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🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · Dec 5

Bitcoin is for criminals.

Bitcoin is also for protestors.

Bitcoin is for terrorists.

Bitcoin is also for refugees.

Bitcoin is for degenerate speculators.

Bitcoin is also for billions suffering from hyperinflation.

Since when do we assign blame to the tool instead of the individuals who use it?

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🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · 16d

Call it “extremism” all you want—but in Nigeria (#EndSARS), Ukraine, and Venezuela, Bitcoin helps people bypass censorship, war, and hyperinflation. That’s not ideology, that’s survival.

🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · 16d

The “producer side”? Bitcoin has no central producer—it’s shaped by thousands worldwide. It’s rich to act like the US or UK are the world’s baseline. In Argentina or Venezuela, where savings collapse overnight, Bitcoin’s value is obvious to users.

🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · 17d

If Bitcoin is just “right-wing extremism,” how do we explain its use by people under authoritarian regimes, the unbanked, or dissidents whose bank accounts are frozen? Is resisting censorship and inflation really extremism—or just a fair check on state power? Especially outside of the US and Europe?

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🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · Jan 29

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🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · Jan 1

Someone’s been listening to mallers

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Harris Lemberg @harrislemberg.bsky.social · Dec 6

Fear is a lens that distorts reality.
Take off your glasses so you can see the truth.

🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · Dec 26

I think the change in sentiment that you’re noticing is less “crypto getting popular”, and more that folks are noticing governments and corporations are broke, and regularly robbing you.

Few turn to Bitcoin so they don’t get poor slowly, others turn to crypto and go all-in to high risk gambling 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Bitcoin @bitcoin.bsky.social · Dec 20

#bitcoin

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🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · Dec 22

Every transaction is visible and verifiable by anyone. This makes it very difficult/impractical to use for crime or money laundering.

It’s secured by energy (electricity). It has reached the point where no country in the world can muster enough power to harm the network or break the security.

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🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · Dec 22

Happy Holidays, Bsky 🧡

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Brent @netmojo.ca · Dec 19

The vast majority of negative media coverage about Bitcoin’s environmental impact came from a single debunked source, amazingly. See this analysis by Daniel Batten:

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🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · Dec 16

I’m curious, what would you say makes the US dollar or treasury bonds not a faith-based asset?

Also what do you mean by “faith-based”? If I hold my money in a steel bank vault guarded by armed men, am I not placing faith in that? The physical time and energy expenditure needed to breach security?

🌘 @silverlining.bsky.social · Dec 16

Yes, they’re lost forever and cannot be recovered. Last time I checked, there’s around 3.8 million Bitcoin that is lost.

The result is the remaining floating Bitcoin supply meets higher demand which increases the price, benefiting everyone on the network.

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fernieboy @fernieboy.bsky.social · Dec 14

Folks here are saying that “bitcoin is bad because it’s used for money laundering”.

So, currencies used for money laundering are bad, and should be avoided at all costs. Got it.

Here’s the facts; for clarity, bitcoin is the column on the right 😉