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2025-04-19 09:49:54

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Appreciate you engaging so thoughtfully, Jamesy. This isn’t the easiest topic to face up to, and I’ve found that the more I’ve dug into it, the more complex and uncomfortable the questions become.
I’ve been working quietly on a broader project that explores this in depth, looking at how power structures may be shifting around Bitcoin rather than away from it. Some of the early conclusions I’ve come to suggest time is the most underestimated variable. Or more precisely, the lack of it.
That leads to some uncomfortable end points, especially for those who aren’t paying attention, or who think Bitcoin’s adoption will automatically preserve its ethos.
We need more conversations like this, open, grounded, and forward-looking.
Because you’re right: we are at an inflection point, and the decisions made now (or not made) could define the architecture of the next monetary era.
Thank you again for engaging, I take great value from your viewpoint 👊🏻

2025-04-19 07:48:07

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Exactly this. That’s the paradox we’re living through:
Yes, anyone can opt into a Bitcoin standard today. That freedom is real, and it’s the source of hope.
But parallel to that, there’s a macro push forming above us, using Bitcoin to rebuild a financial empire that looks eerily familiar:
Wrapped rails, stablecoin settlements, dollar-denominated debt on crypto infrastructure.
So while we, those who understand the core problems, may retain sovereignty and use Bitcoin as intended, the vast majority who are economically unaware or simply trusting the system will likely be onboarded into something very different, a controlled, dollar-wrapped version dressed in the language of innovation.
That’s the risk: Bitcoin succeeds, but the people remain trapped.
This is why education, open discussion, and building genuine peer-to-peer alternatives matters so much right now.
Appreciate your comment. The more people start living the Bitcoin standard from the inside out, the harder it becomes to co-opt.

2025-04-06 06:30:46

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GM 🫡
This thread hits deep — not just for the symbolism, but for the undercurrent of something real shifting.
My mum is Italian and heading back soon. I’ve always dreamed of claiming my citizenship and planting roots in Italy too — returning to something older, truer. But lately I’ve been wondering… am I just trading one tightening system (UK) for another (EU)? The EU’s technocracy, digital ID push, and creeping speech codes aren’t exactly reassuring.
These images speak for millions who can feel something’s breaking — a cultural, economic, and generational fracture. What’s driving these protests on the ground? Is it mostly economic pain, youth disillusionment, or something deeper? A rejection of globalist control altogether?
I’m watching this closely — not just as a Bitcoin-minded dissident, but as someone who hopes there’s still a European path to sovereignty, not servitude. Appreciate you documenting this.

2025-04-05 17:27:23

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Cheers brother 🍻
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2025-04-02 06:22:59

April 2nd, 2025
Airstrip One – Ministry of Truth (Out of Ink)
Weather: damp, grey, and slightly authoritarian
Rations: cut again, but only on paper (which is fitting, since there is no paper)
Winston’s Diary
(Redacted in triplicate)
Another day in the free and fair Democratic Technocracy of Britain, where the garbage piles rise like monuments to decline, and rats now rival small dogs in both size and apparent authority. Birmingham, the jewel of the Midlands, has become something between Children of Men and a David Attenborough documentary gone wrong. Bin men are on strike, refuse covers the streets, and the most reliable economic indicator left is Will “Rat Man” Timms, who’s clocking 170 miles a day and fighting rodents armed with the nutritional benefits of pavement kebabs.
The Party says inflation is under control — or rather, it says disinflation now, since it sounds more scientific. Nobody knows what it means. But they assure us it’s fine, even as the Office for Budget Responsibility admits most economic data now resembles a pub quiz answer scribbled on a napkin mid-pint. Labour stats? Fabricated from surveys with a 12% response rate. GDP growth? Based on revised guesses and a spreadsheet powered by hope. But don’t worry — it’s all statistically significant.
And then there’s Trump — back on the throne across the Atlantic — declaring tariff “liberation day” and slapping 25% duties on British steel, cars, and dreams. Reeves says it will hurt the economy. Starmer says diplomacy is our best weapon. The rats say: “Thanks for the extra meat.”
Amidst this backdrop of cheerful decay, the Chancellor has bravely unveiled plans for more centralisation, more megafunds, and perhaps a shiny new slogan: “Squeeze the Savers, Feed the Rodents.” It’s unclear if this is official policy or just a side effect of living in a system that punishes prudence and rewards moral hazard with repo liquidity.
Meanwhile, the populace stays distracted. One half stares into their dopamine rectangles, the other into empty fridges. The telescreen offers a choice: arthritis jelly, varicose vein milk, or £49 miracle shoes. No mention of the £2.2 trillion quietly erased from household wealth via a data trick. No mention of the Bank of England’s repo firehose. No mention of reality.
And yet — there is hope.
Beyond the smog of propaganda and the shrill wail of collapsing institutions, something incorruptible hums quietly. A network with no central node. A ledger that does not lie. A money that refuses to be printed, censored, or confiscated. Bitcoin.
In a land where rats overrun cities and numbers are forged in ministry basements, this incorruptible code is quietly becoming the real protest. Not with slogans, not with strikes, but with exit. One sat at a time.
The Party cannot inflate it. The rats cannot chew it. The Chancellor cannot tax what she cannot see.
So I write, not with despair, but with defiance.
Fix the money. Fix the smell.
Until tomorrow,
W.
#DownWithBigBrother
#BitcoinIsHope #RatManCometh #AirstripOneUnplugged
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2025-03-31 10:59:57

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2008 was the preview, 2025 is the main feature. The fiat treadmill broke, the hamster’s dead, and the banks are still charging rent on the wheel. Time to exit the debt spiral—opt out with Bitcoin.

