Indian Bitcoiners already have the headache of getting people to understand millions and billions because everyone uses lakhs and crores here
No way is changing what we call existing units a good idea
List of companies and organisations that don't think Bitcoin is a scam in 2025
Blackrock, Blackstone, Fidelity, JP Morgan, VanEck, Ark Invest, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNY Mellon, a16z, Draper Associates, Robinhood, Bridgewater, Tudor Investment Corp, Miller Value Partners, Deutsche Bank, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Shopify, Citigroup, Block, Inc., Cantor Fitzgerald, Softbank, Franklin Templeton, Deutsche Telekom, Standard Chartered, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Shell, Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, ExxonMobil
Governments of the United States, El Salvador, Bhutan, Abu Dhabi, New Hampshire, Arizona, Texas, Switzerland, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Germany and Norway
River's report says that 50 million Americans own Bitcoin
There's no reason to give up 🫂
I'm not much of a doomer though, so I'm not very much into dystopian stories
But it seems like that book has become very popular in the Bitcoin community
Yeah pretty much point 3
Nah man not yet my reading list was already loaded so I didn't pick it up
Good morning
You don't see many people who understand the free market actually talking about the free market all the time because they are busy doing stuff and making things happen
Intellectuals hate the free market
Maybe because:
1. It cannot be controlled, planned, designed or predicted
2. It will often yield outcomes that they don't personally like
3. Their livelihood is uncertain under those conditions
4. They need to constantly produce work that people actually find useful for their lives
5. A non-intellectual who has not read a single book or had a formal education can become wealthy and successful
6. Nobody's position at the top, middle or bottom is guaranteed or permanent, so much so that there might be no such thing as a well-defined 'top, middle or bottom'
Austrian answers to some common Bitcoin questions:
'Why buy a house when it makes more sense to buy bitcoin and rent a place?'
Because some people like to live in their own house for their own reasons.
'Why buy anything with an appreciating currency when it will be cheaper in the future?'
Because people want things for survival, sustenance, leisure and comfort. Some things they will want now while others they will want later. Nevertheless, people will want things.
'Why invest in a business when the money you hold will likely outperform it?'
Because someone else might value the money you hold more than you and is willing to take it off your hands in exchange for the promise of paying the difference.
'Why would anyone work or produce anything at all or want to own anything if money just keeps appreciating?'
Because production requires capital, energy, time, resources and land. The more scarce these things are, conflicts occur. To do anything at all, people need to agree upon norms of ownership.
Luckily my power button broke and fell into my own pocket, so I just put it back in and slapped a cover on top of my phone to keep it intact
Works as usual
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-JCB-Ki-Khudai-trending-today?top_ans=234639039
It's a five years old top trending meme 😁
Haha wow this is crazy 😂
Wait what's this?
Idk about this!
We're at 105K; Spar and Steak n Shake are accepting bitcoin; it's easier than ever to run a node and take self-custody; wall street has arrived; politicians are pandering to the industry; home mining is on the rise; public companies are aping in.
You'd think the sentiment would be better
Goodness me, that was horrible to read from both sides.
Nostr + Delving Bitcoin + Mailing list + Bitcoin optech is more than adequate for keeping up with protocol-related stuff.
I'm gonna try not to open twitter links 😂
Blossom servers being adopted by clients in a big way
Damus integrating NWC and becoming multiplatform
Primal becoming more interoperable in the ecosystem by adding external signer and blossom support
People just vibe-coding and building Nostr tools that they want
An IRC-like client called Coolr
A tool built by Calle that enables people to create and recommend Follow packs for discovery which clients are already integrating
A voice-note based client by Derek Ross called YakNak
Total number of zaps on Nostr crossed 5M