https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-lS8Y79L7g
I’m not here to blackpill you on technology, but I do think all z us need to realize that any technological project, even those with the purest motivations, be that GNU/Linux or Bitcoin, are just as a fact of life going to be taken over by, let’s say, apathetic interests. You know, there is a core—let’s take Bitcoin as an example—there is a cypherpunk core of the OG Bitcoin guys who had a goal to create a financial system outside of the government, the peer-to-peer cash, peer-to-peer exchange of value, private, secure, all these kinds of things.
But you look at Bitcoin as it exists today, which apparently, I don’t know, hit 100K a little bit ago and then went down and up and blah blah blah. But either way, I am very pessimistic about the state of Bitcoin. This isn’t just about Bitcoin, but the fact is we see these projects that have these pure goals, and they’re taken over by people who like some of the benefits of those goals. They like, I don’t know, like in Linux, right? People like having a hackable operating system. They like having free software, but they don’t really take it to its logical conclusion.
They’re happy to be, you know, there’s that expression, “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good,” and I agree with that. But at the same time, you don’t want good to be the enemy of perfect. You don’t want to get to a place and say, “Oh, I’m using Linux, therefore I don’t want to go any further. I don’t want to have a free BIOS. I don’t want to encrypt all my hard drives.” That’s hard! It isn’t hard! I don’t want to, oh, I don’t know, people in the Free Software Foundation, they’re a little too stringent. They’re a little too, you know, they just set unrealistic goals.
The fact is, unrealistic goals are the things that have made us more free. They’re the people who are out there advocating vociferously, ideologically, who are really transgressing what we think is possible. You know, the proverbial Overton window. Of course, it’s because of people who are thinking further that we can even be where we are. If there weren’t, you know, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, it’s not just, “Oh, we wouldn’t have 100% free operating systems.” We wouldn’t have adulterated, halfway free software systems; you wouldn’t have anything like Linux. Every single one of us, if we were normies, we would have to be using Windows or Mac. You couldn’t spin up a server running free; you couldn’t do that at all.
Bitcoin is the same way. You know, the unfortunate fact, though, as I was saying at the beginning of this video, is that as you have more and more people that are herding into projects because they see benefits, at the same time, the discernment of the people in those projects just naturally disintegrates. The average standard, the ideological standard, decreases. You reach the lowest common denominator. And the fact is, you know, in both cases—actually, I mean, now Linux I think is less bad—but I mean, you look at Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. I don’t want to limit it just to Bitcoin, but you know, the number of people who actually seriously care about creating a fully independent financial system, or I don’t know, just anything in that domain, are so few. They’re really a nearly extinct species, and if that species goes extinct, we’re screwed.
I mean, we have to totally reinvent the wheel intellectually, ideologically. You know, we just had so much, and now everything has become a fad. You know, you have guys, you know, I don’t like mentioning people by name, but you know, the guy Michael Saylor, who has now become the face of Bitcoin, and it’s all about “line go up.” It’s all about having a commodity, and it’s all about making the technology big, big, big. You want to get everyone in it; you want to get governments in it; you want to get the already existing financial system in it. You don’t want it to be something that actually liberates people.
Oh well, you’ll say a bunch of words about that, but you don’t mean it. You don’t want it to be something dangerous, a little more, I don’t know, that causes a threat of realistic change. You know, the funny thing is, people—I guess the thing that makes me sad is so often you see people who kind of know, for example, that, oh, free software is a good thing, or oh, privacy and security in cryptocurrency, you know, having something like Monero or a more private crypto setup, you know, let’s say these are good things, but I’m not going to push them. I’m not going to push them on people. I’m not going to say, you know, it’s almost like, um, it annoys me because the people who believe good things, they don’t want to force them down people’s throats.
Or it’s not even about forcing them down throats; it’s really about they don’t even want to advocate for their own case. But the bad guys out there, the bad guys who water down these projects, they don’t feel any qualms about that. You know, they want to totally redefine Bitcoin. It’s no longer a peer-to-peer financial transaction. It’s not digital cash anymore. It’s just something you hold and you watch the number go up, you know, and ultimately that’s not what it’s supposed to be.
It’s not so—Bitcoin was certainly never created to be a way of making money in the first place. That’s just an accident of history and digital scarcity. Okay, that has nothing to do with what it’s about. The fact is now, you know, how old is it? I don’t know, like 10, 15 years? What year are we even in? I don’t know. But, you know, we’ve had this technology for so long, and in terms of the difference it makes in individual lives, it’s been really negligible. I mean, it still is like a nearly entirely speculative project.
And even to get people into it nowadays, you know, in a lot of the Bitcoin OGs, they almost like they don’t realize how bad it is, right? But when you’re trying to get someone into Bitcoin or Monero nowadays, it’s almost impossible to do it without just telling them to sign up for some know-your-customer exchange where you take a picture of your ID and all this kind of stuff. And you know, that’s the shame of it. I mean, that’s—and either way, I’m kind of rambling here, but I do want people to realize this isn’t necessarily a cause for blackpilling because there’s a sense in which it’s inevitable.
Okay? Because when tech—when a new technology comes, and I don’t mean inevitable like, “Oh, it’s over.” That’s not what I’m saying either. Okay? I want to clarify what I mean. I mean when you have a new technology, it often—not always, but often—spreads like wildfire. Okay? And that wildfire goes everywhere, and it goes to people who are undescerning. It goes to people who don’t understand it. It goes to people who don’t get the point, especially if that technology makes you money.
Especially if that technology, like Linux nowadays, you know, people getting into Linux, they’re not necessarily even motivated about free software or even open source. Sometimes they just like it ’cause it’s cool and Windows runs slow. Okay. But it’s going to spread everywhere. And it’s just fundamental that however big it spreads, you have to have that kind of cadre, let’s say, of people who actually care, you know, of people who care what it was originally made for and, in fact, are looking for ways to push that envelope to make it better than what people ever expected.
You know, and so that’s, I think, kind of the shame because, you know, these people are few. You know, I was thinking—I was watching some Linux videos within the past year. You know, while I was off YouTube, you know, when I wasn’t doing YouTube videos, but I stumbled across these Linux videos of a couple guys just maligning the free software movement or maligning, you know, guys who used Linux as their main thing all the time. Okay, I’m not going to mention names, but they use Linux. They had Linux YouTube channels, and then they’re maligning people like the Free Software Foundation or the GNU project, who literally they are the hand that feeds.
You know, I’m not saying they wrote—obviously they didn’t write all free software there is, but they are the intellectual core that all of us have to thank. And you know, people who get into Linux and who are just constantly whining about, “Oh, you don’t want to go—you don’t want it to be too ideologically pure. You don’t want to be too much of a purity spiral.” And no, that’s not—yes, we actually do want that.
Um, that’s not me saying that anyone who goes halfway there or 99% of the way there is better—no, better than nothing. But we have to remember that this is a constant, like technology is spreading like wildfire. And the issue is if we—what is going to endanger us is not necessarily just, “Oh, some corporations writing software to spy on us.” Really, it’s when people use technology in an undescerning way because fads take off.
You know, whether it’s cryptocurrency, whether it’s AI, whether it’s, you know, whatever other fads that are going around, which mostly people come to them because they are not discerning; they don’t really get the point of it. But we just need that core remaining. And I guess what I see—I don’t know if it’s FUD. I don’t know if it’s just like intellectual laziness, but there are too many guys out there on the internet who almost miss the point of why they’re doing this whole thing.
You know, why care about free software? Why care about privacy? Why care about all these things? It’s not because you want to hide your internet searches. Okay, that’s not it. It’s because, you know, I think I said in a video years ago, like I don’t care that much about my personal privacy. I do. I mean, in the abstract, you know, it’s nice to have some privacy, but what matters way more to me is having systemic privacy. Living in a world where, you know, you’re not going to have a corporation or government that has wide metadata access to everyone, that can socially engineer us, that can kind of, I don’t know, oppress us, to use a goofy word, but no less true word, of course.
And that’s what I’m worried about, right? So, um, and I don’t know. I don’t know if I have another point with this, but I guess I’m just expressing my disappointment. And I want guys, again, you need to be aiming for purity, okay? Whether you’re a developer or whether you’re like me, I’m just a normal user. I’m just a normal Linux power user, okay? I don’t know anything about this fancy stuff, but I want to be constantly there advocating for the goal, right? I’m not going to be happy being halfway there. I’m not going to be happy with, “Oh, I’m just going to tell my friends to use Bitcoin,” even though, like, you know, all transactions are public and it takes like $50 to send something.
You know, it’s nice that we have Linux as an operating system, but I want 100% free and open-source hardware. I want open schematics for everything. I want everything. I don’t want to have to worry about, you know, the firmware on the motherboard or your processor or anything, any of this kind of, I don’t know, Intel Management Engine. I don’t want to live in a world where we have that, right? And we might not be able to live right now today in a world without that. But you just, at the bare minimum, if you are like me, you’re just a normal dude. You’re not even a developer or programmer or anything like that. You have to advocate; you have to demand perfection.
Okay? I don’t expect to ever get to 100%. But 99.99999%, I want to get there. I think that’s a realistic goal. Okay?
