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remnant
in reply to GLACA • • •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.
GLACA
in reply to remnant • • •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.
remnant
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