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![Screenshot 2024-01-31 at 10.28.50 AM.png](https://m.stacker.news/14435)

For funzies, and entertainingly-related, I found this following list from an article on some trash website called officechai: 

Apple Inc. – $167 Billion Cash Reserves

Apple, the tech giant known for its iconic iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, boasts an impressive cash reserve of $167 billion. This substantial financial cushion stems from its diverse revenue streams, including the sale of hardware such as smartphones and computers, digital services like the App Store and Apple Music, and subscription-based offerings like Apple TV+. As a result, Apple has become one of the world’s most valuable companies, allowing it to accumulate vast cash reserves.

Alphabet Inc. (Google) – $118 Billion Cash Reserves

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, sits comfortably with a cash reserve of $118 billion. The bulk of its revenue arises from its dominant position in the online advertising space through platforms like Google Search and YouTube. Additionally, Alphabet’s expansion into cloud computing, hardware products like Pixel smartphones, and moonshot projects contribute significantly to its financial might.

Microsoft Corporation – $111 Billion Cash Reserves

Microsoft, a pioneer in software and computing, maintains a cash reserve of $111 billion. The company’s diversified portfolio encompasses Windows operating systems, Office productivity software, Azure cloud services, and hardware devices like the Surface line. This broad range of offerings has allowed Microsoft to maintain a robust financial position.

Samsung Electronics Co. – $83 Billion Cash Reserves

Samsung, a global leader in electronics, possesses cash reserves totaling $83 billion. The company derives its revenue from various sectors, including consumer electronics, semiconductors, and information technology. Its popular smartphones, high-quality televisions, and memory chips contribute significantly to its financial stability.

Amazon.com Inc. – $64 Billion Cash Reserves

E-commerce behemoth Amazon boasts a cash reserve of $64 billion. Its primary source of income is its expansive online marketplace, where customers can purchase a vast array of products. Additionally, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company’s cloud computing division, has emerged as a major revenue generator, contributing to its substantial cash reserves.

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Formerly Facebook) – $53 Billion Cash Reserves

Meta, the company behind social media giant Facebook, holds cash reserves totaling $53 billion. Its revenue mainly comes from advertising across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The company’s ability to engage billions of users globally has translated into substantial financial strength.

Intel Corporation – $30 Billion Cash Reserves

Intel, a leading semiconductor manufacturer, maintains a cash reserve of $30 billion. The company’s processors power a wide range of devices, from personal computers to data centers. Despite facing increased competition, Intel’s technological expertise and market presence contribute to its substantial financial reserves.

Tesla, Inc. – $23 Billion Cash Reserves

Tesla, a trailblazer in the electric vehicle and renewable energy sectors, holds cash reserves totaling $23 billion. The company’s revenue primarily stems from the sale of electric cars and energy products like solar panels and batteries. Tesla’s innovative approach to transportation and sustainability has propelled its financial success.

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) – $15 Billion Cash Reserves

IBM, a technology and consulting company, possesses a cash reserve of $15 billion. Its revenue streams include hardware, software, and services, with a focus on enterprise solutions and cloud computing. IBM’s decades of experience and strategic offerings contribute to its financial stability.

Oracle Corporation – $10 Billion Cash Reserves

Oracle, a leading provider of database management systems and enterprise software, holds cash reserves amounting to $10 billion. The company generates revenue through the sale of software licenses, cloud services, and hardware products. Oracle’s presence in critical business infrastructure contributes to its substantial cash reserves.

Netflix, Inc. – $9 Billion Cash Reserves

Netflix, a prominent player in the streaming entertainment industry, maintains a cash reserve of $9 billion. The company’s revenue primarily comes from subscriptions to its vast library of movies, TV shows, and original content. Netflix’s innovative content creation and global subscriber base contribute to its financial strength.

Adobe Inc. – $7 Billion Cash Reserves

Adobe, renowned for its creative software solutions, possesses a cash reserve of $7 billion. The company’s revenue derives from software licenses, subscription services like Adobe Creative Cloud, and enterprise solutions. Adobe’s tools are widely used by creative professionals and businesses, contributing to its financial stability.

Uber Technologies, Inc. – $6 Billion Cash Reserves

Uber, a pioneer in the ride-sharing and food delivery industries, holds cash reserves totaling $6 billion. The company generates revenue by connecting riders with drivers through its platform, as well as delivering food through Uber Eats. Uber’s innovative approach to transportation and food delivery has led to its financial success.



