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The Bitcoin Sign Guy holding a "Buy Bitcoin" sign behind Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen, live on C-SPAN was a good memefiable moment.

Being "Bitcoin Jesus" in the thick of a societal collapse is NOT. Bitcoin CANNOT save us from stupidity!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZZqNryXsAAtykG?format=jpg&name=large

Is he some sort of Bitcoin preacher? Imagine him preaching about BTC in the middle of the protest. I would like to know if it's a recent photo as well. Let's praise this guy haha.

Hahaha. I also don't think if this was taken during the recent protest in United States of America. For me, the phrase he is holding is like nothing to do in what protesters' fighting for, well, maybe he got some reason why?
I'm just laughing at the phrase he wrote, it's like he is into a cult or something, it's just funny. I hope this picture is taken long time ago.

It could be from the recent protests. There's a crisis going on there and one would think that Bitcoin would be a safer asset to hold right now instead of US dollars.

Ah. The 2020 version of the Bitcoin sign guy. Next thing you know fake bitcoin address QR codes will be roaming around the web claiming to be this guy.

It's most likely from the Minneapolis protests(..or riots). Not sure if I would call the event "peaceful", sadly.

Are you sure its not you Wind_FURY?  ;D

I always wanted to do that. I just can't go out to where there is a protest. Just for fun though, you can call it stupidity but its just for fun nothing is being wasted there. I would probably add my QRcode when doing that. I bet I could get a lot of LIKES in my facebook photo.

LOL.. if he will not put the source of that picture, then it's safe to assume that it was him in the picture. ;D

I don't know how would I feel about that picture, I like to know about your opinion, would that help in crypto adoption or people will just hate bitcoin because of that? As for me, I have done my little thing which is telling first my friends and relatives about crypto, but most of them are not really that open to learn about crypto.

Lol! This fellow is indeed a bitcoin preacher! Is it a recent photo or an old one gaining momentum recently? I mean I am just trying to think through this picture amidst the ongoing protest that is ongoing is US. Obviously there's no context match, but certainly worth a special mention. I hope it makes up to the mainstream media as it may make some people intrigued about bitcoin.

On a serious note, bitcoin can't really save us from racism! Humanity can! The ongoing protest makes sense when it's peaceful but people robbing Apple stores and super markets is a big no-no!

There is already a cult, and it's pretty active here, people with zero understanding of the economy claiming that a total collapse of the world economy is good for bitcoin and bitcoin will save us from everything. There are a lot who think that in a post-apocalyptic scenario bitcoin will survive and it will be the seen from which a new better and healthier society will sprout. But it's not about just about bitcoin, everything that threatens the current system is worshipped by those that don't agree with it, it happens like this numerous times in history, some people that were fed up with the current way of life saw in any opportunity a chance of turning the world in the place they like and get rid of the things they don't.

But this...I think it was pretty much staged, you can see that he is almost posing to a camera guy on the left, he is there cleary for attention.
Well, on the bright side it's better he is carrying a sign rather that a torch.

There are difference between the rioters and between the protesters, those rioters are the ones responsible why they are looting that is happening all over the states but there are also protesters who are doing crime and immoral activities.
The picture above is just a person who wants attention from the public. What the way he thinks reminds me my old friend, he saw a opportunity to promote and give awareness the public about bitcoin. But bitcoin has nothing to do with racism and what it is not connected on what is currently happening in the United States.

Somebody did mention the yellow jackets with the "buy bitcoin" written on their backs from the protests in Paris a few years ago and how that went viral.
These riots in the states have anarchy written all over them so those who are looking to overthrow the justice system are seeing this as an opportunity to take the liberty to take advantage of the media coverage.
Just look at how out of control it has become there in the past 3 days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXZpwnRuKHQ
https://i.ibb.co/7jstqYh/Clipboard1001.jpg (https://ibb.co/34gmnrK)
https://i.ibb.co/wgsGGnm/Clipboard1997.jpg (https://ibb.co/8scvvyZ)
It is stupid if you ask me and it just goes to show you how stupid society truly has become. Worsened by all the unemployed looking to vent their frustration with being locked inside by the government for the last 2.5 months just added more ammo to the powder keg of what we are seeing right now.
Citizens destroying their city over something that happens so often in the states yet it is not captured on camera from an observer. Most of the time the onbody cameras the police have on are turned off for some reason or another and usually when they are doing stuff like this.
Some business owners have armed themselves to try and defuse those who have seen this as a way to beginning loot which is just disgusting.
https://i.ibb.co/gWJNQ60/Clipboard01998.jpg (https://ibb.co/YdhmJb5)
Just utter chaos! >:(

