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2026-08-07 22:35:38 GMT

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Yes, it happened first with the Bitcoin Foundation, the through Joi Ito and MIT DCI, and now through Bitcoin Core.

2026-08-07 15:42:34 GMT

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We still have to pick a side in this.

2026-08-07 15:41:40 GMT

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Ad hominem and non sequitur.
Do better.

2026-08-07 15:38:20 GMT

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LOL

2026-08-07 14:59:59 GMT

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Unknown.

2026-08-06 19:19:42 GMT

⚠️ Was Bitcoin Core infiltrated by Israel?⚠️
We know from the DOJ emails that Epstein “represented the Rothchilds”. Israel also receives operational support from certain members of the Jewish diaspora, (“Sayanim”).
Now look at the influencers opposing BIP-110 to protect Core’s monopoly:
- Adam Back (CEO Blockstream): According to Epstein emails, took money from Epstein & visited his island
- Most Blockstream current and ex-employees (Matt Corrallo, Greg Maxwell, Byron Hambly, Fernando Nikolic etc): Company funded by Epstein, with several credible ponzi allegations
- Michael Saylor (MSTR): Is “one of us” according to the Epstein emails.
- Chaincode (Alex Morcos & Suhas Daftuar): Met with Epstein according to emails. Funds Bitcoin Core
- Starkware (Eli Ben Sasson), funds Core via HRF and OpenSats: Israeli
- Casey Rodarmor (Ordinals creator):Jewish.
- Peter Todd (Libre Relay, Coinkite Advisor): Zionist
- Bryan Bishop, (Core moderator): Pitched designer baby company to Epstein
- Udi Wertheimer: Israeli, ties to IDF
- NVK/Rodolfo Novak (Coinkite): Jewish.
- Dan Held: Jewish
- Jonathan Bier (Brink which funds Core, BitMex Research, Farside): Presumed Jewish
- BTC conference: Brandon (@BranBTC), and Craig from Programing (@Bitcoin_phan): Jewish
- Nakamoto: CIO Tyler Evans and CEO David Bailey, potentially Jewish (unconfirmed)
- Mr. Hodl: Israeli accent, likely intelligence
- Scott Melker (Wolf of all Streets): Jewish
- Citrea: Investment by Peter Thiel, close Epstein associate
- Tone Vays: Jewish
- Shaquille O’Atmeal: Jewish
- Apex B (@malandrox7): Jewish
- OpNet founders (Spam company): Israeli
- Isabel Foxen Duke: Israeli
- Jameson Lopp (Core, Casa): In 2023, Casa started accepting ETH and the Casa logo rebranded and now resembles a known FBI pedo symbol. Hopefully a coincidence?
- Rearden: Jewish
- Mars Spits Barz: Jewish
- Fundamentals21m: Jewish
- Ghost_AwyeeDeaterBob: Jewish
- Vic (@vicariousdrama): Israeli
- TeddyBitcoins: Jewish
- Ben Kaufman (Specter wallet): Israeli
- Richard Greaser (Bitcoin Bugle): Jewish
- Jeremy Poley (21 media): Jewish
- Liran Cohen: Jewish
- Coinicarus: Jewish
- Pierre Rochard: Jewish family
- Jimmy CTV (@bunkfreamon): Jewish
- Too many more to list
Many other anti BIP-110 supporters are sponsored by either Blockstream or the BTC Conference and therefore similarly incentivized to protect Core influence: Walker, JP_Technology, Joe Nakamoto, etc.
Notes:
- Analysis based on publicly available information, and is open to corrections.
- Findings include extreme overrepresentation of Jewish influencers in BTC.
- A handful of Jewish critics of Core were identified, but ratio is highly abnormal, at around 20:1 favoring Core.

2026-07-31 19:05:41 GMT

What if… the Coldcard bug was a back door purposefully deployed by a nation state, aiming to activate it at the right time and confiscate tons of BTC.
And then a random guy with a cheap AI subscription found it and exploited it prematurely?
https://blossom.primal.net/591cd0575e75ca58b9bfc2aa7ed187d0119fb43fbb02912019937e2ceac028f4.gif

