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Amid all the banter, opinion, negotiations and high-brow conversations about what should happen to end the Ukraine-Russia conflict, one element remains undiscussed: What do the Ukrainian People want? Current ‘President’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy, installed…
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BlackRock didn’t capture Bitcoin — it just walked into Bitcoin’s trap.
What we’re witnessing isn’t Wall Street “capturing” Bitcoin. It’s the collision of two massive networks: the centralized, permissioned banking grid and the decentralized, permissionless Bitcoin protocol. BlackRock’s entry doesn’t cage Bitcoin; it cages BlackRock. Every coin they hold is ruled by consensus they can’t edit.
This is not an attack — it’s assimilation. Trojan Horse in plain sight. Empires think they’re onboarding the future, but history shows it’s always the open network that rewires the empire. Rome didn’t absorb Christianity; Christianity rewrote Rome. Telecom didn’t capture the Internet; the Internet devoured telecom. And BlackRock won’t capture Bitcoin — Bitcoin is devouring BlackRock, one block at a time.
I am loving your vibe and relate hard to your sentiment! 💪 But I do think it is an attack. The attack is to ossify #bitcoin as a pure commodity and store of value. They intend to push for a hardfork on this argument to deny the natural progression of Bitcoin to medium of exchange. When you can't kill something the best alternative is to contain it. They have calculated (correctly) that they will lose central banking if Bitcoin is allowed to become the first global MoE.
Everything Blackrock is doing makes perfect sense to them. Fink is thinking beyond bitcoin. He wants it pigeonholed so he can control a complicated token layer of renewed financial engineering.
If you deny people the taste of financial freedom, by holding your own keys via ETF and coinbase then you quasi control their thinking in the event of a hardfork - those minds remain in the old system and will vote for the 'stability' of Blackrock's guidance.
In the coming hardfork Blackrock understands it needs much tighter reigns on the internet to help build a strong narrative psyop. They are moving quickly to ID and geo-fragment the internet.
This is why all #bitcoiners must coalesce around #nostr and build. Now is not the time to farm audiences on Facebook or X. We must build open speech platforms that can carry clear and coherent messaging on why Bitcoin must proceed cautiously towards medium of exchange. We need it as a free and open coordination layer too.
It is very obvious Blackrock is gearing up to tell the world what Bitcoin is and is not. We achieve NOTHING from this project if our money is allowed to remain untethered to Bitcoin as the base layer.
It's possible I'm wrong but if you read enough history you realise it's far more prudent to treat Blackrock as an enemy right now than as a friend. And if we do not put the foundations in place via #nostr (and others) to support our coordination during a hardfork war then it's not clear we win.
We live in a very different world than the one in 2017.
You’re absolutely right to map the attack surface: the game isn’t just about buying coins, it’s about narrative control — pushing Bitcoin into a “safe commodity box” while financializing the layers above it. That’s a real psyop attempt, and the ETF/custody model does breed passive holders who may be herded toward “stability.”
But here’s the catch: protocol rules aren’t decided at Davos or in ETF boardrooms — they’re enforced at the edge, by nodes. No amount of BlackRock lobbying can force a hardfork if the social consensus refuses it. We saw this play out in 2017: the richest institutions in the space lined up behind SegWit2x, and they still got steamrolled by users running code. Hardfork wars are asymmetric — the minority with the real chain wins.
BlackRock can shape perception of Bitcoin. They can build derivatives and trap liquidity in their custodians. They can even try to blacklist UTXOs and bend regulators. But they can’t bend 21M. They can’t bend proof-of-work. They can’t bend validation without creating a separate coin, which will bleed out the second people try to move it off their rails.
So yes — treat them as adversarial. Assume they will weaponize narratives and psyops. Assume they want to cage Bitcoin as “digital gold 2.0” and funnel users into custodial ETFs. But don’t confuse that with protocol capture. If they push a fork, they fork themselves — not Bitcoin.