@TrazynGoesDumb - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Oh boy, we never left+369
@pathos_films - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Life goal: Build a life where you can just casually say "what year are we in? I don't even know" and mean it+443
@93nada - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
I absolutely agree with you when it comes to free software. We now have this new generation of gnu/linux users who dont seem to comprehend what it took to get where we are now. Its sad to see Stallman, FSF and GNU people being openly mocked and considered merely as some sort of freaks who only stand in way of "progress". The very same people which a lot of them dedicated their entire lives for user freedom. The fact that Stallman started GNU project and convinced linus to use GPL are the primary reason why we have any software freedom at all.+386
@UnlimitedPepsi - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made."+186
@brainrotbulletin - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Based. The goal is a completely open stack. No Intel Management Engine or AMD Platform Security Processor. Schematics for hardware. Everything in the chain needs to free. We don't know what's going on with black box code which leaves users vulnerable to exploitation. It's about freedom and transparency so that our machines work in the interest of the users rather than governments and large corporations.+48
@miller42 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Those who were pushing the boundaries with their ideas got labeled "toxic" and were either removed or forced to participate in struggle sessions. For Linux it's already the case with the FSF being made of Big Tech and not investing a single dollar in actual free software projects, while pushing for more MIT licence instead of GPL.+50
@DHarrisChillin - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
There will always be people who are ungrateful or try to profit from others' passion without putting in the effort themselves.+103
@realfraudulence - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
"I'm not here to blackpill you on technology" Too late I'm already an eschatological optimist+264
@shtaufaker5211 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Institutions adopt Bitcoin and promote centralized exchanges, delisting Monero off everywhere, so they can push CBDCs in the future with agenda like: "Oh, those are totally like your bitcoins you used to hold on CoinBase or Binance, but now it's even more convenient!"+124
@aklem001 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
No joke, "don't let good be the enemy of perfect" blew my mind a bit. I can't believe I hadn't thought of that....+73
@voidvoid5151 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Line go heckin up seems to be the only goal in our society. It's like everything stopped advancing after 2015. and we're still stuck 10 years after.+44
@abhi_shek1196 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
"I am not here to black pill you on technology" Your fanbase (including me) call you Uncle Ted for a reason..+116
@Maxშემიწყალე - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
"What year are we even in?" - Last I checked, 2016.+66
@Ultrajamz - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
With anything, whenever it gets too normied it gets screwed+108
@Pepxico-y7d - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
You make me love learning and is changing my life. Thanks for all dostoievsky+15
@adamnealis - 2025-06-12 11:44:46
Same about The Internet. Once it is dumbed down enough to go mainstream, the democratic process kicks in, the distribution curve broadens and the skew moves the centre in the direction of "so what?"+4
@marciomaiajr - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
I wish we were in the Web 3.0 timeline instead of the AI Slop revolution one. Sometimes I read old magazines from 2015 and the future looked so bright from their perspective.+32
@patreeky5975 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
I forgot how cool and simple Luke’s website is Thanks Luke. Really good stuff there+10
@CIB8282 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Pretty good points about Bitcoin and Linux. I've been focused more on growing crops now that it's spring time. So much fertilizer and water is used on lawns that don't get you any yield, other than some compost materials. Been trying to teach growing to others to get them started.+23
@1toneboy - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
The FSF’s early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when GPL3 came out in '07, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.+29
@theloniuspunk383 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
WHAT IS HAPPENING AHHHHHH!!???+4
@sylvanfranklin - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
big days for this corner of youtube+18
@eKoush - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
if you are on BTC, you left.+2
@Myexpectationsarerealistic - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Why would I have to leave?+1
@Krazy0 - 2025-06-03 11:44:46
@eKoush agree+1
@Being_Joe - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
I think he meant what year are we into bitcoin, not is is 2025.+10
@remsee1608 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Luke knows people watch his videos long after he posts them+17
@desktorp - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
@Being_Joe maybe he meant both.. as in what is the current year so we can determine how old bitcoin is+3
@waabuje - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
The year of the Linux desktop+9
@OthorgonalOctroon - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
based, measure time in UNIX timestamps+11
@OnTheEdgex23 - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
Brain damage can do that for you too+1
@GotYouAziz - 2025-05-27 11:44:46
😂+2
@imagineiffcom - 2025-06-03 11:44:46
Actually, you probably don't want that. Time is perceived as going by more quickly when the mind is not engaged, that's why old people feel like time is flying by. They're in their routine, with nothing new to challenge themselves and years feel like weeks to them. I get what you mean, though. You want to be set apart from modernity, that's admirable. There's probably a better gauge to use, is all.+4
@michaelns9887 - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
Year of the Linux desktop+2
@Wolterhon - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
@OthorgonalOctroon HAHHAHA+3
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
When you're a simulated conscience being eternally tortured by a malignant super-AI from the future by being trapped in an inescapable woods because you refused to help build it in the present time starts to lose all meaning...+2
@hyperthreaded - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
If you get old enough you may get there through dementia😅💀+2
@lilpepe545 - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
You don't have to. If you've lived enough years, you'll just say it.+1
@TheKhanj - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
God, that one got me too 😂 "What year are we even in? I don't know.", nice 😂+2
@yoshi314 - 2025-05-27 11:44:47
maybe a hot take, but i think that people like Stallman push the edge of the "comfort zone" so that other projects with more permissive licensing appear normal in comparison. without them licensing things under GPL2 would sound completely insane.+19
@altaastro - 2025-05-27 11:44:47
O tempore, o mores!+4
@James-f4k9m - 2025-05-27 11:44:47
@yoshi314 people like Stallman and that EFF founder (Gilmore) who flew on airplanes without showing ID climb mountains with duffel bags to inspire others to carve a staircase.+15
@robotron1236 - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
Facts. Linux is going the way of windows. The main DE’s and distros will have OS level ads just like windows in the next 5-10 years.+2
@Wigwamwham - 2025-06-14 11:44:47
Stallman is a PDF who is scared that his computer is spying on him while he enjoys his prn he has made slip ups admitting so several times+1
@robotron1236 - 2025-06-14 11:44:47
@Wigwamwham maybe that’s true, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was never charged with a a crime and just said something stupid and distasteful in a short sound bite. Privacy is still important and if they’re going to catch people doing that, they need to do it without running client side scanning and spyware on everyone else’s devices. I’d rather 10 guilty men go free than for one innocent to suffer. That sentence is the very foundation of law in western civilization, but our rights are slowly going out the window until that statement gets inverted. It’s almost there.+1
@ariathyf144 - 2025-05-27 11:44:47
Exactly, BTW this follows the fib-of-no-chi spiral of progression.+1
@infeliximpius - 2025-05-27 11:44:47
- Tolkien+6
@IIIlIIIIlIIIII - 2025-05-27 11:44:47
This is also a way to identify evil.+4
@Hero_Of_Old - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
Tolkien didn't say this 😂 stop attributing this quote to him. He wouldn't write a sentence so badly constructed.+1
@wzqdhr - 2025-06-03 11:44:47
They RUST kernel+2
@badabing3391 - 2025-06-06 11:44:47
evil created the entire modern world.+2
@aYYYylMaOo - 2025-06-09 11:44:47
so the n4sls were good? they literally created the american space program.+1
@Laotzu.Goldbug - 2025-06-03 11:44:48
I'd be very interested in seeing someone who is on the side of this taking Devil's Advocate position and really interrogate what, if any, would be legitimate downsides or risks of this+2
@firstnamelastname4959 - 2025-06-13 11:44:48
@Laotzu.Goldbug Open source already has massive problems with a lack of skilled maintainers and resources for crucial projects (ffmpeg for instance). It was only by sheer luck that the XZ utils exploit was noticed before it managed to go live. Doing everything open source would never work, at least not on the basis that people voluntarily participate.+1
@RandomFandomOfficial - 2025-06-03 11:44:48
Fact!+3
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-05-27 11:44:48
People should be profiting/benefiting from this kind of technology, even as "free riders." What's worrisome is when the little enjoyments of a project seem sufficient and the final goals of freedom/autonomy/privacy etc. are forgotten about.+130
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:44:48
"I'm not here to name names.... Anyway, his name is ---- " lol.+5
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:44:48
this the most tech-pilling tech channel on my subscriptions by far+1
@Dogman262 - 2025-06-03 11:44:48
*Apocalypse cultist+2
@1111Tactical - 2025-06-03 11:44:48
@Dogman262 Jesus is coming whether you like it or not.+1
@6AxisSage - 2025-06-08 11:44:48
well this comment thread escalated quickly 😂+2
@FourOfClubs - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
Honestly, what's even the difference between using centralized exchange "Bitcoin" and a CBDC? We're already there.+14
@Bobo-ox7fj - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
@FourOfClubs they are in fact the same picture+4
@QTwoSix - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
>Digital money X is GOOD!!!! >Digital money Y is BAD!!!!! >I am very smart+8
@PSLgameplays-ug7yc - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
you nailed it, that's it, the gov, feds, institutions and big companies stopped hate criptos and started buying it alot so it's easier for them to control it+11
@martinlutherkingjr.5582 - 2025-06-03 11:44:49
Nah, I think their CBDC is just going to be faster bank transfers instead of 3-5 biz dayz. The US government won’t make an actual CBDC, they’ll just have banks report every transaction to the federal government.+4
@robotron1236 - 2025-06-03 11:44:49
This. This 100%…+1
@robotron1236 - 2025-06-03 11:44:49
@QTwoSix that take is much more intelligent than you think it is. CBDC’s are ALL about control.+1
@MM-op6ti - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
"Good enough"+8
@SS-qk8oc - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
The Ancient Greeks were smart af.+4
@k98killer - 2025-06-11 11:44:49
That is what I was taught as a child. It is a miserable paradigm to live under.+1
@manfrombritain6816 - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
It's so crazy how much everyone in the west tends to agree on 2015 being some kind of watershed moment. It's a spontaneous thing, it's not like there's some very clear mainstream catalyst we all reacted to. The only thing is harambe memes.+10
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
@manfrombritain6816 For me it's earlier than that. In early to mid 2000s there was still a general optimism about technology among people and I really believe Bill Gates and Steve Jobs etc were trying to make the world a better place at that time. The proliferation of smartphones is the main thing I think that cucked us all and started a downward spiral.+8
@offensivearch - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
@jamesevans2507 I think Steve Jobs was trying to make the world a better place. Not Bill Gates though+7
@labordayweekend - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
I'd put the date everything stopped further back. 2008 financial crisis maybe.+9
@hellastechy1103 - 2025-05-27 11:44:49
Heckin line is at all time high for the x year in a row!!!!!+4
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
What are you talking about? 1995 was only 5 years ago.+80
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
I drive a 2002 F350 7.3L Diesel, 6spd Manual, manual 4x4, manual locking hubs..... and it still feels like a new truck to me. lol... Early 2000's for LIFE+12
@AngelLoredo53 - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
We were ricing dwm last time I checked!+4
@transforgoku - 2025-06-03 11:44:50
Dude, I'm trapped in 2007, you don't really want to go beyond 2008...+7
@speakersr-lyefaudio6830 - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
Exactly. I used to be big into anime, but now it's all just extra flashy slop+22
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
Based and especially when women start wanting to get involved, you know it's dead and buried and beyond over.+48
@NostraDavid2 - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
The Eternal September continues.+9
@snoop_lion - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
Guys, is gatekeeping b-b-based?+14
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
Exactly.. Can't even goon in peace anymore.. jk. lol+6
@mushroomcrepes - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
@snoop_lion yes+8
@Smrda1312 - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
I mean if normies do not use something it will never have the effect that the goal strives for. If we want more open source stuff we need things like linux mint to get as many normies through the door. Some will go deeper some wont but that is also fine. If only neckbeards use linux then it remains an esoteric thing with no effect on the world.+10
