Yesterday my X account was partially breached. X Support investigated it and sent me an email saying it seemed to still in my control.
But now the hacker gained headway somehow. That's what I was trying to prevent by taking early action, but alas.
They posted a crypto scam from it recently. X fortunately deleted it pretty quickly.
I have a note on my homepage saying my Twitter was compromised. https://www.lynalden.com/
As I mentioned yesterday here on NOSTR, please disregard any messages from it until I confirm that I have control of it again.
My X account blocked a lot of people as well. If I get control of the account again, the good news is I won't be hard to figure out who to unblock, since I don't block anyone.
Lyn I’m in contact with someone on their marketing team right now who is having a colleague investigate. https://x.com/aaronjacobxon
I managed to get in touch with someone on the marketing team (https://x.com/aaronjacobxon) who is getting a colleague to look into it now. Hopefully that helps.
A lot of the low value stuff people were experimenting with seems to have gone away, I don’t see that as an issue. One person could in theory do a million transactions just by themselves, doesn’t make it valuable to the network.
For years, Bitcoiners pushed exchanges to adopt Lightning.
And guess what? It worked. Public Lightning volume is up 266% in about a year.
A few interesting insights from our new nostr:nprofile1qqsrtv3u6qkj6a09tnhr3l0wy67g9uw3t57ftqyqpvztpk3wmd6306s92qxwz report:
Our previous Lightning research in 2023 showed a 1212% increase in transactions.
Many of these were low value, as people experimented with new apps & business models.
Now, a new wave of bigger volume has come in, driven by exchanges.
We used the same methodology for our estimates as in 2023, but instead of having data on 52% of public capacity, we now got up to 79.4%
A massive thank you to Acinq, nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0s8jq7y6, Bitfinex, nostr:nprofile1qqsfwyw34w5qdgazshlnap73wkgzcte9qaqcvrvuvkgrez67scltmqglmz585, C=, nostr:nprofile1qqsf5wdlsd7gdrtpakxvu6jv0g8tjm67t0xqs2kk4lw4f9ktv99z87c9ekpvj, Kraken, LQWD, NiceHash, OKX, Cyberdyne, Sunny Sarah, nostr:nprofile1qqstaag5h4vv3nh2f04eu6uy4rvc8y6l003x7j0pfhmgpx83hfjp2ms0tudgq, and nostr:nprofile1qqstu8vf099ljt09m4jvres0dgk8ps2q4wkfjvjp3lhrp3wxxllfg7gnp0y44 for sharing data.
The Lightning industry continues to grow
We’ve updated our map, adding 46 new companies and removing 12.
We expect Lightning to continue growing:
- On-chain fees remain low, slowing adoption.
- USDT on Lightning may increase activity.
- Dozens of scaling proposals continue to build on Lightning.
More Lightning + Bitcoin adoption trends in our new report 👇
https://blog.river.com/bitcoin-adoption-2025/
I used to live in a country where it looked like this all year, and then I got fed up with it and moved. I don’t mind rain, but the endless grey days are depressing!
My girlfriend is reallllyyyy into these so seeing more Bitcoiners hyped about them is a funny crossover for me.
10 years ago on this day, I built up the courage to give my first presentation about Bitcoin.
It was quite the rollercoaster 😅 but more rewarding than almost anything I've done in my life.
Let me tell you 👇
Someone in my class asked if I'd be up for presenting at an innovation event for travel agency Thomas Cook.
I'd never given a public presentation before, but I reluctantly gave it a shot. My gut told me to just do it.
I spent days on my slides and rehearsing. The slides looked terrible, and presenting to ~25 people for an hour didn't go much better. They looked at me like I was an alien.
About 15 mins into my presentation, my laptop, which had been struggling for months, crashed. It took me another 10 mins to get it back up 😬
After the presentation, I got a bunch of questions and probably some sighs of relief that it was over.
But I felt exhilarated.
I had never felt the thrill of presenting before, and I loved it, despite being an introvert.
Even though I knew I did a poor job, I realized I could get way better.
Over the next years (2015-2018), I gave 100+ presentations about Bitcoin and the blockchain at all kinds of public events, in board rooms for private companies, etc. Zero nerves when I get on stage now, all excitement.
As a thank you from Thomas Cook I got a gift card for €200 to spend on their website.
I tried to trade the gift card for cash (student life), and the best I could get for it was €100.
Instead of putting it towards a new laptop, I put it into 0.13 BTC, worth $12669 today.
That's an amazing amount for a bad presentation, but it's nothing compared to how much Bitcoin and all of the people I've met in this space have enriched my life in so many ways.
Since first joining River 2 years ago, I was always hoping we’d do proof of reserves one day. Many Bitcoiners just aren’t ready to self-custody yet.
Super pumped to see it come to reality!
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Do you think you can get him to watch this 3 min video so that he can still disagree afterwards? https://primal.net/e/note1zscdtswek3ln0zmr9f787kd4v57n5z29gcalwe6lh789x0hwl24q545ucv
It has been given a brand problem by media in many places, so yeah you start from the negative side of the scale in many cases, which requires more patience, creativity, and experience to get through.
I see many Bitcoiners give up on Bitcoin education and blame it on people being ignorant.
Consider the possibility that you have room for improvement, and get better 🫵
Below my talk at nostr:npub1rwh33t5x8n7czknhts5fg0v0fml8mkl7neaarksumkkf8d679qrqcz7avv
+ new article with practical tips on how to get people to listen to you.
https://blog.river.com/how-to-make-friends-and-family-listen-to-you-about-bitcoin/
I think a lot of Bitcoiners aren’t effective at it, so in that sense yeah it often doesn’t help.
The comment section there is absolutely brutal. It’s a great reminder for all the Bitcoiners that if we don’t patiently educate people, they’re not going to come around to how things really work.
Came across this lil’ bro today on a bike path. He was cray cray.
Made a new graph. It’s a nice graph. One of those rare moments to cover something other than Bitcoin. But this one’s good for Bitcoin.
Nature is healing.
3 years ago, Bitcoin's market cap was ~$750B.
Same for all the crypto stuff w/o stablecoins.
Today, Bitcoin's market cap is up 53% ($1.15T)
And the other stuff? 0.58% (not adjusted for inflation)
It’s a good stat to mention to people who “diversify”.
Bitcoiners are increasingly setting up their inheritance, but they often overlook this critical step.
