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Speaking of funky things, let’s talk about this absurd circus with the Australian tax office documents. Not a single one of these so-called "findings" came from me or the tax office. Nope, not one.

The reality?

I had these documents because Ira Kleiman, bless his heart, presented them in court. You know, because we were in a legal brawl, and when you're in a case with someone, you get access to the material they provide to the court. Funny how that works, right?
But here's the kicker—they're trying to spin this tale that since I had the documents, they must have come from me. How’s that for logic?

I’m sitting there with material given to me by the opposing party, and somehow, they twist it into, “Oh, well, you must’ve been the source.” It's like being handed something in a courtroom and then being accused of stealing it.

But sure, let’s just ignore how basic legal procedures work and spin this nonsense.
It’s false, it’s ridiculous
Next, COPA, you already know this.

You had the chain of custody.

On top of it all, one of the few things that Madden actually did right was point out the metadata errors in the ATO documents—yeah, the ones that were fabricated.

He recognized it. Called it out.

The documents were a sham, plain and simple. Yet, despite that clear finding—despite the fact that it was established these documents were bogus—they were still used in the judgment against me.

Explain that one.
How do you take documents, proven to be fabricated, and build a case on them?
It's like playing poker with a stacked deck, and even when someone catches it, you still lose the hand. You have the proof right in front of you, but nobody seems to care.

They just move forward like it's all legit, like it didn’t matter that the documents were cooked. But sure, let's pretend this is all above board.
Next, let’s talk about this so-called 2015 “leak” or doxing—everyone’s favorite scandal.

Turns out, from the documents I got (you know, the ones no one seems to want to acknowledge), that the guy who leaked the information to Gizmodo and Wired, who was feeding them everything, was none other than Ira Kleiman.

Yeah, him.
The guy running his mouth to the ATO, giving them false information, spinning tales like he was auditioning for some twisted reality show. And why? Because in his little fantasy world, he thought all of this would somehow make him rich.

Smart, right?
What kind of genius thinks he’s going to get rich by dragging out half-baked lies and spoon-feeding them to the gutter press?

This is a guy who thought he’d hit the jackpot by lighting the fuse and watching it all blow up. Meanwhile, he’s too dumb to realize he’s standing right next to the dynamite.
Ira Kleiman, trying to play puppet master with a handful of bad info, thinking he’s going to ride off into the sunset with bags of cash. It’s almost funny. Except it’s not. It’s just sad. And dumb. Really dumb.
What’s even worse?

The guy’s too dumb to realize he was just a pawn in someone else’s game.

He was being played the whole time by the other side, including Mr. Maxwell, who he cozied up to like they were on the same team. Kleiman thought he was running the show, feeding out all this so-called intel, playing the big shot. But the reality? He was just the fool in the corner, getting strung along.
Maxwell and the rest of them were probably laughing behind his back, watching him spill his guts, thinking he had it all figured out.

He was so wrapped up in his little fantasy of striking it rich that he couldn’t see he was being used, manipulated like a clueless puppet. It's pathetic, really—thinking you’re the mastermind when, in fact, you're just the bait. But hey, that’s what happens when you’re blinded by greed and too stupid to know you're being played.
Kleiman, in all his brilliance, thought that by causing the companies to face problems and be liquidated, the money would just magically flow to him.

Like he believed capitalization automatically turns into cold hard cash when a company’s bankrupt or in ruins. As if the wreckage of a company somehow fills your pockets instead of leaving you with a pile of debts and legal headaches.

He was out there, thinking that tanking everything would lead to his payday, too blind to see that bankruptcy doesn’t work like that—no gold at the end of that rainbow, just a bunch of worthless scraps. And that’s the level of understanding we’re dealing with.

