i never thought bitcoiners were this vulnerable to a narrative takeover from wall street, big banks & the us government but all it took was a significant pump and an illusion of benevolence/friendliness: now too many guys put on suits and talk like the bankers they used to pretend to hate 2024 alone had been horrible for privacy and self-custody. but as long as the number keeps going up, the large majority is happy while those of us who actually think end up drowning in a sea of foolish optimism fuck 2024, fuck your etfs, fuck your institutional adoption. this is not why most of us came here, we were supposed to start a revolution and replace fiat money – not enable an instrument that maintains the hegemony of the petrodollar

Most downloaded Bitcoin Takeover podcast episodes of 2024 (according to Spotify & Apple Podcasts): 1. Justin Bons (s15 e47) 2. Orkun Kilic (s15 e18) 3. Roger Ver (s15 e26) 4. Aaron Day (s15 e32) 5. Deadalnix (s15 e28) 6. Charlie Lee (s15 e34) 7. @fiatjaf (s15 e21) 8. @Ray Youssef (s15 e31) 9. @Ben Arc (s15 e52) 10. Adam Soltys (s15 e27) 11. Murch (s15 e50) 12. @Kruw (s15 e54) 13. @Jameson Lopp (s15 e66) 14. John Carvalho (s15 e23)

In S15 E70 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, legendary Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik also mentions his favorite scaling and privacy tech. Listen to the interview on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Poecasts, Fountain & more! https://www.youtube.com/live/no_Nj-MX53w?si=75HsHZfloAwtUlW2

kind reminder that bitcoin was meant to be spent even the coins that you own are called utxos: unspent transaction outputs don’t get psyoped into never improving your life, especially if you’ve made satisfactory gains our lives are short, don’t forget to enjoy your time

Did you listen to my recent interview with Jeff Garzik? He talks about his contributions to Bitcoin, why he believes bridges are the future, and how Hemi works. He's an absolute legend, check it out! https://www.youtube.com/live/no_Nj-MX53w?si=-Hffz1ywkPfAphpk

bought the lexus es 300h for 0.3 bitcoin took it home for christmas, my family was in awe. couldn’t believe that the guy who used to live in mom’s basement can now afford this kind of car been hodling for almost 8 years, when i started 0.3 btc was around $850 patience pays off

a lot of people wished me happy holidays i purposely and explicitly wished them back a merry christmas (in romania, a country that’s 90%+ christian)

i’ve never lost a single coin from a hot wallet but i’ve lost coins doing more sophisticated setups involving nodes, hardware wallets, and advanced backup systems edge wallet unlocks with your phone pin/apple face id there’s a lesson to be learned here about simplicity

i only have 1 podcast episode left to publish this year and i want to save it for january 3rd – when the bitcoin network turns 16 😱 until then, who else would you like to hear on the show? tag them below 👇🏻

it’s been over a decade since the sidechain whitepaper got published today, bitcoin only has a federation (liquid) and a sidechain with a trusted setup that uses hsm’s (rootstock). no proper two-way peg sidechain, only compromises can we at least get bip 300?

“hey vlad, you’re a shitcoiner now. why do you keep posting about bitcoin?” first of all, i’ll always be here just to spite you and the rest of the spooks who don’t want bitcoin to become money. leaving means that i’ll let you win – which i won’t let happen. i will fight to keep the spirit that i once knew alive and i will keep my podcast going to remind newcomers what the early days used to be about and if monero, zcash, litecoin or zano get the job done much better for certain use cases, i will keep using them until bitcoin finally becomes fungible and scales better. but don’t underestimate my resilience or my willingness to fight. i’m not leaving just because a bunch of assholes act as community gatekeepers and “excommunicate” me after performing their purity tests. i am staying to spite them and eventually make them historically irrelevant.

the market gives me a strong december 2017 deja vu if it plays out like that, we’ll get one last altcoin pump until the new year and then max pain for 12+ months 🥲 not financial advice, just ptsd

woke up to a bunch of e-mails from european bitcoin companies that announce a major increase in their kyc/aml data processing new regulations come into force on january 1st 🥲 it’s painful & sad that we’ve reached this point but it was fun while it lasted the future is p2p

i live the hint of a golden cross pattern in the morning 😍

My journey in Bitcoin felt like our generation’s hippie movement: we all believed in ending wars and starting a peaceful revolution. Then the big money came in and lots of guys cut their hair, put on their suits, and took roles in institutions they previously despised. The summer of love is over, eh?

bought myself a neve 1073 preamp & equalizer plugin and it’s stellar, adds so much clarity to the voice in ways that no 12-band eq did before not sure if other podcasters edit their own audio, but to me this process of making the guest’s voice sound better is really rewarding

being bitcoin-only in 2025 will be only about defending the ticker and trying to pump your own bags from a cypherpunk and utilitarian point of view, you should start looking into other coins experiment with privacy/scaling/contracts tech, embrace a world beyond the 21m meme

i just paid €40 ($42) for a lightning network transaction it went through without any networking or routing issues but fuck me, on-chain fees are $1

i just interviewed the lead dev of segwit2x 7 years after segwit2x didn’t get consensus & the new york agreement fell apart the og big blocker, who proposed 7mb blocks in 2010 he’s still excited about bitcoin and works on bridges that extend its features did you listen? https://www.youtube.com/live/no_Nj-MX53w?si=cxTUhziRUzT8FkY4