Alhamdulilah. The presentation went well. Had a lot of people come up to me and ask questions. And some of the questions were pretty good, but a lot of it was the usual "how do I buy the bitcoin???" I also gave away a bunch of copies of my book. And every single person I talked to asked for my LinkedIn 😂 "nah I'm not on linkedin but here's my npub" View quoted note →

"Jack Mallers you are in bed with mafia players. Charlie Kirk tried to exit the mafia. You can't exit the mafia once you're in bed with the mafia."

I don’t get how so many Bitcoin developers, people who have been here for years and are objectively brilliant, still can’t grasp this one obvious reality that’s been smacking them in the face the whole time. Bitcoin culture will always drift toward purity tests and so-called "narrow mindedness". Some might see this as a bug imported from fiat but it’s literally how the thing protects itself. If you want relevance in this space, you stick to the core principles (fixed supply, small blockspace, cypherpunk ethos, whatever) because the moment you wander off, everyone stops taking you seriously. You are already participating in purity tests whether you think you’re “above” them or not! And I get it. You want to seem open, inclusive, intellectually flexible, whatever makes your normie tech friends think you’re not part of some terrifyingly closed-minded cult. Heaven forbid anyone accuse you of conviction! But know this, every single time you drift from Bitcoin’s ideological spine, you will lose. You can react emotionally to this, but it’s literally what has happened, repeatedly and brutally. Look at the blocksize war. Look at every attempt to smuggle in shitcoin-adjacent “innovation.” It fails because Bitcoin only survives by being toxically hostile to garbage ideas. If you want to be part of Bitcoin’s future, you’re going to have to embrace the cult. Fucking deal with it.

Jummah Mubarak y'all

Omar Suleiman and Yasir Qadhi are starting to notice how legacy social media works against them. We could see another wave of Muslim Nostr-pilling soon inshaAllah

Legacy social media is a good outlet sometimes

So next week I'll actually be presenting at the Halal Money conference in the Bay Area insha Allah. I have a session where I'll be talking about "digital assets" 😒 but obviously this will be about Bitcoin. I only have a 20 minute session, so I'll do 15 minute presentation and 5 minutes for questions. This only leaves me time for about 5 or 6 slides, and keep in mind that most of these folks are suits working in finance industry. What graphics would you recommend I show? I think at a minimum I'll definitely show this one: Maybe I should show the historical chart of the Bitcoin price? The purchasing power of the dollar? What do you think?

JM

First thing I see when I get on X Getting really sick of legacy social media in general. Every npc is like this.

They're both just socialism with Jewish characteristics