REPOST, from March 2021. Four years later, Bitcoin Twitter is a war zone over spam, BIP-110, and Knots vs Core, and this episode is the playbook for how to fight on it without losing your mind or the plot. The @_BitcoinMatrix #34: Bitstein - Everyone's A Scammer & Advanced Geopolitical Meme Warfare Before the current flame wars, Bitstein laid out exactly how the discourse actually works: that we live in a rhetorical world where facts don't move everyone, that there's a time to argue in good faith and a time to troll, and that the fastest way to lose is to let your opponent define your narrative. He also takes the scarcity of Bitcoin dead seriously, seriously enough to call everyone, including you and me, a scammer, and mean it as a compliment. Founder of the Nakamoto Institute, co-host of Noded, Austrian economist, and the meme lord himself, @bitstein joins me to go deep: why "everyone's a scammer" is a heuristic and not an accusation, why hoarders are scammers and that's a good thing, how he called Bitcoin cash flows in 2014, praxeology and the rejection of activism for pragmatic reasons, why stacking sats beats stamping your feet at the Fed, Ron Paul as educator rather than politician, "2020 turned everyone into normies," what the Citadel actually means (localized governance, not Elysium), rhetoric vs dialectic and knowing which game you're playing, how to get your opponent to effort-post, trigram memes and why distilled ideas win, how to reframe, agree and amplify, and then dominate, and why ethical trolling always comes back to the truth and a low time preference. Send this to anyone who's currently losing an argument in your replies. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 3:40 Meet Bitstein 4:45 Finding Austrian economics after the 2008 crisis 11:24 From Rothbard to the Mises Circle to the Nakamoto Institute 16:59 How a Mises reading group became a Bitcoin circle 19:00 "Everyone's a Scammer": taking scarcity dead seriously 23:22 Why it's a heuristic, not an accusation 27:21 Hoarders are scammers: selfishness in service of selflessness 31:18 "All investments are scams" and calling Bitcoin cash flows in 2014 36:22 Rejecting activism: the real opportunity cost of voting 41:00 Why stacking sats beats stamping your feet at the Fed 47:00 Ron Paul as educator, not politician 52:27 2008, 9/11, COVID: crisis as the backdrop of a life 56:24 "2020 turned everyone into normies" 59:24 Can an individual be sovereign in America today? 1:07:00 What "Citadel" actually means: localized governance, not Elysium 1:11:17 The citadel in your mind: stoicism, Shawshank, Joseph 1:13:34 "How to Meme Bitcoin to the Moon": the mimetic landscape 1:15:50 Bitblock 2019: the talk that hit Twitter before he left the stage 1:18:46 We live in a rhetorical world 1:19:14 Rhetoric vs dialectic, and which game to play when 1:24:38 Getting your opponent to effort-post 1:29:45 Know when to argue, know when to troll, know your real audience 1:31:26 Trigram memes and why distilled ideas win 1:33:33 Reframe, agree and amplify, dominate: never adopt their frame 1:36:10 Ethical trolling: stick to the truth, keep a low time preference 1:40:25 The American West, buffalo, and regenerative agriculture 1:47:20 Goldstein to Bitstein: hard money baked into the name

Aaron Siri on why "informed consent" is broken: "Where I really take issue is the consent part. It's the parent who read all the primary sources, who's really informed about these products — and then doesn't want to consent. They've been informed. They are choosing not to consent. And then they're told: okay, no problem — but now your kid can't go to school, you can't have a job, you can't be part of public civil society. Well, then the consent isn't worthwhile. That is destructive to consent. Most people don't wake up and decide to take a socially ostracizing position that gets their kids kicked out of school. And once they've seen the clinical trial data with their own eyes — you can't unlearn that." @AaronSiriSG on The @_BitcoinMatrix #287.

Thank you for sharing @DavidBCollum. The part that stops people cold: the first shot a newborn gets was licensed on a trial of 147 kids, 5 days, no control group — and it's all on the FDA's site. Go check it yourself.

@_BitcoinMatrix #287: @AaronSiriSG — The Original Sin "Nobody says 'I believe in seatbelts.'" The most consequential vaccine litigator in America on the one product you can't sue in the U.S. — and how to verify it yourself. 🎙️youtube.com/watch?v=gPdCC7YK…

🔁REPOST, MUST WATCH INTERVIEW JUNE 15th 2026 Bitcoin isn't digital gold. It's not locked in by math. You can kill it. @_BitcoinMatrix #279 Bitcoin Core Has Gone Rogue | @mattkratter, Bitcoin University The man who ran money at Peter Thiel's hedge fund came on to explain who's trying, and why the only thing protecting Bitcoin is the people who run nodes. Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin University founder, former Clarium / Thiel-world macro trader, early Palantir investor, joins me to lay out the fight consuming Bitcoin right now in plain English: why he says Bitcoin Core has "gone rogue," the spam war over OP_RETURN and BIP-110 he calls Bitcoin's last stand, why consensus flows from culture and not code, who actually controls the network (hint: not the miners), and how to mine Bitcoin from home for about $10 a day. Send this to anyone who thinks Bitcoin can't be stopped. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Physics dropout to literature: Stanford & Berkeley 05:27 René Girard & meeting Peter Thiel 07:56 Becoming a trader: Thiel Macro to Clarium 12:43 The PayPal mafia, network effects & the dot-com bottom 20:23 Global macro at Clarium & the 2003 housing-blowup call 24:08 Napster, PayPal & the "new world currency" 28:32 Government as the ultimate customer: Palantir & the CIA (In-Q-Tel) 36:00 Deep-state roots: is Peter Thiel captured? 49:32 Culture is upstream of consensus 57:00 Bitcoin isn't magic: nodes, immutability & the spam risk 1:01:42 Why spam is a problem: tragedy of the commons 1:04:30 Spam since Satoshi & the 2014 OP_RETURN war 1:14:30 The changing of the guard at Bitcoin Core 1:18:43 Core uncaps OP_RETURN to 100,000 bytes 1:28:00 Consensus flows from culture: the 2nd Amendment analogy 1:35:20 BIP-110: the temporary soft fork 1:44:00 Why small blocks, and running nodes in Cuba 2:18:55 SegWit & the 2017 UASF: how 500 nodes won 2:24:00 The miners are just employees: node runners set the rules 2:41:46 "Firing the miners": changing proof-of-work 2:55:18 Bitcoin Core went rogue: the last stand 2:58:50 You can kill Bitcoin 3:01:20 Mine Bitcoin from home for ~$10/day, KYC-free 3:11:09 Where to find Matt ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=xsOjcw6A…