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/gui6qg/an_antifiat_protester_reveals_the_hard_truth/

I'm not sure who that guy is, it only says antiFiat protesters, but most likely it is part of the protest that's gripping US now because of the George Floyd case. Person just another one of those who wanted to give the message out there about BTC, free advertisement for us.

The picture is taken from J.Huseman from ProPublica in Austin. The person is just a random rioter trying to create the buzz. And since sometimes you can see such a person in every protestation worldwide.
Like during the yellow vest movements  (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/protests-france-lead-hyperbitcoinization-across-rest-gaddis-%E9%AB%98%E5%B4%94%E7%99%BB-), the covid19 lockdown or behind Janet Yellen as you mention.

I've seen plenty of them and honestly nothing special. Yes it's free advertisement for the community but the persons try to hit the medias the same ways the Merits Prostitutes here suck for peanuts

it looks like bitcoin is a religion of fanatics, I know we have to like bitcoin and spread bitcoin so that more people can enter this market, but I think things like these:

https://i.imgur.com/nub4xVK.jpg

 ;D

it is at a completely unacceptable level, I even wonder if this is not a photoshop effect, I prefer to think that it is a photoshop effect because it is hard to believe that there are people capable of committing such crazy things


with these actions he’s just ridiculing the whole cryptocurrency community

It's not really the best time to put forth our thoughts on bitcoin and where it stands in the global economy, especially in places where protests/riots are happening currently. Meme-ing is good fun, no doubt about it, but it certainly isn't always applicable every time. With the amount of physicality and brutalities happening almost everyday in the US, I can't seem to process why this guy wanted to hold a sign like that in the midst of chaos. As if bitcoin would save us from the dreaded sin of racism and police brutality? Anyway, the message is good, but literally waaaaay out of context and severely inappropriate given the circumstances.

The guy is exercising his beliefs but he's doing it wrongly – wrong place, wrong time too. It's commendable to see someone this dedicated to the Bitcoin community but doing so while a [...riot, protest) is on?  Definitely not the best time it doesn't relate with the reason why people are currently protesting. At the end of the day, Its always better to be safe than sorry.

Doesnt look very peaceful because people in background are not organised, all in different direction and its dark.
Most peaceful protests are during day, at night looting/rioting starting.

Anyway he is there to spread good message, so this is nice, in world of chaos which USA is currently is, its nice to see :)

This is called accelerationism, the idea that society needs to collapse in order for the new order to be built. The idea isn't exclusive to any movement, and it isn't new either. In nazi Germany many communists refused to oppose Hitler as he was coming to power, because they thought they will replace him after he fails.


Right, it's pretty distasteful to chime in with something so completely unrelated to the topic of the protests. Bitcoin can't solve police brutality or racism.

First, I cannot find the source of this image. i have searched on google and found nothing about this pic. What I found was an old photo of a guy holding the a paper board with "Buy Bitcoin" behind Yellen and it was on in a serious meeting captured in the picture. And that is a photo of 2017.

regarding to the photo that OP enclosures, personally, I cannot give my exact opinion because:
1. We do not know where it is exactly
2. We don't know in what condition and also event of that guy holding the sign bitcoin.
3. We do not know what happen to the society, government, and also the guy
4. We even do not know the reasons of that guy exactly

probably if we know about his social media and we can ask him or someone else who know about this, it can be clearer. but now, is it only making some speculation?

What message would this bring, I don't think it's necessary to know whoever he is or ask anything on him.

