Are you ready to commit BTC to a Lightning routing node? ⚡️

Here’s 4 signs you should consider it:

- You’ve got at least 0.4 BTC (1+ is ideal for solid routing capacity)

- You want yield—but not from risky tokens, staking, or custodians

- You believe in self-custody while your capital still earns

- You want to support the global Bitcoin payment network and get paid for it

Sovereign yield isn’t just possible—it’s how Lightning grows.

#lightningnetwork

True autonomy means rejecting state-controlled institutions. Create parallel courts, currencies, and mutual aid networks.

happy government will steal your gold day

92 years

I think mining companies that don't actually put the heat produced by the miners to work will eventually fail.

The heat is valuable (we all pay to heat buildings) but miners just waste it.

Furnace and bitcoin mining will be synonymous.

Watch!

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#BitcoinTwitter

A global state change from a system of fear, control and coercion - to one of truth, hope and freedom must be chaotic. This is only the first inning.

Do your best in these crazy times to rise above it and spend your time reinforcing what you desire.

#bitcoin

#nostr

Wine is fragile and difficult to ship.

Bitcoin is volatile internet money.

Neither seemed like a foundation for a business—

until I found my best customers: Bitcoiners.

🧵 How I took my winery from zero to all-in:

2021

I’d just started selling my wine at farmers markets.

One day, a guy asked, “Do you accept crypto?”

I said, “I’ll take your bitcoin,” and had no idea how I’d actually do that.

He walked away.

But it stuck in my mind.

The first person who ever asked.

I was a Bitcoiner, but didn’t think that had anything to do with wine.

Bitcoiners were 0% of my sales.

2022

I joined Twitter. Went to my first Bitcoin conference.

And the people in it? They were my people.

Honest. Curious. Genuine. Driven.

A few folks started asking if they could buy wine with bitcoin.

I said yes—not because I saw a business opportunity.

I just wanted more bitcoin.

I added a little Bitcoin logo to my wine bottles.

Put up a “Bitcoin Accepted Here” sign at the farmers market.

But that was mostly for my own obsession.

I mostly had old men come up and warn me about bitcoin’s volatility.

But sometimes, real ones would trickle through.

One woman saw the sign and said:

“You accept Bitcoin?? I HAVE TO GO GET MY HUSBAND.”

I could tell she was married to someone who couldn’t stop talking about bitcoin, like me.

Sure enough, I now consider him a friend.

Bitcoin sales still felt more like a fun side quest than a real channel.

Bitcoiners were ~10% of my sales.

2023

This is when I felt the shift.

Early in the year, bitcoin sales started covering my living expenses.

By the holidays, the momentum was undeniable.

Still not everything—but enough to make me pay attention.

Bitcoiners weren’t just buyers.

They were thoughtful. Loyal. Fun to talk to.

It didn’t feel like marketing—it felt like alignment.

Bitcoiners were ~50% of my sales.

2024

Things got wild.

I released Satoshi’s Reserve, a wine I’d quietly been setting aside since 2021.

The auction blew past anything I’d seen before.

In dollar terms, it beat the entire prior year of online sales.

Then I dropped HIGHER, my second bitcoin-focused wine.

Another record. Same story:

Enthusiasm. Loyalty. People telling other people to support me.

Meanwhile, I was still at farmers markets.

Twelve-hour days every weekend.

Pitching the same story to strangers who’d never come back.

Bitcoiners were showing up, rebuying, and selling for me.

That made the decision easy.

Bitcoiners were ~75% of my sales.

2025

No more farmers markets.

No more trying to reach “everyone.”

I’m all in on Bitcoiners now.

I’ll probably make less money this year.

But I’ll be fired up by everything I do.

And I’ll have complete alignment between my job and my mission.

Selling wine for bitcoin isn’t just good business.

It feels like doing my part to make the world better.

And the fact that I get to do that with wine from my family vineyard?

That’s about as soul-filling as it gets.

Bitcoiners didn’t just become my best customers.

They joined my mission.

Bitcoiners have high expectations, are discerning and HATE deception, but if you have that, then they are dying to become your best customers.

Plant a Flag.

Bitcoin Preferred.

PeonyLaneWine.com 🍷

Satoshi might’ve walked away because the peer-to-peer element never took off. At the time, Bitcoin looked like it was becoming just digital gold. That may have felt like a dead end—or at least, not the revolution he envisioned.

A real Bitcoin standard means using it for all three functions of money: store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange.

Two of those are mostly passive. But using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange is an active choice. It’s what actually pushes Bitcoin forward.

Being able to buy and sell what you need with Bitcoin?

That’s what winning looks like.

That’s the original digital cash vision—and until you can live your life on Bitcoin, you haven’t really exited the matrix.

Use Bitcoin however the hell you want. No one gets to tell you how to spend your money.

Just don’t miss this:

Every peer-to-peer transaction moves us closer to killing fiat.

Closer to making the old system irrelevant.

It's not about volume. It's about direction.

Yea I lost all mine in a boating accident today. Was terrible.

Step 1. Buy dope Bitcoin standard quality shit directly from dope Bitcoin entrepreneurs that understand your what Bitcoin quality standard mean. This encourages more dope shit and more people that are capable of making dope shit to make said dope shit. It means we will have access to the dopest shit on a Bitcoin standard.

Step2.

a. The didn't do step 1 path: You are sad that fiat rails won from lack of MoE critical mass. You are boofing ketamine hooked up to a neuralink set to an alternate reality where you just did step 1.

If you do not do step 1 your future purchases will be inferior products dictated to you. GET OFF FIAT RAILS THAT CAN BE SHUT DOWN.

b. If you do step 1 there aint no step 2, you've got a savings account that works and you get dope shit with the same money that works. You exited the matrix, and ya won.

PLEASE DON'T FUCK UP STEP 1.

The regret of getting so close to the finish line but losing will be unimaginable. Buy dope shit from dope Bitcoiners in sats. We must win MoE or we can still lose.