2025-03-28 16:35:19

Watching the UK’s Economy Collapse in Two Places at Once - The Quantum Economy.
Welcome to Britain, 2025. The weather is unpredictable, the trains are late, the bins are full—and the economy is in both rude health and imminent collapse, depending on which paragraph of the OBR’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook you read.
This is not an article about economics. This is an article about stagecraft—the fine art of keeping the show going with the curtains on fire.
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Act I: The Magical Fiscal Deficit
The OBR has spoken. Growth is returning, inflation is falling, and the Chancellor has just enough headroom to deliver tax cuts without blowing the fiscal rules. The national debt may be £2.7 trillion and interest payments surging, but don’t worry—because… something about GDP projections and a 5-year rolling average.
Meanwhile, the UK’s long-dated gilt yields are quietly staging a mutiny. The 30-year is hovering near 5.4%, the 10-year has breached 4.8%, and traders are watching the BoE’s short-term repo facility like it’s a hospital monitor for the pension system.
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Act II: In Which No One Is Being Bailed Out (Except Everyone)
Short-term repo operations are now clocking over £60 billion per week, and climbing. That’s more than the entire annual budget for education. It’s not QE, say the experts—it’s just a casual, opaque, high-speed liquidity transfusion into a completely-not-panicking financial sector.
We’re told this is normal. “Routine collateral top-up,” they say. “No cause for concern.”
Odd, then, that the BoE launched ‘doomsday’ stress tests for the UK’s largest banks in the same month.
Even odder that M2 is quietly rising—by over £120 billion since August—despite headline QT and tightening. One might conclude that liquidity is being injected through the back door while austerity gets paraded through the front like a vaudeville act.
But let’s not speculate. That would be a “conspiracy theory.”
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Act III: The Pension Funds Are Fine (Trust Us)
Remember 2022? The LDI crisis, margin calls, and gilt market death spiral? Of course not, because everything’s fixed now. Pensions are well-hedged, interest rate risks are managed, and solvency is assured—provided the BoE continues providing silent liquidity lifelines indefinitely.
Just ignore that tiny detail where the ONS wiped £2.2 trillion off household wealth by tweaking the discount rate used to value pensions. It’s not a problem. It’s just a revision. A clarification. A small epistemological recalibration of reality.
Some people thought it meant house prices dropped. Others assumed they’d lost all their retirement savings. But don’t worry—the Institute for Fiscal Studies says the new method is “worse than the old one,” so everything balances out.
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Act IV: Schrödinger’s Economy
We are now living in a quantum economy. The system is both solvent and insolvent. The market is calm but requires weekly liquidity injections. Growth is strong, except when it’s not. Public trust is high, provided no one checks the comment section under the OBR’s tweets.
In this economy:
• You are rich until the ONS says you’re not.
• Your pension is safe until the BoE stops propping it up.
• Your grocery bill is falling, unless you’re the one paying it.
• Inflation is under control, unless you live indoors and eat food.
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Final Act: Nothing to See Here
The real crisis isn’t the balance sheet, or the yield curve, or even the repo injections. It’s the collapse of narrative control. The public doesn’t trust the numbers. The experts don’t trust the models. And the politicians are still trying to convince us that perpetual liquidity injections are compatible with a “return to normal.”
But hey—at least the Spring Budget was balanced.
By that, we mean it delicately balanced on a rapidly eroding pile of assumptions, projections, and wishful thinking.
Carry on. All is well.
Unless you look.
Got Bitcoin? @npub1z74…d4yx
I’m getting the feeling the UK may be the trigger for the next big crisis.
#UKFinancialSystemWatch
#FiatCollapse
#SchrödingersBudget
https://obr.uk/economic-and-fiscal-outlooks/
https://youtu.be/6Yui6WioDys?si=iwY1HqbaUMCqMSAI
https://youtu.be/kdtKbjtIp4s?si=I_w5Xd-7FNucJLyR
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2025-01-27 12:54:05

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I’m carrying out an experiment in radical democracy, so far my MP must be in knots, I have sent 8 in depth emails on subjects I feel strongly about, to date I haven’t had one reply. I have been doing this since December. I have emails scheduled for one each working day, I could do more, but I don’t want to overload the MP too much.
May look like a waste to many, but it highlights the incompetence and how ineffective they are.
https://primal.net/e/note1hsjm5esdlgh9wut4sy55qhrr4n0ep2kgvccjgzmr6evhqvw7mz8s2sj08v

2024-08-25 19:57:54

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I wish there were more like you, gradually then suddenly 👊🏻

2024-08-25 19:54:31

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Payment worked a treat, super easy⚡️
To be honest with you, I have been saving in bitcoin, but I have never sold or bought anything using bitcoin (saving is so important) but that said, your products look fantastic and I had to support you guys.
Nice work team 🤩

2024-08-25 19:27:58

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Awesome 🤩
I looked at your site, how do you pay with lightning on there?