A very nice ETF info tracker [dashboard]

bitcoin_beginners

As bitcoin becomes more valuable, there are still ways to stack sats "for free", and you can do them during the spare moments 🚽 during your day. 

Aside from adding a few satoshis to your wallet, these can be fun ways to get your friends & family into bitcoin.
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**Thndr Games**
The original Layer 3 Gaming Company, they now provide many different options. Thndr's first game was Turbo '84 and is still the one I play daily. Play the game, earn tickets, and you are automatically entered into the hourly drawings for free sats.  

Pop open a game when you have a few minutes, and come back later to collect your bitcoin. 

(Note: you do have a limited number of days to claim your earned sats from each game)

_Available Games_
- [Turbo '84](https://turbo84.thndr.games/r/e8cZ) (car maze/racing)
- [Tetro Tiles](https://blocks.thndr.games/r/Vbtf) (tile puzzle)
- [Club Bitcoin: Solitare](https://solitaire.thndr.games/r/kunW) 
- [Bitcoin Bounce](https://bitcoinbounce.thndr.games/r/usHc) (run & jump)
- [Satsss](https://bitcoinsnake.thndr.games/r/zS9n) (snake game)
- [Bitcoin Bay](https://bitcoinbay.thndr.games/r/wYya) (bubble shooter)

Top prizes are currently a few hundred sats, with some larger prizes through tournaments run on their Discord and Twitter. 
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**Referrals**
All the major exchanges offer referral programs that will get you $5-$10 of bitcoin, though there can be a substantial delay in how long the payouts take, it is worth sharing your link if you are onboarding friends & family. Processing time and requirements vary per platform. 
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**Earn Free Shitcoins & Swap for BTC**
Maybe a more controversial option for Bitcoiners - you can earn free crypto on Coinbase and then swap the crypto for bitcoin. 

Coinbase offers many opportunities learn about new shitcoins for a few minutes of "learning". In most cases, you watch or read a brief infomercial and then answer one multiple choice question. Without much effort you can rack up $3-$12 of shitcoins, then of course swap it for bitcoin. 
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**LND Faucets**
There was once a day where you could get full bitcoins for free from "faucets" that would drip a bit into your wallet. Those days are gone, but you can still find a few Lightning Faucets if you look around. 

Let me know if you know of any others. 

- Faucet: [LND Network Stores](https://www.lightningnetworkstores.com/faucet) (8 sats/day)
- Twitter: Search for [Post Lightning Invoice](https://twitter.com/search?q=post%20lightning%20invoice&src=typed_query&f=live) or try other searches

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**Lolli**
[Check out the Lolli App](https://lolli.com/share/FYGPC9) to earn bitcoin for making your normal purchases at Safeway, Finish Line, CVS, and many more. Scroll through the Lolli app and see where you can get _1-10% back in sats_ - you can also link a credit or debit card to earn even more per purchase. 

_Notes_
- Lolli provides a daily stacker where you get ~20 - 50 sats per day for opening your "treasure chest".

- Withdrawal require at least $15 worth of BTC and can take over a week.

- A word of warning, I have currently been waiting 2 weeks for a withdrawal. Lolli informed me there was a delay, but not sure why it is happening.

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**Stacker News** 
Saved this one for last, because if you are here then you know about it. 

Make quality posts, add good comments, stack some sats.

And _please_ be sure to Zap the other Plebs. 

💩 How to Earn Free Sats While You Poop

hodlpleb

privacy

It's obviously too early to talk about new years resolutions. We all know, that we won't keep them up until February. The intention with this post however is to telegraph a plan for ~privacy next month.

The goal: get Stackers off from using services that don't give a duck 🦆 about user privacy.

![Duck'n new years resolutions](https://image.nostr.build/20c861b81a84b3ddbc7e0b4c25d5543dc55781ef447ec22f8c04fb775e465b8d.png)
> *📸 Remix of a cartoon from [FoulLanguageComics](https://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/).*

### The Privacy Problem
Far too many of us (including myself) are still relying on centralised servers and corrupt-corporations for nothing more than convenience. Given the awesome reaction to the [SN Privacy Directory V1](https://stacker.news/items/342249) last week, I'm sensing an acknowledgment that people are ready & wishing to consider alternatives. They maybe just need a shove.

