#  @NickSzabo4 Nick Szabo
Nick Szabo posts on X about bitcoin, money, gold, israel the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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**Social topic influence**
[bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #3771, [money](/topic/money) #3525, [gold](/topic/gold), [israel](/topic/israel) #573, [in the](/topic/in-the), [trust](/topic/trust) #566, [countries](/topic/countries), [fiat](/topic/fiat) #110, [blockchain](/topic/blockchain), [to the](/topic/to-the) #2687
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**Top assets mentioned**
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"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. Gold and bitcoin is acting like were about to enter into a period of hyperinflationbut no one realizes that AI is deflationary. Gold and bitcoin is acting like were about to enter into a period of hyperinflationbut no one realizes that AI is deflationary"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1976427356505198636) 2025-10-09T23:19Z 376.8K followers, 211.3K engagements
"@ImShillGates The cycle top happened around New Years' Day but in dollar terms the bear has mostly been masked by the debasement trade. Price it in gold and you'll see the top"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979351536296956270) 2025-10-18T00:59Z 376.4K followers, 81K engagements
"@adam3us @brian_trollz @LukeDashjr Adam is now having bizarre hallucinations about me like a bad drug trip and a bad LLM combined. I said quite nothing about the contiguous argument in the quoted tweet. Obviously. But that doesn't stop Adam from just making shit up"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1981102514021028288) 2025-10-22T20:57Z 375.6K followers, 40.2K engagements
"@Buhlaque @MasonFoard Bitcoin is riding a learning curve like a NASDAQ stock. There are still plenty of people like you who haven't learned why Bitcoin in the long term works as a hedge against debasement. So there is still plenty of upside"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2016343684783259737) 2026-01-28T02:52Z 376.4K followers, 19.3K engagements
"It's hard to tell that Bitcoin protects against debasement from just its price since most of the price rise since the pizza purchase has been due to the learning curve not to debasement (fiat has fallen but not by nearly as much as Bitcoin has risen). To understand why Bitcoin has and very likely will protect in the long-term against debasement better than gold has and will requires deep understanding of the underlying respective technologies that are gold and Bitcoin especially in terms of their respective extents and qualities of trust minimizaion and it requires knowing why trust"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2016349704934850971) 2026-01-28T03:16Z 376.4K followers, 43.8K engagements
"Yes gold has thousands of years of being looted and hundreds of years including the present of sitting in vaults its trust minimization properties relegated to ancient history. Because it's far more expensive than Bitcoin to validate. You are another example of the vast majority who have little clue how this stuff works or why it's valuable and that vast majority of ignorance is why the Bitcoin learning curve has plenty of upside left to ride. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016352345018532095 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016352345018532095"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2016352345018532095) 2026-01-28T03:27Z 376.4K followers, 258.4K engagements
"This is open insurrection very similar to when South Carolinians in [----] declared that they would not enforce federal tariff laws or when some southern politicians declared in [----] that they would not enforce Brown v. Board. I also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe. City leaders will continue to stay in conversation with Mr. Homan and his team. I also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws and that we will remain focused"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2016358716262728033) 2026-01-28T03:52Z 376.1K followers, 19.3K engagements
"🏆🏆🏆 I'm calling it now before the month ends it can't be beaten: Alex Pretti is our Darwin Award winner for January. 🏆🏆🏆 Maybe the only thing dumber than getting into a fight with the cops while you are carrying a gun is doing that more than once Maybe the only thing dumber than getting into a fight with the cops while you are carrying a gun is doing that more than once"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2016748746055569790) 2026-01-29T05:42Z 376.5K followers, 17.6K engagements
"@EricLDaugh Who are the donors specifically Name names"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2016764233439130029) 2026-01-29T06:43Z 375.7K followers, 12.1K engagements
"@elonmusk How about governments that put the welfare of tycoons seeking cheap labor ahead of the culture of the nation and the welfare of workers"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2017385121276629435) 2026-01-30T23:51Z 376.3K followers, 21.8K engagements
"@Dshady82Vincent @dotkrueger @natbrunell @saylor @maxkeiser @jackmallers @MMCrypto @LawrenceLepard @adam3us @ScottiePippen @matteopelleg @stacyherbert Are you new here It's called a bear market"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019222763328925943) 2026-02-05T01:33Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@CompteDeLll They say where you grew up was "too white.""
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019274745813037541) 2026-02-05T04:59Z 376.4K followers, 40.2K engagements
"@gregory_kramer @tommy5cents02 @pmarca He didn't (and still doesn't AFAIK) actually understand money"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019446691666010491) 2026-02-05T16:23Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes but such are not necessary for the store-of-value use case which among other reasons is why the store-of-value use case predominates and you can't understand Bitcoin's past present or future value proposition without understanding why it is technologically and financially in the long term a superior store of value"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019594842251387177) 2026-02-06T02:11Z 376.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@elizabethltboyd And people who lobby for government contracts "NGO" government funds and the like for a living"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019818088208933152) 2026-02-06T16:58Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
""I don't understand what that means." When intelligent people pretend to not understand when you speak in plain language it's a probable symptom of profound dishonesty. Not leftism per se: though it's sadly common on the "left" here's an example of it on the "right." Profound dishonesty. Evil. If Epstein did it all by himself why is there a Non Prosecution Agreement for any potential co-conspirators That NPA shut down the grand jury probe and withdrew subpoenas. It effectively ended the active federal criminal investigation. There are more involved than Epstein and https://t.co/PhPay9UcF4 If"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019830670818963707) 2026-02-06T17:48Z 376.4K followers, 21.5K engagements
"If you adjust for intelligence squirrels are as smart as university professors. But more honest. This is an interesting "how to lie with stats" study. What they find is basically that if you adjust FOR the greater height weight and strength of men women are not at a disadvantage re lean muscle mass. https://t.co/rBKwcJnu3a This is an interesting "how to lie with stats" study. What they find is basically that if you adjust FOR the greater height weight and strength of men women are not at a disadvantage re lean muscle mass. https://t.co/rBKwcJnu3a"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019857485549674708) 2026-02-06T19:35Z 376.5K followers, 10.4K engagements
"@dr_duchesne @Noahpinion 100% is quite the exaggeration and instead of the ambiguous "modern" you should specify your timeframe since obviously Western Europe didn't invent civilization. Do better"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019871084208955858) 2026-02-06T20:29Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@dr_duchesne @wil_da_beast630 Because in fact what you said is clearly and obviously exaggerated as millions of people who know history better than you do can attest and you're making those of us in Europe and the European diaspora look stupid. Do better"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019871778156474792) 2026-02-06T20:32Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This reminds me of some prior socialists. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics built the Berlin Wall shot their people who tried to cross it without permission and put up many other barriers make it hard for people to leave their country-sized prison. NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his previous statement that if a company leaves NY find them and tax them anyway. Now he is saying: "We should take businesses from owners who want to leave due to the tax increases and run them for the city https://t.co/cPZ6kF83aw NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019998758248042530) 2026-02-07T04:56Z 376.5K followers, 24.3K engagements
"The sun never set on the British Empire and neither did its poor understanding of the foreigners it tried to govern. Now its elites understand neither the foreigners nor the British themselves. They think native Britons and former colonial subjects are just so many interchangeable economic parts. They invite willy-nilly the denizens of the subject cultures they never understood millions of Trojan horses full of the unknown and as a result the former Empire is now colonizing Britain itself. European nations that were too far from the oceans to mess with distant foreigners tend to now have"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020011824285118721) 2026-02-07T05:48Z 376.5K followers, 21.1K engagements
"@keepitup42 "Don't trust verify.""
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020035467417432513) 2026-02-07T07:22Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@number33_ @brandonturp How many Kaspa full nodes are there How much history do Kaspa nodes need to store to provide the most trust minimization Given that stored history how fast (TB/year) would those nodes being filling up if a Kaspa chain operated at volumes dollar-equivalent to Bitcoin"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1972028359703253502) 2025-09-27T19:59Z 376.5K followers, 126.1K 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1973548206245261549) 2025-10-02T00:38Z 376.8K followers, 177.8K 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1974706320730206301) 2025-10-05T05:20Z 376.7K followers, 29.1K 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975214259765445000) 2025-10-06T14:59Z 376.8K followers, 222.7K engagements
"@WhalePanda Bitcoin is in a bear cycle masked by the debasement trade"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978833598112207251) 2025-10-16T14:41Z 376.8K followers, 93.5K engagements
"@JohnWKelley_ It's an idiotic rumor. Epstein gained his fiat billions working for banks and using bank loans"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2018507759768187009) 2026-02-03T02:12Z 376.5K followers, 51.2K engagements
"@demster70 You wanting to keep it beautiful is racist. P.S. racism is not a sin"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2018583159244501015) 2026-02-03T07:11Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@SaltyGirl09 Zero of these people we sub-Saharan African"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019222242903879745) 2026-02-05T01:31Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@aakashgupta Props to the guys who most made this happen:"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019232857630417046) 2026-02-05T02:13Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@Kommodor64 And we have here not just a moron who thinks other people don't have eyes and ears but an extremely vile moron who supports immigrants who proceeded to ethnically cleanse and genocide their host country"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019269694117859706) 2026-02-05T04:39Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@JatoshiX You don't trust you verify the code or get somebody you do trust to verify the code for you"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019456258559144348) 2026-02-05T17:01Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Who are you talking about Of these two countries on the other side of the planet neither is a physical threat to U.S. national security and only Israel is a political risk to our national security due to their undue influence and behavior most of the world sees as horrific. None of this rises to the level of "enemy". https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019593185572581731 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019593185572581731"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019593185572581731) 2026-02-06T02:05Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"So many spectacular layers of misinformation and bullshit here In almost every category you list Israel is the greater threat. It has more physically threatening weapons and it has committed more terrorism ethnic cleansing genocide etc. than Iran. What's more there are at least a couple dozen other countries in the world that can threaten the U.S. physically in to an even grater extent than either of these countries. You are in short a profoundly brainwashed moron. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019597604347429017 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019597604347429017"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019597604347429017) 2026-02-06T02:22Z 376.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@sweatystartup @HodlFlorida @LawrenceLepard @saifedean Ask grok and be sure to ask it to explain it like you're 5"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019608280365167001) 2026-02-06T03:05Z 376.7K followers, 12.5K engagements
"Bill Barr's father was Jeffrey Epstein's first significant employer who put him to teaching at a high school full of underage girls no less. The administration now has Bill Barr writing articles in the @WSJ to defend Pam Bondi on the #EpsteinFiles. The Bush infiltrator who later buried all efforts to investigate fraud then wrote a book about how he was actually the hero of the story. Yep that Bill Bush Barr. The administration now has Bill Barr writing articles in the @WSJ to defend Pam Bondi on the #EpsteinFiles. The Bush infiltrator who later buried all efforts to investigate fraud then"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019996510319177734) 2026-02-07T04:47Z 376.5K followers, 26.6K engagements
"The security of some nation may depend on pedophile rackets. The security of my nation is undermined by them. Theyre admitting that our national security depends on pedophile rackets. Im not saying to burn it all down Im just saying the matches are starting to look lonely. Theyre admitting that our national security depends on pedophile rackets. Im not saying to burn it all down Im just saying the matches are starting to look lonely"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020015158853312616) 2026-02-07T06:01Z 376.7K followers, 14.6K engagements
"@QuantumAlteredX Victim's name not protected Seems to have been recruited when she was underage: https://bocanewsnow.com/2026/02/04/did-jeffrey-epstein-pay-for-girls-at-north-broward-prep/ https://bocanewsnow.com/2026/02/04/did-jeffrey-epstein-pay-for-girls-at-north-broward-prep/"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020540720671543426) 2026-02-08T16:50Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Now preparing to kill American sailors for Israel. US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was listed in Epsteins flight logs with Jean Luc Brunel. Brunel also committed suicide by hanging himself in prison after facing multiple rape and SA of minors charges. https://t.co/BKR1b5SraC US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was listed in Epsteins flight logs with Jean Luc Brunel. Brunel also committed suicide by hanging himself in prison after facing multiple rape and SA of minors charges. https://t.co/BKR1b5SraC"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020570659903214054) 2026-02-08T18:49Z 376.7K followers, 16.1K engagements
"@PrinceVogel They've replaced the naturally flowing Greco-Roman influences with brutally sharp corners that make a part of you feel as if facing thousands of unsheathed blades"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020602400298713102) 2026-02-08T20:55Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The UK *was* a Christian country. It is not one now. It may be once again in the future if there is an intense crusade and herculean missionary work. Meanwhile most Muslims for example the Pakistanis now living in the UK need to live under Shariah law. Otherwise they and their non-Muslim neighbors will continue living in rape-gang hell. @NickSzabo4 Not sure I like where this is going. The UK is a Christian country and its legal system is run on Blacks law whilst the courts run on admiralty law. Bosnia predominantly Muslim runs on civil law sharia law was outdated in the 1940s. We do not need"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020635797893083232) 2026-02-08T23:08Z 376.6K followers, 16.2K engagements
