GM āļø & Happy 2026!!!
Anyone ever buy the Silver Fern Grass Fed beef from New Zeeland that Costco Business Centers carry?
#asknostr
#beef
Everything.
Dinner at home, few drinks at an old grade school - high school buddies house around 7:00. Asleep by 9:30 š
Iām old enough to be embarrassed to admit this (45), but just watching āThe Big Shortā for the first time.
WTF
But never been more bullish.
Stay humble, Stack Sats
You wake up at 3 a.m., look up, and see this. Whatās the first thing you say?
https://blossom.primal.net/06185ab47150d5fcbc868ab984168c9e1704154e2a77fd77391ffa86d6633326.mp4
Bilbo, give Smog his ring back - Iām trying to sleep
War is a fraud. And a racket.
While Iād love a drop to $50k, let alone $10k - I have more disposable dirty fiat than I did in 2022 - I have a hard time with an analyst who lumps Bitcoin into ācryptoā as being not scarce.
Someone pays this clown.
Happy New Year, Jack!!
Looking forward to BTC interest on cash, and L.O.C. in 2026!!!
Thats what gets me every yearā¦.
Not too bad. Sold 9 ounces at the local coinstore, last week (instantly into BTC with the proceeds).
Spread sucks, though.
Pardon my ignoranceā¦ but WTH is this?
Iām so confused
https://video.nostr.build/474ba040ad42172d38eba0e375742e87b939138e1409c4957153c38deeb02767.mp4
New form of speed dating?
ā”ļøšµš± NEW - Polandās President Karol Nawrocki says Poland is āready to defend the western border of the Republic,ā which means the border with Germany.
āA national community open to the West, but a national community ready to defend the western border of the Republic as well.ā
https://blossom.primal.net/1a766cf4673a848c8832be27ae36f50b0c1b368fbb4cc632bdc39356c693ed8e.mp4
He is ahead of his time, and way ahead of most other European leaders.
Iām old, but went through the same, 20 years ago. Just roll your sleeves up and do things
100%!
My almost 80 year old father is in the office, almost daily. Has numerous side projects, serves on boards, etc. Doesnāt out of any need, but because he wants to, is thrilled to have the health to, as well as a long ingrained belief that āif you lay down, theyāll throw dirt on youā.
Iām never planning to stop doing, even if the form and intensity of what I do changes.
Bitcoin sure accelerates the process and increases the opportunities.
I returned to Ireland for the first time in 24 years, this summer. Vast majority of the people I met were wonderful, as before.
But it didnāt feel the same. In 2001, I didnāt want to leave. This time, I was more than happy to return to the states - and that is saying something, as we have a lot of issues of our own.
Well, he is a little black pilled. Very funny though. Just all wet on bitcoin
Toss in some Dave Collum for fun!
First, because we have theright to defend ourselves - over and above the second amendment.
Banning guns, or types of guns, will lead to people being less able to defend themselves, their rights, and their property. At the same time, it will do little to prevent criminals from commiting crimes, often with gunsā¦ā¦criminals often not following the laws and all.
Shooter was literally a man who believes he is a woman. I canāt find any better poster child for a mental health issue.
And as to prayer, yes, every day. For the repose of the souls of those poor children, and even for the repose of the soul of the sick man who murdered them.
GM āļø
Fall, HS Football, and HS Volleyball are in the air
#dadlife
#midwest
Money - of which Bitcoin is the greatest form ever - is an amplifier. If you are an asshole, itāll make you more of one, if you are a saint, itāll make you a greater one.
My hope is Bitcoin being simple and honest, the percentage of wealthy Bitcoiners who skew āmoralā will be higher.
We arenāt going to build some silly Utopia, but thoughtfully endowed art, architecture, and institutions that point towards the True, Good, and Beautiful would be a massive improvement.
At least Mr Todd has removed any lingering doubt anyone might have harbored that he could be Satoshi.
What a complete ass-hat.
And the beauty is, habits like this stick, even as you pass the point of āneedingā them.
There are those who say Bitcoin doesn't scale, and build blockchains with more throughput at the cost of more centralization (generally in the form of it being way harder to run a node), and then also point to Bitcoin as having low fees as a criticism.