I searched the picture in google, and I saw this in one of twitter's post of Jessica Huseman.

https://twitter.com/JessicaHuseman/status/1267317135178698754

That's the only information I saw, but you are right, we should stop speculating, bitcoin will never save us.

That was an edited art (maybe I'm wrong). Not even the source of this picture will capture the complete details where she got this thing.
I'd never think that someone will carry such adds during the protest, of course, I won't do that either because it is not the purpose to be there.
 
But anyway, it is not important anymore. And Finestream is right, we have to stop talking about it because it is not helping anyway because that cool guy doesn't know what he tried to promote.

Maybe he's just taking the opportunity to induce market adoption and there's no other way he can think of to make people buy bitcoin. I don't see any problem here. Just an exagerration of the phrase "Bitcoin will save the US". Save from what? Financial instability? I don't think so. He might just have a huge amount of hodled bitcoin and he wants to earn profit fast  ;D.

If I'm on his shoes I'll just wear a shirt with a bitcoin logo, I think it's enough to advertise bitcoin in that way.

I don't think anyone will come out with this in the protest. This is something totally different, so I don't think this picture was taken during the recent protest. And by the way, I don't really get why people keep saying things like Bitcoin is the savior lol.

Bitcoin is good, no doubt, but some people keep making it seem like an easy pie and a place to get rich overnight. That's why a lot of people I meet these days that ask me about Bitcoin are only talking about whether they are going to get rich immediately and keeps asking really dumb questions. We need to make people understand first the main purpose of Bitcoin, it's not to make money, Bitcoin is more than that.

Promoting Bitcoin at a rally that is dedicated to George Floyd and the atrocities done by police on blacks in America does not sounds good. It is more looking like an opportunist trying to promote something for his own profit. I think it is absurd to discuss Bitcoin in this situation.

OR, maybe we're the stupid ones for not getting the meme? What if he's memefying this truly "memefying moment", which is actually the joke.

I dont think if from the current protest and i dont think someone will even think of doing something like in such protest. With that been said, the picture was also posted on r.bitcoin (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/?count=25&page=1&after=t3_guwv3r) but i think it a picture took in the year 2014 or 2016.
https://i.imgur.com/Al61Hwb.jpg

If Bitcoin needs sales ppl on streets to ? Sell to greater fool?

Not a good sign

It was the actual link of the image was sent to me by a friend, but Finestream searched for it in Google, and found, https://twitter.com/JessicaHuseman/status/1267317135178698754 as the source.

I believe she didn't get the irony of the meme too, if it was in fact the aim of the meme.

If he really meant to be a meme then it is genius, hope this is not you trying to chime in with the situation for the community as someone said they cannot find the picture when he reversed searched it  :D.

No it was posted recently and the picture i see is from a couple of days and if you checked the dates you would have known  :P.

Got it  ;).

This guy probably want to reach Christian Langalis (Bitcoin Sign guy) notoriety by doing this. It is actually very stupid to link Bitcoin to violent protests and anti-government protests. Yes, Bitcoin had it's roots in some Crypto-anarchism / Libertarian groups, but we have moved on since then and people not affiliated to these groups are using it now.

These anti-government sentiments are doing more harm than good, so we should not encourage that. Yes, the racism thing was bad and the non-violent protest is necessary.. but some thugs have entered these protests and they are looting shops and damaging property.

Even the family of the victim does not condone that kind of action now, because it solves nothing.  >:(

BUT, the sign guy is right! Bitcoin does "fixes this"!

Pretend the Deli was running a full node, it wouldn't accept George Floyd's counterfeit transaction, no police officers would be involved, George Floyd would be alive, he would just be looking for another Deli to scam with his $20.00 in Bitcoin Cash.

https://meaww.com/george-floyd-arrested-because-pay-store-with-a-counterfeit-20-bill-doj-investigation-top-priority

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The flat-earthers of Bitcoin obviously doesn't have the word "sarcasm" in their vocabulary. It's also clear the troll didn't read how the topic is developing for context, and he might also be posting information without sources.