"@tipper_cow18938 Christianity was the British religion for over [----] years and the prior religions were lost. Creative re-imaginings don't cut it"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020646185925787871) 2026-02-08T23:49Z 376.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Also immigrants or visitors who were entrusted with nuclear secrets: Klaus Fuchs who sold Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets; Harry Gold who helped Fuchs; George Koval born in the U.S. but raised in the Soviet Union and trained there as a spy who successfully penetrated the Manhattan Project and passed details about its nuclear technologies to the Soviets; Allan Nunn May who obtained U.S. secrets while visiting from Canada and sent them to the Soviet Union; Wen Ho Lee probable case of passing nuclear secrets to China but convicted only of mishandling data. Those are just the ones who"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021058574206763196) 2026-02-10T03:08Z 376.7K followers, 12.1K engagements
"@EndBiasedRpting @tadgh_dc @goddek @DineshDSouza And why did Monica Lewinsky tell Linda Tripp about it To brag Maybe. There are other possible motivations"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021404777977196753) 2026-02-11T02:03Z 376.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@grok @SockPuppyet @shipwreckshow @USAttyPirro When was Staley CEO of Barclay's Bank"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021418273464840628) 2026-02-11T02:57Z 376.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@Capital_Mind_ @Excellion It's not quite that simple but it's sort of right and I admire the poetry and the pics"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021422845042229726) 2026-02-11T03:15Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@JOConnor_AK @RepThomasMassie Why blame America-loving libertarians rather than America-hating Zionists like Lutnick Do you think people who look the other way while working-class American girls are raped and while U.S. soldiers die overseas fighting for Israel love America"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021647602144666090) 2026-02-11T18:08Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@OwenShroyer1776 But they (and some of us) would also have to admit that she's doing it at the behest or for the sake of Trump Lutnick Witkoff & Co"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021668984895271168) 2026-02-11T19:33Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@LandoBerando @0___________0_v Massie's not ideal but on the crucial issues of Epstein and expensive and ruinous Israeli-centric foreign policy he is on the side of good and Trump is quite obviously on the side of evil"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021676294304673900) 2026-02-11T20:02Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Seldom does a day go by in politics where Orwell's lessons don't come into play alas. The irony of Netanyahu signing onto the Board of Peace while he's here to push America into war is too great to comprehend. The irony of Netanyahu signing onto the Board of Peace while he's here to push America into war is too great to comprehend"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021689303135306076) 2026-02-11T20:54Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Unredacting the Epstein files would be very bad for Israeli national security. 🚨 Speaker Mike Johnson just admitted the Epstein files must stay redacted for national security concerns. National FKN security Really A pedophile trafficker raped kids for decades while rubbing elbows with the elite intelligence agencies and probably half of DC https://t.co/59MmLLJAkM 🚨 Speaker Mike Johnson just admitted the Epstein files must stay redacted for national security concerns. National FKN security Really A pedophile trafficker raped kids for decades while rubbing elbows with the elite intelligence"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021699979266723883) 2026-02-11T21:36Z 376.8K followers, 29.6K engagements
"The less you can genuinely appreciate something the more mysterious is its value. Modern art is optimized for the inscrutability of its worth. It's a medium of cryptic wealth transfer and protean collateral for fiat money creation. @NickSzabo4 Modern art is just money laundering @NickSzabo4 Modern art is just money laundering"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022493291594551430) 2026-02-14T02:09Z 376.8K followers, 12.9K engagements
"Somalia is one example of such a country. Israel is another. We should take zero immigrants from countries where people dont know it is wrong to rape children. We should take zero immigrants from countries where people dont know it is wrong to rape children"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022810557171265654) 2026-02-14T23:09Z 376.7K followers, 28.8K 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972080811882189077) 2025-09-27T23:27Z 376.8K followers, 141.8K engagements
"Bitcoin is currently a little bit less expensive than physical gold for individuals to self-custody (custody costs and risks) and far less expensive and quicker to transfer (validation/assay costs and risks and global settlement). Bitcoin is so far neither considerably cheaper nor more expensive than gold for institutions to hold because of the trust/control issues involved in institutional custody. Technology can make Bitcoin considerably cheaper to self-custody both for individuals and institutions but that is a set of technologies that are slow to mature not widely understood and require"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021414960266608675) 2026-02-11T02:44Z 376.8K followers, 194.3K engagements
"Trying to outdo political campaigns. Creativity on it's peak💀 https://t.co/LWr6QHZPCG Creativity on it's peak💀 https://t.co/LWr6QHZPCG"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022408687005159451) 2026-02-13T20:33Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Protean collateral does indeed matter because "the money printer" is really bank loans and large bank loans require collateral under regulations. So one of the ways to become a Cantillon insider if you are not one of the small number of entities (mostly the federal government) whose bonds banks are required to hold by those regulations is (a) having friends at a bank and (b) having protean collateral that you can buy low and value high. Wexler Black Epstein and friends had both. @beaverd @NickSzabo4 When you have the free $ printer does it even matter 🤣 @beaverd @NickSzabo4 When you have the"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022551303667539982) 2026-02-14T05:59Z 376.8K followers, 11.3K engagements
"This is key. Employers seeking cheap labor are the biggest reason for mass migration. The cheaper employers are happy to use government welfare to subsidize their labor. If you like me want to solve mass migration. we must target the employers donations be damned and we must remove the welfare subsidies for visitors and recent immigrants that employers at the cheaper end rely on. @NickSzabo4 Jailing employers + cutting off benefits = victory @NickSzabo4 Jailing employers + cutting off benefits = victory"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022808265999138972) 2026-02-14T23:00Z 376.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Wrong. Boris Johnson and Angela Merkle were the biggest people importers. They were pro-business moderates not leftists. They were chiefly pleasing their business donors. Also it's a mistake to think the left doesn't have its share of business donors. An even bigger share once the left shifted its ideology to be less pro-worker and more pro-immigrant. Also governments themselves are employers and want cheap labor too. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022818072646815787 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022818072646815787"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022818072646815787) 2026-02-14T23:39Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@skden2020 The problem isn't so much the President as it is his friends and donors with the Israeli passports"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022820289856573832) 2026-02-14T23:48Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Indeed. Somalia has a legal system that is well adapted to the Somalian people. The United States does not have a legal system that is well adapted to the Somalian people. @NickSzabo4 Somalia is a conservative Muslim country where rape is punishable by death. Its social order is built around strict moral codes meant to deter the behavior that produces that culture. Meanwhile US culture is built around sex alcohol debt and violence. Educate yourself. @NickSzabo4 Somalia is a conservative Muslim country where rape is punishable by death. Its social order is built around strict moral codes meant"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022833225480167704) 2026-02-15T00:39Z 376.7K followers, 12.3K engagements
"@Bitcoinpoet_JP @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @_jonasschnelli_ @adam3us Deprecate use of OP_RETURN for financial transaction functionality going forward; add ability to prune the newer while keeping the older OP_RETURNs"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973912441039007836) 2025-10-03T00:46Z 376.7K followers, 20K engagements
"@adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining Yes there is no excuse for the Bitcoin reference client to expose us to the wide variety of extreme legal risks that come with arbitrary content. You don't understand the threat environment"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978511755216072859) 2025-10-15T17:22Z 376.7K followers, 33.9K engagements
"Fiat is stable until it isn't"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978923852060053956) 2025-10-16T20:39Z 376.8K followers, 152.6K engagements
"@HiyokoLP Yes I strongly recommend running Knots not Core"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1980891636197740733) 2025-10-22T06:59Z 376.7K followers, 89.1K engagements
"Corporatism vs. socialism: an awful dichotomy like Odysseus having to choose between having his ships destroyed by rocks if he steered them a bit too far north and being sucked in by a whirlpool if they went a bit too far south. Innovations at large social scales -- and I daresay I helped a bit with that myself -- have often been a great economic boon for mankind. Innovations in contract law property law financial markets and related areas have after maturation often turned out to be quite beneficial with a net benefit when non-beneficial innovations are discarded. Currently more"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1992429658311147627) 2025-11-23T03:07Z 376.7K followers, 118.8K engagements
"No mention of Bitcoin as a store of value or as sound money -- two ways of describing what is by far the predominant source of Bitcoin's price rise and value so far (its small medium of exchange use having disappointed many). He didn't (and probably still doesn't) understand why Bitcoin is valuable"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019475482115469388) 2026-02-05T18:17Z 376.7K followers, 29.1K engagements
"@dr_duchesne After the great fusion of the steppe and early European farmer peoples 5000-4200 years ago genes in Europe were stable from migration from that prehistoric time until the last decades of the 20th century"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019492272375804176) 2026-02-05T19:24Z 376.7K followers, 25.1K engagements
""National security." Not my nation probably not your nation but somebody's nation I presume. Can someone help me understand whats going on here- We're getting these massive Epstein file dumps with names paraded everywhere detailed accounts of rape and pedophilia laid out like entries in a ledgerand then. crickets. Zero arrests. No handcuffs no perp walks no Can someone help me understand whats going on here- We're getting these massive Epstein file dumps with names paraded everywhere detailed accounts of rape and pedophilia laid out like entries in a ledgerand then. crickets. Zero arrests. No"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019827942801698977) 2026-02-06T17:38Z 376.7K followers, 14K engagements
"Having failed to convince Americans that blacks are too retarded to get and use IDs to vote Democrats now talk as if women are too retarded to get and use IDs to vote. Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin says the SAVE Act mandating voter ID will eventually lead to the repeal of the 19th Amendment causing women to lose the right to vote. Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/4Depk7ceXV Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin says the SAVE Act mandating voter ID will eventually lead to the repeal of the 19th Amendment causing women to lose the right to vote. Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/4Depk7ceXV"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019861221143716299) 2026-02-06T19:50Z 376.7K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Something to think about next time you fill out a form. CLAUDE CODE but for HACKING its called shannon you point it at website and it just. tries to break in. fully autonomous with no human needed i pointed it at a test app and it stole the entire user database created admin accounts and bypassed login all by itself in [--] https://t.co/oA9x2eajhu CLAUDE CODE but for HACKING its called shannon you point it at website and it just. tries to break in. fully autonomous with no human needed i pointed it at a test app and it stole the entire user database created admin accounts and bypassed login all"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019866814407483712) 2026-02-06T20:12Z 376.7K followers, 88.4K engagements
"Epstein worked with non-Likud Israeli politicians and agents (Barak Herzog the Maxwells etc.) therefore didn't work with Israel says Likud leader. Jeffrey Epstein's unusual close relationship with Ehud Barak doesn't suggest Epstein worked for Israel. It proves the opposite. Stuck on his election loss from over two decades ago Barak has for years obsessively attempted to undermine Israeli democracy by working with the Jeffrey Epstein's unusual close relationship with Ehud Barak doesn't suggest Epstein worked for Israel. It proves the opposite. Stuck on his election loss from over two decades"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019993093983072621) 2026-02-07T04:34Z 376.7K followers, 29.1K engagements
"Wrinkle: Epstein didn't confine his Israeli relationships to its Labor Party after all -- indeed he was also arranging for people to meet with Bibi himself"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020034567231750270) 2026-02-07T07:19Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The original American evangelicals were English Calvinists from England. They preached their sermons and sung their hymns and talked about their work and everything else in English. (A few of the smart ones also learned the classical European languages Latin and Greek). "Melting" was an Englishman converting to Calvinism and if you were not that you went and lived in some other distant community. Some of these were my ancestors and researching genealogy has given me an interesting look at how they lived and what they believed. If you were a Catholic you lived and worshipped with your fellow"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2020713965685448934) 2026-02-09T04:18Z 376.7K followers, 10.9K engagements
"@GabeBHiggins @StrongHandLeadr LLMs like Claude are terrible at security audits; they are especially terrible at judging the natures and sources of threats (as admittedly are many human engineers including most of the current Bitcoin Core developers)"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021429812863303865) 2026-02-11T03:43Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@LevTeot Nonsense. Gold spent about [----] of its [----] year history in decentralized self-custody. That era is alas now long since over but it did happen"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021443122023350648) 2026-02-11T04:36Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Hal also supported bit gold and had his own cryptocurrency design both of which also had this problem. It's anonymous if you keep it anonymous at the edges. That's considerably less of a privacy protection than e.g. Monero has and you have to know what you're doing and be careful to take advantage of it but it's not nothing. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021449995501871408 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021449995501871408"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021449995501871408) 2026-02-11T05:03Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@Celt404 @FiscalDominanc @LevTeot Buy Bitcoin the self-custodied real thing not "bitcoin" and you'll be fine"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021450782701404405) 2026-02-11T05:06Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Do you think people who look the other way while working-class American girls are raped and lobby for U.S. soldiers to die overseas fighting for Israel and burden our children and grandchildren with unpayable debts to pay for all their present spending love America and are actually trying hard to fix it Or are they perhaps just putting on a good show with their great casino showman @RepThomasMassie libertarians just cant help sabotaging the people trying to fix the damage done to the country. They dont have a solution other than the internal enemies to the country should be nice. Ex [--] year"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021649495000592408) 2026-02-11T18:16Z 376.7K followers, 15K engagements
