Bitcoin didn't win. Bitcoin can change. Bitcoin is changing. Bitcoin has changed. We fell in love with a thing that was set in stone, and then we bypassed the one layer that actually holds it in place: the humans. While we posted "number go up," the reference implementation was being quietly captured. If no one fights for Bitcoin, Bitcoin will very soon be dead. Who is actually running Bitcoin Core, and who is allowed to audit them? @hodlonaut, the Space Cat, the citizen journalist who told the simple truth about Craig Wright and then stood in the fire for five years over it, came on to lay out the fight consuming Bitcoin right now, in plain English: how he found Bitcoin and shepherded the Lightning Torch, what the five-year Craig Wright war taught him about choosing principles over outcome, his Capture series and how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled and defended, the DEI and "extractive" playbook used to shut down anyone who asked questions, why every line of code must serve monetary sovereignty, the real cost of running a node at 10x and 100x, and why he went from BIP-110 skeptic to all-in. Send this to anyone who thinks Bitcoin already won. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 A message on ColdCard 3:17 Cold open: "What is real?" 3:34 Welcome the Space Cat, on a brutal day 4:30 An apology for promoting ColdCard 6:15 The Capture series: a Bitcoin citizen journalist 11:24 A year away, and the shock of coming back 18:38 The node runner's stake: the canary in the mine 20:58 Citadel21, Surfer Jim & the culture 23:18 Finding Bitcoin in 2013: the Pirate Bay ethos 25:51 The birth of Hodlonaut & the Space Cat 27:56 The Lightning Torch: an experiment in trust 31:21 Craig Wright's letter, the bounty & the doxxing 34:38 Nine tweets, five years: telling the truth 35:24 Lightning today & "it feels like Ethereum" 38:54 What Craig Wright taught him: principles over outcome 41:05 Trust vs verify, and its limits 44:48 How Core's power was assembled: the priesthood 49:30 The Gavin/CIA flag & full-time Core 53:10 The armor: DEI & "extractive" 57:58 What makes a good Bitcoin coder 1:00:13 "Every line of code must serve monetary sovereignty" 1:04:43 Sponsors 1:06:30 The Matt Corallo quote & the inflation-bug rehire 1:10:32 How old was Satoshi? 1:13:30 BIP-110: judge the idea, not the messenger 1:21:53 We bypassed the social layer: fight for Bitcoin 1:24:24 The real fight is the ledger & the node-cost problem 1:28:50 Why he fully supports BIP-110 now 1:33:36 The technical merits: "node runners don't matter" 1:36:10 The three buckets & why people won't engage 1:44:08 Change capital vs "this is our shot" 1:47:07 If BIP-110 fails: the fallout 1:51:30 Ossification & the anti-spam team 1:54:36 Article 4 & his July accident 1:56:00 Closing: form your own conviction 2:01:46 Outro 🎧piped.video/watch?v=hXQGKGVS… Then watch #285: Defending Bitcoin with @lukedewolf, the cybersecurity case for the same fight. 🎧piped.video/watch?v=wV-w9BxY…

Yesterday, Club Orange crossed 8M transactions. We’re now growing at ~1M transactions a month. And 95% of them are GeoZaps. GeoZap lets you send sats to people based on their approximate location. Zap a city. Zap a country. Zap a continent. Zap the entire planet. Add a message, a link, or an image. This is what Bitcoin should feel like.

Never forget. Bitcoin will never die. Michael @saylor

Every health official is free to recommend and attempt to persuade people on the merits – not coerce and certainly not infringe on anyone’s civil or individual rights. @CedYoungelman @_BitcoinMatrix