We could of course use tough-love to shame stackers that are ignorant to alternatives. Or we could do things a little bit differently around here and lead by example...

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### WTF happens until January 21
`January 1 - January 21 2024`

The proposal is to have a single day to try-out a privacy task or free and open-source 'challenge'. A chance to experiment with new software & new methods. Even if for nothing more than having some additional redundancy in our technology stack, as well as to generate some cowboy-camaraderie for good measure...

### What is the schedule?
I have given this not much more thought than 45 minutes, but I am proposing for us follow a schedule something along the lines of:


|  Jan 24   |  Category                                       | **Description of task**                                                |
|-----------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
| `1`  | **VPN**                                    | Buy MullVad / Proton / alternative VPN subscription with 🌽 (starting small & simple)                                   |
| `2`  | **Domain**                                 | Buy a domain privately with BTC and set-up 21 email aliases.                                                       |
| `3`  | **Coinjoin**                               | Celebrate proof-of-keys by normalising a coinjoin spend. Tuck it away in cold storage right after.             |
| `4`  | **Passwords**                              | Password manager, e.g. KeepassXC / Vaultwarden. We'll store, switch & segregate all our services into new email addresses from #2. |
| `5`  | **Email & Browser Clients + Search** | New default apps & experiences. `Afuera` with Google & Apple!                                                   |
| `6`  | **New Computer OS**                        | Setup Linux (and/or Start9, Umbrel) - even on Mac hardware, with/without partitions                    |
| `7`  | **2FA**                                    | Yubikey / Aegis / other FOSS solutions + linking to all our online accounts.                                          |
| `8`  | **File Server**                            | Setup NextCloud / Rclone / ProtonDrive / TrueNAS on devices. Or configure a purpose-bought Synology NAS.                                                      |
| `9`  | **Spend Bitcoin**                          | Buy physical products to an alternative address than your home (or fund a FOSS project as your 'fine') |
| `10` | **Nostr relay**                            | Configure your own Nostr relay, for when censorshit 💩 hits the fan.                                      |
| `11` | **2nd Phone**                        | Your first open-source operating system on a (Pixel) mobile device, together with some favourite FOSS apps              |
| `12` | **Site Hosting**                           | Pay with BTC and host your own Wordpress website with BTCPay, Mutiny or LNBits instance.               |
| `13` | **Heavy 'Metal' Day**                      | A day to stamp seeds on metal and/or listen to Metallica. Bonus points if you disturb your neighbours!   |
| `14` | **Videocalls**                             | Try-out open-source videocalls with a friend/family.                                                   |
| `15` | **Backups**                                | Secure encrypted local file storage & boring best practices.                                            |
| `16` | **SECRET 16**                              | Absolutely not because I ran out of ideas. Leaving a space open for suggestions & a surprise... |
| `17` | **Managing Identities**                    | Swapping-out and segregating IDs / keys, plus best practices when posting online.                         |
| `18` | **Messaging**                              | 'Sack-off' Telegram, Whatsapp and even Signal. A chance to test out new secure direct messaging.       |
| `19 ` | **Lightning Channel**                      | Private node & channel open, performing atomic swap (& perhaps payjoin) to open.                       |
| `20 ` | **Orange-Pilling Merchants**               | Ask a business/worker if they accept Bitcoin as payment/tips & send them P2P kyc-free sats.            |
| `21` | **Bitcoin Buys**                           | Purchase non-KYC or P2P only. Celebrating Day 21 in style!                                                    |

*Note*: This is by no means set-in-stone, but I wanted to share a first-draft to get the Stacker's thoughts. Are you interested in such a daily format?

There'll be many of you who have already taken all these steps and even gone beyond. But I suspect the vast majority are still creatures of comfort and habit, having (like me) a handful of items still to check-off their list.

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### Why now?
In-spite of not being blessed with a lot of time next month, I do really want us Stackers to level-up our privacy, with nothing more than a **30-60 minute commitment each day.** It needs to be accessible.

If we all do similar tasks on similar days, it's my hope that it is going to be much more impactful and insightful. People can jump-in & out. Stackers can be sharing their first-time experiences on a similar schedule. We can also invite "vader-veterans" to break-down and provide input into what has worked for them in past months.

