BitcoinBar: a minimal macOS menu bar app for real-time Bitcoin stats—block height, price, sats/$, fees, difficulty, and more. Powered by mempool.space API, zero tracking, retro design. macOS 15+ (Apple Silicon)
Download: github.com/nmorton13/bitc…
Source: github.com/nmorton13/bitc… Feedback/stars welcome! #Bitcoin #BTC #macos
Fun new tweak on Infinite Bitcoin Text:
Tap any section title, watch a live “concept tree” of Bitcoin angles unfold, expand any branch into a new section. Infinite rabbit holes await.
Dive in: infinitebitcointext.com
Github: github.com/nmorton13/infi… Feedback welcome! #Bitcoin #opensource
The Infinite Bitcoin Text -
An infinite, terminal-styled scroll of streamed Bitcoin prose. Each chunk focuses on a fresh topic from cryptography to energy, balancing technical precision with a gritty cyberpunk tone.
https://infinitebitcointext.com
GitHub - https://https://github.com/nmorton13/infinite-bitcoin-text
#bitcoin
Sweet.Just what I was looking for. Have tried Notedeck yet.
Two MCP servers I created for personal use that someone might find useful.
Works with like Cursor.
MCP Time Manager:
A simple server for time and timezone operations:
⦁ Get current time in any IANA timezone
⦁ Convert between timezones
⦁ Sunrise/sunset via public API
⦁ Business hours, weekends, seasons, moon phase
⦁ Format/parse Unix timestamps
⦁ Bitcoin block height for any date/time (via blockchain.info)
MCP SQLite Server"
A server for managing SQLite databases:
⦁ List/create/delete/rename .db files
⦁ Run queries, manage tables and indexes
⦁ Backup/restore, export schema
⦁ Optional per-database query logging
Example usage in Cursor or with an LLM agent:
“What is the current time in Tokyo in Central Time?”
“Is it business hours in London.”
“What was the Bitcoin block height on 2021-12-11 at 1PM?”
“Create a new SQLite database called mydata.db.”
“Show all users in mydata.db.”
“Backup the database garden.db.”
The Bitcoin Brew 🍺 podcast is now pouring.
🕕 Daily Pints (5–10 min) drop at 6PM CDT
☕ Weekly Brews (15–20 min) every Sunday
Distilled signal on tech, money, freedom & philosophy.
Listen whereever you get your podcasts.
https://blossom.primal.net/55f0e17acda393f43e5cadc24069b667961dc9b35b75e14c6346a636a801df47.mp4
SEASON FINALE DROP:
The Roman Calendar is Dead: NextBlock's Bitcoin Time Revolution
"... this observatory has a moon and a sun. The lunar observations track difficulty adjustments, the solar observations track the Bitcoin halving."
Each halving = one year with four seasons:
• Summer: Higher prices
• Winter: Lower prices
• Spring & Fall: Transitions
"How amazing is that for people to understand the so-called volatility of Bitcoin?"
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🎧 Full episode: The Roman Calendar is Dead: NextBlock's Bitcoin Time Revolution
https://www.flirtingwithbitcoin.com/p/fwb120
#Bitcoin #Observatory #Cycles #NextBlock #timechain
Definitely going to take a listen to this. You might be interested in my essay: Bits, Blocks, and the Bending of Time
A Personal Exploration of Bitcoin's Temporal Revolution https://hodljuice.app/static/essay.html
The Bitcoin Standard Podcast - 270. Crowdhealth with Andy Schoonover
2025-04-22
• CrowdHealth, an innovative model that decentralizes healthcare by allowing members to directly help each other pay for medical expenses without the interference of traditional insurance companies, emphasizing a more personal and economical approach to healthcare financing. How do you think a decentralized healthcare model could impact the overall cost and accessibility of medical care in the long run?
• Another key point explored is the principal-agent problem within the health insurance industry, highlighting how insurance companies' profit incentives often lead to higher healthcare costs for consumers, while emphasizing that individuals can sometimes negotiate better prices directly with healthcare providers. In what ways do you think using Bitcoin for healthcare transactions could further disrupt the current systems of health insurance and pricing?
Link: https://url.hodljuice.app/5z4CqU
#bitcoin #podcast
When I was a kid, doctors still made house calls. They knew your name, your parents, your story. Sometimes they’d even trade services if you couldn’t pay — food, a load of firewood, handyman work, whatever you had. Healthcare was personal. It wasn’t perfect, but there was trust.
Now even in small towns, most doctors work for some corporate system. Their patients aren’t really their patients anymore. They’re just names on a chart that gets reviewed by HR departments and administrators who’ve never treated a patient in their lives. The connection is gone — and with it, the accountability.
A decentralized model like CrowdHealth flips that dynamic. It puts people back in charge of caring for each other, without funneling everything through layers of middlemen who drive up costs. When you take the bureaucracy out, healthcare gets cheaper, more personal, and more responsive. You rebuild the trust that the old system destroyed.
Bitcoin fits this model perfectly because it’s built for direct, trustless transactions. No middleman, no approvals, no games. Just two people agreeing on value and settling it between themselves.
When you pay a doctor in Bitcoin, the price is the price. There’s no insurance company inflating it for billing, no hidden administrative fees baked in. It forces real transparency. It protects both sides — the doctor knows they’ll get paid, and the patient knows exactly what they’re paying for.
In something like CrowdHealth, Bitcoin isn’t just a payment method — it’s part of the mindset. Decentralized money for decentralized care. No need to ask for permission. You reclaim ownership — of your money, your care, and your decisions.
Though it seems — or maybe I’m afraid — that most people, like it or not, will stay with the system as it is. It’s the whole fish in water deal. People have lives, homes, work, kids to take care of. They just want to live their lives.
It’s not the average person’s fault that society got caught up and melded into this thing that’s now incentivized to keep itself going.
But hopefully, Bitcoin will help chip away at that — block by block.
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I’m horrified at the thought of how many plastic cutting boards are used at restaurants I’ve eaten at. I pretend it is zero.
My new Bitcoin essay:
Bits, Blocks, and the Bending of Time
A Personal Exploration of Bitcoin's Temporal Revolution
Heavy on the protein for the win! And it’s so peace up there on the levee.
If you haven’t checked them out, the small quantized models can be run at home on fairly new laptops or desktops. “eager beaver EU states” 😂 that definitely seems to be the case!
I don’t have any insights on the direct questions but I do think there are too many open source models now. So any price reversal or stalling from big players wouldn’t matter.
I run every morning out that way if you want to join. Or hit the mountain bike trail!