{"id":91984,"date":"2025-03-10T04:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/the-clock-is-ticking-while-you-do-nothing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T04:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:02:13","slug":"the-clock-is-ticking-while-you-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/the-clock-is-ticking-while-you-do-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clock Is Ticking While You Do Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Bitcoin does not exist in a vacuum. It does not exist outside the flow of time. We cannot just sit on our hands and do nothing while chasing the perfect, flawless, no downside improvements to this network and protocol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The real world does not stop<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yesterday the most powerful nation state on the planet officially instituted a Strategic Reserve of Bitcoin. We are past the point of no return on a path now. Governments are here, they are paying attention, they are actively participating now<\/em><\/strong>. The level of that participation will not shrink, it will not be reduced, it will only grow from here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We do not have time to keep fucking around treating this project as a toy, an academic curiosity, or an intellectual puzzle. It needs to scale, now<\/em>. The counter narratives to neuter Bitcoin<\/a> due to its lack of scalability are not just already here, they are massive<\/em>. They have support from huge swaths of this ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBitcoin isn\u2019t for spending, it\u2019s for saving.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you need to transact, just use stablecoins (that are centralized, censorable, and seizable).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBitcoin is collateral.\u201d<\/p>\n

We are sleep walking into a future where Bitcoin is a neutered useless toy. Where it provides no privacy to anyone. It provides no censorship resistance or sovereignty to anyone. Where it is a useless hunk of lead to anyone outside of a white listed and surveilled system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Governments aren\u2019t going to just sit on their thumbs while we bicker and waste time until we find the perfect solution to scalability, and then go \u201cSure things folks, we\u2019ll get right on activating that.\u201d They will fight it tooth and nail. They do not care about you, your freedom, or your prosperity<\/em>. They care about their own power<\/em><\/strong>. They will not support things that degrade their power and influence over you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, we have to have our guys look at this first, we\u2019ll get back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis seems risky, we can\u2019t allow some internet nerds who want to tinker to put at risk the value of a strategic national asset.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNope, this seems like it will enable things the last few years of regulation decided were illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The world doesn\u2019t give a shit that you don\u2019t have the perfect move or course of action available, it will not sit on its ass and wait for that option to become available to you. It will keep moving forward, it will keep removing and limiting<\/em> the options available to you. There is no pause button.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to stop fucking around and acting like Bitcoin is some intellectual exercise, it is a real thing in the real world. And it happens to be the only thing that will give us any chance of the future not being a dystopic nightmarish hellhole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a game, and it\u2019s time to stop pretending like it is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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