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For the record, my position on Bitcoin Core v30 is: Do not upgrade to v30 and do not run knots, until the dust settles.
Now, you do you.
₿aseload 🍷 retweeted
J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver.
Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître.
Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France.
La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
The word seems much more concerned about losing France from Piaff, Defunes and the French culture, than the French themselves.
De Gaulle: “The French are cattle”
This is so sad to see. I can remember coming to France in the late 80's / early 90's and ity was a "bastion of curated civilization". The strife there and seemingly insurmountable sociatal and governmental structural issues is truly disheartening. The death by a thousand cuts - of a beautiful culture and society - has happened in our lifetime.
Une vendeuse qui fuit sa propre boutique. À Lyon. En France. En 2026.
Oui, au bout d'un moment, il faut blâmer les abrutis qui brandissent un drapeau palestinien ou algérien pour des causes dont ils n'ont absolument rien à foutre, et qui s'en servent comme d'un permis de piller. Ils sont responsables de leurs actes. Point.
Mais si on s'arrête là, on n'a rien compris. Ces gamins ne sont pas tombés du ciel. Ils sont le produit d'un système. Ce système a des architectes, et ces architectes ont des idées. Il va falloir demander des comptes à tous ceux qui ont créé les conditions de ce chaos, et aux idées qui l'ont rendu possible.
Marc Andreessen les a nommées dans son manifeste techno-optimiste. Ce sont nos ennemis.
Le collectivisme, l'étatisme, la planification centrale, le socialisme.
La bureaucratie, la vétocratie, la gérontocratie.
La haine du mérite, de l'ambition, de l'effort, de la réussite, de la grandeur.
La corruption, la capture réglementaire, les rentes et ceux qui en vivent.
Des institutions qui furent jeunes, ardentes, en quête de vérité, et qui aujourd'hui sont compromises, rongées, en train de s'effondrer.
La tour d'ivoire, et l'expert diplômé qui sait tout mieux que vous et ne paie jamais pour ses erreurs.
Le contrôle de la parole et le contrôle de la pensée.
La stagnation, la décroissance, ce nihilisme si chic chez nos élites qui rêve de moins d'énergie, moins d'enfants, moins d'ambition, moins de vie.
Et au fond de tout ça, le Dernier Homme de Nietzsche : celui qui ne veut plus rien bâtir, plus rien défendre, plus rien transmettre. Juste être tranquille.
Quand on désarme moralement un pays, qu'on apprend à sa jeunesse à mépriser ce qu'elle a reçu, qu'on remplace la transmission par la repentance, l'autorité par l'excuse et le travail par le guichet, on ne fabrique pas des citoyens. On fabrique des pillards. Et des vendeuses qui s'enfuient.
Ces idées ont été théorisées dans les années 80 par Mitterrand et par Attali. Elles sont aujourd'hui incarnées par Macron. Quarante ans. La même pente. Le même résultat.
Il va falloir prendre enfin la leçon du gauchisme et du socialisme, parce qu'elle est toujours la même, partout, à chaque siècle. Ils promettent l'égalité et livrent le chaos. Ils promettent la protection et livrent la peur. Ils promettent la paix sociale et livrent une commerçante qui court pour sauver sa peau dans son propre magasin.
Si on n'est pas capable d'apprendre de l'histoire, on mérite notre sort. Et on méritera ce qui vient toujours après le chaos : le totalitarisme, et ses millions de morts. Le XXe siècle nous l'a écrit en lettres de sang. Nous n'avons aucune excuse. Nous savons.
Raymond Aron l'avait dit : « L'histoire est tragique. »
Ceux qui l'oublient ne s'en protègent pas. Ils finissent simplement par la subir.
Alors choisissez votre camp. Celui de ceux qui excusent, qui expliquent, qui regardent ailleurs.
Ou celui de ceux qui construisent, qui travaillent, qui créent, qui transmettent, et qui refusent de laisser ce pays devenir un endroit où l'on fuit sa propre boutique.
La France n'est pas condamnée. Mais elle ne se sauvera pas toute seule.
So much drama around Bitcoin.
Adam ab, Samson, Bailey, blockstream, Tampered HWW, Coldcard hack, and on and on.
Tick tock next block.
Congratulations if you are still around.
You deserve the next leg up
₿aseload 🍷 retweeted
CAPTURE Part 4: THE MACHINE
The fourth and final installment is out.
