Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

Roger Ver was right When he said that people save the currency that they use for spending One good example is Tron: an unoriginal Ethereum clone that used to be the laughing stock of the industry when it launched in 2017 But has been outperforming bitcoin since 2021 because it’s the most popular gas token for USDT payments Nobody likes it, but it’s useful. Which is why people bought it and held it 🤷🏻‍♂️

what if the role of bitcoin was to create the electricity infrastructure for ai to thrive? without the pow mining farms and the experience with home gpu mining rigs, this worldwide slop couldn’t happen

Paralelni Polis is dead horrible news for bitcoin adoption in Europe This was the first cafe to accept bitcoin payments in 2014 Had a coworking space where you could meet hackers & anarchists Hosted hundreds of conferences & community meetups Nurtured open source startups Displayed the works of underground artists Sold overpriced drinks and food that everyone gladly bought to support the movement Even mobilized the community during the pandemic to have a huge remote conference with dozens of volunteering hosts and guests If you were a bitcoiner who came to visit Prague, Paralelni Polis would let you sleep in their dorm for free. If no dorm was available, they had couches too Now it’s dead. Much like bitcoin adoption in Europe. In the beginning, they would force all cafe customers to buy bitcoin to pay for the drinks. There was a Bitcoin ATM at the entrance, but the employees would usually offer to trade bitcoin for cash in person to avoid the 10% fee. In recent years, Paralelni Polis rebranded as Second Culture. Started accepting credit cards for payment, cut down on the number of events, faced an identity crisis that ultimately led to its demise. Even some OGs who basically built the place didn’t want to visit anymore. Call it local drama and politics, but it was bad for everybody involved. The worst of outcomes happened and bitcoin culture is now crippled. I feel sorry for the newcomers who will never experience the joy of walking into this place to experience a true bitcoin economy. Heavily ideological, but somehow functional. Now Paralelni Polis and its incumbent Institute of Cryptoanarchy are dead. What remains inside is an unplugged ATM and the Monero logo on the door – a hint that the dream of peer to peer electronic cash has moved elsewhere. Now we never spend, shake hands with bankers and deny the existence of a second best while technically losing by every significant metric. Good night, sweet prince! https://image.nostr.build/b6c490b2bce763ebd6223b72b259dffc284209b67a19a8fce344ffc59cbeceda.jpg

If we don’t actually improve Bitcoin BTC will get tokenized on other networks WBTC on ETH is already the most popular L2/sidechain with 121k BTC spread across 164k addresses BTCx on Zano is already a thing: Monero privacy for bridged bitcoin Shielded assets on Zcash are coming. DarkFi is coming too. There is a non-zero chance that the future of Bitcoin happens outside of the mother blockchain