One group of idiots is telling me Bitcoin isn't money, unless it's held by wall street and issued to me through some yield generating stonk.
Another group of idiots is telling me Bitcoin isn't money and that it's a distributed file storage protocol.
Bitcoin’s most crucial property is being decentralized.
That is not compatible with being governed by a deceitful and arrogant priesthood of funders and developers who censor and exclude opposition while pretending to be responsible stewards of the Bitcoin ethos.
“I think eventually, Bitcoin Core will lift the standardness limit, so we just shouldn't worry about it."
- Casey Rodarmor, creator of Ordinals and Runes
This was four months before the extremely controversial merge of the OP_RETURN uncap.
How did he know?
@john_zaprite Bitcoin is not money without the Blockchain, and the Blockchain is literally built to store data.
The more permissioned you make the Blockchain, the less it serves its purpose as money.
Bitcoin is NOT “a simple database.” That’s the blockchain. Bitcoin is money, of which a simple database is just one small part. If this is truly your stance, you don’t understand what bitcoin is.
I’ve just realised this whole OP_RETURN debate can be boiled down to people who (correctly) think Bitcoin is money vs people who (incorrectly) think bitcoin is a database.
It appears that something is fundamentally broken with $STRC. It just went ex-dividend and is still quite far from $100. I don't think this has happened before. Expect Saylor to keep diluting MSTR bros to try to fix this. Good time to be holding real BTC in self-custody