@Ultrajamz - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
@snoop_lion just has to be responsible gate keeping+5
@snoop_lion - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
@Ultrajamz agreed.+1
@roripantsu - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
Thats what happens when you dont gatekeep enough+2
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
@Smrda1312 I agree.. But Linux already has the answer for that IMO.. There are several surface level normie distros. I've been using Nobara KDE.. and it's great. Should be easy for any normie to jump into.+1
@old_gaffer - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
It's as Kierkegaard said: "Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority."+5
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:44:50
@old_gaffer You just described the "Three Percenters" movement. (which came about based on the claim that only 3% of American colonists actively fought against British rule during the American Revolution)+1
@4.0.4 - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
It always felt too far fetched. But it was nice to dream.+3
@camerbot - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
AI slop is Web3.+9
@jawokenn8766 - 2025-06-04 11:44:51
Btc (also AI) will muzzle wordcel AI+1
@iszotope - 2025-06-07 11:44:51
You're free to dream, it isn't free to turn it into reality.+1
@bruck2723 - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Are you wearing a raincoat?+7
@gavinvales8928 - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
This is why Luke is so popular.+16
@SK8Vods - 2025-06-17 07:44:51
Really solid video, Luke. First one I've seen from you and I resonated with a lot of what you said. I'm a cypherpunk myself and work on open source software on my free time, and I fully share your view on privacy. It's not just about personal data, it's about having the freedom to choose. Subscribed!+1
@nin6246 - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Luke Smith, I love listening to your words - it makes me feel like we have a chance to change the course of humanity. Your a very important voice imho. Please keep making videos if you can. We can make a better world and we know it's possible even if we make up a small percentage of the population.+4
@6AxisSage - 2025-06-08 11:44:51
There's this crazy pattern with tech like Linux and Bitcoin. The OGs build something amazing that people actually vibe with, then when it gets popular, these power-hungry types swoop in and start taking over. It's like watching the same movie over and over. First the creators make something revolutionary, they get success, then the narcissists and corporate types smell money and status, and they infiltrate by any means necessary. Before you know it, the original vision gets corrupted or watered down until it barely resembles what made it special. It's not about expertise fading away , it's about the system getting hijacked. This isn't unique to tech either, it's like a law of nature that happens to literally everything valuable humans create. You can already see it happening with Bitcoin becoming institutionalized and new Linux devs expelling foundational programmers.+7
@iii02 - 2025-06-06 11:44:51
There was a time when i listened to people on the internet and started building ecomerce platform and chat servers to be more “hirable” but i’ll quit midway because i have severe adhd and i can see through the stupid ecomerce and how it works and there is no point of building those shit atleast for me, BUT because of luke and prime i started to build things that i wanted to see on the internet with tech i know not only i learned more than i ever learned in my life it just feels good to think about something and build it in real life. If you read through all that all i have to say is start building stupid crazy shit that you want i am sure after 5-6 projects you’ll know that you can build shit that you want and actually make a change+3
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Thank you. Now I can stop being productive and return to my YouTube and Internet habits. Very encouraging with all content you are pushing out.+4
@leet-kitty-catface - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Nice. I love seeing new Mental Outlaw content. Glad Kenny decided to post.+5
@grz3chotnik - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
good enough, welcome back Mental Outlaw+163
@Chillycloth - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Mike Jackson said it best, "They dont really care about us!"+33
@VastChoirs - 2025-06-04 11:44:51
3:50 – Interesting inflection point to highlight. Bitcoin's ideological shift around 2020 is undeniable: it moved from the cypherpunk vision of privacy and parallel finance toward being embraced as a macro hedge against inflation, a digitally scarce store of value immune to central bank debasement. But since 2023, there’s another evolution underway. Bitcoin is now being positioned as a neutral settlement layer for global trade, precisely because of the growing awareness that USD hegemony creates systemic distortions—not just for developing economies, but even for the average American. (While, of course, enriching the elite class and expanding state power.) Ironically, this pivot may carry more geopolitical weight than the original libertarian ideals—and the involvement of legacy institutions and governments isn’t a betrayal of the vision, but a feature of this new chapter. Look no further than housing markets across the globe. When a society lacks a reliable store of value, real estate becomes the default savings vehicle for the masses... and we all know where that leads.+6
@FrickelbudeCH - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Bitcoin is roughly as old as the iPhone. Very few people use crypto currencies on a daily basis, but most people use smartphones multiple times a day or rather all day long. What annoys me the most about the Bitcoin crowd is that most of them only talk about it when its price goes up. Most of them just complain about greedy bankers and the flawed financial system, but the only thing they want to get out of Bitcoin is to get rich quick without doing anything. Assigning a price tag to goods and services is one function of money. However, when it's going up all the time, you can't really put price tags in Bitcoin on anything.+12
@reisen888 - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Indeed. We shouldn't let good things lose their original meaning and purpose.+6
@shamsunnaherbegum3128 - 2025-06-03 11:44:51
I have been waiting for this man to post for a long time and now we got not one but three gems dropped almost consecitively. Insane.+2
@bob-i3o5f - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Bro has become starets Zosima from The Brothers Karamazov.+11
@Truck_Kun_Driver - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
Welcome back, mr. Dostoevsky Computer Guy version.+54
@MCmikelmax - 2025-06-03 11:44:51
This is a great video and you captured exactly how I feel about this topic. Enjoying your return to YouTube a lot!+1
@potatofieldsforever4089 - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
We are so far from the ideal world that I don't even see the point of these kind of project anymore, they seem to belong to a time where there was some illusion of freedom.+3
@aylazer23 - 2025-06-03 11:44:51
I feel lucky to live in a time where I can hear his thoughts. As a programmer, I agree we shouldn't lose track of the bigger picture+3
@a-pt6by - 2025-06-16 11:44:51
Great video. Thank you guys for Linux being how it is today.+1
@puuma_69 - 2025-05-27 11:44:51
jacques ellul wrote a good book on this called technological society and goes into detail, albeit he is more deterministic than necessary about it his arguments are very reasonable and accurate. once technology is out it will be used for a variety of cases and that includes the worst possible ones and we dont have control over it.+3
@idontcare_wtf - 2025-06-11 11:44:52
this is the way+1
@SlaveMerchant - 2025-05-27 11:44:52
White mental outlaw+51
@braddpittler - 2025-05-27 11:44:52
don't disrespect my boy luke smiff like dat again.+19
@turkeybowl2008 - 2025-05-27 11:44:52
Mental could never+12
@notuxnobux - 2025-05-27 11:44:52
Everybody knows that mental outlaw is lukes vtuber avatar+32
@sss-tw3jh - 2025-05-27 11:44:52
mental outlaw is luke's deepfake.+18
@Abhinav_Nayana_Sailen - 2025-05-27 11:44:52
@notuxnobux gawr gura grads, Luke starts uploading? Very fishy indeed+14
@gickygackers - 2025-05-27 11:44:52
Mental Outlaw is Puerto Rican Luke Smith+7
@patreeky5975 - 2025-05-27 11:44:53
<<<<<<
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@koma7252 - 2025-06-06 11:44:53
"and we all know where that leads" - where?+1
@willmxck - 2025-06-14 11:44:53
In fairness, bitcoin still hasn't got a great percentage of worldwide adoption. The idea is that once it does its price growth will slow and it can be used more. I land more on your side by the way+1
@essassasassaass - 2025-06-17 09:44:53
our money is going down all the time and we still can price things ins dollar, euro, … the reason bitcoin is so volitile is because we are still in an early phase of adoption. to price things in bitcoin doesn‘t make much sense now but it will in the future. and prices will still change with the exeption that everything will become cheaper instead of it becoming more expensive over time. keep stacking sats guys 🧡+1
@Drymedell - 2025-05-27 11:44:53
This is NOT a technology channel.+1
@DavidCoutinhoCG - 2025-06-10 11:44:53
lol, he looks exactly like Dostoevsky.+1
@ArneRief - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
You said it yourself towards the end, the part about not so much caring about your personal privacy than about systemic privacy: the difference between you, FSF "zealots", crypto purists on the one hand and normie users of a cool technology on the other hand is that you are acting based on principles and have an ideological greater goal in mind. The normie users lack both, the jumped the bandwagon solely for personal gain, even if it's just to make them look cool. It's not just that they miss or "don't get the point of it", they don't care about the point at all, even if you explain it to them at lenght, as long as there is no clear personal gain from being principled and going beyond their own requirements and comfort zone. While I agree that we should always keep pushing for important and right principles, I also think it is near impossible to convince people with that mindset. Maybe that's too defeatist, but I think it will probably always boil down to a small core of "fundamentalists" in a mass of indifferent users.+7
@kratafila - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
BTC pretty much turned to digital gold instead of digital currency. But helps decentralization in a way that legally you can take it with you cross borders without declaring it. No maximum amount. For gold and cash 10k is usually the limit.+29
@justinian420 - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
The know your customer stuff isn't the Bitcoin devs fault. That's a result of living in an unfree human livestock system. If you use BTC the way it was meant to be used, or get into Monero, you risk the wrath of the IRS, nothing any programmer can do about that.+43
@Aquabbas - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
Can you imagine having a lecture/walk w/ Pr. Smith deep in the woods IRL -> Just talking about software, ethics, philosophy. That would be so cool!+3
@unknownmonkeyplayground3268 - 2025-06-10 11:44:54
❤ Here for that whole thing. Great video!+1
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:44:54
5:53 Dostoevsky takes a stroll in the woods, whilst struggling to ascertain the present date. This is my favorite tech channel.+11
@1bird_d - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
those who truly care for bitcoin operate nodes and run solo miners, the rest are are just along for the ride+12
@_mend4mad_11 - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
You must continue those IT-preaches to the dwellers of the forest. An Owl asked you about fish vs zsh topic, btw+11
@notuxnobux - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
That's how I feel about the linux desktop now. As wayland, immutable distros and flatpak, etc become more popular they change the course of linux from what made it great in the first place. Wayland makes linux more android like, restricting user freedom. My software cant work properly on wayland no matter what and that will always be the case. Immutable distros (some are exceptions) dont allow you to modify your system properly or even install regular software/libraries. They instead require you to use flatpak which is just for consumer software. Flatpak requires sandboxing which prevents it from working alongside other software, totally breaking the unix philosophy and the sandboxing leads to issues you normally wouldn't have and it prevents software from doing things that require root privileges (there are a few exceptions).+17
@jwsxyz - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
I stopped caring about the “Linux community” after I realized half of them were furries.+132
@jameskywd - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
This message is incredibly important+3
@razvanfischer - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
One of the best videos from this last batch, really nice persbective Luke :DDD+1
@1toneboy - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
It’s good that there is an organisation fighting to keep the code of your A.I. Girlfriend Free and Opensource+5
@coco-ongelzela - 2025-06-03 11:44:54
Thank you Lenin+3
@sp4yke - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
we need a renaissance of the free software movement that fully embraces p2p trustless payments to offer a complete exit alternative to the current dystopian nightmare we are heading into. Bitcoin did not have a strong enough ideological backbone like GNU did but hand in hand it would become a very powerful liberating technology+6
@dragnosmz - 2025-06-03 11:44:54
5:55 great question, luke :]+3
@jdez2701 - 2025-06-03 11:44:54
3:30 this has been on my mind for a while. Puts into perspective the real reason and goal behind the OGs+1
@bjornsjoberg9889 - 2025-06-03 11:44:54
Love it when people stand up for their beliefs. Even when I agree fully with the points made.+1
@Jurimeimain - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
Unrealistic goals and ideals do provide infinite motivation, but they also runs the risk of being all consuming and demanding progress for the sake of progress. How do you ensure that the momentum stays on the right track and doesn't end up like Enlightenment era liberalism?+11
@b.e.s.i3813 - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
I really hope that Projects like Debian, OpenBSD and Arch get never hijacked. What is happening Politically with Linux is Crazy.+7
@1bird_d - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
