It is fun to see people using "sats" considering how hard I was affectionately laughed at in early 2011 when I suggested on Free Talk Live that satoshis be labeled the smallest increment of bitcoin. Nobody laughed thinking "bits" would be better as we all understood how stupid that thought was, but rather because nobody could conceive it being practical.

Oh! Sort of like Change Tip booze buying back in the day. I hop on here occasionally to see how things are evolving. I still cannot get over needing to pay $ to claim BTC zaps.

2 more things since I have you here: how do I remove from my feed the profile of the self-descrining cum guzzler whose great contribution is public disgrace; and two, is style of the threading of convos specific to clients, and if so, is there one winning? I've been finding replies to me merely by accident as the @ wasn't included so I received no notification. I'd also like to be able to read entire conversations without having to jump. Thanks!

It's nice to be remembered.

I'm surprised Biden didn't pardon Mark Force and Shaun Bridges. #SilkRoad What a tragedy that Dratel did not argue #bitcoin (speech packets) are protected under 1st and 4th Amendments. *sigh*

His name was Thomas Barnum and he settled in Connecticut. My maternal grandparents assured through their coming together that I be born of adventurers, tricksters, pioneers and smugglers. I am such an AmeriCAN. 😜

Good morning. I was cleaning out old photos and screenshots and came across a request by you to Elon Musk to have my Bitcoin Belle account reinstated. It was not. But I had already received a view of the account. The heading was marked by 0s. 0 followers, following, Tweets and Replies. That is a tremendous loss to the historical narrative of Bitcoin. But yeah DOGE! *sigh*

It takes a strong ego to publicly admit to such a hole in your education.

Huh. How interesting to see this declaration 9 years after Bitcoin Belle was banned from Twitter.

Pain is a great teacher, especially for those of us with a high pain tolerance. 😩

Oooh! Mine 1640. He was 15 and sailed here alone from England. Knowing the testimony of my family's journey convinced me the bar must be raised on entry. I am so sick of hearing from people, and most crushingly from East Indians, "It must be made easier for us . . . ". The comparisons between American onboarding and Bitcoin onboarding are amazing: the easier we make it, the weaker the pool becomes to the point the users bear no resemblance to the creators and pioneers. Make Bitcoin Hard Again!

I'm glad to hear that! Where are you living/hanging out? Obviously NH was an ideal place where bitcoin was grokked and launched. Once KYC became the norm, and adopters of cryptocurrency payment processing started getting visits by The FBI, I witnessed a drastic decline in use. Point me to the Promised Land!

Today is the close of my travel season. It's -7° here in Glacier Park, MT which is still warmer than the cold felt by those in Malibu. 😢

Oh and given I was the first bitcoiner who was debanked and removed from the intellectual and creative pool, with children who did not bear the mark of a SSN, yeah, it was an original opinion. 😜

Again, you mean. Bitcoin was money. And as a 13th Generation American whose ancestor brought and bought with gold here,, I can see clearly how The United States of America has handicapped Bitcoin much like it has America.

Congratulations to you all!

I'm not sure how people spend it now but between 2011 and 2016, I earned or paid bitcoin by hosting guests at my home, buying food, taking dance classes, flying about to Bitcoin conferences and to visit my children, acquiring furniture and supplies for the Tiny Home I built, buying domains, paying for web design, paying my book cover artist, selling copies of my series Cryptonautica. Now? Now I gotta buy dollars to do those things. "Price" is up while purpose is down.

The value of bitcoin is that it is p2p, private, permissionless with plausible deniability as the chief cornerstone and not it's price in fiat. You're welcome.

Does Stella have a sibling yet?

If you ride with the club, you're along for the pendulum swing regardless of the arc.

Sheesh. And to think he was apologizing for rage with an excuse of bipolar shared with "Bitcoin billionaires" less than a year ago.