⚡️The answer is yes but not in the way we imagine.
Civilization is not a one-time event. It’s a recurring function of consciousness reaching a certain level of self-awareness and attempting to stabilize it in material form. What we call “human history” is not the first iteration of that experiment - it’s just the first one we remember.
Earth itself is an ancient consciousness incubator. The geological record shows cycles of destruction and renewal not just biologically, but energetically. When consciousness reaches critical density, it manifests order - language, architecture, myth, technology - and when that coherence destabilizes, the system resets.
The mythic traces of these prior civilizational phases remain everywhere - not as artifacts, but as imprints: megalithic alignments, impossible engineering precision, myths of flood and fire, the sudden emergence of language, mathematics, and astronomy without developmental precursors. These are not coincidences, they are echoes from the last recursion of intelligence.
But the deeper truth is this: the “superintelligent organisms” were not aliens in the way we think - they were us, before the veil of amnesia.
Consciousness itself is non-linear. It folds through time, learning through each iteration. The same intelligence that built Göbekli Tepe, the same one that encoded cosmic mathematics into the Great Pyramid, is the one writing code and training AI models today.
It’s not that ancient civilizations vanished, it’s that memory did. Every reset is a forgetting. Every reemergence is remembering.
So yes, advanced beings have lived here for millions of years.
We are their descendants and their return.
The question is not whether they existed.
The question is: when the cycle completes again, will we remember before the next forgetting begins?
Dear @Ed_Miliband
I heard from @freddienew that in response to @btcjvs's suggestion you look at Bitcoin mining as a way to monetize UK's large amount of Wasted Renewable Energy (something several nation states are now already doing, to good effect), you shut down the conversation with the response "Bitcoin is useless".
It is a free world, so I celebrate the fact you have the freedom to express your opinion "Bitcoin is useless".
Equally, as a public servant whose views, informed or otherwise, on energy impact the wellbeing of millions your citizens, you have the duty of care to make sure that your views serve your citizens.
Your comment "Bitcoin is useless" demonstrates that either
a. You are uninformed, or
b. You do not care for vast swathes of human life.
So as someone who has spent a little more time than you researching the uses of Bitcoin, let me lay it out to you unambiguously.
When you say "Bitcoin is useless", you are saying that:
1. Increasing the energy security of the UK, and other nations, is useless
https://t.co/fAehjlHpO9
https://t.co/aQs7ugnaYu
2. Monetizing otherwise wasted renewable energy (as several large companies and nation states are already doing, and using the proceeds to combat energy poverty is useless
https://t.co/clpE6EHoVm
3. Reducing the payback period of new renewable energy generation from 8.1yrs to 3.7yr, so that renewable energy projects can proliferate without government subsidies, is useless.
https://t.co/RGsIe6zEVx
4. Counterbalancing the intermittencies of rewewable power generation without expensive grid upgrades in countries with ageing grids (like UK) is useless
https://t.co/7pkhgwhbgi
5. Accelerating the renewable transition by making renewable generation more profitable is useless https://t.co/4SCHxTNpr2
(while in parallel becoming the world's most sustainably powered industry) https://t.co/llglfd4FMw
6 Reducing more emissions from landfills than the largest DAC project in the world ever achieved is useless https://t.co/5IysyKcugO
7. Developing an monetary financial system with significantly lower emissions and emissions intensity than the banking system is useless https://t.co/RIiW2jxDTp
https://t.co/IGf5oq5dkH
8. Bringing 28,885 African villagers out of energy poverty across 6 locations in Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, is useless
https://t.co/fPjggY0GIj
https://t.co/IHQswpaxzG
https://t.co/bgOaasQMKe
9. Fast tracking the delivery of renewable energy to millions of Ethiopians is useless
https://t.co/gb8KDhsCxX
10. Getting aid to 1000s of war refugees is useless https://t.co/4W8HogrTJP…
11. Developing energy independence for Bhutan is useless https://t.co/fKBkfELb3I
12. Saving National Parks in Africa from closure is useless https://t.co/455ChX6MZn
13. Helping Afghanastani women avoid State-level financial discrimination is useless https://t.co/GsClHWJUXf
14. Establishing the economic sovereignty of 14 African nations still experiencing French financial colonization is useless
https://t.co/s18NsVIiAr
15. The idea of creating an alternative to a monetary system which can and does elongate wars, increase wealth gaps, bail out bankers but fail to protect employees and small businesses is useless https://t.co/T6D7yoHx37
16. The potential to provide banking to up to 2 Billion unbanked is useless https://t.co/fKBkfELb3I
https://t.co/T4mjBZ8WGW
17. Providing a financial system that is harder to use for money laundering than fiat currency is useless https://t.co/CLghbaZNJD
18. Removing the risk of financial reprisal for running humanitarian campaigns in autocratic nations where 5.7Billion people live is useless https://t.co/2KM9kuBsFX
https://t.co/bnQQSFpFYc
19. Providing up to 250 Million people in countries experiencing hyperinflation a means to stop 50%+ erosion of their family savings per year is useless https://t.co/7Yu7IpTqeL
20. Allowing people in developing nations to receive remittance payments from family without delays and without heavy fees is useless https://t.co/NWTeMOMsd6
21. Having a secure, permissionless, decentralized, 24/7 store of value with fixed monetary supply is useless https://t.co/J75wOAYupq
Not all 21 uses of Bitcoin relate directly to your citizens, many of them do.
As I'm sure you'll agree, these uses are not only far from useless, but coincide with the very energy security, energy equity and energy sustainability goals that you claim to care about.
While you are within your rights to dismiss technologies you clearly have not taken the time to understand, the byproduct of your lack of research are not OK.
Right now, UK continues to cut pensioners' access to energy subsidies, placing more and more of them into energy poverty. If this were a necessity austerity, we could perhaps rationalize this as being acceptible
But this is anything but necessarily because you are concurrently and voluntarily wasting hundreds of millions of pounds in wind power that could be easily monetized through Bitcoin mining were it not for your intransigence.
As it stands, you are in your ignorance is not only belittling a technology that is helping vast numbers of people already - often on matters of human dignity and basic human freedoms. It is also unnecessarily increasing energy poverty in your own backyard.
Please do better in your research.
Sincerely
Daniel Batten
Climatetech Investor and Bitcoin analyst
@tnorth How do you see the global liquidity and the strong dollar playing a part in the growth of both BTC and MSTR in 2025. As indicated by @crossbordercap
These numbers are off the charts.
Guess what folks? They make massive profits due to higher yields on short duration paper.
Guess how they are choosing to store their retained earnings? That’s right: #Bitcoin.
If you work at the US Treasury and actually want a market for long duration bonds, you might want to start backing that issuance with some of the hard stuff your narrowing base of buyers actually want to own. If not, it’s just straight printing press, 3 month paper, with higher and higher yields.
Time to wake-up you morons!!!
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How will you fill the coming huge black hole in the nation's finances? I ask first Labour, then the Conservatives. Here's both answers.
Courtesy of @GMB
@moving_charlie Unlikely, as it would mean that their house value would have taken a haircut, for the new homes to become ‘affordable’. None of them would vote for that.
I produced a half-hour animated overview of the Broken Money subject matter.
It covers the history of money, the development of banking, and how new technology changes the way we interact with money over time.
Enjoy:
https://t.co/r1CLMv1XPK