2024-08-24 19:57:46

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Ok I didn’t check it out before posting, ignore

2024-08-24 19:55:25

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Just came across this…
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/demus-easy-music-streaming/id6474685600

2024-08-24 11:06:10

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Hey 👋🏻

2024-08-23 17:31:43

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This is getting ridiculous, I wish I had the skills to make a fountain like video platform that linked into nostr. This censorship is out of control

2024-08-22 15:56:44

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Love how this is all linking with @npub1v5u…n0v5 this is amazing 🤩

2024-08-11 17:16:17

https://youtu.be/w8KQmps-Sog?si=68aonuuy9QqASutV

2024-08-11 10:39:01

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Would be nice to see a million mask march on November the 5th, ‘V’ style

2024-08-11 10:31:49

https://youtu.be/chqi8m4CEEY?si=2mYrnU5ayCb8rJBP

2024-08-10 07:53:41

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God it’s so depressing living in Airstrip one. Guys over the pond, value and protect your constitution, you really don’t want to make Oceania real too.

2024-08-10 07:51:11

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GM from Airstrip one

2024-08-10 05:37:52

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I’m living in airstrip one (once known as Britain)
The proles here are now learning how valuable the constitution of the USA is. Pay attention guys, or you will also be a part Oceania as is in the book, the warning signs are there.

2024-07-31 11:53:43

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https://fountain.fm/show/hzp7czlJmR6fMSLIifYh

2024-07-31 06:24:27

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An interesting thought there, which brought stuff up in my head that I’m just going to get out.
I think they did once, but have relied on past endeavours to build an image in the world that instills fear of what is possible.
I see it like an athlete that peaks and then declines, during that decline they perform on their own past performances and are often revered for what they have done instead of what they are currently doing. Ultimately, when the performance is not living up to expectation, they begin to resort to underhand tactics as it means to maintain that image.
In this case, the fact that they are the only nation to use nuclear weapons has been utilised as the Spectre of what they are capable of, which has instilled fear around the world of what they could do.
But in reality since that event, where the USA has really excelled is the underhand tactics to attempt to maintain hegemony, the veil on this is becoming very thin now with many around the world seeing through it.
This more than likely accounts for the boldness and growing instability / power struggles and push back, that are beginning to manifest.
Of course this doesn’t only apply to the USA, but it’s also echoed with other great powers. The UK also is reliant on past endeavours to serve as reputational deterrent, but in reality I’m doubtful that any great power that relies on this can fulfil on the perception.
Please excuse me, riffing those thoughts out, and blurting out my two sats worth, I just felt the need to get that out of my head.
👊🏻

2024-04-03 08:24:44

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZK2Yf49VRxo?si=WWalZMTjJdJh6oxo

2024-04-03 08:04:48

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Did you get a resolution to this?

2024-03-04 10:52:53

https://youtu.be/3kXp5lZc26k?si=NVBNgEXmGtRZ3Z94

2024-03-03 11:15:54

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This country like many in the west is looking scared and is beginning to panic, they are losing the confidence of the public at a rate that should be alarming them. It’s been a catalogue of errors that is almost endless at this point. To make matters worse there is no political option to get out of this mess as all parties are pretty much the same and serve the same agenda.
Ultimately, they will grow more and more authoritarian, to try to counter growing civil pushback.
The thing with the British public, is they are very placid and have been numbed by years of propaganda and psychological games, but beneath the surface there is rising discontent. On the European continent the people flash very easily, but in the UK it takes a lot, so if you are seeing signs of discontent, it’s a signal.
I have never held on an exchange, but if you do, get it in cold storage. Consider an exit plan, just in case. The real question I have is where? Where are the safe havens? This trend to authoritarianism seems to be building throughout the western world.
These are dangerous days
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2024-02-27 21:46:57

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Can we take over the world yet? The current freaks are going to get us all poor and then dead

2024-02-27 08:41:10

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Hilarious that this story is under this chart.
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2024-02-23 16:12:49

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Thank you for getting back to me, i will do, I hope we can get it up and running 👍🏻

2024-02-23 14:30:00

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my umbrel has never managed to sync bitcoin core, never seems to get past 1%, asked for help but not had any joy, so currently it's just sat there with no power on, while I try to figure out how to use it moving forward.

2023-12-02 08:59:15

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So far I’m really impressed, nice work team Primal!

2023-09-06 05:54:20

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Awesome thanks, I have played the Thunder games too, nice to see others out there, I will give them a go. These are really good for getting people to earn sats and stay the process of them learning. I also use sMiles to earn while I track steps, it has helped to motivate me to get out more and start running regularly also 👍🏻
Would be great if there were more apps that reward for doing activities

2023-08-31 19:55:47

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What games is that?

2023-08-29 14:00:31

Running for Bitcoin 🏃🏻‍♂️
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