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My problem is he claims to be a BTC Maxi 'living on the Bitcoin Standard' yet here on Stacker News he refuses to engage with the P2P circular economy that has been built at no small effort by the SN team.
If we do not use Bitcoin as a P2P MoE it will not grow and strengthen- it will instead decay and die.
So I find @DarthCoins stated position as a BTC Maxi irreconcilable with his actions- he is a blatant hypocrit.
He clearly has the ability to attach a wallet but he is too lazy to do so and be part of the P2P BTC V4V circular economy here on Stacker News.
He may or may not have held BTC since 2011 - but do you have proof?
If he does so what anyway?
Does the length of time someone holds Bitcoin prove he is 'living on the Bitcoin Standard'? No it does not.
You appear to take everything he says as gospel trusting him without verification?
Do not trust- verify!
I do not trust anyone who talks big but whose actions do not match those big words.
Refusing to engage in the SN BTC P2P circular economy shows @DarthCoin is not a BTC Maxi- he is demonstrably a hypocrit.
I do not believe anything this serial arsemilking hypocrit claims without verification.
I can daily verify he has NOT attached LN wallets because he has NO Gun and No Horse.
He has had ample opportunity to explain why he refuses to attach LN wallet but has not given any credible or convincing reason- instead he attacks me rather than the issues I raised- proving he is an arrogant troll and not a man or reason and not someone who will behave ethically but rather a hypocrit, bully and troll.
Humans are social animals with an intrinsic and deep evolutionary understanding that their survival is strongly connected to their alignment with the group they associate with.
Thus they 'believe' whatever the group believes and strongly resist anything to the contrary.
Libertarians included.
How exactly is it nonsense?
'Some factors include persistent drought on American pasture lands'
Above quote from the article you linked to.
https://reason.com/2026/01/28/the-real-reason-beef-costs-more-fewer-cows-not-corporate-greed/
The science of climate change is now backed by solid recorded evidence.
'Although 2025 was slightly cooler than 2024 globally, it was still far hotter than almost any other year on record (Copernicus 2025) and the impacts of this hotness were unmistakable. This report reviews some of the worst extreme weather events of 2025 the WWA team has studied, documenting the severe consequences of a warming climate and revealing, once again, how unprepared we remain. Across the 22 extreme events we analysed in depth, heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires claimed lives, destroyed communities; and wiped out crops. Together, these events paint a stark picture of the escalating risks we face in a warming world.
At the close of 2025, this report underscores that even in a year that had weak La Nina conditions (NASA, 2025), that lead to lower sea surface temperatures, global temperatures remained very high and significant harm from human-induced climate change is very real. It is not a future threat, but a present day reality.'
The climate is changing and weather events, storms, droughts, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes are increasing in frequency and severity.
The last 5 years have been the hottest in recorded history globally.
Are you suffering from Trump derangement syndrome or sponsored by Big Oil/Koch Brothers or just a crazy suicidal person with a death wish for all sentient life on the planet?
It is infectious for several weeks before the carrier becomes aware they are ill.
However it is not as infectious as Covid.
Help is on its way!
Here in New Zealand there are rapidly increasing numbers of beef calves being raised.
We are responding to the market signals, which are the best prices for beef in decades.
Yes global supply is down but demand is rising.
Good for beef farmers here in New Zealand!
And yes, Climate Change is causing droughts which reduce supply in some regions.
BRICS have other ideas and they dominate global trade in commodities and manufactured goods where MoE is the primary objective.
They are developing a currency called The Unit which is backed 40% by gold with the other 60% a basket of Chinese, Russian, South African, Brazil and Indian currencies.
This may be part of the reason for the rally in gold prices currently underway.
The real contest is between BRICS and the US.
Bitcoin is an minor player in terms of liquidity and probability although it is an interesting and significant asymmetric player.
Sold some sats and bought gold late last year.
Gold is the tyhing to own short to medium term as the USD goes down the gurgler...
Longer term Bitcoin is still a hodl with the best odds but glad I am somewhat diversified in liquid assets- who the fuck wants to be holding more fiat shitcojn that they need to pay the bills?
Rapidly appreciating assets are inherently volatile.
Imo more upside in gold in the near-medium term, though Bitcoin may have more growth potential in the longer term.
Time will tell.
Place your bets or sit on the sidelines.
What you say is true but the nature of technology has resulted in humans needing to operate in larger and larger groups to optimise the potential wealth and security that can result from being in a group.
The family while still biologically and emotionally valid is no longer a potent economic unit.
It was when farming was done by a family and farming was the most common occupation.
That world no longer exists in the developed world.
The nation state, and its collective capacity to build security and economic scale, like it or hate it is more important to the wealth of people than ever before.
And most people want wealth . . . as much as they can get.
Act now.
Avoid micro plastics especially in your clothing and bedding.
Move to all natural fibres.
Prioritise good sleep and diet...again primarily with natural unprocessed foods.
Not how I read it although he does write in an annoying ambiguous manner a lot of the time.
After all in the linked post he argues that price rise is not due to central bank buying but purely retail, when the graph I have posted above shows that is clearly not true...the lead up to this current price rise was definitely stimulated in large part by central banks moving from USTs and into gold.
