Steffen John

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

A woman had Netflix for 6 years.

She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.

Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes.

Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200.

She said "it feels like a completely different app."

He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest."

Here's every setting he changed 🧵

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@PaulineHansonOz One Nation - destroying Labor's opposition one seat at a time!

[Caffe' Satoshi @CaffeSatoshi]

Good question and it deserves a clean answer instead of slogans.

First, Bitcoin was never designed to equalize wealth. That’s a huge category error. Capitalism doesn’t do that either, neither does gold, real estate, equities, or fiat. Bitcoin’s claim is narrower, it offers fair rules, not equal outcomes. Same issuance schedule, same monetary policy, same access to the network for everyone, no central authority deciding who gets bailed out or diluted.

Second, the “8 billion people don’t own any Bitcoin” framing ignores time. In 2009, almost nobody owned it. In 2013, it was nerds. In 2017, retail. In 2024, institutions and ETFs. Adoption is a curve, not a snapshot. Today roughly 1 to 2 percent ownership already makes Bitcoin one of the fastest adopted monetary assets in history. Most people on Earth also don’t own stocks, gold bars, or Manhattan real estate, yet no one claims those are scams because early adopters exist.

Third, ownership is not binary. You do not need a whole Bitcoin. You need satoshis. If Bitcoin goes to $1,000,000, one sat is $0.01. That means anyone with a phone can own, earn, save, and transact in the hardest money ever created. Compare that to prime real estate or fine art, which is genuinely inaccessible. Bitcoin is divisible down to 100 million units, permissionless, and global by default.

Fourth, the “only 100m benefit” claim misunderstands second-order effects. Even people who never touch Bitcoin still benefit from it existing. Why? Because it disciplines fiat systems. It forces competition. It exposes monetary debasement. It gives people an exit. Gold played this role for centuries and most people never held gold either. A credible escape valve changes behavior upstream.

Fifth, inequality is a political problem, not a monetary one. Printing money does not fix inequality, it *hides it* while making it worse. Bitcoin doesn’t promise utopia. It promises that the rules can’t be changed mid-game. That alone is revolutionary.

So the honest answer is this, Bitcoin is not financial freedom for everyone equally. It is financial freedom from manipulation, from confiscation, and from arbitrary dilution. Those who recognize that earlier benefit more, just like every technological shift in history.

The uncomfortable truth is this, inequality doesn’t come from Bitcoin. It comes from time preference, education, risk tolerance, and incentives. Bitcoin just makes those differences impossible to paper over.

That’s not unfair. That’s reality, with the rules finally written in code instead of empty promises.

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@CaffeSatoshi @farrmacro Brilliant post! 👏👏👏

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@TheKouk Everyone!
Read how the financial system really works and why Bitcoin is the antidote to a corrupt ponzi scheme that Central Banks control. Then you will see why a transparent, limited supply asset, that runs automatically and mathematically is still around after 15 years!

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@SEANMAC_1 @CryptoNobler This makes more sense to me, with my limited knowledge, especially when you see the precious metals markets acting like a btc market. For a while there btc was acting like a stable parent, watching the gold and silver children running wild.

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@Ausbobsmit Dutton was popular until the election was called, and then people started to think seriously.
Plus, no other party would want their preferences going to her anyway.

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@JonHlluk @Electroversenet Since 2020, China’s solar capacity has almost quadrupled, and its wind capacity has doubled.

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@RealAngryAussie @LiberalAus @AustralianLabor Pauline has done more to destroy the coalition than Labor could ever do. Albo should buy her a drink to celebrate 😆

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@Standup_global What a failure!

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@morgancjonas It's a time for Aussie mateship and support, not for more right-wing hate and division.

[Trending Bitcoin @TrendingBitcoin]

Me in 2050. #Bitcoin

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@cozypront There is a big difference in having a 'making money mindset' and a ' keeping money mindset'. One is taking risks and one is switching back to being conservative with what you have, to protect it.

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@mmpadellan

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

"The Climate Council says that, since 2020, China’s solar capacity has almost quadrupled, and its wind capacity has doubled. "

Trump says climate change is a hoax. Are we in safer hands with the ‘commos’? https://t.co/u6VGRtIO98

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@CBoTheEggman What happened to DOGE?
OH, I guess that was only to be used against the vulnerable? 🤔

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@FranMooMoo

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@TheCinesthetic Beautifully natural Irish film with singer Glen Hansard in the main role.

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@r3tarddownunder Tate should be locked away.
Chatfield should be ignored and not given media oxygen.

[Steffen John @SteffenJohn2]

@GalacticJack Completely false like most of the ridiculous conspiracy posts on here.