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Transcript — Bitcoin’s Dark Orwellian Shadow

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Transcript — Bitcoin’s Dark Orwellian Shadow

[00:00.00–00:06.56] This is Matthew Kratters, Bitcoin University. Today I want to talk about Bitcoin's dark Orwellian
[00:06.56–00:11.68] shadow and of course the classic sources for this are Orwell's essay politics and English language
[00:11.68–00:17.20] as well as his famous novel 1984. So here's the thing as you boil the frog slowly and take control
[00:17.20–00:22.24] of the population, you begin to control their opinions as well by slowly changing the meaning
[00:22.24–00:26.16] of words over time. And we've certainly seen this happen over the past couple of decades,
[00:26.24–00:31.92] words like family, woman, vaccine, MAGA, and even Bitcoin maximalism as we're going to see
[00:31.92–00:37.68] in today's video. And we certainly saw this in the debate with the Bitcoin core side last year.
[00:37.68–00:42.00] People on their side saying it's impossible to define spam while saying at the same time
[00:42.00–00:46.48] we can't define spam but whatever it is it's guaranteed to eventually get priced out by monetary
[00:46.48–00:51.28] transactions. People on the other side saying I really hate spam too but I have no plan on my
[00:51.28–00:55.92] own to fight it and I'm going to do everything in my power to fight your attempt to fight spam.
[00:55.92–00:59.68] People on the other side saying filters don't work but we need to remove this particular filter
[00:59.68–01:04.00] to help citria. People on the other side saying don't worry it's just a policy change it won't
[01:04.00–01:08.16] have any effect. And then saying if you want to stop these transactions from ending up in blocks
[01:08.16–01:12.88] for good because it did seem to have an effect as default policy settings do. If you want to stop
[01:12.88–01:19.12] these at the consensus level you'll obviously need to do a fork re why are you doing a fork.
[01:19.12–01:24.80] And I was reminded of all this when I saw this quote from Yuri Besmanov. You have to understand
[01:24.88–01:29.68] the quote unquote other side is not arguing in good faith they're using the conversation
[01:29.68–01:34.96] operationally to impose their frame redirect you force you on to the defensive
[01:34.96–01:40.56] manufacture concessions and shape your perception. You are presenting evidence they're managing
[01:40.56–01:46.16] you. This is the that's the asymmetry your correct argument cannot defeat a person or tactic whose
[01:46.16–01:51.36] purpose is not to answer you but to manipulate you. And I was reminded of this when I keep hearing
[01:51.36–01:54.96] people saying stay and fight please stay and fight we just need to convert more people on the
[01:54.96–01:59.44] other side to our cause. Here's the thing the other side is not interested in your honest arguments
[01:59.44–02:05.12] as we've seen over 18 months and they're more than happy to use their raw power against you
[02:05.12–02:11.68] rather than anything else. And I was reminded as well of Orwellian language investment offs quote
[02:11.68–02:17.76] reading sailors the Bitcoin Reformation this is really a completely toxic essay in a very in the
[02:17.76–02:22.56] bad sense of toxic. And I thought Bruce I want to return to Bruce's critique of it or summary of
[02:22.56–02:26.80] it Bruce writes here look at how the corporate capture narrative is being constructed. What
[02:26.80–02:32.56] sailor does in this essay number one labor label core cypherpunk principles is dogmatic orthodoxy.
[02:33.12–02:37.92] Number two reduce the totality of merely a founder and not an oracle to discard the mission the mission
[02:37.92–02:43.20] of separating money from stay which Michael sailor has zero interest in doing. Number three call the
[02:43.28–02:48.32] white paper a loose foundation rather than the architectural blueprint. Number four rebrand
[02:48.32–02:52.88] peer-to-peer cash as passive digital capital for balance sheets and refused to call Bitcoin
[02:52.88–02:59.52] as money. Number five treats of custody is optional risk allocation while funneling retail into custodial
[02:59.52–03:04.40] paper. Sailor and Wall Street aren't evolving Bitcoin they're attempting to domesticate it into
[03:04.40–03:10.64] the legacy financial architecture it was built to obsolete in other words fiat. As Dr. Jack Cruz
[03:10.64–03:15.60] points out here a very good summary of this 100% sailor is a Fabian if you've been following
[03:15.60–03:20.48] Cruz's work on Fabianism and then Chris Greedo writing here everyone to see the opposite of
[03:20.48–03:27.60] Bitcoin maximalism. This is it this is fiat maximalism and he's quoting sailor here saying the premise
[03:27.60–03:33.52] that Bitcoin must destroy fiat to succeed therefore understates Bitcoin. So there's a lot of redefinition
[03:33.52–03:37.92] a lot of Orwellian games going on here and here sailor doing it again the network is not
[03:37.92–03:43.04] abandoning its principles it's transcending its prejudices so please don't be a bigot please
[03:43.04–03:47.76] don't be prejudiced Bitcoin or you have to allow all these different uses and you have to understand
[03:47.76–03:52.48] we're not really interested in Bitcoin ever being used as a medium of exchange and we don't even want
[03:52.48–03:57.60] you to hold it in self custody we want you to just buy stocks and hold them in their your brokerage
[03:57.60–04:02.80] account and now we're seeing influencers in the space like Natalie Brunel basically following along with
[04:02.80–04:08.88] sailor's games here she writes here I'm a proud Bitcoin maxi as defined by sailor below quote Bitcoin
[04:08.88–04:14.32] maximalism is the conviction that Bitcoin represents a fundamental economic breakthrough the strongest
[04:14.32–04:20.08] digital property the most credible monetary network and instrument economic empowerment this all sounds
