This can be the end of the bull market 📈 Or just the beginning 🚀 Follow me for more unquestionably accurate market analysis 🫡

Today is my half birthday If you want to offer me a gift, listen to an episode of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast Or buy yourself a Cryptosteel metal backup, Braiins BMM ASIC miner, or BitBox hardware wallet using promo code BTCTKVR for special 5-10% discounts!

When does a shitcoin stop being a shitcoin? After it survives 2 bear markets and still has users? When it stays in the top 20 for longer than 10 years? When it does what it says it does, delivers exciting new features and is different enough from Bitcoin? When it gets its own annual conference and people actually buy tickets to see it?

This was the top 10 on CoinMarketCap 10 years ago What will it look like in 10 years?

This is the most fed-like behavior ever: Paying both sides of the war, in order to control the narrative and make sure that no significant development ever happens Jack Dorsey is no stranger to collaborating with 3-letter agencies, as evidenced by #TwitterFiles Now we have to believe he’s a new person who somehow adopted a new lifestyle under the Bitcoin standard… while completely cutting ties with his old friends. I ain’t buying it. Unlike many of my peers, I’m not under Jack’s payroll and can afford to speak my mind: this is what we get in order to prevent us from scaling Bitcoin and making it private. Eternal conflict, chaos, and infighting that breaks year-long friendships and reputations that took many years to build. But hey, at least the price went up. Why aren’t you happy?

Can Vitalik 51% attack Bitcoin via Ethereum bounty? Andrew Poelstra seems to believe so.

You can’t spell GrassFedBitcoin Without FED

Big day tomorrow for the Bitcoin Takeover podcast! Will broadcast 2 episodes: S16 E40, part 2 with Cory Klippsten In which we’ll try to define Bitcoin maximalism S16 E41 with Yonatan Sompolinsky In which I’ll try to understand how Kaspa works Quite a juxtaposition!

Been reading news about privacy coins becoming a hotter topic on Google Trends To me, it was obvious since last year when I attended the Nashville Bitcoin conference The revolution is dead, so there will be a massive exodus towards anything that offers financial privacy. It’s not a matter of “if” at this point. It’s a matter of “when”. The fact that so many Bitcoin OGs are interested in Monero/Zcash/Zano/Beam these days is proof that there is still hope. The only other question is: when will the “plebs” wake up and join the battle? Then will the normies put their money in something that better protects their freedom of transaction? Regardless of when, I’m ready.

Simplicity recently launched on Blockstream’s Liquid federation, after being is development for about a decade. But is it really better than Ethereum’s smart contract scripting?

Here’s what Blockstream head of research Andrew Poelstra thinks about two-way pegged sidechains, as described by the 2014 sidechains whitepaper and the drivechains

Feeling cute, might inscribe my podcast theme song on the Bitcoin blockchain … so I can’t delete it later 🙃

Unsolicited bull market advice: you don't have to prove anything to anyone while it might be tempting to show off to the people who made fun of you for believing in internet money it's really not worth it. they won't feel as bad as you did when they hurt you and you'll feel like an idiot for spending your money on something that doesn't really make you happy

Went to the gym again today Was disappointed to see that nobody was doing any barbell exercises Kids these days are playing it safe w/ cable pulls & machines for every muscle group When I was in high school, I was doing olympic lifts, standing military presses & deadlifts.

A world in which Monero and BCH are merged-mined with Bitcoin is really wonderful Maximum security for all assets, more revenue for miners, and the culture of hating other chains that do something different comes to an end We kill the 21m utopia, but build a better future 🫡

The nicest compliment my work can receive is when others reference it Yesterday, Matthew Krater of Bitcoin University recommended his followers to listen to my interview with @Super Testnet on the topic of Monero vs Lightning for privacy. Thank you!

If I used the same rationale as Bitcoin maximalists nowadays and just settled for something imperfect that’s popular I would have never discovered Bitcoin in the first place

If you cannot publicly criticize your own investment Then you are either intellectually dishonest Or else haven’t diversified enough to comfortably say what you don’t like Just remember that there is no growth without pain and you never really learn until you take some losses.

Can’t hate on ETH anymore They’ve been around for a decade, built some great stuff, proved a lot of critics wrong They’ve been through hell, they’ve been ridiculed by bitcoiners, but they’re still standing Congrats on this, seriously! You deserve it.