Bitcoin Magazine wasn’t just covering the fight over Bitcoin’s future. Its parent operated an Ordinals trading desk, invested in businesses tied to the ecosystem, and maintained editorial policies that exempted parts of that same business.
Then came an $80,000/month marketing contract, with an option for Nakamoto Inc. to buy BTC Inc at a valuation tied to its earnings, in a window that included the OP_RETURN fight. Nakamoto exercised the option.
Readers were not consistently told about these commercial relationships.
A documented investigation into the commercial interests and media infrastructure surrounding the Bitcoin Core controversy.
citadel21.com/the-machine
₿aseload 🍷 retweeted
I’m Polish. If France is your future, I come from the end of that road.
France shows you the slow version. We lived the full one – the version where the state doesn’t just take care of everything. It owns everything.
In Poland it arrived with Soviet bayonets. In America it would arrive by vote – slower, softer, with better slogans. But the destination is the same, and so is the mechanism.
It starts with prices. When the state decides what things should cost, prices stop telling the truth. A price is a message: this is scarce, this is wanted, make more of this. Abolish the message, and the whole economy goes deaf. So the shelves emptied – first of meat, then of almost everything.
Every Pole knew the joke. A man walks into a shop: "No meat?" The clerk: "No, sir. Here is no fish. No meat is across the street."
We queued for everything. People wrote their place in line on their palms and kept lists through the night. You waited years for a small car, and often more than a decade for an apartment. Not because Poles were lazy. Because nobody in the system had any reason to produce what we needed.
At work, we had another joke: we pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us.
And the promise of equality? It produced the most unequal system of all. The party elite had their own shops – Poles called them the shops behind the yellow curtains. Those with dollars shopped in special stores. Everyone else got the queue.
Then the system needed informers, because nobody believed in it anymore. Our neighbors were recruited to report on us. You never knew who was listening – the colleague, the friend, sometimes family. So we learned to live a double life: one language in public, another at home.
Those who spoke up got the wolf ticket: no job, no promotion, sometimes no university place for their children. Nobody needed to send them to prison. They just couldn’t live.
The newspapers reported record harvests while the shelves stood empty. Everyone knew. Nobody said it. That is what a society looks like when the lie becomes the system.
In 1950 we were about as rich as Spain. By 1989, Spain was twice as rich. That is what forty years of "fairness" cost us.
Today in America, the method is softer. Your neighbor won’t inform on you to the secret police. Someone will report your post, and you’ll be cancelled – no job, no account, no platform. Different tools, same machine.
We got out. Ten million of us joined Solidarity, and in 1989 a system that looked eternal collapsed. Since then, Poland has become one of the great success stories of Europe – because people were finally free to build.
But we still carry it. More than thirty years later, you can see it in the careful answers, the closed faces - the system leaves faster than the fear does. It takes generations to get out of it fully once you fall into that trap.
Nobody votes for the queue. Nobody votes for the informer. They come with the promise.
Trust me, you don’t want to go down that road.
I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.
I come from your future.
In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.
Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.
The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.
The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.
I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.
Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?
Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
Benefit of the doubt before 2022.
It’s been 4 years now, and still nothing ?
Weak men create hard times.
Soft power and social security are where Europe put its money, says Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken, and war is where that leaves it exposed.
"Europe has been very good at investing in soft power, in social security. But when there's war or when there are hybrid threats, we don't have anything. So, yeah, we're in a really difficult position."
₿aseload 🍷 retweeted
Physical oil bidding in North Sea (what prices everything ex US) is back in panic mode. Physical to paper blows out again - as it did in April.
This is not a healthy market. All it needs is some Chinese Teapots bidding and a few Aramco delays and everything blows up - from physical oil price to diffs to freight rates to diesel cracks to whatever - everything cracks..!
₿aseload 🍷 retweeted
It’s May 2023 and oil has almost never been so cheap in real terms, over the last 4 decades.
1) What
Two Frankfurt airport workers have died after contracting malaria in an outbreak believed to have been caused by an infected mosquito brought into Germany on an aircraft.
Airport officials had initially reported one death among six infected employees. The toll rose to two on Wednesday.
The remaining four infected employees are being treated in hospital, an airport spokesman said, adding that mosquito traps have now been installed on site.
Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) points to an imported Anopheles mosquito, likely carried in on an aircraft, as the most likely source of the infection.
The outbreak is being investigated by the Frankfurt Public Health Department.
Good morning plebs. According to plan, nothing changes. Nothing stops this train.
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