Not sure if anyone will care/notice, but I changed the YouTube thumbnails of the season 15 episodes to make them more visually distinct from each other.
You can also notice a wider variety of Supras (mk4 + mk5) in different colors & from different angles!
Thanks for your help @Andrej_designSats
Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhvEWDFJqc5_HqEnqrzWmbH4LiQNs1P8m&si=sIqAF7IGhv5UXm-U 
Tonight I tried to join the “100 pushups a day until $100k” movement
(or whatever it’s called)
My triceps gave up after 44 pushups and I guess I will be sore for a few days 🙈
This should take a while…
To the 100+ self-custody maniacs who bought Cryptosteel devices using promo code BTCTKVR for a 10% discount:
Thank you for contributing to my Supra budget 🫡
It’s not much, but one day you’ll see me on the news that I drove into a tree 🌳 
Gm, me and my girlfriend tried Europe’s finest sparkling water and came to the conclusion that S. Pellegrino is the smoothest, Borsec is a close second, while Perrier is overrated.
Anyway, here’s last night’s nightmare:
A Bitcoin philosopher came up with a theory that block space is as scarce as the 21 million supply.
Wait, what?
The worst part: he’s getting a cult following of believers who now think he’s some kind of genius.
So how can something predictable, whose schedule we know for the next 116 years, be just like something that is infinite (there will be a new block every 10 minutes for as long as someone mines Bitcoin) and which was changed many times in Bitcoin’s existence (most recently, in 2017 with SegWit)?
These people are batshit crazy. If you go back to study the history of the block size wars, you will see that even the small block camp said “not now” and/or “not under the terms presented by the New York Agreement”. Ask any developer today and he will agree that 8 MB or 16 MB blocks would benefit Bitcoin users worldwide with a minimal impact on decentralization.
But this is beside the point: of course the phony philosopher gets praise in an environment where businesses sell custodial solutions that take advantage of Bitcoin’s lack of scaling. It’s a multi-million dollar business and there’s a lot of money to be made from exchanges, federations and mints.
The worst part is that most bitcoiners struggle differentiating between facts and dogma. Instead of listening to the devs being interviewed on the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, they seek comfort in predictable LARPing which feeds them reassurance.
So happy that I woke up from this nightmare and now I’m dealing with reasonable human beings who can do their own research!
That’s really dumb. Especially since Bitcoin has increased the block size and will do it again in the future.
Gm, my girlfriend made me fruit cake 🍰
So now let me tell you about last night’s nightmare 🙃
Originally, the Bitcoin maximalist thesis could be described as “one coin to rule them all”. Everything interesting which has market demand was supposed to come home to Bitcoin.
Until a bunch of high priests created a defeatist & contradictory dichotomy that simultaneously says “everything that is not on Bitcoin is a shitcoin” and “you should only use Bitcoin like this, everything else is shitcoinery”.
So they nurtured a culture of stagnation, where anyone trying to create innovative ways to use Bitcoin would get bullied into giving up.
“Bitcoin is for everyone. It’s permissionless!”, they would say. But the moment someone built a non-monetary use case or some layer 2 that has a native token (like Counterparty), they would call him a shitcoiner and tell them to leave.
That’s why some people built other networks outside of the Bitcoin ecosystem, to only suit these non-monetary use cases. They took the load off of Bitcoin, so that it can become focused on payments.
But these guys were vilified to a much greater extent. “They’re shitcoiners, they create monetary inflation with premined tokens that aren’t even sound money”.
But wait, nobody ever claimed this would be sound money, it’s just the native currency that incentivizes participation.
“REEEEE, that’s a shitcoin. It will go to 0!”
Alright, so a bunch of very smart people brought these features to Bitcoin. Now all this economic activity can pay the Bitcoin miners and effectively increase demand for the BTC token.
“Nooooo, you’re a shitcoiner, don’t spray graffiti on the timechain! Bitcoin is only for these types of transactions, not for those! But if anyone asks, it’s still inclusive and permissionless!”
Fine, then why don’t you pay the miners just like the people you call shitcoiners do? Pay for the security of your savings if you care so much about the long-term sustainability of the Bitcoin project.
