Comparison is the theif of joy. Also, I initially read that as majestic sperm 😅😂

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Coinbase has acquired prediction market startup The Clearing Company to expand event-based trading on its platform.

Coinbase continues its quest to become an "all-in-one exchange" where users can trade cryptocurrencies, stocks, derivatives, etc., all in one place.

Bro, check your DMs 🤙

When I was a kid it was the USSR. When I was a kid it was Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. When I was a kid a Brontosaurus was a fact and Pluto was planet.

Don't believe all facts as they tend to change depending which way the wind is blowing.

Micro machines or double dragon?? 👀

Guess who’s back, back on the protocol

Back with the keys, no need for the optional

Decentralized chat, that’s the radical

Notes and relays, yeah, that’s just logical

I’ve created a monster, ’cause nobody wants to

See centralized no more, they want Nostr, I’m poster

Well if you want Nostr, this is what I’ll give ya…

A cheesy little rhyme for my return back to Nost after a long weekend break. Missed y’all!! Gm.

Back in 2018, Nic Carter famously created the “Bitcoin FUD Dice.”

It was a 12-sided die covered in the same recycled headlines.

Critics could just roll it, transcribe the result, and publish their next hit piece.

“High fees.” “Energy waste.” “Toxic fans.”

Add enough together and you’ve got a solid piece for Medium.

Which is why this week feels so incredibly ironic.

Because Nic just reached back into that FUD bag and pulled out the ultimate Bitcoin boogeyman: Quantum Computing.

In a new piece that lit the Bitcoin timeline on fire, Carter argues that quantum is no longer sci-fi.

We’ve moved past the theoretical; now, he says, a breakthrough is just a "matter of engineering."

According to his research, a functional, scaled quantum computer could arrive as early as the late 2020s.

And if a "cryptographically relevant" computer arrives faster than we expect?

It could, in theory, rip private keys from exposed public keys and turn vulnerable addresses into a $600 billion honeypot.

But Nic aims his biggest shots at the Bitcoin developers.

He argues that even if a fix exists, the Bitcoin community is too slow, too fractured, and too head-in-the-sand to coordinate a migration before the clock runs out.

But... wouldn’t you know it? There’s money involved.

Carter also disclosed that his VC firm, Castle Island Ventures, just led a $6 million seed round into a post-quantum company called Project 11.

This has the "Toxic Bitcoiners" from his FUD dice asking a simple question: Is this a legitimate warning, or is it "FUD-as-a-Service" to pump a portfolio company?

So, how do we, as people with a deep vested interest in this network, think about Quantum without being FUD-ed out of our bags?

Quantum is undoubtedly a theoretical threat to elliptic curve cryptography.

But it’s also a threat with wildly uncertain timelines.

The true test for Bitcoin is whether this community can respond calmly, deliberately, and early.

That requires two things:

One: Personal On-Chain Hygiene.

Stop reusing addresses. Avoid leaking public keys. These are things you can do today to make yourself a harder target without touching a single line of Bitcoin's code.

Two: The Escape Hatch.

We need to research post-quantum signatures and start drafting contingency BIPs. We need to give this ecosystem years, not months, to coordinate.

Short-term panic weakens Bitcoin, but denying a real possibility will get you blindsided.

The middle path of adversarial thinking, slow changes, and relentless preparation is how Bitcoin went from a post on a mailing list to a $2 trillion asset.

Given its Christmas week, and it’s a period of holiday, family, and hopefully some rest

My usual podcast publish slot of Friday morning is going to be delayed

If there are any nutters listening in, there’s 100 plus episodes from this year to binge

Preferably everyone downs tools for a few days

Sending good vibes and Christmas Wishes all

🙏🏻

If you are in a season where you really want to receive more but don’t know how, try giving more.

Simply be of service to the people around you. Smile more. Attach to the outcome less. Do your best over and over again. Just be a genuine soul trying to make the world a better place.

The wrong people won’t care, but the right people will, and your life will change because of it.

One of my bigger dogs literally just pooped himself from fright when a python came down off the roof where he was napping on our back steps

what are the 5 mental blocks keeping people from stacking 0.1 bitcoin?

I'm not so sure, their drama is kicking up a lot of resentment towards Israel by drawing attention to closely related issues - can't be what anyone involved wants

Dilution is the name of his game. Don’t they just sell them ATM to the open market? This is why the price keeps dumping because he keeps increasing supply.