I'm posting this in advance because if there is demand for this 21 day series, you're going to need a bunch of **non-KYC corn to purchase software & services** from bitcoin-affiliated projects. You may either need to stack or coinjoin in these coming weeks, finding an opportune time for when the mempool clears it's bowels of JPEGs.

### What you might need?
This is also an announcement of an announcement, simply because you may wish to put 1 or 2 things on your festive wish-list. 

By the second week, there's the option to adopt some new hardware. This will be useful if you want to get started with Graphene (mobile), Linux (laptop/desktop) or say a Yubikey for example. Ask Santa nicely!

`Tip` - If you are making any hardware purchases (particularly phones), it may be best to do so in cash using second-hand marketplaces. Buying directly from the manufacturer's websites will have them record your serial number against that transaction. It *will* take a little more effort, but your future self/nym may thank you for it. Ignore this advice for hardware wallets & yubikeys, for obvious security reasons.

### How it works?
Much like [book club](https://stacker.news/items/317108/r/davidw) instigated by @elvismercury, which has been an overwhelming success on SN, this will be a collaborative effort. **Each day in the month of January up to the 21st**, will likely be a new post. Inside we'll compare solutions, setups and early impressions. Evaluating whether we will transition over to FOSS software or not.

Depending on how things go, we may find some additional techniques and tricks to extend it to a full month. Who knows if I can coordinate all of this and reliably post each day, but at least we'll see if Stackers can provide some needed accountability here.

At the end of January 2024, I will post the StackerNews post links in the comments to each of the sessions. That way, anyone living under a rock can discover all of that stacker gold from this very place in future. 

On each day's post, I can make a habit of mentioning what is coming up the following day, so people are aware and can prepare some time in their tomorrow to join (or make intolerable excuses).

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### Want to be notified on particular days?
if you want to be tagged on a particular day, shout in the comments, e.g:
- *`Spam me - Days 9, 13, 21`*
- *`Spam me - All days`*

### Any recommendations or questions?
Got any suggestions on how to schedule or make this as productive as possible? Or entries you'd swap in or out? Hit that reply button also...


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*P.S. I'm probably going to call this series `Privacy Pub`, rather than `Privacy Club` . Mainly because the regulars hang-out in the saloon all day, it's a pub-lic discourse and (importantly) it's 1 less character to type-out each day. Hope you dig the format & idea...*

![](https://i.gifer.com/origin/64/64f408113a871004776909391c185a69_w200.gif)

Privacy Club - January 2024 📆

davidw

How does Stacker News algo work? Current top post has 1 comment and ⚡️860…

bitcoin_rationalist

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(Spanish at the end / Español al final)

I have been a libertarian/anarchist for 20 years, and I have been in the bitcoin space for a few years, having recognized it as the only solution to the very serious problem of freedoms that afflicts humanity. I have worked collecting my salary only in Bitcoin. Surely you don't know many people who can say that? So is my level of conviction in Bitcoin.

But in the last few months I am suffering a crisis of faith. Of faith in humanity, or perhaps in bitcoiners themselves. These are the things that are happening that are disturbing me and making me lose sleep:

The "stack sats". It is true that I am starting to read some discordant "spend your bitcoins and then reload your stack again" type voice, but it is 2023 and the mainstream voices are still recommending to accumulate and accumulate, inciting others not to spend their bitcoin and save them. After all, your BTC will be trading in a few months or years at hundreds or millions of thousands of euros, right? How is Bitcoin adoption supposed to increase and businesses supposed to survive if no one spends their Bitcoin?

It's amazing to see how when a Venture Capitalist says something bad about bitcoin is that he is scamming people, but when he says something wild along the lines of "BTC will be worth 1 million in 3 months", we start drooling over the scammer....

We like to think that 99% of humanity is absolutely moronic, but as bitcoiners who have seen the light, we are better than the rest. We don't realize that we are "people" too. When someone says "Ethirium to the moon" we think they are a scammer or an asshole, but if they say the same thing about bitcoin.... "what does he know that I don't?".

I keep hearing that Bitcoin is inevitable. I'm sorry, but it is NOT. Do you think email would have been an information exchange system for over 40 years if they hadn't invested in spam control systems 20 years ago? Do you think anything goes if the fees are paid? A few days ago someone told me on a Telegram channel that "Bitcoin will be whatever people want it to be, and it's not money anymore, it's now a decentralized database because people wanted it to be". Sorry, but I agree with "Unhosted Marcellus": we need decentralized digital money, not "whatever the people want it to be", because people are assholes.