2026-07-21 19:31:43 GMT

Do you have BTC on Liquid? How much do you trust Blockstream not to rug you?
LBTC on the Liquid Network is NOT BTC. It's a IOU handed to you by Blockstream and federation members, while they keep your BTC.
With allegations of Blockstream running a mining ponzi, we need to dig deeper:
While the Liquid ecosystem is comprised of 80+ companies, the BTC backing LBTC sits in 11-of-15 multisig wallets held by only 15 Liquid Federation “functionaries”.
You need 11 of these 15 functionaries to sign off so you can withdraw your BTC.
So who are these functionaries?
We don’t know, they’ve never been disclosed.
All we know is they’re a subset of the 80+ Liquid federation member companies.
This is a problem because ~20 of those companies are intimately interconnected to Blockstream and their funding partners.
We need to investigate them.
Some are Blockstream, their subsidiaries, or share board members: Komainu, Crypto Garage, JAN3, Pixelmatic, Wiz.
Many are investors in Blockstream: Tether’s BitFinex, Fulgur & DCG.
Several are funded by the same capital as Blockstream: STOKR, OpenNode, CoinShares, Breez, etc.
At least 20 of the ~80 companies have deep overlapping ties to Blockstream through C-suite relationships, board representation, JVs, or mutual major investors.
On an 11/15 multisig, you would only need to effect control on 5 companies to be able to veto any BTC unlock from LBTC.
Blockstream, through its close network, very likely can veto BTC releases by enforcing its own key and 4 other close relationships.
Also, if the federation simply stops processing BTC peg-outs, the fallback is emergency keys held by Blockstream itself, that unlock after 28 days.
In conclusion, Liquid revolves around the Blockstream ecosystem and if you have any permissioned LBTC, your BTC could be frozen at will.
In light of Blockstream’s mining ponzi allegations, are you sure your BTC is still there?
Maybe you should withdraw while you still can.

2026-07-01 18:38:43 GMT

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We’ll see I guess.

2026-06-27 23:30:33 GMT

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True, but there’s been a huge propaganda push to get people to put their Bitcoin in these wrappers… we have to wake people up!

2026-06-27 17:47:32 GMT

Bitcoin Treasuries and ETF’s are “paper Bitcoin squared”, because you own paper in a wrapper that owns paper.
It’s even worse than leaving coins on exchanges. You’re the assistant to the regional manager 😆
https://blossom.primal.net/aec06730901f4d23fdb1de907c782a9f513208afdaa4b13f901fcfcf5cdfab60.gif

2026-06-26 15:05:27 GMT

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Show me a Nostr or X post that you made about the v30 wallet deletion prior to the announcement of the bug fix.
Everything else is blah blah.
https://blossom.primal.net/d127170ca56a0c9a63e32e3b6ef990dd757696838519bf3f84b922f07f385c7e.gif

2026-06-26 13:32:58 GMT

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You make lots of clams and provide no proof - show me where to warned in advance about the wallet deletion bug in Core v30 as you claimed in your post.

2026-06-26 13:31:12 GMT

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What proof? You just said you did things but gave no proof.

2026-06-26 13:28:43 GMT

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Well you’re right that it’s not definitive - I have to rely on public information and don’t have any specific insider information. But I’m revealing a suspicious pattern:
- Strategy has deep ties to intelligence which have not been revealed to retail investors.
- It has a highly classified classification.
- It hired way overqualified intelligence individuals for a very small amount of government sales.
- Covert BTC accumulation via Strategy would make a lot of sense for a government which doesn’t want to give the game away early, and complies with the “budget neutral” SBR requirement, since they could 6102 the stack later.

2026-06-26 13:21:15 GMT

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The soft fork mechanism is similar.. do you have reading comprehension issues?
And what is your problem with BIP-110?

2026-06-26 13:19:29 GMT

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You should be embarrassed to come here to white knight for this fraud.
Yes, BIP-11 was great if you wanted to reveal your wallet structure immediately lol. It’s like I’m saying that the printing press made making books at scale possible, and you try to dunk on me saying that aktchually some dude in China was pressing seals on parchment before then. Get a grip.

2026-06-25 22:21:46 GMT

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Then you’re either very lost, or malicious. I hope it’s the first because that can be fixed.

2026-06-25 22:03:56 GMT

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Not sure why you’re unnecessarily adversarial with me when we haven’t even interacted before.
But if you haven’t yet figured out that “crypto” is an affinity scam to leech off the reputation of the only valuable cryptocurrency (BTC), then I guess have fun staying poor.

2026-06-25 22:01:08 GMT

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I can show it to you but I can’t understand it for you.

