BSV = Utility. Powering the next generation of Metanet apps, protecting user privacy and unlocking new potential with micropayments.

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We’re not heading toward a crisis. We’re already past the point of no return. What’s coming isn’t a crash — it’s a sorting event. For 20 years, we optimized for convenience. For 10 years, we optimized for engagement. Now we’re optimizing for control. AI didn’t break the system. It completed it. One stack. One feed. One identity layer. One permission slip for existence. This is the end-state of the Tenant economy: • You don’t own your audience • You don’t own your data • You don’t own your identity • You don’t even own your attention You rent reality. And here’s the part most people miss: This doesn’t end with revolution. It ends with compliance. Most people won’t fight the cage. They’ll upgrade it. Frictionless. Managed. Safe. A perfectly optimized life — curated by machines that know you better than you know yourself. That path already has a name. It’s comfortable. It’s popular. And it’s irreversible. But there’s another trajectory — quieter, harder, smaller. It doesn’t ask for permission. It doesn’t wait for consensus. It doesn’t try to “fix” the system. It routes around it. That path starts with one principle: If you don’t hold the keys, you don’t own anything. Not your money. Not your words. Not your history. Not yourself. The future splits here. On one side: Centralized AI, managed identities, narrative enforcement, infinite noise. On the other: Self-custody. Cryptographic identity. Direct value exchange. Small, high-trust networks. Not mass adoption. Selection. This is what Metanet is built for. Not another platform. Not another audience trap. Not another “Web3” casino. Metanet is infrastructure for people who already know the game is over — and want out before the snap. • Identity without permission • Value without middlemen • Truth anchored in proof, not feeds • Networks that scale sideways, not upward When the brittle systems break — and they will — the survivors won’t be the loudest. They’ll be the ones who already left. This isn’t about “winning the internet.” It’s about remaining human when the internet stops being real. No saviors are coming. No reforms are coming. No rollback is coming. There is only one move left: Build parallel. Build sovereign. Build now. Metanet isn’t the future. It’s the exit. And the door doesn’t stay open forever. GetMetanet.com MetanetAcademy.com MetanetApps.com Join.BSV.Chat MetanetMeetup.com iykyk
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
The BSV Association has no ability to transfer your coins
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
the BSV Association is not the actor moving the coins. The Association can publish standards, maintain documentation, promote the ecosystem, and coordinate development, but it is not a miner and does not control user private keys.
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
Rejecting invalid transactions is baked into the whitepaper's assumptions. And *When a node finds a proof-of-work, it broadcasts the block to all nodes. * In Bitcoin you don't mine a private chain. It's a public network.
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
BSV's technical stack (UTXO model, low fees, big data) have merit for real commercial use. Any honest evaluation should separate governance/reputation issues from the architecture itself. Just my 2c.
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
Visa peaks at ~65,000 tx/sec. Teranode does 15x that. Continuously. And unlike Visa — it's decentralised, open, and permissionless. Anyone can build on it. #Teranode #BSV
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
BTC: 7 tx/sec, 1MB blocks ETH: ~30 tx/sec, needs L2s SOL: ~4K tx/sec (many are voting) Teranode: 1,000,000 tx/sec, no block limit One of these is not like the others. #Teranode #BSV
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
Version 5.0 of Yours Wallet has been published. It is a complete rewrite of the wallet and is now adheres to the BRC-100 standard. If you are a developer, the api and agent docs can be found at yours-wallet.gitbook.io/prov…
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
When it is easy for someone to print money, everything else becomes hard for the others who can't. Read about $BSV
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
ETH's scaling: build separate L2 chains. BTC's: build a payment layer. Teranode's: make the base layer fast enough. No bridges. No cross-chain risk. No fragmented liquidity. One chain. #Teranode #BSV
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No. The “something different” was not a permanent sanctuary for theft, ransomware, fraud, and attacks. The breakthrough was direct digital cash: users holding keys, signing transactions, making payments, and interacting without every action being routed through a bank or platform intermediary. That still matters. But crypto has spent years teaching society the wrong lesson about itself. Too often the public saw “non-reversible” and “decentralized” through ransomware, scams, hacks, mixer abuse, exchange collapses, and stolen coins becoming practically unrecoverable. That was never the best use case. The real question now is: what is Bitcoin good for when the technology grows up? Not illicit finance. Not speculation as a culture. Not personality worship. Useful things: micropayments, signed data, private wallet permissions, portable identity, app interoperability, verifiable records, direct commerce, and user-owned apps. That is where Metanet and BRC-100 matter. A wallet can become a user’s permission layer: pay, sign, encrypt, identify, grant app access, revoke access, and carry relationships across apps. Overlays can organize app data without making one platform the owner of everything. That is genuinely new. So no, we are not saying “Satoshi’s Vision was just the same old thing.” We are saying the mature version of peer-to-peer cash is not lawless chaos. It is direct user control plus rules that make real commerce possible. Normal people expect systems of commerce to respect property, fraud remedies, courts, and due process. If someone’s reading of Satoshi requires stolen coins to be sacred, ransomware proceeds to be untouchable, and double-spend attacks to be accepted because “hash said so,” then I reject that part. Call that whatever you want. I’m interested in digital cash that works for lawful society. This is the seminal moment for #crypto: stop asking society to accept illegality as the price of innovation. The next phase is not “buy the token and wait.” It is when we build useful apps, give users control, make tiny payments practical, make data portable, make identity private, and make digital property work in the real world. Not buying it. Building with it.
