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If the bar to change Bitcoin's consensus rules gets low enough, anyone could launch an attack on the whole network. 🚨❗️ Samson Mow on why rushing BIP-110 without consensus isn't just bad process, it's an existential risk to Bitcoin itself.

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A change to consensus rules with no consensus. The BIP-110 debate is not about spam, it is about the dangerously low bar now set for pushing consensus changes into Bitcoin.
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A change to consensus rules with no consensus. The BIP-110 debate is not about spam, it is about the dangerously low bar now set for pushing consensus changes into Bitcoin.

JAN3

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BIP-110 and Is the Bitcoin Bottom In? w/ Samson Mow & jake roque 0:00 - Episode Trailer 0:49 - Introducing Samson Mow 2:35 - BIP-110 Explained 14:01 - Secure Your Bitcoin with Unchained 14:59 - Is BIP 110 Doomed to Fail? 23:40 - Bitcoin's Unique Design 26:04 - Final Thoughts on BIP 110 27:49 - What is "Production Ready"? 31:15 - Should Bitcoin Remove OP_RETURN? 38:51 - What is Jan3's Mission? 40:47 - AI Agents Will Use Bitcoin 43:44 - Why Samson Thinks the Bitcoin Bottom Is In 51:18 - Will Bitcoin Replace Gold? 57:32 - Why Aqua Uses Lightning & Liquid 1:04:50 - Where to Follow Samson Mow
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BIP-110 and Is the Bitcoin Bottom In? w/ Samson Mow & jake roque 0:00 - Episode Trailer 0:49 - Introducing Samson Mow 2:35 - BIP-110 Explained 14:01 - Secure Your Bitcoin with Unchained 14:59 - Is BIP 110 Doomed to Fail? 23:40 - Bitcoin's Unique Design 26:04 - Final Thoughts on BIP 110 27:49 - What is "Production Ready"? 31:15 - Should Bitcoin Remove OP_RETURN? 38:51 - What is Jan3's Mission? 40:47 - AI Agents Will Use Bitcoin 43:44 - Why Samson Thinks the Bitcoin Bottom Is In 51:18 - Will Bitcoin Replace Gold? 57:32 - Why Aqua Uses Lightning & Liquid 1:04:50 - Where to Follow Samson Mow

Market Disruptors

144,216 views • 1 month ago

"Is there even such a thing as 'spam' on Bitcoin?" Samson Mow cuts through the argument most Bitcoiners talk past. Native Bitcoin data vs. ordinals, why immutability is the thing being abused, and where the line between spam and not-spam actually sits. The definition the BIP 110 fight keeps dodging. Samson Mow on what actually counts as spam: "There's a simpler way to define spam: it's not an organic Bitcoin transaction — it's trying to do something else. A Bitcoin transaction is data, yes — but it's Bitcoin's native data. If you're sending someone Bitcoin, that's not spam. But a lot of what we're seeing now — ordinals and the like — is trying to embed data and images into Bitcoin to piggyback on its immutability. That's the delineation: this is spam, this is not." Samson Mow on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #243
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"Is there even such a thing as 'spam' on Bitcoin?" Samson Mow cuts through the argument most Bitcoiners talk past. Native Bitcoin data vs. ordinals, why immutability is the thing being abused, and where the line between spam and not-spam actually sits. The definition the BIP 110 fight keeps dodging. Samson Mow on what actually counts as spam: "There's a simpler way to define spam: it's not an organic Bitcoin transaction — it's trying to do something else. A Bitcoin transaction is data, yes — but it's Bitcoin's native data. If you're sending someone Bitcoin, that's not spam. But a lot of what we're seeing now — ordinals and the like — is trying to embed data and images into Bitcoin to piggyback on its immutability. That's the delineation: this is spam, this is not." Samson Mow on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #243