[04:20.08–04:25.36] just like this sort of language and the sort of people where we've been trying to trying to escape
[04:25.36–04:32.48] from and this has nothing to do with what Bitcoin maximalism has meant in the past and this was something
[04:32.48–04:37.52] that Natalie pointed out in her interview with me she was basically saying why are you guys being
[04:37.52–04:43.52] so mean and I pointed out that we all say we like toxic Bitcoin maximalism but when we actually
[04:43.52–04:48.72] experience it maybe we don't like it we don't like seeing Bitcoin's immune system functioning so
[04:48.72–04:54.72] now I would say that not only has toxic been banned but now we're redefining Bitcoin maximalism
[04:54.72–04:59.60] and this is a really slippery slope this happens over time newcomers to the space who don't remember
[04:59.68–05:05.60] what toxic Bitcoin maximalism used to mean which meant fundamentally avoid shit coins but
[05:05.60–05:10.96] fundamentally we're here to shut down the central banks and separate money from state but now
[05:10.96–05:16.72] people are just going to think oh it's just one way of being and one way of doing this is you can
[05:16.72–05:21.60] just buy the stock you don't have to run a node and you don't have to hold anything self custody
[05:21.60–05:25.36] and this is a thing that's very galling about this I would say people on the other side say we
[05:25.36–05:30.16] get to change the meaning of words on our side but you're not allowed to keep calling your hard
[05:30.16–05:34.64] fork Bitcoin if you make a change to the proof of work algorithm even though we've all been saying
[05:34.64–05:40.00] for years that we would do a proof of work change if the large mining pools ever went rogue and that's
[05:40.00–05:47.52] why I've been sticking to the the name Bitcoin for what we're doing as alarm 888 ask me here how long
[05:47.52–05:52.32] until the name of this channel changes from Bitcoin University and what will it be and my response I'm
[05:52.40–05:56.16] not leaving Bitcoin I'm just helping to change the proof of work algorithm that's why I'm not
[05:56.16–06:00.64] going to give up on the name Bitcoin captured corporate sailor coin and all this all of his
[06:00.64–06:05.84] redefinitions of what Bitcoin maximalism is captured corporate sailor coin is not Bitcoin
[06:05.84–06:10.08] so I'll keep the channel name Bitcoin University and this is definitely going to be a fine line
[06:10.08–06:17.28] to walk explaining to newcomers what has happened to the largest market cap version of Bitcoin and
[06:17.28–06:22.40] why our monetary fork is better but this is a situation that unfortunately the other side has
[06:22.40–06:26.56] put put us in I've been seeing a lot of people retweeting this which is nice I'm not leaving
[06:26.56–06:31.28] Bitcoin I'm just helping to change its mining algorithm and the saddest thing about all this is so
[06:31.28–06:37.36] many people so many new plebs don't understand actually what gives Bitcoin its value as a result
[06:37.36–06:43.52] of Bitcoin influencers not doing their job and money in the waters as Qisar one writes here small
[06:43.60–06:49.12] investors like me don't give a crap about the die hard idealistic Nakamoto geeks fighting against
[06:49.12–06:54.48] the mainstream miners and the central bankers as long as the coin continues to protect my portfolio
[06:54.48–06:59.12] from whatever they're printing in the form of T bills T notes and fiat money and I respond
[06:59.12–07:04.00] what you're missing is that if the pleb notes are not in control of the protocol Bitcoin has zero
[07:04.00–07:09.28] value and will not provide any sort of protection for monetary debasement so this is what we're seeing
[07:09.28–07:15.52] we're seeing the erosion of Bitcoin's culture by people like Michael sailor and then people
[07:15.52–07:20.64] influencers like Natalie Brunel taking their marching orders from him we change changing the language
[07:20.64–07:26.48] and so we have newcomers thinking that somehow Bitcoin can be scarce money and censorship
[07:26.48–07:31.20] resistant money without anyone doing anything without having to run a node and that's just
[07:31.20–07:36.56] magically going to have these properties which is certainly well not if consensus rules are
[07:36.56–07:42.96] controlled by a small group of corporate insiders and pressure can be applied by nation state
[07:42.96–07:48.32] actors through the mining pools or through the dev process to make changes to Bitcoin or to
[07:48.32–07:52.56] compromise it and that's why I summarized here you might be one of those people who don't understand
[07:52.56–07:57.36] how bitcoins value derives from its decentralized peer-to-peer network because the large corporate
[07:57.36–08:02.08] nodes what people like to call the large economic nodes these are the nodes that can and have been
[08:02.16–08:07.04] captured people don't understand how bitcoins value derives from its decentralized peer-to-peer
[08:07.04–08:12.40] network in other words the bitcoin pleb node runners if miners and devs and people like sailor are in
[08:12.40–08:17.60] control you have neither scarcity nor censorship resistance you're welcome to gamble but I like to
[08:17.60–08:21.44] follow the fundamentals which is what brought me to BTC in the first place and this was part of the
[08:21.44–08:27.20] discussion of how I'm planning on dca dollar cost averaging out of BTC moving the money into other
[08:27.20–08:34.08] things keeping my bitcoin like coins which I'm just going to call bitcoin and sort of figuring
[08:34.08–08:39.68] out how to negotiate this and I'll probably be mining more of this bitcoin and also buying it
[08:39.68–08:44.32] as well after the hard fork on September 1st and I promise we'll be covering more details
[08:44.32–08:49.04] about what's coming and what you need to do to prepare in a later video if you enjoyed this video
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