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Could blockchain really make our lives easier?
At @IEuniversity in Madrid, Spain, the @Gate2Chain team, along with the @BSV_Assn, led an initiative to rediscover the true potential of blockchain technology. #CGhighlights
youtu.be/aPyI_yeT4so?si=XRHH…
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We are deeply grateful to all the participants, speakers, and guests who made Rediscovering Blockchain 2025 a remarkable success. Your valuable insights and engagement at IE Tower, Madrid, have truly inspired us. Thank you for shaping the future of blockchain together.
A special thank you to @IEuniversity @IE_SciTech @BSVBlockchain @RebeccaLiggero and @RealCoinGeek for making it possible !
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En MERGE estamos muy contentos de colaborar con esta iniciativa promovida por @Gate2Chain e @IEuniversity
Este evento es una oportunidad perfecta para formar parte de las conversaciones que están dando forma a esta época transformadora. Además, nos alegra anunciar que @paulapascualc_ , fundadora de MERGE y también profesora en IE University, aportará su experiencia como ponente.
📆 21 de Enero en IE University, IE Tower, Planta 24
No pierdas esta oportunidad de participar ¡Esperamos verte por allí !
Toda la info del evento en: gate2chain.com/event
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Gate2Chain has signed a groundbreaking agreement with celebrated painter Miguel Caravaca. This collaboration aims to bring increased security, traceability, and transparency to the art market.
According to reports from Interpol, losses due to forgeries and fraud in the art sector could amount to between $6 billion and $10 billion annually.
“This partnership represents a thrilling advancement in the art world,” said Caravaca. “By leveraging technology, we can provide buyers with the peace of mind they deserve, knowing they are investing in authentic pieces with a documented history.”
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The truth behind the state’s obsession with controlling its own money lies in its aversion to accountability. If money were universal, easily measured, and globally comparable, it would provide a clear, unflinching lens through which the performance of governments could be scrutinised. Every policy decision, every fiscal misstep, would stand exposed under the stark light of objective analysis.
This is precisely what those in power seek to avoid. A system of transparent, measurable value would allow citizens to directly compare the economic health of their nation against others. Inflation, debt, and the real cost of government inefficiency would be impossible to obscure. The illusion of prosperity, so carefully constructed through manipulation of national currencies, would crumble.
By maintaining their own monetary systems—opaque, variable, and subject to endless tinkering (like BTC Core)—governments retain a critical tool of obfuscation.
They can shift blame, hide their failures, and redistribute wealth without clear public consent. Transparency is the enemy of power that relies on illusion, and a global, objective standard of value would strip away that illusion, leaving only the bare truth of governance laid open for all to see.
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What Michael Saylor doesn't say is that, if all investors are like Warren Buffett, businesses would have to be more disciplined to create more real value in order to attract investment (so that Buffett does not have to park as much cash uninvested); but if all investors were like Michael Saylor, the global economy would soon be overtaken by a metastasizing cancer of Ponzi schemes like BTC that does not create real value but only extract money and resources from other parts of the healthy productive economy.
Saylor likes to describe BTC as a thermodynamic system using an interesting analogy (which is in fact a big reason why his explanations of BTC tend to be impressive and persuasive to many.).
However, what people should understand is that the global economy as part of humanity is not merely mechanical. It has two additional higher levels of values:
Holistically systemic and moral.
Try to compare a healthy cell with a cancer cell on a purely mechanical level only. One would have a hard time choosing a preference. But when you move higher to the level of the whole system, there's a huge difference.
Then, ultimately, there is also the moral level that has to do with the meaning of life rather than just mechanics and systems. That's where the most fundamental difference exists.
Michael Saylor $MSTR on Warren Buffet $BRK.B holding $325B in cash:
"They are destroying $3B a month in shareholder capital. They are generating a 3% after tax yield at best and the cost of capital is 15%. Take 12% negative real yield, $325B times 12% is what the shareholders are paying for that."
"If I had an hour alone with Buffet in a calm environment, I'd walk out and he'd say that this Bitcoin $BTC thing is a pretty good idea, Charlie would've liked it and we're going to buy some."
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Interview about the G2C-Metadata @WhatsOnChain plugin with our founder @bartooliv. Many thanks to @RealCoinGeek and @RebeccaLiggero
coingeek.com/g2c-metadata-re…
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Esta reclamación aborda la suplantación ilícita de BTC como Bitcoin_ (ES) 89 paginas
t.me/S_Tominaga/1601
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“Talented, dedicated teams willing to take risks to make something happen… that’s the scarce commodity - not money.”
~ Elon Musk
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Anonymity is not just a neutral shield—it’s the root cause of corruption, allowing criminality to flourish and bureaucracies to expand unchecked.
It erodes small, transparent government by enabling unaccountable officials to hide behind a veil of secrecy.
This destroys public trust, fuels inefficiency, and breeds corruption at every level. The solution lies in demanding transparency. Only through open, accountable governance can we prevent the unchecked growth of power and preserve the integrity of democracy.
Transparency is the antidote to the scourge of anonymity.
#Accountability #Transparency #GoodGovernance
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A CBDC, like the digital euro, is essentially a government-issued and controlled token. It can be easily built on the BSV (Bitcoin Satoshi Vision) blockchain as an NFT. BSV's scalability, low transaction costs, and transparency make it an ideal platform for secure, efficient, and compliant digital currency issuance, ensuring central banks retain full control over monetary policy while benefiting from blockchain technology.
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"We the People" is about unity and empowerment. It’s the idea that when individuals come together, they form a powerful collective that can shape the future.
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You guys talk about decentralisation like it’s the holy grail, like it’s the thing that makes Bitcoin pure, untouchable.
But the truth is, Bitcoin doesn’t need decentralization to function. "Satoshi" didn’t build this thing to be some dream of anarchy.
It was designed to be a cash system, to let you send money, not to wage some war on censorship. That’s the myth you peddle now, but it’s a damn far cry from what Bitcoin actually is. Miners, nodes, all those players—they don’t need to be scattered across the world in some decentralised fantasy. They just need to do their job: secure the network, process the transactions, and keep the system running. Trust in the process, not in some utopian ideal.
