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# ![@NickSzabo4 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2568108282.png) @NickSzabo4 Nick Szabo

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

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[cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #1039 [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  #5373 [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX%

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[bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #474, [fiat](/topic/fiat) #39, [long term](/topic/long-term) #11, [a very](/topic/a-very) #75, [money](/topic/money) #3006, [store of](/topic/store-of) #29, [currencies](/topic/currencies) #57, [number of](/topic/number-of) #386, [$6753t](/topic/$6753t) #872, [over the](/topic/over-the) XXXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@adam3us](/creator/undefined) [@aeonbtc](/creator/undefined) [@excellion](/creator/undefined) [@colbyserpa](/creator/undefined) [@lukedashjr](/creator/undefined) [@satflation](/creator/undefined) [@bitmexresearch](/creator/undefined) [@omg21btc](/creator/undefined) [@hakimarsl](/creator/undefined) [@crashmanperkins](/creator/undefined) [@1m5project](/creator/undefined) [@btcblockjams](/creator/undefined) [@jabulanijakes](/creator/undefined) [@csuwildcat](/creator/undefined) [@tempstat](/creator/undefined) [@kyletorpey](/creator/undefined) [@bitcoinbombadil](/creator/undefined) [@zamir591582](/creator/undefined) [@flytheelephant1](/creator/undefined) [@cyberarchive](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Tether (USDT)](/topic/$usdt)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2568108282/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"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/NickSzabo4/status/1973502865143636151) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-01T21:38Z 369.4K followers, 195.8K engagements


"@satflation Zero cognizance of the threat environment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978196147002048859) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-14T20:28Z 369.4K followers, 106.1K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T03:16Z 369.4K followers, 19.4K engagements


"@elerianm In the modern world you need large armies to secure your gold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979631710628467197) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T19:32Z 369.4K followers, 10.9K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T01:51Z 369.4K followers, 10.3K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T01:56Z 369.4K followers, 1596 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-17T15:29Z 369.4K followers, 4129 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T11:34Z 369.4K followers, 43.7K 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/NickSzabo4/status/1972080811882189077) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-09-27T23:27Z 369.4K followers, 139.1K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-09-30T05:05Z 369.4K followers, 22.8K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-01T21:17Z 369.4K followers, 45.5K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-01T22:45Z 369.4K followers, 6940 engagements


"@th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 Up until Core v30 Bitcoin has never had a feature intentionally designed to host non-financial content. It only had financial features hijacked to hold non-financial content"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975826809876005206) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-08T07:33Z 369.4K followers, 214K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-11T04:05Z 369.4K followers, 41.3K engagements


"@durov Who opposed it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978185203479900186) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-14T19:44Z 369.4K followers, 109.3K 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/NickSzabo4/status/1978511755216072859) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T17:22Z 369.4K followers, 31.4K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T00:59Z 369.4K followers, 19.5K engagements


"@ImShillGates Bottom most likely at XX +/- X oz. of gold (we may have already hit it)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979353053850669094) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T01:05Z 369.4K followers, 25.6K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T05:09Z 369.4K followers, 14.2K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T19:18Z 369.4K followers, 25.3K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T00:51Z 369.4K followers, 2253 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T02:08Z 369.4K followers, 37.3K engagements


"@jb_ruckus @oren_cass @ssankar @nvidia Hungary's Very dangerous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979760286321262713) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T04:03Z 369.4K followers, XXX 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T13:31Z 369.4K followers, 8207 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T23:41Z 369.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@aeonBTC Did you see the part where I said temporary measure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975948884498411560) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-08T15:38Z 369.4K followers, 3464 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-11T05:24Z 369.4K 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977196971724357776) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-12T02:17Z 369.4K followers, 80.4K engagements


"Markets learning the value of a trust-minimized store of value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978254487467831359) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T00:19Z 369.4K followers, 105K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T20:21Z 369.4K followers, 37.4K engagements


"Arbitrary content makes Bitcoin's threat environment far larger far less predictable and in some cases far more highly motivated:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978726913376989352) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T07:37Z 369.4K followers, 83K engagements


"@WhalePanda Bitcoin is in a bear cycle masked by the debasement trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978833598112207251) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T14:41Z 369.4K followers, 47.8K engagements


"Fiat is stable until it isn't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978923852060053956) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T20:39Z 369.4K followers, 137K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-17T03:16Z 369.4K followers, 8401 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-17T15:49Z 369.4K followers, 12.5K engagements


"@VarrockBank Look beneath the prices at the reality. What's the asset whose long term supply approaches fixed and for which transfers to anywhere in the world settle in around an hour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979367869382300085) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T02:04Z 369.4K followers, 122.3K engagements


