This is one of those 80s American Christmas photos going around. I was a kid. I remember. Rampant consumerism, yes, but it was glorious. The last time I saw a mall decorated like this for Christmas was in Tangier, Morocco, Christmas of '21. They still do it. The slow, quiet rot of fiat.

That snare.

gm, good people. ☕

"Merriam-Webster just announced that 'slop' is 2025’s word of the year…"

We have three Advent calendars on the go this year.

The new Uncanny Valley: you know you're chatting with a human support agent, but you also know they're using AI for responses.

"But my key takeaway would be that if your product is just a SQL wrapper on a billing system, you now have thousands of competitors: engineers at your customers with a spare Friday afternoon with an agent." An astute observation and good for users. Can confirm having spent a lot of years in enterprise software.

Martin Alderson

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.

gm, good people. ☕ Happy Friday.

If you meet the Buddha in your inbox, kill him.

Monday will mark 3.5 years for me on nostr. Viva la nostr.

Bullish on Bitcoin embassies.

Bitcoin Products

Bitcoin Embassies - Trusted Bitcoin Tools & Services

Physical spaces and community hubs where Bitcoiners gather, learn, and build together.

Great new product, @MartyBent.

Let them eat bangers and mash.

Reclaim The Net

US Suspends $41 Billion Tech Deal with UK over Online Censorship Laws

Washington wanted an alliance on AI; London delivered a lecture on acceptable conversation.

WIP: Self-hosted #v4v analytics. Connects to @Alby Hub via NWC. Relies on a proxy running via Netlify function that injects content URLs into invoices for per-piece zap tracking. Next step is to extract the proxy code and incorporate it. It's live at

Shawn Yeager | Go-to-Market, AI, Bitcoin, Frontier Tech

Shawn Yeager

Writing about go-to-market strategy, AI, Bitcoin, and what changes when technology outruns the market around it.

and working smoothly. See the footer zap link or the end of each essay (Zap this essay).

GitHub

GitHub - shawnyeager/hugo-v4v: Accept Bitcoin Lightning payments on Hugo sites. Includes Netlify proxy, payment page template, and analytics CLI.

Accept Bitcoin Lightning payments on Hugo sites. Includes Netlify proxy, payment page template, and analytics CLI. - shawnyeager/hugo-v4v

“Price is the ultimate honey badger.” — npub1ehdgpc6n0fehud6h6azcejf53wy5zhtyewtddffm45ec5xpdnv7scq078r

Good coverage of a great guy and a linchpin project. Hats off to @notmandatory and the BDK team.

Bitcoin News

Inside Bitcoin Development Kit | Steve Myers

From SETI@home curiosity to founding BDK, Steve Myers shares how Bitcoin Dev Kit makes wallets easier, safer, and cross-platform for builders.