Cedric Youngelman ⚡️

10,533 views • 2 months ago

“Knots is BIP 110. It’s going to enforce those as consensus rules. If there are no blocks and the chain stalls out because miners ignore it then there will be a proof of work change… I'm very sorry to the miners that have supported BIP 110.” — Bitcoin Mechanic, Ocean Mining spokesman
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“Knots is BIP 110. It’s going to enforce those as consensus rules. If there are no blocks and the chain stalls out because miners ignore it then there will be a proof of work change… I'm very sorry to the miners that have supported BIP 110.” — Bitcoin Mechanic, Ocean Mining spokesman

Walker⚡️

205,761 views • 1 month ago

"What matters isn't BIP 110 ... what people really care about isn't spam ... it's can the Bitcoin network get its shit together to defend against quantum" Dave on what people are really worried about beyond the BIP 110 debate "Where is the value, where are people looking? The new narrative on Ethereum is it's a safer network and it'll be quantum resistant and faster" "The narrative on Bitcoin is there's a BIP 110 debate. At the end of the day, and I'm oversimplifying, what matters isn't BIP 110, what matters is the process" "Can the Bitcoin network get its shit together to defend against quantum, and can they defend against theoretical attacks like the one that Duke professor you quoted [51% attack with short perps position] last week talked about"
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"What matters isn't BIP 110 ... what people really care about isn't spam ... it's can the Bitcoin network get its shit together to defend against quantum" Dave on what people are really worried about beyond the BIP 110 debate "Where is the value, where are people looking? The new narrative on Ethereum is it's a safer network and it'll be quantum resistant and faster" "The narrative on Bitcoin is there's a BIP 110 debate. At the end of the day, and I'm oversimplifying, what matters isn't BIP 110, what matters is the process" "Can the Bitcoin network get its shit together to defend against quantum, and can they defend against theoretical attacks like the one that Duke professor you quoted [51% attack with short perps position] last week talked about"

The Wolf Of All Streets

41,038 views • 2 months ago

Daniel Buchner: Why BIP 110 Cannot Stop Bitcoin Spam | SLP758 Daniel Ƀrrr dismantles the case for BIP 110, showing that embedding data in public keys and hashes makes consensus-level spam filters ineffective from day one. Timestamps: 01:31 — Locusts Flock to Bitcoin's Last Pasture 03:32 — Core Policy Tweaks Aren't Consensus Rules 08:44 — Spam Hides in Any Public Key or Hash 11:12 — Spammers Adapt in a Day, Consensus Can't 14:59 — BIP110 Debate Exposes Major Inconsistency 20:44 — Why the House Analogy Totally Fails 25:25 — Nodes Get Cheaper Even With Max Spam 28:08 — Set Tolerances Assuming Worst Case 30:35 — Legal Liability for Bad Chain Data 33:04 — Filter Regime Creates Government Backdoor 35:13 — BIP 110 Risks Centralizing Dev Around Luke 37:33 — Economic Incentives Trump 'Good Guy' Miners 39:03 — Economic Nodes Outweigh Basement Node Runners 43:49 — BIP 110 Has Near-Zero Economic Support 48:43 — Game Theory? 55:52 — BIP 110 Fork Dies With a Whimper
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Daniel Buchner: Why BIP 110 Cannot Stop Bitcoin Spam | SLP758 Daniel Ƀrrr dismantles the case for BIP 110, showing that embedding data in public keys and hashes makes consensus-level spam filters ineffective from day one. Timestamps: 01:31 — Locusts Flock to Bitcoin's Last Pasture 03:32 — Core Policy Tweaks Aren't Consensus Rules 08:44 — Spam Hides in Any Public Key or Hash 11:12 — Spammers Adapt in a Day, Consensus Can't 14:59 — BIP110 Debate Exposes Major Inconsistency 20:44 — Why the House Analogy Totally Fails 25:25 — Nodes Get Cheaper Even With Max Spam 28:08 — Set Tolerances Assuming Worst Case 30:35 — Legal Liability for Bad Chain Data 33:04 — Filter Regime Creates Government Backdoor 35:13 — BIP 110 Risks Centralizing Dev Around Luke 37:33 — Economic Incentives Trump 'Good Guy' Miners 39:03 — Economic Nodes Outweigh Basement Node Runners 43:49 — BIP 110 Has Near-Zero Economic Support 48:43 — Game Theory? 55:52 — BIP 110 Fork Dies With a Whimper

