I've always hated those classic lines like:

“If you had bought Bitcoin in 2011, you’d be a millionaire today.”

Or worse: “If you had invested €100 in Bitcoin instead of going out to dinner…”

But seriously, what’s the point?

You can play that game with anything: Apple stock, real estate in Berlin, Basquiat paintings, even Panini football stickers. It’s always easy to look back and do the math with hindsight. Too bad that’s not how life works.

The truth is: you didn’t do it. And obsessing over it now doesn’t help.

It doesn’t teach you anything, it doesn’t bring you closer to understanding Bitcoin, and it definitely doesn’t motivate you to start. It’s like standing at the tracks staring at a train that already passed, forgetting that another one might be on the way.

But there’s one thing I do love about all-time highs.

For once, it feels like everyone holding Bitcoin is winning together.

Whether you bought ten years ago or yesterday. No one is “down.” No one “bought too high.” (Except maybe the ones who sold too early, but oh well 😬)

It feels like a collective reward. A quiet little moment of “you made it.” A small pat on the back for your patience. A whisper saying: “You’re not alone. You’re not crazy. You’re still here."

And let’s be honest, a bit of satisfaction for all the times they didn’t believe in you. 🩷

So, good job whoever is holding some sats!

GM Nostr!

Wishing you a joyful Friday! 😄

Current Bitcoin price:

1 BTC = 100,000,000 sats

P.S. I haven't mined a block yet...

A recap of the OP_RETURN "debate"

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Core: Filters don't work.

Bitcoiners: They obviously do, otherwise you wouldn't need to remove them.

Core: We don't have the technical means, so we're removing the limit.

Bitcoiners: We gave you the technical means in a PR two years ago, Core rejected it, it was implemented in Knots and it works.

Core: We can't stop all spam reliably, so why bother?

Bitcoiners: Because life is not black or white, and fastening your seatbelt when driving a car is safer even though some people die in car crashes.

Core: Here's 7 transactions that even your precious filters didn't catch.

Bitcoiners: Here's 2 million transactions that were caught.

Core: You can't censor valid transactions just because you don't like them. They paid a fee!

Bitcoiners: There's millions of Nigerian princes contacting people through email every day. These are "valid transactions" too, yet you send those to spam. This is obviously not censorship, so that argument is deceitful and intellectually dishonest.

Core: What is spam objectively anyway?

Bitcoiners: The receiver - not the sender - gets to decide what's useful to them. You're removing the ability of nodes to decide that, implying you know best.

Core: These transactions will end up in blocks anyway, and we can't incentivize profit-seeking miners to go out-of-band.

Bitcoiners: It's not your job to incentivize or deter miners. Your job is to work on the Bitcoin client while prioritizing the one thing that makes Bitcoin unique and truly decentralized: nodes.

Core: But we want better fee estimation and block propagation.

Bitcoiners: So do we, but never at the expense of decentralization and self-sovereignty. Nodes run the show.

Core: This is a technical discussion. Stop philosophying and using analogies, you plebs!

Bitcoiners: We gave you a technical solution that works, the philosophic rationale and the logical arguments. Stop turning Bitcoin into a shitcoin.

Am I missing anything here?

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If you're seeing bias here, it's because you're too stubborn to admit that one side is clearly more informed, rational and morally calibrated than the other.

This is why there's distrust in Core. It's got nothing to do with technical competency and rational discourse. It's just pure and simple political shenanigans, whataboutisms, strawman arguments and in some cases sheer lies.

- Hodling like i mean it

Don't be like Victoria.

GM frens 💜

Any podcast host people wanna be my test dummies in a couple of hours? And possibly make history.

Any podcast host people wanna be my test dummies in a couple of hours? And possibly make history.

GM Nostr!

Hope your Tuesday is great! 😊

Current Bitcoin price:

1 BTC = 100,000,000 sats

P.S. I haven't mined a block yet...

GM Nostr!

Enjoy your Tuesday! 🌈

Current Bitcoin price:

1 BTC = 100,000,000 sats

P.S. I haven't mined a block yet...