2026-06-25 19:07:01 GMT

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… whose software is irrelevant because nobody runs it.
And notice how you solipsisticaly again switch the topic to yourself and how technical you want to be perceived as. You must indeed be a woman lol

2026-06-25 18:05:27 GMT

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Any soft fork tightens the rules, that’s not an argument at all.
Your explanation of why Segwit improved decentralization is not satisfactory, you mention the 4MB cap, but you omit that blocks carried less data before. So there was no need for large data centers before or after - you’re confusing Segwit with the BCH hard fork that was done later.
BIP-110 does not reduce decentralization in any meaningful way, in fact it’s the opposite, the whole process has diversified nodes much more, now there are two reference implementations and more node runners.
For you, “what Core wants” = decentralization. When actual decentralization is not having an ivory tower full of co-opted developers unilaterally blowing open OP_Return against substantial opposition (4 nacks for each ack) and creating this mess in the first place.

2026-06-25 16:51:09 GMT

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This is how it goes: You throw out some vaguely technical word salad, I ask for details on how that even applies. You then throw another word salad.
For example, you said “Dude it’s not about the technical piece… it’s the game theory of the networks edges and nodes”.
Ok, then explain exactly how Segwit’s “game theory of the network edges and nodes” changed the network “from distributed to decentralized”
And this is what you’ll do instead of answering:
https://blossom.primal.net/9b55877704ff78ecc687a93eddc5f6883176d9657ab55422b026dbfd01772b35.gif

2026-06-25 15:51:44 GMT

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I thought you said you were done discussing, but here you are bringing me into your word salad.
You now claim that Segwit moved the network from “distributed” to “decentralized”; what technical changes did Segwit implement that achieved this?

2026-06-25 14:01:15 GMT

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Well, running Knots with BIP-110 puts your node on the stricter side of a potential soft fork, so it should operate correctly whether BIP-110 activates or not.

2026-06-25 13:45:08 GMT

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So you didn’t like Segwit which enabled multisig? Or did you?

2026-06-25 13:42:53 GMT

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Why don’t you like BIP-110 then? I assume you did like Segwit, which was activated the same way.

2026-06-25 13:36:38 GMT

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My questions are to probe what you actually know. The activation method for BIP-110 is similar to Segwit.
You simply don’t like what BIP-110 does, but you still haven’t said why. Maybe you don’t know yourself.

2026-06-25 13:29:14 GMT

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If you understand it so well, what is the difference in activation between BIP-110 and BIP-148?

2026-06-25 13:27:07 GMT

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So what exactly of what BIP-110 does are you opposed to?

2026-06-25 13:09:53 GMT

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Will you be running a URSF?
I’m not sure you understand how soft forks works, BIP-110 is not a hard fork.

2026-06-25 11:46:36 GMT

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Sure. Someone else in the comments pointed to the LinkedIn post, it should still be up. Here are some other links:
https://medium.com/microstrategy/microstrategy-takes-government-services-to-next-level-71464c75dec6
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/karen-m-schaefer
https://software.strategy.com/video/leading-in-times-of-crisis-seeing-through-the-fog-a-conversation-with-radm-retired-tom-atkins

2026-06-25 11:30:11 GMT

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Interesting! Thanks, you’re right, I’m not sure what happened or why, I received no notification of reinstatement.
I’ll probably take it easy on X for a while just in case.

2026-06-24 21:02:20 GMT

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Sorry, though Coinbase can deactivate the buy button if you’d like!

2026-06-24 19:54:30 GMT

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Thank you!

2026-06-24 19:08:42 GMT

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Bingo.

2026-06-24 18:46:17 GMT

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Yeah, all my posts on X are gone. I was “unpersoned”.

2026-06-24 18:22:47 GMT

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I was suspended.

2026-06-24 17:35:47 GMT

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Summary: High level intelligence operatives are embedded into MSTR. This makes it more likely that it’s a centralizing op or a proto-SBR.

