1/12) BTC's security budget is lower today compared to 5 years ago!
The truth is BTC's model is failing & will completely collapse within 6-10 years
Halvenings exponentially decrease security every 4 years & fees are not taking up the slack
BTC's own code predicts its fall: ๐งต
This is a great thing and inevitably going to grow as the main use case for Bitcoin.
It pays for the security of the network.
The monetary aspect of the network will become secondary.
BITCOIN JUST HIT NEAR-RECORD NETWORK ACTIVITY. IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
On paper, the $BTC network is busier than almost any time in history.
Sounds bullish.
But around 80% of daily transactions are now tiny data entries, not payments.
A few years ago that was 44%.
Some are as small as 546 satoshis. That's about 34 cents at today's price.
You couldn't even buy a stamp with it.
People aren't using Bitcoin as money.
They're using it to store data, like images and tokens written directly onto the blockchain.
Here's why it matters.
All that data competes for the same space as real payments, which can push fees up for anyone actually trying to move money.
Julian Assange warned us:
Digital archives let them erase history with one click.
One day: "Page not found."
The next: "it never happened."
They control what you remember.
Save physical books.
Archive offline.
Don't trust the cloud.
This is how 1984 wins.
The Wayback Machine has archived over 1 trillion web pages going back to 1995. Without it, internet history old news articles, defunct websites, and government pages would simply be unrecoverable.
The question is why is this being made defunct now?
"Where are the servers of Bitcoin located?โ - Prof Jiang
That single question from Jiang shows the misunderstanding immediately.
Bitcoin does not run on one companyโs servers,
Bitcoin runs on a distributed network of nodes spread across the world, which is exactly why it is hard to censor, shut down, or control, plus the mining system on top of it to protect it with energy.
When someone frames Bitcoin like a centralized system, they are not critiquing Bitcoin as it is.
They are critiquing a version of Bitcoin that exists only in their own confusion.
"Is Bitcoin actually competing to be the future world reserve currency?"
Yes.
When you need money that nobody can debase, that is free to hold and receive, that is cheap to transfer, that is censorship-resistant, and that even enemies can settle in... there is no second best.
BREAKING: Someone just inscribed a 20 million pixel photograph into Bitcoin of "Earthset" which was captured by Artemis II during its lunar flyby yesterday
โ https://t.co/8AXYrTEi2i
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this is clearly written by shitcoin casino industrial complex lobbyists as it protects their incentives at the expense of bitcoin.
however
and many of you will hate what Iโm about to say
SAYLOR FIXES THIS
$STRC-backed stable coins will mog US-dollar backed stable coins and use bitcoin as collateral, and they will work better than bitcoin as a mechanism of exchange and unit of account
for the time being, collateralizing credit is simply a better use of bitcoin than spending it
donโt get me wrong, I want all the same things you want, I just recognize that the incentives are not there for de minimis $BTC tax exemptions. even among people who are $BTC maximalists, very little of their bitcoin is actually spent
this bill is and always was going to be written by industry lobbyists with their incentives in mind
you donโt appreciate Saylor enough for engineering a way around this using existing financial products