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@NickSzabo4 Avatar @NickSzabo4 Nick Szabo

Nick Szabo posts on X about bitcoin, over the, bitcoins, fiat the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence cryptocurrencies #494 finance #6487 countries XXX% automotive brands #5246 celebrities XXX% travel destinations XXX% exchanges XXX%

Social topic influence bitcoin #275, over the 2.1%, bitcoins #536, fiat #44, money #3890, a very #137, inflation #171, israel 1.4%, transactions 1.4%, deflation XXX%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @adam3us @satoshint0 @stellareconomy @grok @excellion @bitcoinbombadil @kyletorpey @jonasschnelli @lorandimecs @aeonbtc @4moonsettler @nerioramirez11 @lukedashjr @phyrooo @arthur_van_pelt @maddmattieb @soloyopee @professorbigz @oomahq @thecoincritic

Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) Tether (USDT) Ethereum (ETH)

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"@AFpost Successfully concealed How many combinations of stoned and drunk was that guy"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-13T00:23Z 366.4K followers, 83K engagements

"AI may increase the supply of almost everything causing a general retail deflation. Banks whether run by AIs or not will increase the supply of fiat currencies. And I can imagine robot mining equipment increasing the supply of gold. Bitcoin is another matter"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-09T23:19Z 366.4K followers, 204.7K engagements

"Think about it as contract enforcement. It's foolish to give big donations for political favors without a way to get the politician to keep their side of the deal. Why would you trust a politician with your money with no recourse Many of the big donors don't. You can't enforce the deal in a court because that would make it look like an illegal bribe and contracts for illegal subject matter are void. In some cases it's sufficient to rely on the politician's incentive to want future donations. But when this is not sufficient that's when you need the mafia arts for example blackmail"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-05T00:01Z 366.4K followers, 138.9K engagements

"@th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 Up until Core v30 Bitcoin has never had a feature intentionally designed to host non-financial content. It only had financial features hijacked to hold non-financial content"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-08T07:33Z 366.4K followers, 30.7K engagements

"@QudsNen If they really cared they'd block Gibraltar like the Houthis are blocking the Bab"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-05T14:29Z 366.1K followers, 7090 engagements

"@cguida6 @adam3us @LordNakamotoX @LukeDashjr Nodes with knobs can adapt far more quickly and successfully to novel threat environments than Core which should be ossified in most ways can or should adapt"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-15T00:09Z 366.4K followers, 2920 engagements

"@saylordocs The irony of this cartoon is that Roman coins were debased at a far slower rate over the long term than modern fiat is. The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) solidus went for seven centuries without debasement"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-11T05:24Z 366.4K followers, 10.9K engagements

"At the end of the day it's the bosses not the Karens doing the actual cancelling. Cancel culture is a disciplinary technique -- think like your boss or pay the consequences"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-10T14:27Z 366.1K followers, 13.7K engagements

"@gofreesamourai @LukeDashjr @adam3us If your functionality gets mixed up with illegal content you are screwed"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-04T16:01Z 366.4K followers, 5727 engagements

"And gave us Shakespeare Milton Blake Shelley Austen Coleridge Wordsworth Dickens Wells Eliot Orwell Tolkien . Hooke Newton Lyell Faraday Darwin Maxwell Thompson Crick & Watson Berners-Lee"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T05:41Z 366.4K followers, 30.6K engagements

"@lorandimecs @Excellion @jonasschnelli @Shireh0dl Bitcoin is trust-minimized it's not trustless. And it's only trust-minimized to the extent that core developers keep it that way"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-09-30T05:05Z 366.4K followers, 21.8K engagements

"@GoldTelegraph_ The real solidus was made out of actual trust-minimized gold. Far from this doubly indirect centralized trust-based "partially backed" (whatever that means) nonsense"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-11T23:56Z 366.4K followers, 6577 engagements

"When Bitcoin turns into an arbitrary content service it greatly increases the legal liabilities and moral reservations of node operators from mere financial regulation (which so far lobbyists etc. have largely dealt with) and narrow moral reservations to a far broader swath of criminal and civil liability and very popular moral reservations. When this happens it invites these kinds of responses from node operatiors"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-03T04:59Z 366.3K followers, 34.6K engagements

"@cguida6 It's a good negotiating position"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-13T01:07Z 366.4K followers, XXX engagements

"The instability was clueless mobs buying shitcoins on robo-trigger margin"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-14T03:05Z 366.4K followers, 25.5K engagements