it's a permissionless peer to peer cash system first, digital gold second. never forget.+10
@rightwingsafetysquad9872 - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
Bitcoin cannot actually be used as currency. The network is 4 orders of magnitude too slow and the ledger capacity is 5 orders of magnitude too small. Bitcoin's current use is about as good as it ever could have gotten. There are obviously other cryptos that do the currency thing better, but they don't do it better than government fiat for 99% of people. For a sizeable percentage of people they're much worse than government fiat. Just like gold, Bitcoin makes for a decent store of value, but a terrible currency of exchange.+17
@Smrda1312 - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
Yep BTC is pretty much useful to fight against inflation now but that is it. But even that is still pretty good. Shot for the stars ended up in the clouds.+8
@paddyblazer4474 - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
ADA might become what Bitcoin was ment to be. ADA also has a fixed supply (45 billion), however it's not just 21 million that's why ADA will most likely never deflate that hard.+1
@booleangang631 - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
There is a path to being the future reserve currency and unit of account. We are on that path+2
@daleblast5379 - 2025-05-27 11:44:54
Might want to do a little history homework. Hard money starts out as a collectible. Then it becomes a store of value. Then a medium of exchange. And lastly a unit of account. Bitcoin is in the middle inning of a store of value.. We have a long way to go+3
@SS-qk8oc - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
“Unfree human livestock.” This, exactly.+5
@MassiveMuck - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
This is an important part people forget. The government already turned it into a tax nightmare. In USA specifically.+1
@justinian420 - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
@MassiveMuck yeah, as an individual it is impractical to use it, as every transaction becomes a record keeping and computational liability+2
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:44:55
Waddya mean "imagine" bud, what do you think we're getting here+1
@monsterzero9456 - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
cs2 skins > btc+1
@eKoush - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
no, those who are too stupid to understand what makes Bitcoin Bitcoin while still being nerds do that.+1
@1bird_d - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
@eKoush please tell me then what makes bitcoin bitcoin other than node operators verifying the blockchain i'll wait+2
@murcielago007 - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
@monsterzero9456 with that pfp and this comment u look stuck in 2016 so bad+1
@norsbol9110 - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
@monsterzero9456 you are blatantly wrong and it didn’t even make me laugh+1
@upendownlinker - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
People are trying to rebuild linux into an inferior version android for some reason.+8
@arkeynserhayn8370 - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
Wayland and the entire "but how to capture the screen under wayland without the 'security issues' of Xorg and the fact that it has built-in support for screen capture" was to push dbus/XDG needle deeper into linux desktop.+5
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-05-27 11:44:55
this is a truthsupernova, I like playing roblox on flatpak though+3
@iszotope - 2025-06-07 11:44:55
"The average linux user doesn't want to deal with dependency hell." is the main crux of the argument for flatpaks, containerization, etc.+1
@upendownlinker - 2025-06-07 11:44:55
@iszotope I never had to deal with dependency hell.+2
@spaghettiking653 - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
You seem to have completely missed the point with that remark, then.+26
@michaelns9887 - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
Another half is trans+41
@SaHaRaSquad - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
@michaelns9887 Ah yes, who doesn't know Torvalds the furry and Stallman the trans dude.+21
@michaelns9887 - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
@SaHaRaSquad Gnu/Linux Trans/Furry+18
@neonblood4658 - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
you're part of the problem+10
@legeorgelewis3530 - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
Interestingly, they seem to be ushering in a new generation of software thats actually good. 10 furries to 1 RMS is acceptable, since theres plenty of furries, and not a lot of RMS+4
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
well i am part of the linux community and i am "normal" aka not a furry or lgbtq+++10
@blueorb7030 - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
You should care about what the code does for you, not who wrote it.+4
@manfrombritain6816 - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
I think part of the problem may be that people kinda sussed out how to be market disruptors and now... They can't disrupt markets because a host of competitors all pop up at the same time. We can't get a PayPal for crypto because we've got 50 PayPal. Imo being the medium of exchange is more important (being able to translate easily between dollars, tokens, other tokens). XRP?+2
@Cookiekeks - 2025-05-27 11:44:56
I don't think there's ever an end to fighting for freedom and the betterment of society. You're not demanding progress for the sake of progress when you have the right goals, you're doing it because you're passionate.+1
@orlando7448 - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
Code of Conduct types have or will hijack all of it+4
@one_step_sideways - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
Already have been by shape-shifters with broad shoulders and male balding patterns.+3
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
debian and arch have totally already been hijacked+8
@zdvnxk2902 - 2025-06-10 11:44:57
@one_step_sideways it's tragic what is happening with nixos, and will happen with a lot of other distros+1
@UnimportantAcc - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
Btc tx fees are so high it no longer functions as a usable currency+6
@Novanim - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
"You know it's over when Luke Smith and DBDR come back at the same time"+2
@NEVERGOON-e7q - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
One billionaire did a 180 on his views on Bitcoin. That means that Bitcoin is co-opted.+21
@Sychonut - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
Give 'em hell comrade Łukasz.+5
@Doodsgevaar - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
"I'm not here to blackpill you on technology" I hate tech already lmao+8
@Finkelfunk - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
Thank you for the crypto trading advice Luke Dostoevsky.+4
@xephael3485 - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
2nd Amendment community is the same...+24
@the81kid - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
Smartphones were never created with the objective of making people more stupid. But that's what they do. Crypto may not have been invented with their current use as the objective, but that's what the technological system has determined they are for. Technology is basically independent of human interest and objectives. It has its own prerogative. That's what's happened.+22
@Randy-nb6fw - 2025-06-11 11:44:57
me sitting here with my Coreboot Thinkpad with the server mining XMR moneros in the background+2
@maximus6884 - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
The real Luke is back with this. Love this.+1
@GlasbanGorm - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
Luke is out here in his Galt's Gulch, failing to realise... the internet and crypto was made for this reason... This is why people were channelized into tech fields. To make the new weapons for the money printers.+6
@0x8londeau - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
Given enough time, everything that becomes popular gets co-opted. Look at all the Bitcoin OGs simping to govt institutions just to pump their bags. Sad.+7
@iszotope - 2025-06-06 11:44:57
Exactly. Then again, the concept of 100% purity has already been corrupted.+2
@yeboi5478 - 2025-06-03 11:44:57
The good are not necessarily noble, the good fear the noble, for the noble man seeks new virtues whilst the good man clings to the old ones. If people keep pushing something to become the good the good will corrupt it. Forget them and keep looking forward.+2
@Someone-cv6md - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
you described how i feel about bitcoin perfectly !+2
@cathalogrady2331 - 2025-06-03 11:44:57
Were are not fighting for a better a life, but a better world.+2
@Kani8122 - 2025-06-03 11:44:57
Governments need to declare the x86 architecture as public domain, whether Intel and AMD like it or not.+4
@loquek - 2025-06-03 11:44:57
Yea great shout - see what it is good for all of us, and share what you have found. Open Source is amazing, contribute to the awesome for all of us <3+1
@mbahmarijan789 - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
the problem with bitcoin is the deflationary nature and the absence of practical physical use. Almost perfect, dang it. Perhaps there is no perfect system unless the human side is fixed.+5
@bishalnaik2011 - 2025-05-27 11:44:57
🦁 yeah , man it feels good when someone speaks in agonism to your thought+2
@666gene - 2025-06-12 11:44:58
1sat /vB currently+1
@S1mon.N-i4g - 2025-06-16 11:44:58
You can make transition using L-BTC or lightning, the fee are too low and good for payment+1
@JanusTroelsen - 2025-05-27 11:44:58
Larry Fink from Blackrock? Or were you thinking of someone else?+2
@MassiveMuck - 2025-05-27 11:44:58
@JanusTroelsen saylor+1
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:44:58
We still have a good core base in 2A.. We've been winning in recent years too. Things are turning up. The SCOTUS Bruen decision was huge, and still hasn't even fully played out yet.+7
@MassiveMuck - 2025-05-27 11:44:58
Yup, technology is just the tool. We use it the way we want, that's it. Nothing else is "supposed" to happen.+3
@Littletony525 - 2025-06-03 11:44:58
capitalism has its own perogative+1
@the81kid - 2025-06-03 11:44:58
@Littletony525 I've always thought of capitalism as just the specific form the technological system needs at this time. Socialism/communism may be another that it needs at another time. They're all subsets of the technological system.+1
@Littletony525 - 2025-06-03 11:44:58
@the81kid Interesting. For now I think humans ultimatley choose systems and technology definitley effects that choice, might make one system more appealing than the other. I wouldn't take it as far as you though, does that view mean that the progression of humans/society is predetermined? X,y,z technological advancements will result in x,y,z systems+1
@the81kid - 2025-06-03 11:44:58
@Littletony525 Capitalism is the standardization of everything, the trend towards converting more and more objects and concepts into fungible units. That is the technological system. Socialism/communism is more authoritarian in that when there aren't enough natural resources or energy for the standardization to occur automatically, then the system changes to obligatory standardization, forced homogeneity. It's kind of like the cannibalistic phase of the technological system - it starts to deloberately mechanize even the people themselves. That's the general idea I have in mind. I'm sure I'missing things though.+2
@manfrombritain6816 - 2025-05-27 11:44:59
Always goes the same way. Autistic fringe people discover new niches just out of interest and the conquer 80% of the learning. Eventually the suits take notice and realise money can be made, so they move in and more conservatively and with no creativity expand it. They introduce it to the mainstream audience who are milked for money by appealing to the lowest common denominator and everything that was beautiful about the niche is utterly forgotten and ruined. Then the market either stabilises or dies. Meanwhile the nerds have moved on. I watched it happen in real time with video games and especially esports. Once women actively start engaging with the niche you can pretty much assume the suits are soon to follow+8
@eKoush - 2025-05-27 11:44:59
most OGs left the BTC space long before that. The "OGs" who are still there were already a lost cause to begin with.+2
@firstnamelastname4959 - 2025-06-13 11:44:59
How exactly would this solve things? Even if you could design your own x86 CPU the demand for it would probably be non existent so no FAB would want to make it for you.+1
@bishalnaik2011 - 2025-05-27 11:44:59
😭+1
@edhahaz - 2025-05-27 11:44:59
Bitcoin as a history lesson: this speculative store of value started with the intention to be a reliable medium of exchange (electronic cash).+2
@igorgilewicz1549 - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
Hey! Thanks man for this video. very good explanation about what Bitcoin was developing for and what is this now. People dont use it... just collecting and waiting for "price go up". I stole this sentences for explain to my friends.+2
@Rockmonsterdude - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
Amen brother!+3
@BenMordecai - 2025-06-06 11:45:00
This is the homesteader's paradox. It is IMPOSSIBLE to be a complete homesteader who is completely disconnected from the global economy (no plastic, no hoses, no fuel, etc.). Everyone who succeeds homesteading got there by finding some non-scalable niche method to make it economically viable for them to subsidize all the subsistence farming. However, the whole community benefits from the fact there are extremists in the niche who are pushing the limits of what they can take personal custody of. The moderates then adopt the aspects they like which in turn helps create a market that drives money into development in those areas. There have to be some extremists to push what is possible, and some moderates to make it more affordable. Part of getting red pilled is recognizing that the moderates are right about a lot. The "freedom" play in BTC is not having DeFi and digital payments, it is having an offramp from fiat before it blows up to preserve wealth as the currency devalues. That is perfectly compatible with all the "bad actors" in BTC. BTC is too slow and not scalable for groceries, but it never needed to be.+2
@6400ab - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
We hold BTC and XMR because it's literally the only way we can save our money and not get fucked by the current financial system. I have no shame in watching number go up. If Saylor's going to pump my bags then that's fine by me. I took forward to building a new house for .1 BTC. I look forward to leaving my kid an inheritance of generational wealth.+3
@earlparkour9839 - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
