Looks like nodes will become filled with more spam. I anticipate an uptick in running Bitcoin Knots instead of Core. #bitcoin

Imagine being this much of a scammer.

We did it, we won another league 🏴‍☠️

This is a real tweet.

False alarm… WW3 can’t start until daddy gov receives our war machine tithings. I don’t make the rules, just translate the specter.

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

Public service announcement: don’t forget, there’s still 138,000 mt Gox coins to distribute. And another 212,000 coins held by US federal government to sell. That’s a quarter million coins which is like a years worth of mined coins post halving.

I’m not selling for at least a year after these pools distribute to owners/new buyers.

Almost all of finance/investing can be summed up as shorting abundant things and going long scarce things.

And yet, many people spend the vast majority of their effort trying to go long abundant things and short scarce things precisely during the 10% of the time when that works, instead of going to therapy or something.

The most painful part about waking up might be the realization that one can’t drag loved ones along. They have to make their way. Or not. It’s okay. And somehow even perfect.

Shine brighter in the face of grief ✨

If you aren’t sovereign to your core, it doesn’t matter how many kernels of corn you store

We can out crazy and out HODL the power hungry 💫

#Bitcoin development is often compared to the "early Internet".

I've been thinking it's more like #Linux:

- Assembled from decades of past research.

- Reviewed and improved by thousands of passionate and brilliant enthusiasts.

- Can be and is "forked" for different use cases or approaches.

- A "base" system upon which modules can be connected to expand functionality.

- The invisible layer upon which a new world is built.

- People depend on it constantly, without ever interacting with it directly.

If #Bitcoin was physical, but could do nothing more than it currently can. It literally had all the exact same capabilities it does now, but you could simply hold it in you hand…

It would be obvious to everyone that it is the most valuable opportunity in the world.

All prices falling forever when measured in #Bitcoin!

If you think the past ride is something, watch as the rest of the ~ 7.9 Billion souls on this planet start to understand it, buy it, and contribute their time to this open and honest protocol.

Almost unimaginable from the paradigm most people are measuring from.