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Oct 1
The idea of assassination markets is the sort of harebrained lunacy one would expect from the dimmer corners of anarchist coffee shops and the wilder-eyed adherents of fringe political thought. It’s the fantasy of those who mistake chaos for freedom and delusion for revolution. They imagine, with all the wisdom of children playing at war, that such markets would bring about some grand reckoning, a purging of the corrupt and the wicked, as though the stroke of an assassin’s knife or the crack of a sniper’s bullet could, by sheer force, bring forth justice. This, of course, is a fantasy so idiotic it’s hard to believe it has found even a handful of adherents.
What these dreamers fail to grasp is that the masses, those faceless millions who they expect to rise up and seize power through violence, are not some naturally occurring force of morality waiting to be unleashed. They are, and always have been, pawns in the hands of those who know how to wield power. The masses don’t move of their own volition. They are stirred, goaded, and herded by demagogues. Only the cunning and the ruthless—those who understand how to bend the popular will to their advantage—can ever hope to direct the mob.

And here lies the fatal flaw in the assassination market scheme: the mob doesn’t act in the interest of justice. It acts in the interest of those who know how to manipulate it.
Picture, if you will, the assassination markets in action.

Who do you think would be the ones pulling the strings? Not the honest and the downtrodden, those suffering under the weight of oppression. No, it will be the oligarchs, the elites, the clever few who already know how to wield the power of public sentiment.

They will use these markets not to bring down the corrupt, but to eliminate their enemies, to consolidate their hold on power, and to settle old scores. The resources of others, the desire for revenge or retribution, will be harnessed by those with the means and the ambition to exploit them.

The masses, once again, will be nothing more than a tool in the hands of those who know better.
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Sep 30
Steve Shadders once released a version of node software that he demoed at a conference, attempting to prove its capabilities—much like Teranode.

But the truth?
It didn’t work.
What’s worse is that I later found out he had fabricated the results. He fraudulently presented his demo on his laptop, claiming it handled 50,000 transactions when it did no such thing. Smoke and mirrors.

So, when Shadders now complains about being removed from the Teranode team, there’s a reason. There’s no place for dishonesty in this project, and pretending to achieve something when you haven’t isn’t innovation—it’s fraud.
Steve claims that it's hateful to call him out—no, this isn’t about hate. It’s called truth. People don’t like being exposed when they’ve been less than honest, but that doesn’t make it hateful. The simple fact of the matter is this: lying and hiding what you’re really doing isn’t right. When you present something that doesn’t work and then try to pass it off as a success, you’re deceiving everyone involved. It’s not about personal feelings or grudges; it’s about integrity. When you fabricate results and mislead people, there are consequences. It’s not hate to call out dishonesty—it's necessary.
Let him try to sue me for defamation—go ahead.

I’ve got the emails where he admitted to fraud.

This isn’t about personal attacks; it’s about facts. Fraud is when you knowingly promote something as working when it doesn’t. And that’s exactly what happened here. Steve presented software, made claims about its performance, and deceived people into believing it could handle 50,000 transactions when it absolutely couldn’t. He knew it wasn’t functioning, yet he pushed it as if it was. That’s not a mistake, it’s fraud. Plain and simple. So if he wants to take legal action, I’ll be right here, with the evidence in hand.
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Sep 30
Let’s talk about the oligarchs and corporations—those in power who are hell-bent on stripping away privacy and controlling every aspect of people’s lives. These are the same players who prop up BTC while working tirelessly to dismantle Bitcoin, the original idea that offered a real alternative to centralized control.

The truth is, they don’t want people to have privacy, and they sure as hell don’t want people to have control over their own lives. The whole system is rigged to keep power consolidated in the hands of a few.
Take COPA, for example.

The case they pushed wasn’t really about me being linked to Bitcoin.

That was just the story they spun for public consumption.

The real agenda?
It was all about stopping the original idea of Bitcoin—stopping what it stood for. Bitcoin was designed to give people control, to offer privacy, to empower individuals in a way that challenges the established order.

But that’s the very thing these corporations, oligarchs, and governments can’t afford to let thrive. They need control, they need oversight, and most of all, they need you to believe that BTC is the future when in reality, it’s just their puppet.

Hi Blackrock...
Look at COPA’s actions.

Or more specifically, look at their lack of actions.

They haven’t taken a single step against the hundreds of individuals who blatantly sell products or even those who openly claim to be Satoshi.

You would think that if COPA were really interested in protecting Bitcoin’s legacy, they’d be going after these frauds.