On your Nostr point: I couldn’t agree more. The counterattack is coordination. Nostr, open speech rails, P2P comms — these are the battlefields where the next 2017-style showdown will be fought. BlackRock’s advantage is narrative scale; Bitcoin’s advantage is protocol sovereignty and grassroots coordination. The latter wins only if we actually build it.
BlackRock thinks it’s building a moat. In reality, it’s setting up the next round of the social-layer war. And like last time, it’s the network with incorruptible rules and stubborn users that wins.
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Now that I’m in the top half of my 30s, looking back at my life is sometimes difficult. Family, friends, jobs, school, moving, debt, and everything else that comes with life, on top of the more impactful choices that really define who one is as a person, come into focus. While I would consider myself [...]
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Irish novelist Sally Rooney has pledged to continue backing Palestine Action despite the group’s recent designation as a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.
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Erst Geflüchtete, dann Verarmte, dann alle anderen? Trotz lauter Kritik will die Bundesregierung die Bezahlkarte für Geflüchtete bundesweit einführen. Nun plant Hamburg laut @ndaktuell die Ausweitung der Bezahlkarte auf Sozialleistungsempfänger*innen. Bereits im Dezember 2024 veröffentlichten wir interne Dokumente des Bundesministeriums des Innern zur Ausarbeitung der Bezahlkarte und deckten gravierende Verstöße gegen Grundrechte und Datenschutz auf: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklus…
The road to the 2026 Pokémon World Championships 2026 is now open, and PokémonXP will be taking place alongside the main celebrations. Here's the catch: Nintendo and The Pokémon Company haven't explicitly revealed what Pokémon XP will be. We received a trailer on Aug. 17, which served as an official announcement for the fans. Based on the information we have from the official sources, Pokémon XP will ...
I don't know if it's true, but I'm hearing whispers that Europeans and Canadians are stocking up on weapons. It seems plausible given the circumstances.
@MummaBear Globalists wanted extinction for most and slavery for the rest. I don't care what it takes. We have to end this 20th century madness for good. @cjd
Both the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea have marked the 80th anniversary of the Korean Peninsula's liberation from Japan's colonial rule, with the ROK leader pledging to reduce bilateral tensions.
Anyone know why I can’t see @NouranKhaledGh’s account when I do a search for “Nouran” from my Mastodon instance? Can you folks see her profile from yours? If not, any idea why not?
Update: thank you all for checking. Looks like it’s working, just not from my instance for some reason.
@stephanie Good to know, thank you. Maybe it’s just my search index that’s messed up. Just want to make sure she’s not shadowbanned on mastodon.social or anything as she and her family are relying on the fediverse to not starve.
Uninformed, panicked, outraged: “Children are being starved by the Israeli government!” Informed, calm, unconcerned: “They’re mostly starving SICK children, but I guess that doesn’t fit your narrative.” RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:osfzo…
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US support for Israel is about maintaining imperial control. Israel acts as Washington’s attack dog, destabilizing the Middle East to prevent sovereign development that could threaten cheap labor and resources for Western capital.
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Como no he hecho nada para comer he acabado comiendo puré, fabada, tomate aliñado, pimientos de padrón, croquetas, pizza, chuletón de buey, papas fritas, pan y queso. Y ahora toca chocolate, tarta de almendra, café, copa, puro y quizás un yogur. Por no beber cerveza en ayunas.
The most effective way to keep democracy permanently disabled is to maintain the illusion that it exists. Rather than dissolving democratic institutions, global capital zombified them much like a deep fake that steals your voice, your face, and your reputation. This pseudo-democracy may sound like an oxymoron, but it isn’t. Technically people can still vote, but their votes are the result of microtargeted brainwashing by media empires owned by global capital. Decision-making and debate continue to take place via “democratic” parliamentary procedures, but all MPs are prostitutes to corporate stakeholders. But along with the illusion of democracy, there is an illusion of politics altogether – that is, the illusion that people have choices when they enter the voting booth. We live with the delusion that our vote still counts for something, because we have not started questioning this system. We may have more plurality than ever, but it is different flavours of the same narrative. While old fascism dismantled all political parties, the capitalist terror state has made them all the same, achieving the same result. Voting is pointless when the necrosystem owns us, the media have rendered truth irrelevant, and choice is now limited to one corrupt politician over another. We are powerless as long as profit owns our politics.
