The closer you want to get to privacy the worse the UX becomes. There is no perfect solution out there for privacy, use whatever gets you closest to it while trying to balance out the UX. There is only so much pain you can take while using privacy tools. Everyone says fuck it at some point.

A lot of people don't seem to get it. e-cash is A solution. It's not the answer to all our scaling problems. If you open your eyes and see what's happening outside you will quickly realize e-cash can be very quickly shut down in a lot of parts of the world. If you didn't realize yet, the fedimint federation everyone got excited and started using said they're shutting down and asked everyone to withdraw their funds. We need real scaling and privacy solutions. Not hacky workarounds.

The state of Indian politics from several years. Political parties campaign in small towns and villages and distribute cash and buy votes. These are the kind of politicians we are living with, Bitcoin is hope to get away from all this. I hope we get there one day but we have so many challenges to overcome and tbh my hope that we will succeed isn't that high. For almost everyone who don't know what this means, it's my mom texting in our family group saying she received 5K rupees from a political party to vote for them.

A good post from fiatjaf on how Nostr is centralized and not very censorship resistant as of today.

Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

Only Xcode can make the most powerful laptops heat up and turn the fans on.

Why are Apple stores so full all the time? What do people go in there and do? Every store has like 25 people working inside it and all of them are occupied.

The ossifiers and the NGUs will be happy this year. Bitcoin will probably hit $100k. I'm going to be unhappy because we are behind on privacy and scaling. Like Zeus Evan Kaloudis said, self custody is the hill I will die on. Success isn't the ETFs or 100k, success is everyone can use Bitcoin holding their own keys.

Maybe it's too late but I want bolt12 onion messaging to be paid and not free. Maybe there could be a range from 0 to a maximum of 1 sat in fees but I am completely against it being free.

MMT is the most ridiculous bullshit ever. You having credit card debt is not ok. Businesses having bad balance sheets is not ok. The govts having deficits year in and year out is ok?? Wtf?

Bitcoin's success is not guaranteed, if you think it is, you're delusional. We have so many challenges that we have to overcome including us bitcoiners being a hurdle to our own success.

There is no free stuff. If you get something for free, everything else gets more expensive.

Ok since the coin join implementations are pretty much gone. Here's a privacy technique that could work. - Get Zeus or Blixt Wallet. Buy inbound via LSP. They open a private Taproot channel. - Stack sats on lightning. - When balance is all on your side, close it. It's a Taproot channel so nobody would know it's a channel close. - move funds to cold storage when fees are low. - once you think your pubkey has been exposed enough, delete the wallet and start over with a new pubkey.

Can we all now say Fuck you Saylor?

All you smart people attending Bitcoin++, by the time the conference is done make sure we activate at least one soft fork.

90% of women are leftists. The rest are married and have kids.

What a week for us Bitcoiners, huh?

Alright, who wants to leave the US with me?

Fun fact: Bitcoin in self-custody is very easy to confiscate. Way easier than gold.

Finance experts, how fucked is the Yen? Can they do any manipulation to revive it?

I get excited whenever I see the Bitcoin logo randomly on the streets. I don't know why.