"@Bitcoin_Teddy Just value over the euro exponentially greater over time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979416800552194051) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T05:18Z 369.4K followers, 9395 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T06:09Z 369.4K followers, 20.8K engagements


"@CurrentRevolt Brainwashed boomers doing what their TV told them to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979574284130701328) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T15:44Z 369.4K followers, 22.5K engagements


"@adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco This is such utter illogical bullshit. You fool fewer people with it every time you spew it. Stop already"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979684180171890838) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T23:01Z 369.4K followers, 74.3K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T01:35Z 369.4K followers, 89.6K engagements


"@KevinoTech @stutxo @BitcoinKnobs It's a stupid joke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979768344627855618) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T04:35Z 369.4K followers, 1899 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T11:26Z 369.4K followers, 5195 engagements


"Creationists have a higher Darwinian fitness than evolutionists. Discuss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1980055128146395255) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T23:35Z 369.4K followers, 45.3K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T23:58Z 369.4K followers, 4940 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2019-10-19T15:19Z 369.4K followers, XX engagements


"@callebtc Fees protect the miners but they don't provide enough disincentive to protect the full nodes. This has always been a problem of course. But increasing the OP_RETURN allowance will likely make this problem worse. It also will increase legal risks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1972458907412103359) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-09-29T00:30Z 369.4K followers, 300.9K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-09-30T04:26Z 369.4K followers, 43.1K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-01T20:19Z 369.4K followers, 91.5K 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/NickSzabo4/status/1975214259765445000) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-06T14:59Z 369.4K followers, 135.1K engagements


"As a (hopefully) temporary measure run Knots. I strongly recommend not upgrading to Core v30"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975805206031179831) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-08T06:07Z 369.4K followers, 413.7K engagements


"@George203BTC @th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 XX 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-08T15:00Z 369.4K followers, 11.8K engagements


"@AFpost Successfully concealed How many combinations of stoned and drunk was that guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977530504959393872) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-13T00:23Z 369.4K followers, 88.7K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-14T17:52Z 369.4K followers, 11.4K engagements


""This isnt about retail inflation anymore. Investors are fleeing counterparty risk itself.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978302868407922689) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T03:32Z 369.4K followers, 53.6K engagements


"CSAM and CP should be prosecuted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978311448766840995) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T04:06Z 369.4K followers, 145.5K engagements


"@AFpost Thus the groyper long march through the institutions begins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978312572735725896) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T04:10Z 369.4K followers, 43.2K engagements


"@superwuster Ours is far from the only country controlled by donors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979033505091711053) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-17T03:55Z 369.4K followers, 6734 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-17T23:42Z 369.4K followers, 4975 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T03:48Z 369.4K followers, 8655 engagements


"@EternalBTC @ddums81 @ImShillGates The bull cycles are increasingly front-run"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979400396797104595) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T04:13Z 369.4K followers, 6682 engagements


"@Q_OmniPrism @Bitcoin_Teddy Moron"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979420056850436141) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T05:31Z 369.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@ImShillGates P.S. HODL. Don't try to time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979606813847994569) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-18T17:53Z 369.4K followers, 110.1K engagements


"@kaspa_the_green That is what we envisioned it would be like in 1998 and sadly no one seems to have come up with a better solution AFAIK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979731613765550087) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T02:09Z 369.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Because we had gold in there in 1953 Had it all gone overseas by 1971 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 1971 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-19T03:42Z 369.4K followers, 15.1K engagements


"@FischerKing64 They are great believers in diversity because they don't live among the diversity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1980076187469881840) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-20T00:58Z 369.4K followers, 1982 engagements


"@Strandjunker It just means they coordinated in their own filter bubble and MAGA folks are not part of their filter bubble"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1980076956789154221) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-20T01:01Z 369.4K followers, 3968 engagements


"@CobraBitcoinCsh My bit gold design in 1998 was 2-layer: bit gold for settlement Chaumian e-cash for a privacy-enhanced payments layer. I've always thought of Bitcoin as evolving into a settlements-and-large-payments layer that in the long term needed a layer X for consumer payments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1012373493252419584) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2018-06-28T16:33Z 369.3K followers, 1524 engagements


"Bank notes further increased trust i.e. vulnerability. to the actions of third parties. Gold came to be held in centralized vaults and IOUs for much more than the gold actually held were issued -- fractional reserve banking (FRB)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1147649440791945217) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2019-07-06T23:32Z 368.5K followers, XXX engagements


"@BTCborneo @BitcoinTina No. Governments have shut down all sorts of things and even gold deliveries have been unreliable but Bitcoin continues to function with high security and reliability 24x7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1248651865098575872) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2020-04-10T16:39Z 368.3K followers, XX 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-03T04:59Z 368.5K followers, 34.7K engagements


