Daniella ✨

What if there was a plan to stop Bitcoin? Just asking, what if? Maybe it would look something like this:

• De-fund independent devs and replace them with compliant ones to make slow, steady changes to the protocol over years time
• Fund businesses and products rebuilding fiat on Bitcoin and discredit FOSS / true Bitcoin-only projects
• Fund and amplify compliant voices willing to promote whatever serves the change: People, narratives, products, etc
• Fund and promote fiat products on top of Bitcoin to centralize as much of it as possible
• Delete, ignore, flag, downzap, block, suppress, and discredit any independent thinkers and their solutions (e.g. Security flags, bug fixes, #BIP110...)
• Then kill the founding culture by telling people not to self-custody, non-monetary data is good for Bitcoin, you and your node don't matter, you need to buy a fiat product for Bitcoin to be money... And maybe even rug those who saw through the propaganda and "did the right things."

Just asking, not pointing fingers; because part of the psyop would certainly also be to divide us all at a time when we would do best to come together on the idea that united us all in the first place: Bitcoin is Money.

"Tinfoil hat conspiracy" or not, what strange timing the Coldcard breach. Many on vacation away from their cold wallets, others already financially strained given the bear market, and right before the #BIP110 activation... If this was planned we can make it backfire because our scrutiny into what is actually going on in the space and our aligned action in consequence is the light that puts out the darkness, and scrutiny is ramping up.

Flip the script: Keep researching what's actually going on in the space. Use some time off this Summer to learn about BIP110 and spin up a node. Let the bear market be a good time to stack. Reinforce your self-custody setup. Hold the line. My thoughts are with anyone who had their funds drained, hopefully justice will be served.

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsts9kywr3mdkfpseckldcft497kxs2xkrpztggsjxj35jp2hzg23c09jfrw

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvhkwlgr64jde8e3mr70ynr4tv3ye3dxrlr0js7828cydaweqs3aq94qfu6

https://x.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1447213375398846473

https://daniella.io/fiat-incentives-everywhere/

https://daniella.io/core-vs-knots/

Last weekend I spoke at an event full of preppers. Many were familiar with or own Bitcoin and so the questions were sharp.

But the energy was frustration and anger. To them, Bitcoin had been captured and compromised.

My response was Bitcoin can't be captured or compromised, only people can. And what else could we expect from fiat other than attempts to control the protocol that ends the 5,000 year ponzi?

But it got me thinking. The people closest to seeing and implementing the solution are the same ones yelling at the fiat soap opera instead of building, running nodes, taking agency. Why?

What if the familiar instinct to forfeit agency, relinquish responsibility, point fingers, and divide is itself the psyop? What if that is exactly what the system wants from us right now? What if we said NO?

So what does it matter if the guards are corrupt? The prison door is open. The better question is why is it that so many who know this are still in the cell?

Run a node. #Knots #BIP110