The protests in the USA are attracting different weirdos.Social anarchists,liberals,social justice warriors...
I know the protests are necessary,but robbing stores and setting cars and buildings on fire is not the answer of the social and racial problems of America.
What the hell does Bitcoin have in common with racism and social injustice?
I don't know who that guy is,but I wonder why the other protesters haven't kicked him out of the protest.

You answered to your question, man. The protests in the USA are attracting different weirdos.Social anarchists,liberals,social justice warriors...

He's committed to the cause haha, I like it. I feel like we need more people in the public eye promoting in general so we can get a bigger worldwide interaction with cryptos. We're obviously doing well as it is, but imagine if we doubled the amount of people taking an interest by putting the message and ideas out there more!

I think its in one of the riots due or protest due to murder of George Floyd. The message that he was trying to imply was really out of context though. That is not a great situation to include bitcoin into the topic. Very disturbing for me.

I once heard about someone painting his Bitcoin address on the roof and thought about making a giant qr code and puting it somewhere like on my own roof. Then I thought it might make me a target so the project was postponed indefinitely ;)

If they want Bitcoin to be their religion of choice let them. Christianity had its share of crazy preachers and it didn't stop people from going to church. We won't know what effect people like that will have on the society unless we wait for the response.

To preface, police reform in America needs to happen, and taking steps to combat conscious and unconscious racism is really necessary. However, the looting and riots seem to be just as much about economic injustice as police brutality and racism in America. The federal reserve's actions take from the poor by devaluing their savings and fixed income, which propping up equity markets.

The book "Bitcoin and Black America" explains how lower social-economic status individuals can benefit from fairer monetary policy like that of Bitcoin.

In my opinion all Bitcoin attention helps drive adoption. This young man is also bringing awareness to the fed's irresponsible actions to prop up markets until November. Let's hope people opt out of the system after giving more thought to monetary policy.

I think this an amazing peaceful protest that offers a real solution to those who feel dis enfranchised by the system. Im all for this!!

BUT in globe-Earth, the news sources in Google say the deli employee CALLED 911, and said George Floyd used a counterfeit $20.00 bill. OK?

"Bitcoin fixes this", by running a full node, validate own transactions, without involving the police.

Full node mines, per definition



a raspi pi does not help - rather provenly slows things down and costs money that ppl could use better - dont tell crap

Not all heros wear capes, some wear signs. The pic went all around the world, so it´s fantastic promo for more liberty in such restrictive times

No, a full node validates. A miner can mine WITHOUT being a full node, which what they do today.


If there's only one Bitcoin node, you believe blocks will be found in less than 10 minutes every round? 8)

I'm curious on what your opinion is in this topic, kindly educate us, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5249795.0

Prof miners without high-end setup and the full chain high end DB node to verify - don't exist any more

Non - miners are just depending on what miners write - the network graph is miners do the job - get paied and do not risk that they lose a block, so they verify FIRST and PROFESSIONAL.

no need of lacking behind with a funny raspi, and wannabee verfi too late. They are just slow relay / followers in that network graph.


Help: Draw a flow chart for the processs and you see

Im not sure that bitcoin can save world from pointless riots

Just like what we saw back then, it will repeat itself definitely. Don't be surprised!

Most probably this is from America, could not be in Minneapolis since there are also some states doing the protests fro George including celebrities.

Don't expect the movement to be peaceful coz it started with violence, and we know how it goes. But for the sign, I also see this last time and I don't think bitcoin has to do with that? maybe the transparency in the government just like the blockchain? idk

Just earlier man, I watched a video of some guys protesting, one of them (old man) approached the police but the police pushed him back causing the old man to get his balance off and hit his head on the floor then it starts bleeding. the WORST is that the police didn't even help him!

This is a big fan of Bitcoin though but he is doing it at a wrong place at a wrong time :D.

Base on the picture, I'm not thinking that this is just happened recently as @Rengga Jati said that the picture was shot last 2017. I'm quite happy that he is somewhat advertising Bitcoin but the words are just over exaggerated. How can Bitcoin will save us at first place.

