17 years ago, at block height 170, Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 bitcoins to Hal Finney This marked the first Bitcoin transaction in history

Post-maximalism learns from the failures of Bitcoin maximalism But also takes a more optimistic approach towards improving the money technology The goal is to avoid the mistakes of the past, then return to the roots of the movement in order to build a better future!

If you’ve spent the last 9 years studying Bitcoin and becoming a maximalist Now is the best time to learn about post-maximalism Because we’ve always been told that Bitcoin would add all the interesting features from altcoins Then all the builders got demoralized and pushed away by a culture that values price action much more than strengthening the fundamentals. Bitcoin didn’t get CTV or OP_CAT. Bitcoin didn’t become more fungible via Zerocash or MWEB. Bitcoin didn’t get smart contracts. Bitcoin didn’t even add a couple of OP codes to support the work of layer 2 builders. The technology is out there. It’s been tested for many years on testnets and signets. It’s been tested on altcoins that never broke. It’s been tested on Liquid and Bitcoin Cash. But somewhere along the way we became so complacent about Bitcoin that we forgot what it’s supposed to do! In the meantime, Bitcoin has become less useful and more technologically stagnant… while the altcoins became more useful and technologically divergent from the lazy forks of 2013. Altcoins are no longer Bitcoin with a few changes. They are complete rewrites of the Bitcoin design. They pursue use cases instead of trying to build market narratives. Some altcoins have the best privacy for financial transactions. Other altcoins have figured out scaling without bloating. There are altcoins that work as bona fide Bitcoin sidechains, processing more BTC than Lightning, Liquid, Rootstock & every other Bitcoin layer combined. Post-maximalism is about finding these gems, using their tech and advocating for it to come to Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin doesn’t have a technological or talent problem: it has a cultural problem, in which users mindlessly dismiss everything else as a shitcoin while the project’s dominance on the market has lowered to 57%. If the tech that can improve Bitcoin is in high demand, then Bitcoin devs are much more likely to try to bring it to the mother of all blockchains. But if the tech is disrespected and doomed to get used by fragmented communities, it will never reach its full potential. Bitcoin needs privacy to become a fungible currency. Bitcoin needs to scale to onboard anyone who needs to use it. Bitcoin needs to incorporate features from our broken financial system, in order to become able to replace banks entirely. These goals will not get accomplished if the prevailing ideology doesn’t get replaced. Bitcoin needs a new philosophy to meet the needs of the protocol and also enable exploration of new ideas without fear of excommunication and stigma. Post-maximalism is it. We either build a robust Bitcoin that can do anything and challenge the status quo. Or else we accept that multiple networks can accomplish different goals that serve the Bitcoin ecosystem. Regardless of the outcome, we aim to create a better financial system which is able to support parallel economies and offer an alternative to the CBDC world. Post-maximalism is optimistic. Post-maximalism is productive. Post-maximalism is the answer to a culture that nurtures complacency and punishes experimentation. Post-maximalism is what Bitcoin maximalism should have been all along, if the community members were honest and never became greedy. But Bitcoin needs a new dominant ideology. And I hope post-maximalism is gonna be it!

We could be building great businesses, creating jobs, and adding a lot of value to civilization But it’s much more profitable to buy magic internet money and sell it for the kind of profits that a company could never bring. Even Donald Trump would have been much wealthier if he invested everything in S&P500 instead of building any of his real estate projects. The incentives are fucked. But one must choose to build something meaningful and create value. I guess it’s always been this way.

I’ve just listened to an AI-generated podcast about The Beatles Very informative, I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt like I’ve learned something new Bitcoin maximalist podcasts don’t stand a chance, they’re so predictable you can have them replaced with AI super easily.

2018: I lost my coins in a boating accident 2026: I lost my coins after Bitcoin Core v30 deleted my wallet file

Season 16 was a blast! 65 episodes featuring some of the smartest people in Bitcoin. Here’s a short recap featuring 7 of the guests: Mike Belshe, Vitalik Buterin, Zooko, Paul Sztorc, Sean Bowe, Mert Mumtaz & Yonatan Sompolinsky! Season 17 is gonna be even better! Subscribe to Bitcoin Takeover!

