Merry Christmas from Fred! #fredstr #dogstr

Not even the cone could stop our yearly tradition of going to see the Christmas lights. Niko loves them!

Being a Bitcoiner is about fucking the government, not becoming a stupid government.

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

Watching Home Alone 2 on CBC (Canadian television station totally reliant on government funding)

They cut out the scene with Trump

It's just gone

I know a lot of Bitcoiners suffer from TDS but that's really fucked up

If the media arm of the Liberal government of Canada hates Trump enough to literally cut him out of an iconic movie, ask yourself why

Then keep scrolling cause I'm not arguing about it. I'm just saying

Dear IRS, my income, gains, and losses for 2025 are [redacted].

HCA ?

If Bitcoin went from $80k to $180k tomorrow, you'd have to work 2.2x harder to earn the same amount of real money

Burn that into your mind

Ride the Bear 🐻

Fake model food. One more reason to love Japan.

Official Presidential Portrait released by Pam Bondi. #bitcoin #nostr #funny

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

Every poor person