“I’m only HODLing you shitcoiner, the only on-chain transaction I ever do is to withdraw from Swan to my Coldcard. I don’t want to have another pizza event now, 15 years into Bitcoin’s existence, when the price is $70k and Blackrock is buying our bags!”
Alright, so who’s gonna pay the miners?
“Miners shouldn’t get paid more, it’s a race to the bottom in which only the strongest survive. 3.125 BTC is not enough for you? That’s enough to buy a citadel after hyperbitcoinization. If pussy miners sell, they have no conviction and no skin in the game. Just HODL!”
How about BIP300, though? Every interesting use case becomes a Bitcoin sidechain, so all the innovation gets easily drained and appropriated by BTC.
“I only agree with soft forks that ger proposed by Blockstream or Ocean Mining!”
Hunky dory, did you know that Blockstream CEO Adam Back publicly stated that he likes Drivechains and believes they could have been a much more usef upgrade than Taproot? Also, Luke Dashjr worked on the BIP300 proposal to bring improvements, declared himself neutral on the matter.
“REEEEE, your truth collides with my narrative, blocked!”
That’s when I woke up. What a shitty nightmare!
A few words about nostr:npub167hmfzj38hkumks4wxny89797la0sf7wnwfrw4enlmcl82msp0cs78schc's final day in the centralized CoinJoin coordination business:
I’ve always loved the product, been a fan of Wasabi since early 2019. When I interviewed David Chaum in April 2019, I told him about my new Chaumian mixing hobby (it’s on video, look it up).
I’ve held nostr:npub1qqvf96d53dps6l3hcfc9rlmm7s2vh3f20ay0g5wc2aqfeeurnh0q580c3j in high regard since I first interviewed him and I was the one doing the praising while he was trying to explain what he improve. He struck me as a relentless geek who took on a challenging mission – a true cypherpunk who continued the tradition of creating privacy tools in an Orwellian environment.
I also have a lot of respect for nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt , whose drive and passion are contagious. He was definitely the right choice for holding the CEO position, as he led the project through its hardest moments and established valuable partnerships.
For the rest of the devs, from nostr:npub1nccwjspr3nv7h67xx2qhdh2dzzvpyy55gte2dsu8yl7xd7n74y9qydz7mj & nostr:npub1799vtf2k45fjj33k8s5arnhapm4x2jhhtwn5klj3709uu07axryssgqt3d, all the way to David Molnar & WabiSabi architect Nothingmuch (who blocked me), I have nothing but great respect. You took a rough rock and turned it into a shiny diamond. I hope that you will keep on working on Bitcoin privacy projects.
Sure, there’s a lot to say about the non-dev team members who pushed the project to the next level in a philosophical and design-centric way. nostr:npub1g8hswun8cny6fhve60qyzgtl4pa438tstptpzra48ju7mmfw3wjsrjgh4l was instrumental in making the company work smoothly, while Roland created a beautiful UX that’s still unmatched among Bitcoin wallets. nostr:npub1t2jqazwvw3drtja7uwcyxuslalctln6g9p7zpw6ps9tvdswzm4cs9fhgkn also helped with communication for a while, and I enjoyed the funny & adversarial edge he brought to the table.
There’s also Trellz, Alexa, Norbo, Daniel, and a few others who created beautiful graphic designs & engaging social media posts. Their work is noteworthy because they stuck around the company for 3+ years and brought the project to new heights.
When I asked Wasabi if they’d be interested in sponsoring my work, it was a match made in heaven: I told them that I promote Wasabi to everyone anyway, and I will continue to do so even if they don’t accept to support my pod.
Subsequently, Wasabi covered my travel costs at various events, printed my BTCTKVR magazines, and helped me and my project even in ways that don’t involve any money.
I am happy to have promoted Wasabi’s CoinJoins over the years and I am proud to have stuck around with the company until the end 🫡
However, the end of ZK Snacks does not also spell the end of Wasabi. On the contrary, things will only get more interesting. The devs are committed to keep up with their research, and the community seems interested in spinning up independent coordinators.
