Bitcoin -18k in 2022: 💀

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1. This isn’t a “new normal”. ‘08-‘22 was crazy times to recapitalize the banks.

2. The market can’t afford this anymore because the consequences of crazy eventually come due.

3. This may be the most important topic in the world right now.

Party’s over.

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BITCOIN ROOTS!

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Haven’t updated but need to.

Know that.

I think you can just schedule to republish this next year. And yes - maybe surge pricing in Jan/Feb please.

If you onboard a newbie to nostr, make sure to help them get the nsec into a password manager or similar.

Phones will be lost. Apps deleted. They don't know what they do, and with this (imperfect) backup in place they won't have to start from scratch.

Future lifesavers

I consider my stash of #NoKYC, unregistered sats to be more of an emergency preparedness (#prepping) item than something I can rely on in day to day life.

Why? Because I would never repatriate unregistered sats back into the fiat system; that's where things start to go wrong.

Also, because I mined the sats at a deep loss, I'm not like to spend them anytime soon.

When they are spent, it'll be in the #Bitcoin economy only.

It took me a few hundred words to have any idea what the “Sustainability Team” even did. DEI and ESG scams are imploding, and not a moment too soon.

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Whenever I see a special symbol for Sats I'm overcome with disdain.

Like just say sats. Even saying bitcoin is better than a wonky symbol.

Bitcoin and the imperfect world

As a Bitcoiner you must accept that the world is imperfect and that Bitcoin is imperfect, it is the only way to win the war, otherwise you will not even win battles.

Why do I say this? I see a lot of lack of pragmatism in the Bitcoin world and a lot of idealism that is useless.

To make it clear, let's assume the extreme case. Bitcoin right now doesn't have a full scaling solution, that doesn't mean it can't be used by everyone, what it means is that it can't be used by everyone with self-custody. In a world where everyone uses Bitcoin and Lightning is the norm, not everyone would have a Lightning channel because technically it would take decades to open all the necessary channels and the fees would be unbearable for ordinary mortals.

This brings us to an extreme scenario where we mostly use Lightning with escrow.

What have we solved? Well, with respect to the previous scenario where we used custodial and forgeable money, we have moved to a model where we use custodial but unforgeable money.

It seems silly but you would have gotten rid of the currency devaluation.

This is the worst case scenario for the future as things currently stand, as Bitcoiner we have to fight to reach the ideal scenario which is money with self-custody and without currency devaluation, but being aware that perfection does not exist and that we will have to accept trade-offs.

What do we currently have? We are going to order it from smallest to largest and we are not going to include anything that is not yet in production.

Custodial lightning - ecash > Liquid - RSK > Non-custodial lightning > Bitcoin on-chain

So what do I mean? That don't rule out any option, use them all, everything is valid because we don't have any magic solution to scale Bitcoin.

Don't take nutrition advice from a Fat Doctor.

It’s one thing to post a piece of content or two on an app. It’s an entirely different thing to create content for, and engage with, other people in such a way that you genuinely connect with each other and you best utilize the tools and features available on that app/platform.

If you’re an artist/creator, don’t simply post ON nostr. Create FOR nostr.