The louder the noise gets, the more I’m reminded how few people actually understand what Bitcoin is. Conviction doesn’t come from price action, it comes from knowledge.

I posted about Bitcoin’s security model on LinkedIn and got this response back.

We are still early.

Our tech evolved. Our medicine evolved. Our money didn’t. Bitcoin is the missing piece of the modern world.

Thank you! Definitely feeling it now though 🤣

Exhausted but really proud to have run today’s Cardiff Half Marathon for Tenovus Cancer Care!

Great to see a fellow Brit using Nostr!

The UK government has just made it clear. They don’t care what the people think.

Despite nearly 3 million signatures on the anti-Digital ID petition, Parliament is pushing ahead anyway.

Freedom of choice? Gone. Privacy? Undermined. Work without a government-approved ID? Not allowed.

Bitcoin provides a way to opt out of financial control. It won’t solve everything but it’s a start.

Don’t trade your time for money they can print.

Although I disagree with Peter Schiff on Bitcoin, I have huge respect for his ability to articulate what’s broken in the credit-based system. Few have done more to raise awareness and explain the problem so clearly. Highly recommend this book to anyone.

Following on from my post last week and the messages I received from it, I wanted to share a mistake I made in tech startups and one I still see other founders making today.

I fell for the “build it and they will come” mantra.

I came up with what I thought was a great idea and, before I could even say the words “market research” or “business model,” I dove straight into building. Building is exciting. The possibilities feel endless. It’s a thrill to create something that could change the world.

But I never stopped to ask the basics. Who is this for exactly? How will it be sustainable? Is what I’m building valuable enough that people will actually pay for it?

In business, inaction can kill you just as much as snap decisions. But there are fundamental questions every founder should ask before throwing money or time at an idea.

The best approach I’ve found is Paul Graham’s “do things that don’t scale” method. Rather than building a £20k MVP, focus on a cheap, manual, inefficient way to prove people care about what you’re building. It’s not flashy, it’s not pretty, but it quickly tells you whether your idea has legs so you can spend more time building what people actually want.

Similar journey myself. Started with stocks then dabbled in crypto thinking I was ‘investing’. Then stumbled across Bitcoin and realised I had no idea about money, fiat or anything else really 🤣 I’d love to say I’m super smart and that’s why I discovered it earlier than most but I was just really fortunate that I stumbled into it!

Agreed! For me, it started with trying to outpace inflation and now each day, I seem to fall further and further down the rabbit hole.

I didn’t choose the Bitcoin life… the inflation rate chose it for me.

This bitcoin bull market is not over yet.

Work hard.

Stack sats.

Eat well.

Sleep well.

Run outside.

Love hard.

Repeat 🔁

As someone who’s spent years breaking systems, I find Bitcoin’s security design fascinating.

It’s the combustion of energy + consensus that makes it work.

• Miners expend real energy to secure the network.

• Nodes enforce consensus rules, ensuring no one can create extra coins or rewrite history.

• Every transaction is checked across thousands of independent participants.

The magic is in the combination; energy expenditure makes attacks expensive, and consensus via nodes ensures agreement without trusting anyone.

In the digital world, changing systems is usually frictionless. With Bitcoin, change is tied to physical cost. You can’t just push an update or flip a switch, you need to burn real resources. That’s what makes attacks prohibitively expensive and the system uniquely resilient.

Another fascinating aspect is how consensus protects the network. If miners or large institutions want to change the rules of Bitcoin, that’s fine! They can fork off and create their own chain. The main Bitcoin network, enforced by nodes following the existing consensus rules, keeps running as before. This means no single group can force changes on everyone, and the integrity of the system is maintained by the collective agreement of participants rather than any central authority.

From a cyber security perspective it’s brilliant. No central point of failure, no authority to compromise, yet globally robust against adversaries. It’s trust without trusting.

Bitcoin isn’t just money, it’s a masterclass in security architecture. Elegant. Transparent. Built to last.

That pretty much sums up the discussions I’ve seen 🤣

My thoughts on Bitcoin’s current dip after casually watching it go from $69,000 to $16,000 in the last cycle.

I don’t need a new car to prove anything. I’d rather stack Bitcoin and buy time, freedom, and peace of mind. Priorities.

It’s crazy that people think Bitcoin has been boring this year when it’s up like 75%.