2026-06-24 16:55:18 GMT

Below is my banned X post but now in Nostr-friendly format:
Did you know that MSTR’s software business has a “shadow” board employing CIA and Homeland Security Veterans?
And that its affiliate company Microstrategy Government Services (created after starting the BTC strategy) provides no info on its intelligence clients and revenues?
Let’s dig in.
Strategy does classified work and must submit to rules set by an agency under the Department of Defense - the Defense Counterintelligence & Security Agency.
Strategy’s affiliate Microstrategy Government Services (MGS) is governed by a Security Agreement whereby Strategy surrenders governance and operational control of MGS to an outside board. Revenues of MGS flow up to the parent company, but MSTR’s financial statements provide no breakdown of government clients and their revenues, and classified contracts are handled by the proxy board.
So who really runs MGS? The answer is Defense veterans.
Rick "Ozzie" Nelson is an EVP at Strategy. He is a CSIS senior associate of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and has testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security.
In 2022 he announced the engagement of two board members for MGS, (which had been incorporated in 2021 shortly after Strategy’s adoption of the BTC strategy), Karen Schaefer and Tom Atkin:
Karen Schaefer is a CIA veteran of 26 years, who was chief of operations, deputy chief of counterintelligence, and managed covert action programs at the National Security Council (NSC).
Is all that expertise needed for MSTR to sell only an estimated $50M in annual software revenues to the US Government? Why isn’t the overqualified Karen Schaefer employed at a top military contractor such as Raytheon or Lockheed instead?
MSTR also engaged Tom Atkin for the same board. Tom has over 36 years of government experience and was Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security.
Contrary to how Strategy’s “legacy” business has been presented to retail investors, Strategy has deep ties to US intelligence, to which they sell software via a company controlled by intelligence veterans.
Strategy’s government products can be seen as a back-looking Palantir, tools built to summarize, report, and analyze what already happened, instead of predicting the future.
Was MSTR, a company authorized to access classified defense info, chosen to become a vehicle for holding BTC for the US in a plausible deniable manner?
Check out their convenient HQ location along with the other supporting materials attached below:
https://blossom.primal.net/9e02e823cf622385f6f3e8a1f20037dc796bec9cd61e439993e3562ee325bac4.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/a87b79420c345c70faf97b469468edc67ce9eba154429f9735719b3faa1d510b.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/2355524d9c0804bef2cea73984d3be5e54b17ff9d1c11e9fb156148a184ebe7b.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/9265b50ba90d1d5d803f4e00e570393d7ed97f95eaad3646243eb1ca6652f3af.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/50132965ccf68b167dac31e0e62fee1a3efe38b4c48fcf341e8bcb7c18b0357e.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/2b6b2756373aa559de9e175ba18e76824322d820272ec7b6c09676752fc00e5e.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/f69ed76d12b9f881677756e28d3a035a8838f690a79aac603434a59907f937fa.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/adbf44eaa4c238b938dc69abad0358f4d1c30304e4b2d9ebbf122dc9eac03900.jpg

2026-06-24 14:03:21 GMT

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Contrary to how Strategy’s “legacy” business has been presented to retail investors, Strategy has deep ties to US intelligence, to which they sell software via a company controlled by intelligence veterans.
Strategy’s government products can be viewed as a sort of back-looking Palantir, tools built to summarize, report, and analyze what already happened, instead of predicting the future.
The question is: Was MSTR, a company authorized to access classified defense info, chosen to become a vehicle for holding BTC for the US in a plausible deniable manner?
Their location would make sense:
https://blossom.primal.net/f69ed76d12b9f881677756e28d3a035a8838f690a79aac603434a59907f937fa.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/adbf44eaa4c238b938dc69abad0358f4d1c30304e4b2d9ebbf122dc9eac03900.jpg

2026-06-24 13:59:25 GMT

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MSTR also engaged Tom Atkin for the same board.
Tom has over 36 years of government experience and was Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security.
https://blossom.primal.net/2b6b2756373aa559de9e175ba18e76824322d820272ec7b6c09676752fc00e5e.jpg

2026-06-24 13:57:55 GMT

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Karen Schaefer is a CIA veteran of 26 years, who was chief of operations, deputy chief of counterintelligence, and managed covert action programs at the National Security Council (NSC).
Is all that expertise needed for MSTR to sell only an estimated $50M in annual software revenues to the US Government? Why isn’t the overqualified Karen Schaefer employed at a top military contractor such as Raytheon or Lockheed instead?
https://blossom.primal.net/9265b50ba90d1d5d803f4e00e570393d7ed97f95eaad3646243eb1ca6652f3af.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/50132965ccf68b167dac31e0e62fee1a3efe38b4c48fcf341e8bcb7c18b0357e.jpg