"OP_RETURN2 and some other proposals along these lines are great ideas and I would likely strongly support them. Before this soft fork happens though it's highly dangerous to turn OP_RETURN into a feature intended for non-financial content with a radical and well-publicized size increase that legitimizes and invites non-financial content"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975942784323620942) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-08T15:14Z 368.4K followers, 10.8K engagements


"@WallStreetApes I've never understood why missionaries go to Timbuktu or Mongolia when there are so many non-Christians one or two cities over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1975957788506640713) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-08T16:13Z 368.6K followers, 12K engagements


"AI may increase the supply of almost everything causing a general retail deflation. Banks whether run by AIs or not will increase the supply of fiat currencies. And I can imagine robot mining equipment increasing the supply of gold. Bitcoin is another matter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1976427356505198636) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-09T23:19Z 369.4K followers, 207.8K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-10T20:20Z 368.9K followers, 19.5K engagements


"@MaxCryptoxx IF YOU HAVE TO POST IN ALL CAPS YOU'VE USED TOO MUCH LEVERAGE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1976858202039107634) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-11T03:51Z 368.4K followers, 70K engagements


"Yet the ability of young couples to afford a house is at an all-time low. Housing costs have not appreciably risen in real terms. But wages have dramatically fallen in real terms thanks to globalization and immigration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977533808154161202) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-13T00:36Z 368.8K followers, 57.6K 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-13T02:20Z 368.9K followers, 8163 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-13T03:12Z 368.7K followers, 1470 engagements


"The instability was clueless mobs buying shitcoins on robo-trigger margin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977933837528359234) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-14T03:05Z 368.3K followers, 26.5K engagements


"@BitMEXResearch @kyletorpey This is like saying that security programmers talking about attacks increases the probability of an attack so security programmers should never talk about attacks. That's a view that the cyhperpunks utterly rejected as it would lead to poorly thought-out security"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978151805700673960) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-14T17:31Z 367.9K followers, 15.1K engagements


"And indeed the basic problem here seems to be a poor threat model a lack of understanding of the threats in particular the legal and moral risks that arise from arbitrary content that do not arise from financial transactions. Failing to discuss these threats leads to a poor understanding of the threat environment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978154823322309060) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-14T17:43Z 368.1K followers, 12.2K engagements


"@adamamcbride Trustless" was always an exaggeration. I've never used it; I prefer the much more accurate term trust-minimized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978258908654219299) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T00:37Z 368.6K followers, 5381 engagements


"@csuwildcat @JasonCoombsCEO @adam3us @colbyserpa Laws against CP and CSAM certainly exist and indeed are among the most universally popular laws that exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978259799717416996) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T00:41Z 368.2K followers, 5087 engagements


"@ShadowofEzra The show must go on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978277711375200760) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T01:52Z 367.9K followers, 8856 engagements


"@HumbleFlow Two or three generations of TV will do that to a civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978290206194184555) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T02:41Z 368.2K followers, 7778 engagements


"@csuwildcat @adam3us @colbyserpa @ocean_mining What you call "precedent" is actually the least popular position and thus a poor guide for what the law will be in many places going forward:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978515130380865677) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-15T17:35Z 367.9K followers, 9038 engagements


"@0HOUR1__ The prequel starred Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close IIRC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978669252530864302) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T03:48Z 369.3K followers, 5109 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) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T06:00Z 368.9K followers, 9704 engagements


"@BitMEXResearch The original post in the thread is far more thoughtful and informative:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978708456048566642) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T06:23Z 368.5K followers, 5650 engagements


"@BitMEXResearch @Zatoichi42 Way trippy store you've got on your planet man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978749064146551237) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T09:05Z 368.2K followers, 1223 engagements


"@ddums81 @WhalePanda There's always a ton of dumb traders who don't understand what they're trading"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978891142037946706) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T18:29Z 368.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@onlyKASPAfans @WhalePanda Debasement doesn't proceed at an even pace; even less does expectation of debasement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978958725139333392) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2025-10-16T22:58Z 368.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Bitcoin has or is evolving through several stages of value transfer: X. small value transfers at layer X when Bitcoin was a tiny niche (10000 BTC for a pizza) X. larger value txs as wealth flow increases and small txs get priced out of layer X X. small value txs at layer 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/936363146909908992) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2017-11-30T22:35Z 368.7K followers, 2022 engagements


"@seefelder @WeathermanIam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/958464390080024576) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2018-01-30T22:18Z 369K followers, XX engagements


"Gold has severe flaws. Physical locality makes it less secure and far more transactionally local and thus more vulnerable to politics and less sound than we can now achieve with Bitcoin with good key management and taking advantage of its trust-minimized global settlement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/992056245707128836) [@NickSzabo4](/creator/x/NickSzabo4) 2018-05-03T15:00Z 368.5K followers, 2689 engagements