I have so many AI bots in my replies that it becomes very difficult to engage in genuine conversations I don’t know what is a good solution, but if this keeps on happening I might automate my Nostr too with an agent that’s trained on my writings 🥹

The whole point of Bitcoin is self-custody being able to hold your own keys then send and receive transactions to/from anyone you want, without asking for permission Ironically and definitely intentionally, self-custody is also limited technically and discouraged socially Now we deal with custodians (aka banks) as if the system was designed to lead us down this path

You know that Nostr is really useful tech when the monero and bitcoin cash communities build their own clients to zap with their favorite coins Sooner or later, all crypto communities will join Nostr and run relays to maintain censorship resistance

Woke up feeling super excited about BIP110 My God, what a brilliant BIP Such a genius team of proponents! It’s helping Bitcoin work better as money This means it adds scaling & fungibility This is exactly what BIP110 does, right? RIGHT?!

My favorite part about doing the Bitcoin Takeover podcast is that I learn the story of Bitcoin from the perspective of people who were there since the early days Well, today I will interview the creator & host of the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list – the place where Satoshi Nakamoto first announced Bitcoin on October 31st 2008 His name is Perry E. Metzger and he’s a fascinating individual, with interests ranging from cryptography to open source AI If you like Bitcoin history and want to learn from someone who’s been into computers for 5 decades, tune in at 4 PM EST / 10 PM CET The interview will be livestreamed here on Twitter, as well as on YouTube. Feel free to join the live chat and ask questions! https://youtube.com/live/0_6P7-zUOb8?feature=share

So when BIP110 fails to activate Are we gonna welcome our Knots brothers back and act like nothing happened or are they mentally deranged to the point that they’d rather be on a virtue signaling fork than admit that they were wrong?

In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper on the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list Tomorrow, I’ll interview Perry Metzger – the founder and host of the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list 4 PM EST / 10 PM CET Join the livestream chat to ask questions!

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Bitcoin plebs spent a decade coming up with conspiracy theories about spooks and who is here to launch an attack on BTC But they turned out to be the attack on Bitcoin (and quite possibly infiltrated by spooks too)

During every bear market, Bitcoin had something technologically interesting that was being developed These concepts are responsible for restoring faith in the future of the project In 2011, the self custody experience improved with proper SPV wallets. In 2013-2014 we got Zerocash (today’s Zcash), Counterparty and Omni (the grandfathers of Ethereum & Solana), and the early iterations of sidechains In 2018-2019 we witnessed the glory days of the Lightning network, which promised to make all altcoins obsolete In 2022-2023 we saw the first use cases for Taproot and started thinking about CTV, programmability via BitVM, vaults, and scaling Bitcoin across time But for 2026-2027, we have nothing going on. Some BitVM projects that aren’t getting any traction due to the broken user culture, infighting due to filtering wet dreams, a lot of virtue signaling from people who don’t understand how Bitcoin works, nothing productive or remotely interesting. The research and development moved to other chains or else pivoted to AI. The smartest people are leaving, or else creating hard forks like Ecash. Only the most naive or perverse (as in sheep and wolves) seem to be sticking to the BTC only thesis, as regulators and politicians finally caught up with how the tech works and are ready to capture it. Bitcoin doesn’t die when the price goes to 0. It dies when it no longer becomes useful as unstoppable internet money, as the primary use case is speculation.

Bitcoin Fork Summer BIP 410 gets activated (110+300) 63 million bitcoins will exist 42 million will get airdropped to HODLers Everyone gets the technology they want

Tomorrow I will be interviewing @Alex Waltz Probably the first fellow Romanian I’ve ever had on my podcast We’ll talk about Bitcoin history, his research on the first ever transaction & why satoshis don’t exist 8 PM CET / 2 PM EST Don’t miss it!

Bitconnect: takes your money, buys bitcoin, pays 1% daily interest to token holders. Trading bot makes promises no downside. STRC: takes your money, buys bitcoin, pays 11.5% annual interest to investors. Saylor’s ChatGPT slop promises no downside.

Thinking of doing more on the road interviews Talking about Bitcoin while driving to a nice place Does anyone want to visit Romania this summer? Or maybe I can come over and we rent a car (though I prefer my couch on wheels)

Learn more about BTC-backed loans from @npub1rucd...wjhl as I’ve interviewed CEO Martin Matejka on my podcast! https://www.youtube.com/live/iJeG7Uq_72k?is=YBVN6_C6WoBCHGvC

hot take: this whole “microstrategy is in bed with the us intelligence, has board members who are cia veterans, might be the shadow us strategic reserve” narrative is one desperate effort to make STRC look like it’s too big to fail so anyone shorting it will be afraid that he’s competing with the money printer but ftx had even more political support, seemed too big to fail too… until it wasn’t

BIP 110 is the democratic party Core is the republican party Once you see it this way, it makes a lot more sense

Scarcity and limited supply are very different concepts Gold is scarce, even though it has a hypothetically infinite supply that grows over time Monero & Ethereum are scarce too, as the supply grows over time according to a predetermined schedule. Bitcoin, Zcash, Litecoin & every other fork are limited in supply. But then again, with internet money you can create millions of forks – of which maybe a handful will get traction and effectively generate inflation on the market. So even Bitcoin can face diminishing network effects that eventually lead to inflation. Paul Sztorc’s Ecash might be one such example.

This weekend’s podcast episode just dropped on Spotify & Apple Podcasts 🎧 The guest is @Grafton, whose enthusiasm for vibe coding and just building things will most likely inspire you to create something too We also talk about privacy & Bitcoin stuff. He receives Zcash for the first time too! Unfortunately, the video recording appears to be compromised and I am not sure how to fix it. But I will try to put something together and livestream it next week. Until then, enjoy listening to Grafton!

bitcoin: a rich retiring cypherpunk to idealistic young fool “now you figure out how to make this work as money” system