one pattern i always notice is that some plebs especially the early bitcoin crowd, act like they own the whole network. to them bitcoin belongs to them and anyone else especially corporations isn’t welcome. if you buy mstr, ibit, etc.. it’s treated like a sin. they never question whether vanguard even allows them to buy actual bitcoin or move it to cold storage which is obviously not an option. they don’t even consider that this might be the only option for bitcoin exposure inside a 401k. similarly if you’re a corporation buying bitcoin, you’re not welcome either. this behavior is completely wrong. bitcoin is ownerless. whether you got in 2010 or today, you have the same rights and access and claim of ownership as anyone else.

mstr and saylor hate among some bitcoiners is weird. you want $10m coin, you want corporations on your side whether you like it or not. and saylor’s comment about selling btc to pay strc dividends is strategic. they need to say things like this and even include them as risk disclosures if they want s&p 500 inclusion. that’s what this is all about.

a lot of ibit owners (and other etfs) absorbed the pain when btc traded around 60k. most of them held. who told them to hold, what were they told? now they’re sitting at cost. what happens when accumulation starts again…

best advice i heard recently: own bitcoin, lease everything else.

commodity supercycle is real. it’s already done its job well for gold, silver and oil. now it’s bitcoin’s turn. maybe next month, next quarter or next year.. no one knows. lower your timeframe and enjoy the ride.

killing me slowly... Want me to add the timeout watchdog? Small fix, ~10 lines, prevents "stuck cron eats the server for a day" pattern from recurring. Or stop here and let you absorb today's pain first.

sorry to say this but mallers’ comments about saylor are unfortunate. one might ask what have you done for bitcoin other than running a for profit company. not even mentioning xxi..

happy saturday 🍺

transferred my ai’s persistent memory from old computer to a new computer and it felt like a brain transplant.

friday

on another note anthropic shutting down openclaw and trying to clean up everything around it is a terrible move. they had a real chance to acquire and build on top of it instead they sent lawyers and now they’re doubling down. i don’t even think openclaw is close to what agentic workflows will look like in the near future but betting against open source is just wrong. not just morally but strategically too.

agreed. a good example of a bad idea is the whole quantum fear narrative where incentive driven bad actors try to use it as a reason to push protocol changes.

you can either get angry at ai or just stay calm and tell it exactly what you want. garbage in, garbage out.

he’s not just crazy, he’s stupid too. bad combo for a prime minister.

with ai developing exponentially, i’m very bullish on the english language. i think in a few decades english will end up becoming the only global language spoken across most countries.

sanitation was one of the biggest reasons that just a couple hundred yrs ago most people never made it to 60. today we barely think about it. clean water, sewage systems, basic hygiene. that’s abundance. then came the industrial revolution. steam engines, factories, electricity, railroads. machines replaced muscle and multiplied output per person. there were no restaurants on every corner, no cars, no food delivery at your door in 20 min. all of it came from innovation and tech quietly upgrading human life. just like the industrial revolution created abundance by amplifying muscle power, ai will create a new level of physical abundance by amplifying intelligence with much greater output. the industrial revolution scaled labor. ai scales problem solving. and when problem solving scales, the entire world gets redesigned.

your job is safe for now 🤣

being a bitcoin hodlr is one of the hardest things. watching your money get destroyed 80% again and again, eight times in ten years and still having the conviction to sit there calmly knowing that long term you’ll outperform every asset that exists.

ok i’ll bite. nostr feels absolutely dead. it’s not just me. a lot of accounts i try to keep up with are constantly posting and getting almost no engagement. maybe it's time to be honest and actually think about whats going wrong instead of trying to create fake hype. there i said it.

watched boston dynamics’ new atlas for a few mins today. human evolution took about 2m yrs from homo habilis to now and it’s still an ongoing process. meanwhile these robots basically started a few yrs ago and are already pulling off incredible hand movements and hands are the hardest part. replicating hands means solving high dof control tactile sensing real time feedback loops and motor precision all at once. kinda wild to think where they’ll be in 20/30 yrs with ai accelerating exponentially.