Cedric Youngelman ⚡️
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Family man · Host, The @_BitcoinMatrix Podcast · Advisor to early-stage, startup & high-growth companies
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Hodlonaut on the illusion that just shattered: "We bypassed the social layer, the human layer. We somehow thought the virtue and direction of this protocol was set in stone, no matter what developers do. That's obviously not true. Bitcoin didn't win. Bitcoin can change. Bitcoin is changing. Bitcoin has changed. The illusion that we had a foothold in this world we could put our energy on, that illusion is gone right now. All you want is to sit back posting 'Bitcoin fixes this, number go up, stay humble, stack sats,' and anyone sounding an alarm is seen as a threat. We need Bitcoiners to fight for Bitcoin. If no one fights for Bitcoin, Bitcoin will very soon be dead." hodlonaut on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #286.
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Hodlonaut on the pressure campaign to make him drop BIP-110: "The lengths people have gone to, to intimidate me out of supporting it. My DMs are full of it. People reaching out: what are you doing with this BIP-110 support? Your reputation is going to hell. It starts with friendly nudging, then threats. And then, when they realize I'm actually tying myself to the mast, it's just straight hostility and smearing. But I don't care what people I don't respect say about me. I don't want any standing or position among people who don't share my principles. I'm very much supporting BIP-110." hodlonaut on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #286.
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"Did we actually win the block size war — or did we lose?" Samson Mow asks the question most Bitcoiners won't. Fees as a filter, the jump to 4MB, and why Luke Dashjr may have been right about smaller blocks. The context the BIP 110 fight skips. 👇 Samson Mow on whether we actually won the block size war: "The Core people say the fees are the filter. But that misses the point — you're not looking at the entire network, and what's already happened. Yes, fees filter spam. You pay fees to transact, and a spammer pays fees too. But during the block size war, we changed the whole dynamic. We changed the unit economics — we increased the block size and decreased fee pressure. So we actually made it cheaper to spam the network. Only one person talked about decreasing the block size back then — Luke Dashjr. And I think he was right. So it begs the question: did we actually win the block size war, or did we lose? We had a net increase in effective block space, going to four megabytes — and the repercussions of that, I don't think we've really reasoned out. Maybe it was a mistake to go to four. Maybe we should have kept it at one, and left the settings of the network as they were." Samson Mow on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #243
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MUST WATCH🚨 "Bitcoin is not physical gold. You can kill Bitcoin." Matthew R. Kratter #BIP-110 on the spam war, Bitcoin Core gone rogue, and BIP-110. This might be the most important Bitcoin interview of the year. The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #279: Bitcoin Is Under Attack is out on audio now.
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Tom Luongo: "The British Have Been Running the Game for 300 Years" Tom Luongo delivers one of his most fired-up takes ever, laying out his theory that British political influence has been the hidden hand behind America's biggest turning points — from Woodrow Wilson's election in 1912 to the creation of the Federal Reserve, the income tax, and both World Wars. He argues that post-war gold resets funneled wealth back to the old powers, that Churchill deserves a serious historical reevaluation, and that the path forward isn't military — it's financial. His conclusion: you beat entrenched power by cutting off its money, and he believes that's exactly what figures like Scott Bessent are positioned to do. Whether you agree or not, this one will make you think.
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🔥21 MUST WATCH #BITCOIN CLIPS🔥 #1 #BITCOIN WILL NEVER DIE. - Michael @Saylor
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🔁REPOST, MUST WATCH INTERVIEW JUNE 15th 2026 Bitcoin isn't digital gold. It's not locked in by math. You can kill it. The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #279 Bitcoin Core Has Gone Rogue | Hardfork Kratter, Bitcoin University The man who ran money at Peter Thiel's hedge fund came on to explain who's trying, and why the only thing protecting Bitcoin is the people who run nodes. Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin University founder, former Clarium / Thiel-world macro trader, early Palantir investor, joins me to lay out the fight consuming Bitcoin right now in plain English: why he says Bitcoin Core has "gone rogue," the spam war over OP_RETURN and BIP-110 he calls Bitcoin's last stand, why consensus flows from culture and not code, who actually controls the network (hint: not the miners), and how to mine Bitcoin from home for about $10 a day. Send this to anyone who thinks Bitcoin can't be stopped. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Physics dropout to literature: Stanford & Berkeley 05:27 René Girard & meeting Peter Thiel 07:56 Becoming a trader: Thiel Macro to Clarium 12:43 The PayPal mafia, network effects & the dot-com bottom 20:23 Global macro at Clarium & the 2003 housing-blowup call 24:08 Napster, PayPal & the "new world currency" 28:32 Government as the ultimate customer: Palantir & the CIA (In-Q-Tel) 36:00 Deep-state roots: is Peter Thiel captured? 49:32 Culture is upstream of consensus 57:00 Bitcoin isn't magic: nodes, immutability & the spam risk 1:01:42 Why spam is a problem: tragedy of the commons 1:04:30 Spam since Satoshi & the 2014 OP_RETURN war 1:14:30 The changing of the guard at Bitcoin Core 1:18:43 Core uncaps OP_RETURN to 100,000 bytes 1:28:00 Consensus flows from culture: the 2nd Amendment analogy 1:35:20 BIP-110: the temporary soft fork 1:44:00 Why small blocks, and running nodes in Cuba 2:18:55 SegWit & the 2017 UASF: how 500 nodes won 2:24:00 The miners are just employees: node runners set the rules 2:41:46 "Firing the miners": changing proof-of-work 2:55:18 Bitcoin Core went rogue: the last stand 2:58:50 You can kill Bitcoin 3:01:20 Mine Bitcoin from home for ~$10/day, KYC-free 3:11:09 Where to find Matt ▶️
