Well, you enrolled with some plans in mind. Otherwise, why bother? 🙃
What was your dream job when you enrolled to this degree and what went wrong?
Oh well, if all of your plans fail in life at least you’ll be able to work as an accountant 🤷🏻♂️
I have school teaching degrees as my backup 🙃
This is why I dropped out from my PhD. I realized that I’ve already learned everything there was available for me to learn, working on the thesis would have required 6 months of daily research, so I gave up and focused on my Bitcoin work 🤪
If it’s the BA, then get it. Might come in handy one day, or at least help you get visas for some countries a lot quicker because you graduated from an institution of higher education 🤪
According to Nopara73 the CoinJoins in Wasabiwallet have become smaller and therefore cheaper in time, especially since the release of Wasabi 2.0.
But thanks to cryptographic refinements, the size of a CoinJoin can still get roughly 3 times smaller. This would make Bitcoin privacy even more accessible and scalable, with a possibility to also include rounds with more participants.
Listen to S13 E2 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast to find out more about the future of Bitcoin privacy.
In the last 4 years, I've published 149 episodes from the Bitcoin Takeover podcast (featuring 127 unique guests).
Who should be in the 150th?
Was recently interviewed by Hero of Bitcoin on his new show and we played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time for the Super Nintendo while talking about Bitcoin.
It was a lot of fun! Check it out on YouTube and support Hero with some likes and subscriptions. He’s currently working on an original GameBoy game about Bitcoin, which is gonna get produced on actual cartridges 😍
To whoever just used code BTCTKVR to get 10% off a Cryptosteel Capsule for his Nostr private key or BIP39 seed phrase: thank you! 🥳
I handpick the Bitcoin Takeover podcast sponsors myself and it's always exciting to see that my ads are helping them grow.
Cryptosteel are the OGs of storing your keys on metal. Created the cassette design in 2013 when most bitcoiners were using Core/Electrum passphrases and helped popularize the BIP39 standard.
They still engineer, manufacture and deliver their products from Poland, Europe – unlike their competitors who produce the plates in China. So I'm happy to promote them, it's a bit of a pity that metal backups aren't as cool as hardware wallets. Because they can be just as useful.
Anyway, if you ever get any Cryptosteel products please use code BTCTKVR for that 10% discount. It signals to them that they're not sponsoring my show in vain which means that I can keep on creating free Bitcoin content all day long 😍
You can see what they think by looking at the hashrate.
Luxor Mining Pool acquires OrdinalHub
“Ordinals provide a new and unique method to mint NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain, and Luxor is proud to be a central player in this burgeoning movement,” Luxor CEO Nick Hansen said. “Ordinals have opened the door for exciting new monetization strategies for Bitcoin miners. There are natural synergies between Luxor’s mining pool and OrdinalHub, synergies that will uniquely position Luxor to build critical infrastructure for the industry to foster growth.”
https://luxor.tech/corporate-news/article/luxor-technologies-acquires-ordinalhub
Good for them!
Lately, I've been having a lot of "holy shit, I'm turning into my father" moments.
Bitcoin always seems to crash just in time for my birthday 🥳
3 days left and I might wake up to a very nice price discount. May or may not buy the dip with the 20 euro from grandma 😇
Not having enabled zapping is a good conversation starter 😜
At block height 777777, make sure you check your favorite podcast streaming app to listen to S13 E5 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast: featuring Nicolas Gregory, the CEO of CommerceBlock and one of the masterminds behind MercuryWallet 🔥
MercuryWallet is a Bitcoin privacy wallet which makes use of Statechains in order to perform CoinSwaps. This means that users can trustlessly exchange UTXOs of equal sizes without leaving any permanent on-chain data about their use of privacy 🤯
More recently, there are plans for MercuryWallet to get ported to mobile devices while adding some Lightning network features that very much resemble the non-custodial experience from Blixt ⚡
The first part of my interview consists of questions which concern details about MercuryWallet, CoinSwaps, Statechains, Lightning integrations, and CommerceBlock's other projects 🎙️
In the second half, I walk through the initial installation and setup of MercuryWallet – as Nicolas guides the entire process, provides useful explanations and answers to all questions 👌
Listen to S13 E5 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Fountain, Breez, Sphinx, and every other audio streaming platform. If you like it, please subscribe and leave feedback 🎧
And if you'd like to watch the video interview, you can either wait until Friday for the public premiere or else sign up to Bumbee (the Bitcoin version of OnlyFans/Patreon) and subscribe for free to the BTCTKVR channel 📺
At block height 777777, make sure you check your favorite podcast streaming app to listen to S13 E5 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast: featuring Nicolas Gregory, the CEO of CommerceBlock and one of the masterminds behind MercuryWallet 🔥
MercuryWallet is a Bitcoin privacy wallet which makes use of Statechains in order to perform CoinSwaps. This means that users can trustlessly exchange UTXOs of equal sizes without leaving any permanent on-chain data about their use of privacy 🤯
More recently, there are plans for MercuryWallet to get ported to mobile devices while adding some Lightning network features that very much resemble the non-custodial experience from Blixt ⚡
The first part of my interview consists of questions which concern details about MercuryWallet, CoinSwaps, Statechains, Lightning integrations, and CommerceBlock's other projects 🎙️
In the second half, I walk through the initial installation and setup of MercuryWallet – as Nicolas guides the entire process, provides useful explanations and answers to all questions 👌
Listen to S13 E5 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Fountain, Breez, Sphinx, and every other audio streaming platform. If you like it, please subscribe and leave feedback 🎧
And if you'd like to watch the video interview, you can either wait until Friday for the public premiere or else sign up to Bumbee (the Bitcoin version of OnlyFans/Patreon) and subscribe for free to the BTCTKVR channel 📺
At block height 777777, make sure you check your favorite podcast streaming app to listen to S13 E5 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast: featuring Nicolas Gregory, the CEO of CommerceBlock and one of the masterminds behind MercuryWallet 🔥
MercuryWallet is a Bitcoin privacy wallet which makes use of Statechains in order to perform CoinSwaps. This means that users can trustlessly exchange UTXOs of equal sizes without leaving any permanent on-chain data about their use of privacy 🤯
More recently, there are plans for MercuryWallet to get ported to mobile devices while adding some Lightning network features that very much resemble the non-custodial experience from Blixt ⚡
The first part of my interview consists of questions which concern details about MercuryWallet, CoinSwaps, Statechains, Lightning integrations, and CommerceBlock's other projects 🎙️
In the second half, I walk through the initial installation and setup of MercuryWallet – as Nicolas guides the entire process, provides useful explanations and answers to all questions 👌
Listen to S13 E5 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Fountain, Breez, Sphinx, and every other audio streaming platform. If you like it, please subscribe and leave feedback 🎧
And if you'd like to watch the video interview, you can either wait until Friday for the public premiere or else sign up to Bumbee (the Bitcoin version of OnlyFans/Patreon) and subscribe for free to the BTCTKVR channel 📺