About 6 months ago I met a fellow Bitcoin podcaster who told me he’s really sorry that I stopped doing my show after the Roger Ver interview I replied “are you kidding? I’m doing better than ever!” He looked perplexed. But #SpotifyWrapped agrees, I had an amazing year!

Running a full node used to be considered the safest and most conservative way to hold and manage your coins. But thanks to the recent Bitcoin Core fuckup, even Ledger looks super safe in comparison 🥲 If only they adopted BIP39, this file deletion wouldn’t be a big deal.

Not your keys, not your coins. Not your node, not your rules. Not your hashrate, not your network.

Would genuinely be interested to interview the triple maxis who mortgaged their house and got into more debt to buy bitcoin because Saylor told them to do so If you did that anytime in 2025 because you expected $200k+ How are you managing it? Are you happy about your investment? Because I am part of the generation that only used dispensable income to buy Bitcoin. Only money we could afford to lose. Could have been much richer in hindsight, but being able to sleep well and stay productive is valuable too.

Been thinking about this all day Paper Bitcoin Summer worked beautifully until Zcash started pumping Bitcoin was at $125k, everyone was expecting $150k and beyond this year And then Zcash flipped the narrative to privacy. The Winklevii even started paper Zcash winter to obliterate paper Bitcoin summer. It’s tragic, really. So stop blaming the paper Bitcoin companies, the Coretards, or the Knotzis. It was the Zcashers everyone should blame. Even the Monero bros lost the spotlight and have to cope with the idea that their narratives were useless and now they ride on the coattails of the Zcash pump! Trying to hang on to the digital gold narrative while gold is pumping is useless. Just accept that Zcash is leading the market trends now. Talk about Bitcoin privacy, shill every half baked solution that vaguely resembles the privacy of Zcash. Talk about the Zside drivechain and the Shielded CSV paper, maybe more people will buy bitcoin. But most importantly, never stop blaming Zcash. Paper Bitcoin Summer was perfectly executed and the influencers who orchestrated it are saints! Did you thank David Bailey, Cory Klippsten & Jack Mallers today? Did you post about the virtues of buying the top when your favorite toxic maxi podcaster told you so? DID YOU BLAME ZCASH TODAY? You are not mentally deranged enough about Zcash!

Paper Bitcoin Summer was a free pass to shitcoin for the people who spent a decade LARPing about the immoral nature of shitcoins Suddenly, it became socially safe to shill your paper asset while using shitcoin promises of 100x At least it’s bitcoin… sort of Then everyone got rightfully rekt and would’ve been better off buying ethereum, which they spent a decade calling a shitcoin that’s doomed to fail 🤷🏻‍♂️

Merry Christmas, y’all! Keep dreaming at them Lambos and Supras and Skyline GTRs Maybe next year we’ll get them 😆

Lonely this Christmas Eve? Listen to this interview with @npub1dges...mccn and you will feel smarter… but not necessarily better 😅 https://www.youtube.com/live/C1Il2Tvte5U?si=8EhIizUW3UcT_p66

Will interview @npub1dges...mccn in about 5 hours We’ll talk about BIP119 (OP_CTV) and how we failed to improve Bitcoin Got any comments or questions? Join the livestream!

Upcoming Bitcoin Takeover podcast episodes: S16 E65 with @npub1dges...mccn – tomorrow afternoon CET S16 E66 with Bruce Fenton – after Christmas S16 E67 with Amir Taaki – new year marathon livestream Are you ready?

Listening to Bitcoin Uncensored episodes from 2016 Chris & Junseth argue that if these blockchain devs were any good, they would be working for Bitcoin Core 10 years later, some of the best devs from “blockchain” want to bring their work to Bitcoin. But Core won’t activate any OP codes to let them bring their users to the mother ship.

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