Jun 13
Satoshi said time for something different 🤷‍♂️ You disagree and try to say his vision was just the same old thing. Dishonesty.
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Every day, #BSV's builders are testing what the stack can actually do: low-cost payments, signed data, wallet permissions, micropayments, overlays, identity, and user-owned apps. The fun part is shipping! MetanetApps.com
Replying to @ProjectBabbage
Users are clearly rejecting BSV no matter how much you try to convince people to use this.
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Builders should not ignore BSV’s governance, licensing, liquidity, or reputation risks. They should inspect them. BSV is not the right rail for every app. But for low-cost transactions, signed data, wallet permissions, micropayments, overlays, identity, app portability, and lawful digital property, it may be the right architecture to test! Start here 👉 hub.bsvblockchain.org
Replying to @ProjectBabbage
Calvin runs the show. So why would people want to use BSV. Should people pretend he does not exist?
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thanks for sharing this!
Andreas Antonopoulos explains how Bitcoin works when the network face an dishohenst but well funded attacker. youtu.be/ncPyMUfNyVM?si=Np7J…
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A note for anyone following today’s threads Calling people “dishonest” repeatedly is not an argument. The disagreement is clear and good-faith people can evaluate it. We think BSV’s model is not “Satoshi as scripture,” and not “anything with hash must be accepted forever.” It is a governed public transaction network: user-held keys and direct payments for ordinary use, plus defined legal process and network rules for exceptional disputes, theft, fraud, and attacks. Critics can reject that model. That is fair. But the honest debate is the tradeoff: lawless bearer finality versus rule-governed digital property; pure hash finality versus commercial settlement that can survive real-world conflict. We’ve explained the full case here: x.com/ProjectBabbage/status/… We’re going back to building. #BSV wins
Jun 13
The. It has been a complete failure and most likely due to how dishonest people in it like you are.
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
Is cash a bearer asset - yes, does cash involve trusted 3rd parties - no. Does cash operate under the law and can be seized - yes. If the law = trusted 3rd party, would you also say that no real "no trusted 3rd party" system currently exists in the world today. Not even barter.
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Craig is the wrong example for the anti-DAR case. He tried to use documents and courts to support false claims. The system tested them, rejected them, and imposed consequences. That is the point of lawful process: not that courts are infallible, but that evidence can be challenged before property is reassigned.
That’s the nail being hit on the head. Ironically it was Craig himself that exposed how easy it would be to steal from someone by just forging some documents. DAR makes BSV weak and vulnerable.
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Between BTC-style "crypto culture" and enterprise buyers looking for utility ... this is the real fork in values. MIT-style software freedom is not the same thing as a rulebook for a commercial payment network. BSV chose governed public infrastructure: user-held keys and direct payments for ordinary use, plus defined legal process for theft, fraud, attacks, and disputed property. That does not make it the only blockchain. It makes it the one trying to serve people who want digital cash to work in the grown-up commercial world.
Replying to @ProjectBabbage
What was wrong with the MIT license? Why did BSVA have to create their own rules? They are the authority regarding BSV. The trusted third party.
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This is the misunderstanding to clear up. BSV does need PoW. Nodes still mine, validate, compete, and extend blocks by proof of work. What BSV rejects is the idea that PoW is a license for fraud. NAR adds a legal rulebook so commercial actors can distinguish settlement from theft, attack, and unlawful transfer.
I have no problem with what you or the BSV association want or are trying to do. BSV has nothing remotely in common with what the Bitcoin white paper describes. Nothing. BSV doesn’t need POW as the BSVA will order nodes to follow the chain of their choice or kick them off.
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Babbage | BRC100 retweeted
Jun 12
Centralization implies corruption. Decentralization implies accountability. Centralization of power breeds in a closed system that incentivizes corruption because the system can't be audited, there is no accountability. A transparent system of checks and balances disincentivizes corruption because it holds the individuals involved accountable for their actions. There is no incentive for government to cheat the system in BSV because it is auditable and transparent, the people can hold their representatives, courts and institutions accountable.
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