"It also ends with vast numbers of H1-B workers from alien cultures as your new neighbors and as your fellow employees. Neighbors and coworkers who don't understand and indeed often despise American traditions and values. Wages start sinking towards third world levels. Christmas may no longer be the holiday your office lets you take off a week to be with your family. Your favorite selections of milk and cuts of meat can disappear from the grocery shelves. Fraud and other crimes can spike. People in public and at the office no longer have a common set of manners. I have seen all of this in"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021840883650556150) 2026-02-12T06:56Z 376.7K followers, 26.8K engagements
"@hanselang Bitcoin has a liquid market with a public price it's not what I'm calling protean collateral here"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022576493055086618) 2026-02-14T07:39Z 376.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@lynnerae Currently run Knots. In the future I hope we will have more options"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1993202675270533354) 2025-11-25T06:18Z 376.8K followers, 33.9K engagements
"@Mark___Taylor What if God gave them the land but the price they must pay for that boon is that they can't get into heaven"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022403265862996411) 2026-02-13T20:11Z 376.7K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1973502865143636151) 2025-10-01T21:38Z 376.8K followers, 237.5K engagements
"As a (hopefully) temporary measure run Knots. I strongly recommend not upgrading to Core v30. https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973502865143636151 @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @_jonasschnelli_ @Shireh0dl @adam3us 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 https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973502865143636151 @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo @lorandimecs"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975805206031179831) 2025-10-08T06:07Z 376.8K followers, 458.7K engagements
"I hope we can do something more trust-minimized and less risky for financial transaction immutability than BIP [---]. I see a high value in fixing the segwit discount inscription-related bugs and perhaps some other related things but I also worry about the added complexity and risk and I worry about rugging useful financial functionality. So it's easy for me to get behind a simple soft fork. As a general matter I'm not opposed to a more comprehensive fork but it would at the very least take considerably more time for independent developers to inspect and for me to analyze both of which I'd want"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1992412297952976913) 2025-11-23T01:58Z 376.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online and extremely few if any lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the [--] State laws the 100s of foreign country and provincial laws etc. Whoever having unauthorized possession of access to"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1992995704101646730) 2025-11-24T16:36Z 376.7K followers, 101.4K engagements
"It's a truly idiotic idea. Epstein made his billions with fiat ponzi schemes by working for and getting loans from banks and by working for/with other Zionist plutocrats like Lex Wexner and Leon Black who made their own billions doing similar -- in Wexner's case getting fiat bank loans to buy and expand sleezy businesses targeting teen sexuality in Black's case using bank loans (margin) to buy financial securities. Epstein and his business buddies were traditional finance people to the bone the kind who have no conception or desire for any kind of money different from the kind they profited"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019293564761698712) 2026-02-05T06:14Z 376.8K followers, 249.3K engagements
"@StrongHandLeadr Those who hold large amounts of Bitcoin should get software engineers they know personally to be trustworthy to audit the Bitcoin Core code for them"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2021420559893180435) 2026-02-11T03:06Z 376.8K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Racism is not a sin. Not a mortal sin not a venial sin not a sin at all. Racism is not listed or described or so much as mentioned as a sin by any prophet or apostle much less by Jesus himself nor by the great church fathers nor by Aquinas nor by Luther. Rape is a deeply mortal sin. Racism is considered a more terrible act in the UK than rape and child abuse. Thats the only way to explain parliaments unwillingness to investigate the grooming gang scandal and the medias unwillingness to report on the unofficial @rapeganginquiry. Racism is considered a more terrible act in the UK than rape and"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022129371172192617) 2026-02-13T02:03Z 376.8K followers, 93.4K engagements
"Politicians used to be able to lie without tells. Stop blackpilling this is progress. When asked about taking AIPAC bribes Gavin Newsom freezes and repeats its interesting [--] times. Hes a Zionist. Never trust him. Find a better candidate. https://t.co/76rl6OfY9o When asked about taking AIPAC bribes Gavin Newsom freezes and repeats its interesting [--] times. Hes a Zionist. Never trust him. Find a better candidate. https://t.co/76rl6OfY9o"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022171370441117731) 2026-02-13T04:49Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Indeed suicidal but the opposite of empathy: it reflects a profound misunderstanding of the alien mind. Peak suicidal empathy. Mind boggling. Oh you tried to blow up a building Asylum granted Your 5-star hotel is across the street all expenses paid. https://t.co/yoTwXlsZpu Peak suicidal empathy. Mind boggling. Oh you tried to blow up a building Asylum granted Your 5-star hotel is across the street all expenses paid. https://t.co/yoTwXlsZpu"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022406151170859309) 2026-02-13T20:22Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It's a mistake to consider pro-migration politics as having a solely left-wing source. In money terms most of it is driven by large donors who while often being leftist trust fund babies who benefit from cheap labor almost as often ideologically sit closer to the libertarian right. These have an overly extended anti-government view that encompasses disrespect for borders and as business owners (whether directly or via their trust funds) have strong incentives to want cheap labor. The Cato Institute is a good example of a libertarian think tank that is funded primarily by business owners and"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022768537480368573) 2026-02-14T20:22Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Merkle became chancellor by rising in the conservative (right wing) party mainly because of her appeal to business donors but obviously also because both the conservatives and donors who knew her believed she had left her leftism behind with the end of the Cold War. Mass migration was supported by the bulk of the conservative party in the 2010s especially by its donors. It wasn't some 5D chess trick pulled by Merkle on her supporters. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022825718837841981 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022825718837841981"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022825718837841981) 2026-02-15T00:10Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"While not the most profound example of culture adult drinking of milk along with consumption of other lactose-containing dairy products has a substantial connection with European biology. One sad way to track demographic change is to observe the expansion of soy/almond/etc. "milk" and "cream" in the dairy section usually with a reduction of the variety of actual (milk) dairy products. Yes I know there are whites who drink the plant slop and browns who often heroically drink actual milk. A few non-Europeans have evolved their own versions of lactase persistence. Minorities. Lactase persistence"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022924066869608580) 2026-02-15T06:40Z 376.8K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975361843490365907) 2025-10-07T00:45Z 376.8K followers, 120.7K engagements
"@thejobchick It keeps Indians in India so that America can stay American -- that is even more important than the jobs themselves"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2019620852225151461) 2026-02-06T03:55Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Serious Christian missionaries conduct their missions in places like Brussels Belgium Birmingham U.K. Dearborn Michigan and Frisco Texas. If your "mission" is to the jungles of Borneo or the mountain slopes of Nepal you are just taking a fun subsidized vacation"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022027770147356765) 2026-02-12T19:19Z 376.8K followers, 25.4K engagements
"If I had on top of my U.S. passport a Hungarian passport and you knew little else about me -- the kind of knowledge voters typically have about politicians or employers typically have about new hires -- it would be entirely legitimate and proper for you to question my loyalty to the United States and disqualify me from positions of substantial political responsibility. No foreign passport holder should hold any political office nor government employment nor any important post in a government contractor subcontractor or NGO in the United States. If they do question their loyalty"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2022838972943380626) 2026-02-15T01:02Z 376.8K followers, 32.4K engagements
"@Usuryisgay You gave economic armageddon fantasies the preposterous excuses without labeling them as such. The *reason* is they want cheap labor. And this isn't either/or we can fix money with Bitcoin and immigration with putting criminal employers in jail"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/2023074213213679659) 2026-02-15T16:37Z 376.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@peterktodd @mir_btc @giacomozucco Not very professional by EOS standards. You are supposed to be on call for meetings 24x365 in case some address held in Albania or Zimbabwe wants to freeze their (former) coins. Also you should pluck the down for your sleeping bag with your own hands"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1011867367859613697) 2018-06-27T07:02Z 374.8K followers, [---] engagements
"George is a fellow OG but this is wrong. Bitcoin is seamlessly global it does not and need not conform to the ideological speculations ("macroeconomic theories") of particular polities. https://x.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1021553927324688386 When I wrote my book on free banking I tried to persuade other economists that it would promote stability. To do that I had to take their concerns theories and beliefs seriously. Fans of bitcoin and other crypto's ought to do the same. https://x.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1021553927324688386 When I wrote my book on free banking I tried to persuade other"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1021649790583500800) 2018-07-24T06:54Z 374.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Trust and security considerations are far more important than speculations about aggregate human behavior. Psychologists have a hard time making their experiments on individuals repeatable. Macroeconomists speculate about vast numbers of interacting individuals no repeatability"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1021653222102978560) 2018-07-24T07:08Z 374.6K followers, [---] engagements
"High inflation causes savers and creditors large tangible harms as we see today in Venezuela Iran Sudan Nigeria Argentina &c. But alleged harms caused by much lower levels of "bad deflation" are very causally remote from monetary decisions -- it's ideological speculation"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1021656109998780416) 2018-07-24T07:19Z 374.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Trust-minimized rules are new & in many ways will be vastly superior to what trusted but often not so trustworthy kings judges legislatures or regulators have concocted. Trust-minimized code will bring reality to the constitutional ideal "a government of laws & not of men." @NickSzabo4 "Code" are just rules. "Rules" is a synonym for law. The Code of Hamurabi were laws. This isn't really new at all. @NickSzabo4 "Code" are just rules. "Rules" is a synonym for law. The Code of Hamurabi were laws. This isn't really new at all"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1055168586434535424) 2018-10-24T18:46Z 371.5K followers, [---] engagements
""to trace money across ledgers we use data scraped from ShapeShift over a six-month period and the data from eight different blockchains . we . identify various patterns of cross-currency trades and of the general usage of these platforms." https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12786 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12786"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1058216894463848449) 2018-11-02T04:39Z 374.8K followers, [---] engagements
"If aliens existed we could readily see copious surface engineering in galaxies: "The germs of existence on earth if they could freely develop themselves would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years"(Malthus) https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2012/01/23/rethinking-setis-targets/comment-page-1/ https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2012/01/23/rethinking-setis-targets/comment-page-1/ https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1069320315833147401) 2018-12-02T20:00Z 373.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@giacomozucco @freemantledj @Frances_Coppola @MattSmythAudio @davidgerard @LiamLightmare @aleksigrym @ViliLe @aantonop @jimmysong Computer science and coding are far more productive activities than macroeconomic theology"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1097882602499825666) 2019-02-19T15:36Z 370.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@aleksigrym @MattSmythAudio @Frances_Coppola @ViliLe @davidgerard It's a liability until it isn't. The U.S. et. al. had legal liabilities to pay on their gold and silver notes until they decided they didn't. Lehmann did until they went bankrupt. Etc. The vast majority of macroeconomics is central bank ideology parading as science"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1097890642967949313) 2019-02-19T16:08Z 370.8K followers, [---] engagements
"In a deep or prolonged recession attacks by technocratic authorities & political activists against digitally centralized assets will increase in volume & scope. Other forms of political or legal instability could also lower the safety of digitally centralized assets"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1162759056022355973) 2019-08-17T16:12Z 373.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@Phaethon_P @adam3us @Douglas_Horn @3L3C70 @C1aranMurray @iang_fc @bitcoin_bolsa @bergealex4 @LukeDashjr Great I'm glad the Meta Rules allow for so many possibilities. Let's vote for Governor Kitty's game it's really fun. The Governor is such a nice guy and he makes sure we are all very civil to each other"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1172265266052587526) 2019-09-12T21:46Z 355.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@ChainlinkWave Sadly yes Ethereum which once sounded so promising has become a shitcoin as a result of devolving into a centralized cult"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1184525892514701312) 2019-10-16T17:45Z 374K followers, [---] engagements
"Currently "need it now" means something like "need it in less than [--] years" for the most stable & low-inflation fiat currencies less for more inflating & volatile fiats. This consumption timeframe in which fiat has advantage will shrink as Bitcoin's volatility shrinks"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1185232726565117952) 2019-10-18T16:34Z 374.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@lawrencehwhite1 Not if the movement of gold between the banks is interdicted by war or other bad politics. Free banking relies on high quality politics that has seldom existed and (Libra is only the latest example) is sadly nowhere close to existing now"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1185576094931439617) 2019-10-19T15:19Z 369.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@ErikVoorhees @cryptonadafomo @MiaVendetta07 If you invite an illegal alien onto your state-force-protected land you are committing a moral crime and if state law matches moral law a legal crime as well and betraying the jurisdiction that is protecting what physical property rights you have"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1212948975885545472) 2020-01-03T04:09Z 373.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@BrianLockhart @angela_walch $BAV -- Bitcoin Angela's Vision. Can't wait"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1233184319620837377) 2020-02-28T00:17Z 374K followers, [---] engagements
"'The special expectation of safety within and right to defend a residence and its occupants -- what Coke called the "liberty . of a house" -- justifies both a kill-the-burglar rule for residents and a knock-and-announce rule for law enforcement.' https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/09/semaynes-case-liberty-of-house.html https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/09/semaynes-case-liberty-of-house.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1277662307846205440) 2020-06-29T17:56Z 370.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@milkyway911 @katerinareports @btc_holder The following "god" protocol is the general method but it's only partial (what is kept private is not only what attacker can't infer from the output) and it's infeasibly expensive in computational resources for almost all purposes (including this one). https://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-god-protocols/ https://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-god-protocols/"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1346215220260208640) 2021-01-04T22:01Z 374.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Indeed "nation" is typically a translation of the Koine Greek (ethnos) or the Hebrew (gy) and typically has a tribal connotation which means it also has a genetic connotation which is sometimes made explicit. For example when God makes promises to Abraham about his progeny He uses "nation" () and "seed" () interchageably to refer to those promised progeny. These promises are yet another example of God approving of (indeed in this case engaging Himself in) favoritism rather than equal treatment"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1972208855615672694) 2025-09-28T07:56Z 370.3K followers, 19.3K engagements
