WTF is Web 3? Back in my day, it meant that you host your own content on personal servers. A few years ago, people were talking about tokenizing your data and only selling it voluntarily to whoever you want. Nowadays, “web3” is the new way to say “blockchain tech”.

Gish by the Smashing Pumpkins is such an amazing album 💿 Probably one of the best debut records of the 1990s. “Do what you’re gonna do and say what you’re gonna say. Yeah, start today!”

Kind reminder to not leave any coins on exchanges, unless you’re actively trading. A mobile wallet that you unlock with your face is much safer than any custodian. A hardware wallet like Trezor or BitBox is much safer. 12 words on a piece of paper can help you move all your savings across borders. An encrypted wallet file on an external flash drive is mighty too. You can even put your backup on a piece of metal via CryptoSteel to protect the data from fire, floods & earthquakes. Self custody is really not that hard. It entails some risks – but if you take no risks, you’re never free. Use promo code “BTCTKVR” to get some special discounts on tools for self-custody and sovereignty:

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What does the Lightning network have in common with Iran’s nukes? They are both only a few months from completion.

Can you answer to these 5 questions correctly? If not, you should probably read “Bitcoin: Year One” – the comic book that teaches you Bitcoin history and reminds you about the project’s cypherpunk roots!

Okay so who’s gonna offer me a loan of $1 million at <10% interest to buy bitcoin That I won’t repay because it’s “cheap debt” while the money printer goes BRRRRRR? Saylor said we should all do this, might as well start now?

The open source security chip by Tropic Square is super tiny and powerful They already have an integration with Arduino & Raspberry Pi boards Will soon get integrated in a Trezor hardware wallet Open source hardware, let’s go!

Is Nicholas van Saberhagen (the name of the creator of CryptoNote/Monero) supposed to be a funny version of Nick Szabo?

Paul: Yeah but you have to trust the ecash mint guy that he’s acting in good faith Alex: But it’s open source, you can look at the code. FYI every DeFi rugpull in history and each and every ICO scam was open source too, the code was out there. Didn’t stop anyone from stealing

just got promoted on bitcointalk now i'm a jr. member 🫡

Bitcoion Takeover Podcast Season 16

Bitcoion Takeover Podcast Season 16

Bitcoin's ticker (BTC, XBT) is not enforced by miners, nodes, or any piece of consensus code. It's not described in the whitepaper, it's not mentioned by Satoshi. It's an arbitrary naming system that exchanges choose to attribute to Bitcoin. So what if BlackRock & frens decide to create their own fork of Bitcoin & convince exchanges to call the new coin BTC while the old one becomes BIN? This can play a major role in convincing investors that they must buy BTC (historically, the original Bitcoin) and stay away from knockoffs. "But nooooo, that's impossible. That never happened!" Study what happened with the Ethereum split from 2016. The original chain, which chose not to roll back the blockchain, became Ethereum Classic (ETC). The fork that changed the rules, because it had more political authority, kept the ETH ticker. "But noooo, this can't happen to Bitcoin because look it has all the users" The mempool is empty, people got psyop'd into not using it for payments anymore, lots of users went to other chains and embraced stablecoins. This is not 2016 anymore. If Bitcoin loses its fundamental value as a permissionless and unstoppable payment system in order to become much more of a stonk, this kind of brand/ticker hijacking becomes possible. BlackRock can afford to pay people to use the new chain, or else have bots that fill the blocks to fake activity. They can even legitimately pull it off by having more transactions, thus legitimizing its "real Bitcoin" status in order to keep the BTC ticker. Bottom line: make Bitcoin useful, use it yourself whenever you need, or else we're heading towards a gloomy future.

Who wants to debate Paul on my show? Tag your favorite Lightning bull 👇🏻

r/bitcoin doesn't seem to like my podcast posts, Nostr is unreliable in terms of reaching my audience So I decided to take a step back and start promoting my podcast on good old Bitcoin Talk! After all, more than 6000 BTC was donated to keep this thing running. Why not?

Bitcoion Takeover Podcast Season 16

Bitcoion Takeover Podcast Season 16

While many of my podcasting peers decided to embrace Saylorism & 50-page Austrian economics I chose to focus on cypherpunk culture. Because everything banks, institutions & other trusted third parties can do Can be replicated with open source software & trustless protocols

In case you missed it: In S16 E25 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Dr. Chandra Duggirala & George Burke talk about their work on Portal and how they’re planning to turn Bitcoin into the global settlement layer for all finance with cross-chain atomic swaps https://www.youtube.com/live/qqZ2ahSKTqM?si=ZpHuUHLzjdwFmaU7

The year is 2025 We can now play Cyberpunk 2077 on a Nintendo Switch But good luck connecting your full Bitcoin node to a mobile wallet (Or better yet, running a node on your phone)

The Bitcoin block size wars, as summarized by Hotep Jesus 😂

> stop doomscrolling > listen to the Bitcoin Takeover podcast > continue doomscrolling, but at least you’re learning something new

The Bitcoin Mechanic guy is obviously an agent all he does is appeal to emotions in order to stall Bitcoin development I suspect most people boosting his platform are agents too After all, this whole circus started with Citrea wanting to make its data storage more efficient

“The Bitcoin Core developers get paid in fiat, don’t stack sats and probably don’t run personal nodes either” Yeah, they’re the people who understand how Bitcoin works.