Stephan Livera

14,580 views • 1 month ago

🚨JUST IN: During Natalie Brunell ⚡️'s interview, Lyn Alden pushed back on the narrative that BIP-110 is needed to stop "SPAM" (Ordinals/#Runes), arguing it has been framed as an existential crisis for Bitcoin when the technical evidence doesn't support that claim. Full Interview:
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🚨JUST IN: During Natalie Brunell ⚡️'s interview, Lyn Alden pushed back on the narrative that BIP-110 is needed to stop "SPAM" (Ordinals/#Runes), arguing it has been framed as an existential crisis for Bitcoin when the technical evidence doesn't support that claim. Full Interview:

Vincent (Cryptolution) 👑

22,446 views • 2 months ago

🚨 “Maybe it’s time for a good fork of Bitcoin.” On the @btcinfinityshow, Samson Mow shares the idea of forking from v0.29, not to compete with #Bitcoin, but to fix misaligned incentives and fund devs with a better structure. This could change everything.
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🚨 “Maybe it’s time for a good fork of Bitcoin.” On the @btcinfinityshow, Samson Mow shares the idea of forking from v0.29, not to compete with #Bitcoin, but to fix misaligned incentives and fund devs with a better structure. This could change everything.

JAN3

196,218 views • 1 year ago

We have absolutely no idea what kind of chaos is going to ensue if BIP-110 gets pushed through without consensus. If the market sides against the restrictive rules, we are left with a smaller, weaker monetary Bitcoin while the "spam-enabling" version wins all the institutional money. I pulled this clip from my recent chat with Luke de Wolf because it highlights the true stakes of this governance debate. Check it out here or catch the whole of discussion below.
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We have absolutely no idea what kind of chaos is going to ensue if BIP-110 gets pushed through without consensus. If the market sides against the restrictive rules, we are left with a smaller, weaker monetary Bitcoin while the "spam-enabling" version wins all the institutional money. I pulled this clip from my recent chat with Luke de Wolf because it highlights the true stakes of this governance debate. Check it out here or catch the whole of discussion below.

Guy Swann

37,049 views • 2 months ago

Tomorrow, independent developer Super Testnet comes on the show to share why he's proposing a User-Rejected Soft Fork for BIP 110 — and explores the different ways a potential 'soft fork war' could play out around BIP 110 in August. This episode is chockfull of soft-fork history, with insights into how changes to consensus have historically been executed and how these processes could shift going forward.
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Tomorrow, independent developer Super Testnet comes on the show to share why he's proposing a User-Rejected Soft Fork for BIP 110 — and explores the different ways a potential 'soft fork war' could play out around BIP 110 in August. This episode is chockfull of soft-fork history, with insights into how changes to consensus have historically been executed and how these processes could shift going forward.

Isabel Foxen Duke⚡️

17,045 views • 2 months ago

Bitcoin isn't digital gold. It's not locked in by math. You can kill it. 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 R. Kratter #BIP-110 — 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 → 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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Bitcoin isn't digital gold. It's not locked in by math. You can kill it. 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 R. Kratter #BIP-110 — 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 → 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 ▶️