"@digitaljuiceman @CitizenBitcoin @BitcoinOllie @callebtc Are writers of popular apps using the witness data to store images (including legal ones) Which kind of data are they more likely to use in the future"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1972525776571670789) 2025-09-29T04:56Z 371.7K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1972880679634432472) 2025-09-30T04:26Z 370K followers, 43.4K 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1972890515264983208) 2025-09-30T05:05Z 369.7K followers, 22.9K 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973482998927597614) 2025-10-01T20:19Z 369.7K followers, 91.6K 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973497626197930168) 2025-10-01T21:17Z 371.7K followers, 54.8K engagements
"@ChaseWattsX @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @_jonasschnelli_ @Shireh0dl @adam3us I too don't understand why NFT and other non-financial-content people don't prefer other cheaper blockchains. But for some reason they are willing to pay the premium so for the miners it's worth it"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973519775621173271) 2025-10-01T22:45Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@bigdilf31521159 @SameeLiaei No it wouldn't "just as easily" go after financial transactions. The two areas of law and politics are worlds apart"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973548903913132109) 2025-10-02T00:41Z 373.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@thebitcoinroll That's not what it currently does. WTF is wrong with posters thinking I'm talking about Bitcoin exactly as it is now I'm trying to figure out how to fix it. Try to help or go fuck off"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973958725405942082) 2025-10-03T03:50Z 373.5K followers, [----] 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973976188139045323) 2025-10-03T04:59Z 371.5K followers, 34.8K engagements
"@Transittometals Silver turns women into sluts"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1974866956089200947) 2025-10-05T15:59Z 370.3K followers, 12.7K engagements
"@Arthur_van_Pelt @btcblockjams You have the option of deleting individual files. Archival Bitcoiin nodes currently do not"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975040877593817506) 2025-10-06T03:30Z 374.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@TTrevethan @LukeDashjr Financial law risks are a far narrower set of legal threats and the bitcoin community has a large group of lawyers and lobbyists to deal with them. We have next to no expertise in dealing with the wide variety of legal risks that come with a wide variety of arbitrary content"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975209797340524800) 2025-10-06T14:41Z 373.1K followers, 26.6K engagements
"This. And the biggest cost of the spam isn't the volume; it's the legal and moral risks that come with arbitrary non-financial content which are far larger far less predictable and far less manageable by the bitcoin leal community than the legal and moral risks from merely arbitrary financial transactions"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975936518163476576) 2025-10-08T14:49Z 373.1K followers, 19K engagements
"@George203BTC @th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 [--] bytes meant to support some kinds of financial transactions and not meant for and incapable of supporting most non-financial content e.g. images"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975939468650815626) 2025-10-08T15:00Z 370K followers, 13.7K engagements
"@aeonBTC Did you see the part where I said temporary measure"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975948884498411560) 2025-10-08T15:38Z 369.9K followers, [----] engagements
"At AIPAC events politicians are QR-coded political meat. At my first AIPAC reception you had to wear a name badge with a QR code talk to donors and if they liked you they scanned it to donate on the spot. @mattgaetz on the surreal humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers. https://t.co/bIIbLx9wMZ At my first AIPAC reception you had to wear a name badge with a QR code talk to donors and if they liked you they scanned it to donate on the spot. @mattgaetz on the surreal humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers. https://t.co/bIIbLx9wMZ"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975952214570262991) 2025-10-08T15:51Z 374.4K followers, 39.4K engagements
"@Villgecrazylady Candace Owens is a "mental patient" for the same reason that Ezra Pound was a mental patient"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1976705389749322149) 2025-10-10T17:44Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"More jobs are being lost to outsourcing and immigration than to AI. But they are blamed on AI"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1976706924457628025) 2025-10-10T17:50Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@hagaetc So most people should aspire to work as serfs for their corporate masters until they die Fuck off boss"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1976744694421024906) 2025-10-10T20:20Z 371.1K followers, 26.4K 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1976861689011487014) 2025-10-11T04:05Z 369.8K followers, 41.4K 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1976881514224009523) 2025-10-11T05:24Z 369.5K followers, 11K 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. You denounce Tuckerthe one guy who would give you a platformeven as you remain loyal to the establishment that rejected you. You denounce Tuckerthe one guy who would give you a platformeven as you remain loyal to the establishment that rejected you"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977196971724357776) 2025-10-12T02:17Z 370.1K followers, 81.7K 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977239693504004176) 2025-10-12T05:07Z 371.7K followers, 31.4K 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](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977248155407466736) 2025-10-12T05:41Z 369.9K followers, 30.7K engagements
"The lunatics are now literally running mental health. Dumb: First question. Dumber: Second question. https://t.co/Vtzg64XcWq Dumb: First question. Dumber: Second question. https://t.co/Vtzg64XcWq"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977420071141310639) 2025-10-12T17:04Z 369.8K followers, 31.7K engagements
"@noisevault Read classics from before the 20th century. We have dozens of centuries of civilization to draw on"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977456772605681689) 2025-10-12T19:30Z 373.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@AFpost Successfully concealed How many combinations of stoned and drunk was that guy"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977530504959393872) 2025-10-13T00:23Z 369.9K followers, 88.8K 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. https://t.co/RGRHXK0JY5 https://t.co/RGRHXK0JY5"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977533808154161202) 2025-10-13T00:36Z 370.1K followers, 57.7K engagements
"@Up_The_Bracket1 Recover the old wisdom of Western civilization which was mostly lost during the 20th century"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977560038874182041) 2025-10-13T02:20Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@Up_The_Bracket1 Start with the basics you should have learned as a kid: Bible stories and Aesop"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977573217108885978) 2025-10-13T03:12Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@piter239 @cornokun @Arthur_van_Pelt But core is changing the features of Bitcoin that make it resilient. That's the issue"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978157000186806772) 2025-10-14T17:52Z 369.5K followers, 11.4K engagements
"@durov Who opposed it"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978185203479900186) 2025-10-14T19:44Z 371.5K followers, 111.8K engagements
"@satflation Zero cognizance of the threat environment"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978196147002048859) 2025-10-14T20:28Z 370.9K followers, 109.8K engagements
""This isnt about retail inflation anymore. Investors are fleeing counterparty risk itself." Golds surge past $4100 is the market screaming that something big is breaking beneath the surface. You dont see gold rally this hard while oil drops the dollar holds steady and long term Treasury yields fall unless the system is quietly shifting into crisis prevention mode. https://t.co/52gMUUukx8 Golds surge past $4100 is the market screaming that something big is breaking beneath the surface. You dont see gold rally this hard while oil drops the dollar holds steady and long term Treasury yields fall"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978302868407922689) 2025-10-15T03:32Z 373.8K followers, 53.7K engagements
"CSAM and CP should be prosecuted Even when tough & costly When convenient Never: should be legal Even when tough & costly When convenient Never: should be legal"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978311448766840995) 2025-10-15T04:06Z 371.7K followers, 155.8K engagements
"@AFpost Thus the groyper long march through the institutions begins"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978312572735725896) 2025-10-15T04:10Z 369.8K followers, 43.3K engagements
"@DadGuy1986 @_DavidSFreeman @adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining The general legal risk increases with the number of bytes with sharp increases as images become more legible"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978556873977565633) 2025-10-15T20:21Z 369.8K followers, 37.7K engagements
"@0HOUR1__ The prequel starred Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close IIRC"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978669252530864302) 2025-10-16T03:48Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@Zatoichi42 @BitMEXResearch GMax: "Hi I'd like to buy a painting today." Store clerk: "Sorry this isn't an art shop that would be three blocks down." Gmax: "Censorship Stop attacking my freedom""
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978702619284472089) 2025-10-16T06:00Z 370.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@BitMEXResearch The original post in the thread is far more thoughtful and informative: https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=5562381.msg65922878#msg65922878 https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=5562381.msg65922878#msg65922878"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978708456048566642) 2025-10-16T06:23Z 370.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Arbitrary content makes Bitcoin's threat environment far larger far less predictable and in some cases far more highly motivated: https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978311448766840995 CSAM and CP should be prosecuted https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978311448766840995 CSAM and CP should be prosecuted"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978726913376989352) 2025-10-16T07:37Z 374.3K followers, 84.1K engagements
"@RnaudBertrand Trump administration is repeating idiocy of Biden administration in going to war against the whole world. It's insane how consistently fucked up U.S. foreign policy is"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978739590161899877) 2025-10-16T08:27Z 370.1K followers, [----] engagements
"https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978556873977565633 @DadGuy1986 @_DavidSFreeman @adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining The general legal risk increases with the number of bytes with sharp increases as images become more legible. https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978556873977565633 @DadGuy1986 @_DavidSFreeman @adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining The general legal risk increases with the number of bytes with sharp increases as images become more legible"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978829984346124669) 2025-10-16T14:26Z 370.3K followers, 46.6K engagements
"@pixel_poseidon @WhalePanda Just HODL and don't try to time the market"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978858732655202666) 2025-10-16T16:21Z 371.6K followers, 11.2K engagements
"@look_at_tadASS @WhalePanda Right around New Years' Day to be overly precise. Since psychology and debt triggers are more based on nominal than real values the debasement trade has and will make this "cycle" if we can even call it that now look very different from the prior cycles"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978886445504041307) 2025-10-16T18:11Z 373.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@AFpost The Ziobots get their marching orders after a [--] hour Holocaust movie marathon"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979006456172081238) 2025-10-17T02:08Z 370K followers, 58.8K engagements
"@EvanAKilgore Fuentes has to avoid saying "J**" or "Isr**l" or Tucker will be triggered. PTSD from all the Holocaust movies Irving Kristol made him watch. I fear the worst"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979023622040646034) 2025-10-17T03:16Z 373.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@superwuster Ours is far from the only country controlled by donors"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979033505091711053) 2025-10-17T03:55Z 369.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Yet he feels compelled to repeat over and over again how much he loves Israel even as he criticizes Israel puts critics of Israel on his show etc. The PTSD is real and no joke. And it's not just Tucker it's Candace Owens with her Frankists it's almost anybody who has been through that media culture and people who have spent their lives regularly bringing that culture into their homes. https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977196971724357776 https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977196971724357776"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979039365113541012) 2025-10-17T04:18Z 370.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@KasKritterz Fiat is already at zero depending on your reference starting date and how many significant digits you round to. We are living in the era of the less significant digits"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979208082963206289) 2025-10-17T15:29Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@BullionStar The fiat unlearning curve: every crisis the fiat goldfish bowl sloshes and more people realize they are holding fiat bags"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979213221182750991) 2025-10-17T15:49Z 369.8K followers, 12.6K engagements
"@hadalj @jimmysong No. Mining security works based on relative not absolute hashrate (if that were not true Bitcoin in its early years would have been preposterously insecure and it wasn't)"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979332210009534481) 2025-10-17T23:42Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@ImShillGates Bottom most likely at [--] +/- [--] oz. of gold (we may have already hit it)"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979353053850669094) 2025-10-18T01:05Z 370K followers, 27.1K engagements
"@AdameMedia Correction: they invented the cheese-only pizza. Along with the bacon-free BLT and vegetarian pork rinds"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979385226616017154) 2025-10-18T03:13Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@crashmanperkins @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @_jonasschnelli_ @adam3us Then go use these other "currencies" and leave our sound money alone"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979386063987839364) 2025-10-18T03:16Z 370K followers, 19.8K engagements
"@MyLordBebo Front-page headline: "No U.S. troops will be deployed to Israel." Later back-page clarification: "because they are already in the Middle East.""
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979394144100577437) 2025-10-18T03:48Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@EternalBTC @ddums81 @ImShillGates The bull cycles are increasingly front-run"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979400396797104595) 2025-10-18T04:13Z 369.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@AltcoinGordon You're betting against central bank paranoia in the era of Trump and the Overton kaleidoscope"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979414435564523678) 2025-10-18T05:09Z 370.3K followers, 14.7K engagements
"@Bitcoin_Teddy Just value over the euro exponentially greater over time"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979416800552194051) 2025-10-18T05:18Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@Q_OmniPrism @Bitcoin_Teddy Moron"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979420056850436141) 2025-10-18T05:31Z 369.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@BritishLandeur The England of Shakespeare and Milton of Newton and Darwin and of so many others was certainly not a global "melting pot.""