Lately I pretty much agree with several of @bitcoinerrorlog's positions. We need to stop recommending people use apps that custody our bitcoins, because THAT IS NOT BITCOIN. Let's stop recommending Wallet of Satoshi and other "custodial" wallets like Alby. Never mind that they "work better" for newbies. For that we could use my bank's transfer app or PayPal, which work quite well.... right? Neither that, but also not recommending to a newbie to set up his own node. Let's start recommending Phoenix, Blixt or Bitkit, or any other self-custodial wallet that really supports Bitcoin and Lightning.

What to say about the 2 major bitcoin remixing projects, Wasabi and Samourai? The drama continues to escalate and even today I read some threatening others, and the others revealing the identity of one of the ones. Anyway, what a clown show... If you want to remix your bitcoin and still don't know how to use Joinmarket/JAM, ask me and I'll help you get started. Let's send the Chainanalysis and the "we need to have your XPUB" folks back to where they should never have come from.

"Well, but at least we can rely on the good decisions of the Core developers, who keep making Bitcoin evolve, right?". Have you read them lately? The worst one might be the "I had my bitcoin seed on an online server, they stole my bitcoins, but I did nothing wrong", but there are a few more out there saying incoherent wild things. Where do they get these people from? Well, these people are the ones inventing things like Segwit and Taproot that can't be criticized because they "move bitcoin forward". It has advanced so much, that we can now store pictures of monkeys and audios of farts on the blockchain. Goooood!!!!!

Another thing I often hear is that states will not be able to attack bitcoin, or that they have already done so but to no avail. Sorry, but it is NOT true that they have done all they can. In my opinion they have only just started, and of course the worst is yet to come, including a 6102 for real. On Twitter we are all very cool and very smart, and we all like to shit-post and make fun of the New York Times and Cristine Lagarde or Carstens, and send everyone to HFSP. But when the real state comes knocking, it's not going to be pretty. Do you think that a machina capable of sending tens of billions of dollars in weapons halfway around the world, killing millions of people, hurting and impoverishing hundreds of millions, destroying complete countries, is only going to make a few statements in newspapers as to how polluting Bitcoin is? Do you think taking down FTX or Binance is going to be the most they're going to be able to do? Do you think when the going gets tough you're going to be able to buy Wallmart coupons in Bitrefill? Do you think people who think killing half a million Iraqi children was worth it, are going to stop because "I have my own node"? You might need someone to recommend a couple of books on modern history.... We need to guard our own bitcoin and make payments MUCH MORE private than they are now, and we need it for yesterday.

I understand people who want the current system to fall. I myself have spoken out in that sense on many occasions. We must put an end to this scam that some call "democratic system", and where there is not a single thing that is fair or works well. But beware of thinking "I hope it all goes to shit, I am protected, I have bitcoin". Okay, you have your bitcoin, but what or where are you going to use them for? When things get ugly with CBDC or when the different versions of the panopticons they have in store for us come into operation, where are you going to buy food and where are you going to get accommodation?

These last few weeks I have been cleaning up the Madrid region (about 6 million people) of BTCMap and literally 100% of the businesses I have checked no longer accept bitcoin. We literally have 4 restaurants that accept bitcoin. Two of them belong to the same owner and also promote Agenda 2030, and another one accepts bitcoin, but only "when the boss is around, because the wallet is on his phone". Let me be a bit skeptical when I read about "we're winning".

![Morpheo/Neo meme (fixed)](https://www.ktecho.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/neo_morpheo_english.jpg)

Meanwhile, the important people in the Bitcoin ecosystem go from conference to conference and party to party... including conferences with "Bitcoin" in the name but promoting all sorts of shitcoins. By the way, when do these people work?

They were telling me a few days ago that the fall of the current system and the triumph of Bitcoin "we won't see it, because it will happen in 50 or 70 years from now". It reminds me of when I used to go to Libertarian Party meetings and they said that their goal was to "go from 6,000 to 10,000 votes in the next few years", and when you asked them "and what's that for?" they said it was a long-distance race.... So okay, "Bitcoin has already won", but only "we'll see it in 70 years". Ok, perfect. What's the point of that?

