Rabbit Hole Stories

🎙️ A podcast about ple₿'s and their #Bitcoin Rabbit Hole Stories. 🧡 We're all mad here! 🧡

[Rabbit Hole Stories @rabbitholetales]

@QuestioningBTC
Bitcoin is a mirror
Fiat is narcissism
@BTheChangeConf
https://t.co/tb8NbGcswg

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

Genuinely feel for everyone affected by the COLDCARD seed issue.

The biggest lesson isn't about COLDCARD.

It's that reputation is never a substitute for verification. In Bitcoin, every assumption deserves to be questioned, especially the ones we stop thinking about.

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

Bitcoiners!
I've been off grid...just stopping by to drop you a sneak preview and 'early' draft of one of the sections of the book I'm trying to write.

(Might have errors - Early draft)

This is Part 2 Section 1: Money and Invisible Pressure.

#money #bitcoin #gold #book

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

Intended Chapters:
Part I, The Feeling Something Has Changed
Part II, Money, Time, Cost of Existing
Part III, The Water We Swim In
Part IV, Human Adaptation
Part V, The Institutional Response
Part VI, The Loop
Part VII, Solid Ground (Bitcoin)
Part VIII, The Question

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

I've just returned from 8 days of complete solitude.

I took myself somewhere secluded and remote in the UK. I had a basic shelter and brought enough food and resources to last me for the 8 days without interaction or contact with others. I had my phone in case of emergency, but turned off.

Day 1-2 felt like I was in withdrawal. I found myself reaching for my phone without thinking and took more will power than I like to admit to turn it on. My mind was loud and incoherent at times.
Day 3-4 the loud and busy thoughts started to clear, but started to play and loop old conversations and regrets. My mind started bringing up unfinished business and unresolved emotions to process. It was both heavy, but also oddly clear at times.
Day 5-6 was when I started to settle and more at peace. Enough to start to relax a little and appreciate my surroundings, rather than being caught up in the distractions in my mind.
Day 7-8 was when I lost track of time and a sense of urgency and sometimes boredom. It wasn't easy, but I'm glad I did it.

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

How many iterations of government do we have to go through before we realise the problem is in the money and fiat incentives through perpetual money printing, inflation and a debt cycle that creates a devaluation on our money, time and energy, year on year. #government #election #uk #money #inflation #bitcoin #studybitcoin

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

From block 0 to 942558, and Bitcoin still doesn’t care

#Bitcoin

[Lugano Plan ₿ @LuganoPlanB]

Bitcoin grows through communities, not marketing.

@GlasgowBitcoin has been building them from the ground up.

Grassroots adoption stories live.
📍 Plan ₿ Forum | Oct 23–24

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

HOW HAS BITCOIN CHANGED YOU?

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

How has discovering Bitcoin changed you?
@discoveringbtc

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

BIP-110 & Identity Politics in ₿itcoin?

Consensus emerges from 'individuals' independently choosing what rules they want their node enforce.

We all know '₿itcoin Doesn't Care'. So why does adding #BIP110 to your profile bio matter, what does it signal, and who is it for?

Does it show consensus or an attempt to influence it?

Just remember, Don't Trust, Verify and ignore Social Signalling, Influence and the creep of Identity Politics.

₿e a Sovereign Individual.
#Bitcoin #noderunner #identity

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

Fiat money is the theft of:
•Time
•Savings
•Purchasing power
•Wages
•Future earnings
•Financial security
•Retirement
•Opportunities
•Choices
•Freedom
•Independence
•Control over money
•Privacy
•Ownership
•Trust
•Fairness
•Honesty
•Job security
•Work-life balance
•Family time
•Ability to plan ahead
•Peace of mind
•Mental energy
•Focus
•Stability
•Certainty
•Long-term thinking
•Patience
•Discipline
•Delayed gratification
•Value of hard work
•Value of money
•Confidence in the future
•Ability to save
•Ability to get ahead
•Upward mobility
•Equality of opportunity
•Small business viability
•Local economies
•Community strength
•Generational wealth
•Inheritance
•Cost of living
•Housing affordability
•Access to assets
•Transparency
•Accountability
•Responsibility
•Consequences
•Personal sovereignty...and so much more

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

It was a honour to be invited to talk at last years @BTheChangeConf Bitcoin Conference in Glasgow.

I talk about being how fiat incentives create a narcissistic state

[Rabbit Hole Stories @rabbitholetales]

@QuestioningBTC
Bitcoin is a mirror
Fiat is narcissism
@BTheChangeConf
https://t.co/tb8NbGcswg

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

@GrassFedBitcoin @knutsvanholm @giacomozucco
Do you still think 'Ordinals are Retarded'? 👇🏻

BTC Prague 2023
@BTCPrague
https://t.co/1NQlub07Qu

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

Is Fiat Money Narcissistic?
#Bitcoin #Narcissist

@discoveringbtc

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

I'm always Discovering Bitcoin, are you? @discoveringbtc

[BTheChange @BTheChangeConf]

Speaker announcements coming soon

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[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

@adam3us In traditional software, breaking backwards compatibility might, by definition be a 'downgrade'. But does that definition apply to a system defined by voluntary consensus?
Nodes ultimately decide which rules define the system.

[(ian) QuestioningBitcoin? @QuestioningBTC]

@adam3us recently said "BIP-110 is an intentional literal downgrade.”

But who actually decides whether something is a downgrade?

₿itcoin has no leaders.
Don’t trust, Verify
Run your own node