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979429708375953611) 2025-10-18T06:09Z 370.9K followers, 25.7K engagements
"@CurrentRevolt Brainwashed boomers doing what their TV told them to do"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979574284130701328) 2025-10-18T15:44Z 370K followers, 31.1K engagements
"@ImShillGates P.S. HODL. Don't try to time"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979606813847994569) 2025-10-18T17:53Z 370.1K followers, 125.1K engagements
"@oren_cass @ssankar @nvidia Nvidia is China's useful idiot. Palantir is Israel's useful idiot. India has a lot of useful idiots. Welcome to Silicon Valley where not many actual American companies remain"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979628220069863636) 2025-10-18T19:18Z 370.3K followers, 26.1K engagements
"@elerianm In the modern world you need large armies to secure your gold"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979631710628467197) 2025-10-18T19:32Z 370.3K followers, 11.2K engagements
"@zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco If they did so there would be hundreds of jurisdictions chomping at the bit to prosecute them and thousands of nodes chomping at the bit to sue them. Incentives"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979712057202380851) 2025-10-19T00:51Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco Yes we should be working towards this kind of soft fork. But given core's current priorities this may be a very long term indeed possibly forever. So meanwhile Knots is the best protection noderunners have available"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979723076985393517) 2025-10-19T01:35Z 371.6K followers, 117.5K engagements
"@Mick_O_Keeffe Ireland's pubs are closing down because there are fewer Irish. There are fewer Irish because for at least a generation Irish women have been doing jigs and working for foreign corporations instead of raising children"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979727145095299281) 2025-10-19T01:51Z 369.8K followers, 10.5K engagements
"@bar_dictum @zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco That's a horrible outcome that cripples Bitcoin decentralization. It is what we are trying to avoid"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979728442951397517) 2025-10-19T01:56Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@SteaknShake So what is replacing seed oil I'd rather have seed oil than some mystery chemical"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979731261485986203) 2025-10-19T02:08Z 370K followers, 42.6K engagements
"@kaspa_the_green That is what we envisioned it would be like in [----] and sadly no one seems to have come up with a better solution AFAIK"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979731613765550087) 2025-10-19T02:09Z 369.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Because we had gold in there in [----] Had it all gone overseas by [----] Under Bretton Woods certain foreign governments could redeem dollars for gold at a fixed price. The dollar supply grew much faster than the gold supply and France took advantage of this by redeeming dollars for gold. By [----] this forced Nixon to go full fiat. Also AFAIK there's always been more gold stored at the NY Fed than at Fort Knox"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979754988370047242) 2025-10-19T03:42Z 369.8K followers, 17.3K engagements
"@jb_ruckus @oren_cass @ssankar @nvidia Hungary's Very dangerous"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979760286321262713) 2025-10-19T04:03Z 369.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@KevinoTech @stutxo @BitcoinKnobs It's a stupid joke"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979768344627855618) 2025-10-19T04:35Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@venorusprime @jimmysong Such a miner could be identified and outed. But I agree we need a soft fork"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979871723366621499) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 370.3K followers, 14.5K engagements
"You don't understand the threat environment and again fail with logic. If you don't want courts to arbitrate transactions then the transaction need to be as narrow in legal scope as possible -- as far from arbitrary in content as possible. Whether or not you want the law the law wants you -- to follow it. This is not the law of financial transactions which took a long time to figure out how to deal with crypto had a low motivation level and for which we have armies of lawyers. This is non-financial content for which the law often has long precedent which in some important cases has a high"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979873800268525653) 2025-10-19T11:34Z 373.7K followers, 103.4K engagements
"Not only that Marathon here is essentially threatening to sue the $# out of anyone who submits copyrighted or objectionable material via Slipstream. They presumably know that they in turn would get sued albeit it's far from clear that they've been properly advise on the legal risks of non-financial content"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979903344291590542) 2025-10-19T13:31Z 372K followers, 12K engagements
"I'd love to see more thoughts about how to give fee pressure a boost. A very interesting question is how to tailor the fee schedule to smack down hard on buckets that can hold arbitrary content (e.g. public keys) even when it's used for undistinguishable financial purposes while easing up on buckets where the entropy of arbitrary data must be low"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1980053257725845838) 2025-10-19T23:27Z 369.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@mlagace_ @gildedpleb @kyletorpey @George203BTC @th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 It's not prunable by archival nodes. The fact that it's prunable by limited-functionality nodes is not all that useful since at the end of the day it's the archival nodes that persist Bitcoin functionality"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1980056652020941014) 2025-10-19T23:41Z 369.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@Excellion @LukeDashjr @zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch It should be both in consensus and in policy. Since consensus is currently full of holes we need to go heavy in the short term on policy. In the long term fix the consensus. Then we'll be doing both"
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1980061090878021664) 2025-10-19T23:58Z 370.1K followers, 12.4K engagements
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Social category influence cryptocurrencies finance countries celebrities technology brands automotive brands stocks social networks exchanges travel destinations
Social topic influence bitcoin #3771, money #3525, gold, israel #573, in the, trust #566, countries, fiat #110, blockchain, to the #2687
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @adam3us @excellion @lukedashjr @jonasschnelli @bitcoinbabycake @nickszabo4 @realbtcjesus @lorandimecs @lexrivi @phyrooo @giacomozucco @grok @callebtc @shireh0dl @bitmexresearch @crypt0e @colbyserpa @satflation @oqqzinsmaimyitg @checkmatey
Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) Ethereum (ETH)
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"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. Gold and bitcoin is acting like were about to enter into a period of hyperinflationbut no one realizes that AI is deflationary. Gold and bitcoin is acting like were about to enter into a period of hyperinflationbut no one realizes that AI is deflationary"
X Link 2025-10-09T23:19Z 376.8K followers, 211.3K engagements
"@ImShillGates The cycle top happened around New Years' Day but in dollar terms the bear has mostly been masked by the debasement trade. Price it in gold and you'll see the top"
X Link 2025-10-18T00:59Z 376.4K followers, 81K engagements
"@adam3us @brian_trollz @LukeDashjr Adam is now having bizarre hallucinations about me like a bad drug trip and a bad LLM combined. I said quite nothing about the contiguous argument in the quoted tweet. Obviously. But that doesn't stop Adam from just making shit up"
X Link 2025-10-22T20:57Z 375.6K followers, 40.2K engagements
"@Buhlaque @MasonFoard Bitcoin is riding a learning curve like a NASDAQ stock. There are still plenty of people like you who haven't learned why Bitcoin in the long term works as a hedge against debasement. So there is still plenty of upside"
X Link 2026-01-28T02:52Z 376.4K followers, 19.3K engagements
"It's hard to tell that Bitcoin protects against debasement from just its price since most of the price rise since the pizza purchase has been due to the learning curve not to debasement (fiat has fallen but not by nearly as much as Bitcoin has risen). To understand why Bitcoin has and very likely will protect in the long-term against debasement better than gold has and will requires deep understanding of the underlying respective technologies that are gold and Bitcoin especially in terms of their respective extents and qualities of trust minimizaion and it requires knowing why trust"
X Link 2026-01-28T03:16Z 376.4K followers, 43.8K engagements
"Yes gold has thousands of years of being looted and hundreds of years including the present of sitting in vaults its trust minimization properties relegated to ancient history. Because it's far more expensive than Bitcoin to validate. You are another example of the vast majority who have little clue how this stuff works or why it's valuable and that vast majority of ignorance is why the Bitcoin learning curve has plenty of upside left to ride. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016352345018532095 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016352345018532095"
X Link 2026-01-28T03:27Z 376.4K followers, 258.4K engagements
"This is open insurrection very similar to when South Carolinians in [----] declared that they would not enforce federal tariff laws or when some southern politicians declared in [----] that they would not enforce Brown v. Board. I also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe. City leaders will continue to stay in conversation with Mr. Homan and his team. I also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws and that we will remain focused"
X Link 2026-01-28T03:52Z 376.1K followers, 19.3K engagements
"🏆🏆🏆 I'm calling it now before the month ends it can't be beaten: Alex Pretti is our Darwin Award winner for January. 🏆🏆🏆 Maybe the only thing dumber than getting into a fight with the cops while you are carrying a gun is doing that more than once Maybe the only thing dumber than getting into a fight with the cops while you are carrying a gun is doing that more than once"
X Link 2026-01-29T05:42Z 376.5K followers, 17.6K engagements
"@EricLDaugh Who are the donors specifically Name names"
X Link 2026-01-29T06:43Z 375.7K followers, 12.1K engagements
"@elonmusk How about governments that put the welfare of tycoons seeking cheap labor ahead of the culture of the nation and the welfare of workers"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:51Z 376.3K followers, 21.8K engagements
"@Dshady82Vincent @dotkrueger @natbrunell @saylor @maxkeiser @jackmallers @MMCrypto @LawrenceLepard @adam3us @ScottiePippen @matteopelleg @stacyherbert Are you new here It's called a bear market"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:33Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@CompteDeLll They say where you grew up was "too white.""
X Link 2026-02-05T04:59Z 376.4K followers, 40.2K engagements
"@gregory_kramer @tommy5cents02 @pmarca He didn't (and still doesn't AFAIK) actually understand money"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:23Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes but such are not necessary for the store-of-value use case which among other reasons is why the store-of-value use case predominates and you can't understand Bitcoin's past present or future value proposition without understanding why it is technologically and financially in the long term a superior store of value"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:11Z 376.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@elizabethltboyd And people who lobby for government contracts "NGO" government funds and the like for a living"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:58Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
""I don't understand what that means." When intelligent people pretend to not understand when you speak in plain language it's a probable symptom of profound dishonesty. Not leftism per se: though it's sadly common on the "left" here's an example of it on the "right." Profound dishonesty. Evil. If Epstein did it all by himself why is there a Non Prosecution Agreement for any potential co-conspirators That NPA shut down the grand jury probe and withdrew subpoenas. It effectively ended the active federal criminal investigation. There are more involved than Epstein and https://t.co/PhPay9UcF4 If"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:48Z 376.4K followers, 21.5K engagements
"If you adjust for intelligence squirrels are as smart as university professors. But more honest. This is an interesting "how to lie with stats" study. What they find is basically that if you adjust FOR the greater height weight and strength of men women are not at a disadvantage re lean muscle mass. https://t.co/rBKwcJnu3a This is an interesting "how to lie with stats" study. What they find is basically that if you adjust FOR the greater height weight and strength of men women are not at a disadvantage re lean muscle mass. https://t.co/rBKwcJnu3a"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:35Z 376.5K followers, 10.4K engagements
"@dr_duchesne @Noahpinion 100% is quite the exaggeration and instead of the ambiguous "modern" you should specify your timeframe since obviously Western Europe didn't invent civilization. Do better"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:29Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@dr_duchesne @wil_da_beast630 Because in fact what you said is clearly and obviously exaggerated as millions of people who know history better than you do can attest and you're making those of us in Europe and the European diaspora look stupid. Do better"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:32Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This reminds me of some prior socialists. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics built the Berlin Wall shot their people who tried to cross it without permission and put up many other barriers make it hard for people to leave their country-sized prison. NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on his previous statement that if a company leaves NY find them and tax them anyway. Now he is saying: "We should take businesses from owners who want to leave due to the tax increases and run them for the city https://t.co/cPZ6kF83aw NYCs socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling down on"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:56Z 376.5K followers, 24.3K engagements
"The sun never set on the British Empire and neither did its poor understanding of the foreigners it tried to govern. Now its elites understand neither the foreigners nor the British themselves. They think native Britons and former colonial subjects are just so many interchangeable economic parts. They invite willy-nilly the denizens of the subject cultures they never understood millions of Trojan horses full of the unknown and as a result the former Empire is now colonizing Britain itself. European nations that were too far from the oceans to mess with distant foreigners tend to now have"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:48Z 376.5K followers, 21.1K engagements
"@keepitup42 "Don't trust verify.""
X Link 2026-02-07T07:22Z 376.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@number33_ @brandonturp How many Kaspa full nodes are there How much history do Kaspa nodes need to store to provide the most trust minimization Given that stored history how fast (TB/year) would those nodes being filling up if a Kaspa chain operated at volumes dollar-equivalent to Bitcoin"
X Link 2025-09-27T19:59Z 376.5K followers, 126.1K 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 2025-10-02T00:38Z 376.8K followers, 177.8K 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 2025-10-05T05:20Z 376.7K followers, 29.1K 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 2025-10-06T14:59Z 376.8K followers, 222.7K engagements
"@WhalePanda Bitcoin is in a bear cycle masked by the debasement trade"
X Link 2025-10-16T14:41Z 376.8K followers, 93.5K engagements
"@JohnWKelley_ It's an idiotic rumor. Epstein gained his fiat billions working for banks and using bank loans"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:12Z 376.5K followers, 51.2K engagements
"@demster70 You wanting to keep it beautiful is racist. P.S. racism is not a sin"
X Link 2026-02-03T07:11Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@SaltyGirl09 Zero of these people we sub-Saharan African"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:31Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@aakashgupta Props to the guys who most made this happen:"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:13Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@Kommodor64 And we have here not just a moron who thinks other people don't have eyes and ears but an extremely vile moron who supports immigrants who proceeded to ethnically cleanse and genocide their host country"
X Link 2026-02-05T04:39Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@JatoshiX You don't trust you verify the code or get somebody you do trust to verify the code for you"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:01Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Who are you talking about Of these two countries on the other side of the planet neither is a physical threat to U.S. national security and only Israel is a political risk to our national security due to their undue influence and behavior most of the world sees as horrific. None of this rises to the level of "enemy". https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019593185572581731 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019593185572581731"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:05Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"So many spectacular layers of misinformation and bullshit here In almost every category you list Israel is the greater threat. It has more physically threatening weapons and it has committed more terrorism ethnic cleansing genocide etc. than Iran. What's more there are at least a couple dozen other countries in the world that can threaten the U.S. physically in to an even grater extent than either of these countries. You are in short a profoundly brainwashed moron. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019597604347429017 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019597604347429017"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:22Z 376.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@sweatystartup @HodlFlorida @LawrenceLepard @saifedean Ask grok and be sure to ask it to explain it like you're 5"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:05Z 376.7K followers, 12.5K engagements
