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[Hardfork Mechanic @GrassFedBitcoin]

The point of Bitcoin:

1. Fixed supply
2. Can be owned without third party permission
3. Can be moved without third party permission

That's it.

If it's centralized, neither of those things apply.

@saylor's "reformation" and "shedding of iatrogenic orthodoxy" is simply "Bitcoiners need to stop caring about decentralization".

That makes his vision baseless. Bitcoin without the accompanying principles has no meaning or purpose.

[Ace @AceInThe0]

There is no better dev. Period. @rekt_tekashi solana:4nV5gNwwP68zUDat26ySChREqVaQaLudfJBkSgEzpump @CrashiusClay69

[sprocket @sprocksman]

@rekt_tekashi @MigrateFun f yes lfg

[sprocket @sprocksman]

@rekt_tekashi

[Simple Steve 🌌 @SteveSimple]

Saylor this week

1) Manufacturers a 110 point essay outraged at a soft fork that has “no chance of winning”

2) Announces $15 Million for Core devs to work on Bitcoin changes of his choice

3) Warns us of “factions” attempting to control Bitcoin changes

Do the math

[Simple Steve 🌌 @SteveSimple]

@saylor You’re right but you’re so late to this game. Bitcoin won before taproot. Taproot script spending is exactly the re-written rules that you worry about. BIP-110 is trying to get us back to where we were before that happened.

[Bitcoin is ded. @The_BTC_Patriot]

What a total piece of shit he's become. 🖕

[Rune Østgård @enur72]

Something is rotten in the state of Bitcoin.

Hodlonaut earned rare respect in Bitcoin through his principled fight against Faketoshi.

When he began publishing his detailed investigation into Bitcoin Core — the CAPTURE series (👇) — most big-name Bitcoiners went silent.

I initially thought this was just my impression from being less active on X.

So I directly asked eight of them whether they had read the articles and if they had any comments.

The result:

Crickets from six.

Weak or dismissive replies from two.

Silent:
• Cory Swan (@CorySwan)
• Dylan LeClair (@DylanLeClair)
• Alex Gladstein (@gladstein)
• Lawrence Lepard (@LawrenceLepard)
• Walker (@WalkerAmerica)
• Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact)

Responded:
• Stephan Livera (@stephanlivera) — waiting for the fourth and final part
• Samson Mow (@Excellion) — posted what looks like AI-generated analysis that shows little evidence of having actually read the articles. Hodlonaut took the time to respond; Mow then went silent.

What should we make of the fact that so many prominent voices won’t even answer a simple question about a serious investigation from one of the most credible people in the space?

[Senator Babet @senatorbabet]

I am in the UK right now, it has fallen.

Ignore the legacy media, I have seen it with my own eyes.

A once mighty empire is fading, and fast. The barbarians are no longer at the gates, they are inside, raping and pillaging, while the western men of the nation stand by and do nothing.

I have never witnessed such a cucked and demoralised populace in my life.

Australia is not far behind. Open your eyes. Find your courage. Speak before it is too late.

[sprocket @sprocksman]

@saylor gee they better build it the way you like it then, eh mister?

[sprocket @sprocksman]

@saylor "impulse"
"statist"
"alien"
"liberty"
"natural law"
"Austrian economics"

PILE OF HORSE SHIT.

the only fiat alien statist here is you, pretender.

[Bender @Bender_Aus]

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO REALLY RUNS THIS COUNTRY?

It’s not who you voted for. I’ve spent months in the official records, AEC returns, the lobbyist register, Senate inquiries, ATO data.

What I found scares the hell out of me.

Start with the money. Every single year for 27 years, a group of companies has funded Labor AND the Coalition at the same time. Never fewer than 24 of them. Last year, 94, the biggest on record. They don’t bet on a winner. They buy both. Add $1 billion in dark money since 1999 that nobody can trace, and five donors supplying a quarter of ALL party funding this century.

Now the names. Andrew Robb signed the China trade deal as minister, then walked into an $880,000 a year job with Landbridge, the Chinese company holding the 99 year lease on Darwin Port.

Christopher Pyne ran Defence, then advised EY on defence.

Julie Bishop ran Foreign Affairs, then joined the board of an aid contractor feeding off her old department.

Both cleared.

Marise Payne, another former foreign minister, now works for a lobbying firm. The Grattan Institute found 1 in 4 ministers end up working for the industries they used to regulate. The rule against it has never once produced a real penalty.

Behind them, a record 707 registered lobbyists and over 2,000 unregistered pass holders roaming Parliament’s private corridors with no record of who they meet. When one senator pushed for an inquiry, Labor and the Liberals teamed up to kill it. The one thing they always agree on.

Then your money. Federal contracts to the big four consultancies grew 1,270% in a decade. PwC charged taxpayers nearly $1 million for a Robodebt report it never delivered, an 8 slide PowerPoint, while leaking our secret tax plans to clients like Google.

KPMG stands accused of billing Defence for work never done, after hiring almost 100 ex Defence staff.

Nobody went to jail for any of it.

And the payback? Over 1,100 companies earning $100 million plus paid ZERO income tax in 2023-24. The ATO published the list itself.

Who tells you about all this?

Four companies control 84% of our newspapers. Only Brazil has a more concentrated media on the planet.

Follow the loop:

●Hidden money funds the parties.

●Ministers retire into the industries they regulated.

●Those industries pay nothing back.

And the megaphone deciding what you hear is owned by a handful of boardrooms.

You’ve thrown the government out four times since 1998. Not one part of that loop was interrupted for a single year.

Labor and Liberal aren’t driving the car. They’re taking turns holding the wheel while someone else owns the road.

None of it is illegal. That’s the problem.

Sources:
- AEC Transparency Register 1998–2025; Register of Lobbyists 2026; Senate ministerial standards inquiry; Grattan Institute; Centre for Public Integrity; Senate consulting inquiry; ATO Corporate Tax Transparency Report 2023-24; Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. #auspol #ItsAllCorrupt

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@saylor

[Malachi @MalachiRevolts]

@adam3us

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if the government has the power to freeze your personal financial accounts simply because you express a political opinion that they do not like, then you are neither free nor living in a democracy.

[Matt Barrie @matt_barrie]

The Australian economy is cactus
It's just a voter importation machine blowing a housing bubble that's maxed out household debt
The implosion is going to be catastrophic

[Taotao🇦🇺 @magataotao]

As a yellow Asian immigrant, I am willing to say this for white people who have been suppressed and bullied by all the other colored people worldwide.

You are not on a stolen land.
You are on a conquered land.

This is exactly how mankind move forward.
Don’t give a fuck about what the retards, leftards, commies, islamists and all the idiot losers and haters have to say as all they do is complaining and playing victims and they have nothing positive to contribute to the world.

I thank you so much for bringing Christianity and civilisation to Australia!
I thank you so much for your hard work, toil and sacrifice to build the beautiful Australia. I pay respect to you! 🫡

[that stock chick @ausstockchick]

The thing that bothers me the most about the tax changes isn't the changes themselves, it's the absolute lies around why they were implemented.

Record government spending.

Outrageous amounts of incompetence.

Everyone pays.

This is socialism.