2026-06-24 13:55:11 GMT

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Rick "Ozzie" Nelson is an EVP at Strategy. He is a CSIS senior associate of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and has testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security.
In 2022 he announced the engagement of two board members for MGS, (which had been incorporated in December 2021 shortly after Strategy’s adoption of the BTC strategy), Karen Schaefer and Tom Atkin:
https://blossom.primal.net/a87b79420c345c70faf97b469468edc67ce9eba154429f9735719b3faa1d510b.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/2355524d9c0804bef2cea73984d3be5e54b17ff9d1c11e9fb156148a184ebe7b.jpg

2026-06-24 13:52:58 GMT

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Strategy does classified work and must submit to rules set by an agency under the Department of Defense - the Defense Counterintelligence & Security Agency.
Strategy’s affiliate Microstrategy Government Services (MGS) is governed by a Security Agreement whereby Strategy surrenders governance and operational control of MGS to an outside board. Revenues of MGS flow up to the parent company, but MSTR’s financial statements provide no breakdown of government clients and their revenues, and classified contracts are handled by the proxy board.
So who really runs MGS? The answer is Defense veterans.

2026-06-24 13:51:40 GMT

I was suspended on X shortly after posting this thread:
Did you know that MSTR’s software business has a “shadow” board employing CIA and Homeland Security Veterans?
And that its affiliate company Microstrategy Government Services (created after starting the BTC strategy) provides no info on its intelligence clients and revenues?
Let’s dig in.
https://blossom.primal.net/9e02e823cf622385f6f3e8a1f20037dc796bec9cd61e439993e3562ee325bac4.jpg

2026-06-24 01:47:34 GMT

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Don’t worry, you’ll know :)

2026-06-24 01:46:57 GMT

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I’ll post the whole post tomorrow since I’m recovering it, but in my mind there are several issues:
1) The caliber of the board hires is top notch, one of them was running transition for the Biden administration.
2) All for selling about $50M per year to the US Government. They could have hired much much lower profiles if it was only that.
3) Timing was right after starting the Bitcoin strategy.
4) No clear communication to investors- had you heard that Strategy did highly classified work?
This, plus other things, paints a potential picture of covert accumulation. Confirmation in my mind will be if when BTC price recovers, MSTR burns through the equity ATM pinning the mNAV to 1. Meaning that stock price is secondary.

2026-06-23 21:13:51 GMT

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I definitely have some spare time now that I’m not on X lol

2026-06-23 20:59:19 GMT

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Sure thing, I’ll post the whole thread shortly.

2026-06-23 20:21:11 GMT

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Thank you all for your support. I’ve been moved by many of the messages, it’s a pleasure to be in the trenches with you gentlemen!
I’m currently in bureaucratic hell appealing the suspension, hopefully with time I’ll be able to recover my account access. If I can, I’ll post something to make sure you all know it’s me!

2026-06-23 20:18:13 GMT

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2026-06-23 20:05:26 GMT

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Thank you all for the support, I’ve been very moved by many of your messages. I’m really glad to be in the trenches with you gentlemen!
I’m currently in bureaucracy purgatory, attempting to appeal the suspension on X. Hopefully with time I’ll be successful, and if I get back my access I’ll be sure to post something to let everybody know it’s still me :)

2026-06-22 12:38:11 GMT

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I just got suspended on X likely for pointing out MSTR’s ties to US intelligence.
MSTR has a “shadow” board comprised of CIA and Homeland Security veterans, and has access to classified information via its affiliate MGS (Government Services). Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, a homeland security veteran who is an EVP at MSTR, hired for the MGS board Karen Schaefer, a 26 year CIA veteran.
https://medium.com/microstrategy/microstrategy-takes-government-services-to-next-level-71464c75dec6
I suspect MSTR is the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

2026-06-22 12:12:33 GMT

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It’s not.

2026-06-22 12:06:09 GMT

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Lightning exists on BTC, not sure what you’re taking about

2026-06-22 11:51:53 GMT

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Sorry but BIP-110 is existential… Either we reclaim Bitcoin from the co-opted Core developers or Bitcoin will continue degrading and we will slowly lose.

2026-06-22 11:44:25 GMT

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Cast BCH into the fire. Let it go, it’s dead.

2026-06-22 11:39:48 GMT

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Luke did not even write BIP-110. Nobody running it, (like me) would run a change in POW. This is a distraction based on one single post which has been misinterpreted to appear like a broad plan.

2026-06-22 00:40:51 GMT

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The answer is nobody is changing the POW algorithm. Not sure where you heard that.