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REPOST, from March 2021. Four years later, Bitcoin Twitter is a war zone over spam, BIP-110, and Knots vs Core, and this episode is the playbook for how to fight on it without losing your mind or the plot. The @_BitcoinMatrix #34: Bitstein - Everyone's A Scammer & Advanced Geopolitical Meme Warfare Before the current flame wars, Bitstein laid out exactly how the discourse actually works: that we live in a rhetorical world where facts don't move everyone, that there's a time to argue in good faith and a time to troll, and that the fastest way to lose is to let your opponent define your narrative. He also takes the scarcity of Bitcoin dead seriously, seriously enough to call everyone, including you and me, a scammer, and mean it as a compliment. Founder of the Nakamoto Institute, co-host of Noded, Austrian economist, and the meme lord himself, @bitstein joins me to go deep: why "everyone's a scammer" is a heuristic and not an accusation, why hoarders are scammers and that's a good thing, how he called Bitcoin cash flows in 2014, praxeology and the rejection of activism for pragmatic reasons, why stacking sats beats stamping your feet at the Fed, Ron Paul as educator rather than politician, "2020 turned everyone into normies," what the Citadel actually means (localized governance, not Elysium), rhetoric vs dialectic and knowing which game you're playing, how to get your opponent to effort-post, trigram memes and why distilled ideas win, how to reframe, agree and amplify, and then dominate, and why ethical trolling always comes back to the truth and a low time preference. Send this to anyone who's currently losing an argument in your replies. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 3:40 Meet Bitstein 4:45 Finding Austrian economics after the 2008 crisis 11:24 From Rothbard to the Mises Circle to the Nakamoto Institute 16:59 How a Mises reading group became a Bitcoin circle 19:00 "Everyone's a Scammer": taking scarcity dead seriously 23:22 Why it's a heuristic, not an accusation 27:21 Hoarders are scammers: selfishness in service of selflessness 31:18 "All investments are scams" and calling Bitcoin cash flows in 2014 36:22 Rejecting activism: the real opportunity cost of voting 41:00 Why stacking sats beats stamping your feet at the Fed 47:00 Ron Paul as educator, not politician 52:27 2008, 9/11, COVID: crisis as the backdrop of a life 56:24 "2020 turned everyone into normies" 59:24 Can an individual be sovereign in America today? 1:07:00 What "Citadel" actually means: localized governance, not Elysium 1:11:17 The citadel in your mind: stoicism, Shawshank, Joseph 1:13:34 "How to Meme Bitcoin to the Moon": the mimetic landscape 1:15:50 Bitblock 2019: the talk that hit Twitter before he left the stage 1:18:46 We live in a rhetorical world 1:19:14 Rhetoric vs dialectic, and which game to play when 1:24:38 Getting your opponent to effort-post 1:29:45 Know when to argue, know when to troll, know your real audience 1:31:26 Trigram memes and why distilled ideas win 1:33:33 Reframe, agree and amplify, dominate: never adopt their frame 1:36:10 Ethical trolling: stick to the truth, keep a low time preference 1:40:25 The American West, buffalo, and regenerative agriculture 1:47:20 Goldstein to Bitstein: hard money baked into the name

#167: The Dollar Endgame - A New Rome with @peruvian_bull We discuss how the Federal Reserve stole the American Dream, the sword of Damocles hanging over the Treasury's head and how central banks are trapped in a black hole of their own design. piped.video/watch?v=HiJUWi-t…

Aaron Siri on why "informed consent" is broken: "Where I really take issue is the consent part. It's the parent who read all the primary sources, who's really informed about these products — and then doesn't want to consent. They've been informed. They are choosing not to consent. And then they're told: okay, no problem — but now your kid can't go to school, you can't have a job, you can't be part of public civil society. Well, then the consent isn't worthwhile. That is destructive to consent. Most people don't wake up and decide to take a socially ostracizing position that gets their kids kicked out of school. And once they've seen the clinical trial data with their own eyes — you can't unlearn that." @AaronSiriSG on The @_BitcoinMatrix #287.

Kudos to @CedYoungelman who did a huge public service hosting attorney @AaronSiriSG who laid out the facts with prosecutorial precision vs. the USG & Big Pharma. The 2nd worst thing the USG has done in the last 40yrs is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Strip vaccine makers of ordinary & punitive liability for design defects & you strip out the only force that ever kept product safety honest. The worst thing? Leaving it on the books. For every year the Act survives, the betrayal isn't a mistake anymore. It's policy. AS "When you look around the product landscape, there is no other product in the US, where you cannot sue for design defect claim." H/T @DavidBCollum piped.video/gPdCC7YK1zI?si=6uSP…

Cedric. Youtube had to have stepped on this podcast.

Thank you for sharing @DavidBCollum. The part that stops people cold: the first shot a newborn gets was licensed on a trial of 147 kids, 5 days, no control group — and it's all on the FDA's site. Go check it yourself.

I am confident that if you read Aaron Siri's book, Vaccine Amen, you will not get another vaccine. Here is Cedric interviewing Aaron...