The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️

20,467 views • 2 months ago

THE CREATOR OF ORDINALS SAYS BIP-110 IS DOOMED Casey Casey and Erin Redwing dive into the history and drama behind BIP-110, Bitcoin's controversial anti-spam filter proposal. This episode covers the origins of Bitcoin's spam debate, Luke Dashjr's decade-long anti-spam crusade, the rise of Ordinals, Inscriptions, and Runes, the Bitcoin Core vs. Bitcoin Knots conflict, and a full technical breakdown of what BIP-110 actually does — and why it's doomed to fail. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:11 Satoshi Dice and the origin of Luke Jr's anti-spam crusade 10:20 Meta-protocols arrive: Counterparty, OmniLayer, and Tether's origins on Bitcoin 11:56 The op_return byte limit history 18:41 Why Ethereum failed 28:51 Ordinals launch in Jan 2023 40:12 Insidious motivations behind anti-Ordinals backlash and the Swanfluencers 53:42 What BIP-110 actually is and does 1:00:43 BIP-110 signaling timeline and activation dates 1:08:16 Explaining the mining difficulty adjustment problem for a minority fork 1:21:00 Why BIP-110's filters are trivial to bypass (Ordinals and Runes survive regardless) 1:25:33 Final thoughts: why the whole community should log off and move on
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THE CREATOR OF ORDINALS SAYS BIP-110 IS DOOMED Casey Casey and Erin Redwing dive into the history and drama behind BIP-110, Bitcoin's controversial anti-spam filter proposal. This episode covers the origins of Bitcoin's spam debate, Luke Dashjr's decade-long anti-spam crusade, the rise of Ordinals, Inscriptions, and Runes, the Bitcoin Core vs. Bitcoin Knots conflict, and a full technical breakdown of what BIP-110 actually does — and why it's doomed to fail. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:11 Satoshi Dice and the origin of Luke Jr's anti-spam crusade 10:20 Meta-protocols arrive: Counterparty, OmniLayer, and Tether's origins on Bitcoin 11:56 The op_return byte limit history 18:41 Why Ethereum failed 28:51 Ordinals launch in Jan 2023 40:12 Insidious motivations behind anti-Ordinals backlash and the Swanfluencers 53:42 What BIP-110 actually is and does 1:00:43 BIP-110 signaling timeline and activation dates 1:08:16 Explaining the mining difficulty adjustment problem for a minority fork 1:21:00 Why BIP-110's filters are trivial to bypass (Ordinals and Runes survive regardless) 1:25:33 Final thoughts: why the whole community should log off and move on

Hell Money

143,596 views • 1 month ago

Matthew Kratter on why the other side has no grenade: "We're just crazy enough to walk into the room and say: look, Bitcoin is money. This is so important to me that I've got a grenade here, and I'm willing to blow all of us up if you don't go along with us. And we don't have an opposition. No one has the hand grenade that says I want spam and CSAM on Bitcoin. If there were a group trying to push that through, I would URSF them in a second, because that's unacceptable. We're watching Bitcoin heal itself and fight back." Matthew R. Kratter #BIP-110 on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #279.
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Matthew Kratter on why the other side has no grenade: "We're just crazy enough to walk into the room and say: look, Bitcoin is money. This is so important to me that I've got a grenade here, and I'm willing to blow all of us up if you don't go along with us. And we don't have an opposition. No one has the hand grenade that says I want spam and CSAM on Bitcoin. If there were a group trying to push that through, I would URSF them in a second, because that's unacceptable. We're watching Bitcoin heal itself and fight back." Matthew R. Kratter #BIP-110 on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #279.

Cedric Youngelman ⚡️

12,591 views • 2 months ago

Why would you go up to somebody and attack their culture from the outside? It's not an attack. It's the truth. The first step is recognizing there is a problem. If you want change you need to be the change. Charlie absolutely nailed it. This whole clip is incredible.
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Why would you go up to somebody and attack their culture from the outside? It's not an attack. It's the truth. The first step is recognizing there is a problem. If you want change you need to be the change. Charlie absolutely nailed it. This whole clip is incredible.