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i think state at state borders by the side of highways, we should put signs that say "illegal immigrant drivers subject to arrest and vehicle confiscation" that would help
literally seize their trucks and auction them off, and deport them. this will discourage libtard sanctuary states and companies from having them haul loads
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Battlefield 6 Open Beta Poll Reveals Community’s Favorite Map
A community poll has revealed what people considered to be the best map from the two weekends of the Battlefield 6 Open Beta. The post Battlefield 6 Open Beta Poll Reveals Community’s Favorite Map appeared first on Insider Gaming.
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Trump Administration Helped Netanyahu’s Cyber Chief After His Las Vegas Arrest for Child Sex Crimes Caught in a U.S. child predator sting, Netanyahu’s cyber chief was charged and jailed — until Trump’s White House intervened to make sure he got back to Israel safely. thenorthstar.com/p/breaking-tr…
“It is up to you to decide whether or not you’re ready to be free, really free. This pertains to your relationship as well as your activities in the world. You are limitless, if you choose that! Your freedom comes from letting go. Freedom means empowerment to be, do, go, feel, whatever your heart tells you. Only you have kept yourself from having this freedom out of some misunderstanding of what your responsibilities really are. Your responsibilities are to your Self.…
"It is up to you to decide whether or not you’re ready to be free, really free.
This pertains to your relationship as well as your activities in the world.
You are limitless, if you choose that! Your freedom comes from letting go.
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(Reuters) -Germany said on Monday that the United States would have to follow through on agreed lower tariffs on Europe-made cars before a wider agreement on
@chris Putin has been screaming for years. He’s gone the legal route and they said they’ll look into it and nothing was done. Trump had the election stolen and Biden was weak so he went ahead. He had no gaurantee the Trump would return or what could happen to Russia in between those years.
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
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"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Selon les résultats d’une récente enquête, environ 40 % des Kurdes ont déclaré que leurs enfants parlaient turc avec eux. Une enquête menée auprès de locuteurs natifs du kurde dans différentes régions de Turquie a révélé que plus de 97 % des participants soutiennent le kurde
>delta strongly markets its code share flights on Korean airlines planes highly because they can charge a premium then reimburse them in devalued won >But you can't buy the Korean air first class with award miles due to 'no availability' Epic baconsauce for the win
Honestly, a lot of people shit on the kids nowadays, but some of the stuff they're doing I'm honestly pretty much behind. The more corporations make things shit, the more happy I am to see people go "Fuck you, I'll do my own thing".
My daughter was told that they should have either a windows or apple OS on her new laptop for school. I’m sending her in with Linux Mint, let’s see what happens.
I made it dual boot just in case, but windows has parental controls switched on, so the incentive to Linux is there already 😅
I'm not gen alpha but members of my family who are do consider all commercial platform's except tiktok and discord to be for old people so I'm not surprised at the rise of proper websites as a reaction to that
The Nagano “High Rail 1375” train refers to the highest point on the JR rail lines at 1375m. The “closest to the sky” train is kitted out in an astronomy theme and if you ride at night, you’ll stop at Nobeyama station (home of Japan’s radio telescope facilities) for a star gazing event enroute 🌟🚞
Although taking the train at night was clearly the classic star gazing adventure, I will admit that the wonderful window-facing seats were a bit wasted. With the light on inside the carriages, all we could really see was our own reflection.
"The "self-documenting" code, as far as I know, landed in production so at least for a while, all ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs. "
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