#BBTG is coming back like you won’t believe!

Tonight at #Vietnam DIFF 2025 was #Portugal vs #UK. Portugal’s fireworks were seriously spectacular throughout their 20 minutes, “awesome” is the right word to describe it. The UK team going second decided to save up for a big finale and it didn’t disappoint! Here is video of the UK finale from Da Nang’s International Fireworks Festival this evening; much prefer seeing country’s blow up pyrotechnics in competition than bombs on unsuspecting civilians! View quoted note →

Saylor needs to swap the black tshirt for a turtleneck.

Woke up to a macaque on my office balcony trying to break into the house here in Da Nang, #Vietnam.

Screenshot of #Bitcoin Core Dev Antoine Poinsot’s reply to the open letter for CTV+CSFS. This drama would be funny if everyone involved here wasn’t retarded and collectively holding Bitcoin back. Harsha’s response to Antoine sums up the problem: “Most people signed because they really had no idea what the next step ought to be, and the pressure for transaction commitments was so much so that a bad option (piling of a sign-on letter) was more optimal than inaction.” Has any of the signers of the letter thought about selling noderunners on these changes and getting them on board to support them? No. They spent all their time and effort chatting with other devs and companies who want the functionality for their own reasons and take their agreement as “broad support” when no-one who runs a node is on board with the idea, so Core feels no pressure to look at this at all. Those involved might be some of the best devs on earth, but they’re some of the biggest autists at the same time who have zero understanding of psychology, persuasion, politics, incentives, motives or anything else which matters to get stuff done.

Chaincode Labs Core Dev can’t believe that people are legitimately switching to Knots using Start9 and Umbrel. It’s beyond this peanut’s comprehension just how pissed off Bitcoiners who actually run nodes are with these scumbags, so rather than accept what the market is signalling, he’s making out like Start9 are grifters and the numbers are false.

People need to understand “why” before they care about “how”. The reason #Bitcoin development has stagnated so much is because Devs don’t do the “why”, they only do the “how” And they assume people will fill in the “why” blanks themselves. That might have worked when it was run on a small mailing list and Devs and noderunners were mostly the same people but nowadays many noderunners are less technical, their incentives and motives are very different from today’s devs and until devs start speaking TO them, in THEIR language, nothing is going to go anywhere. View quoted note →

Imagine where #Bitcoin would be today both in fiat price and further adoption if Conbase weren’t a pack of grifting cunts, and they’d just absorbed Bitcoin liquidity and built instead of trying to make money on garbage like Fartcoin..

US$2.76 for a dozen roses in #Vietnam, about $4.25 in Dollarydoos.. ~30X cheaper than in Aus. Some of the price differences here still blow my mind

Americans need to start lopping heads if Trump gets involved with Iran. Time for some accountability for the warpigs and Zionists running the joint else you’re no more a real country than the Central Bank Charter State of Israel #BBTG

Just in case anyone had any doubts about Udi. People like to think they’re above guilt by association, but as a species we’re really not; we judge others all the time by the company they keep as a filter and proxy for who we don’t want to be around. All the devs who still associate with this retard and his scamming wizards deserve every ounce of shit directed at them.

How stupid would you have to be to pay $5 million for Trump’s golden visa when American politicians can be bought so cheap?

#Bitcoin Xitter is now Bitcoin Treasury Company Xitter I’ve also noticed that practically everyone involved in these Treasury companies is only on Xitter, not active on #nostr at all. Makes it easy to tell who cares about sovereignty and who just wants NGU. View quoted note →

What happened to witchcraft? You never see people complaining of curses nowadays, and there’s a distinct lack of hunts and stake burnings.

Apple’s announcement video seems fitting

Openness might be the defining character trait of successful people in this century. We all have anchoring biases and struggle with cultural lag where our views are formed in the past and might not reflect reality today. This helps us filter reality and avoid sensory overload but is also used to program beliefs which are useful to other people. Being willing to look further and challenge assumptions, to take a second look at something, that’s where the alpha is. That’s what happened with most Bitcoiners. Very rarely does one see it and get it immediately, but they took the time and reviewed their assumptions and have been rewarded for it. The next big domain for this will be locations. People stuck with outdated ideas of places are going to miss huge opportunities, people who are open and willing to take a second look at what was once easily dismissed, will reap the rewards. View quoted note →

Frank, like all other Goldbugs, misses step 2.5 Step 1…print money to buy gold Step 2…revalue gold to a much higher price Step 2.5…You’ve just made all of your competitors like China, Russia, India etc who are sitting on a shitton of gold in their vaults, let alone massive untapped deposits, that much wealthier The only way a gold revaluation works is to do it, and then immediately dump it and pump the Bitcoin stack. First half you do super loud, second part as quiet as possible. Step 3 then becomes peg to #Bitcoin Personally I don’t want this to happen and I still thinks odds are low, but if a gold revaluation does happen in the next 12-18 months then this is how I expect it to play out. Goldbugs will mock Bitcoiners and feel vindicated for a few weeks/months and then get massively rugged as it’s value collapses to that of industrial use commodity and Bitcoin moons permanently. The US wants to dominate the global (as much of the globe as possible at least) financial system and they’re simply not positioned to do that with gold, they don’t have nearly enough control, and they’re going to pull back from policing the entire world making it far riskier for gold-backed international trade. That last point is the biggest thing everyone ignores - they project the current status quo into the new scenario and fail to account for the US Navy now only protecting the US security sphere (those under the dollar umbrella) rather than the whole globe, and the amount of piracy that would ensue.