GM,

I'm going sober....from google.

Had enough of this addiction.

Which services you think will be hardest to stop using?

2025-12-23, 23:59 UTC

613 days after halving

Current: $87,365.99

2012 scaled: $3,033,895.08

2016 scaled: $804,158.24

2020 scaled: $320,656.72

works for me #wrapstodon2025

Sorry, I have a 2 year old. My playlist is rekt.

Nostr isn't down.

Bitcoin isn't down.

#cloudflare #chaos #fiat

How many dots do you see?

look close

Maybe I’m projecting but I wonder if anyone outside the dev / nostr community knows what PWAs are. I had no idea before nostr.

what do we hit first?

$70k or $150k?

QR codes don’t belong on restaurant tables for menus.

They belong on the bill — for Bitcoin payments.

I’ve never played RDR2 and feel like this fall it’s maybe time

Wrong. Bitcoin sold can never be replaced. Save. Borrow against if you must. Die. Reset cost basis for heirs. This is how long term capital preserved. Those that don’t understand this don’t have capital for long.

Spending causes cap gains taxes. Never sell or spend your #Bitcoin

That purchase will literally be the costliest mistake of your life. Imagine spending your BTC before sat/dollar parity.

humanity is 300k years old and we've been online for only 30 years.

the erosion of privacy today will have lasting consequences for hundreds, maybe thousands of years to come. if we don't fight for privacy today, we won't be able to fix it in the distant future.

this scares me.

Bitcoin is already, by far, the best privacy coin.

What is left now is to teach the history of how we got here - recognizing pioneers like Wasabi and Samurai - and learn from it.

Even more importantly - spread the knowledge on how to use the right tools: eCash, Boltz swaps, RoboSats, solid wallets like AquaBitcoin & BullBitcoin, and merchant platforms such as nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsymkvl9.

It's critical that most Bitcoin stays no-KYC. Anything less than a supermajority pushes us toward a dystopian future - one already previewed in Sweden, where anyone can legally look up your home address and Bitcoin holdings in a public, government-mandated registry. I don't think anyone sane wants to live in the chaos of that type of world.

See you today at Lugano PlanB P2P Stage, 3 PM where I'll be talking with SethForPrivacy, nostr:nprofile1qqsw79gu0guq7s98t473fyavx3akwaafmx6l5z4rehd50lrcl2mf4zcprfmhxue69uhkzer4d36zuvfcwpk82uewwdhkx6tpdshsz9mhwden5te0v96xcctn9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme094u090, nostr:nprofile1qqst0mtgkp3du662ztj3l4fgts0purksu5fgek5n4vgmg9gt2hkn9lqpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuct60fsk6mewdejhgtc3dn6yh and nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcprfmhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5hszxthwden5te0wpex2mtfw4kjuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcuauf96 about one of my favorite topics.

No privacy, no freedom ✊🗽

looking for a good name for cashu L2 based on payment channels.

looking for a good name for cashu L2 based on payment channels.

You can just do things and suck at them and then get a little better each day until you don’t suck anymore.

You can just do things and suck at them and then get a little better each day until you don’t suck anymore.

As my kids were growing older I saw kids younger and younger get phones with no parental oversight. I had a genuine fear, as a person in tech, about how handheld smart tech could do to our children.

My kids are 16 and 18. We never babysat them with phones. For TV we had all Pixar movies, and any calm british kid shows that you’d never find on hyperactive tv like Nickelodeon. We let them be bored, though. Not a lot of tv and stuff. There’s health in the quiet moments. You learn how the world works by watching it.

We’ve always had a shared household laptop for minecraft and whatnot. Taught them what code is with the coding games and arduino stuff for kids. When we started doing trips, I wanted to see the world through their eyes by the photos they took and to be able to reach them in emergencies. So, I got them iPhones.

At that point they were 10 and 12. I set them up in full lockdown. On an iCloud account that I controlled, Screen Time locking out installs and everything. Only things on the phone were useful stuff. Phone, Text, Camera, FindMy. Raw usefulness and zero entertainment or connectivity.

I communicated that other kids were getting fed shit by these apps, and that the apps were intelligently designed to wire their brains wrong. I asked them to trust me and that sometimes it would suck because other kids would have apps and conversations that they wouldn’t get to be part of, but the reason is for long term benefit.

I told them they’ll have a long life of using technology. First we learn how to use the world, have real life friends, know ourselves and know where technology fits best for us. Then we can put the tech we choose in our pockets where we can keep tabs on the habits that it wants to give us.

In the quiet times they never reached for their phones. They never felt like they needed their phone with them unless we were on the go and would need to communicate for some reason.

The unlock PIN on both of their phones was the same. Everyone in the house knew them. I told them, “never text anything that you don’t want others to find out or to read back to you when you’re in trouble”. Hopefully this helps keep them out of court in the future. Texted words can be the worst kind of boomerangs.

At age17, I left Screen Time on for measurement and joint review to help teach self management, but I let apps be added that didn’t appear to be actual security threats and didn’t have a legitimate reason for veto. At 18, the phone is his, the passwords are his and he does what he wants.

I can vouch that this has worked as far as I can tell. These two kids are very well adjusted, have real relationships, have comfort in talking with people in person, and understand that we should use tech, not the other way around. I just followed my gut. Fingers crossed that it laid a good foundation.

I’m excited to see dumb phones hanging on and coming back. Cheers to exploring for the right approach early. Hope my path traveled lends some insight to a fellow father.

I have outperformed Bitcoin slightly (15%) trust me when I tell you it’s not worth it lol 😂

I had to take so much risk and expend even more energy just to barely do better than orange coin.

Would have been far more comfy to just keep hodling.

Don’t do it.

It sucks.

Never liked that guy.