Early Bitcoin adopter and proselyte Roger Ver is languishing in the same Spanish prison in which tech innovator, COVID critic, and libertarian John McAfee passed away.
Thanks for hosting First Amendment Lawyer Robert Barnes and this very important discourse on Bit-coin Jesus. We, the People, who support First Amendment rights need this kind of professional polish and poise. Both in and out of the courtroom.
I see others have informed you that "Bitcoin Jesus" is Tucker's current interview, so I wouldn’t have bothered commenting on this post but for “Robert Barnes”.
To stay full circle with your most current internet postings about fear and writing, since my earliest memories I had a “friend” named Daniel, who was “closer to me than” either of my two older “brothers”. By the time we were twenty plus years of age we were able to finish each other's sentences, or lies as the case may be. Daniel died in his late forties in ‘07’. Robert Barnes is the spitting image of my friend Daniel. So much so, it’s as if Daniel was in the chair speaking. Also, some months ago I was Face Timing my oldest niece concerning her mother, my oldest sister. As we were speaking, I could barely keep up with the conversation due to the fact that my niece's image was the same as my memories of my mother’s image, it was very special to me. My mother died in ‘85’ at Christmas time. I call these events “synchronicities” where physical and spiritual realms touch, some pleasant, some creepy.
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Bitcoin is unique for a number of reasons. It is the first time that money has not been issued, controlled and inflated by kings, emperors and governments (the first time since we used cowrie shells anyway).
Bitcoin cannot be inflated. There will only ever be 2 million Bitcoin, with the last one bing mined in May 2140. These rules are encoded in the protocol. They are governed by the immutable laws of mathematics, not by venal politicians.
Bitcoin solved, for the first time, the "Byzantine Generals' Problem". It enables two parties to transact in private without the need for permission or verification from a third party, as is the case under the current fiat system. So it becomes possible to send millions or billions of dollars half-way round the world at the speed of light, and obtain final settlement in a matter of minutes.
Bitcoin can be moved across borders with ease and anonymously, by the simple expedient of committing a 12-word 'seed phrase' to memory or writing them on a piece of paper. The holder can then go to another jurisdiction, spend $50 on a new hardware wallet, and instantly gain access to his Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin ledger (the block-chain) is stored on millions of computers around the world. It cannot therefore be hi-jacked, despite what Roger Ver claims.
If the internet goes down, Bitcoin will be the only thing that will still function, since the block-chain is being broadcast by satellite all over North America (and soon world-wide).
Unlike the thousands of other crypto-currencies, Bitcoin is not a corporation or any kind of legal entity. It cannot therefore be controlled, captured or prosecuted. It has no CEO or any human involvement. Bitcoin is 32,000 lines of computer code, all open-source, made freely available to anyone in the entire world.
Bitcoin is the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto's gift to humanity. It will change the world forever. It is mankind's greatest invention, in my view, since the wheel.
"If the internet goes down, Bitcoin will be the only thing that will still function, since the block-chain is being broadcast by satellite all over North America (and soon world-wide)."
If there is an attack on satellites, which is certainly possible, even Bitcoin won't function.
Plus, as governments are on a fast track to digitalize currency, which will be the only way to buy and sell, they will make both cash and Bitcoins illegal.
If 'they' take out all the satellites, NOTHING will function! But Bitcoin has its own satellite system, created by Adam Back, one of the major contributors to the Bitcoin project. Called 'Blockstream Satellite', it will broadcast the entire Bitcoin ledger to anyone with a receiver.
If 'they' shoot down Adam Back's satellites, Bitcoin will still function perfectly well over the existing protocols.
And if 'they' take out the entire internet world-wide, every aspect of modern life will simply grind to a halt. Unlike many other internet-dependent systems, the Bitcoin block-chain will by unaffected. Bitcoin will still function over the Blockstream satellites, unless they have been shot down as well. If the electricity grid is also destroyed, along with the internet and the satellites, the Bitcoin block-chain will just stay sitting there, on hundreds of thousands if not millions of computers all around the world. Providing just one of those computers survives, the blockchain can be re-constituted world-wide within minutes.
Such a scenario would clearly be quite catastrophic. But Bitcoin has so many back-ups and safeguards it will probably be the only thing that DOES survive and still function.
Bitcoin is the only means of escaping the government-programmable CBDC's. There was certainly much hostility to Bitcoin under the previous administration, but that has changed now. But if the government DOES try to ban Bitcoin, we would tell them to get lost. There are fifty million Bitcoiners in the US. They can't jail all of us.
And if they DO threaten to jail us, we can just leave, taking our Bitcoin with us. Bitcoin is the only thing that can be taken across borders in un-limited quantities, without anybody knowing about it - all you need to do is memorise a twelve-word seed phrase, and you can access your Bitcoin from anywhere in the world.
Perhaps. But the cash registers won't. In any case, where will you get cash from, once it has been withdrawn? And why would you keep your savings in fiat money, which is depreciating at around 10% per annum? Also, cash in not so good for internet transactions, is it.