But no—none of those people are a threat to BTC or to the interests that are pulling the strings behind the scenes. None of these individuals posing as Satoshi are shaking the foundations of the power structures that hold everything in place. Why? Because they’re not a threat. They’re playing the game, keeping things just as they are.
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Sep 29
The poorly constructed argument presented here about modern money by Lopp is deeply flawed, resting on a number of logical fallacies that display a fundamental misunderstanding of what money, in its modern form (or for that point, any money) actually represents—be it fiat or BTC.

To begin with, the claim that modern money "doesn’t represent stored value" misinterprets the role of money as merely a store of value, without considering its primary function as a medium of exchange and unit of account.
Charles Proctor's work on money, Mann on Money, allows us to understand that money operates on trust and the promise of future value exchange.

Yes, modern money is often tied to debt, but this debt represents a mutual agreement between borrower and lender, functioning within a broader economic framework. To assert that economic growth depends purely on the expansion of debt, while not entirely untrue, ignores the critical role of productive investment and wealth creation.

Debt in itself is not inherently bad; it's a tool that can stimulate growth, assuming it is used productively, but the key lies in the creation of real value through investment.
The glaring omission in this argument by Mr Lopp is that BTC, the very system often touted as a solution to fiat currency's issues, operates under the same principles.

BTC is not some mystical store of value—its value is entirely dependent on the faith that someone will exchange something tangible for it in the future. It's no different from modern money in this regard. In fact,

BTC’s reliance on market speculation makes it even more volatile as a store of value. You don’t buy BTC to hold onto it indefinitely in some vault; you buy it hoping that someone will pay you more for it later. This is no different from purchasing a fiat currency with the hope that it will maintain or increase in value relative to other currencies.
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Sep 28
When we compare Christianity and Islam, we must first recognize that these are two fundamentally different systems that shape human behavior in profoundly distinct ways. At their core, Islam emphasizes submission to divine authority, while Christianity emphasizes service—a subtle but significant difference that has deep implications for how societies based on these faiths approach individual freedom, responsibility, and economic systems.
Islam, by its very definition, is rooted in submission—submission to Allah’s will as revealed through the Prophet Muhammad. This sense of submission is not limited to the spiritual realm; it extends to every aspect of life, from governance to legal systems to social order. The individual is expected to follow a prescribed path, where the rules are clear, and deviation is not encouraged. In this framework, economic and social structures are often shaped by a collective focus, prioritizing the welfare of the group and adherence to religious law over individual initiative and innovation.
Christianity, by contrast, centers on the concept of service—service to God and to one's fellow human beings. The teachings of Christ place a strong emphasis on personal responsibility, free will, and the use of individual gifts for the greater good. This philosophy naturally aligns with systems that prioritize freedom and voluntary cooperation, such as capitalism. In a Christian worldview, individuals are not merely cogs in a machine following predetermined paths; they are free actors, capable of choosing to serve others, to innovate, and to create value. This is where concepts like conscientious capitalism emerge. It is not enough to simply generate wealth—wealth must be used responsibly, ethically, and in service of others.
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Sep 28
Yes, the tired old Ethereum myth—the shining beacon of innovation that supposedly introduced smart contracts and NFTs to a world that had never seen them before. How quaint. Let’s set the record straight. Bitcoin had smart contracts long before

Ethereum came along, waving its flag of self-congratulation. But of course, acknowledging that wouldn’t fit into the grand narrative Ethereum likes to craft about itself, would it?

Why let facts get in the way of a good story?
And NFTs? Bitcoin had those too. But we mustn’t mention that, because apparently, the only "valuable" NFTs are the ones minted on Ethereum. It's almost as if value only exists when the Ethereum crowd declares it so.
As for DeFi and TVL—how noble. Building layers upon layers of complexity, all while pretending that centralization and congestion aren’t glaring flaws in the system. Sure, let’s celebrate the "originator of the EVM," a system that—despite its "decentralized" claims—is more prone to being dominated by those with the deepest pockets. True decentralization, after all, means nothing if you can’t centralize the narrative.
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