If there’s likely no new buying for this “stockpile” and it’s just the U.S. hodling the coins it already has…
Then the rebrand is nothing but signaling.
“That’s ok” you say I like the signal it sends.
But what is the signal it sends?
Because it’s not Bitcoin only.
The signal is “I like Bitcoin buy my shitcoin”
It’s “tron is as legitimate as bitcoin”
Not even getting into all of the arguments the dems will have about it being crony capitalism. Which they would be fucking right about.
Bitcoin only or no stockpile.
Sorry, any amount of shitcoins sends the exact opposite signal we are intending to send.
“It’s only a little shitcoins bro”
Would you drink a smoothie that was 3% shit?
Bitcoin only or nothing.
It’s not the time to make peace with scammers.
If this stockpile isn’t Bitcoin only we need to come out strong against it and make it toxic to going forward politically.
We’ll still have lummis’s SBR bill, we don’t need this stupid fucking anti-signal stockpile.
Ross Ulbricht is free, but unproven "murder-for-hire" charges overshadow the Silk Road founder's pardon in some corners of the internet.
On the corruption in the Silk Road case: My latest for @BitcoinMagazine
https://t.co/DPxDhqajgz
Newcomers to Bitcoin may not understand why old timers care so much about Ross Ulbricht. Let me explain.
He embodied the ethos of early Bitcoin more than anyone. He was an entrepreneur who created a thriving marketplace.
He believed in radical freedom, including the freedom to trade anything with anyone else so long as it was peaceful and voluntary.
He regularly wrote about his views on freedom and why he built the first truly successful Bitcoin business - the Silk Road. He wanted to created a better world and believed his principles deeply.
Politicians like Schumer targeted both Silk Road AND Bitcoin as criminal enterprises that needed to be shut down.
When he was convicted the judge and the establishment threw the book at him. He was a first time, non violent criminal and they locked him up and effectively threw away the key.
In the early Bitcoin community we all felt how unjust this was. It was like they were locking up one of our own out of spite for what we all believed was a peaceful revolution.
Now tens of millions of people own Bitcoin and many just because of Number Go Up. Never forget there was a deeper purpose here and that getting rich is a nice side effect of that greater purpose.
Fix the money, fix the world.
The reason Ross Ulbricht has been in prison for 11+ years is because he created something outside of the control of the fiat system. That’s it.
He deserves freedom. #FreeRoss
Trump falling through on his promise to Free Ross day one seems a rather inconvenient way for a lot of people on this app to learn that the stripper doesn’t love you
Easy for Trump Simps to say, “just be patient, we can wait one more day to set Ross Free.”
This isn’t about patience. Ross has been patient. Ross has been wrongfully imprisoned for 10+ years.
Easy to be patient on the outside, while Ross pays the price of injustice in a cage.
The US government buying and just holding Bitcoin WONT solve their deficit or debt problem.
The debt to GDP paradox is only solved with real and relative tax collection increases.
The famous line “Grow out of it” just means debase and tax our way out of it.
They need to leech onto the growth and appreciation of the Bitcoin network, economy and asset.
Funny how Bitcoiners went from taxation is theft to now promoting it.