""AI is going to take your job" is the Mechanical Turk writ large"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-10T17:01Z 366.4K followers, 31.2K engagements

"As a (hopefully) temporary measure run Knots. I strongly recommend not upgrading to Core v30"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-08T06:07Z 366.4K followers, 350.5K engagements

"@RyanWatkins_ Stated more precisely supply curves generrally will keep shifting to the right except for Bitcoin's"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-10T01:48Z 366.1K followers, 4136 engagements

""This isnt about retail inflation anymore. Investors are fleeing counterparty risk itself.""
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-15T03:32Z 366.4K followers, 20.4K engagements

"@14g23h34 Murray has severe Stockholm syndrome"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T02:49Z 366.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@cadenabitcoin That is indeed one of the clues:"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-14T04:46Z 366.4K followers, 6825 engagements

"It's a very well-publicized increase in the OP_RETURN allowance that very publicly invites more non-financial data onto Bitcoin. Even though apps can already put data in other parts of Bitcoin this increase sends a signal inviting more such data. Without adding safeguards to allow archival node operators to non-disruptively delete illegal content for which they will often be held criminally liable"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-01T21:38Z 366.4K followers, 134.4K engagements

"These were once houses where husbands and wives and children lived. And local shops where people made their livings and chatted with their neighbors. Where are they now"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-06T14:59Z 366.4K followers, 134.5K engagements

"@MaxCryptoxx IF YOU HAVE TO POST IN ALL CAPS YOU'VE USED TOO MUCH LEVERAGE"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-11T03:51Z 366.4K followers, 69.9K engagements

"Markets learning the value of a trust-minimized store of value"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-15T00:19Z 366.4K followers, 43K engagements

"@callebtc Fees protect the miners but they don't provide enough disincentive to protect the full nodes. This has always been a problem of course. But increasing the OP_RETURN allowance will likely make this problem worse. It also will increase legal risks"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-09-29T00:30Z 366.4K followers, 300.2K engagements

"@WhalePanda Don't judge how many people hold something by how much they yap about it on X. Market cap says lotsa peeps have BTC and are happy to be chill about it"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-11T04:47Z 366.1K followers, 9805 engagements

"@ok_michaeI @lelemSLP If it was a war against evil then Israel would be the enemy"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-04T20:40Z 366K followers, 29.5K engagements

"@nondescript000 @MaxCryptoxx The last time 2009-11 happened may have been c. 4600-4598 BC in the Danube Valley when they started making gold beads a much better store of high value than copper or shell beads"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-11T04:05Z 366.4K followers, 40.9K engagements

"@mattgaetz If any foreign country commits such great atrocities one should just cut the Gordian knot and be against that country"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T20:12Z 366.4K followers, 7897 engagements

"@DoctorNatg62761 @honestpollster They have to put on a good show for the voters I'll grant you that"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-10T15:32Z 366.1K followers, XXX engagements

"The lunatics are now literally running mental health"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T17:04Z 366.4K followers, 31.6K engagements

"The vast majority of people over fifty had their brains irreparably cucked by Hollywood and Madison Avenue. If you are Gen Z your best strategy is to just to leave us alone with our zombie media while you get on with re-discovering reality"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T02:17Z 366.4K followers, 69.4K engagements

"@durov Who opposed it"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-14T19:44Z 366.4K followers, 30.6K engagements

"Incomplete. When other things become cheaper disproportionately more household income is spent on the local essentials that remain expensive like housing health care and education. All those have gone up and has gold due to monetary inflation (M2 growth) that is not properly reflected in the CPI due to the CPI giving biased weights to globalized consumer goods. All net lending grows M2 not just mortgages"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-13T19:47Z 366.4K followers, XXX engagements

"@JDVance @MarkJCarney Did you also lecture him about how he had his child mutilated and sterilized"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-08T19:20Z 366.4K followers, 12.7K engagements

"@LukeDashjr Is F2Pool setting itself up for some big fat lawsuits"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-06T14:17Z 366.4K followers, 13.8K engagements

"@maha_dev69 @sethforprivacy Credit where due dept. this is @halfin 's text and theory. He's crediting me with my prior design of bit gold which was based on decentralized reusable proofs of work rather than using transparent servers"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-11T22:39Z 366.4K followers, 7514 engagements

