harder abstraction to defend than Bitcoin because it relies on institutions staying honest.
Bitcoin just works.
You will work 90,000 hours in your life. If someone prints money, they steal some of that time from you. Since 2020 they have printed 40% of all dollars ever printed. They therefore stole 36,000 hours from a person who has worked their whole life and just retired.
I find it ironic how many people look up to Hal Finney…
When Hal literally predicted Bitcoin to become a reserve asset for banks. He even went on to say we’d likely see banks issue other types of currency that would be backed by Bitcoin, and even redeemable for Bitcoin.
As brilliant as Hal was in the cypherpunk sense, he was also brilliant in having a strong perception of our money system and how adoption would likely take place
Bashing the idea of traditional finance adopting bitcoin is no different then bashing Hal’s perception of adoption from 15 years ago
Why aren’t these people turning on Hal for his prediction too?