Vancouver trains

Rare look into the fully equipped kitchen of The Canadian, the best train in the world.

Today, I made my first Ebay account to buy a vintage clock from across the country. Within fifteen minutes, my account was first restricted, then temporarily suspended, and while I was on the phone with customer support (they’re surprisingly easy to reach), my account was permanently suspended. I called again, and they said that I’m banned from Ebay for life. I never even mentioned the word Bitcoin, just for the record. Lmao.

Upgrading the user experience, because the user experience is important. Byebye unmounted tablets!

Smashburgers with skinny fries aren’t a hip trend, they’re the brutal result of shrinkflation.

Bitcoiners will go to extreme lengths to avoid accepting/making Bitcoin payments. This is the latest hilarious example: View quoted note →

Embrace the rain. Water your soul. Walk.

The Square/Cash App combo is an incredible fire starter for the Lightning Network. Four million potential merchants means other apps might also integrate it for their users. 60 million potential users might make it attractive for other payment processors to also adopt it.

The web is dead. Long live Nostr!

If you’re flying in or out of a U.S. airport this month, don’t forget to tip your air traffic controller!

Imagine, there are privacy advocates out there who prefer using credit cards because Bitcoin “isn’t perfect.” They take themselves seriously when they shouldn’t.

I'll be at the Calgary Bitdevs this Tuesday! Starts at 18:30 in the upstairs meeting room of the Nicholls Family Library.

Meetup

YYC BitDevs (Bitcoin Education), Tue, Nov 4, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Join us with an evening of education and dialogue with fellow bitcoiners. This session will be lead by BitDev Leo Weese. No experience needed, this...

The land mass of British Columbia is 35% larger than Texas. Quebec is a staggering 120% larger. And Quebec isn’t even the largest territory! Canada doesn’t just feel big and empty.

Over on the “other” bird platform, half of all tweets are just pysops trying to trick you into clicking on the header or profile picture of an account. The most moronic way of engagement farming, driven by a predatory algorithm that only has one purpose: Make you a braindead consumer. Tell your normie friends to opt out before it’s too late.

The last independent English-language news outlet still operating in Hong Kong, HKFP, was subjected to an audit by the territory’s tax authority that lastet two years and covered seven years of business. The audit “uncovered” ~US$390 in discrepancies, for which HKFP paid ~US$7,300 in fines. Absolutely ridiculous.

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

20-month 'random' tax probe into HKFP alleges HK$3k shortfall as audit ends

The tax office has closed a 20-month investigation into seven years' worth of HKFP's accounts. HKFP opted to settle the case without prej...

Real cars have steel wheels.

Making Arkade payments at DCTRL. Natively and through a Lightning swap. Pretty smooth!

Listening to @jb55 talk about Damus Notedeck at the Vancouver Nostr Meetup.

Pretty cool seeing Lightning and Spark payments alongside each other at DCTRL’s Bepsi machine. So far, Lightning is the superior UX, as payments are faster. But what’s the technical reason for this?

Much of what’s being released in Bitcoin right now boils down to “plausible self-sovereignty as a service.”