Bitcoin Dominance (BTC.D) is the ratio of Bitcoin’s market capitalization to the total cryptocurrency market cap. For example, if Bitcoin’s market cap is $1 trillion and the total crypto market cap is $2 trillion, Bitcoin dominance would be 50%.

The last time we checked in on Bitcoin Dominance was 2 months ago. At that time, BTC.D was 60.84%. Over the last 2 months, Bitcoin has continued to prove that it is the only decentralized, credibly fixed, censorship-resistant digital money.

i don’t care how many people use nostr.

i care that this is the one place that will always be there for me to broadcast to the world.

Never been more bullish on #Bitcoin that right now. It’s going to be EPIC!

cashu is 1983 technology and vibe coded apps are going to be way more buggy than hand coded, and ai is just lossy compression of large volumes of data... and nostr's protocol is also backwards because fiatjaf didn't understand everything can be done easier and more stable with http

proper software takes time to build up, it took me a year part time to build the fastest relay and it's still not 100% production ready by my standards, not "vibe coded" lossy compression standards

what is great about nostr is it is simple enough that it will proliferate into a whole new class of infrastructure on the level we saw with HTTP in the last 20 years, and it's not going to happen overnight, and nobody is going to use vibe coded apps once they degenerate into a feature fest while nothing is tested and the errors of the AI continue to not be attended to by rigorous software engineers

cashu is 1983 technology and vibe coded apps are going to be way more buggy than hand coded, and ai is just lossy compression of large volumes of data... and nostr's protocol is also backwards because fiatjaf didn't understand everything can be done easier and more stable with http

proper software takes time to build up, it took me a year part time to build the fastest relay and it's still not 100% production ready by my standards, not "vibe coded" lossy compression standards

what is great about nostr is it is simple enough that it will proliferate into a whole new class of infrastructure on the level we saw with HTTP in the last 20 years, and it's not going to happen overnight, and nobody is going to use vibe coded apps once they degenerate into a feature fest while nothing is tested and the errors of the AI continue to not be attended to by rigorous software engineers

Good way of putting it. Productivity aside, I think the final generation using AI will loose the understanding so much that it would be replaced completely by AI, which also doesn't understand what it is doing but following patterns, which I guess most devs do anyway lol

I imagine the worst mistake you can make as a programming beginner is to start your journey with vibe coding

If it can be vibe coded, then humans don’t need to be part of the process, the machine can do it itself

I wonder when this whole vibe hacking shit will subside and die 🤔

Vibe code —> 🗑️

♻️ start over 😂

“The flippening is inevitable.”

I genuinely feel sorry for these people. They have lost so much money and I can’t fault them for conviction.

I just think if you don’t temper conviction with constant study, exploring counter arguments honestly, and digging hard into every single topic that causes any discomfort, then conviction is really just blind hope. nostr:note1n9n4wnk0lvw28m670qhwjeccm6gkclzanw7j3qlctwnpzdelnnzsq6zjq2

With AIs creating their models of the world primarily by reading text online, there's never been a more critical time to write than it is today.

This is an idea I've heard in a recent interview with Gwern and it's been reverberating in me ever since. Think about anything you care about, anything that's good or bad, anything of value to you. If it doesn't exist online, it basically doesn't exist at all for the AIs. That also means that your writings might be part of the training data of future AIs. By publishing your thoughts, you can become a tiny part of latent space tilting the self-reflection of the world in a direction you want to.

I made a mistake during my Bitcoin lecture last week in the university of Bologna. One I’m not going to repeat. I assumed something. And I shouldn’t have.

Since I was talking about my job, I told the students that a big part of it is debunking myths around Bitcoin...

You know, the usual stuff: Bitcoin is a Ponzi, it’s going to zero, it’s killing the planet. I built like 15 slides for this. I was ready to fight. Ready to debunk every single one of them, one by one.

So I asked them: “What’s something negative you’ve heard about Bitcoin?”

Silence. No one raised their hand. No one mentioned pollution. No one said anything about volatility or scams. These were 22 years old, curious, open-minded, and genuinely there to learn. They didn’t have myths to unlearn.

So there I was, spending the next 20 minutes talking about gas flaring, carbon-negative mining, and all the reasons Bitcoin is not what “they” say it is. But “they,” in this case, didn’t even exist. The only person bringing up those narratives was me.

And that’s when it hit me. All these years in the Bitcoin scene have trained my brain to always be on the defensive. To expect resistance. To anticipate criticism. And that mindset slowly killed a part of the joy I used to feel when I first learned about Bitcoin.

Back then, no one had told me it was bad. I just found it exciting, revolutionary, empowering. My brain wasn’t busy filtering negative takes it was busy being amazed.

That beginner’s energy, that childish awe, that sense of discovering something precious, it’s something I want to reconnect with. I don’t want to be the person who walks into a room full of open minds and immediately starts talking about the bad things people say.

I want to talk about freedom from banks and government, creativity, women empowerment, potential. I’m not saying I’ll stop responding to critics when necessary. But I want to stop assuming that everyone is a critic.

There are way more people out there who are just curious, interested, open to learning, than there are loud contrarians I’ll never change the mind of anyway.

From now on, I want to speak to the curious ones. Not the ghosts in my head.

Yes.

Rrcently I have added Grok 3 deepsearch to my habits, which is basically a time saver in searching the web (stackoverflow, blogs, docs...) and preparing a nice report, kinda verbose but still...

I often use grok to prep docs for my GPT/Deepseek chats that I then do in Frankie: I feel those models are better in writing down and perfecting code with a few iterations.

what's the easiest way to accept bitcoin/lightning payments on a website?