Whether we like it or not, 'money' is going digital. We have a choice between accepting the government-approved CBDC, which can be turned off at will if we step out of line, or the 'freedom money' which is Bitcoin.
I know nothing about Roger Ver's tax affairs or liabilities. But I do regard him as a self-aggrandising fantasist with a fragile ego. Hi advice regarding Bitcoin has been very inreliable throughout. He supported 'Fake-toshi', Craig Wright, who fraudulently claimed for years to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, until the British High Court ordered him to stop. Previously, in 2014(?) Roger Ver eagerly maintained to anybody who would listen that the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange was perfectly solvent, just before it collapsed, losing investors' millions..
And then, most notoriously, in 2017, Roger Ver was the architect of the Bitcoin 'Block-size wars', resulting in a 'hard fork' of the Bitcoin block-chain to create his own version of Bitcoin, called Bitcoin Cash, or B-Cash (which subsequently forked again into BSV - ' Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision').
Both of these hard forks have since collapsed against the original Bitcoin in terms of their value measured against Bitcoin.
Roger Ver, I believe, feels very much aggrieved by the failure of his fork. He regards himself as a victim, and is busy blaming anybody and everybody but himself for its failure.
Bitcoin has not been 'hacked'and cannot be hacked. There is no mechanism for doing so. All that has happened is that the market has voted with its feet. Bitcoiners rejected B-Cash and stayed with the original Bitcoin.
It is obvious that when "Due Process of the Law" and "Equal Protection of the Law" are subverted for political and/or religious purposes, the rule of law is taken hostage to those factions (local oligarch's controlling the narratives to ensure and indemnify "Civil Servants' from any official malfeasance. The poor family that cannot live up to the rich man's standards are by default "Guilty" There is no presumption of "Guilty until proven innocent" when punitive measures can be implemented without the elements in the aforementioned so called "Protections". The "freedom" to even think, speak and act are easily circumvented by standing armies and belligerent uninvited and unsolicited opinions from the "requisitions" departments of ambition and avarice. Ergo, those who are exiled to prison or the grave have the equal voice of no choice.
Dr. Naomi
Thanks for hosting First Amendment Lawyer Robert Barnes and this very important discourse on Bit-coin Jesus. We, the People, who support First Amendment rights need this kind of professional polish and poise. Both in and out of the courtroom.
Blessings on Winter Solstice.
David Picariello
Thank you for having Barnes on. He is what I call a Constitutional Pit Bull; something we desperately need more of.
I see others have informed you that "Bitcoin Jesus" is Tucker's current interview, so I wouldn’t have bothered commenting on this post but for “Robert Barnes”.
To stay full circle with your most current internet postings about fear and writing, since my earliest memories I had a “friend” named Daniel, who was “closer to me than” either of my two older “brothers”. By the time we were twenty plus years of age we were able to finish each other's sentences, or lies as the case may be. Daniel died in his late forties in ‘07’. Robert Barnes is the spitting image of my friend Daniel. So much so, it’s as if Daniel was in the chair speaking. Also, some months ago I was Face Timing my oldest niece concerning her mother, my oldest sister. As we were speaking, I could barely keep up with the conversation due to the fact that my niece's image was the same as my memories of my mother’s image, it was very special to me. My mother died in ‘85’ at Christmas time. I call these events “synchronicities” where physical and spiritual realms touch, some pleasant, some creepy.
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Nice insider peek. Maybe coach not-journalist guests on how to WWWWWH before they tape?
Crushing innovative ideas is an agenda to hold us back, don’t allow it.
Bitcoin is unique for a number of reasons. It is the first time that money has not been issued, controlled and inflated by kings, emperors and governments (the first time since we used cowrie shells anyway).
Bitcoin cannot be inflated. There will only ever be 2 million Bitcoin, with the last one bing mined in May 2140. These rules are encoded in the protocol. They are governed by the immutable laws of mathematics, not by venal politicians.
Bitcoin solved, for the first time, the "Byzantine Generals' Problem". It enables two parties to transact in private without the need for permission or verification from a third party, as is the case under the current fiat system. So it becomes possible to send millions or billions of dollars half-way round the world at the speed of light, and obtain final settlement in a matter of minutes.
Bitcoin can be moved across borders with ease and anonymously, by the simple expedient of committing a 12-word 'seed phrase' to memory or writing them on a piece of paper. The holder can then go to another jurisdiction, spend $50 on a new hardware wallet, and instantly gain access to his Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin ledger (the block-chain) is stored on millions of computers around the world. It cannot therefore be hi-jacked, despite what Roger Ver claims.
If the internet goes down, Bitcoin will be the only thing that will still function, since the block-chain is being broadcast by satellite all over North America (and soon world-wide).
Unlike the thousands of other crypto-currencies, Bitcoin is not a corporation or any kind of legal entity. It cannot therefore be controlled, captured or prosecuted. It has no CEO or any human involvement. Bitcoin is 32,000 lines of computer code, all open-source, made freely available to anyone in the entire world.