Learning Luke's take on the Adeptus Mechanicus or whatever+2
@bear_in_site - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
The end state of open source is Robot Monasteries and fully independent AI automated agriculture + chip farming.+3
@DigitalMetal - 2025-06-03 11:45:00
Completely true. I feel like I'm at the 99.99999%, or at lest 95% Wish I could get to 100%, but the world makes it hard. And so many people just don't care.+1
@teabagninja - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
Here for systemic privacy. So very true.+2
@porky1118 - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
3:40 You forget something. Only the people who really care will keep Bitcoin when it goes down by 80%. Opportunists will be removed and punished from the system. Only long term keepers will benefit. That's the good thing about Bitcoin.+4
@camerbot - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
reading through the comments it seems like luke subs are also now part of that "apathetic crowd"+2
@BillFoster-st4hj - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
Working on core tech in crypto, I totally agree. There are people working mostly for nonprofits, writing FOSS code for these platforms that other people use to make billions under fake cypherpunk narrative+3
@xephael3485 - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
I'd be happy getting to 20% or even 50% at this point+3
@AdamGithyanki - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
I feel like this is honestly just a part of anything becoming more popular. I can say the same thing about video games series that many people say they love because they like newer more mainstreamed editions of it but I feel like they dont even know what the series is because they've never played the old ones. Obviously just much less stakes involved. You can even see this with laws such as the american constitution, and maybe where some precautions have been taken because they know the wider population will not understand/forget.+1
@Vsioul - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
I totally agree. I will put more emphasis on Bitcoin since I'm more involved in blockchain community, and the project I found really desperate and I will abandon it. I don't believe in it anymore. The saylors and normies taking over BTC and they are completely blind about all this issue with this technology.+1
@ThatOtherFella - 2025-06-03 11:45:00
There are still projects out there like Ergo that keep the core principals+1
@blitzkrieg2928 - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
I initially thought he wasn.t wearing a shirt+7
@revolution_zakaria - 2025-06-03 11:45:00
We hope that the least common denominator is still higher than other areas, they still don't even have vivid communities like Linux and OSS do.+1
@うみねこ-h8t - 2025-06-07 11:45:00
I remember my steam friend saying to me that the number one reason why America will not succeed is because of the culture where correcting bad behavior is seen as vice in itself. “The worst vice is an advice” until nothing of value could ever be recommended, but disregard for any improvement is seen as virtue because of cynicism it has to it+1
@MatthewVuk0 - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
Luke you should really return to Bitcoin dev community. The underground cypherpunk culture does live on if you know where to look. Your contributions could have a big impact and you would be welcome+3
@daleblast5379 - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
Collectible, store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account. Correct?+1
@rightwingsafetysquad9872 - 2025-05-27 11:45:00
Unfortunately, Bitcoin cannot actually be used as currency. The network is 4 orders of magnitude too slow and the ledger capacity is 5 orders of magnitude too small. Bitcoin's current use is about as good as it ever could have gotten. There are obviously other cryptos that do the currency thing better, but they don't do it better than government fiat for 99% of people. For a sizeable percentage of people they're much worse than government fiat. Just like gold, Bitcoin makes for a decent store of value, but a terrible currency of exchange.+2
@eKoush - 2025-06-03 11:45:00
BTC is not "the only way you can save money". shut up. now.+2
@Cookiekeks - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
That has nothing to do with open source?+2
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
Offended all these people would think my chest is so hairless+8
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:45:01
Lukehexenhammer666+1
@eKoush - 2025-06-03 11:45:01
it does not live on in the BTC community. The Bitcoin community you are referring to has either left completely or is working on other projects that are not coopted broken shit like BTC. Claiming to be "the most muh decentralized" doesn't make it so.+1
@MatthewVuk0 - 2025-06-03 11:45:01
@eKoush you are wrong. There are bitcoin developers advocating for it to be used for payments+1
@CrittingOut - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
Linux, Bitcoin, both projects demolished from the inside. Hopefully people in the Monero community have seen this and know better.+2
@chell6022 - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
God bless you.+2
@LaCasa-v2k - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
I’m not quite sure I get your point. Are you saying it’s bad for something like Linux to gain more users simply because they might not adhere to every aspect of its ideological purity? Framing it as “dropping to the lowest common denominator,” similar to what happened with Bitcoin, sounds like gatekeeping. The “dedicated core” group you mentioned that are pushing for “unrealistic goals” and advocating for purity will still exist right? They’ll just be a smaller part of a larger communit y and a bigger community means more people contributing feedback, reporting bugs, and potentially becoming deeply invested, even joining that core. I think this would strengthen development rather than hinder it. I think insisting on ideological purity over growth is like demanding that every visitor to a public library should only read the books that you approve, instead of celebrating that they read at all.+5
@AlChezAl - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
I am guilty of this, creating my own Larbubuntu a Frankendistro of LARBS and Ubuntu. But the return of Luke made me rethink the beauty of sucklessness. If US society/consumerism were a linux distro, it wouldn't be suckless. We live in a feature creep world of technology we never asked for with the stock market "program" taking up all of our computer's resources. So if Linux and Bitcoin would be good suckless "programs" they however are not fully compatible with our US distro and we use ported versions with tacked on features/compromises. You can't run the cryptocurrency program with the primary feature as an exchange of value while there is a conflicting paper/printable currency program which does the same function (like X vs Wayland or vim vs neovim). Communism would be another distro but that in itself is even more feature bloated. Maybe a suckless version of local crypto and Linux which represents the ideals of its original creators would do well in the Bruderhof commune or a group of techno-savvy Amish people like Mr. Smith.+2
@TheRogueVigilante - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
the biggest problem with projects like linux and bitcoin is when you try to explain it to someone else, in the pure way as why it's good in the first place, they start looking at practical benefits like is it better than windoze, like bro thats not even half the point of it, the biggest reason you should switch is for freedom but again i guess practicality really kills the chase for perfection, and i really hate people who try to put it like, bruh u are trying to get too close the sun, as in if both freedom and flying close to the sun is related 😂+6
@zil6470 - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
It would be great to have a discussion with Richard Wolff+3
@qqqqvvvv7 - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
I feel like there must be some sort of selectivity when it comes to gatekeeping "normies" from a certain community. Completely blocking every single person from access to projects isn't a good idea, and completely allowing in every single person is still not a good idea either. There's got to be a wise balance between the two.+2
@anukranan - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
I am a free software extreme extremist. Entropy should not be tolerated, and people always cope about it being just fine! They should only look out the window to see the results of that.+2
@k98killer - 2025-06-11 11:45:01
"Don't let the good be the enemy of perfect" is something only someone who was not raised as a perfectionist would say. If you actually lived that saying, you would know it is a recipe for disaster and misery.+1
@blipojones2114 - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
"They are going to be taken over by apethetic interests".....well...projects, religions, ideologies are born, live and eventually die as all things do. The core eventually crumbles. The form corrupts. All we can hope that whatever it was moved us an inch closer to something "better" while it lived - either something the project tangibly achieved or just simply its existence having shifted the minds of many for the better. Or as you refer to "the lowest common denominator"...it hopefully become...slightly... less low as as projects succeed in its place.+1
@TheSchoolofJ - 2025-06-04 11:45:01
4:33 Phantom touch+2
@M3LTUP - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
BTC can not do p2p. It can not scale. It has no privacy. It is vulnerable to quantum. The mining pool is 100% captured by big players. Those are the issues that need to be addressed.+2
@zoddi666 - 2025-06-03 11:45:01
Still wandering in the same forest since winter+1
@uncannoid - 2025-06-03 11:45:01
So true king+1
@mamapunana - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
Bitcoin has nothing to do with the price of the tokens, or replacing financial systems, tokens just account for access to timestamp anything on the ledger. The ledger isn’t actually being used. why? that’s the big question.+3
@JK-dx7ex - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
XMR is what BTC was supposed to be.+3
@j03y__ - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
Does anyone else think that Luke batched all these videos and had a script in place to upload when certain criteria were met. With one of the criteria being the bitcoin price+2
@HollyTroll - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
damn, it may be a little late, but i would love to see you in the Barcelona Cyphers Conference happening in a couple of weeks+1
@M3talr3x - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
Unless you build a time machine and go back to 2003 it's just old man yelling at cloud.+1
@Ryan-xq3kl - 2025-05-27 11:45:01
Ideology is only half of the work. The Linux community needs to take care of eachother and itself (ill believe it when I see it). And smart people need to execute instead of reveling in humbleness and theoretical philosophy.+2
@Cookiekeks - 2025-05-27 11:45:02
No, the point is that ideological purists have been correct from the start, as without them, we wouldn't have FOSS to enjoy. New Linux users should come for the right reasons, appreciate and spread the values of free software.+6
@LaCasa-v2k - 2025-05-27 11:45:02
I think that is precisely what I am criticizing also! The parallel with the library is immediately applicable to your point: "You shouldn't use Linux if you don’t share our core values, because modern Linux wouldn't exist without them." By the same logic, it would be "You shouldn't go to the library if you don’t read these literary classics, because the library's very foundation and purpose were built upon preserving and celebrating them." I don’t like that kind of thinking because I think it sounds an awful lot like gatekeeping and may lead to stagnation, but I do understand where the protective feeling comes from.+3
@Sovaltair - 2025-05-27 11:45:02
@LaCasa-v2kThe way I see it is not about requirements for classical literature or whichever genre you must agree with. It's concerning the entire point of a Library: Why have a Library where you can freely borrow books to read, consult, share and even contribute? Why not close all books and require a fee to view by exclusivity like University or Medicine papers? The crux of the issue is that people come into the library but either not know why it was made this way in the first place or seek to use the books but never bring them back (think like converting free licenses into non-free ones) or close the place down for their own use. Those who promoted the idea of an Open and Free "Library" back then are still needed now and likewise in the future, but human livespan is limited so those who inherit the "reason" must pass it down as a form of basic duty/due diligence. Edit: Because it is what allows the Library to exist to begin with.+2
@Cookiekeks - 2025-05-27 11:45:02
This mindset of "what can I get out of this" versus "how does this make society better" really seems to be the crux of the issue.+4
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-27 11:45:02
not me, computer is my special interest and windows is shit , so i use Linux cause it better than windows not cause it is free software , but i like open source... but if i have to use a proprietary software i do not care if it good personally , like i play games for exemple+1
@anukranan - 2025-05-27 11:45:02
@xgui4-studio When I commit the negative action of using proprietary software, I have broken my vows, and then purify the negative causes of doing that.+1
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-27 11:45:02
@anukranan you have the right to do that but personally i am not a "extremist" i am centrist+1
@anukranan - 2025-05-27 11:45:02
@xgui4-studio I am extremely extremely extreme and you don't have the right to not be extremely extremely extreme akshually+2
@eKoush - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
It was being used right until it cost 20cents per use in good times and 50$ per use with a slight increase in demand. Here's your answer.+3
@mamapunana - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
@eKoush but why ?+1
@blackpiller3777 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
Unprofitable to mining?+2
@JK-dx7ex - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
@blackpiller3777 correct+2
@raidentheconsultant9838 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
Commenting for algo bump, for tech freedom.+2
@1Bagoly1 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
I bought monero from some guy in a cafe face to face, no kyc. That's how it should be.+2
@lucaspeixoto5770 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