If we want Bitcoin to be a reality 10, 20 or 40 years from now, we need to be a hell of a lot more critical today. Critical of the developers and the companies that build products. Critical of the influencers who go from conference to conference. And much more critical and realistic with ourselves.

The war is not won yet.



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Soy libertario/anarquista desde hace 20 años, y llevo unos cuantos años en el espacio bitcoin habiendolo reconocido como única solución al gravísimo problema de libertades que aqueja a la humanidad. He trabajado cobrando mi sueldo únicamente en Bitcoin. Seguro que no conoces a mucha gente que pueda decir eso... Así es mi nivel de convicción en Bitcoin.

Pero en los últimos meses estoy sufriendo una crisis de fe. De fe en la humanidad, o quizá en los propios bitcoineros. Estas son las cosas que están ocurriendo y que me están perturbando y haciendo que pierda el sueño:

El "stack sats". Es verdad que empiezo a leer algúna voz discordante de tipo "gasta tus bitcoins y luego recarga tu stack de nuevo", pero estamos en 2023 y las voces principales siguen recomendando acumular y acumular, incitando a otros a que no gasten sus bitcoin y los ahorren. Después de todo tus BTC cotizarán dentro de unos meses o años a cientos o millones de miles de euros, ¿verdad? ¿Cómo se supone que va a aumentar la adopción de Bitcoin y las empresas van a sobrevivir si nadie gasta sus Bitcoin?

Es asombroso ver como cuando un Venture Capitalist dice algo malo de bitcoin es que está estafando a la gente, pero cuando dice una salvajada del estilo "BTC valdrá 1 millón en 3 meses", empezamos a babear con el estafador...

Nos gusta pensar que el 99% de la humanidad es absolutamente imbécil, pero como bitcoiners que hemos visto la luz, nosotros somos mejores que el resto. No nos damos cuenta de que nosotros también somos "gente". Cuando alguien dice "Ethirium to the moon" pensamos que es un estafador o un gilipollas, pero si dicen lo mismo de Bitcoin... "¿qué sabrá él que no sepa yo?".

No paro de oir que Bitcoin es inevitable. Lo siento, pero NO lo es. ¿Crees que el email habría sido un sistema de intercambio de información durante más de 40 años si no se hubiese invertido en sistemas de control de spam hace 20? ¿Crees que cualquier cosa vale si se pagan las comisiones? Hace unos días alguien me dijo en un canal de Telegram que "Bitcoin será lo que la gente quiera que sea, y ya no es dinero, ahora es una base de datos descentralizada porque la gente así lo ha querido". Lo siento, pero coincido con "Unhosted Marcellus": necesitamos dinero digital descentralizado, no "lo que la gente quiera", porque la gente es gilipollas.

Últimamente estoy bastante de acuerdo con varias de las posiciones de @bitcoinerrorlog. Tenemos que dejar de recomendar a la gente que use aplicaciones que custodian nuestros bitcoins, porque ESO NO ES BITCOIN. Vamos a dejar de recomendar Wallet of Satoshi y otras wallets "custodial" como Alby. No importa que "funcionen mejor" para novatos. Para eso podríamos usar la app de transferencias de mi banco o PayPal, que funcionan bastante bien... ¿no? Ni eso, ni recomendar a un novato montar su nodo. Vamos a empezar a recomendar Phoenix, Blixt o Bitkit, o cualquier otra wallet de auto-custodia y que soporte realmente Bitcoin y Lightning.

¿Qué decir de los 2 proyectos mayoritarios de remezclado de bitcoin, Wasabi y Samourai? El drama sigue en aumento e incluso hoy he leído a unos amenazando a otros, y a los otros revelando la identidad de uno de ellos. En fin, vaya espectáculo... Si quieres remezclar tus bitcoin y aún no sabes como usar Joinmarket/JAM, pregúntame y te ayudaré a empezar. Vamos a mandar a los amigos de Chainanalysis y a los de "necesitamos tener tu XPUB" al sitio de donde nunca debieron salir.

