I think the Lizard People have surrendered to Bitcoin Core, which, if true, means that we have an extremely powerful tool in popular open source software, categorically. It's too hard to slip in corruption with all the world's most competent eyeballs watching.

The Lizards are now trying to centralize keys. We need to make self custody as realistic as possible and not let them reach whatever tipping point of keys they calculated.

Notice, that while the details differ, they are running they same playbook as they did with centralizing gold. Gold failed because it's various properties made it vulnerable to capture by central bankers. Gold was too expensive/burdensome/risky to self-custody.

Notice, again, the narratives emerging from the CC heist.

"Screw it, self-custody is too hard, I'm moving to an exchange."

"They did everything right."

"Death of self-custody."

Each hack/heist encourages the average Bitcoiner to conclude that self-custody isn't worth the risk. That their odds are better with a "well-trusted" institution holding their keys instead. That an institution is the easy button.

If you were a lizard, you'd attempt to introduce critical bugs in specialized HWWs (and their related software stacks) to encourage this migration to institutions.

Each bot repeating that Core is too hard to learn, that something like Yeti Cold is too tedious, advances the Lizard's goal of key centralization.

Call to action: make self-custody as realistic as possible. Reject specialized HWWs. Take one Saturday to learn how Core actually works, it's just software. Learn how to secure generational wealth, it's not beyond you. And pass the knowledge you learn onto the next pleb.

Follow these anons to learn more.

@JWWeatherman_
@heavilyarmedc
@BenWestgate_
@LibertyMugs
@epic_curious

omg is this true @grok

More than 3 million people (60% of Paraguay's adult population) have lost access to EVERYTHING. Their bank accounts. Their pensions. Frozen. Inaccessible.

Stop participating in systems where value largely only flows one way. Exit. Examples include fiat money, the American democratic process, public and higher education, gambling, shitcoins, various software apps, etc.

They tried this in the 90s with PGP and encryption in general.

Didn't take.

I'll bet on cypherpunks every time.

There will only be reputation tied to cryptographic keys.

Re: AI

Attn: some factions both in and out of USG/major industry and whoever is pulling the strings of @BernieSanders @AOC et al.

We’re going to kick your ass just like the cypherpunks did in the 90s with cryptography.

I’m a treasurer for a non profit. TBH it’s only because no one else could/would do it and it’s 97% basic low level book keeping work that is not anything I enjoy or find interesting but the non profit is super important to me. This week I am connecting grok bot to quickbooks and setting up an agent to do all the book keeping. I can have people email receipts to a specific email grok bot has access to and it just attaches them to the tx in quickbooks. I’m looking at using pages on top of that for all the reporting and emailing it out to everyone who needs it.

It looks like my time spent on this will go from 10-15 hrs a month to 15-20 minutes

Basic gist of this: You gotta fight! Fight for your right...to automate!

Also, @JWWeatherman_, @heavilyarmedc, @alburgh9, @LibertyMugs and others are blown away at how useful autonomous AI agents have become. Now is the time to learn them and fight for your right to automate.

Hey @Chase These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation.

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy. Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re-routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today.

— Timothy C. May, 1988

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

By far the most interesting conversation I've had or listened to about AI agents

It sounds very Italian though, everything is forbidden but nothing is enforced

Don’t over complicate it.

Get two dedicated used laptops and two dedicated USB drives.

Download the yeti 2.0 guide from GitHub.

Follow the steps.

Here’s a short explainer 👇.

(Btw this guide is duplicatable anywhere on earth with an internet connection).

There was a tweet years ago where the guy was like “I only want to interact with these people once a year when I travel to collect their annual grain tribute”

Again, doing something because it’s cool, funny, brave etc is its own justification.

Some guy in Miami levered up and bought a lambo this morning lol

RIP all super cars except the roadster

How the hack works, who should panic and how to get safe.

x.com/i/spaces/1OGwb…

“Commercial HWWs
MultIVEndOr mUlTisig”

Do you see how this works yet?

Run generic hardware with massively reviewed FOSS!

I apparently pissed off a lot of bagholders who do not understand the technical issue, and the replies make that painfully fucking obvious.

People keep conflating different claims: AI accelerating quantum engineering, fault-tolerant quantum Shor, and AI discovering a classical/GPU break of ECDLP before Q-day. These are separate claims with separate mechanisms, assumptions, and evidence requirements. Blending them together just shows headline-level understanding.

The pattern was predictable: credential worship, price-tribe anger, "you didn't read it," "Justin Drake said it," "AI might bamboozle math," "what about unknown breaks," "maybe P = NP," and "curves have fancy structure." A few replies sounded technical, but they ultimately still reduced to handwaving: maybe some unknown classical algorithm appears, therefore panic is justified.

That is not cryptanalysis, and it is not how technical discussion should work. ECDSA is known to be breakable by Shor on a fault-tolerant quantum computer. A classical/GPU break before Q-day would require a new classical attack on elliptic curve discrete log. If that is the claim, show the algorithm, complexity analysis, toy result, benchmark, or paper.

This is why I left crypto. I got involved early because I cared about the technology: cryptography, distributed systems, VMs, consensus, protocol design. Now the space is full of hype, price charts, memecoins, credential worship, and people yelling at anyone who asks for the mechanism.

Anyway, I am off to yoga practice now. Be less disgusting while I am gone.