“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” — Mark 8:36 (KJV)

Never outsource your core competency.

Escape fiat. Enter Bitcoin.

Doing a Goodreads Giveaway for my book, The Way of Bitcoin. 10 paperback first editions will be mailed to the winners on Sept 26th. Also planning to release a second edition thereafter, so this will be the last hurrah for the first edition.

Book giveaway for The Way of Bitcoin: Becoming Self-Sovereign by Alan B Aug 27-Sep 26, 2026

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“What's the point of going on a heroic journey and not bringing something back? The whole point, in every myth, heroes who take strange journeys must bring back a feather of the fabulous bird, a claw of the dragon, or the beheaded head of the villain that they slew saying: See, here it is.” — Alan Watts, Spiritual Alchemy

HODL long enough by the river, and you’ll see Bitcoin’s enemies float by.

Bitcoin Meme Maker is now live on iOS and Android. Built this app because I wanted an easy way to add auto laser eyes to Bitcoin memes, and no other meme app offers it. Ended up adding thousands of templates and Bitcoin features as well, plus everything you'd expect in a world class meme app. Been using this for weeks now on all the memes I post, including GIFs. The memes must flow. iPhone:

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The bull begins his run

Levels of Bitcoin self-custody op-sec

The best thing Knots can do is continue to offer a viable alternative to Core on the longest chain. Forking off into irrelevance accomplishes nothing.

Stay humble. Stack sats.

“Things are as they are.” — Alan Watts, Game of Yes and No

Super Bowl this weekend for Bitcoiners. Non-Bitcoiners entirely unaware.

Better to think of them as “signing devices” than “hardware wallets”

Harden thy opsec.

Good alternative to the dice method:

seedsticks.org

Seedsticks

A convenient and secure way to create Bitcoin seed phrases without having to trust a third party random number generator. Be your own random number...

Spent much of today helping people I know move their funds from their coldcard devices elsewhere. A few reflections / lessons: First, money is not everything. If you lost your life savings, or some portion thereof, know that this is not the end, even if it may feel like it. Second, move the funds you do have in any coldcard as quickly and calmly as possible to another place. Even a hot wallet is a fine temporary intermediary. But choose a respectable one. Long term, “Not your entropy, not your keys” will be a major takeaway of this event. Better to generate your own randomness via dice, cards, coins, or other irl methods than to rely on computer-generated randomness. If you are capable of it, multi-signature set-ups using different, ideally fully open source, hardware wallet manufacturers are preferable moving forward as far as self custody goes. And when given the choice for extra entropy such as a passphrase, take it. And in any case, it is better not to keep all your eggs in one basket. Those who were most affected had all their coins on a single device. Do not rely on any one device, any one manufacturer, any single point of failure. My heart goes out to all. God bless.

If you don’t have the seed phrase for it, it’s not your Bitcoin.

Just paid with Bitcoin at Steak ‘n Shake. The future is now.

It’s not easy being seed-oil free in a seed-oil world. But it is 100% worth it.