I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be.

I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral.

I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone.

That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.

What is a good bitcoin event calendar that lists all upcoming events?

this was published yesterday

ALL CAPS.

FULL SEND.

LETS FUCKING GO. 🫡

Bitcoin is money.

And it must be preserved as such. Money is the ultimate tool for distinguishing what's important from what's not. Every civilization that successfully scaled needed to invent it. Those that didn't remained stuck at a certain level, unable to deal with the information overload. Its people became lost in the games of lies and deception, as they resorted to inferior substitutes to serve as currency.

Bitcoin needs to do one thing - be a decentralized ledger tracking who owns how much value, independent of any trusted third party. That's it.

As Bitcoin continues to be increasingly successful, it's understandable that specific people will propose changes to gain more power or to shape Bitcoin to suit their specific needs. However, just because they try doesn't mean they should be allowed to. If we let Bitcoin's purpose become diluted to accommodate every use case, we'll end up pleasing none. Demand for a decentralized, always-available, general-purpose database is infinite. Everyone wants to write THEIR data into such a source of truth.

If the data they're writing represents monetary transfers of value (especially from those who have a lot of sats to those who don't) - we should absolutely encourage and facilitate this.

But if the data they're writing is a personal expression of vanity or a scheme designed to trade their 1 sat for more sats from someone else, we should absolutely call them out. More importantly, we should actively work to prevent such schemes from succeeding and from being built on top of Bitcoin.

If people want to play zero-sum games and build "decentralized world computers", Ethereum already exists. That experiment has run its course over the past decade, and even its benevolent dictator & prophet Vitalik had to admit failure and propose a new five-year plan to make Ethereum "as beautifully simple as Bitcoin".

Use Bitcoin the way you use money in your life - to focus your efforts and separate truths from lies. Help others do the same. Remember: you don't change Bitcoin; Bitcoin changes you. And those wanting monkey jpegs on the blockchain, elaborate technical experiments, personality cults, or thrilling zero-sum games should be directed toward Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, or whatever shitcoin currently boasts the largest marketing and R&D budget.

for the last 15 years bitcoin has been treated as a risky trade

over the last few months bitcoin has quietly been recognized as the ultimate safe haven among investors around the world

few appreciative the magnitude of this transition

there is safety in sats

Our note zaps build was approved by the AppStore.

Zaps are back!

Kicking off the looong weekend! 🧡🤙

Sold one coin today to put a down payment on my house

Yes I know Bitcoin will keep going up much faster than a house

But I saved it and waited 2 cycles so I can finally escape the pod I've lived in for 20 years

I've never owned a bbq or had a yard or a garage

Thank you Satoshi

About to decommission my simple Raspberry Pi 4 - 8GB due to utter bullshit.

For the Start9 DIY’ers you understood there was a few affordable options to run StartOS and a Bitcoin Stack. Time expired on the latter.

Since the spam, since the bloat… the simple solution to node running is becoming obsolete.

At this rate we will be talking 4TB hard drives, juicy CPU’s and a higher demand on your local internet provider for initial downloads and every day operation in the years to come.

All of which is not conducive to node network growth.

When I price out building my own node for the future, let’s say 10 years time the cost is expensive.

I get that technology demand is a thing. I get that change is inevitable and blockchain growth will lead to a larger initial download but why wouldn’t everything we do as a network of plebs focus on the lowest common denominator, the lowest barrier of entry.

Simply put… node running will not be for the poors.

The profit of VC’s, spammers, scammers, dishonorable miners and overall bad actors in Bitcoin will have a trade off…. The node network.

We can do better. 🫡

-End of Rant-

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most new money entering “bitcoin treasury companies” this cycle instead of actual bitcoin will probably extend the bull and then extend the subsequent bear as many unwind

stay humble and stack sats