"Bill Barr's father was Jeffrey Epstein's first significant employer who put him to teaching at a high school full of underage girls no less. The administration now has Bill Barr writing articles in the @WSJ to defend Pam Bondi on the #EpsteinFiles. The Bush infiltrator who later buried all efforts to investigate fraud then wrote a book about how he was actually the hero of the story. Yep that Bill Bush Barr. The administration now has Bill Barr writing articles in the @WSJ to defend Pam Bondi on the #EpsteinFiles. The Bush infiltrator who later buried all efforts to investigate fraud then"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:47Z 376.5K followers, 26.6K engagements
"The security of some nation may depend on pedophile rackets. The security of my nation is undermined by them. Theyre admitting that our national security depends on pedophile rackets. Im not saying to burn it all down Im just saying the matches are starting to look lonely. Theyre admitting that our national security depends on pedophile rackets. Im not saying to burn it all down Im just saying the matches are starting to look lonely"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:01Z 376.7K followers, 14.6K engagements
"@QuantumAlteredX Victim's name not protected Seems to have been recruited when she was underage: https://bocanewsnow.com/2026/02/04/did-jeffrey-epstein-pay-for-girls-at-north-broward-prep/ https://bocanewsnow.com/2026/02/04/did-jeffrey-epstein-pay-for-girls-at-north-broward-prep/"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:50Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Now preparing to kill American sailors for Israel. US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was listed in Epsteins flight logs with Jean Luc Brunel. Brunel also committed suicide by hanging himself in prison after facing multiple rape and SA of minors charges. https://t.co/BKR1b5SraC US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was listed in Epsteins flight logs with Jean Luc Brunel. Brunel also committed suicide by hanging himself in prison after facing multiple rape and SA of minors charges. https://t.co/BKR1b5SraC"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:49Z 376.7K followers, 16.1K engagements
"@PrinceVogel They've replaced the naturally flowing Greco-Roman influences with brutally sharp corners that make a part of you feel as if facing thousands of unsheathed blades"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:55Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The UK was a Christian country. It is not one now. It may be once again in the future if there is an intense crusade and herculean missionary work. Meanwhile most Muslims for example the Pakistanis now living in the UK need to live under Shariah law. Otherwise they and their non-Muslim neighbors will continue living in rape-gang hell. @NickSzabo4 Not sure I like where this is going. The UK is a Christian country and its legal system is run on Blacks law whilst the courts run on admiralty law. Bosnia predominantly Muslim runs on civil law sharia law was outdated in the 1940s. We do not need"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:08Z 376.6K followers, 16.2K engagements
"@tipper_cow18938 Christianity was the British religion for over [----] years and the prior religions were lost. Creative re-imaginings don't cut it"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:49Z 376.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Also immigrants or visitors who were entrusted with nuclear secrets: Klaus Fuchs who sold Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets; Harry Gold who helped Fuchs; George Koval born in the U.S. but raised in the Soviet Union and trained there as a spy who successfully penetrated the Manhattan Project and passed details about its nuclear technologies to the Soviets; Allan Nunn May who obtained U.S. secrets while visiting from Canada and sent them to the Soviet Union; Wen Ho Lee probable case of passing nuclear secrets to China but convicted only of mishandling data. Those are just the ones who"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:08Z 376.7K followers, 12.1K engagements
"@EndBiasedRpting @tadgh_dc @goddek @DineshDSouza And why did Monica Lewinsky tell Linda Tripp about it To brag Maybe. There are other possible motivations"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:03Z 376.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@grok @SockPuppyet @shipwreckshow @USAttyPirro When was Staley CEO of Barclay's Bank"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:57Z 376.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@Capital_Mind_ @Excellion It's not quite that simple but it's sort of right and I admire the poetry and the pics"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:15Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@JOConnor_AK @RepThomasMassie Why blame America-loving libertarians rather than America-hating Zionists like Lutnick Do you think people who look the other way while working-class American girls are raped and while U.S. soldiers die overseas fighting for Israel love America"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:08Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@OwenShroyer1776 But they (and some of us) would also have to admit that she's doing it at the behest or for the sake of Trump Lutnick Witkoff & Co"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:33Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@LandoBerando @0___________0_v Massie's not ideal but on the crucial issues of Epstein and expensive and ruinous Israeli-centric foreign policy he is on the side of good and Trump is quite obviously on the side of evil"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:02Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Seldom does a day go by in politics where Orwell's lessons don't come into play alas. The irony of Netanyahu signing onto the Board of Peace while he's here to push America into war is too great to comprehend. The irony of Netanyahu signing onto the Board of Peace while he's here to push America into war is too great to comprehend"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:54Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Unredacting the Epstein files would be very bad for Israeli national security. 🚨 Speaker Mike Johnson just admitted the Epstein files must stay redacted for national security concerns. National FKN security Really A pedophile trafficker raped kids for decades while rubbing elbows with the elite intelligence agencies and probably half of DC https://t.co/59MmLLJAkM 🚨 Speaker Mike Johnson just admitted the Epstein files must stay redacted for national security concerns. National FKN security Really A pedophile trafficker raped kids for decades while rubbing elbows with the elite intelligence"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:36Z 376.8K followers, 29.6K engagements
"The less you can genuinely appreciate something the more mysterious is its value. Modern art is optimized for the inscrutability of its worth. It's a medium of cryptic wealth transfer and protean collateral for fiat money creation. @NickSzabo4 Modern art is just money laundering @NickSzabo4 Modern art is just money laundering"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:09Z 376.8K followers, 12.9K engagements
"Somalia is one example of such a country. Israel is another. We should take zero immigrants from countries where people dont know it is wrong to rape children. We should take zero immigrants from countries where people dont know it is wrong to rape children"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:09Z 376.7K followers, 28.8K 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 2025-09-27T23:27Z 376.8K followers, 141.8K engagements
"Bitcoin is currently a little bit less expensive than physical gold for individuals to self-custody (custody costs and risks) and far less expensive and quicker to transfer (validation/assay costs and risks and global settlement). Bitcoin is so far neither considerably cheaper nor more expensive than gold for institutions to hold because of the trust/control issues involved in institutional custody. Technology can make Bitcoin considerably cheaper to self-custody both for individuals and institutions but that is a set of technologies that are slow to mature not widely understood and require"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:44Z 376.8K followers, 194.3K engagements
"Trying to outdo political campaigns. Creativity on it's peak💀 https://t.co/LWr6QHZPCG Creativity on it's peak💀 https://t.co/LWr6QHZPCG"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:33Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Protean collateral does indeed matter because "the money printer" is really bank loans and large bank loans require collateral under regulations. So one of the ways to become a Cantillon insider if you are not one of the small number of entities (mostly the federal government) whose bonds banks are required to hold by those regulations is (a) having friends at a bank and (b) having protean collateral that you can buy low and value high. Wexler Black Epstein and friends had both. @beaverd @NickSzabo4 When you have the free $ printer does it even matter 🤣 @beaverd @NickSzabo4 When you have the"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:59Z 376.8K followers, 11.3K engagements
"This is key. Employers seeking cheap labor are the biggest reason for mass migration. The cheaper employers are happy to use government welfare to subsidize their labor. If you like me want to solve mass migration. we must target the employers donations be damned and we must remove the welfare subsidies for visitors and recent immigrants that employers at the cheaper end rely on. @NickSzabo4 Jailing employers + cutting off benefits = victory @NickSzabo4 Jailing employers + cutting off benefits = victory"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:00Z 376.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Wrong. Boris Johnson and Angela Merkle were the biggest people importers. They were pro-business moderates not leftists. They were chiefly pleasing their business donors. Also it's a mistake to think the left doesn't have its share of business donors. An even bigger share once the left shifted its ideology to be less pro-worker and more pro-immigrant. Also governments themselves are employers and want cheap labor too. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022818072646815787 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022818072646815787"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:39Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@skden2020 The problem isn't so much the President as it is his friends and donors with the Israeli passports"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:48Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Indeed. Somalia has a legal system that is well adapted to the Somalian people. The United States does not have a legal system that is well adapted to the Somalian people. @NickSzabo4 Somalia is a conservative Muslim country where rape is punishable by death. Its social order is built around strict moral codes meant to deter the behavior that produces that culture. Meanwhile US culture is built around sex alcohol debt and violence. Educate yourself. @NickSzabo4 Somalia is a conservative Muslim country where rape is punishable by death. Its social order is built around strict moral codes meant"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:39Z 376.7K followers, 12.3K engagements
"@Bitcoinpoet_JP @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @jonasschnelli @adam3us Deprecate use of OP_RETURN for financial transaction functionality going forward; add ability to prune the newer while keeping the older OP_RETURNs"
X Link 2025-10-03T00:46Z 376.7K followers, 20K engagements
"@adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining Yes there is no excuse for the Bitcoin reference client to expose us to the wide variety of extreme legal risks that come with arbitrary content. You don't understand the threat environment"
X Link 2025-10-15T17:22Z 376.7K followers, 33.9K engagements
"Fiat is stable until it isn't"
X Link 2025-10-16T20:39Z 376.8K followers, 152.6K engagements
"@HiyokoLP Yes I strongly recommend running Knots not Core"
X Link 2025-10-22T06:59Z 376.7K followers, 89.1K engagements
"Corporatism vs. socialism: an awful dichotomy like Odysseus having to choose between having his ships destroyed by rocks if he steered them a bit too far north and being sucked in by a whirlpool if they went a bit too far south. Innovations at large social scales -- and I daresay I helped a bit with that myself -- have often been a great economic boon for mankind. Innovations in contract law property law financial markets and related areas have after maturation often turned out to be quite beneficial with a net benefit when non-beneficial innovations are discarded. Currently more"
X Link 2025-11-23T03:07Z 376.7K followers, 118.8K engagements
"No mention of Bitcoin as a store of value or as sound money -- two ways of describing what is by far the predominant source of Bitcoin's price rise and value so far (its small medium of exchange use having disappointed many). He didn't (and probably still doesn't) understand why Bitcoin is valuable"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:17Z 376.7K followers, 29.1K engagements
"@dr_duchesne After the great fusion of the steppe and early European farmer peoples 5000-4200 years ago genes in Europe were stable from migration from that prehistoric time until the last decades of the 20th century"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:24Z 376.7K followers, 25.1K engagements
""National security." Not my nation probably not your nation but somebody's nation I presume. Can someone help me understand whats going on here- We're getting these massive Epstein file dumps with names paraded everywhere detailed accounts of rape and pedophilia laid out like entries in a ledgerand then. crickets. Zero arrests. No handcuffs no perp walks no Can someone help me understand whats going on here- We're getting these massive Epstein file dumps with names paraded everywhere detailed accounts of rape and pedophilia laid out like entries in a ledgerand then. crickets. Zero arrests. No"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:38Z 376.7K followers, 14K engagements
"Having failed to convince Americans that blacks are too retarded to get and use IDs to vote Democrats now talk as if women are too retarded to get and use IDs to vote. Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin says the SAVE Act mandating voter ID will eventually lead to the repeal of the 19th Amendment causing women to lose the right to vote. Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/4Depk7ceXV Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin says the SAVE Act mandating voter ID will eventually lead to the repeal of the 19th Amendment causing women to lose the right to vote. Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/4Depk7ceXV"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:50Z 376.7K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Something to think about next time you fill out a form. CLAUDE CODE but for HACKING its called shannon you point it at website and it just. tries to break in. fully autonomous with no human needed i pointed it at a test app and it stole the entire user database created admin accounts and bypassed login all by itself in [--] https://t.co/oA9x2eajhu CLAUDE CODE but for HACKING its called shannon you point it at website and it just. tries to break in. fully autonomous with no human needed i pointed it at a test app and it stole the entire user database created admin accounts and bypassed login all"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:12Z 376.7K followers, 88.4K engagements
"Epstein worked with non-Likud Israeli politicians and agents (Barak Herzog the Maxwells etc.) therefore didn't work with Israel says Likud leader. Jeffrey Epstein's unusual close relationship with Ehud Barak doesn't suggest Epstein worked for Israel. It proves the opposite. Stuck on his election loss from over two decades ago Barak has for years obsessively attempted to undermine Israeli democracy by working with the Jeffrey Epstein's unusual close relationship with Ehud Barak doesn't suggest Epstein worked for Israel. It proves the opposite. Stuck on his election loss from over two decades"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:34Z 376.7K followers, 29.1K engagements
"Wrinkle: Epstein didn't confine his Israeli relationships to its Labor Party after all -- indeed he was also arranging for people to meet with Bibi himself"
X Link 2026-02-07T07:19Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The original American evangelicals were English Calvinists from England. They preached their sermons and sung their hymns and talked about their work and everything else in English. (A few of the smart ones also learned the classical European languages Latin and Greek). "Melting" was an Englishman converting to Calvinism and if you were not that you went and lived in some other distant community. Some of these were my ancestors and researching genealogy has given me an interesting look at how they lived and what they believed. If you were a Catholic you lived and worshipped with your fellow"
X Link 2026-02-09T04:18Z 376.7K followers, 10.9K engagements
