And that's all for 2025.

Don't worry about the price of Bitcoin. Tomorrow there will be more fiat money, more gold, and more silver in the world, but there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins.

So just sit back and enjoy the collapse of the fiat system, enjoy all the stupid situations that are created by the fiat system.

Happy 2026!

This is a Christmas present 🎁 thread, each reply gets a 1K sats zap until I run out of sats in my zap wallet. Others are welcome to join in gifting. You better not scam mfrs, the Santa knows your ass, so be nice. Yes, I had some wine and I feel reckless AF, so feel free to abuse my recklessness 😂🤣😂

Merry Christmas, hope this will make your Christmas just a little better. Go go go!!! 😂🎅🏻⚡️⚡️⚡️🔥

I would like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who has supported me this year—whether through purchasing my art and/or through kind words, emails, and comments.

Without you, I wouldn't be able to pursue drawing Bitcoin as a self-employed artist to this extent.

Hopefully you will continue to enjoy my work in the coming year, I have been working on a big artwork for some time now.

With this in mind, may you have a few wonderful days with your loved ones.

After a couple years of falling back into bad old habits, this Christmas I'm celebrating without the addition of alcohol. It can be difficult this time of year, surrounded by celebrations where the Christmas spirit is served from a bottle. Congratulations and good luck to anyone who deals with the same problem. 🫂🎄🎅

Absolutely adorable when folks try to tell me what I should say or how I should say it, because it might make some people think poorly of me.

Let me be clear: I shall say whatever I damn well please and my audience may think whatever they damn well please of me.

I'm not a politician and I am not seeking your approval.

what are the 5 mental blocks keeping people from stacking 0.1 bitcoin?

#Bitcoin is the wheel. You don't reinvent the wheel.

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⚡️🇰🇷 NEW - South Korea introduces mandatory facial recognition scans for purchasing mobile SIM cards to reduce scams.

The people on here are so anti-legacy media, that they all switched over to media that errs in the opposite direction, and therefore remain poorly informed.

If you see or hear some news, put in some more effort to make sure it is confirmable, before allowing it to affect your worldview. If the news makes you happy and reassures you that _nothing has changed_ then work extra-hard to confirm it, as that is a sign that it is mere propaganda.

You see me posting news that reflects poorly on Germany and the EU, and the same for both the Republicans and the Democrats, and the same for Ukraine and Russia, as well as news that reflects well on them, because I am willing to entertain the idea that:

* Nobody is always right.

* Nobody is always wrong.

* Nobody is perfectly good.

* Nobody is perfectly evil.

* Things are constantly influx.

* The world is full of surprises, and the occasional miracle.

Life is complicated. News, also.

It’s my birthday today. Thankful for life, clarity, and the strength to keep going. One step at a time. 🌻🧡🎂

had a real shitty day today. plz send memes

With all the dystopian social media identification laws coming about, nostr might just be the last place of free speech with pseudonymity.

We might want to lean into this and make it as easy as possible to use nostr as anonymously as possible. Or at the very least offer an option to do so.

Collect authentic testimonials from Nostr, Twitter, and YouTube. Display them beautifully anywhere and convert more visitors into customers.

In 2000, Saddam Hussein did something very few people paid attention to.

He announced Iraq would start selling oil in euros, not U.S. dollars.

Three years later, the United States invaded Iraq.

No weapons of mass destruction were ever found.

But something else happened quietly.

Iraqi oil went right back to being priced in dollars.

Most people call that a coincidence.

I call it a lesson.

In 2009, Muammar Gaddafi proposed something even more dangerous.

A gold-backed African currency — the gold dinar.

It would have allowed African nations to buy oil without using dollars.

In 2011, NATO intervened in Libya for “humanitarian reasons.”

Gaddafi was killed.

The gold dinar disappeared.

Libyan oil? Back to dollars.

Another coincidence.

I’m noticing a pattern.

Go back further.

In 1971, President Nixon took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.

The dollar was no longer backed by gold — only a promise.

By all historical logic, the dollar should have collapsed.

It didn’t.

Why?

Because three years later, Henry Kissinger cut a deal with Saudi Arabia.

The deal was simple:

Sell oil only in U.S. dollars, and the U.S. military will protect the regime.

From that moment on, every country on earth needed dollars to buy energy.

That wasn’t free-market economics.

That was force-backed monetary policy.

Or, more honestly, a protection racket.

And it works — as long as the military can enforce it.

Watch what happens when countries challenge it.

Russia demands rubles for natural gas?

Sanctions. Escalation.

Syria discusses pipelines priced outside the dollar system?

Civil war intensifies. Pipeline never happens.

