I really have no idea what people want from nostr.

What do you want from it? Authenticity? Engagement slop? WHAT. WHAT DO YOU WANT.

Hot Thanksgiving Take: Weight loss drugs will have way more impact than AI over the next 10 years.

Even Hotter Take: AI is a much bigger bubble than Bitcoin ever was.

Best things I ever did

- marry my wife

- become a father

- buy bitcoin

In that order

People rejected google glass but they are ok with always on, all-collecting ai spyware on their faces?

What changed? Collective IQ loss?

Careful mate, coming at me like that makes you sound like the glitch in the matrix..... Maybe you’re the AI needing an upgrade 🤗🤗

Treating Bitcoin as just another asset box-checks the old system’s control, but that’s merely a shadow of its true power.

As a protocol, Bitcoin is an open invitation for global participation: borderless, unstoppable, and designed for universal access.

One view cages potential; the other lets it run wild for all humanity.🤗🤗🐝🐝

#bitcoin as an asset within a control system is a fundamentally different and long term incompatible view with #bitcoin as a protocol bringing freedom and abundance to 8 billion people.

can't decide if this is more an attack against bitcoin or against good taste.

If you would genuinely tell a friend HFSP, that person is not your friend.

Ok bitcoiners, can somebody explain to me or give me a pointer to what the hell is going on with Knots vs Core? To somebody who is not really aware of the personalities.... I get that it is about "Core’s planned removal of the 80-byte limit for OP_RETURN data."

But what is it really about?

Everything we see is bullshit. Everything.

It's so over 🤦

GN

Cocaine

Opiates

Pcp

Ecstasy

gpt5 thinking feels the same or worse than o3. wtf is this.

But you don't know that do you?

Buckle up friend. You got about 6 months of pain

I’m living a nice and wholesome life

I wake up every morning without setting any alarm and do what I love all day long

But I’m still pissed off that I joined a revolution that never happened

Everything we used to say that would happen with Bitcoin went down the drain

Now it’s a stonk, just an instrument to speculate on in hopes of making more US dollars

It didn’t progress towards becoming a currency that competes with the dollar

It didn’t progress technically to encourage freedom fighters around the world to use it

Outside of making more dollars, there’s nothing that it does that other networks do better

It doesn’t have a killer use case anymore

The user experience sucks compared to fintech

All we have is hope that the ship will eventually turn around

But even the OGs who joined for ideological reasons seem to be selling

So who remains to defend the principles of the early days?

Who will still want to end the Fed when the Fed is making you more US dollars?

I don’t even see my friends around anymore, they either turned into insufferable suits or else they left the space

It’s depressing, really. This is not what many of us signed up for and I feel deceived

I spent nearly a decade promoting Bitcoin as freedom tech, but now the FBI is allegedly happier when their targets use bitcoin instead of cash (as suggested by Peter Thiel)

I feel sorry for some of the people I onboarded, who used custodial Lightning wallets that probably rugged them

I sometimes feel like a fraud who pushed false advertisement

But ultimately, I wish more bitcoiners demanded a change. Anything that lets developers build cool stuff and new use cases.

CTV, CAT, BIP300, I don’t even care at this point. Just push the boundaries, make Bitcoin technologically exciting again.

The bankers might fuck us, the old cypherpunks might sell out, but at least give the rest of us some cool toys to play with.

But no, “there’s no consensus”

Fuxking bullshit

Owns and holds are synonyms. He doesn't know that MicroStrategy doesn't hold its own keys i.e. owns its own BTC. It is an assumption

Do you know for sure that MicroStrategy owns no bitcoin? I don't think so

really crazy that our politicians don’t don’t do the simplest thing to do interviews with folks on the “other side.”

literally the only way to win more people out of the bubble.

Why do you hold bitcoin?

Those who know know what a big deal this is