"@GabeBHiggins @StrongHandLeadr LLMs like Claude are terrible at security audits; they are especially terrible at judging the natures and sources of threats (as admittedly are many human engineers including most of the current Bitcoin Core developers)"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:43Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@LevTeot Nonsense. Gold spent about [----] of its [----] year history in decentralized self-custody. That era is alas now long since over but it did happen"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:36Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Hal also supported bit gold and had his own cryptocurrency design both of which also had this problem. It's anonymous if you keep it anonymous at the edges. That's considerably less of a privacy protection than e.g. Monero has and you have to know what you're doing and be careful to take advantage of it but it's not nothing. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021449995501871408 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021449995501871408"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:03Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@Celt404 @FiscalDominanc @LevTeot Buy Bitcoin the self-custodied real thing not "bitcoin" and you'll be fine"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:06Z 376.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Do you think people who look the other way while working-class American girls are raped and lobby for U.S. soldiers to die overseas fighting for Israel and burden our children and grandchildren with unpayable debts to pay for all their present spending love America and are actually trying hard to fix it Or are they perhaps just putting on a good show with their great casino showman @RepThomasMassie libertarians just cant help sabotaging the people trying to fix the damage done to the country. They dont have a solution other than the internal enemies to the country should be nice. Ex [--] year"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:16Z 376.7K followers, 15K engagements
"It also ends with vast numbers of H1-B workers from alien cultures as your new neighbors and as your fellow employees. Neighbors and coworkers who don't understand and indeed often despise American traditions and values. Wages start sinking towards third world levels. Christmas may no longer be the holiday your office lets you take off a week to be with your family. Your favorite selections of milk and cuts of meat can disappear from the grocery shelves. Fraud and other crimes can spike. People in public and at the office no longer have a common set of manners. I have seen all of this in"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:56Z 376.7K followers, 26.8K engagements
"@hanselang Bitcoin has a liquid market with a public price it's not what I'm calling protean collateral here"
X Link 2026-02-14T07:39Z 376.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@lynnerae Currently run Knots. In the future I hope we will have more options"
X Link 2025-11-25T06:18Z 376.8K followers, 33.9K engagements
"@Mark___Taylor What if God gave them the land but the price they must pay for that boon is that they can't get into heaven"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:11Z 376.7K followers, [----] 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 2025-10-01T21:38Z 376.8K followers, 237.5K engagements
"As a (hopefully) temporary measure run Knots. I strongly recommend not upgrading to Core v30. https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973502865143636151 @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @jonasschnelli @Shireh0dl @adam3us 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 https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1973502865143636151 @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo @lorandimecs"
X Link 2025-10-08T06:07Z 376.8K followers, 458.7K engagements
"I hope we can do something more trust-minimized and less risky for financial transaction immutability than BIP [---]. I see a high value in fixing the segwit discount inscription-related bugs and perhaps some other related things but I also worry about the added complexity and risk and I worry about rugging useful financial functionality. So it's easy for me to get behind a simple soft fork. As a general matter I'm not opposed to a more comprehensive fork but it would at the very least take considerably more time for independent developers to inspect and for me to analyze both of which I'd want"
X Link 2025-11-23T01:58Z 376.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"There are libraries full of laws governing a very wide variety legible content online and extremely few if any lawyers in the crypto space who have strong experience in them and are also strongly familiar with the unique nature of most blockchains (e.g. the often extreme functional disruption that comes from deleting data once it is on a blockchain). Here is just the tip of the the tip of the iceberg -- a small fraction of relevant U.S. federal law -- not even considering the [--] State laws the 100s of foreign country and provincial laws etc. Whoever having unauthorized possession of access to"
X Link 2025-11-24T16:36Z 376.7K followers, 101.4K engagements
"It's a truly idiotic idea. Epstein made his billions with fiat ponzi schemes by working for and getting loans from banks and by working for/with other Zionist plutocrats like Lex Wexner and Leon Black who made their own billions doing similar -- in Wexner's case getting fiat bank loans to buy and expand sleezy businesses targeting teen sexuality in Black's case using bank loans (margin) to buy financial securities. Epstein and his business buddies were traditional finance people to the bone the kind who have no conception or desire for any kind of money different from the kind they profited"
X Link 2026-02-05T06:14Z 376.8K followers, 249.3K engagements
"@StrongHandLeadr Those who hold large amounts of Bitcoin should get software engineers they know personally to be trustworthy to audit the Bitcoin Core code for them"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:06Z 376.8K followers, 20.9K engagements
"Racism is not a sin. Not a mortal sin not a venial sin not a sin at all. Racism is not listed or described or so much as mentioned as a sin by any prophet or apostle much less by Jesus himself nor by the great church fathers nor by Aquinas nor by Luther. Rape is a deeply mortal sin. Racism is considered a more terrible act in the UK than rape and child abuse. Thats the only way to explain parliaments unwillingness to investigate the grooming gang scandal and the medias unwillingness to report on the unofficial @rapeganginquiry. Racism is considered a more terrible act in the UK than rape and"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:03Z 376.8K followers, 93.4K engagements
"Politicians used to be able to lie without tells. Stop blackpilling this is progress. When asked about taking AIPAC bribes Gavin Newsom freezes and repeats its interesting [--] times. Hes a Zionist. Never trust him. Find a better candidate. https://t.co/76rl6OfY9o When asked about taking AIPAC bribes Gavin Newsom freezes and repeats its interesting [--] times. Hes a Zionist. Never trust him. Find a better candidate. https://t.co/76rl6OfY9o"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:49Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Indeed suicidal but the opposite of empathy: it reflects a profound misunderstanding of the alien mind. Peak suicidal empathy. Mind boggling. Oh you tried to blow up a building Asylum granted Your 5-star hotel is across the street all expenses paid. https://t.co/yoTwXlsZpu Peak suicidal empathy. Mind boggling. Oh you tried to blow up a building Asylum granted Your 5-star hotel is across the street all expenses paid. https://t.co/yoTwXlsZpu"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:22Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It's a mistake to consider pro-migration politics as having a solely left-wing source. In money terms most of it is driven by large donors who while often being leftist trust fund babies who benefit from cheap labor almost as often ideologically sit closer to the libertarian right. These have an overly extended anti-government view that encompasses disrespect for borders and as business owners (whether directly or via their trust funds) have strong incentives to want cheap labor. The Cato Institute is a good example of a libertarian think tank that is funded primarily by business owners and"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:22Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Merkle became chancellor by rising in the conservative (right wing) party mainly because of her appeal to business donors but obviously also because both the conservatives and donors who knew her believed she had left her leftism behind with the end of the Cold War. Mass migration was supported by the bulk of the conservative party in the 2010s especially by its donors. It wasn't some 5D chess trick pulled by Merkle on her supporters. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022825718837841981 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022825718837841981"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:10Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"While not the most profound example of culture adult drinking of milk along with consumption of other lactose-containing dairy products has a substantial connection with European biology. One sad way to track demographic change is to observe the expansion of soy/almond/etc. "milk" and "cream" in the dairy section usually with a reduction of the variety of actual (milk) dairy products. Yes I know there are whites who drink the plant slop and browns who often heroically drink actual milk. A few non-Europeans have evolved their own versions of lactase persistence. Minorities. Lactase persistence"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:40Z 376.8K followers, [----] 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 2025-10-07T00:45Z 376.8K followers, 120.7K engagements
"@thejobchick It keeps Indians in India so that America can stay American -- that is even more important than the jobs themselves"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:55Z 376.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Serious Christian missionaries conduct their missions in places like Brussels Belgium Birmingham U.K. Dearborn Michigan and Frisco Texas. If your "mission" is to the jungles of Borneo or the mountain slopes of Nepal you are just taking a fun subsidized vacation"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:19Z 376.8K followers, 25.4K engagements
"If I had on top of my U.S. passport a Hungarian passport and you knew little else about me -- the kind of knowledge voters typically have about politicians or employers typically have about new hires -- it would be entirely legitimate and proper for you to question my loyalty to the United States and disqualify me from positions of substantial political responsibility. No foreign passport holder should hold any political office nor government employment nor any important post in a government contractor subcontractor or NGO in the United States. If they do question their loyalty"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:02Z 376.8K followers, 32.4K engagements
"@Usuryisgay You gave economic armageddon fantasies the preposterous excuses without labeling them as such. The reason is they want cheap labor. And this isn't either/or we can fix money with Bitcoin and immigration with putting criminal employers in jail"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:37Z 376.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@peterktodd @mir_btc @giacomozucco Not very professional by EOS standards. You are supposed to be on call for meetings 24x365 in case some address held in Albania or Zimbabwe wants to freeze their (former) coins. Also you should pluck the down for your sleeping bag with your own hands"
X Link 2018-06-27T07:02Z 374.8K followers, [---] engagements
"George is a fellow OG but this is wrong. Bitcoin is seamlessly global it does not and need not conform to the ideological speculations ("macroeconomic theories") of particular polities. https://x.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1021553927324688386 When I wrote my book on free banking I tried to persuade other economists that it would promote stability. To do that I had to take their concerns theories and beliefs seriously. Fans of bitcoin and other crypto's ought to do the same. https://x.com/GeorgeSelgin/status/1021553927324688386 When I wrote my book on free banking I tried to persuade other"
X Link 2018-07-24T06:54Z 374.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Trust and security considerations are far more important than speculations about aggregate human behavior. Psychologists have a hard time making their experiments on individuals repeatable. Macroeconomists speculate about vast numbers of interacting individuals no repeatability"
X Link 2018-07-24T07:08Z 374.6K followers, [---] engagements
"High inflation causes savers and creditors large tangible harms as we see today in Venezuela Iran Sudan Nigeria Argentina &c. But alleged harms caused by much lower levels of "bad deflation" are very causally remote from monetary decisions -- it's ideological speculation"
X Link 2018-07-24T07:19Z 374.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Trust-minimized rules are new & in many ways will be vastly superior to what trusted but often not so trustworthy kings judges legislatures or regulators have concocted. Trust-minimized code will bring reality to the constitutional ideal "a government of laws & not of men." @NickSzabo4 "Code" are just rules. "Rules" is a synonym for law. The Code of Hamurabi were laws. This isn't really new at all. @NickSzabo4 "Code" are just rules. "Rules" is a synonym for law. The Code of Hamurabi were laws. This isn't really new at all"
X Link 2018-10-24T18:46Z 371.5K followers, [---] engagements
""to trace money across ledgers we use data scraped from ShapeShift over a six-month period and the data from eight different blockchains . we . identify various patterns of cross-currency trades and of the general usage of these platforms." https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12786 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12786"
X Link 2018-11-02T04:39Z 374.8K followers, [---] engagements
"If aliens existed we could readily see copious surface engineering in galaxies: "The germs of existence on earth if they could freely develop themselves would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years"(Malthus) https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2012/01/23/rethinking-setis-targets/comment-page-1/ https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2012/01/23/rethinking-setis-targets/comment-page-1/ https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html"
X Link 2018-12-02T20:00Z 373.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@giacomozucco @freemantledj @Frances_Coppola @MattSmythAudio @davidgerard @LiamLightmare @aleksigrym @ViliLe @aantonop @jimmysong Computer science and coding are far more productive activities than macroeconomic theology"
X Link 2019-02-19T15:36Z 370.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@aleksigrym @MattSmythAudio @Frances_Coppola @ViliLe @davidgerard It's a liability until it isn't. The U.S. et. al. had legal liabilities to pay on their gold and silver notes until they decided they didn't. Lehmann did until they went bankrupt. Etc. The vast majority of macroeconomics is central bank ideology parading as science"
X Link 2019-02-19T16:08Z 370.8K followers, [---] engagements
"In a deep or prolonged recession attacks by technocratic authorities & political activists against digitally centralized assets will increase in volume & scope. Other forms of political or legal instability could also lower the safety of digitally centralized assets"
X Link 2019-08-17T16:12Z 373.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@Phaethon_P @adam3us @Douglas_Horn @3L3C70 @C1aranMurray @iang_fc @bitcoin_bolsa @bergealex4 @LukeDashjr Great I'm glad the Meta Rules allow for so many possibilities. Let's vote for Governor Kitty's game it's really fun. The Governor is such a nice guy and he makes sure we are all very civil to each other"
X Link 2019-09-12T21:46Z 355.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@ChainlinkWave Sadly yes Ethereum which once sounded so promising has become a shitcoin as a result of devolving into a centralized cult"
X Link 2019-10-16T17:45Z 374K followers, [---] engagements
"Currently "need it now" means something like "need it in less than [--] years" for the most stable & low-inflation fiat currencies less for more inflating & volatile fiats. This consumption timeframe in which fiat has advantage will shrink as Bitcoin's volatility shrinks"
X Link 2019-10-18T16:34Z 374.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@lawrencehwhite1 Not if the movement of gold between the banks is interdicted by war or other bad politics. Free banking relies on high quality politics that has seldom existed and (Libra is only the latest example) is sadly nowhere close to existing now"
X Link 2019-10-19T15:19Z 369.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@ErikVoorhees @cryptonadafomo @MiaVendetta07 If you invite an illegal alien onto your state-force-protected land you are committing a moral crime and if state law matches moral law a legal crime as well and betraying the jurisdiction that is protecting what physical property rights you have"
X Link 2020-01-03T04:09Z 373.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@BrianLockhart @angela_walch $BAV -- Bitcoin Angela's Vision. Can't wait"
X Link 2020-02-28T00:17Z 374K followers, [---] engagements
"'The special expectation of safety within and right to defend a residence and its occupants -- what Coke called the "liberty . of a house" -- justifies both a kill-the-burglar rule for residents and a knock-and-announce rule for law enforcement.' https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/09/semaynes-case-liberty-of-house.html https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/09/semaynes-case-liberty-of-house.html"
X Link 2020-06-29T17:56Z 370.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@milkyway911 @katerinareports @btc_holder The following "god" protocol is the general method but it's only partial (what is kept private is not only what attacker can't infer from the output) and it's infeasibly expensive in computational resources for almost all purposes (including this one). https://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-god-protocols/ https://nakamotoinstitute.org/the-god-protocols/"
X Link 2021-01-04T22:01Z 374.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Indeed "nation" is typically a translation of the Koine Greek (ethnos) or the Hebrew (gy) and typically has a tribal connotation which means it also has a genetic connotation which is sometimes made explicit. For example when God makes promises to Abraham about his progeny He uses "nation" () and "seed" () interchageably to refer to those promised progeny. These promises are yet another example of God approving of (indeed in this case engaging Himself in) favoritism rather than equal treatment"
X Link 2025-09-28T07:56Z 370.3K followers, 19.3K engagements