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🔥🔥50 BEST BITCOIN CLIPS🔥🔥 1. The magic of bitcoin Michael Saylor
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Bitcoin is the best financial education anyone can buy & your ticket to entry is whatever you can afford to stack & it will change your life. Not just in a material way because I believe that once you understand Bitcoin & you start to realize that no matter how many sats you have that is going to lead to a dollar value that you may not have ever thought you could achieve. So from wherever you start, once you grok bitcoin you realize where you are going & when you realize where you are going you start to feel wealthy. You start to feel abundant. It's just a matter of time. The abundance is coming. The wealth is coming. It's just a matter of time. That is such a massive shift in your mindset that you begin to attract other positive things in your life. It's that mind-shift. It's the vibe you give off. Once you make that shift & you understand that bitcoin is going to create wealth & abundance for you, you start to attract wealth & abundance from all angles. It's a complete shift in your energy & what you attract. Humble_Hodl
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Matthew Kratter on why the spam war feels like a psyop: "A lot of these Core devs don't own much Bitcoin at all. They don't even run nodes. There's a misalignment of incentives. It's terrifying to see Bitcoin in the hands of devs who view it as just another software gig. You begin to feel like you're taking crazy pills — why am I arguing with master C programmers who suddenly don't know what spam is? It's a very strange time to be alive." Matthew R. Kratter #BIP-110 on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️
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🔁 REPOST, recorded June 2024. Everything Luke Dashjr warned about is happening right now. Luke Dashjr - Is Bitcoin In A Civil War? Three or four entities decide what goes into every Bitcoin block. Most "miners" don't even know what they're mining. And if too few of us run nodes, Bitcoin quietly becomes a CBDC. The Bitcoin Core developer who caught the accidental 2013 hard fork before it broke the network came on to explain why mining is dangerously centralized, why the spam wave is a coordinated attack, and why he built a pool to fight back. Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin Core developer with 200+ contributions and maintainer of the BIPs, founder and CTO of Ocean, and the man who detected and helped stop the 2013 chain split, joins me to lay out the fight over Bitcoin's future in plain English: the difference between a real miner and a "hasher" who just sells compute, how three or four pools (really Bitmain) control what goes in every block, the invisible tax hiding inside FPPS, why he calls the spam wave a funded attack to destroy Bitcoin, why Bitcoin becomes a CBDC if too few of us run our own nodes, whether we are already in a civil war, and how Ocean is trying to hand block construction back to miners. Send this to anyone who thinks Bitcoin mining is decentralized. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:50 Who is Luke Dashjr 04:09 The rabbit hole: his first patch in 2011 06:06 When Bitcoin became essential (there's no plan B) 10:09 Eligius: the first non-custodial mining pool 12:13 Why he started Ocean 13:50 The real consequences of pool centralization 16:34 Hasher vs miner: who actually mines? 18:36 How FPPS pays you, and what it hides 20:05 Why big pools become proxies for Bitmain 22:35 The launch, and why "censorship" became the word 24:49 What Bitcoin is actually built for 26:40 How to define spam 33:06 "The people behind the spam are out to destroy Bitcoin" 34:47 How the attack gets funded by gamifying it 37:13 Is this an existential threat? 38:48 Run a node, or Bitcoin becomes a CBDC 40:09 Bootstrapping a mining pool from zero 45:40 What non-miners can actually do to help 46:31 Should Bitcoin ossify, or keep upgrading? 49:24 How censorship-resistant is Bitcoin today? 50:00 Is Bitcoin already in a civil war? 51:10 Would the good guys still win a block size war today? 55:53 Ocean's roadmap: decentralizing block construction 1:00:07 How Ocean got its name (Jack Dorsey's nudge) 1:01:53 Do we have a problem in Bitcoin culture? 1:03:22 What Bitcoin means to Luke 1:07:11 The clause: Ocean can do no harm to Bitcoin 1:08:10 Where to find Luke + OCEAN 🎧 Then watch the sequel with Hardfork Kratter, The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #279: "Bitcoin Core Has Gone Rogue." 🎧
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Hodlonaut on why Big Bitcoin is suddenly posting about BIP-110: "This movement is massive right now. There's a reason Michael Saylor is posting all these posts about BIP-110. He's worried. This is our shot. The movement is here, the energy is here. The people have stood up and put their skin in the game. So I don't agree at all with 'we must not burn the capital.' Shall we burn all the capital that has manifested and is now surging, reigniting the very idea of being a sovereign Bitcoiner? No. We shall join it, and we shall make a stand." hodlonaut #BIP-110 on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #286.
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