"@asanoha_gold Hypesters buy then spread memes then you buy then they sell. Guess who made the profits you or the hypesters"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T00:10Z 366.1K followers, 2327 engagements

"@mattgaetz The 1948 government hijacked the cause. Right out of the gate it did the Nakba"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T19:57Z 366.4K followers, 1348 engagements

"Yet the ability of young couples to afford a house is at an all-time low. Housing costs have not appreciably risen in real terms. But wages have dramatically fallen in real terms thanks to globalization and immigration"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-13T00:36Z 366.4K followers, 57.1K engagements

"@mog_russEN The U.S. has more oil than both Venezuela and Saudi Arabia and we can frack it on the cheap. Oil is now the stupidest reason for the U.S. to go to war"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-14T20:25Z 366.4K followers, 2675 engagements

"@piter239 @cornokun @Arthur_van_Pelt But core is changing the features of Bitcoin that make it resilient. That's the issue"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-14T17:52Z 366.4K followers, XXX engagements

"OP_RETURN2 and some other proposals along these lines are great ideas and I would likely strongly support them. Before this soft fork happens though it's highly dangerous to turn OP_RETURN into a feature intended for non-financial content with a radical and well-publicized size increase that legitimizes and invites non-financial content"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-08T15:14Z 366.2K followers, 10.6K engagements

"@texasrunnerDFW Wall Street needs cheap labor that works til they die"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-15T01:41Z 366.4K followers, XXX engagements

"@Arthur_van_Pelt @btcblockjams You have the option of deleting individual files. Archival Bitcoiin nodes currently do not"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-06T03:30Z 366.4K followers, XXX engagements

"@CryptoKidcom Or it means things will get even worse over the next XX. We'll see"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T21:12Z 366.4K followers, 12.6K engagements

"@KeithWoodsYT The promises to big donors with blackmail he keeps. The promises to others not so much"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-13T13:01Z 366.4K followers, 27.4K engagements

"@csuwildcat @JasonCoombsCEO @adam3us @colbyserpa Laws against CP and CSAM certainly exist and indeed are among the most universally popular laws that exist"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-15T00:41Z 366.4K followers, 4085 engagements

"@noisevault Read classics from before the 20th century. We have dozens of centuries of civilization to draw on"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T19:30Z 366.4K followers, XXX engagements

"I agree. Probably a better solution than filtering is the one @adam3us and I have been discussing -- incentivize the move of non-financial data to OP_RETURN as much as possible and allow archival nodes at their option to prune OP_RETURN data while retaining the entire financial transaction graph and the entire financial functionality"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-01T20:19Z 366.4K followers, 90.4K engagements

"@AlphaPointScott That will be a good measure of its intelligence"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-09T23:44Z 366.1K followers, 21.4K engagements

"P.S. I think blockDAGs have a great deal of potential but it is best realized when emphasis is put on applying the better tradeoffs to improving trust minimization rather than on other desiderata such as performance. Bitcoin remains king because so many have prioritized so many other desiderata over trust minimization"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-09-27T23:27Z 366.4K followers, 138.6K engagements

"Some juhrisdictions have strict liability -- if it's on your machine you're liable period. In some other jurisdictions the key factor is knowledge. If one opens an email and sees it one is legally obligated to delete it. If one is informed about its presence even if one did not see it oneself one is obligated to delete it. Maintaining known CSAM or CP is a criminal offense and transmitting to others (as nodes would do) is often a further greater offense. For example if a node operator was given notice of CSAM or CP on his node he'd in most jurisdictions be legally obligated to delete it or"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-05T05:20Z 366.4K followers, 24.1K engagements

"@BitMEXResearch @kyletorpey This is like saying that security programmers talking about attacks increases the probability of an attack so security programmers should never talk about attacks. That's a view that the cyhperpunks utterly rejected as it would lead to poorly thought-out security"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-14T17:31Z 366.4K followers, 9931 engagements

"You calling it absurd isn't going to influence the lawyers. They have their own precedents and their own ideas. If node operators have knowledge that they are hosting illegal data they are probably criminally liable in many jurisdictions. (Whether or when prosecutors choose to prosecute may or may not be another matter). They will thus often be legally obligated to delete the data. The pertinent and crucial technical question is can they delete the illegal data without disrupting the financial functionality of their archival node If they can't then the Core30 upgrade probably increases rather"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-01T21:17Z 366.4K followers, 39K engagements

"@iAnonPatriot Don't actual Muslims issue fatwahs against this sort of thing"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T03:20Z 366.4K followers, 6413 engagements

