happy 2026

is your social media content signal

or is it noise

conspiracy theories are brain rot

change my mind

take time off social media during the holidays

thank me later

likes and comments are vanity metrics

always have been

what matters the most is the positive impact your content makes on other people’s lives

the moment you stop yapping for engagement and start writing about the things you care about is the moment you attract real attention

gotta up my nostr game

Paul McCartney is releasing a new silent track as a protest against AI, with all proceeds going to the non-profit organization Help Musicians

The protest is part of a larger movement by creators fighting for their livelihoods and IP rights against the use of AI in the entertainment industry https://www.honest-broker.com/p/paul-mccartney-invents-a-new-kind

Bffs lol

Today, I received my last name as a handle on X

The process of getting it took a month, which is insanely slow! At some point, I thought the X team ghosted my request for this handle

Thankfully, they didn’t

Also, I didn’t pay anything to X for this transfer

Next target is my first name https://x.com/kashev https://x.com/petar

Yesterday, I got access to the Handle Marketplace on X and immediately requested @petar. The account was created in December 2006 but nothing has ever been published on it

Fingers crossed the X team will give this handle to me https://handles.x.com/ https://x.com/petar

Grok estimates the value of petar to be between $10,000 and $50,000, considering its handle age, inactivity, and status as a common first name (a Slavic variant of Peter) with potentially moderate global demand

I hope Grok is wrong

A brilliant video essay on Nirvana’s cover of a mysterious song. https://nebula.tv/videos/polyphonic-nirvanas-spookiest-song/

X launches Handle Marketplace - an industry-first solution to redistribute handles that are no longer in use

I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time. The petar handle on X has been dormant since December 2006. I may finally be able to claim it https://handles.x.com/ https://x.com/petar

gn Gigi

"The prosperous, comfortable lives of Singaporeans comes from subsidy by the state, and yet this prosperity is more of a socialist prosperity, which is distributed in service of social outcomes, rather than a prosperity that is generated through the +EV effort of Singaporeans creating economic value."

A fascinating insight into life in Singapore https://x.com/0xRyze/status/1963290864241054053

"A study found that developers using AI tools actually took nearly a fifth longer to complete tasks, highlighting the need for careful evaluation of AI’s role in coding."

The perils of vibe coding https://www.ft.com/content/5b3d410a-6e02-41ad-9e0a-c2e4d672ca00

I’m not listening to a person, who put a big tattoo on himself of Terra Luna and shilled Do Kwon

Btw Kwon just pleaded guilty of fraud in relation to the Terra collapse

What will be the ATH price Bitcoin reach during this cycle?

Thanks for the kind words, Paul

"AI doesn’t take your job, it lets you do any job."

A very good post by Balaji Srinivasan on the current state of AI https://balajis.com/p/ai-is-polytheistic-not-monotheistic

Back in October 2018, I wrote my first article on Bitcoin

It’s wild how far Bitcoin has gone for the past 7 years https://medium.com/@petar.xyz/the-curious-case-of-bitcoin-a816a2c5bcb1

Community over audience

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I just zapped you 42 sats 🙌🏼

Make sure you have your wallet set up to be able to receive and give zaps ⚡️

gn Gigi

Was the moon landing faked?

"The development of quantum computing is hindered by three major challenges: decoherence time, gate fidelity, and error correction, each requiring a Manhattan project-level effort to overcome."

Why Quantum Computing will take another 50 years https://mattdf.xyz/why-quantum-computing-will-take-another-50-years

Where are the Epstein files?