I never understand why people queue for boarding if one can just sit and board last🤔

For anyone semi-new to Bitcoin, a little advice at times like this:

The amount of cope you're about to see will be off the charts.

Blaming being early, blaming the fed, blaming influencers, blame blame blame

But the truth is, times like this are the best times to be a Bitcoiner.

Everyone who tries to make money on Bitcoin gets rekt and gives you their coins

Everyone who tries to make Bitcoin their money gets stacked and becomes the envy of their peers 2-3 years later.

We'll probably have 1-2 years of great pricing to build our stacks (even more) and learn what Bitcoin actually is, instead of getting excited about the price.

Take advantage of this black friday sale, and happy Thanksgiving to my American friends <3

Engagement Post:

Raspberries are my favorite fruit, what's yours?

Good afternoon and happy sunday!

Heres one of the last harvests of the "summer garden"

Winter transplants going in today

#gardening #homesteading #grownostr

I've been doing some research on the biggest mistakes we Bitcoiners made as a community — and obviously we got very complacent over time.

Instead of listening to podcast hopium and alienating people with "have fun staying poor" narratives, we should've focused on game theory and patched up at least some of the holes.

It was always inevitable that Bitcoin was going to get attacked, and things like having close to 100% of nodes run on a single implementation was just silly in hindsight.

People are doing more harm than good when posting charts of hashrate going vertical without the context that 2 pools (Foundry and Antpool) are close to 50% of hashrate and for more than 98% of cases, pools, not miners decide which transactions get added to the blockchain.

You had most of the Bitcoin community cheering price over payment share; we welcomed ETFs as victory. Paper share rose, self-custody fell.

The entire community also cheered Square's surveilled "Bitcoin payments" where every payment generates identity-linked transaction data: buyer, location, device, and amount.

All transactions flow through Square/Cash App's KYC/AML perimeter, meaning both sides of the payment are verified.

That data fuels risk scoring, fraud models, blacklist propagation, and targeted marketing.

Exactly this surveillance value is Square's enduring moat, not the 1% fee.

We just got too complacent.

I'd say the 5 main mistakes we Bitcoiners made are:

1. Letting arbitrary data compete with money on the base layer (witness discount abetted it). For Medium-of-Exchange you need predictable fees; underpriced junk data is a Denial-of-Service subsidy.

2. Treating privacy as an "expert mode". That guarantees surveillance wins by default. Make privacy invisible and automatic.

3. Under-investing in operational safety (backups, recovery, liquidity UX). Normal users pick custodians when scared.

4. Relying on norms over policy. In a low Gross Consent Product world, policy beats culture. If your mempool policies are naïve, adversaries will price you out.

5. Ignoring perimeter levers (app stores, banks, clouds). If you don't plan redundant routes, the other side will plan your failure.

The uncomfortable truth is that Bitcoin's defense can't be "hope users pick hard mode".

Defaults decide outcomes.

If Bitcoin wants to be mass Medium-of-Exchange, privacy, finality, recoverability, and predictability must be invisible and automatic — and the perimeter must be treated as hostile by default.

Until then, paper wrappers will dominate, regulators will "clarify", and L1 will be priced as store-of-value with supervised access, not as everyday cash.

The good news: all of that is fixable — but only if it's designed, not preached.

First harvest

Proof of Work.

No sky today. Only clouds, silence, and olives falling by hand.

Each drop begins here.

Each proof takes time. ⚡️

⚡️🇺🇳 NEW - The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee adopted its annual resolution reaffirming the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and independence, citing the ICJ’s conclusion that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end without delay.

The measure passed 164–7, with support from Canada, Australia, all EU states, and most of South America, Asia, and Africa. Only the US, Israel, Argentina, Paraguay, Micronesia, Nauru, and Papua New Guinea opposed it.

When half of internet is down... who is coming?

Five years ago my wife and I started to expect children.

Three years ago we found out we would likely never be able to conceive children due to a health defect of mine.

A few months after that we were blessed with the opportunity to adopt our first son. Who we named Hank. An incredibly quick turn around thanks to our amazing adoption agency.

Two years ago tonight, after a three and a half month fight, Hank was taken from us by his Cancer.

It's amazing, the lifetime we lived with him. It almost feels as if Hank's life unfolded within a time pocket. That pocket became our world. When he slipped away from us, we slipped out of the pocket. Back into the reality of our vast world, with wave after wave of obligation and responsibility crashing into us.

Our time with Hank radically reshaped our lives. Hank showed us the fragility of life. Showed us strength we didn't know we had. Possibly the most important thing he taught us is the importance of time, and how to spend it.

So tonight, I'd just like to remind everyone to hug your loved ones, and thank God for every moment you have with them. You never know when you won't have that privilege anymore.

In loving memory of our son, Hank.

Have a blessed evening, from our family to yours.