Share this page!

Neil Woodfine Profile picture
Twitter logo
Feb 1, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Our parents were led to forget—no, outright reject—the ideological underpinnings that make the UK a nice place to live. Based on discussions with friends and family, apathy rules. Authorities have almost zero opposition, free to do as they please. “If youre not doing wrong...”
2/Nothing is real and relativism has completely taken hold. No one understands rights like private property or free speech, they’re not codified anywhere. There is no constitution or ethical framework to refer back to. That would be too rigid, “too ideological”.
3/ Instead, it’s considered better to make case by case judgement calls on how things make you feel. Stripped of formal philosophy, religion, and ideology, the majority are reduced to drones, intellectually inert and led by emotion. Virtue before logic. Great news for the media.
4/ Irrational, frothing disgust at partisan targets. Posh man bad. Orange man bad. Perpetual fear of nazis, paedophiles, Russian spies and capitalists. Restrict knife sales, watch out for hate, report neighbours, report colleagues, report friends.
5/ Relativism and its offspring, authoritarianism and socialism, are winning in the UK. Even the “right wing” are bereft of rhetoric about rights and liberty. The US has its problems but from my own anecdotal experience, the understanding and respect of freedom still runs strong.
6/ The UK on the other hand is in trouble, Brexit being or not, and it’s going to take some serious interventions to change course. Maybe bitcoin could help, but ultimately it’s going to take some strong voices to make people wake up.
7/ To wake up and restore the responsibility and dignity of the individual, and the respect for individual rights that made it successful in the modern past.
8/ To realise that making it up as you go along based on subjective feeings is not acceptable or sustainable and that we need reliable methods for social memory that prevent us from making the horrible mistakes of the past.
Compliant open source software for public safety.
It’s really very important that the bitcoin project succeeds.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Neil Woodfine

Neil Woodfine Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @nwoodfine

Neil Woodfine Profile picture
Jan 5
1/ In the event of a global internet shutdown, would that lead to a temporary halt of all transaction processing, with everything going back to normal as the internet is "switched back on"?
2/ During the shutdown, miners would still mine on their own local networks, and you would essentially get thousands of chain splits occurring as each miner mined its own chain separately.
3/ As the internet comes back on, all the “lighter” (less pow) chains would be wiped out in favour of the “heavier” (more pow) chain.
Read 12 tweets
Neil Woodfine Profile picture
Jul 20, 2021
1/ The WEF’s “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” is going further than we first realised.

At the foundation of private property, in any interpretation, is the ownership over oneself. The vaccine mandates are a culmination of the attack on this principle.
2/ A sacred wall has been broken, a new precedent set, in a carefully coordinated manner.

Your body is no longer absolutely your property, it is instead considered by the public and your rulers as a public good. A resource that people can fight over what to do with it.
3/ With that precedent set, you can be sure there will be plenty more debates over what to do with you and your body in society’s interest, to respond to a rolling series of crises in the future.
Read 4 tweets
Neil Woodfine Profile picture
Feb 9, 2021
1/ My prediction for the 2021 bitcoin bull run:

i. Price hits a minimum $100k+ peak.
ii. Western governments introduce unprecedented emergency regulations, such as withdrawal bans, turning off the buy button, and investor restrictions...
2/
...
iii. Price dumps, most of the new corporate investors panic sell.
iv. Repeat the usual halvening cycle, as hodlers of last resort hold the line at a higher low and the industry adapts, evolves, routes around the new regulations. Life, uh, finds a way.
3/ Some have likened Tesla's entry into bitcoin as a watershed moment of bitcoin finally mainstreaming. Well, with the mainstreaming, the real games begin, and bitcoin's proper enemies (not amateur-hour big blockers) rear their ugly, fanged heads.
Read 14 tweets
Neil Woodfine Profile picture
Feb 8, 2021
1/ Look, I'm concerned about the dangerous custodianisation of bitcoin as more corporates start hodling.

But wew, Tesla buying bitcoin is pure, unadulterated, 100% mainstreaming of bitcoin as an inflation hedge on savings/treasuries.
2/ Before it was Microstrategy and Square, fairly obscure B2B companies to most people.

Tesla is globally recognised, respected. Now everyone will want a piece to offset their treasury inflation.
3/ Musk, already the wealthiest man in the world, will get history-breaking rich as Bitcoin pumps 2x, 3x, 4x, and more.

Other billionaires are going to get pissed.
Read 5 tweets
Neil Woodfine Profile picture
Oct 26, 2020
1/ So much of the debate is around how deadly COVID is, or the effectiveness of the lockdowns, or the magnitude of the collateral damage.

But that immediately concedes the frame to the tyrants, both large and small.
2/ The implication of arguing in this fashion is that if the disease was actually that deadly, or the lockdowns were effective, or the collateral damage harmed fewer than it helped, then all this control and oppression might be acceptable.
3/ The implication is that imprisoning peaceful people, mandating what they wear, when they can do business, who they can meet, forcing people to die alone, and all the other evil stuff going on around the world right now *could* be okay *if* the disease was dangerous enough.
Read 5 tweets
Neil Woodfine Profile picture
Oct 24, 2020
1/ The assault against open-source software that emerged recently will not be resolved by self-hosting alone.

One of the authorities’ obvious next steps, after GitHub has “harmonised” its platform, is to demand licenses to host any software and maybe even licenses to produce it.
2/ These new rules will be implemented in the name of “ensuring new technology fits with the values of society” and “guaranteeing that everyone has a democratic stake in how technology affects our lives.”
3/ The urgency of the regulations will be accelerated by two things:

(i) Bitcoin’s threat to the increasingly fragile and controlled fiat monetary system.

(ii) The emergence of decentralised, self-hosted communication apps that circumvent the censorship and encryption bans.
Read 6 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @nwoodfine has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @nwoodfine!

Read all threads by @nwoodfine

:(