Enquanto o poder computacional permanecer alto e crescente, o bitcoin é negócio. Enquanto for negócio, eu tô ganhando dinheiro. Enquanto isso tudo for verdade, o “verdadeiro” significado da tecnologia está sendo subvertido. Acho que o segredo é ser pragmático, haverá mais chance em ser feliz dessa forma. O mundo é o que é e quando chegamos nele ele já está posto, cabe a nós nos adaptarmos ou não.+1
@rudiger2744 - 2025-06-17 07:45:03
They point of crypto is not that its free and decentraliced. The whole point is its actual money which cant be inflated. Its like a new gold standard. Its not about tech its about not being able to fuck with it like banks do with the USD+1
@justhodl6562 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
You can say that about people hoarding gold, idk why it is a problem. It readjust itself, when people take profits.+1
@Alexbl100 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
A lot of the open source foundations have turned ideological themselves and have started pushing corpo dei ideology. Even linus himself decided it's a good idea to comply with ofac sanctions and ban russian devs from contributing... so it's not as open as you might think+3
@Drakoo-ajw - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
It’s true these systems will be co-opted. But that’s not a reason to not be involved in that particular system if it has personal benefit to you. I’d rather be benefited even if slightly than to hold to idealism on the sidelines without benefit.+1
@Blackwingsss - 2025-06-03 11:45:03
Why would I advocate for anything good? It always gets taken over when it gets popular.+1
@cathalogrady2331 - 2025-06-03 11:45:03
I think most people you try to convince of these things will not get it so sometimes it feels futile to try+1
@catbomber24 - 2025-06-03 11:45:03
Im still gonna buy as much as possible but this prompted me to research an exit point. Your narrative might be what fuels a major bear market after this institutional FOMO driven price explosion. But eventually I think the community can save it+2
@salvatoreshiggerino6810 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
I don't think we're in Florida anymore+2
@crawfordscott3d - 2025-06-15 11:45:03
Pure goal... I think you can find satoshi posts where they predict crazy valuations after adoption+1
@0ne87 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
I just remebered that i gave you lite coin via email somewhere around 10 years ago😂+2
@balarab1 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
I think you don't get the economic solution that is bitcoin, people can't imagine how living in a sound money world would change everything! As long as we can make sure the base money layer is solid we can build privacy and salability layers on top of it.+3
@justsomeguy999 - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
In regards to Bitcoin, people are actively working on stuff like Chaumian e-cash (Cashu, maybe Ark if it ever works as advertised) for real privacy gains. OCEAN/DATUM were recently created to fight mining pool centralization. The lightning network itself is a huge step towards scaling bitcoin and improving privacy. Etc., etc. So I don't think the core of people who still care about the original cypherpunk ideals is quite as small as you're making it out to be. I agree, not everyone is going to manage their own channels, so currently normies will opt for KYC alternatives, but work is being done behind the scenes to combat that. Maybe you should start by running your own lightning node and setting up a donation link to set an example ;) I guess I just refuse to be blackpilled on the matter. Which is an outlook that I adopted from you a few years ago ("Pessimism is literally for losers."). I prefer staying cheerful and constructive.+5
@perz1val - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
I've opened this video in new tab to watch later, paused just after hearing "I'm not here" and it reminded me of Patrick Bateman saying "I simply, am not, there"+1
@edplat2367 - 2025-06-12 11:45:03
Normies dont want to advocate for your open source projects because they aren't always as polished or feature rich as proprietary software. The only thing I try and force on people is signal because it's as close as possible to something like whatsapp.+1
@MM-op6ti - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
the people with principles who went all-in on monero are poor tho+5
@ibeezhashin - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
Need community before you can reinvent the medium of exchange but that is the right idea+1
@wrongthinkoz - 2025-05-27 11:45:03
Bitcoin is a bit different. Adoption is required for money. The big institutions are always going to front-run the peasants. The hope is that the honesty and rules of Bitcoin will end up enforcing itself on the system.+1
@firstnamelastname4959 - 2025-06-13 11:45:04
Open source's biggest problem, which may eventually lead to its downfall, is that the people involved place ideology above all else which leaves projects vulnerable to the whimsical nature of whatever cultural issue is currently at the forefront.+2
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-05-27 11:45:04
It's 15 years old and you still can't buy a coffee with fees less than $25.+15
@Pepxico-y7d - 2025-05-27 11:45:04
wake up man+1
@paulrozy - 2025-05-27 11:45:04
@LukeSmithxyz People will rather hoard hard money and use soft. Also I just checked and it's 3 cents to get into the next block.+2
@1bird_d - 2025-05-27 11:45:04
at some point there need to be bitcoin solutions that make it easier to use than it was in 2009, which is what lightning is clearly for. you want it to be able to transact without forcing node operators to hold 15tb storage solutions around the world. bitcoin is the shining light on the world of shadows. stay optimistic and use the blackpills as fuels for conviction. not trying to be corny but it's that serious.+4
@justsomeguy999 - 2025-05-27 11:45:04
@1bird_d 100% agree, and I'm optimistic we can get there. But to Luke's point, we need to stay vigilant, protect the main chain from bloat, and make onboarding normies as frictionless as possible.+1
@QTwoSix - 2025-05-27 11:45:04
>Trusting digital money+1
@justsomeguy999 - 2025-05-27 11:45:04
@QTwoSix The fact that it's trustless is kinda the point. You should look into it :^)+1
@p4trickb4tem4n - 2025-05-27 11:45:04
where is the subscribe button so i can read more of your blogposts+1
@UnKnownv5 - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
how do you crate "fully independent" whatever when government already legislated against it? bitcoin has been institutionaly captured couple years ago, now it's for people who already have it, banks and governments.+4
@ShubhamBhushanCC - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
This is why I support RMS. He's a true saint+8
@shaurz - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
If it wasn't for Guh-noo slash Linux we might have had some decent commercial Unix OSes still around+1
@Ovahls - 2025-06-07 11:45:05
“What year are we even in? I don't know” —but “we've had this technology for so long”...?? nga prolly think think we in the singularity+1
@PinballCollection - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
Luke, I've recently switched to daily driving Linux since Windows 10 is cutting support in October. Really enjoying your old dwm series. I'm curious if you've updated your workflow in the last couple years.+1
@MrPyro91 - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
back to farming youtube ad revenue for more land+14
@Evan-vj2li - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
I didnt buy bitcoin the first 20 times you guys told me can you tank the price one more time please I promise I’ll buy this time ❤+10
@ripsirwin1 - 2025-06-03 11:45:05
The only thing people have ever cared about when it came to bitcoin was the price in USD. It's always been a joke. Been saying it since 2009.+1
@anonanon7822 - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
OG bitcoin guys are BCH now. Also, ironically “line goes up” thing is a co product of having limited supply of BTC. Deflationary currency? Sheesh, what could possibly go wrong, nothing happened in japan in 90s-2000s. Answering oblivious “but when the gold was money inflation didn’t exist and everyone was happy!!!111” - no, it did exist in gold era as well, more gold getting mined, the case of spanish empire, etc, gold(and other commodities) supply wasn’t fixed by some variable in code+1
@xToTaLBoReDoMx - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
GNU guix is the future+3
@suepaphly9636 - 2025-06-12 11:45:05
Luke Smith reveals he's a BCH fan.+1
@k98killer - 2025-06-11 11:45:05
The influence of Michael Saylor won't much matter. This is just game theory playing out.+1
@braddpittler - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
This was filmed in a forest a few miles from Lincoln, Montana. FC+4
@catpower9144 - 2025-06-03 11:45:05
The idea of Bitcoin is useless without mass adoption. The average person wants to easily and simply pay for a can of milk at the store. He frankly doesn't care whether the government sees his expenses or not. Without Saylor and the institutions, few would have heard about Bitcoin, much less been interested. Any effective technology will always attract large capital and capital will always dictate its own, but without capital, the technology will remain in the garage of enthusiasts. I don't think that Bitcoin developers are sad that their brainchild is striving for 3 trillion in capitalization. This means that they have already achieved great success. Soon Bitcoin will come to every home and everyone will probably think about how and for whom it works. Perhaps they will even open an economics textbook and start studying finance.+1
@doublesushi5990 - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
good video, too bad haters will comment and make fun of this dude for being bald(nothing wrong with being bald), tell him to trim his beard, and or just insult in other ways due to their inablity to understand ABSTRACT ideas.+1
@zach446 - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
Normies find a way to ruin everything+3
@duser - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
For this to be possible, we need to have a dictatorial leadership body and a zealous user base.+1
@moemixlol301 - 2025-06-03 11:45:05
Ethereum has cared about the core principles of blockchain+1
@AdamEgret - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
Forget about Bitcoin. Trump and Melania coins are the future.+2
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
Nothing new about this. I went into the main BTC channel on the EFNET IRC server back in 2012 and talked to them about cryptography and none of them knew anything about it at all. Well I didn't buy Bitcoin in 2012 and a lot of those people did. I may know something about cryptography but they're all millionaires. You don't have to have good intentions or knowledge to get rich on holding a chase asset. Whatever BTC was intended to be is now irrelevant. Although I could tell you what it is, but you wouldn't believe me if I did. So I won't.+4
@hashtable3212 - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
you ignore the government+1
@UnKnownv5 - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
cute. any serious answers?+3
@hashtable3212 - 2025-06-03 11:45:05
@UnKnownv5 it is pathetic that you want the approval of the gang you are fighting against+1
@UnKnownv5 - 2025-06-03 11:45:05
what's pathetic are your reading comprehension and deluded notion that if you ignore something it will ignore you.+1
@hashtable3212 - 2025-06-03 11:45:05
@UnKnownv5 It won't ignore you but you have the upper hand+1
@stigcc - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
OK, Ted😂+3
@notuxnobux - 2025-05-27 11:45:05
You glow in the dark+2
@Mike-lu1pt - 2025-06-03 11:45:05
Say more. Was it created by China?+1
@eustacemcgoodboy9702 - 2025-06-03 11:45:05
@Mike-lu1pt China doesn't innovate. Who innovates? Who created TOR? Let's logic our way through this.+1
@clebersongs - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
I my god Luke, excited for your video about using AI the RIGHT way+1
@AngelLoredo53 - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
Why does it seem that after all these years, we converge to thinking about the same things? I think everyone here part of the community went through similar thoughts+1
@oredaze - 2025-06-03 11:45:06
I hear you, but I don't think it's a realistic goal, not when a lot of people are involved. It's just the nature of things. When enough people get involved, it turns into shit. You see it with every single good thing that has ever existed.+1
@theelodgeovkeku - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
from Tolstoi to Balkan Wars high score champion+1
@DevanandPA-vq1yj - 2025-06-06 11:45:06
If you were to create an institution to be free of the government today, you will require a license from the government.+1
@vodilapro6306 - 2025-06-03 11:45:06
Биткоин финансовый шедевр и защита от нищеты, биткоин никуда не отходил,это нейтральная валюта.+1
@jamesfrederick2044 - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
I've wondered how many billions were made on the back of just rsync or samba.+2
@CigEconomy - 2025-06-03 11:45:06
I've come to accept that we are always going to fight for scraps when it comes to these things unless someone like Elon (a better version) comes along and forces it through. Being a libertarian poisoned my view of these things. I am no longer a libertarian so I know that these idealistic outcomes are not "inevitable" anymore. If anything I suspect that Monero will eventually be banned by all major governments.+1
@gustavguest - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
luke spitting fr+1
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
"I'm not here to name names.... Anyway, his name is ---- " lol.+2
@desktorp - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
This point is much of what I run in to when denouncing Red Hat, systemd, Wayland, etc among flamboyant, ideologically unserious Linux users like the Brodie Robertson types. They regurgitate all of the corporate lingo without any critical thought and advocate for a Linux that is less free than where we started and becomes less free each year. I have found that the old Gratis vs Libre slogan, "Free as in Freedom vs Free as in Free Beer" is lacking a third factor. What we are being sold by the Linux corporate overlords might still qualify as Gratis and Libre "Free" in a technical sense of legalese, but that "Freedom" is becoming illusory. The facsimile of software freedom is not true freedom. Yes, corporations provide most of the funding/work that keeps the machine moving, but in doing so, they seize control of the machine's direction. As the machine becomes a juggernaut, its earliest designers are seen by its new drivers as a trivial obstacle that can be driven over and left behind.+6
@remsee1608 - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
Windows is so bad they put ads and propaganda in the start menu+3
@SS-qk8oc - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