Or if this picture is captured last 2017, maybe he knows what can happen in the future. We know already what is happening to the economy worldwide :X.

from random riots yes it isnt but from riots or rally that is related to money , why not ?   . bitcoin cant save you or us from any random stuffs but bitcoin can save you if its monetary related talks/problems  .

doesnt matter if who was that guy on the pic but i salute him from what he did because he was one of the many people that promotes bitcoin on public .  

I agree but who knows? Maybe he is aware of the risk of that riot but he still took that opportunity to get the attention of the media and spread the gospel lol ;D. And with that being said, I admire him for being witty and having strong guts as well.

Mate what would you expect written on a piece of cardboard? Of course you cannot find his full explanation in there so I understand if he just choose a short, sweet and catchy tagline.

Firstly, evangelizing bitcoin during the recent uprisings prove that the guy in the picture can do extra mile because of bitcoin and this could also make him a prey either.
It good to announce bitcoin to other but we also need to be mindful either and look at the picture background, theres possible that it was a picture of this current uprisings.

At first glimpse i thought this is part of "George Floyd"  support rally but not until i check the date ,He seems to be cool standing tight in front of camera proud telling people Bitcoin to be a Savior,i am curious what does this mean?i know that this is a beneficial to all of us here in Bitcointalk but does this man really stands to Help crypto grow and for the people as well?

But i really support His dedication and effort making this visible to many people ,specially if the caption is for Live update from Media  and not just a  Photo Off to Make Him popular in this market.

But whatever His intention?i am Proud of what He Did and what can he extend in the future for the Loved cryptocurrency.

Then how can anyone verify/validate what the miners "write", and verify/validate that they are following the rules, if not for running a Bitcoin full node?

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Bitcoin, AND Visa will save us? 8)

Do you have to trust miners ? Again who really runs the show ? Who fights for WRIGHTING rights any 10 min to update the DB (Blockchain) ?

All non mining (NON-WRIGHTING) nodes are LISTENERS (relay at best)  , never WRIGHTERS

Job done - one line needed , not a full thread to understand

Plenty of memefiable moments, and then there's that Bitcoin and Black America book going on too, about 3 years after that guy. Still no one able to identify him? Anyone who listened to him would have bought Bitcoin at about $2500 (July 12th 2017). It has never been lower than that since!

Probably someone paid the guy to hold the sign, or we have to accept that us Bitcoiners are such a diverse bunch that it takes all kinds to form the community. Never will see myself holding out signs, or go out without protection but hey, to each his own, eh?

Glad to see that there is a fanatic of the bitcoin right there even there is a rally over their background and some people making a protest because they want to have rights and we can see this man having cardboard stating that buy bitcoin it's looks funny to me. Still, it is good at the same time because we all know that there are a lot of people making loot to the stores and some of the people cannot earn their funds and steal by the people so going to the bitcoin is one of the safest things because we all know that the bitcoin today is the safe haven all of your funds can possible get profit and wait for the right time to pull out at the same time they cannot steal on it.


This guy helps to promote the use of the bitcoin even there is a tragedy happens because he wants to be aware those users and the hodlers because it is more safe to the looters and I know not only him using the bitcoin card because there are few of them support the use of this to alignment the other people what are the benefits and security it may have.

In my opinion, the people in the photo don't understand about bitcoin, because it's impossible for bitcoin to be a savior. Bitcoin is only
a digital currency and not a god, don't let people who don't know bitcoin see it as a misperception. Although this is done to promote
bitcoin, the method is wrong. I hope there will be no more action like the photo in the opening post.

No, you can run a full node, and verify/validate everything for yourself.


The community of full nodes, it's the full nodes which define what "a miner" is.


WRIGHTING? What is WRIGHTING? Hahaha.


Wrong. Full nodes are part of the network, validate, then relay, and if a transaction is not valid, it won't be relayed. If a miner mined an invalid block, it won't be relayed by the full nodes.


Is that what the flat-Earthers of Bitcoin call miners?


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