I think Zooko is by far the most misunderstood person in Bitcoin But a top 10 bitcoiner by contributions to both cryptography & internet money tech that’s 100% BTC-compatible More bitcoiners should study his work: the smartest ones are already trying to bring Zcash to Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/live/Vs2gTXzqe4Q?is=M5LiSoq1d1ygoi1X

Gm, everyday I wake up having an existential crisis AI has become so good that it can correct me & completely redo hours of my work within seconds. As a worker, I am obsolete. Soon to be replaced by a faster, cheaper AGI. But as a creative person, I am just getting started!

Roger Ver was right When he said that people save the currency that they use for spending One good example is Tron: an unoriginal Ethereum clone that used to be the laughing stock of the industry when it launched in 2017 But has been outperforming bitcoin since 2021 because it’s the most popular gas token for USDT payments Nobody likes it, but it’s useful. Which is why people bought it and held it 🤷🏻‍♂️

I really dislike the way Bitcoin’s scaling debate is framed as “Blocksize wars” Because everyone agreed that Bitcoin needs larger blocks and it got 4x larger blocks via SegWit The conversation was more about HOW to scale Bitcoin (hard forks were not popular due to their contentious nature) and whether or not layer 2s are the way to go forward Today, Bitcoin mostly scales through custodians (exchanges, ETFs, Lightning operators, federations) while Bitcoin Cash took on the risk of enabling OP codes that ironically support much better layer 2s. In a world where Bitcoin won, there would be no miners choosing to secure BCH. But here we are nearly a decade later, still unable to scale properly for the popular use cases and kicking the can down the road until other projects figure out better cryptography.

Paul Sztorc is a marketing genius: ✅ found exactly the taboo element that triggers bitcoinerd (Satoshi’s coins on a fork) ⏱️ published the announcement about Ecash just a week after BIP361 proposed freezing Satoshi’s coins in BTC 🍿 got 6 million views in 24 hours with his tweet, now everyone has an opinion If the Ecash software really delivers in late August, the entire industry will want to try it. Even the guys who want to dump their Ecash to buy more Bitcoin will have to see how this works. They are forced to become users, even for a few minutes. Then if the users stay, Bitcoin is in trouble.

Paul’s ecash hard fork is an excellent reason to: 1. Buy as much bitcoin as you can before August 2. Withdraw all coins from exchanges so you can claim your free ecash Super bullish!

I’m more inclined to believe that Satoshi is Len Sassaman than Hal Finney You can even tell how the relationship between Satoshi and Hal was like a young student talking with his older teacher Satoshi thought Bitcoin could scale to Visa levels. Hal believed BTC-backed banks would emerge. Satoshi didn’t include a block size limit until Hal Finney advised him to. Satoshi wanted to only have 2 decimals (bitcoin & cents). Hal Finney convinced him to add 8. Satoshi didn’t even use Hal’s Reusable Proof of Work. Satoshi’s work schedule matches the academic calendar – and Len worked in university. The Bitcoin code is hacky, features premature optimizations, originally came with a broken game of poker and an unfinished P2P marketplace with a reputation system like eBay. Hal would have designed and written much more elegant software, without unfinished bloat. I could go on. But Hal is not Satoshi. Someone younger and idealistic like Len is a much better fit.

You tell your friend to buy bitcoin But he buys HarryPotterObamaSonicInu10 Because the ticker is $BITCOIN What do you do?

Outside of getting thousands of people super rich, what is Bitcoin’s biggest achievement?

We spent 4 decades building the infrastructure to make the nation state obsolete Sovereign computing, open source software, unstoppable internet money, self-hosted cloud services and AI We’re primed for a new era that maximizes the freedom of the individual by replacing coercion with consent The most educated generation in the history of humankind is ready to start a new Renaissance But Elon wants us to surrender our potential to the nation state and collect paychecks for doing nothing Bring us back to feudalism in an era when we have the means to accomplish anything our ancestors dreamed about

My 2 cents on the whole “let’s freeze the bitcoins that don’t move to quantum resistant addresses” debate JUST DO A FUCKING HARD FORK Abandon the old network, let the quantum computers steal all the worthless coins Move to a better chain that fixes all the issues of the current one Let everyone claim their coins 1:1 on the new chain. Lost or unclaimed coins are still there, just in case the users return one day. Satoshi can return in a few decades, his coins will still be there. Quantum resistance is exactly the kind of existential upgrade for which a hard fork is justified. Don’t half ass this upgrade with something so suboptimal that a limited time for moving coins is even proposed. Soft forks are for trivial stuff. For anything major, just hard fork.

If #bitcoin was 1% faster, the blocks would get orphaned like crazy. If the block size was 1% bigger, every node would blow up instantly. If the difficulty adjusted 1 block faster, Bitcoin would be impossible. None of this is random. Satoshi is God and his design is perfect.

Will interview Deadalnix (Amaury Sechet) in about 6 hours He is the Bitcoin developer who created BCH in August 2017 and then once again forked BCH in 2020 to create Ecash (XEC) Join the livestream to learn more about the technical differences between the various versions of the Bitcoin software https://youtube.com/live/DiVwfHOY-i8?feature=share

Bitcoin-only companies: yes, we are only dealing with sound money and don’t support any shitcoins. Also Bitcoin-only companies: our budget is limited and we cannot pay as much as our competitors that do support shitcoins. So how are they shitcoins if they make the difference between a successful company and an establishment that sells virtue from mom’s basement? Or better yet, when does something stop being considered a shitcoin? Is it the market that redeems it? Time and resilience across bear markets? Having a real community of users?

Thrilled to announce the launch of Floppy Bitcoin 🐦 The the result of 2 days of intense vibe coding with Claude Opus 4.6 Also the most addictive game I’ve tried lately: while testing, I would usually end up playing for 30+ minutes! Includes podcast player, powerups, score multipliers, beautiful visual effects that enhance the experience Most importantly: it’s free to play! If you try it, post a screenshot of your high score in the comments!

Floppy Bitcoin

how about you stop using zoom, microsoft teams & any other piece of video call software that needs installation and updates? google meet works in any browser. so does jitsi. or brave talk! stop accepting calls via software you need to install too many guys got rekt. some of them even wear “don’t trust, verify” t-shirts at conferences and would otherwise larp as security experts

i think in about 1000 days we’re going to see a new democratic presidency and congress majority that will start a witch hunt against ai, crypto, and pretty much everything that trump supported or allowed to develop they will call it a national crisis to save jobs & the us dollar the only problem is that open source ai is becoming so powerful that anyone can have agents on their phone and computer and you can program agents to make unstoppable payments cat’s out of the bag, there’s no going back!

I predict that by the end of 2026, there will be at least 2 Bitcoin hard forks that create altcoins. One from the Knots people to save the purity + “spirit” of Bitcoin, and at least another one from the frustrated builders who got sick of waiting for particular upgrades to get consensus. I think that the Knots effort will be short-lived, as the “spammers” will continually find ways to inscribe data until the filters get ridiculous. But the builders have the potential to attract lots of users from altcoins and also attract bitcoiners who resonate with the more technologist approach. So by 2027 we will have the institutional Bitcoin, the plebeian filtering Bitcoin, and the cypherpunk Bitcoin that we’ve been promised for longer than a decade. I think all of them will become bigger than BCH. But the winning chain will be the one that the miners choose to secure. It’s gonna be interesting! But the last time we had a civil war of this magnitude, it wasn’t Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash that emerged victorious. It was Ethereum.