Over the years the only experience that matters as a bitcoiner are these two communication skills; Spoken and written. Having both is much more beneficial than holding one of it. Aside that being a bitcoiner doesn't mean you should know everything about the network and neglect the ability of sharing it amongst people around you, without shoving it down their throat.

Advocacy I would say does to us what membership is to the human body. It makes the whole process complete and natural, the best contribution about this technology could be from a close friend who knows nothing about it, but after a brief conversation on the ecosystem they pick up immediately and do something unique. Had Hal Finey hid his knowledge of Bitcoin from his wife, the running Bitcoin initiative would have a lesser performance by now, because that woman is doing a great job in maintaining the project left by her husband.

In Bitcoin 2025 conference, CEO of mIcro strategy, Micheal added communication amongst his 21 ways to wealth as a bitcoiner. He used himself as an example, saying that a lot of people knew Bitcoin before him but today he's an advocate and speaks to CEOs, Top business men across the world about Bitcoin. However he never mentioned what made him change his mind, because he must have been among the people who knew Bitcoin earlier and didn't consider doing it immediately.

In the forum, here, every member advances in written communication as it's a must have skill needed to show full membership in the community. I bet you a lot of people have been here before a lot of us, but chose not to write. Maybe they prefer talking or doing what the domain name says. But in the real world, spoken communication has shown a much better impact on the ecosystem. People watch conferences at home and some attend, it's a solid skill to consider practicing, the first move and they'll be no going back.

On the other hand, The AI is distracting our loved ones and we've learnt how bad it is to our families who don't get taught about it, as bitcoiners allowing those tools to take all of our social currencies from us could put us in a bad shape or in the hand of a market manipulated by something we wouldn't be able to convince to stop from doing what it's doing.

In a nutshell, being able to address a room filled with thousands of people about Bitcoin is a thing that's coming to everyone of us at a fast speed, soon these conferences will be done close to our societies and it'll be fun to attend and talk as well. So, it's best it doesn't meet us as a surprise.

What are your advances in spoken communication, especially when answering questions asked by a fella about crypto or Bitcoin. Share your thoughts,  cheers.

Yesterday, 30th of May marked the celebration of a well known crop 'potato, farmed across the world. Also recognized for its availability in times of frugrality and hunger. Potatoes are crops that lifts zero hunger in the world, I could remember a time in my state when they was a high price of imported goods, people went back to eating potatoes and it saved us all from being hungry. Moreover, this day is remembered to signify that this crop provides employment to millions of farmers in the world; mostly women.

In past unforgettable events like the world WAR II, - Potatoes helped to feed humans during shortage. It's been a lifelong food and have been a type of crop I enjoy eating, do you farm this crop or only feed on it?



https://www.fao.org/international-potato-day/en

Trump in a meeting with the South African President got easily aggressive on the NBC reporter after he asked an off topic question regarding the Plane gifted to the US Airforce by the Qatar government, after seeing the Genocide video of white south African farmers. In as much as the reporter's question wasn't in line with the current conversation in the oval office, he shouldn't have embarrassed him that way. Presumably Trump hates the NBC news, in general, and even extended his anger on Brian Roberts and all other people who run the platform.

What do you think about such a reaction in the midst of the South African President?

https://youtu.be/nbt3W_cWspg?si=QiJtcAkOuj3-4yCW

The SEC has always stayed abstracted on crypto yet own little understanding of the system. The 60 days pause on the Binance 2023 court filing is to accentuate the new laws placed by the crypto taskforce on digital assets and reach out to a term on ways it could work for both parties, and the general crypto users or investors.

Who knows exactly the kind of settlement the SEC are proposing within this interval? The SEC are uncertain of what they want to do with crypto or digital assets regulation, their officials need to read further about how it operate - one sec official mentioned, during the crypto round table yesterday, that she doesn't understand how the prices work. If placing laws on digital assets was that simple they wouldn't have been any need for the 'taskforce'



https://x.com/EleanorTerrett/status/1910794348435820620

Twoscore and 14 years ago, (an archaic way of saying 54 years ago ) when fiat was no longer fixed to gold, and the beginning of the end of Bretton Woods system, investors never gave gold a real going over anymore. On a recent note, because Gold is undervalued and also the new highhanded attitude of world leaders on trade, renowned investors are now going about holding gold as a capable hedge to inflation.

The first time it happened was in 1980s during the great inflation, gold price per ounce got to a high standard rate of $850. Today Gold did $3200 per ounce, which means that investment analyst may have foreseen hyperinflation, and is advising investors to run back to gold.