@_BitcoinMatrix #287: @AaronSiriSG — The Original Sin "Nobody says 'I believe in seatbelts.'" The most consequential vaccine litigator in America on the one product you can't sue in the U.S. — and how to verify it yourself. 🎙️piped.video/watch?v=gPdCC7YK…

Watch this before YouTube takes it down @_BitcoinMatrix Aaron Siri: The 1986 Law That Made Vaccines Un-Sueable piped.video/gPdCC7YK1zI?is=D4Uz… via @YouTube

You were told to trust the science. You were never allowed to check it. There is exactly one product in America you can't sue when it harms you — and its safety trials can be a joke, precisely because no one is ever forced to answer for them. That's not a conspiracy. It's an incentive structure. Remove liability, and you remove the reason to be careful. Who audits the people who decide what's "safe" — and what happens when you're not allowed to? @AaronSiriSG, the most consequential vaccine litigator in America and the lawyer behind the legendary 9-hour deposition of Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the "godfather of vaccines," came on to point this show's one question at a different cathedral, in plain English: how a custody case led to that deposition, the Hepatitis B shot he says was licensed on 147 kids with five days of monitoring and no control group, the 1986 law he calls "the original sin" that made vaccine makers un-sueable, the Ford Pinto and what punitive damages actually do, informed consent vs. the right to refuse, whether vaccines stop transmission, and the measles-mortality data almost no one talks about. Not medical advice. This is his case, at full strength — form your own conviction. Send this to anyone who was told to trust the science but never allowed to check it. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Welcome + cold open: "What is real?" 0:24 Intro & disclaimer: not medical advice 1:57 How the Stanley Plotkin deposition happened 3:38 From Goldman Sachs to the largest non-pharma vaccine practice 5:00 Prep: treat a vaccine like any other product 8:27 Plotkin's conflicts of interest (Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, GSK) 11:00 The Hep B trial: 147 kids, 5 days, no control group 18:20 The reveal: Plotkin was the trial's principal investigator 23:45 1986: the "original sin" of vaccine liability 33:48 The Ford Pinto & punitive damages 36:54 Sponsors 38:34 Informed consent vs. the right to refuse 47:51 Do vaccines stop transmission? Pertussis & the pulled ad 55:00 Measles & polio: the mortality-decline argument 1:03:57 Individual rights, COVID & where we are now 1:09:24 Where to find Aaron 1:12:11 Outro Hosted by @cedyoungelman Powered by @Stamp_Seed and @firefish_io

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🔁REPOST, MUST WATCH INTERVIEW JUNE 15th 2026 Bitcoin isn't digital gold. It's not locked in by math. You can kill it. @_BitcoinMatrix #279 Bitcoin Core Has Gone Rogue | @mattkratter, Bitcoin University The man who ran money at Peter Thiel's hedge fund came on to explain who's trying, and why the only thing protecting Bitcoin is the people who run nodes. Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin University founder, former Clarium / Thiel-world macro trader, early Palantir investor, joins me to lay out the fight consuming Bitcoin right now in plain English: why he says Bitcoin Core has "gone rogue," the spam war over OP_RETURN and BIP-110 he calls Bitcoin's last stand, why consensus flows from culture and not code, who actually controls the network (hint: not the miners), and how to mine Bitcoin from home for about $10 a day. Send this to anyone who thinks Bitcoin can't be stopped. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Physics dropout to literature: Stanford & Berkeley 05:27 René Girard & meeting Peter Thiel 07:56 Becoming a trader: Thiel Macro to Clarium 12:43 The PayPal mafia, network effects & the dot-com bottom 20:23 Global macro at Clarium & the 2003 housing-blowup call 24:08 Napster, PayPal & the "new world currency" 28:32 Government as the ultimate customer: Palantir & the CIA (In-Q-Tel) 36:00 Deep-state roots: is Peter Thiel captured? 49:32 Culture is upstream of consensus 57:00 Bitcoin isn't magic: nodes, immutability & the spam risk 1:01:42 Why spam is a problem: tragedy of the commons 1:04:30 Spam since Satoshi & the 2014 OP_RETURN war 1:14:30 The changing of the guard at Bitcoin Core 1:18:43 Core uncaps OP_RETURN to 100,000 bytes 1:28:00 Consensus flows from culture: the 2nd Amendment analogy 1:35:20 BIP-110: the temporary soft fork 1:44:00 Why small blocks, and running nodes in Cuba 2:18:55 SegWit & the 2017 UASF: how 500 nodes won 2:24:00 The miners are just employees: node runners set the rules 2:41:46 "Firing the miners": changing proof-of-work 2:55:18 Bitcoin Core went rogue: the last stand 2:58:50 You can kill Bitcoin 3:01:20 Mine Bitcoin from home for ~$10/day, KYC-free 3:11:09 Where to find Matt ▶️ piped.video/watch?v=xsOjcw6A…

New episode is live. @hodlonaut, the Space Cat, on the fight for Bitcoin, what's happening inside Bitcoin Core, and why he's all-in on BIP-110. 🟠

This guy 👇 never lost his compass. But it sure feels like more than a handful of other bitcoiners did so after the price hit 100K.