It's related to PR!

Many bitcoiners think establishment powers are now in the "and then they join you" phase of the struggle.

I don't. I think they're more entering the earlier "and then they fight you" phase.

Or more specifically, they are happy to join in on the price exposure side (i.e. ETFs), but they are fighting against privacy (especially) and self-custody (to some extent). The struggle for financial privacy, custody, and overall self-autonomy is just heating up.

The gradual shift of critics from "bitcoin is a useless speculative asset with no intrinsic value" to "bitcoin is so powerful that direct usage of it must be curtailed" can be dangerous.

HOLY SHIT LMFAO

Words of advice don’t ever give your car to valet parking. They will fuck you up eventually and make it impossible to get them to pay for it unless u have evidence. I learned the hard way 😔

This is all over the car, I scrubbed it and it doesn’t come off but I’m gonna look for a product to get it off. It’s probably mineral water runoff from wherever they parked it in the garage. Hopefully no permanent damage but we’ll see.

#cars #carstr

BULLISH ON THE FUTURE

River, Strike, or Swan to buy. Withdraw up to $500 to a bitcoin only, open source hot wallet like Blue Wallet, Sparrow, or Electrum. Past $500, get a bitcoin only open source hardware wallet for cold storage: coldcard, bitbox, or blockstream jade.

Check out BTC Sessions on YouTube for cold wallet tutorials.

Write down your seed phrases on paper or stamp on metal. Never put seed phrase in any digital format. Keep strictly offline.

For non-KYC bitcoin, bisq or robosats

Got a new job

So stressful and exciting at the same time

Soo... basically

Steak and eggs = good

Tax = theft

Politics = bad

Am I doing this right #Nostr ?

To be honest, I think the bitcoin ETF is the most boring thing about bitcoin right now. Whenever I get asked about it I'm like, "meh".

Yes, the ETF should be good for price and liquidity, since it gives large pools of walled-garden capital more access to bitcoin exposure.

But in my view, the most important thing about bitcoin right now is all of the little hubs popping up around the world. Bitcoin Beach, Bitcoin Lake, Bitcoin Jungle, Bitcoin Ekasi, Africa Bitcoin Conference, Indonesia Bitcoin Conference, etc. As well wallets and other technologies that help them localize their custody of bitcoin rather than keep it all stashed in the giant Binance honeypot or wherever, and any solutions that help link to them all together for payments or that help them trade peer to peer or onboard from fiat to bitcoin in distributed ways.

The rise and connectivity of those hubs is impressive and is worth supporting.

Things are different here. Better.

On the way to a wedding where I only know just one person, my gf. 💒

Gonna try to keep bitcoin to myself at lest until after the speeches.

Had a beer on the bus en route to see my girlfriend’s Fam 🎄 🍻

Feeling proud and a little bit sentimental of the work I’ve put out this year.

I couldn’t have achieved any of it without my fantastic editors who don’t just edit my videos but help me get better at creating content and investigating stories around the world 🔎

I thought, hmmm.

They’re in Algeria, Armenia, Spain and Germany.

How can I thank them?! How can I show gratitude?

….

SATS ⚡️

Obviously!

Merry Satsmas one and all 🤙 🧡 🎅