These vids are actually oracular af.+1
@poisonouspotato1 - 2025-06-16 11:45:06
20% schizo 80% conviction+1
@balarab1 - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
Believe me bitcoin maxis won't let normies take over, they tried over and over again but as long as we run our nodes and have alternative to bitcoin core (knots) we are good. As long as you secure the base money layer, cash and privacy layers will go in top of it. And there are solutions to every problem caused by normies has a solution we only wait for the mass adoption then we can implement these solutions.+6
@MinionsAndChill - 2025-06-03 11:45:06
Drinking a soda pop watching this Luke do something about it+1
@shykageTV - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
I’m almost 100% sure this rant was triggered by PewDiePie’s video on Linux+6
@orlando7448 - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
Grifts all the way down. Very few people have the honesty and integrity to be pure.+1
@paddyblazer4474 - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
Opinion on ADA by Cardano? It's besides Bitcoin my favourite crypto, because just like Bitcoin it has a fixed total ammount (Bitcoin 21 million, ADA 45 billion).+2
@gracefool - 2025-06-03 11:45:06
What you're describing is about the inherent limitations of libertarian ideals. They only work insofar as people are actually committed to them - everyone else will just take advantage in a parasitical fashion. Jesus said it far simpler: "don't throw your pearls before swine".+1
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
Bitcoin maxis are normies.+23
@1bird_d - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
@LukeSmithxyz who isn't a normgroid these days?+1
@eKoush - 2025-05-27 11:45:06
ah shut up, you are the normie and you already broke it, 2020 maxi trash.+2
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:45:07
its a scam+2
@SvenSchusterx12x - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
In Germany it’s illegal to buy anonymous crypto currency. 🤡👹🤡👹+3
@ClintLeetwood - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
Soviet philosopher advocates for Leninx.+1
@Yotrymp - 2025-06-10 11:45:08
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. But, it would take longer to figure that out than just say a solution that would fix multiple problems: what you need is some kinds of guilds or nonprofits dedicated to the "true" meanings of bitcoin, linux, open source, etc. Maybe these already exist. But, even those fail if they do not carry a more fundamental ideology that can guide everything else in society. As long as the underlying ideologies are weak (because they're unclear, too liberal, or otherwise poisoned by evil), everything fails much quicker. It's over, and nothing ever happens.+1
@mam_kanal_na--Rumble_i_Odysee - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
Fedora Silverblue, Secureblue, Monero, GrapheneOS, Simplex+1
@SirCatWaffel - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
ty for what u do+1
@tigitouchdown - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
the degredation of the crypto community haunts me daily. i try not to let it get to me, but the entire space being occupied by the wall street bigwigs we were meant to disrupt and every new product being a more efficient way for 15 year olds to invest in fartcoin kinda makes me feel like a waste lol. i've always felt like a large part of the linux userbase would be perfectly happy with macos, and atp their voice is starting to be the loudest. let's hold on to hope, i suppose+2
@Yeck0611 - 2025-06-03 11:45:08
Word of advice. Everyone watch out if his attitude changes slightly after each upload. That means glowies got him and they’re posting deepfakes of him.+1
@Gaaaarf - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
lol I got a Gemini mid-roll ad+1
@Ep2d957 - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
Looks like average Belarusian Pine forest, maybe Luke moved there.+1
@sarundayo - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
Got a feeling once Linus Torvalds passes away, things will change for the worse 😢+1
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
As long as you have a google acct.. and a browser.. You have no privacy. lol+2
@حيدرهاديعبدالغني - 2025-06-03 11:45:08
i do agree+1
@c13laser - 2025-06-10 11:45:08
Did you make this video because Pewdiepie made a video on linux? Haha im jk. But i agree with every point you make. I knew about btc back in 2012ish but never got involved because back then it was associated with silk road. I have some relatives who are very well connected and essentially met some extremely rich dudes (in the realm of $100+ mil worth). And guess what? They fucking love bitcoin. And guess why? Because it allowed for money laundering, tax evasion, 'harder to trace' transfers, etc. The funniest part is how they spewed all the 'tech' aspects as the benefits. Ledger, smart contracts, etc. But when i talked to them about some details (not very indepth, im not a cryptographer, more just about stuff like gas prices, hashing and nodes, basic stuff about mining) they had absolutely no idea what i was talking about. However, their rizz was so W aura they basically convinced all the other rich people to invest. And guess what? It worked. Saudi oil heirs, angel investors, venture capitalists. They all bought in. Because guess what. They dont give a fuck about that shit. They just want MONEY!!! They dont give a shit about literally anything else And now every rich person has bitcoin. Its this seemingly innocuous process of rich person networking with rich person that causes the price to go up to astronomical levels. And regular people getting in too. Anyways, now its too late. Rich people ruin everything to see their bank accounts get bigger and bigger. But now the question is, do you have a pessimistic or optimistic view of the future? Pessimism has always been to sound smart, but optimism makes money. I realized that its better to just go with the flow and play the meta. I used to care about tech and principles. But then i realized its rich people praying on poor people who take pride in essentially these morals that objectively would make life better for everybody, but in reality cant be implemented because of greedy bastards+1
@kodekata - 2025-06-11 11:45:08
Dystopian Coruscant critiqued by wise Ewok of Endor+1
@Skater-y3l - 2025-06-13 11:45:08
Yeah, we definitely need open source hardware. God knows what code they're running in proprietary firmware. Not sure how corporations even feel safe running un-seeable code. "Oh yeah, I totally trust this app from this random dude who won't show me his source code. I have no idea what it will run when I open it & there's no way to find out without spending obscene amounts of time & money on reverse engineering it!" Open source is bare minimum for a secure malware-free future. Obviously, open source doesn't mean safe, but the fact that people can read the code makes me sleep better at night.+1
@schristoph92 - 2025-06-03 11:45:08
Urbit is still plugging along.+1
@_idiot - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
This must have been recorded before the OP_RETURN Bitcoin drama, but timed well! ☦+1
@youtuberobbedmeofmyname - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
Problem with BTC is it became the S&P500. Everyone saw people getting rich from buying below $1000 so they want to "make it" too. Everybody cant make it.+4
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
I T ' S O V E R I T ' S O V E R+4
@James-f4k9m - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
6:10 reminds me of the fallout from that recent Coinbase thing where the callcenter staff was bribed to hand over massively personal information to crooks (account and government ID copies of people who have millions of dollars in the system for instance. KYC information I'm sure). In the Git world, this also reminds me of Microsoft acquiring Github. Nice decentralized system you got there, luser. Be a shame if someone, embraced and extended it. "Richard Stallman doesn't identify himself to connect to the internet, Imperials. Can you say the same? 😤"+1
@hashtable3212 - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
how can they even enforce that+3
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
Real issue is everyone is focused on "making it" to the detriment of the actual original purpose of the project.+14
@CG-uy6nk - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
@LukeSmithxyz if you take a population globally, you will always have a majority of mindless followers, and a core of builders who change the world, this hasn't changed just because bitcoin is becoming a thing, have a look at the bitcoin mailing list and compare it to youtube. same for everything. however I would argue that those who disregard bitcoin as a project and only care about wealth nowadays will ironically make it and still be the minority. apparently it's becoming some kind of political purpose to create a better world.+4
@jamesevans2507 - 2025-05-27 11:45:08
@LukeSmithxyz It failed in its original purpose of being P2P cash because of impossible transaction fees and durations. Rebranding to digital gold that can't be seized or debased is at least still something.+7
@szneka12 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
Principles Above "Progress".+1
@neonblood4658 - 2025-06-03 11:45:09
as george hotz says, "build tech that is inextricable from its narrative" bitcoin failed+1
@olit1234 - 2025-06-13 11:45:09
Watching what's happened to crypto over the past decade has made me a misanthrope lol+1
@98230983290 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
That's why the real linux nerds are now BSD nerds+13
@MrAngelmiguee - 2025-06-03 11:45:09
What do you think about the CBDC Luke?+1
@iamavolk - 2025-06-03 11:45:09
2:40 the premise isn't true, or at least highly debatable. There was an unclaimed niche. There's a lot of evidence in the scientific literature about this type of convergence with respect to technological paradigms.+1
@gbell9119 - 2025-06-03 11:45:09
me? I'm just a normal user. I'm just a normal Linux power-user. I'm just a alien braincel among mentally enslaved cretins.+1
@hexisXz - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
Where are the good old Linux videos on your laptop?+2
@stacksmasherninja7266 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
Based+1
@SurrogateActivities - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
gonna namedrop wownero again? i miss the april 2021 pump+5
@АндрійДегтярьов-с8т - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
smartphone software market is already lost.+2
@MaximumWeeb2 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
Valve literally just officially released SteamOS which is Linux and it’s taking a sledgehammer to Windows. None of this would’ve happened were it not for Free Software. Cryptocurrency but especially Urbit is the final frontier of this.+2
@presidentmorsi4677 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
sam hyde had a pretty good btc take recently+1
@Aqu4-m4n - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
greater adoption means more development+1
@ebukaajagu7417 - 2025-06-15 11:45:09
They some wanna listen !!!+1
@ariathyf144 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
How many peoples remember the 4 fundamentals Freedoms of FOSS today. How many remember those 4 Freedoms 10years ago? How many will remember them in 5years from now..+1
@PabloGonzalez-uc3lu - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
i love you luke+1
@georgesamaras2922 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
It's worse. BTC has been mingled with VC crap, stablecoins, and bag holding treasuries for bankrupt goverments.+1
@sylvanfranklin - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
What's to be done Luke? The creep of cooperate power and the undermining of the free is so slow, consistent, and omnipresent it almost feels hopeless. I'm not as based as you yet but I wanna spread the FOSS wisdom for my generation.+2
@milkman6218 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
Snowy woods in one vid naked trees in the next now fully spring.+1
@georgeunknown2833 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
BSD is not BTC+1
@lucapepel5851 - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
Based pfp+3
@TheTastyPancake - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
Fr I can't tell if he's shilling or genuine+2
@Cookiekeks - 2025-05-27 11:45:09
Socialism is the answer. We will not defeat corporate enshittification for as long as there is a ruling class with interests contrary to ours. Under Socialism, there'd be no incentive to produce closed source software. Work would be done for the betterment of all, just like it is today in the FOSS world, and not for profits above all else.+3
@4.0.4 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Monero is what normies think Bitcoin is.+2
@miojao-r7r - 2025-06-03 11:45:10
Luke, as much as I think free software as an ideology is 100% correct, ethical and moral, and that the GNU project is important, it is delusional to believe that the reason we have usable free software today is because of FSF or GNU. Free software at its core, is socialism applied to software, but we live in capitalism, and the only thing that matters is profit. The reason linux got good is because of market forces. Companies realized that using free software meant more profit. One reason for that is the low barrier to entry that software development has. Compare that to hardware manufacturing. Market is completely dominated by corporate giants with trade secrets and machinery worth of billions, that can't be overcome by any well intentioned individual or group of individuals. I would like to be proven wrong on this. Time will tell. As a side note, you really should start doing serious programming (read program in C). You will like it.+1
@wilville3752 - 2025-06-03 11:45:10
Bit coin still had weird libertarian free market shit as its philosophical building blocks+1
@ronwalker3726 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Caring cadres- Cadres who care- just thinking of punk rock band names-+1
@standytail - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
🔥🔥🔥🔥+1
@thebig3dErgo - 2025-06-03 11:45:10
Ergo 🚀🚀+1
@amidfallen - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
"all transactions are public..." so what? You can still buy/sell P2P bitcoin, so no KYC BS attached. Then it is irrelevant that blockchain is not encrypted. "It takes 50$ to send something" what? You can modify the transaction fees, it could be really cheap or you can use Ligthning network layer to send fast and cheap transaction.+1
@derekstevens164 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Great video!+1
@himanshushukla6451 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Is it 2020 again?+2
@barjaktar - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
professor Luke+1
