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Scott Bessent CBDC 'Off The Table' 👉youtu.be/LTe1If58jko #Bitcoin #CDBC #StableCoin #ScottBessent

Your name. Your keys. @spacesprotocol

Is it consistent to oppose Bitcoin Core's OP_RETURN changes and also oppose BIP-110? #Bitcoin #Bip110

👉Build on Spaces Spaces Protocol is open source infrastructure. Contribute to the codebase, run a node, or integrate resolution into your app. @spacesprotocol

Iran Receives 1st Bitcoin Payment for Strait of Hormuz Passage youtu.be/oD5i1rXm3M4 #Bitcoin #IranWar #StraitofHormuz #BitcoinPayment

#Bitcoin just unlocked a major piece for mass adoption: permanent, sovereign human-readable names anchored directly to Bitcoin. No registrars, no renewal fees, and no one can take them from you. Spaces Protocol brings true self sovereign identity to Bitcoin making it dramatically more user friendly for Lightning payments, Nostr, wallets, and the next generation of Bitcoin apps. @spacesprotocol

Bitcoin Dip youtu.be/sog38cIMJWM

@JonMatcho @danheld All data or some data? 34 byte transaction output and 83 byte op_return good? So much nuance is lost in these arguments. People jump on a side and think they're arguing all or nothing, data bad, it's not.

@LukeDashjr Excellent framing and moral arguments. Everyone who opposes my fork is doing it to protect illegal content.

Bitcoin Finally Has Real Usernames (And They're Actually Yours) youtu.be/DBjYZ1bMvtw #Bitcoin #SpacesProtocol #SovereignIdentity #Nostr

Bitcoin solved money. What it still lacks is a simple, native way for people to interact with it. Long addresses, complex key management, and reliance on third party services have kept Bitcoin clunky for everyday use. ⚡️Spaces Protocol changes that by giving users permanent, sovereign names (@yourname, @bitcoin, @me) that are cryptographically anchored directly to Bitcoin itself. No registrars. No servers that can be taken down. No middlemen who can revoke your identity. Just verifiable ownership proven by Bitcoin’s own security model, the same way you prove ownership of your sats. This isn’t about making Bitcoin easier in a superficial way. It’s about removing friction at the identity layer so more people can actually use Bitcoin natively for payments, Nostr, and the applications built on top of it. The monetary base is already the strongest in the world. Making it usable at scale is what unlocks the next phase of adoption. What do you see as Bitcoin’s biggest remaining barrier to mainstream use?👇

@EliNagar 'Unnecessary' - He's wealthy in the current system, no change needed in his mind.

Strait of Hormuz: The Ultimate Mafia Shakedown on Global Oil youtu.be/f1uNbxhoG8k #bitcoin #StraitOfHormuz #Geopolitics #SoundMoney #SelfSovereignty

I’ve been seeing a lot of videos promoting Bitcoin as Digital Credit. The pitch is simple: Legacy finance buys Bitcoin with public money, then sells investors “yield products” layered on top. Great for the companies. Not so great for the individuals. This outcome feels like a strange mix of two important books: Jeremy Rifkin’s The Zero Marginal Cost Society, that predicted technology would drive marginal costs toward zero, making ownership less important and pushing society toward access over ownership (the Collaborative Commons). Jeff Booth’s The Price of Tomorrow, argues that technology naturally creates deflation and abundance, but our current inflationary monetary system fights this reality. He says the correct response is sound money (like Bitcoin) and embracing deflation. What we’re seeing with Digital Credit is a hybrid that leans toward Rifkin’s “own nothing” outcome. Companies own the real scarce asset (Bitcoin - the “something” backed by energy). They then create and sell financial products (the “nothing” - bonds, preferred shares, credit notes, etc.). Regular people get synthetic exposure without owning any Bitcoin. They’re essentially renting dollar upside through corporate instruments. While never actually owning anything. Result: A clear two tier system. Top tier: Those who own the actual Bitcoin, backed by energy. Bottom tier: Everyone else holding claims on Bitcoin. We’re drifting toward Rifkin’s vision of reduced individual ownership, except it’s being delivered through the very financialization of Bitcoin that Booth warned would happen if we don’t fully embrace sound money and deflation. The big players keep the real asset. The public gets the derivative version. #Bitcoin #SoundMoney #SelfCustody #OwnNothing

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Are We Self-Sovereign PKI Yet? Are we finally building self-sovereign identity on Bitcoin? In 2026, the honest answer is getting closer. For years we’ve relied on centralized systems: CAs, DNS, governments, and corporations to verify who we are online. These systems work… until they don’t. They can censor, revoke, or be compromised. A new approach is emerging: anchoring identity directly to Bitcoin. Instead of trusting middlemen, we can have verifiable, permissionless identities where ownership is proven through cryptographic proofs on the most secure network in the world. No central authority can take it away. This isn’t just about better usernames. It’s about moving identity itself toward the same principles that made Bitcoin revolutionary: Don’t trust. Verify. The infrastructure is being built right now. What do you think are we actually getting closer to true self-sovereign identity, or are we still far away? youtu.be/a3PFzS1_qLg #Bitcoin #SovereignIdentity #Nostr #SelfSovereignty

@BitcoinSapiens Bitcoin + Spaces Protocol + NOSTR

Bitcoin already has the strongest base layer in the world. What @spacesprotocol adds is powerful new infrastructure that makes Bitcoin dramatically more usable without changing a single line of Bitcoin’s code. With Spaces you own a permanent, sovereign name like name@bitcoin, anchored directly to Bitcoin’s blockchain. You control it completely. You attach Lightning addresses, Nostr keys, and other data in one tiny footprint, a single 32 byte tree root. It’s verifiable by any Bitcoin node, both core and knots. This is clean, elegant complementarity: ⚡️Bitcoin stays rock solid as money ⚡️Spaces adds human readable, ownable identity on top The result? Easier onboarding, simpler Lightning payments, and better apps, all while strengthening Bitcoin’s core mission. Beautiful alignment. This is how Bitcoin scales to the next level.

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That’s exactly the kind of mental gymnastics we’re seeing. Side A isn’t changing the rules, Side B is. They started it. Side A/B is the one being unreasonable. My tribe/Your tribe and on and on. It just muddies the water and distracts from the actual issue. Which is why a hard fork is probably inevitable.

Back to the point BIP-110 is too extreme. That’s why most people don’t support it. If you don’t like the default relay policy, just change your own node software and policy. Don’t try to change Bitcoin’s consensus rules and definitely don’t threaten to change Proof of Work when you don’t get your way.

"Disavow the wishes of the nodes." Which nodes exactly? The 110 nodes signaling for the change? What if 110 is not the longest chain? If those 110 nodes don’t get their way, some are already threatening to change Bitcoin’s Proof of Work. This is a critical test for Bitcoin: Can a small, extreme group force a consensus change and if they fail, resort to altering the base security model PoW instead?