¥60, great stuff. Same time, next year?

St Paul’s Cathedral has signed a four-year partnership with London nightclub Fabric to stage contemporary music events inside the cathedral until 2030. The first event will take place on 29th October. Artists have not yet been announced. Fabric lost its licence in 2016 after two 18-year-olds died following drug use linked to the venue, before later reopening under stricter conditions. St Paul’s says the partnership is intended to attract new audiences and create “unforgettable experiences” in the cathedral. Pure satanism. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8z… praytellblog.com/index.php/2…

Bitcoin is the greatest monetary revolution in human history, but many would rather play with shitcoins. 🤦‍♂️

And now he’s on the Ocean Mining board. Did Tether complete their takeover of Ocean?

OCEAN's Board of Directors has elected Rapha Zagury (@RaphaZagury ) as a Director. Rapha is the CEO of Twenty One Capital (NYSE: XXI) and founder of Elektron Energy, one of the world's largest private Bitcoin miners. Before Bitcoin, he spent years in investment banking and capital markets at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Deutsche Bank. Rapha has been in OCEAN's corner since the early days, long before joining the board. He believed in what we were building when decentralized mining was a much harder sell, and supported us with hashrate from the start. As a miner, Rapha deals with the same things our customers do every day: power costs, uptime, payouts, and pool economics. That keeps OCEAN grounded in what miners actually need. Welcome to the Board, Rapha. 🌊

Zcash $1,000. Zcash $10,000. Zcash $100,000.

This is the first time I mostly hold BTC as an investment. For the NGU. Before, it was the biggest no-brainer far beyond that. It was the exit. The rock solid, unfuckable-with store of value. Separation of money from state. No third parties. Sovereignty. Digital truth in the form of a lean monetary ledger. Those qualities have, in my opinion, eroded a lot. Slow capture. More centralization. More relativizing and fiatizing of what Bitcoin is for. And there are seemingly no brakes. Just cheering when the people who still wanted Bitcoin to be money, not data storage, lost. Nodes decide, not miners. That used to be shared ground. Now it will get you ridiculed. I do not see the current trajectory, governance capture, or mining concentration reversing, not with the current attitude and behavior from the suits, the influencers and the social layer in general. That is why my faith in the project today is much weaker than it used to be. I am not calling the Blake2b chain Bitcoin. I am glad the fork happened. It is a live attempt to reassert principles a lot of us thought were settled: monetary protocol, hostile to spam, nodes enforcing rules, miners do not get to veto by selling block space for JPEGs and other non-monetary use. Whether it works at any meaningful scale is unknown. The energy around it is real. That resonates more with me than victory laps from people who treated BIP-110 as a joke and then celebrated when centralized hashpower blocked it. My position: I am not selling my BTC. I am not telling anyone else to sell. I intend to hold both sides for now. Nobody should be buying or selling either side of this split yet. The dust has not settled, liquidity is a joke, and rushed claim tools are how you lose funds. I urge everyone to make their own, well researched and responsible decisions. Most of my attention and interest now goes to the chain that still treats spam as spam, instead of inviting more of it and saying the debate is settled.

This is the first time I mostly hold BTC as an investment. For the NGU. Before, it was the biggest no-brainer far beyond that. It was the exit. The rock solid, unfuckable-with store of value. Separation of money from state. No third parties. Sovereignty. Digital truth in the form of a lean monetary ledger. Those qualities have, in my opinion, eroded a lot. Slow capture. More centralization. More relativizing and fiatizing of what Bitcoin is for. And there are seemingly no brakes. Just cheering when the people who still wanted Bitcoin to be money, not data storage, lost. Nodes decide, not miners. That used to be shared ground. Now it will get you ridiculed. I do not see the current trajectory, governance capture, or mining concentration reversing, not with the current attitude and behavior from the suits, the influencers and the social layer in general. That is why my faith in the project today is much weaker than it used to be. I am not calling the Blake2b chain Bitcoin. I am glad the fork happened. It is a live attempt to reassert principles a lot of us thought were settled: monetary protocol, hostile to spam, nodes enforcing rules, miners do not get to veto by selling block space for JPEGs and other non-monetary use. Whether it works at any meaningful scale is unknown. The energy around it is real. That resonates more with me than victory laps from people who treated BIP-110 as a joke and then celebrated when centralized hashpower blocked it. My position: I am not selling my BTC. I am not telling anyone else to sell. I intend to hold both sides for now. Nobody should be buying or selling either side of this split yet. The dust has not settled, liquidity is a joke, and rushed claim tools are how you lose funds. I urge everyone to make their own, well researched and responsible decisions. Most of my attention and interest now goes to the chain that still treats spam as spam, instead of inviting more of it and saying the debate is settled.

Lets try an actual test of principles, which I believe I've heard you claim you have. Imagine you get to hold one of two coins starting at the same price. Coin A is centralized, captured by institutions, infested with spam, an embarrassment to its founding ideals, is digital capital/permissionless blockspace instead of money, and just made it easier for scum to store pictures of your family or street address with threatening messages for the remainder of history at the expense of node runners. BUT... it's going to be worth 1 million USD cuckbucks a coin. Coin B is decentralized, run by people who care about its founding principles as freedom money, and actually has the means, motive, and balls necessary to defend itself against attacks. BUT... it's going to be worth 1 USD cuckbucks a coin. Which do you choose? Now, I can understand all sorts of complex, Machiavellian arguments for Coin A. Most people aren't made of stone. But if you're in it for NGU, fvcking OWN it and don't pretend it's about anything else.

UPDATE: I'm willing to offer 0.025 Bitcoin-SHA256 per 1.0 Bitcoin-Blake2b to anyone willing to sell newly mined or split Bitcoin. DM if interested.

Many of my friends now believe Bitcoin is a shitcoin. That's something I'll never forgive most sha256d miners for.

What we’re seeing with the Blake coins is a clear message the market has matured and moved beyond tolerating or entertaining Bitcoin forks. Years ago there would have been speculation, liquidity, exchanges trying to list it & users excited about an airdrop. Literally NO motion.

Kind of sad the way some people are hanging on to the whole BIP110 thing as a way to farm engagement.

I’ve stayed quiet for the last week, but there’s one thing I have to say. The sheer arrogance of the down-99% Bitcoin treasury bros is absolutely staggering.