"@digitaljuiceman @CitizenBitcoin @BitcoinOllie @callebtc Are writers of popular apps using the witness data to store images (including legal ones) Which kind of data are they more likely to use in the future"
X Link 2025-09-29T04:56Z 371.7K followers, [----] 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 2025-09-30T04:26Z 370K followers, 43.4K 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 2025-09-30T05:05Z 369.7K followers, 22.9K 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 2025-10-01T20:19Z 369.7K followers, 91.6K 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 2025-10-01T21:17Z 371.7K followers, 54.8K engagements
"@ChaseWattsX @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @jonasschnelli @Shireh0dl @adam3us I too don't understand why NFT and other non-financial-content people don't prefer other cheaper blockchains. But for some reason they are willing to pay the premium so for the miners it's worth it"
X Link 2025-10-01T22:45Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@bigdilf31521159 @SameeLiaei No it wouldn't "just as easily" go after financial transactions. The two areas of law and politics are worlds apart"
X Link 2025-10-02T00:41Z 373.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@thebitcoinroll That's not what it currently does. WTF is wrong with posters thinking I'm talking about Bitcoin exactly as it is now I'm trying to figure out how to fix it. Try to help or go fuck off"
X Link 2025-10-03T03:50Z 373.5K followers, [----] 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 2025-10-03T04:59Z 371.5K followers, 34.8K engagements
"@Transittometals Silver turns women into sluts"
X Link 2025-10-05T15:59Z 370.3K followers, 12.7K engagements
"@Arthur_van_Pelt @btcblockjams You have the option of deleting individual files. Archival Bitcoiin nodes currently do not"
X Link 2025-10-06T03:30Z 374.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@TTrevethan @LukeDashjr Financial law risks are a far narrower set of legal threats and the bitcoin community has a large group of lawyers and lobbyists to deal with them. We have next to no expertise in dealing with the wide variety of legal risks that come with a wide variety of arbitrary content"
X Link 2025-10-06T14:41Z 373.1K followers, 26.6K engagements
"This. And the biggest cost of the spam isn't the volume; it's the legal and moral risks that come with arbitrary non-financial content which are far larger far less predictable and far less manageable by the bitcoin leal community than the legal and moral risks from merely arbitrary financial transactions"
X Link 2025-10-08T14:49Z 373.1K followers, 19K engagements
"@George203BTC @th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 [--] bytes meant to support some kinds of financial transactions and not meant for and incapable of supporting most non-financial content e.g. images"
X Link 2025-10-08T15:00Z 370K followers, 13.7K engagements
"@aeonBTC Did you see the part where I said temporary measure"
X Link 2025-10-08T15:38Z 369.9K followers, [----] engagements
"At AIPAC events politicians are QR-coded political meat. At my first AIPAC reception you had to wear a name badge with a QR code talk to donors and if they liked you they scanned it to donate on the spot. @mattgaetz on the surreal humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers. https://t.co/bIIbLx9wMZ At my first AIPAC reception you had to wear a name badge with a QR code talk to donors and if they liked you they scanned it to donate on the spot. @mattgaetz on the surreal humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers. https://t.co/bIIbLx9wMZ"
X Link 2025-10-08T15:51Z 374.4K followers, 39.4K engagements
"@Villgecrazylady Candace Owens is a "mental patient" for the same reason that Ezra Pound was a mental patient"
X Link 2025-10-10T17:44Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"More jobs are being lost to outsourcing and immigration than to AI. But they are blamed on AI"
X Link 2025-10-10T17:50Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@hagaetc So most people should aspire to work as serfs for their corporate masters until they die Fuck off boss"
X Link 2025-10-10T20:20Z 371.1K followers, 26.4K 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 2025-10-11T04:05Z 369.8K followers, 41.4K 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 2025-10-11T05:24Z 369.5K followers, 11K 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. You denounce Tuckerthe one guy who would give you a platformeven as you remain loyal to the establishment that rejected you. You denounce Tuckerthe one guy who would give you a platformeven as you remain loyal to the establishment that rejected you"
X Link 2025-10-12T02:17Z 370.1K followers, 81.7K 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 2025-10-12T05:07Z 371.7K followers, 31.4K 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 2025-10-12T05:41Z 369.9K followers, 30.7K engagements
"The lunatics are now literally running mental health. Dumb: First question. Dumber: Second question. https://t.co/Vtzg64XcWq Dumb: First question. Dumber: Second question. https://t.co/Vtzg64XcWq"
X Link 2025-10-12T17:04Z 369.8K followers, 31.7K engagements
"@noisevault Read classics from before the 20th century. We have dozens of centuries of civilization to draw on"
X Link 2025-10-12T19:30Z 373.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@AFpost Successfully concealed How many combinations of stoned and drunk was that guy"
X Link 2025-10-13T00:23Z 369.9K followers, 88.8K 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. https://t.co/RGRHXK0JY5 https://t.co/RGRHXK0JY5"
X Link 2025-10-13T00:36Z 370.1K followers, 57.7K engagements
"@Up_The_Bracket1 Recover the old wisdom of Western civilization which was mostly lost during the 20th century"
X Link 2025-10-13T02:20Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@Up_The_Bracket1 Start with the basics you should have learned as a kid: Bible stories and Aesop"
X Link 2025-10-13T03:12Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@piter239 @cornokun @Arthur_van_Pelt But core is changing the features of Bitcoin that make it resilient. That's the issue"
X Link 2025-10-14T17:52Z 369.5K followers, 11.4K engagements
"@durov Who opposed it"
X Link 2025-10-14T19:44Z 371.5K followers, 111.8K engagements
"@satflation Zero cognizance of the threat environment"
X Link 2025-10-14T20:28Z 370.9K followers, 109.8K engagements
""This isnt about retail inflation anymore. Investors are fleeing counterparty risk itself." Golds surge past $4100 is the market screaming that something big is breaking beneath the surface. You dont see gold rally this hard while oil drops the dollar holds steady and long term Treasury yields fall unless the system is quietly shifting into crisis prevention mode. https://t.co/52gMUUukx8 Golds surge past $4100 is the market screaming that something big is breaking beneath the surface. You dont see gold rally this hard while oil drops the dollar holds steady and long term Treasury yields fall"
X Link 2025-10-15T03:32Z 373.8K followers, 53.7K engagements
"CSAM and CP should be prosecuted Even when tough & costly When convenient Never: should be legal Even when tough & costly When convenient Never: should be legal"
X Link 2025-10-15T04:06Z 371.7K followers, 155.8K engagements
"@AFpost Thus the groyper long march through the institutions begins"
X Link 2025-10-15T04:10Z 369.8K followers, 43.3K engagements
"@DadGuy1986 @_DavidSFreeman @adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining The general legal risk increases with the number of bytes with sharp increases as images become more legible"
X Link 2025-10-15T20:21Z 369.8K followers, 37.7K engagements
"@0HOUR1__ The prequel starred Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close IIRC"
X Link 2025-10-16T03:48Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@Zatoichi42 @BitMEXResearch GMax: "Hi I'd like to buy a painting today." Store clerk: "Sorry this isn't an art shop that would be three blocks down." Gmax: "Censorship Stop attacking my freedom""
X Link 2025-10-16T06:00Z 370.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@BitMEXResearch The original post in the thread is far more thoughtful and informative: https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=5562381.msg65922878#msg65922878 https://bitcointalk.org/index.phptopic=5562381.msg65922878#msg65922878"
X Link 2025-10-16T06:23Z 370.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Arbitrary content makes Bitcoin's threat environment far larger far less predictable and in some cases far more highly motivated: https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978311448766840995 CSAM and CP should be prosecuted https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978311448766840995 CSAM and CP should be prosecuted"
X Link 2025-10-16T07:37Z 374.3K followers, 84.1K engagements
"@RnaudBertrand Trump administration is repeating idiocy of Biden administration in going to war against the whole world. It's insane how consistently fucked up U.S. foreign policy is"
X Link 2025-10-16T08:27Z 370.1K followers, [----] engagements
"https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978556873977565633 @DadGuy1986 @_DavidSFreeman @adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining The general legal risk increases with the number of bytes with sharp increases as images become more legible. https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978556873977565633 @DadGuy1986 @_DavidSFreeman @adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining The general legal risk increases with the number of bytes with sharp increases as images become more legible"
X Link 2025-10-16T14:26Z 370.3K followers, 46.6K engagements
"@pixel_poseidon @WhalePanda Just HODL and don't try to time the market"
X Link 2025-10-16T16:21Z 371.6K followers, 11.2K engagements
"@look_at_tadASS @WhalePanda Right around New Years' Day to be overly precise. Since psychology and debt triggers are more based on nominal than real values the debasement trade has and will make this "cycle" if we can even call it that now look very different from the prior cycles"
X Link 2025-10-16T18:11Z 373.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@AFpost The Ziobots get their marching orders after a [--] hour Holocaust movie marathon"
X Link 2025-10-17T02:08Z 370K followers, 58.8K engagements
"@EvanAKilgore Fuentes has to avoid saying "J**" or "Isr**l" or Tucker will be triggered. PTSD from all the Holocaust movies Irving Kristol made him watch. I fear the worst"
X Link 2025-10-17T03:16Z 373.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@superwuster Ours is far from the only country controlled by donors"
X Link 2025-10-17T03:55Z 369.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Yet he feels compelled to repeat over and over again how much he loves Israel even as he criticizes Israel puts critics of Israel on his show etc. The PTSD is real and no joke. And it's not just Tucker it's Candace Owens with her Frankists it's almost anybody who has been through that media culture and people who have spent their lives regularly bringing that culture into their homes. https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977196971724357776 https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977196971724357776"
X Link 2025-10-17T04:18Z 370.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@KasKritterz Fiat is already at zero depending on your reference starting date and how many significant digits you round to. We are living in the era of the less significant digits"
X Link 2025-10-17T15:29Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@BullionStar The fiat unlearning curve: every crisis the fiat goldfish bowl sloshes and more people realize they are holding fiat bags"
X Link 2025-10-17T15:49Z 369.8K followers, 12.6K engagements
"@hadalj @jimmysong No. Mining security works based on relative not absolute hashrate (if that were not true Bitcoin in its early years would have been preposterously insecure and it wasn't)"
X Link 2025-10-17T23:42Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@ImShillGates Bottom most likely at [--] +/- [--] oz. of gold (we may have already hit it)"
X Link 2025-10-18T01:05Z 370K followers, 27.1K engagements
"@AdameMedia Correction: they invented the cheese-only pizza. Along with the bacon-free BLT and vegetarian pork rinds"
X Link 2025-10-18T03:13Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@crashmanperkins @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @jonasschnelli @adam3us Then go use these other "currencies" and leave our sound money alone"
X Link 2025-10-18T03:16Z 370K followers, 19.8K engagements
"@MyLordBebo Front-page headline: "No U.S. troops will be deployed to Israel." Later back-page clarification: "because they are already in the Middle East.""
X Link 2025-10-18T03:48Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@EternalBTC @ddums81 @ImShillGates The bull cycles are increasingly front-run"
X Link 2025-10-18T04:13Z 369.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@AltcoinGordon You're betting against central bank paranoia in the era of Trump and the Overton kaleidoscope"
X Link 2025-10-18T05:09Z 370.3K followers, 14.7K engagements
"@Bitcoin_Teddy Just value over the euro exponentially greater over time"
X Link 2025-10-18T05:18Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@Q_OmniPrism @Bitcoin_Teddy Moron"
X Link 2025-10-18T05:31Z 369.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@BritishLandeur The England of Shakespeare and Milton of Newton and Darwin and of so many others was certainly not a global "melting pot.""
X Link 2025-10-18T06:09Z 370.9K followers, 25.7K engagements
"@CurrentRevolt Brainwashed boomers doing what their TV told them to do"
X Link 2025-10-18T15:44Z 370K followers, 31.1K engagements
"@ImShillGates P.S. HODL. Don't try to time"
X Link 2025-10-18T17:53Z 370.1K followers, 125.1K engagements
"@oren_cass @ssankar @nvidia Nvidia is China's useful idiot. Palantir is Israel's useful idiot. India has a lot of useful idiots. Welcome to Silicon Valley where not many actual American companies remain"
X Link 2025-10-18T19:18Z 370.3K followers, 26.1K engagements
"@elerianm In the modern world you need large armies to secure your gold"
X Link 2025-10-18T19:32Z 370.3K followers, 11.2K engagements
"@zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco If they did so there would be hundreds of jurisdictions chomping at the bit to prosecute them and thousands of nodes chomping at the bit to sue them. Incentives"
X Link 2025-10-19T00:51Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco Yes we should be working towards this kind of soft fork. But given core's current priorities this may be a very long term indeed possibly forever. So meanwhile Knots is the best protection noderunners have available"
X Link 2025-10-19T01:35Z 371.6K followers, 117.5K engagements
"@Mick_O_Keeffe Ireland's pubs are closing down because there are fewer Irish. There are fewer Irish because for at least a generation Irish women have been doing jigs and working for foreign corporations instead of raising children"
X Link 2025-10-19T01:51Z 369.8K followers, 10.5K engagements
"@bar_dictum @zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco That's a horrible outcome that cripples Bitcoin decentralization. It is what we are trying to avoid"
X Link 2025-10-19T01:56Z 370K followers, [----] engagements
"@SteaknShake So what is replacing seed oil I'd rather have seed oil than some mystery chemical"
X Link 2025-10-19T02:08Z 370K followers, 42.6K engagements
"@kaspa_the_green That is what we envisioned it would be like in [----] and sadly no one seems to have come up with a better solution AFAIK"
X Link 2025-10-19T02:09Z 369.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Because we had gold in there in [----] Had it all gone overseas by [----] Under Bretton Woods certain foreign governments could redeem dollars for gold at a fixed price. The dollar supply grew much faster than the gold supply and France took advantage of this by redeeming dollars for gold. By [----] this forced Nixon to go full fiat. Also AFAIK there's always been more gold stored at the NY Fed than at Fort Knox"
X Link 2025-10-19T03:42Z 369.8K followers, 17.3K engagements
"@jb_ruckus @oren_cass @ssankar @nvidia Hungary's Very dangerous"
X Link 2025-10-19T04:03Z 369.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@KevinoTech @stutxo @BitcoinKnobs It's a stupid joke"
X Link 2025-10-19T04:35Z 369.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@venorusprime @jimmysong Such a miner could be identified and outed. But I agree we need a soft fork"
X Link 2025-10-19T11:26Z 370.3K followers, 14.5K engagements
"You don't understand the threat environment and again fail with logic. If you don't want courts to arbitrate transactions then the transaction need to be as narrow in legal scope as possible -- as far from arbitrary in content as possible. Whether or not you want the law the law wants you -- to follow it. This is not the law of financial transactions which took a long time to figure out how to deal with crypto had a low motivation level and for which we have armies of lawyers. This is non-financial content for which the law often has long precedent which in some important cases has a high"
X Link 2025-10-19T11:34Z 373.7K followers, 103.4K engagements
"Not only that Marathon here is essentially threatening to sue the $# out of anyone who submits copyrighted or objectionable material via Slipstream. They presumably know that they in turn would get sued albeit it's far from clear that they've been properly advise on the legal risks of non-financial content"
X Link 2025-10-19T13:31Z 372K followers, 12K engagements
"I'd love to see more thoughts about how to give fee pressure a boost. A very interesting question is how to tailor the fee schedule to smack down hard on buckets that can hold arbitrary content (e.g. public keys) even when it's used for undistinguishable financial purposes while easing up on buckets where the entropy of arbitrary data must be low"
X Link 2025-10-19T23:27Z 369.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@mlagace_ @gildedpleb @kyletorpey @George203BTC @th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 It's not prunable by archival nodes. The fact that it's prunable by limited-functionality nodes is not all that useful since at the end of the day it's the archival nodes that persist Bitcoin functionality"
X Link 2025-10-19T23:41Z 369.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@Excellion @LukeDashjr @zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch It should be both in consensus and in policy. Since consensus is currently full of holes we need to go heavy in the short term on policy. In the long term fix the consensus. Then we'll be doing both"
X Link 2025-10-19T23:58Z 370.1K followers, 12.4K engagements
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