It’s gonna be really interesting to see how a more decentralized Wasabi wallet is going to work.
As the guys liked to say, privacy is not a human right but a human fight – and I believe that the Bitcoin project is not complete until it acquires a reasonable way to achieve base layer privacy.
ZK Snacks is dead, long live Wasabi! 
Gm, my girlfriend made me carrot cake with banana and nuts. Plus hot chocolate!
Now let me tell you about my latest nightmare:
Governments had already caught up with how Bitcoin works. They knew how to regulate it in ways that fundamentally destroy the value proposition of uncensorable internet money.
Thankfully, Bitcoin devs had a few aces up their sleeve: a bunch of OP codes which enable new use cases, plus some really solid privacy proposals. Enough to keep the governments in the dark for a few more years, until more advanced cryptography gets discovered.
The problem, however, was the culture of the average bitcoiner who surrendered his freedoms for fiat gains. Here’s what a Bitcoin maxi told me:
“Just use Monero if you want freedom, you shitcoiner! Don’t touch my money layer, who knows what will happen?!”, they would say.
Developers would kindly point out to irrefutable facts: OP_CAT already exists on Bitcoin Cash for years, MWEB is already available on Litecoin mainnet. If you think you can do something evil to destroy the value proposition of these networks, why don’t you do it?
“I’m not touching shitcoin tech, keep your impure proposals away from my sacred money!”
Yeah but did you know that SegWit was first tested on Groestlcoin, Litecoin & Viacoin? Charlie Lee even set up a $1 million bounty in a LTC SegWit address to disprove the FUD that anyone can steal your coins if you activate SegWit. Afterwards, everyone understood that SegWit is safe and it got activated on Bitcoin!
Also, Lightning network was first tested on Litecoin’s mainnet. At the time, it was too reckless for ACINQ & Lightning Labs to deploy their software on Bitcoin, so they experimented with Litecoin for a few months. Everything came home to Bitcoin after it was proven safe.
“REEEEEEE shitcoiner, just use testnet”
Yeah, but there are no incentives on a testnet. It’s great for verifying if a piece of code runs correctly, but there’s no bounty for anyone who might want to break the software or steal coins from a buggy implementation. Also, the newbies don’t use the testnet and sometimes their feedback is extremely valuable in improving the features & performance.
“REEEEEEEE shitcoiner, I will tag your podcast sponsors to call them out for supporting such blasphemous opinions. I will also make up stories about you and make sure you get banned from speaking such nonsense on conference stages”
Alright, but if you don’t want any new very well tested and incentivized to be exploited OP codes to get added to Bitcoin, then you can still activate BIP300 and enable the free market to create trust-minimized sidechains which support mining.
“The only soft forks that we should have are the ones which fix the Lightning network, everything else is a shitcoin!”
Yeah but you can’t rely on a single solution for scaling. Competition is healthy and it would be bad if we switched to government-custodians.
“You have the Liquid sidechain if you want more blockchains for scaling!”
Yeah but that one has a single point of failure, and has a security model which relies on geopolitics rather than cryptography or computer science. It’s centralized, and L-BTC is arguably worse than private BTC on a Zcash drivechain.
“I refuse to engage with such a dishonest person. Read the Bitcoin Standard again and make sure you pray to the altars of Swan & Blockstream every morning. They are the only ones who have any answers about anything”
Yeah, but Blockstream’s head of research endorses OP_CAT. Liquid also enabled it.
“REEEEEEEE, BLOCKED!” 
On Monday, I will do a livestream with f/dev to talk about Bitcoin privacy, Electrum wallet development, Supras, girlfriends, and everything cool in between 🫡
Join us at 7 PM CET/12 PM EST and feel free to ask questions in the chat! 
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Check out the first Bitcoin Takeover podcast episode that I livestreamed on Nostr!
See you in 2 hours!
Save your zaps ⚡️ nostr:note1lvewpy586vqqk6tuxzgqu4phau9znmzwsq42chwxvxhrhl2ugr2suzfq09
Every day we stray further from Satoshi.