We should stop talking about "transactions" and start talking about "settlements". Words matter to imagination. When hearing "transaction", people think of paying for a coffee - "settlement" sounds more like something, that banks do, something bigger, more serious. Taste this rethoric figure: "A single Bitcoin settlement can finalize thousands of single transactions or millions of lightning payments. How many settlements per minute does Visa have? None!"

Imagine you write an article about Bitcoin for Bloomberg and claim, that Bizcoin was "now about 12 years old" 😂

@j'ai les clés I made it over here after all from bsky, enough anthropology. Do you have any recommendations whom to follow for inspiring thoughts transcending the ubiquitous crypto memes?

https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/b72e050a-35cf-463b-87cc-84c72bc60f04 Damn funny - new generative AI creates pop music hookline with vocals out of text prompt. Bad music can now by auto-generated at near zero cost.

Quite amazed by the simplicity and accuracy of this formula - found it today via regression. Note: t = years since genesis block https://image.nostr.build/b96ac93d20d760942143a095942fff8a7f16f9a770edac354bc4f6b0475ec4e1.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1920x1208&alt=Power+law+formula+f%28t%29%3Dt%5E%28pi%2Be%29%2F200&blurhash=r5S%7Ex5xu%3FbIU-%3B%25M9FfQt7t7WBayofWBayofWBay%7EqWBD%25xuD%25M%7B-%3BofWBRjt7ofM%7Bt7ofRjt7of9FRjxuxuxuj%5BRjRjRj%25MRjRjxuRjWBxuM%7BWB&x=3b520abc19d74db6f8ce3f97481b6d8d73d25ecc054513ead824cda3fb53b645 https://image.nostr.build/a78dbb669b11af841393b3bbee0a52f5fa7868c3b89e3e86087125d5d6fd59b4.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1920x1030&alt=The+mentioned+formula+plotted+over+a+btc+chart.&blurhash=i05%3B%7E%2B-%3AR%3At7E3IpD%2BoIM%7C%7Eo9bE4xaNHt6ae-ms%2CkD4%3B%25M%5E%25t5xXM%7Bn%23M%7BWXo%23%7EV-TE1IV4%3BE2IpM%7Dxu-oD*D%2B%251S5ozxs&x=6fb567bf99a90632a2beb11521893fe25861efc95bb1d58de3aabf08d77268f6