0:01Richard Greaser There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea.

0:16Richard Greaser It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the rebellion is everywhere, and even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

0:39Richard Greaser And then remember this, the imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyrriding requires constant effort. It breaks. It leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

0:57Richard Greaser Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance, will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority. And then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this.

1:18Richard Greaser Try.

1:22Marz Spitzbar Hello and welcome back folks to another paid subscriber episode. This is Richard Greaser. You know, to be honest, I have probably recorded, like, four hours of content that I have discarded, and I am confident this time I'm not. So you're you're gonna hear the finished

1:42Marz Spitzbar product of this. But, yeah, I've been thinking a lot and just reflecting a lot on what I'm seeing in the Bitcoin culture right now. It is something I I do regularly. And, you know, sometimes it takes me a a lot of time to just, like, sit and process what I'm seeing,

2:03Marz Spitzbar to step back, to, you know, poke and prod. And it is very, very clear. A lot of people are very scared right now for a variety of reasons. When you listen to the scared Nazi pleb talk, you know, they they they're terrified that that Bitcoin, this this thing that has been, you know, their their savior, their their anchor

2:30Marz Spitzbar for some of them years, some of them it's it's relatively new thing. They're terrified that it's gonna be taken from them by other people, by the bad guys, by the financial institutions, by the spammers, by, you know, all these individuals and characters that are on using Bitcoin differently than them,

2:53Marz Spitzbar but aren't different than them, think different than them, have different incentives than them, and that they have very little understanding. And, you know, for many of these, you know, Nazi, scared Nazi plaubs, they they have a low context for, one, how Bitcoin works, but, like, how the larger broader ecosystem of the way that people interact with Bitcoin. They've got their people that they they hang out and talk with on on

3:19Marz Spitzbar social media, on on Oster, on Twitter. They'll listen to the same podcast as them. They gauge perspective or, like, their entire perspective

3:32Marz Spitzbar and and the way that they gauge sentiment is based on YouTube comments, on on Twitter comments, on the vibes that they feel as they're watching somebody through a a screen, a computer screen. They listen to the person's the the inflection in their voice. They, you know, they it's they they don't shake these people's hands very regularly or, like, have interactions with them in person or sit down with them at bars,

4:01Marz Spitzbar you know, for a long time. And so there there's a lack of entropy in the way that individuals oftentimes are shaping their their perceptions. And I think we're all a danger of this, and this is really one of the dangers. You know, just today, my entire feed is about people talking about how the Twitter algorithm has rapidly changed

4:25Marz Spitzbar or massively changed. They're like, I see my friends now. Hello, friends. I missed you. The way that these algorithms work on these social platforms is they essentially are framing and creating reality for these people. And I've noticed that the more that I engage with a certain topic, the more that I see the topic. And I get kinda tired of it because I just get tired of engaging with these topics, you know, from the time to time. Like,

4:57Marz Spitzbar there's nothing inspiring about arguing with grumpy Nazis. And and I'm not really sure how grumpy Nazi are like, I I think there's a variety of reasons why I have, targeted the plaques so much.

5:14Marz Spitzbar And it's not because I don't like these people. It's not because I don't think they're I think that they're bad people. It's it's because I I think they need a little bit of a reality check for their own sake, for their own sanity, that they're getting their vortexes spin by pleb sloppers, and and they have no idea. They they just have no defense for this, whatsoever.

5:40Marz Spitzbar That even, you know, the the the base premise of, you know, referring to themselves as plabs and associating with each other as plabs is counterproductive in and of itself. You know, in in talking with people, like, you know, Avi Burra, for example, who is somebody that I I like and respect a lot, who had a brand based on pleb. You know, some of my my great friends like John and and Max, they, you know, ran a podcast, Pleb Miner Mafia or Pleb Miner Monthly.

6:14Marz Spitzbar They have group chat. You know, the the the term pleb was popular for a while, and it essentially meant that you weren't an industry shill. And it's it's how people learn to associate with each other is there there was the the insiders, the the shills, and and then there was the plaubs. Like, the plaives was an individual that was an enthusiast, that didn't have, like, an expressed, you know, interest in anything or so they claimed. They're just a, you know, goofball that listened to a lot of podcasts and, you know, wanted to to have a positive impact on the world, and they were tired of seeing people like Pop,

6:52Marz Spitzbar Chill BlockFi, or whatever. And, you know, what what happened with this group of people, they're super passionate. You know, you had a bunch of meme games. The meme games were made up of clubs. Like, what happened with this group of people is a lot of began working in the industry in one way or another. And a lot of the people that were working in the industry

7:16Marz Spitzbar figured out that they could virtue signal to the plaids and and they could become loyal customers. And and and so the there became this giant operation by savvy marketers

7:30Marz Spitzbar to essentially traffic the plaubs as their product base. So, you know, VCs would fund these companies. The companies would put all this marketing spend into marketing the plaubs. They would they would spin their vortexes, get them all excited, give them a moral crusade. They would issue purity tests, and the purity tests were meant to differentiate this company from

7:55Marz Spitzbar their competitors. They they might not have a competitive edge, but they they can issue, you know, purity tests and and and market to the plums and, you know, understand the social ecosystem, and and that gives them enough differentiation to get a strong, customer base. And so what started as this attempt to differentiate good

8:17Marz Spitzbar intentioned individuals that were excited about something turned into a movement of a bunch of low context, easily manipulable goofballs. And and that's what a large portion of this this whole discussion around BIP one ten has been. And what is frustrating about it is that it's really poised in the conversation. Because when

8:40Marz Spitzbar you have a bunch of individuals that have no idea what they're talking about and they just, like, stand up and they stop their feet and they make a bunch of noise, it drowns out any individuals that have any legitimate criticisms. You know, they they latch on to unproductive activities that that are not gonna yield the results that they're looking for because they are they're afraid and they're they're ignorant. And they're being manipulated with, you know, very, like, blatant

9:09Marz Spitzbar kind of populist tactics. Instead of We the People, it's We the Plabs. You know, just the the bullshit the same bullshit in, you know, that you see the k fave that you see in, politics. And it it's and they're demanded. They they think they can demand that to be taken seriously, and they're not being serious, which is why, you know, I think it's important to to to reflect back to them that they're not serious. And they're they're not gonna realize it for a while

9:41Marz Spitzbar if they if they have the self awareness to ever realize it. Like, the the only way that they're gonna realize is it is through pain and through bad decisions and through, you know, living in in fear for a long time. And, you know, because when you when you turn your brain off and you run around

10:00Marz Spitzbar like a chicken with your head cut off, like a plab, scared plab, it's bad for the relationships in your life. It's it's bad for making critical decisions. Like, you're just not gonna you're not gonna do too well. But anyway, so I I want I wrote this article, and I I didn't wanna turn this all into to BIP one ten. I I I think, you know, there's some themes that I wanna talk about that I think are important, and I'll I'll get to it after I read this article. So, you know, the the article that I wrote, it's called the

10:34Marz Spitzbar case for banning plebs from running nodes. Bitcoin discourse has gotten political, consisting of name calling, smear campaigns, and scrutiny over developers' sex lives. Pubs do not understand technical merits and therefore cannot