Moreover, experts presume that if people embraced gold, it’s expected to hit $7500 per ounce. What do you think about investing in Gold?



https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/gold-prices-climb-over-1-trump-hikes-china-tariffs-2025-04-10/

The chaos small businesses will encounter within this tough tariff moment, won’t halt the great relationship the both leaders share. Maybe it would, when pigs fly, yet their goals should be questionable. Are they trying to reap off the big companies and replenish the small businesses in future for the losses they’ve gone through…Robinhood.

I saw a meme that showed planes flying apple phones to the united state to avoid tariffs. Ackman said in his interview, small businesses will get crushed, then the medium sized companies would follow. The government is trying as much as possible to avoid peanuts, only the billion-dollar companies could stand this dog and cat fight - apple invested $500 billion in the United States.

This amount of money sound too large to Trump such that peanuts won’t move his attention.  He’s likely to use the generated funds to clear debts. If he does that the economy may get affected for a while, it’s best to channel the wealth back to the nation and increase business opportunities for the people. My question is; what do you think the ongoing economic joke of raising tariff to more than a 100%, would result to?

   

Image: watcher.guru on X

The only solid reason why people don’t like bitcoin is because they think it’s a scam. JP morgan in 2018 called bitcoin a fraud, and the price dropped by 20%, nobody wants to soak their hands with a fraudulent tool.

Currently, Btcfi is heating up, and companies like Elastos are materializing Bitcoin-Defi compatibility; Rollman invested $20million to assemble the ecosystem.

The new complications this development will extend to bitcoin would refresh the old wounds most investors left out and chose to accept bitcoin – scalability issues, price volatility and fraudulent activities.

When the blockchain interoperates with other chains to suit the defi ecosystem, congestions, high transaction fees, price volatility, Dapp scams would be introduced in a fresh state to investors.

Even though, Stacks through 'clarity' is solving the slow transaction speed with 'microblocks' that receive transactions from the mempool and validate them, before updating it on the bitcoin blockchain every 10 minutes - Defi and smart contract have a great deal of vulnerabilities, like top scam occurrences.

In 2021 $1.3 billion was scammed out of Defi, reducing the ecosystem to rubble.

The market is getting freed with sad news like centralized exchange hacks, yet building defi on Bitcoin could accelerate scam news through defi apps referencing to Bitcoin. Which events, won’t be any great for btc, as people easily denounce bitcoin immediately, they turn victims of scam.

In a nutshell, the bitcoinfi isn’t a type of development that’ll raise up bitcoin on the long run, I don’t see it happening. Between, too many alts didn’t advance in price with Defi.

Below is Elastos architecture…

Recently, the U.S government authorities are getting access to all market reps and building a fortress against what was their fear on cryptocurrency. Two years ago, 'Yunchen huo' published the effect of government policies on crypto market, and his answer to why the government worried about bitcoin is “Bitcoin can circumvent government-imposed capital controls” The US Government is gaining a rapid authority on crypto, and impose regulatory measures on stable coins to retain US dollar’s global position.

Yesterday, U.S Rep. Steil and Hil introduced “The Stable Act” a bill that controls stable coin issuance in a distributed ledger claimed to be linked to cryptography. A favorable trend on  X; people cheering ‘Bitcoin’ is dining with a longtime rival ‘USD’. How long do you think the peace will last? Are we ever going to stop worrying about why the two currencies, now, get along too well? If USD were to be backed by gold, I would have said ‘Iron sharpeneth iron’, but if the US government decide to infect this relationship, bitcoin¹ will suffer, why? Because ‘it’s fragile and highly volatile…’ a term ‘the government officials won’t stop using on the crypto market’. Slick people.



¹ Bitcoin is used interchangeably to mean crypto.

Recently, in the past week tweets were flying on X on a matter that shocked both Trump and the secretarty of defense, Pete, regarding Elon getting briefed on millitary war plan against China.

So, 2-3 days ago when trump moved forward the building of F - 47 air fighter, a reporter questioned him about what was published on NYtimes, about Elon and the military plans, his response was clear that, no potential war against china exists and he doesn't want people to talk about it, also nobody gave out any war plan to Elon, that it's all a made up story from the Nytimes, like the Cnn.

But before saying that no potential war is going to happen, he also added that, even if such war occur that the US is well equipped to take on China.



My suspicions raised on who is right between Trump and NYtime journalists, when the F- 47 was shown on screen and only a small part of the air fighter was presented, which I didn't like, he said it's for security reasons, that's right...

But the full part was hidden for one famous purpose; for countries like China not to build its replicas, as they are good at building whatever military weapon shown fully to them. I still linked this to China because it seems hiding the full image of the jet fighter, shows the pentagon is also concealing some information on this war trend or fake news.

Forum members, do you think the NYtimes is a bit right on this supposed war, considering the new 6th generation fighter Jet the US military is working on to take care of enemies, and maintain air dominance.

