Hola humans of #Bitcoin :)

Any suggestion for the book title ?

It's about the 'run with bitcoin' journey.

( I don't want bitcoin in the title)

Thank you.

Gm ⛅️

Struggling with post iron man fatigue / emptiness

Not sure where to channel my energy

Hitting bottleneck after bottleneck with Joe nakamoto work - where I thought I would push my energy after

Wondering maybe I did the iron man to put off facing that I need to really sort out the Joe nakamoto work.

Also hitting the realisation that unless I hit 100k subs, it’s not gonna make decent money and I would’ve been *much* better off being a salaried employee for the past 2 years.

eeek

Based on node count and culture I think Germany is likely second

#coffeechain

US National Debt Crisis Simplified! :)

U.S. Tax revenue: $4,690,000,000,000

Federal budget: $6,660,000,000,000

New debt: $2,000,000,000,000

National debt: $37,500,000,000,000

Now just remove 8 zeros and pretend it is a household budget:

Annual family income: $46,900

Money the family spent: $66,600

New debt on the credit card: $20,000

Outstanding balance on the credit card: $375,000

lets play a game

guess the usd bitcoin price exactly a month from now

sep 26th 2025 - 0414 UTC

closest guess will be zapped 5555 sats

only guesses made within the next 24 hours qualify

(if i think you are a bot you are disqualified)

America is ranked 3rd in gun violence out of 193 countries.

So clearly, America is incredibly unsafe and dangerous…right?

However this is where it gets interesting. If you were to remove Detroit, LA, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Chicago; America would fall to 189 out 193.

Ironically these five cities are liberal run with some of the most strictest gun laws.

Perfect example of how politicians can ruin a city.

It wouldn't be responsible to have this protocol and ecosystem as a dependency unless you can somehow capitalize on it in the short term... because most of the momentum is trendiness and tribalism, not utility.

Extreme naivety here around censorship resistance and legal realities of providing apps, bitcoin custody and/or hosting as a business, leading to bad designs and wasted effort on things that would blow up at scale.

No clear signs of raw talent in the product realm, nor raw profit opportunities. (I don't actually care about making money, but I do know a system can't work without also being economically sustainable).

It's a hackathon project that never graduated to being an actual solution to the problems such tech is meant to mitigate.

Nostr is broken, censorable, does not scale, and the community is toxic until you signal allegiance.

Why *should* I build here?!

He's a shitcoiner.

If nostr were the answer, people like me would be building on it.

Ask yourselves who the builders are that aren't choosing nostr, and why.

Then ask yourselves what all the people building here have in common.

Then compare these groups earnestly. I dont just mean Bitcoiners vs Bluehairsky. I mean their experience, talent, and reputation.

I mean the most talented and resourceful people; people that innovate, and have deep expertise. Why aren't they leaving where they are to build here?

Examples: Bitcoin Core devs, shitcoin expert devs that really do want to fix things, talented cryptographers, deeply experienced systems/p2p people, experienced entrepreneurs, reputable VCs and funders.

The closest I see here are people that got Bitcoin-rich and are now learning how to be angels by naively funding their friends and dead-end startup projects that arent much better than weekend hackathon submissions. A sandbox for playing.

Everything worth anything here is a subdivision of Bitcoin culture itself and Bitcoin privilege. Bitcoin is the only provider of talent and resources to Nostr. That worked great to bootstrap from nothing, but now what?

Deal with this, and figure out how to be relevant to other people, or Nostr will continue to be nothing more than a perpetual hackathon sandbox subsidized by a Bitcoiner ego-cult.

tell me you're into bitcoin without using the word bitcoin