Hey anon, make sure you don’t miss out on the most important podcast episode of the week.
You’ll definitely learn A LOT from nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s & nostr:npub1xapjgsushef5wwn78vac6pxuaqlke9g5hqdfjlanky3uquh0nauqx0cnde , as they describe Bitcoin projects that suck & what sucks about them.
Link to stream 👇🏻
Listen to my livestream with nostr:npub1xapjgsushef5wwn78vac6pxuaqlke9g5hqdfjlanky3uquh0nauqx0cnde & nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s here on Nostr, broadcast via nostr:npub1eaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsqarcgz
Now live here on Nostr: nostr:npub1xapjgsushef5wwn78vac6pxuaqlke9g5hqdfjlanky3uquh0nauqx0cnde & nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s talk about Bitcoin projects that suck.
Spoiler: Nostr gets mentioned too 😂 
S15 E42 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast is a conversation about Bitcoin projects that suck.
Across 72 minutes, nostr:npub1xapjgsushef5wwn78vac6pxuaqlke9g5hqdfjlanky3uquh0nauqx0cnde & nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s explain why popular projects such as Nostr, Core Lightning, Samourai + Wasabi + JoinMarket, Seedsigner, BitVM, Citrea & more actually suck.
Dropping later today, stay tuned!
How do you onboard LN without an on-chain transaction that most people around the world consider expensive?
Custodial solutions are anti-Bitcoin, you get more freedom using any altcoin.
Super ultra mega unpopular opinion that will get me cancelled:
Bitcoin would be just as decentralized with 8 or 16 MB max block size. Even today, we rarely hit >2.5 MB
Millions of people would benefit from it every day. But the reason we don’t do it is political + business related (there’s way too much money in custodial solutions that profit when Bitcoin has high fees that most people aren’t willing to pay).
Post the best meme on your phone and I’ll follow you back
(only if it’s great) 
I didn’t see any BTFD posts in my feed.
Are we still buying the dip or has the plan changed into waiting for ETFs to do something? 🙃
Gm, don’t look at the price.
Just don’t.
Instead, here’s a picture of what my girlfriend cooked for me yesterday while we were still at $70k 🤪
And let me tell you about the nightmare I had last night: the BTC price went to $1 million, but there was no liquidity to buy your bags outside of the banking system & ETFs.
No way to spend your BTC with merchants, no more P2P markets. You wanted to benefit from the NGU? Shake hands with the enemy.
Shitty nightmare, I know. But think about it! 
Apple just destroyed the “instant payments” narrative which used to give Lightning + fast payment altcoins a competitive advantage.
What we still have (in the absence of any custodians) is freedom of transactions, censorship resistance, real self custody & a transparent monetary policy.
Just renewed my annual Nintendo Switch Online subscription via @bitrefill, using the zaps I’ve received on Nostr over the last couple of months.
Truly NGU (New Game Up) technology 🫡
Thanks, guys! 
Your favorite #Bitcoin bull once again proved that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
The Supra Cycle is undeniable: the most accurate bitcoin price prediction chart you will find!
It’s not just predictive, it’s aspirational: by 2026, you should get a Supra & a girlfriend! 
Gm, my girlfriend made me chocolate pancakes with watermelon juice 🍉
Now let me tell you about my nightmare.
Thanks to the influence of Wall Street billionaires, HODLing had become such a religion that people preferred to watch their parents die in public hospitals than spend any of their hard-earned sats.
It all started from selling chairs, then it degenerated into not buying new socks and underwear when the old ones had holes in them.
This adoption of a radical “low time preference” lifestyle turned into an excuse to never do anything with your life other than accumulate more bitcoin. Why accumulate more bitcoin, you say?
For no reason, because those guys swore they’d never sell “a single sat”. So they would never move into a nicer house. They would never take a girl on a nice date, make her their girlfriend and start a new life together. They would never even aspire to the sports car dreams of the previous generation of HODLers. They wanted to get buried with their bitcoin just because a fiat billionaire who runs an underperforming company said he would too.
But one day, the billionaire who said he would take the bitcoin to his grave decided to sell. So did his company, which was holding reserves of nearly 1% of the bitcoin supply.
The price plummeted, the mainstream media once again reported the death of bitcoin, but these guys cheered because they could use their $600 paycheck (which they earned from “miming fiat”) to buy 60% more BTC.
“BTFD!”, they would tweet while trying to forget about their failed marriages and the kids who won’t talk to them anymore since they went together on a trip, the car broke and the dad was too “low time preference” to call someone to pick them up… and made the entire family walk on the side of the road to the nearest town where they wouldn’t even get hotel rooms and dinner.
But shortly after the tweet got published, the electric company pulled the plug and the internet provider blocked the service due to failure to pay the bills. That’s also when the Lightning network died, as all the channels were kept by these Raspberry Pi nodes while the rest of bitcoiners had moved on to better layer 2s.
“Have fun staying poor”, echoed through the walls of the sat stacker. In 300 years of HODLing, he would be able to buy the electric company and the ISP at the 2023 fiat valuation.
So with a last ditch effort, the sat stacker decided to dust off his copy of The Bitcoin Standard and finally read past page 5. The book wouldn’t help him to fix his life – but then again, this was never his intention. 
Gm, I woke up late (again) but my girlfriend cooked salmond with potatoes & salad for me 🐟
Anyway, last night I had yet another nightmare.
The same guys who 16 years ago marched with Ron Paul to protest against the crony capitalism on Wall Street & the evilness of banks were now cheering for Bitcoin ETFs.
They would run analyses, compare volumes, and then act like they’re confused when high ETF inflows don’t pump the bitcoin price.
Dude, I thought you knew you were dealing with crooks who are regulated by government institutions that don’t want bitcoin to succeed.
Of course they want to maximize ETF NGU and make the real asset underperform in comparison.
Of course they trade paper bitcoins and most likely aren’t 100% backed by reserves. God only knows how frequently they are legally required to make settlements and how they make sure to manipulate demand in order to keep the BTC price suppressed.
Did you honestly believe bankers & Wall Street guys are your friends? If they were honest, bitcoin would have shot past $100k a long time ago.
Welcome to the new paradigm, where a bunch of institutions that hate Bitcoin are in control of the demand (and therefore price action). Will they make the number go up? Probably, but their game is to tame the BTC while making their ETFs look like a much better investment.
Are we better off without them? Of course, but even these OGs seem to have a hard time dealing with reality. Maybe that they are happy there’s enough liquidity for them to sell their bags and they’re supplying the ETFs while virtue signaling the plebs.
Maybe that the bad bears are among us. DID YOU THINK OF THAT?!
Oh wait, I woke up from that shitty nightmare. What a relief! 
#WasabiWallet release v2.0.8.1 Soteria is out https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.0.8.1
Highlights:
💸 Set maximum coinjoin mining fee rate
🔒 Set maximum coinjoin coordination service fee
👀 Verify coinjoin mining fee matches requested rate
With new independent Wasabi coordinators appearing every day, we are adding extra level of control to users.
❤️
Satoshi Nakamoto would have told you to launch your token on Solana.
Fortunately, Bitcoin is permissionless and everyone is free to degen 🙃 