"Bueno, pero al menos podemos confiar en las buenas decisiones de los desarrolladores de Core, que siguen haciendo que Bitcoin evolucione, ¿verdad?". ¿Tú les has leído últimamente? El peor podría ser el de "tenía la semilla de mis bitcoin en un servidor online, me han robado mis bitcoins", pero hay unos cuantos más por ahí diciendo salvajadas incoherentes. ¿Pero de donde sacan a esta gente? Pues esta gente es la que inventa cosas como Segwit y Taproot que no se pueden criticar porque "hacen que bitcoin avance". Ha avanzado tanto, que ahora podemos guardar fotos de monos y audios de pedos en la blockchain. ¡¡¡Bieeeeen!!!

Otra cosa que escucho a menudo es que los estados no podrán atacar a Bitcoin, o que ya lo han hecho pero no han conseguido nada. Lo siento, pero NO es cierto que hayan hecho todo lo posible. En mi opinión solamente acaban de empezar, y por supuesto que lo peor está por llegar, incluyendo un 6102 de verdad. En Twitter todos somos muy guays y muy listos, y a todos nos gusta hacer shit-posting y reirnos del New York Times y de Cristine Lagarde o de Carstens, y mandar a todo el mundo a HFSP. Pero cuando el Estado de verdad llame a la puerta, no va a ser bonito. ¿Crees que una maquinaria capaz de mandar decenas de miles de millones de dolares en armas al otro lado del mundo, matar a millones de personas, herir y empobrecer a cientos de millones, y destruyendo países enteros, solamente va a hacer unas cuantas declaraciones en periódicos con lo contaminante que es Bitcoin? ¿Crees que cargarse FTX o Binance va a ser lo más que van a poder hacer? ¿Crees que cuando la cosa se ponga fea vas a poder comprar cheques del Carrefour en Bitrefill? ¿Crees que gente que cree que matar medio millón de niños iraquíes mereció la pena se va a entristecer porque tú les pongas un HFSP en Twitter? Puede que necesites que alguien te recomiende un par de libros de historia moderna... Necesitamos custodiar nuestros propios bitcoin y hacer que los pagos sean MUCHO MÁS privados de lo que son ahora, y lo necesitamos para ayer.

Entiendo a la gente que quiera que el sistema actual caiga. Yo mismo me he manifestado en ese sentido en muchas ocasiones. Hay que acabar con esta estafa que algunos llaman "sistema democrático", y donde no hay ni una sola cosa que sea justa o funcione bien. Pero ojo con pensar "Ojalá se vaya todo a la mierda, yo estoy protegido, tengo bitcoin". Vale, tienes tus bitcoin, ¿pero para qué o donde los vas a usar? Cuando la cosa se ponga fea con las CBDC o entren en funcionamiento las distintas versions de los panópticos que nos tienen preparados, ¿donde vas a comprar la comida y donde conseguirás alojamiento?

Estas últimas semanas he estado haciendo limpieza a la región de Madrid (unos 6 millones de habitantes) de BTCMap y literalmente el 100% de las empresas que he revisado ya no aceptan Bitcoin. Tenemos literalmente 4 restaurantes que aceptan bitcoin. Dos de ellos pertenecen al mismo dueño y promocionan también la Agenda 2030, y otro acepta bitcoin, pero solamente "cuando el jefe está por ahí, porque la wallet está en su teléfono". Permíteme que me muestre un poco escéptico cuando lea lo del "we're winning".

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Mientras tanto, la gente importante del ecosistema Bitcoin va de conferencia en conferencia y de fiesta en fiesta... incluyendo conferencias con el nombre Bitcoin pero que promocionan toda clase de mierdo-monedas. Por cierto, ¿esta gente cuando trabaja?

Me decían hace unos días que la caída del sistema actual y el triunfo de Bitcoin "no lo veremos nosotros, porque ocurrirá dentro de 50 o 70 años. Me recuerda a cuando iba a las reuniones del Partido Libertario y decían que su objetivo era "pasar de 6.000 a 10.000 votos en los próximos años", y cuando les preguntabas "¿y eso para que sirve?" decían que era una carrera de fondo... Así que bueno, "Bitcoin ya ha ganado", pero solamente "lo veremos dentro de 70 años". Ok, perfecto. ¿Y eso para qué sirve?

Si queremos que Bitcoin sea una realidad dentro de 10, 20 o 40 años, tenemos que ser muchísimo más críticos en la actualidad. Críticos con los desarrolladores y las empresas que construyen productos. Críticos con los influencers que van de conferencia en conferencia sentándo cátedra. Y muchísimo más críticos y realistas con nosotros mismos.

La guerra no está ganada.