I have been doomposting on twitter again about shitcoin influencers.
People promoting ETH and shitcoin narratives gets me riled up.
Need to stay away from it all and leave it to others.
Lots of good critics I don’t need to focus on that really.
I don’t think it serves me, just makes me angry.
Things better, at home now. We discovered another medication my wife is allergic to. Not fun, but could have been way worse.
Another night in the hospital waiting room.
Wish there was a better way.
Got lucky this time, nice nurse and nice doctor.
Has anyone come up with an AI Agent tool that goes through all of your public posts and suggests posts to remove based on opsec reasons, or other criteria that you can set?
New podcast is out. Episode 66 with Adam Back, Jameson Lopp and Austin Alexander.
https://www.bradmills.ca/podcast/jameson-lopp-adam-back-austin-alexander-on-bitcoins-evolution
I went to Satoshi Roundtable in Dubai recently & a highlight of the trip was getting to finally meet Adam Back.
I've never met Dr Back before, although I've interacted with him online quite a bit - he was just like you'd expect him to be - thoughtful, brilliant and tuned in.
Satoshi Roundtable has turned into a bit of a "crypto" event over the last few years, with the who's who of shitcoiners attending the event and focusing conversations on bubble bullshit like NFTs, web3 and DeFi nonsense ... but Bruce has done a great job of trying to prioritize Bitcoin and Bitcoiners at the event.
For that reason, a good contingent of Bitcoiners still go to SRT.
There was an opening ceremony at the event where hundreds of industry participants were brainstorming on the most interesting topics to discuss at the event.
Bruce had a "VIP" table in the center with some esteemed guests which included some government officials, royal family members and Adam Back :)
Aside from hanging out poolside and during roundtable sessions with Dr Back, I got to spend some time playing pickleball and hanging out in the hot tub with Jameson Lopp, discussing the Casa adding ETH situation among other things.
I also shared a drive back from Abu Dhabi with Austin Alexander and we got into a heated debate over bitcoin scaling & bitcoin culture and then getting in a good workout at the resort gym the next morning.
I figured that this was a great time to get a podcast done with 3 folks who I respect to discuss some important topics like bitcoin scaling, sidechains, and bitcoin culture.
Hope you enjoy the convo.
If you get any value out of my podcast, please leave me a fun review at ratethispodcast.com/bitcoin and I'll read it on the next episode!
If you’re building a Nostr startup, I’m investing in not just Bitcoin & Lightning companies, but Nostr companies too!
My friend is a financial advisor with 500 clients, and a book of business of $100,000,000.
I orange pilled him in 2016, and he’s been a Bitcoiner since 2018, he left the financial advisor business 2 years ago.
He’s at the point where he wants to help these 500 families get 1-5% of their net worth allocated to BTC.
Most of these families are asking him questions about Bitcoin already, and a lot of them are ready to buy BTC once he has the conversation with them.
The problem is that most of them are not ready to take custody of their own coins, they want him to help them acquire the BTC and hold it for him.
Are there any practical solutions for this where he can help onboard people to bitcoin without being “in custody” of their coins?
There are probably hundreds or thousands of RIAs in this position.
How can we help them onboard clients that trust them already, and make some money for their efforts, without taking on the liability of being custodians?
People think that because the amount of deposits grew with the amount of bank reserves, that means the banks didn’t just make money from nothing, rather they used other peoples deposits for loans.
…
What they are missing is “Other people’s deposits” were created from nothing by bank issuing loans.
What are all these messages
Yes!
This is a similar but very different L3 implementation for privacy on lightning (plus you can do 🤯 things like offline tx): https://asats.io/
Being worked on by a Canadian too
I thought this was using Cashu
I never really got Cashu or Fedimint.
After a long call with Jeremy Hill and Jonathan Wilkins during our catchup call (I invested in their startup), they explained how they were going to be using Cashu for their bitcoin powered VPN network …
I had to ask a lot of questions but I think I finally understand it.
It seems like it is a way to do allow for *infinitely scalable* and *private* transactions of sats.
🤯
Is real?
Am I understanding it properly?
If so, and if it works, how is this not one of the most incredible developments in Bitcoin history!?
I was just talking to my dad about lightning and he said “can I send BTC from my green wallet to a Lightning wallet? Do they do app transfers? I’ve only ever sent bitcoin to another person, not another bitcoin app.”
I chuckled that he didn’t get the fact that a “person” is just an address, and an app 2 app transfer is just an address too.
Then I thought … he has a point.
Why don’t custodial bitcoin wallets like Muun use Liquid for app to app settlement 🤔
You’re already trusting them as it’s custodial, they could use liquid for instant transfer of any size.
Is there a NIP yet for "lists" so that you can start to categorize NPUBs and it will convert across clients?
Got some new sats loaded to Alby for zapping.
If ChaosGPT is going to hack everything and ruin the internet ... is there a way to build an AI-resistant internet, or is it just impossible?