Sassafrass84

867,191 views • 1 year ago

"I just wonder if Andy Burnham is the person to do that..." The Daily Telegraph's Poppy Coburn on whether Labour's new leader can deliver enough "change", adding: "It's not even that long ago that we had a Labour Prime Minister promising to upend a failed consensus." #Newsnight
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"I just wonder if Andy Burnham is the person to do that..." The Daily Telegraph's Poppy Coburn on whether Labour's new leader can deliver enough "change", adding: "It's not even that long ago that we had a Labour Prime Minister promising to upend a failed consensus." #Newsnight

BBC Newsnight

22,558 views • 1 month ago

The biggest damage from BIP-110 failing may have nothing to do with BIP-110. Puncher75 - BIP-110 said the important part out loud on the The Bitcoin Edge Podcast. The people who saw an attack coming and were willing to stand up when it was unpopular are now being treated like the problem. "Fork off" "Leave Bitcoin" "Bitcoin won" That is a hell of a way to treat people who have been fighting for Bitcoin for years and were willing to stand up again when they thought it mattered. Maybe you think they were wrong... But treating the people most willing to defend Bitcoin like they're no longer welcome here may be the most damaging legacy of this temporary soft fork failing.
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The biggest damage from BIP-110 failing may have nothing to do with BIP-110. Puncher75 - BIP-110 said the important part out loud on the The Bitcoin Edge Podcast. The people who saw an attack coming and were willing to stand up when it was unpopular are now being treated like the problem. "Fork off" "Leave Bitcoin" "Bitcoin won" That is a hell of a way to treat people who have been fighting for Bitcoin for years and were willing to stand up again when they thought it mattered. Maybe you think they were wrong... But treating the people most willing to defend Bitcoin like they're no longer welcome here may be the most damaging legacy of this temporary soft fork failing.

Shaun

20,257 views • 11 days ago

Burgum on the national security "risk" of offshore wind energy: "If you wanted to launch an attack on our population centers, the way you would do it is you'd come through one of these large offshore -- we could have an enemy swam drone attack into a place like the Northeast before we even knew it."
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Burgum on the national security "risk" of offshore wind energy: "If you wanted to launch an attack on our population centers, the way you would do it is you'd come through one of these large offshore -- we could have an enemy swam drone attack into a place like the Northeast before we even knew it."

Aaron Rupar

42,302 views • 8 months ago

“I don’t think the Bitcoin network should be used for free speech.” - Fred Krueger #BIP-110 This was the kill shot of the entire debate. The BIP-110 stance is anti-free speech & pro-censorship. They fear the government & would rather sacrifice decentralization for number go up & government acceptance. Leonidas 🧡 $DOG is correct, this was the most tiny dick, least cypherpunk conversation on Bitcoin I’ve ever heard. Thomas Young goes on to say he is scared Elizebeth Warren will use Ordinals as an excuse to attack Bitcoin & he doesn’t believe in the cypher punk, self sovereignty ethos. These people are not real Bitcoiners & would rather launch Solana pump & dumps & push paper Bitcoin products. What an incredible display of cowardice & lack of technical understanding of Bitcoin. Shout out to Ryan for asking te right question that exposed Fred for the fraud he is.
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“I don’t think the Bitcoin network should be used for free speech.” - Fred Krueger #BIP-110 This was the kill shot of the entire debate. The BIP-110 stance is anti-free speech & pro-censorship. They fear the government & would rather sacrifice decentralization for number go up & government acceptance. Leonidas 🧡 $DOG is correct, this was the most tiny dick, least cypherpunk conversation on Bitcoin I’ve ever heard. Thomas Young goes on to say he is scared Elizebeth Warren will use Ordinals as an excuse to attack Bitcoin & he doesn’t believe in the cypher punk, self sovereignty ethos. These people are not real Bitcoiners & would rather launch Solana pump & dumps & push paper Bitcoin products. What an incredible display of cowardice & lack of technical understanding of Bitcoin. Shout out to Ryan for asking te right question that exposed Fred for the fraud he is.

J.Dog ᛤ

18,526 views • 2 months ago