Iran tries to sell oil outside the dollar?

Decades of sanctions.

I’m not saying these are good governments or bad governments.

I’m saying watch what happens when anyone threatens the petrodollar system.

Once you see it, the pattern isn’t subtle.

SWIFT is not a neutral payment system.

It’s a weapon.

Get cut off from SWIFT, and you’re locked out of global trade.

Russia.

Iran.

Cuba.

Venezuela.

Different politics. Same outcome.

They don’t teach this in school because it’s uncomfortable.

We don’t send 18-year-olds to die for “freedom.”

We send them to protect reserve currency status.

Currency funds the military.

The military protects the currency.

That’s how empires work.

Britain learned this the hard way.

The British pound was the world’s reserve currency for nearly 200 years.

After World War II, Britain lost reserve status.

Within two decades, the British Empire collapsed.

Same cycle.

Dutch guilder.

British pound.

Now the U.S. dollar.

Ray Dalio has been warning about this for years.

Late-stage empire looks like this:

• Military overextension

• Rising debt

• Currency weakening

• Rivals building alternatives

China’s Belt and Road isn’t charity.

It’s about creating debt relationships denominated in yuan.

BRICS aren’t talking about alternatives because they’re friends.

They’re building an exit ramp from dollar dependence.

When the dollar loses reserve status — not if, when — the ability to print money without consequences disappears.

- Then the military contracts.

- Then the empire ends.

- You can call this cynical.

I call it financial history.

Every war in my lifetime had a currency angle — if you knew where to look.

“Freedom and democracy” is the marketing.

The actual policy documents talk about

“maintaining dollar liquidity in global energy markets.”

I’m not anti-military.

I’m anti-bullshit.

If we’re sending people to fight…

We should at least be honest about why.

Culture is downstream of elite behavior. And elite behavior is downstream of incentives. And incentives are downstream of money.

It always comes back to the money.

bitcoin has been running for nearly 17 years

at the protocol level, no transaction has ever been blocked, no coin has ever been seized

not enough people appreciate the magnitude of these simple facts

I love how much it sucks to be a holder.

Imagine if it was easy? Boring. 🥱

We need privacy, not because our actions are questionable, but because their intentions are.

The West is not "stagnating." It is being destroyed.

Decades of taxation, inflation, and regulatory plunder have consumed the capital that took generations to accumulate. Europe now runs on fumes, its industrial base gutted, its currency debased, its people impoverished by design.

The path back to prosperity requires exactly one rule: **do not steal**. This principle, applied to governments as strictly as to criminals, would reverse the collapse almost overnight. The question is whether anyone has the courage to admit the obvious before there is nothing left to save. nostr:naddr1qqgxxdfjv9jxvdpsv3jnxve3xgcnzq3qklkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qxpqqqp65wf9ca8t

“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”

— Edward Snowden

Okay, here is a feature idea I don't see that any client has.

I often zap as a like, but if the zap doesn't go through, then I have to go back and hit like, and at that point I have already moved on.

How about a combined zap-like button/feature. They get the like regardless, the zap does what it will, and I can move on.

Most people still don’t understand they’re holding direct control over distribution. Your REPOST is you exercising the most powerful curation tool in an attention economy.

Here, power over attention lives with individuals making reputational stakes.

Nostr sometimes feels like that awkward party where everyone’s standing in corners checking their phones instead of talking. We’ve built this incredible censorship-resistant protocol, escaped the algorithm plantation, and then… crickets.

Here’s the psychological trap: we assume someone ELSE will engage, so we lurk instead of participate. Classic bystander effect meets network effects. Meanwhile, we’re all secretly refreshing our notifications hoping for that sweet dopamine hit of human connection.

The brutal truth? Nostr’s value isn’t in the protocol, it’s in US using it. Every like, zap, and repost creates positive reinforcement loops that keep people posting quality content instead of doomscrolling back to the bird app. We’re literally Pavlov’s dogs, but we can choose to ring each other’s bells.

Engagement breeds more engagement, and network effects are how we build the future.

P.S. - If you didn’t engage with this post, you just proved my point. 😏

Community and culture is so much more palpable and soulful here than x.

Sentiment doesn't go down.

People who quit nostr because they think it’s “boring” are actually the boring ones who need an algorithm to make the internet more exciting

Sometimes, I wish I had something to say about Bitcoin on Nostr, but I don’t.

All I have to say is that I understood Nostr first, and understanding Nostr helped me understand and appreciate Bitcoin.

MY WIFE BTC-FANNYPACKER IS KILLING IT IN THE GARDEN THIS SEASON JUST SOME PHOTOS 🪏🏡

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