As for Elon, could it have been a means to alert the world of this war?



image from X

Thesame man who said Bitcoin will open doors of corruption in El salvador got 11 years sentence for taking bribes.  In response to the crime Nayib Bukele the President of El Salvador said "The thief Judges by his condition". He, Menendez and the wife, took hundreds of thousands of dollars in form of gold, cash and luxury convertible from Wael Hana and Fred Diablies who are business men and used his political power to aid the Egyptian government, the former senator's wife is not yet tried because she is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, so hers will be coming up soon.

While pleading for mercy he broke down crying talking about the good things he's done for people in the US, and how he's served the government very well. However all he said made no changes the Judge told him to report to prison in 72 hours.

It's just crazy that most people who criticize other people's work are the real bad one in the society and uses all that blames on others to cover for their evil dids.




https://www.benzinga.com/25/01/43326463/former-senator-bob-menendez-who-said-bitcoin-will-open-doors-of-corruption-in-el-salvador-gets-11-year-jail-term-for-accepting-bribes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1w1oI8lunw

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After winning the Finney bitcoin prizes representing His work on bitcoin, Greg's achievements and contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem surfaced on Pete_rizzo_ page on X regarding Why "Greg Maxwell Is a Bitcoin Legend".

First on the long thread (which I'd share a few of it for discussion purposes) before he joined Bitcoin he built protocols like the Opus Codec adopted by streaming platforms like YouTube and Spotify. I went further to check more details on this and found a pdf and article of his where he confirmed building Opus Codec

Second, Greg was a developer but weren't building on the Blockchain until 2011 when he discovered Bitcoin, and didn't consider decentralized consensus on a P2P network realistic. But later began to code and was noticed, in 2012, by a Bitcoin lead developer and promoted to be among the five core developers.



Third, Greg found privacy to be an essential property of every monetary and payment system, hence he encouraged other developers to hold tight of privacy. Hence, to strengthen the network's privacy without any modifications Greg, 2013, built a scheme called counjoins to make transactions more difficult to trace.



Alongside other beneficial contributions he's made in the Bitcoin network, in 2015,  was handed a role of BIP editor, and his respect attracted the interest of other developers and they too ideas to Greg first. He always played the role of a teacher, and a lot of us here have read and learnt from his contributions in matters regarding the forum.


Last on this thread (mine) in same year Greg and Adam Back, found a company called blockstream that focus on developing Bitcoin and hiring core developers. All other details regarding why Greg is a btc legend is in the link below. It'll be great to recall that we'll not only participate in Bitcoin by investing money, they're other ways of adding value to the ecosystem just like Greg did when he found Bitcoin. Even non programmers through research and writing can as well pinpoint a means of doing a memorable contribution to Bitcoin.

https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1878079505052413965

In 2023 Bitcoin developers were offered a sum total of $8.3million... I never had in mind that Bitcoin core developers have sponsors, usually I'd assume they've garnered more bitcoins, as early birds, and decided to voluntarily build and maintain the network. In this Magazine by DanO'prey And Mas Nakchi they claim to have done some research regarding the companies and individuals that offer grants and employment to Bitcoin core developers. The list include;

• Open sats
  
• Btrust
• brink
• Spiral
• Digital Currency Initiative

Besides the above listed projects, a lot more organisations like bitpay, xapo, bitmex etc, have funded Bitcoin and lightening development, but these platforms weren't consistent and most of their developer grants are inactive.

In the last pages of the magazine a chart is there that shows individuals like Jack Dorsey and Jay Z as individuals who have also contributed to Bitcoin core developers through the medium of the above listed companies like Btrust where the both funded 500 btc to run Btrust.

While it's the first work I'm reading on this topic, I'd want to ask, why so much interest is focused on miner's earnings compared to the core developers?

Satoshi had both eyes on all components of Bitcoin, here, he was envisioning Bitcoin to certainly do better than ever and considered the problem of slow transaction rate. He had to involve Moore's law as a factor that would increase hardware speed, with available nodes

As a result of a massive adoption, his challenge of Bitcoin hitting more transactions volumes than Visa was achieved, with Bitcoin on   $46.4 billion daily transactions. However, the second aim is declining...nodes. In 2021, according to Luke Dash jr there were about 83,000 valid nodes, but, today, the number of active reachable nodes is at 21,000, base on what's on site, though some nodes in older versions are skipped, the number dropped. While the law by Moore's makes an impact, having more nodes participate in the network, would add up to fix network congestion.

