The money in your bank account isn’t truly yours. The cash you physically hold isn’t truly yours either.

The Bitcoin you have on an exchange or an ETF isn’t truly yours. But the Bitcoin you hold yourself is your money.

RAW IS LAW 🥛

🔸WHY BITCOIN’S MEMPOOL IS CLEAR ? BRUTAL TRUTH 👇🏽

No more congestion… for now.

Bitcoin’s #mempool is clearing out, and it’s not just a random fluke. Several key factors are shaping this moment, but which one had the biggest impact? Let’s break it down #nostr:

✅ Lightning Network Is Holding the Line

While public capacity dipped 7% (now under 5,000 BTC) and channel count declined, routing activity remains strong—#LQWD alone processed 1.15M transactions with 978 BTC routed. Despite mixed signals, Lightning is still easing on-chain pressure.

✅ SegWit, #Bech32 & Batching = Smarter Transactions

• #SegWit keeps ~30-40% adoption, cutting fees by 25-40%. Exchanges like Binance still lag in full adoption despite handling 15% of Bitcoin’s traffic.

• Bech32 addresses now dominate (~65% of new Bitcoin wallets), slashing transaction sizes by 18-25%. Even old-school wallets from 2012-2013 moved $42M into Bech32 last month.

• Batching is crushing fees—@strike cut costs by 50-70%, and #Coinbase batches 90%+ of withdrawals.

✅ Miners Got Ruthless

December 2024 was brutal, with block confirmation peaking at 162.97 minutes on Dec 21. But by late this month January 2025? It’s down to 32.97 minutes. Miners adjusted. Blocks are moving.

✅ Retail Speculators Are Quiet

Fewer impulsive transactions = less congestion. Many are likely keeping #Bitcoin on exchanges instead of moving it around.

I love this network.

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GM friends

For those not on Twitter anymore, a little update on Real Bedford.

Today was the most nuts game, we were losing 5-3 and had a player sent off. This is normally certain defeat, yet some how we managed to pull two goals back and get a draw.

Meanwhile, our rivals for the league were winning 1-0 and conceded a goal at the death. From looking like they would gain three points on us, we remained on level points. So we are four points clear.

If we win the league again, we will be only the third side in the history of English football to win three leagues in a row, nobody has done four.

Tomorrow our women play Norwich. The women are also top of the league, if they win it that will be back to back promotions.

Football is nuts, it throws the most crazy scenarios at you…but here in Bedford something special is happening.

Thank you to all who have supported this journey. This crazy idea of a Bitcoin football club is working.

Peace and love 🧡

The mempools are clear.

What do you call a man who lives in a rabbit hole???

….

Warren 🐇

GOOD MORNING

WE HAVE A SEEDSIGNER WORKSHOP

IN OUR TOWN TODAY

I AM HAPPY TO BE PART OF IT

I think so… some kind of solo mining rig…The wildest part is that it was mined LIVE during a rip! The odds of that happening again is stupid low!

Ooft! 3.146 BTC !!! ⚡️

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With great suggestions comes great responsibility!

Helping a newbie navigate Bitcoin (and crypto unfortunately) early on is an important undertaking that should be taken extremely seriously.

They must understand the WHY before heading down the rabbit hole(s)!

Don’t rush into giving advice and put yourself in their shoes as someone with <500,000 sats and someone with no concept of self sovereignty and with no understanding of how Bitcoin works under the hood.

Here’s to orange pilling another comrade!

roma on nostr

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If you have ever had to close one of these in anger I take my hat off to you.

What is it? What is it apart of? And where would you find one?

Npub that answers correctly first will get a 1000 sat zap! ⚡️