Gallia II

Gallia II

The Indomitable Village of Gallia Reimagined for the Bitcoin Era In the year 50 B.C., all of Gallia is occupied by the Romans. All of Gallia? No. One small village still dares to defy the empire. Tucked away on the windswept coast of Armorica, now Brittany, this unassuming settlement is home to a tight-knit band of rebels: the sharp-witted Asterix, the unstoppable Obelix, the wise alchemist-druid Panoramix, and an unforgettable cast of free-thinkers. What keeps them free? Not gold. Not brute force. But a secret recipe, a powerful potion brewed by Panoramix that gives them strength far beyond the grasp of Rome. Think of it as early proof-of-work. You can’t fake it, you can’t print it, and once you’ve got it, you are sovereign. Surrounded by hostile Roman outposts like Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum, and Compendium, the villagers don’t just survive. They thrive. With every Roman assault, helmets fly and scrolls are torn as the empire fails to grasp what can’t be conquered: conviction, community, and code. There is Vitalstatistix, the unshakeable leader who refuses to bow. Cacofonix, the bard whose voice may falter, but whose freedom of speech never does. Fulliautomatix, forging tools in fire, like today’s node runners hammering protocol into steel. And of course Panoramix, the original cypherpunk, brewing magic before GitHub was a thing. The Avatar is an image of the modern Panoramix, or is Panoramix the one and only Satoshi Nakamoto who is the creator of Bitcoin, and gave the power of money to his people, the Plebs? The villagers don't trust Caesars. Verifying is their strength. The villagers operate by consensus not by censorship, and they hate "rats"(spam). And now, two thousand years later, a new empire rises, built not of marble but fiat. Once again, a small band of believers (running nodes, building Lightning rails, staying humble, stacking sats) stands tall. Bitcoin Knots and LND is the soil on which they thrive. Powered by the strength of Astrix (Start9) who together with Obelix (Linux) are the forces that are the main lines of defense. They have 1 mission, "Fix the money, Fix the world". In short, an impregnable fortress that will ultimately house everything and everyone. The final result of the movement that is no longer reversible, is: Hyper₿itcoinisation. Just like in old Gallia, the potion is real. But this time, it is made of math, consensus, and 21 million units. Rome still doesn’t get it.

Hubness Rank: 539

Weighted for channel sizes: 1042

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Hopness Rank: 246

Weighted for channel sizes: 1670

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Betweenness Rank: 130

Weighted for channel sizes: 426

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