Unexpectedly in this recent market observations, the bull season had little impacts on the number 1 altcoin Eth. Whatever is the reason to this backlog I'd have to add up few research of mine, according to this article, the main reason that affected the growth of Eth is the migration of projects like Uniswap, Polymarket, and Ens to another network, due to the eth gas fee and inability to scale. Additionally, the vitalik Buterin decision of moving the network to Layer 2 was criticised in same work as a fatal mistake - as it'll do no good for Ethereum. This was backed with the disadvantage of switching a project from different network, which dampens viral growth

However that's all with the writer's idea, there's a move to allow people to run nodes in the network - the integration of solo staking, and the reduction of the minimum Eth needed for participation from 32eth to 16 or 24eth. Vitalik's choice of making the network decentralized would convince investors to consider picking eth as a number 1 choice, also that's the reason why I should look into the argument of some analysts who think eth would move in 2025.

And when that happens, it may work this way, since Bitcoin didn't enforce changes on alts, Eth might lead the alts bull run, I mean all other alts moving alongside Eth not Bitcoin anymore.

Christian Lindner the former finance minister of Germany made a speech yesterday in Bundestag where he mentioned that the Government have missed out on all the economic opportunities Bitcoin offers. His statement made users on X to bounce on his opinion with lots of questions why he didn't give Bitcoin a shot during his tenure 3 years ago.

Politicians don't seize to amuse me with the switch of statements when a new financial development arises about bitcoin. Is he making fun of himself by slamming Olaf Scholz the Chancellor of Germany, when he did nothing about investing in Bitcoin? Also he made no clarifications about his negligence on btc while on sit as the minister of finance.

Politicians are begining to use btc for campaigns because of the funds top BTC firms send out to help them win election, even when they didn't show regard to btc when in power and during the grass root days.

On the other hand, Germany indeed lost over $2.5billion in profit when they sold 50,000 bitcoins seized by the public prosecutor's office in Saxony when the price was at 53k. An X user mentioned the community need no politicians interested in BTC.

What do you think?

https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/e67c8-germany-ex-finance-minister-criticizes-government-for-overlooking-bitcoin

Meitu a Chinese selfie app developer  has sold all his bitcoin after investing over $100 million in Bitcoin and Eth. Which earned him the title "Asian Microstrategy". The company held for 3 years and decided to liquidate their coins, and made an extra profit of $180 million, from both Eth and BTC. However, such profits would interest some companies to sell their holdings, due to their motive of investment. Hence, investors who may not wait or hold more longer after the massive increase in Bitcoin may begin the bear season.

Below is a poll of confidence between Bitcoin and USD conducted yesterday, and surprisingly many voters roots for US dollar. The 97.11% seem to be people who never trusted Bitcoin to exceed their expectation and instead of accepting how huge the potentials of BTC is in the present and future, they'll rather console themselves with the conclusion that btc won't reach greater heights on the long term.




https://www.smerconish.com/daily-poll/

source

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White label wallet's existence is not new, but in recent write ups it'll be hot by 2025. As lots of crypto niched businesses would want it integrated in their brand. However, there are pre-built wallets that'll cost little amount to own, but few challenges could emerge for firms that choose to use such wallets.

Increased costs for future changes: Unlike the cost effectiveness of building wallets from scratch, White label wallets are not expensive to own, but since it's pre-built, the features have few customizable choices, and would cost a lot for any business looking to adjust the wallet to fit their needs.

Security Decline: Businesses that use this kind of wallet are at the mercy of the wallet provider for security. Which is not safe for the brand and its users. A security breach on their end could cost the brand financial disputes.

Compatibility challenges: incurring a third party built wallet into an existing systems or business site can be a hassle as a result of how the provider built and designed the wallet.

Though it has its advantages, and new development are coming into the cryptocurrency ecosystem, it's always right to do your own research when choosing a white label wallet provider, for the safety of your business.

https://rejolut.com/blog/what-is-white-label-crypto-wallet/

Over the years, mainstream sites like Forbes, rarely share information regarding the development of Bitcoin or how it works. Most often these sites only publish information on bitcoin price only. The last post I read on Forbes was about trump and how his victory would pump the price of Bitcoin to 70k or 80k. These writers don't have deep rooted knowledge of Bitcoin other than to push naive investors to throw in money into Bitcoin without any proper background information.

However, their opinions are also generalized, everyone is aware of how bitcoin price works, and they could say anything like it'll hit 100k... Since they'll be nothing favorable to learn on the main media blogs it would be better for newbies to read resources here and be well grounded on Bitcoin before going further to research on sites that only focus on how politics would skyrocket bitcoin price.

Superstars always color matches and help their team win games in times of difficult games. And when they leave there is always something to miss about them, the fan love, fans switching clubs, and most important the team losing top notch performance. Recently, Marquinhos made a statement that he misses the days of Mbappe in PSG. He's sure that their draw wouldn't have happened in the watch of a no "9" like him. Also PSG fans would feel the absence of Messi and Neymar's brilliant skills. On the other hand, Manchester United also should be missing those moments of CR7.

What is no longer there in your club after a certain key player was transferred?