{"id":18883,"date":"2026-09-24T18:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=18883"},"modified":"2026-09-24T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T01:09:40","slug":"rapping-while-rome-burns-the-blockstream-boyz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/rapping-while-rome-burns-the-blockstream-boyz\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapping While Rome Burns (The Blockstream Boyz)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that Blockstream hasn&#8217;t restored the funds to make Liquid Bitcoin whole, with funds locked in the layer 2 now for a couple weeks, it&#8217;s pretty solid evidence that you can&#8217;t trust these guys and their Liquid Bitcoin layer 2. And Samson Mow and Adam Back are intertwined, with Blockstream having put Mow in charge of Aqua Wallet, which should be all but dead after this (and always curious that Aqua Wallet never added support for using your own Bitcoin Node). If it wasn&#8217;t an insider with Blockstream hacking the money to keep their ponzi afloat a little longer, the hacker has really burned Blockstream, Jan3 and Aqua Wallet, as well as Bull Bitcoin that included Liquid Bitcoin in their wallet. And as Samson and Adam are bad actors, it couldn&#8217;t have happened to a better couple of guys. And how tone deaf is this rap video post when you haven&#8217;t allowed people to exit their funds from your inferior platform?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rapping While Rome Burns (The Blockstream Boyz)\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-m75t4CxBIQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that Blockstream hasn&#8217;t restored the funds to make Liquid Bitcoin whole, with funds locked in the layer 2 now for a couple weeks, it&#8217;s pretty solid evidence that you can&#8217;t trust these guys and their Liquid Bitcoin layer 2. And Samson Mow and Adam Back are intertwined, with Blockstream having put Mow in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18884,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions\/18884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}