The limiter it turns out, 16 years in, is not how many people *can* self-custody bitcoin. It's how many people *want* to.
Not everyone wants to deal with the technicalities of their own car, and not everyone wants to handle the technicalities of their own money. Quite few, in fact. It's always a subset for these types of things. People who are hardcore over their area of knowledge.
I leave my car details to pros down the street who I know the name of, and handle my money myself. There are those who handle their own cars but leave their money details to others.
Bitcoin currently processes about as many transactions per year as Fedwire, which handles $1 quadrillion worth of gross settlement volume per year for the US and for a good chunk of the world (in context, it's approximately 200 million $5 million average-sized transactions). That's actually a crazy stat. Bitcoin is casually this open-source global Fedwire with its own scarce units, and unlike Fedwire anyone can permissionlessly build on it or transact with it, for low fees despite it being a +$2T network. And if it gets clogged there are all sorts of permissionless layers above it with certain trade-offs.
Some people say paper bitcoin holders detract from the network. I say the opposite- their willingness to hold IOUs helps add to price stability and network size without clogging it. That leaves more room for cypherpunks to develop with, and work on. And those who finance them.
This has been foreseen as early as Hal Finney in 2010, when he wrote about bitcoin banks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211).
We live in a sweet spot by most metrics. A golden age. Historically, so few recognize it when they have it so good.
Bitcoin is big enough to be of interest to many, and yet is still niche enough in a global context to have low base-layer fees. Suitcoiners are happy to add to its scale, and yet cypherpunks can also build, and users can transact right on the base layer, and move to Lightning and Ark and BitVM and Liquid and any sort of trade-off they want if fees get high.
And you're bearish, anon?
The real battle, though, is the ongoing government crackdown on privacy.
Bitcoin itself is in a pretty good technical place. It's a great tool. Certain conservative low-risk covenants might make it better, but even the existing design space is great and still expanding.
The US, Europe, and China cracking down on privacy is the threat. The headwind. And they're all expected. They're not surprising, but they're indeed fierce. That's the real battle- for the hearts and minds of people to embrace why privacy and permissionlessness are good traits.
In this ongoing funny contrast between podcasters and developers, that's the ideal role of podcasters- to spread the good news of what developers have built. To educate people. To tell them what's now possible thanks to developers. To articulate why cypherpunk values are good to a broad non-technical audience. That's where the overlap is. In overly-simplistic D&D terms, those with high CHA try to spread the work of those with high INT. It's not so much that "governments" are the problem. Governments often at least partially represent the people. If you convince a lot of people that privacy and sound money are good things, then you defang the problem. And you also challenge them legally in jurisdictions where it makes sense.
The technical foundation is good. The development of the past 16 years has been amazing, and it has brought us here. The scale has reached institutions, which is expected, not a threat. The actual threat is not treasury companies; it's anti-privacy regulations by governments. And more deeply that's a social issue, given how many people accept it. A vast amount of people believe privacy is only important for bad people who have something to hide. There's a ton of education work to do on it. Privacy is good. It's the default. But most people don't realize it when it comes to money.
We're winning. For 16 years ya'll have been amazing. But we'll need another 16 years more. More developers. More podcasters. All of it. We're a $2 trillion in market cap entering into a global fiat network of hundreds of trillions. And as their own institutions melt down from their own failures, their own top-heavy demographics and false promises, they will look for scapegoats. They will look toward those who are winning, and say they are the enemy.
When interviewers ask my price predictions, I tend to be conservative. That's mostly a liquidity assessment, and a rotation from OGs to new buyers. Price growth does take time.
But under that surface, I also have the benefit of being a general partner at among the largest bitcoin-only venture funds. I see what people are building, and I'm bullish. And for those who are working on stuff that doesn't align with profit, entities like the HRF and OpenSats are doing great work. Across all of the options, people are building great things.
I couldn't be more bullish on the ecosystem that's in place. All of you.
Let's go.
Good evening.
Thank you, nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpzpmhxue69uhh2uewwf38ytnzd9hsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9ws72v7p4
I needed that, this morning