Bitcoin is the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto's gift to humanity. It will change the world forever. It is mankind's greatest invention, in my view, since the wheel.
"If the internet goes down, Bitcoin will be the only thing that will still function, since the block-chain is being broadcast by satellite all over North America (and soon world-wide)."
If there is an attack on satellites, which is certainly possible, even Bitcoin won't function.
Plus, as governments are on a fast track to digitalize currency, which will be the only way to buy and sell, they will make both cash and Bitcoins illegal.
If 'they' take out all the satellites, NOTHING will function! But Bitcoin has its own satellite system, created by Adam Back, one of the major contributors to the Bitcoin project. Called 'Blockstream Satellite', it will broadcast the entire Bitcoin ledger to anyone with a receiver.
If 'they' shoot down Adam Back's satellites, Bitcoin will still function perfectly well over the existing protocols.
And if 'they' take out the entire internet world-wide, every aspect of modern life will simply grind to a halt. Unlike many other internet-dependent systems, the Bitcoin block-chain will by unaffected. Bitcoin will still function over the Blockstream satellites, unless they have been shot down as well. If the electricity grid is also destroyed, along with the internet and the satellites, the Bitcoin block-chain will just stay sitting there, on hundreds of thousands if not millions of computers all around the world. Providing just one of those computers survives, the blockchain can be re-constituted world-wide within minutes.
Such a scenario would clearly be quite catastrophic. But Bitcoin has so many back-ups and safeguards it will probably be the only thing that DOES survive and still function.
Bitcoin is the only means of escaping the government-programmable CBDC's. There was certainly much hostility to Bitcoin under the previous administration, but that has changed now. But if the government DOES try to ban Bitcoin, we would tell them to get lost. There are fifty million Bitcoiners in the US. They can't jail all of us.
And if they DO threaten to jail us, we can just leave, taking our Bitcoin with us. Bitcoin is the only thing that can be taken across borders in un-limited quantities, without anybody knowing about it - all you need to do is memorise a twelve-word seed phrase, and you can access your Bitcoin from anywhere in the world.
It really is the most incredible invention.
Cash will still work if the grid goes down …
Perhaps. But the cash registers won't. In any case, where will you get cash from, once it has been withdrawn? And why would you keep your savings in fiat money, which is depreciating at around 10% per annum? Also, cash in not so good for internet transactions, is it.
Whether we like it or not, 'money' is going digital. We have a choice between accepting the government-approved CBDC, which can be turned off at will if we step out of line, or the 'freedom money' which is Bitcoin.
I know nothing about Roger Ver's tax affairs or liabilities. But I do regard him as a self-aggrandising fantasist with a fragile ego. Hi advice regarding Bitcoin has been very inreliable throughout. He supported 'Fake-toshi', Craig Wright, who fraudulently claimed for years to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, until the British High Court ordered him to stop. Previously, in 2014(?) Roger Ver eagerly maintained to anybody who would listen that the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange was perfectly solvent, just before it collapsed, losing investors' millions..
And then, most notoriously, in 2017, Roger Ver was the architect of the Bitcoin 'Block-size wars', resulting in a 'hard fork' of the Bitcoin block-chain to create his own version of Bitcoin, called Bitcoin Cash, or B-Cash (which subsequently forked again into BSV - ' Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision').
Both of these hard forks have since collapsed against the original Bitcoin in terms of their value measured against Bitcoin.
Roger Ver, I believe, feels very much aggrieved by the failure of his fork. He regards himself as a victim, and is busy blaming anybody and everybody but himself for its failure.
Bitcoin has not been 'hacked'and cannot be hacked. There is no mechanism for doing so. All that has happened is that the market has voted with its feet. Bitcoiners rejected B-Cash and stayed with the original Bitcoin.
That's all there is to it.
Apologies for the typos - can't find my specs!
If the govnt wants to tax 'profits' from holding Bitcoin, they must also allow a deduction for losses from holding the ever-depreciating US Dollar.
How much does it suck to have jumped the shark?
This is horrible (having just listened to the Tucker interview). Hopefully Spain will not allow him to be extradited.
It is obvious that when "Due Process of the Law" and "Equal Protection of the Law" are subverted for political and/or religious purposes, the rule of law is taken hostage to those factions (local oligarch's controlling the narratives to ensure and indemnify "Civil Servants' from any official malfeasance. The poor family that cannot live up to the rich man's standards are by default "Guilty" There is no presumption of "Guilty until proven innocent" when punitive measures can be implemented without the elements in the aforementioned so called "Protections". The "freedom" to even think, speak and act are easily circumvented by standing armies and belligerent uninvited and unsolicited opinions from the "requisitions" departments of ambition and avarice. Ergo, those who are exiled to prison or the grave have the equal voice of no choice.
Tucker Carlson interviewed him a couple of days ago.
https://rumble.com/v5xyrwt-why-the-intel-agencies-want-to-track-your-every-transaction-and-throw-roger.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp