It’s going to be difficult, and if bitcoin goes up significantly in price I likely won’t reach it. The goal is a little over 0.01 per paycheck or 0.02 per month. I have a good paying job that includes significant housing benefits so what I don’t spend on groceries and leisure I can save in bitcoin. Perhaps I’ll do a quarterly update (haha).
My goal is to stay humble and stack 0.25 #bitcoin in 2025.
Uploading all my old #bitcoin #memes to #nostr day 3.
Bitcoin doesn’t need anything from you. 
Uploading all my old #bitcoin #memes to #nostr day 2. Some are more relevant than others.
The Bitcoin critics really seem to be grasping at straws these days. 
I am going to slowly post all my old #bitcoin #memes here on #nostr where they can live freely uncensored forever 
You can ignore #bitcoin or you can study Bitcoin, but you cannot change Bitcoin.
I will continue to save in #bitcoin forever.
Time continues to favour #bitcoin and bitcoin mining.
A lot of people don’t understand how significant 10 minute international final settlement with a bearer asset is. #Bitcoin changed everything, the world is still catching up.
Enjoying #nostr more and more… this feels like a healthier way to consume social media.
In an attempt to honour Hal Finney, I am placing his final public forum post here to be immortalized forever on #nostr . The post ends with Hal saying, “I am comfortable with my legacy,” I’m sure he would be happy to see how his legacy and impact has only grown and positively affected so many lives. This one is well worth the short read.
Hal Finney’s post titled “ #bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)” from March 19, 2013
I thought I'd write about the last four years, an eventful time for Bitcoin and me.
For those who don't know me, I'm Hal Finney. I got my start in crypto working on an early version of PGP, working closely with Phil Zimmermann. When Phil decided to start PGP Corporation, I was one of the first hires. I would work on PGP until my retirement. At the same time, I got involved with the Cypherpunks. I ran the first cryptographically based anonymous remailer, among other activities.
Fast forward to late 2008 and the announcement of Bitcoin. I've noticed that cryptographic graybeards (I was in my mid 50's) tend to get cynical. I was more idealistic; I have always loved crypto, the mystery and the paradox of it.
When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. Cryptographers have seen too many grand schemes by clueless noobs. They tend to have a knee jerk reaction.
I was more positive. I had long been interested in cryptographic payment schemes. Plus I was lucky enough to meet and extensively correspond with both Wei Dai and Nick Szabo, generally acknowledged to have created ideas that would be realized with Bitcoin. I had made an attempt to create my own proof of work based currency, called RPOW. So I found Bitcoin facinating.
When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I grabbed it right away. I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin. I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction, when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test. I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.
Today, Satoshi's true identity has become a mystery. But at the time, I thought I was dealing with a young man of Japanese ancestry who was very smart and sincere. I've had the good fortune to know many brilliant people over the course of my life, so I recognize the signs.
After a few days, bitcoin was running pretty stably, so I left it running. Those were the days when difficulty was 1, and you could find blocks with a CPU, not even a GPU. I mined several blocks over the next days. But I turned it off because it made my computer run hot, and the fan noise bothered me. In retrospect, I wish I had kept it up longer, but on the other hand I was extraordinarily lucky to be there at the beginning. It's one of those glass half full half empty things.
The next I heard of Bitcoin was late 2010, when I was surprised to find that it was not only still going, bitcoins actually had monetary value. I dusted off my old wallet, and was relieved to discover that my bitcoins were still there. As the price climbed up to real money, I transferred the coins into an offline wallet, where hopefully they'll be worth something to my heirs.
Speaking of heirs, I got a surprise in 2009, when I was suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease. I was in the best shape of my life at the start of that year, I'd lost a lot of weight and taken up distance running. I'd run several half marathons, and I was starting to train for a full marathon. I worked my way up to 20+ mile runs, and I thought I was all set. That's when everything went wrong.
My body began to fail. I slurred my speech, lost strength in my hands, and my legs were slow to recover. In August, 2009, I was given the diagnosis of ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous baseball player who got it.
ALS is a disease that kills moter neurons, which carry signals from the brain to the muscles. It causes first weakness, then gradually increasing paralysis. It is usually fatal in 2 to 5 years. My symptoms were mild at first and I continued to work, but fatigue and voice problems forced me to retire in early 2011. Since then the disease has continued its inexorable progression.
Today, I am essentially paralyzed. I am fed through a tube, and my breathing is assisted through another tube. I operate the computer using a commercial eyetracker system. It also has a speech synthesizer, so this is my voice now. I spend all day in my power wheelchair. I worked up an interface using an arduino so that I can adjust my wheelchair's position using my eyes.
It has been an adjustment, but my life is not too bad. I can still read, listen to music, and watch TV and movies. I recently discovered that I can even write code. It's very slow, probably 50 times slower than I was before. But I still love programming and it gives me goals. Currently I'm working on something Mike Hearn suggested, using the security features of modern processors, designed to support "Trusted Computing", to harden Bitcoin wallets. It's almost ready to release. I just have to do the documentation.
And of course the price gyrations of bitcoins are entertaining to me. I have skin in the game. But I came by my bitcoins through luck, with little credit to me. I lived through the crash of 2011. So I've seen it before. Easy come, easy go.
That's my story. I'm pretty lucky overall. Even with the ALS, my life is very satisfying. But my life expectancy is limited. Those discussions about inheriting your bitcoins are of more than academic interest. My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy.” - Hal Finney, March 2013
With these prices, I might have to wear my #bitcoin socks to all the Christmas family gatherings this year.
#Bitcoin will set you free.
Just rough calculations based off what the retirement age is in my country (and when one can collect their pension) compared to my current net worth and how much I estimate I will need to retire. I based the 4-8 years off of bitcoin doubling in price over the next two halvings (I feel this is extremely conservative, but if I’m wrong I will continue to work and save in bitcoin).
#Bitcoin has reduced my retirement timeline from approximately 40 more years of work to another 4-8 if I feel like it…
I’m happy to buy at these prices.
#Bitcoin
My #Bitcoin plan is measured in decades, not dollars.
There is a glorious feeling of pride as one builds their #bitcoin stack humbly, paycheck by paycheck.
“Thinking you are late to #Bitcoin is a failure or ego.” - Jack Mallers
Questioning one’s right to free speech is in itself an extremist view! So should we censor and ban your freedom of speech? Who decides which views are extremist? Therein lies the problem of your query… you are essentially asking how to maintain an iron fist over human thought and expression. The moment any authority figure decides that one thing can be censored and another thing cannot is the moment that authority figure has become a dictator, stealing away human rights.