Been so busy that I forgot to get pumped that I get to hang with all my hommies this week!

See y’all in Vegas!

What the hell, folks? I get my Full Node up and running after many years of hodling. Grok walked me through everything on Ubuntu and it was my first time in Linux.

So, I figure there has to be a LOT of accessible full nodes, right? I find where to look.

No! There are only 22313 in the world.

Only 2300 or so in the whole US (at least the traceable ones).

Why are you not running a full node? Just spend $200 on a Nucbox and have Grok walk you through it.

#bitcoin

#fullnode

#hodl

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for the last 15 years bitcoin has been treated as a risky trade

over the last few months bitcoin has quietly been recognized as the ultimate safe haven among investors around the world

few appreciative the magnitude of this transition

there is safety in sats

I think JPEGs on the timechain are stupid.

But the idea that they're going to hurt Bitcoin seems so weak to me. Like the US dollar can withstand people scribbling on it but Bitcoin can't?

In fact, the idea of Bitcoin as a glorious digital monument with some graffiti scribbled on it represents humanity pretty well. That's kind of us in a nutshell. Seems on-brand. Perfectionists trying to keep their little gardens tidy while trolls come in and find ways to mess with them anyway.

NFTs and memecoins already had their peak fad moments. People now know that they're non-scarce gambling toys rather than investments. It's just echoes of that peak now. The only thing that concerned me about the ordinals/runes period was the rapid UTXO bloat, not the blockspace usage, since the latter already has a consensus limit on it.

And if Bitcoin transactions can't outprice JPEGs in the long run, then it's just not that valuable. Bitcoin currently does about 1% of the gross settlement volume of Fedwire. That's peanuts. Imagine if it reaches a point where it does even like 10% of Fedwire. What would you pay to move a full bitcoin globally, permissionlessly, in 10 minutes, in a world where it's no longer a niche thing?

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Donald Trump said "The U.S.A. is DOMINATING in Crypto, Bitcoin, etc., and we are going to keep it that way!"

Sold one coin today to put a down payment on my house

Yes I know Bitcoin will keep going up much faster than a house

But I saved it and waited 2 cycles so I can finally escape the pod I've lived in for 20 years

I've never owned a bbq or had a yard or a garage

Thank you Satoshi

No.

But 99% of the world still does.

Did a presentation yesterday with ego death team to over 80 funds, family offices, and high net worth individuals. All smart and curious. Just caught in the wrong frame of reference - like we all were at one point.

…And….Every time I do a presentation, talk or meeting (outside of #nostr ) it reinforces how unbelievably early we are on this journey.

One of the reasons, I was early and so intrigued with the internet, is that the smartest people I knew were moving their time to it. (Before it was captured by broken money)

The same thing playing out on the #bitcoin protocol with a massive added plus…..Not only the smartest/most curious people, but generally those with a high level of integrity and aligned values.

Feel so much gratitude to you all!

And good morning.

Global currencies against the U.S. dollar over the last 10 years:

🇻🇪: -99.9%

🇦🇷: -98.3%

🇹🇷: -92.6%

🇷🇺: -66.7%

🇧🇷: -55.4%

#Bitcoin : +21,369%