@The_One1001@saifedean@thug_liafe@jasonhickel@ptcherneva Monetization is a gradual process. You claim to “fully understand Bitcoin.” However, I don’t think your perspective is grounded in a sound theory of money.
I encourage you to take a look at my doctoral dissertation on Bitcoin and Austrian economics:
https://t.co/abvJ6AddpR
@DohaDebates 2v1 was unfair to them, @saifedean cleaned house while staying unusually kind. Prefer the raw Saif any day.
Hard money, history, and incentives beat elastic-supply theory every time.
Everything is downstream of money and fixed supply always wins.
"All the currencies we have are constantly being devalued." —Saifedean Ammous
Get extended conversations with the experts and global thinkers who've joined our debates, town halls and podcast episodes in our Spotlight series.
In the Spotlight: economist and author @saifedean from the Doha Debates Podcast episode, “Who controls your money?”
0:00 Intro
0:27 Does Bitcoin truly offer financial freedom?
2:30 How do we restore trust in the financial system?
Monetary Node — alpha, live now.
A Bitcoin node that validates every consensus rule, then stores the chain with the data carriers removed. A block’s merkle root commits to txids, not tx data — keep the 32-byte txid and the block still verifies against its own header. Nothing forked, nothing confiscated, no permission needed.
Measured genesis to 970,000: 36.6 GiB of carriers removed. 720.3 GiB of blocks became a 674.7 GiB store — 6.33%, which is smaller than people expect and is the honest number. 91.79% of 1.45B transactions are stored completely untouched.
Everything is in one app: Bitcoin Core, Tor, the stripper, an address index, a dashboard. Sparrow and Electrum connect on port 50001. You are never asked for an xpub, a seed, or anything that can spend.
Install it in Umbrel: App Store → Community App Stores → add
https://t.co/VMgb2ZB65c
I need testers.
Tell me what breaks.
This week's podcast episode is my full @DohaDebates on the nature of money with two MMT economists, @jasonhickel and @ptcherneva. This was a good one you don't want to miss!
Bitcoin Tonight 048 🎤🌙
🔥 Join us on YouTube for an awesome time & be part of the conversation!
@kobiduran@HumbleWarrior & @Coinicarus will be live tonight 8:30PM ET
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