Would love to see him put his sats where his mouth is, wherever that is...
Everyone can do exactly that here :)
https://beta.predyx.com/market/gold-price-6000-before-may-2026-1769394325
Good.
There are alternatives to Trumps voodoo economics.
Reducing the tax burden on lower income earners stimulates consumption and the productive economy generally.
Only rich prick parasites will leave- better off without them.
Central banks collectively think otherwise, ever since the GFC, and much more so since 2022.
The US empire is in obvious decline to all but those under its spell of US exceptionalist delusions.
While rising markets often become bubbles due to FOMO (bitcoin is no exception there) they usually have underlying reasons for developing in the first place.
The rise of gold as the credibility of the US reaches new lows is no exception.
Time to audit Fort Knox, or is it empty ! ? !
'OK, count me skeptical, why should I believe that winter is coming etc.'
Skeptical or simply ignorant of the facts?
'Central banks, which were net sellers of gold for many years, flipped to net buyers in 2010 when they reassessed their risks following the financial crisis sparked by the American mortgage meltdown. Central banks picked up the pace of their gold purchases in 2022.
That is when the West sanctioned Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Central banks in countries that have strained relationships with the West, including China, have been shifting away from dollar-based assets into gold, which is beyond the reach of foreigners.
Others, including the National Bank of Poland, an aggressive gold buyer that on Tuesday approved another big purchase, seek to ensure the stability of their own currencies by adding assets without the same risks as sovereign debt.
“Central banks are buying gold not just purely for its price performance, but the role that it can play in foreign reserves,” said Juan Carlos Artigas, head of research for the World Gold Council. “Gold is very useful to hedge or diversify the reserves.”'
https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/gold-prices-5000-ounce-2026-67361c87
Clearly you have missed the unraveling of the US empires credibility and loss of the trade war with China.
Since you didn't notice, China now dominates global trade in manufactured goods and commodities.
China has been investing heavily in gold mining and in fact mining and refining of most high value and strategic commodities...so the World Gold Councils figures on central bank gold accumulation could be significantly lower than Chinas true gold reserves accumulation.
Investing in the mines and refining is a better investment than buying USTs.
So China now controls many strategic commodities such as refined rare earths which China is refusing to supply to any buyer who might route them to the US military.
Thus the US military is crippled- USA cannot fight any war of any scale and duration until it re establishes reliable independent supply of refined rare earths- and that will take at least a decade, probably more, maybe never due to the fucking massive cost of subsidising the refining process and the rapidly looming insolvency facing the US.
Many previous buyers of US government debt have stopped buying- the slack had been taken up by Japan and the UK, loyal subservient tribute states, but they are now facing their own insolvency.
Yes, the US empire is facing a rapid downward spiral as loss of its ability to print USD/UST debt endlessly becomes apparent. People will not take the risk anymore.
Whether stablecoins or central banks and private investors the momentum is becoming considerable and is driven by the decline in credibility of the USD and USTs,
The US empire has been in decline for a while now - since the GFC, but this has accelerated since 2022 and the seizing of Russian central bank reserves.
The world is going multipolar and that means gold rather than USTs will be the preferred central bank reserve.
https://beta.predyx.com/market/gold-price-6000-before-may-2026-1769394325
There has never been a functional and prosperous Libertarian society because it would be an abysmal failure.
Bleating and bludging Libertarians never abandon the protective skirts and nurture of the nation state and go off into the woods to live free and Libertarian lives true to their claimed beliefs because most of them are not insane or suicidal.
They are thus all demonstrably hypocrits.
Darthcoin claims to be a BTC Maxi proudly 'living on the bitcoin standard' and a Libertarian fighting for a world based on liberty and reason and free from statists.
But @DarthCoin absolutely refuses to atttach LN wallets to use BTC/LN on Stacker News because he says its all a game and will not help with adoption of Bitcoin and its too much stress for his LN nodes.
Rather than participating in one of the few global communities where we can use sats P2P in a circular economy demonstrating the application of V4V principles and build the strength of the LN 'BTC Maxi' @DarthCoin is deliberately boycotting it.
I call blatant hypocrit.
Who can believe anything this big mouthed virtue signalling technocrat claims.
He could be an NSA mole.
If what I have said is bullshit then you should be able to easily refute it.
But you have not, but rather respond with serial crude and obvious attempts to discredit me rather than what I have actually said.
Address the issues with reason and show they are bullshit or keep proving you are a hypocrit and bully.
SILENCE!
Is there???
Where can ordinary people use sats on daily basis that supports the growth and development of the LN?
WHERE?
SILENCE.
For most people here on Stacker News is the most accessible place they can use LN P2P every day.
SNs has build a sats centred social media community at some effort and expense but you @DarthCoin refuse to attach your LN wallet.
You claim to be living on the Bitcoin Standard yet you refuse to use sats on the most obvious platform in fact you admit accumulating shitcoin CCs and selling them for sats thus encouraging the debasement of the Stacker News BTC circular economy.
You are a blatant hypocrit.
Attach your wallet/s or continue to be called out for your hypocrisy.