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From the article:
1. Peter Todd seems to have been a CIA contractor at one point, and perhaps was even threatened by government agents.
2. Greg Maxwell, Adam Back, et el raised $75M
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in order to scale Bitcoin on 2nd layers.
3. The largest investor in is AXA which has ties to the Bilderberg group.
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rather than drawing attention to it by outright banning it , cunning forces would seek to subvert it, to marginalize it, to render it irrelevant and unusable as money.
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If you were going to stop Bitcoin in such a fashion, you would do exactly what has happened with Blockstream: Hire the top devs and put things in place to prevent it from being usable.
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The most obvious was taking advantage of the fact that Satoshi had left a 1mb limit in the code. From this, an entire “scaling debate” was concocted.
A very bizarre narrative
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coming out of the BTC camp which is that people should not be using BTC at all!
It seems that BS is now openly pushing for INDIVIDUALS to convert
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their BTC into “Bitcoin Liquid”
When even Blockstream is saying don’t use BTC, I think it’s the end for BTC.
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I hear all the theories. The fact remains, the miners, businesses and users determine which client is used. Knowing all this, why aren't they switching to Bitcoin Unlimited?
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The more HODLers the BTC retains, the easier it is to keep the price up, even artificially, by *perhaps* creating unbacked fiat/Tether, and keep the "Store of Value" meme alive.
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How do you force people to HODL though?
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You can't. You can only brainwash them, and give them something to do, to keep them not doubting, like build an "archival full node" with raspberry, or thieir own lightning node...