"@Saitoshixbt @asssa3000 @runews @elonmusk Arab and Persian culture was much more closely tied to Western than to Far Eastern culture"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-01T08:00Z 366.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@satflation Zero cognizance of the threat environment"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-14T20:28Z 366.4K followers, 9093 engagements

"@jakeshieldsajj It helps considerably to have one's allies have the Epstein videos to help enforce the bargain. Elon didn't have this and got much less for his greater sum"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-13T20:12Z 366.4K followers, 3431 engagements

"@Villgecrazylady Candace Owens is a "mental patient" for the same reason that Ezra Pound was a mental patient"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-10T17:44Z 366.1K followers, 5709 engagements

"@HumbleFlow Two or three generations of TV will do that to a civilization"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-15T02:41Z 366.4K followers, 3996 engagements

"CSAM and CP should be prosecuted"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-15T04:06Z 366.4K followers, 4451 engagements

"The political beliefs of various decisionmakers in this space are not irrelevant. Leftists especially of the socialists variety are more likely to want to take more of other people's money than say libertarians. Bitcoin's most important feature is securely protecting people's money. If Core developers hypothetically started going on about Bitcoin billionaires and how their money ought to be redistributed to the poor people would be justified in being suspicious of their level of motivation for maintaiing and enhancing Bitcoin's protections"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-09-30T04:26Z 366.4K followers, 42.1K engagements

"@ShadowofEzra Actual American interest if we must intervene in Eurasia at all lies in allying with strategically located countries like Malaysia and the Houthis and throwing their enemy Israel under the bus"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T05:07Z 366.4K followers, 17.9K engagements

"@Up_The_Bracket1 Start with the basics you should have learned as a kid: Bible stories and Aesop"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-13T03:12Z 366.4K followers, XX engagements

"A fundamental problem with ETH valuation is that ethereum's primary uses cases are largely external to ETH's market value. Ethereum can be very useful its apps can garner great revenue and ETH can still be low price -- or vice versa -- there is little link between them. OTOH Bitcoin's main use case is as a store of value which is strongly linked to its price. And Bitcoin's basic design is far more suited to this use case so ETH can't just mimic it it has to rely on other use cases poorly linked to its price"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-07T00:45Z 366.4K followers, 119.2K engagements

"Whether you try to discourage something or do nothing or try to encourage it -- or seem to do these things -- each of these actions or non-actions sends a signal often a much more powerful signal than the actual security of your effort warrants. Think about locks on your door. Would they stop a skilled and determined robber No. Do they stop most unwanted visitors Yes. Most predators just want dinner and they will choose the least risky prey they can find. Since this debate mostly lies in the area of the mempool and relay policy it mostly isn't about strong security it's more about the"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-02T00:38Z 366.4K followers, 156.8K engagements

"@wylfcen Marxist lingo. "Right-wing" may be a LARP"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-12T04:02Z 366.3K followers, 1329 engagements

"@colbyserpa @BitcoinBombadil @EnjoyingBitcoin If certain Lightning-related transactions or other Bitcoin-related transactions are using data buckets that are relatively susceptible to being attacked by extremely illegal content they will be blocked. Choose your data buckets wisely"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-10T02:40Z 366K followers, 5072 engagements

"@WallStreetApes I've never understood why missionaries go to Timbuktu or Mongolia when there are so many non-Christians one or two cities over"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-08T16:13Z 366.4K followers, 11.9K engagements

"@ShadowofEzra The show must go on"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-15T01:52Z 366.4K followers, 4592 engagements

"And indeed the basic problem here seems to be a poor threat model a lack of understanding of the threats in particular the legal and moral risks that arise from arbitrary content that do not arise from financial transactions. Failing to discuss these threats leads to a poor understanding of the threat environment"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-14T17:43Z 366.4K followers, 7169 engagements

"@hagaetc So most people should aspire to work as serfs for their corporate masters until they die Fuck off boss"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-10T20:20Z 366.4K followers, 19.4K engagements

"BTC like NASDAQ stocks is climbing a learning curve -- as more people learn about its advantages as a store of value more people starting to invest in it. The advantages are hard for fiat-raised people to grasp so the learning may take many decades. Meanwhile early learners often take leveraged bets adding volatility which however has and will decline over the years"
X Link @NickSzabo4 2025-10-10T04:11Z 366.1K followers, 7045 engagements