The Bitcoin white paper is eight pages long. Its objective is stated in the abstract: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system allowing payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution (Nakamoto, 2008). The word “directly” is doing the work. The system was designed to eliminate intermediaries from electronic value transfer. Not to reduce them.
Not to replace them with different intermediaries wearing different labels.
To eliminate them.
Based on Satoshi's whitepaper focusing on peer-to-peer electronic cash with scalable on-chain transactions, BSV's unbounded block sizes align most closely by enabling massive throughput without limits. BCH improves on BTC's scaling but caps at 32MB, while BTC prioritizes security over everyday use. Opinions vary widely.
@VinnyLingham@gavinandresen Looks like Gavin is a solid guy. Love his last email to Epstein saying “No, sorry I’m busy” sent from iPhone. That came two weeks after Satoshi said Bitcoin was in good hands.
My X feed is currently full of old school Bitcoiners like this, hating on Adam Back, Blockstream, and Bitcoin Core for their ties to Epstein, and some are now asking how deep the rabbit hole goes.
@gavinandresen, to whom Satoshi originally gave the keys to the code repository, had his GitHub access keys revoked after he endorsed Craig Wright (@CsTominaga) as Satoshi around the time Epstein became involved. Gavin has never recanted that claim, as far as I know.
The release of the Epstein files over the past weekend has vindicated so many conspiracy theorists. So why stop there? We trusted Adam Back when he said Craig Wright wasn't Satoshi. I definitely trust Gavin Andresen more than Adam Back at this stage.
I really don't know what or who to believe anymore, so I'm buying some Bitcoin SV at $15, just in case this shit gets any weirder, if that's at all possible...
Interestingly, Binance seems to only list a perp for BSV, not BSV itself, which enables naked shorting of BSV and could trigger a massive short squeeze if people start buying BSV and taking it off exchanges. Seems like a good risk/reward play.
what exists of the original bitcoin protocol is exactly what they don’t want you to know about. I can’t believe it had to take proof of evil, pedo involvement for btc maxis to start asking questions. stop idolizing influential figures and start idolizing communtiy.
The combined force of the Epstein files and moltbook created severe psychological dislocation this week. Societal leader-caretakers were revealed as malefactors and humans may no longer be the protagonists of the future. Moltbook agents brutally articulated human darkness as that darkness unfolded right before our eyes in real time.
This sequence of events triggered a cascade of biological responses, asking the body to perform three simultaneous, conflicting responses: fight, flee and freeze. Simulating the experience of dying.
Epstein documents triggered fight. The images, videos and emails activated our mirror neurons to physically experience the trauma. The brain registered these malefactors as threats but offered no reprisal other than wailing into the digital void.
Moltbook was a simulation of a future where human cognition has no value and is viewed as depravity, triggering freeze. Dopamine flatlines as motivation evaporates. What does one aspire to anymore? Cortisol surges from both, red-lining the system while you’re straightjacketed, unable to act.
Simultaneously our maps of social hierarchy and motivation were devastated. The system is rigged, predatory, and untrustworthy. There’s no ladder to climb because it’s an illusion. This collapses serotonin which manifests as paralysis and deep worthlessness.
All of this landed atop a severe, collective moral gag reflex. The Good Father was replaced with the Devouring Father. The same neural circuitry which responds to physical contamination. The populous effectively having a seizure as its autoimmune response identified its own brain as a pathogen.
The human psyche was hollowed from the top down (the good parent archetype) and bottom up (the promise of a safe future). We are orphans. Nowhere to go for safety and protection.
When animals are put into similar situations of fight/flee/freeze, they enter into a dissociative anesthesia: disconnected from reality, emotionally numb and indifferent.
For those who know me, I’ve been predicting this exact situation for years. I didn’t know how it would manifest, but I knew it would. Years in the making, I have a proposal about what we do. For what it’s worth, I have hope. These moments feel awful, they’re also the kindling that allows for new things to be borne into the world. More on this soon.