@ThazzaKnoife - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Hey you mentioned this in a recent video about how the use of null hypothesis was awful - could you make a video going into further depth about that?+1
@a012345 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Crypto is simply a gambling coin right now, nothing more. A way to rug pull people dreaming for a winning lottery ticket.+2
@detboi2287 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
daddy luke is back?+1
@spartan1o5 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
goat+1
@monyetswa635 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Logical conclusion. Logical conclusion. OMG Logical conclusion why does everyone keep saying this? Where did it come from? Taleb?+1
@soopernong - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Tell us why you made a new website, please.+1
@rootkitlabs - 2025-06-03 11:45:10
FreeBSD incoming in 3... 2... 1...+1
@cameronmoore136 - 2025-06-13 11:45:10
Me too, bud.+1
@FluXxxie - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
uuuuuuuuuuuu LUKE BEAPISHHHHHHH ANY PROJECTIONSsssssSSSS?+1
@vigaca1 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
11:32 spectre meltdown+1
@justsomeguy999 - 2025-05-27 11:45:10
Check out his podcast episode: "The Flaws of Academic Statistics: the Null Ritual"+1
@pavlovsky0 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
Luke. Have you read the fountainhead by ayn Rand ? Are you Howard Roark+1
@cultist7931 - 2025-06-03 11:45:11
FAX+1
@arkbooi - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
I thought you said pessimism is literally for losers, what are your thoughts on that now?+1
@mitaskeledzija6269 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
i need a job so would be cool to make an actual DAO system which works..+1
@alexxx4434 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
Happens to anything that gets popular, espicially suddenly — it gets diluted!+2
@tf2368 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
Bro aged 50 years in 2 years+1
@yepsan95 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
Do you think quantum computers will someday be able to break bitcoin encryption?+1
@baba_kebaba - 2025-06-14 11:45:11
how do you think developers are gonna be paid? pretty much all open source already devs get paid nothing (duh obviously)+1
@odelly21 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
Pulsechain Richard Heart still cares about the original map of btc so he warped those into his community hex & pulsechain+1
@epix4300 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
Luke can you sell your LindyPress books as epubs?+1
@martinlutherkingjr.5582 - 2025-06-03 11:45:11
Since 2021 the average IQ of Bitcoiners has dropped precipitously. IMO the problem with Saylor isn’t what he does say, but what he doesn’t say and the fact that Coinbase holds his coins. Bitcoin needs trad-fi sheep but that doesn’t mean values should be forgotten.+3
@Krazy0 - 2025-06-03 11:45:11
nah just profit over it and enjoy life+1
@PASTRAMIKick - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
Sam Hyde fans will be conflicted+1
@baumstamp5989 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
yes+1
@washed_dev - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
for the memes: This video is a critique of how once-ideologically driven tech projects (e.g., Bitcoin, GNU/Linux) tend to be diluted over time by mainstream adoption and apathetic users. The speaker argues that: • Technologies with radical, liberatory goals (like free software and decentralized finance) are often co-opted or watered down. • Bitcoin, originally about peer-to-peer financial freedom, has been reduced to a speculative asset focused on price appreciation (“line go up”). • Linux is used by many who don’t care about the ethical roots in free software or privacy, leading to a decline in ideological rigor. • Purity and advocacy are necessary to preserve the original goals of these movements. Without a committed core pushing for the full vision (e.g., free hardware, privacy-first systems), the tech loses its meaning. • The problem isn’t just corporate takeover, but the passivity of users who no longer push for systemic change. • The speaker urges viewers to demand more from the tech they use—even if perfection is unreachable—to prevent these ideals from fading.+2
@Snarkssnake1107 - 2025-06-03 11:45:11
This the same dude who has tge monero store?+1
@Trooperos90 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
GNU and unix was opensourced not because they were it knights. It because they couldnt sell it. Howd u respond to that beetch?+1
@mst153 - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
So non-modern that you dont know what year it is - based.+1
@tjex - 2025-06-07 11:45:11
Girls / women too? Or are only men able to make change...+1
@moorhsumluvher - 2025-06-16 12:45:11
Oppress is a goofy word?+1
@Houshalter - 2025-05-27 11:45:11
There are public key algos that can't ever be broken by quantum computers, and they will move to using them. Quantum computers are very overhyped anyway.+3
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:45:11
that's a scam+1
@notjeyzzl - 2025-06-16 17:45:12
What would your opinion be about SPX6900?+1
@alternatewalls - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
I like your talk and agree with you. However, I can't shake off how your shirt is almost the same color as your skin, and so I kept thinking you were walking around bare-chested this whole time and how clean shaven your chest was.+1
@THEDRAWINGSTUDIO1 - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Wtf happened between now and the time skip.+1
@ardj999 - 2025-06-03 11:45:12
Wait, I thought you became a monk and got away from the internet or something like that+1
@screwthishi5thing - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Why are comments off on the interview with the other Orthodox dude?+1
@79Fbanana - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
I knew it. This is just a systemd hate post.+6
@yomajo - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Whats wrong with number go up? Having an escape from onflation spiraling rest of assets is a huge feat in itself. I do resonate with preserving original cyperpunk ethos though. Ultimately imo, it boils down to individual. You choose what version or fork you run.+2
@DexterGraphic - 2025-06-03 11:45:12
I would appreciate your videos more if you would stop whipping the camera around as you walked back and forth. Just stand in one place with a nice background and use a collapsible hiking tripod to hold you phone steady while you talk. I watch other YouTube channels that do this quite effectively, for example: Paul Warburg.+1
@Dan-nn8ys - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
I'm pretty sure this forest is in Montenegro.+2
@qchtohere8636 - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Perfection is a stupid metric to try to achieve. 1+1=2 is good enough as foundation, instead of shooting for a system that recognizes "oneplusoneequalstwo" before doing anything. "Perfect" without focus is bloat.+1
@flippingheckdude - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
website url doesn't work+1
@e3000-p7o - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Monero 🤗xmr+1
@Goosteady - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
man, what is that jacket all about?+1
@GeorgeFluoride-e2m - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Le sold the bottom and bagheld XMR for 3 years.avi+1
@jerictayson5941 - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Först+2
@myaccount0000 - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
loonix is done for :(+1
@jordanrox007 - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
I think you miss understand what money is and its purpose. If bitcoin never found attention out of a small group of cypherpunks and online people that would be a failure, it would have disolved into nothingness. I think your issue is with growth and something thats inherently good and moral like Linux becoming popular for the everyman. It sounds like your the "old man yells at cloud" type.+1
@GhostofTradition - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
I should move to open BSD because Linux is too mainstream+4
@krzysztofwesoek4370 - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Bump+1
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
I bought into BTC when it was $100.. over 100x 'ed.. ETC at $2.. Monero even cheaper and I'm still considered a failure, because it's all gone. lol. You gotta love it. ... Nobara Master Race+1
@netdoll - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Because Orthodox dude already posted the video on his channel and the comments are there.+7
@fus132 - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Based+5
@calholli - 2025-05-27 11:45:12
Looks Appalachian to me.. My first guess would be Tennessee.. but judging by his slight 'NY' kind of accent.. Maybe he's in Pennsylvania. It's hard to tell.. There's a lot of trees in the world. lol+1
@fsmoura - 2025-06-03 11:45:13
gives him a professorial air+1
@JanusTroelsen - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Even just eschewing SystemD feels edgy. It's not that hard to be weird, it only takes a few hours of investment to get switch once you know unix.+2
@willardorwud - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
I've switched my main PC to FreeBSD, and honesty I don't see myself going back. It's just a cleaner, better written OS with far superior documentation. And I can't wait to try OpenBSD on a laptop( as it has a weird bug with my PCs sata controller) as it seems to be even more pure and lightweight.+1
@terrapin323 - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
VIA NEGATIVA+1
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
the problem with that if Linux wasn't popular , i would have to use winshit :( and computer are my special interest. so i have to disagree with this video .... Linux become popular is important ...+1
@danutmh - 2025-06-03 11:45:13
Some things about this community should be gatekept , to a point where you need to pass a skill-check in order to be part of it/enjoy the benefits. A tiered society where you climb the social ladder based on how many leetcode problems you can solve.+1
@Blackwingsss - 2025-06-03 11:45:13
Nocoiner cope 🤣+1
@QTwoSix - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
I hate cryprocurrency so much it's unreal.+1
@mtscott44 - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Nah bro. The money (bitcoin) has already been invented. Stack and chill. It's not cool anymore, just like your favourite band isn't cool anymore. It has some new challenges now (bad actors on dev team for core, Saylor pin-up boy, "OG"s shilling shitcoins), but I'm not sure you know the difference between Bitcoin and the rest. You sound smart, but I wonder if you've really spent the time understanding why none of that matters.+1
@0000xFFFF - 2025-06-03 11:45:13
bro abandoned society, went to the woods, lived there, meditated, and now is spilling wisdom with rapid uploads+1
@ChunkUhDunk - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Bitcoin will be fine. Medium of exchange will happen in a few decades. What Bitcoin is going through now is good. Need price to get higher to win.+2
@JonasThente-ji5xx - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
The forest god has spoken.+1
@jimmycorr7927 - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Put a shirt on dude+3
@BrianJohnston-gm4zc - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
No more snow :(+2
@jp-wu9db - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Thats new tech adoption curve, you are getting old uncle+1
@fromthelab258 - 2025-06-03 11:45:13
Wtf are these stupid terms black, blue, red pills i thought you knew English+1
@ludwignagelhus524 - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Is Luke fat now? I cant tell+5
@Cookiekeks - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Luke you should get into and talk about Marxism. Fighting for a better more free society against the corporate powers that enshittify everything is perfectly inline with fighting for Socialism.+3
@sykologica - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Ayo da fuq 😭😭😭 Dis wb look just like me 🤣🤣+2
@ExtratoneRegeneration - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
It looks like you're not wearing a shirt.+1
@Zack_Edds - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
This is a cringe take. Trying to gatekeep cool stuff is lame. Normies can ruin stuff, yes. The point of all this tech (bitcoin, Linux, …) is for the people to use it!+3
@TickerBitcoin - 2025-06-03 11:45:13
Vote Obama 2028 and listen to jk Rowling when she says gotta go fast+1
@tuurblaffe - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
Do you mean those linux people that tell you to uninstall windows and install a Gnu/linux system on your system with systemd as init?🤔🤣🤡+1
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-27 11:45:13
linux is not too popular .... it is not enought popular+1
@Ben75945 - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
Its just a beige shirt+3
@one_step_sideways - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
You're one of those poor souls who thinks Christ was a socialist?+4
@myaccount0000 - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
it's anti-freedom+4
@Cookiekeks - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
@one_step_sideways I'm not a christian, I don't really care. I do believe Jesus would've been a socialist today though, as his values very much align with it.+1
@Cookiekeks - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
@myaccount0000 It's percisely the opposite. Fighting for workers democracy and the abolishion of a ruling class is the most pro-freedom thing you can do.+1
@myaccount0000 - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
@Cookiekeks 🤦♀+5
@Jupiter__001_ - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
Luke is a Russian Orthodox Christian. One assumes he does not have a kind view on Marxism.+1
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
@Jupiter__001_ but he is still look like a far left philosopher like Marx was ....+2
@xgui4-studio - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
@myaccount0000 true ,but i cant explain cause of youtube anti-truth community guideline+2
@CG-uy6nk - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
this is basically what bitcoin does+1
@one_step_sideways - 2025-05-27 11:45:14
@Cookiekeks So, exactly what I said. You never read the Bible.+2
@stigcc - 2025-05-27 11:45:15
It is only cool when just the cool people use it!+2
@LukeSmithxyz - 2025-05-27 11:45:15
Bitcoin is entirely unusable. "Using" bitcoin doesn't mean a million grandmas getting on a KYC and buying pretend IOUs indexed to the price of bitcoin.+11
@eKoush - 2025-05-27 11:45:15
way to create a fake reality to make a case for the trash that BTC is.+1
@hdjhdhdhd6901 - 2025-05-27 11:45:15
Are you still in the KGB church?+1
@jeffreysbrother - 2025-06-03 11:45:15
deleting comments like a Big Boy. 😢 👩🦽+1