bitcoin couldn’t exist in the absence of a fiat economy
not just because it wouldn’t be necessary under a gold standard
but without money printing incentivizing investors to beat inflation, it would take much longer to mass produce computers & spread internet adoption
coinbase appstore ranking a week ago: 484
coinbase appstore ranking 2 days ago: 154
coinbase appstore ranking yesterday: 70
coinbase appstore ranking today: 18
“Everyone’s a triple maxi anti-paranoid crypto anarchist gigachad until he gets punched in the face”
– Mike Tyson, probably 
Wake up anon, new privacy magazine dropped and it’s amazing!
Read it for free:
Remember Bitcoin 2.0? Counterparty, Mastercoin/Omni, NXT, and eventually Ethereum got created to take all these builders.
It’s where Tether was created and it’s where Rare Pepes first got issued and traded.
David A. Johnston lived those days and is here to remind us what it was like.
He also talks about decentralized AI, which he believes is the future of internet and money transactions.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ZAxoaGEzGss?si=3O0blfnsz9ivKTq-
So you’d rather have the teleprompter lady who’s basically a walking puppet of her party and never expressed anything positive about the bitcoin industry?
Only one candidate promised to pardon Ross and is paying attention to the Bitcoin community.
this is what’s on the ballot today for bitcoiners
please vote! 
don’t let the election circus distract you from the fact that
zcash & monero are pumping
while bitcoin is dumping
Was Elon Musk supposed to come to the Bitcoin conference in Nashville?
What will Bitcoin look like under Donald Trump’s presidency?
When will Bitcoin surpass gold’s market cap?
Listen to my interview with nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu CEO David Bailey to find out!
https://www.youtube.com/live/kdDTctvM3z4?si=ftkr-Xajfp-uDpux
in 2 hours i will interview bitcoin magazine owner david bailey about his favorite orange friend…
and talk about bitcoin too!
make sure you join the livestream if you want to ask questions about the trump administration’s bitcoin agenda! 
bitcoin going up against fiat doesn't mean that the network scales better, that the fungibility issue has been fixed, or that the user experience has been improved.
bitcoin today is not much different than it was 3 years ago. it's technically worse, due to the lightning network becoming more centralized & less liquid, while the liquid federation has even fewer users.
the improvements are marginal and are due to developers figuring out workarounds to compromise on the fact that there's no new soft fork update.
there is some progress in the field of custodial solutions (ecash, federations, etfs), but that's not really bitcoin. it's something else that bitcoin was supposed to replace.
what bitcoin does have is a new wave of institutional investors who pulled some strings to remove some mainstream media fud in order to make it easier for them to dump on retail.
don't fool yourselves: these companies don't report their earnings in btc. they are not here for a new monetary standard and don't hope to one day move into citadels.
once the opportunity arises, they will dump their reserves on the newcomers and cause the next bear market.
and when we finally see the hopium get smoked, once everyone is done pointing fingers to find the heretics who didn't do as they said, the builders will have to step in and pick up the pieces in order to provide new technological legitimacy to the project.
we only have a few months left, and then i hope we return to making bitcoin work much better – not banks, not federations, not ecash mints. bitcoin as peer to peer electronic cash.
no btc all-time high until $80k
that's the 2021 all-time high adjusted to inflation
donald trump: chaotic good
kamala harris: lawful evil
joe biden: lawful neutral
jd vance: lawful good
rfk: true neutral
tim waltz: hufflepuff
my point about bitcoin privacy:
people say “my transaction didn’t get censored, it got mined, there’s deniability, who cares?”
but this deniability diminishes over time: as blockchain analysis becomes more advanced, the linking & tracking will follow the entire history of transactions.
maybe that your privacy is impeccable, but the receivers of your transactions can and most likely will deanonymize you.
bitcoin won’t be a fungible currency until it adds privacy to the base layer!
finally watched the rogan - trump interview in its entirety
was surprised that they spent so much time talking about boxing and ufc, trump seemed quite interested on the topic
also, it’s weird that the topic of bitcoin or world liberty financial was never brought up… almost as if it’s not a significant conversation to be had before the election
they even talked about ufos and aliens, ffs. and i’m not aware of any ufo conference giving him hundreds of millions of dollars and handing him casascius coins 🤷🏻♂️
if bitcoin activates drivechains and a couple of covenants (op_cat + op_ctv, or great script restoration), it will empower the builders to bring everything to the network and add more value to btc.
the competitive advantage won’t only be political/memetic, there will be solid technical reasons to abandon alts like ethereum and build everything on bitcoin.
it would also solve issues related to miners’ revenue, as people will use bitcoin transactions for lots of different reasons which include interacting with layer 2s.
all it takes is 2-3 soft forks.