Today is the day that Sweden is at its most drunk... Midsummer celebrations... 😅

GM Nostr!

Enjoy your Tuesday! 🌈

Current Bitcoin price:

1 BTC = 100,000,000 sats

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

I may have drank too much of the cloud juice

- Proxmox is not ideal for large-scale deployments with cattle

- K8s is complex but the complexity pays off 100x

- Route 53 just works

- CF Workers is good, sometimes

- R2 and B2 are the best object storage

- Hetzner is great for a lot of stuff

- EC2 as usual is a scam

Would definitely do Oslo before Vegas if having to make the trip

Did they give any of us a stage? 🙃😜

He spoke about new bitcoiners as “new shareholders”… it was cringe.

#b2025 where is #bitcoin?

Bitcoin is money.

And it must be preserved as such. Money is the ultimate tool for distinguishing what's important from what's not. Every civilization that successfully scaled needed to invent it. Those that didn't remained stuck at a certain level, unable to deal with the information overload. Its people became lost in the games of lies and deception, as they resorted to inferior substitutes to serve as currency.

Bitcoin needs to do one thing - be a decentralized ledger tracking who owns how much value, independent of any trusted third party. That's it.

As Bitcoin continues to be increasingly successful, it's understandable that specific people will propose changes to gain more power or to shape Bitcoin to suit their specific needs. However, just because they try doesn't mean they should be allowed to. If we let Bitcoin's purpose become diluted to accommodate every use case, we'll end up pleasing none. Demand for a decentralized, always-available, general-purpose database is infinite. Everyone wants to write THEIR data into such a source of truth.

If the data they're writing represents monetary transfers of value (especially from those who have a lot of sats to those who don't) - we should absolutely encourage and facilitate this.

But if the data they're writing is a personal expression of vanity or a scheme designed to trade their 1 sat for more sats from someone else, we should absolutely call them out. More importantly, we should actively work to prevent such schemes from succeeding and from being built on top of Bitcoin.

If people want to play zero-sum games and build "decentralized world computers", Ethereum already exists. That experiment has run its course over the past decade, and even its benevolent dictator & prophet Vitalik had to admit failure and propose a new five-year plan to make Ethereum "as beautifully simple as Bitcoin".

Use Bitcoin the way you use money in your life - to focus your efforts and separate truths from lies. Help others do the same. Remember: you don't change Bitcoin; Bitcoin changes you. And those wanting monkey jpegs on the blockchain, elaborate technical experiments, personality cults, or thrilling zero-sum games should be directed toward Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, or whatever shitcoin currently boasts the largest marketing and R&D budget.

Wait until 200k

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...