Software is code
Code is just words
Words are speech
Speech is protected by the first amendment
Therefore…
Software is free speech
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Only on Nostr do you get the very best in the latest music
New Fleshwater album is out today and it is an absolute ripper
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FKMBSo5udmDenoy7LBlMs?si=aM-i2jNeR5muz_To60wRpA
A must read article about the state of the Knots vs. Core debate.
Both sides are right, but each are missing the full context.
We need less infighting, and more collaboration and teamwork to resolve this problem.
Instead of asking “how do we destroy the other side?” We need to ask “how do we work together to achieve our common goal of worldwide bitcoin adoption?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/sherlockhodls/p/core-vs-knots
If you’re looking for extra conviction, watch interviews/new segments/documentaries of the internet from the 1990s.
The parallels between then and now (with Bitcoin adoption) are almost uncanny
“Why would I send an email when I have the post office?”
“Why would I listen to a baseball game on the internet when I have the radio?”
The adoption of the internet represented the most modern case of framework shifting in recent memory.
If you’re thinking of bitcoin in terms of fiat money, you’re missing the point entirely. You have to radically shift your entire perception of everything that money touches. It’s a whole new framework.
Never been more bullish.
#Nostr feels like what Twitter felt like in 2009
Crazy how much has changed in four years with regard to cycle theory. In 2021 everybody would talk about the halving cycle all the time.
Nowadays people basically think it’s hogwash and there is zero credence to it.
Part of me still believes in the halving cycle theory because of the psychological implication of it; every new halving, a group of normies learn that the supply issuance rate was just cut in half, permanently. This sends them into an internal panic .
Is the four year halving cycle price theory dead?
Really wish I was as rich as half the Bitcoiners on Nostr !
I feel like the minnow in a sea of whales
EVERY BITCOIN PODCAST EVER
Host: “welcome to the show. Tell us about your Bitcoin journey.”
Guest: “At first I didn’t like Bitcoin. But then I studied it , and then I bought a bunch.”
Host: “crazy. That’s what I did too. Tell me, why is everyone who doesn’t buy Bitcoin so stupid?”
Guest: “they don’t understand”
Host: “I never thought of it like that. Are you on Nostr?”
Guest : “I am. I’ll zap you some saaaats brooo”
Host: “Isn’t Saylor so coooool? He just bought MORE
bitcoin!! ”
Guest: “he’s literally god, but everyone other treasury company is total garbage for some reason”
Host: “Before we wrap up, what will Bitcoin’s price be by the end of the year?”
Guest: “probably somewhere between 1 million and 100,000 billion, but who can tell?”
“THANKS FOR LISTENING TO THE SUPER ULTRA MEGA BASED BITCOIN SHOW”
You can just do things


Time for some Hopium: You really don’t realize how early you are.
If you are reading this post in August of 2025, you personally will be considered a brave pioneer in Bitcoin adoption in only a few decades from now
The closest framework we have to understanding this phenomenon in the modern era is the advancement of the internet
However, even the internet operated in the broken monetary system that imprisons all of us today and that Bitcoin was begotten to free us from
This isn’t just a new ballpark or a new game, it’s an entirely new planet in a new galaxy in a new universe
The world you grew up in no longer exists. The world your parents were born into has been gone for decades. Even the world we live in today is slowly fading from our grasp into only a distant memory.
Your children will live in a world vastly different than the one you grew up in. Your grandchildren will live in a world that is unrecognizable and unfathomable to you. Your great grandchildren will have nothing in common with you other than your DNA , and if you’re extremely lucky, your name.
The new age of technology is upon us. Bitcoin, Ai, robotics , super computing, it has already happened. It’s here. It walks among us. There is no “one day”. That day was yesterday. That day already happened.
You are a nomad, standing on the precipice of a grand unknown . You are at the forefront of a turning point in the history of humanity and its place in the universe.
The decisions you make every single day will directly impact not only your future and the future of your bloodline, but the direction of humanity itself.
Choose wisely. Be brave .
I went grocery shopping yesterday and paid with my Gemini credit card
As a reward, I was given more bitcoin than a block reward will give in the year 2096
Read that sentence again. One trip to the grocery store rewarded me with more bitcoin than A BLOCK REWARD IN 70 YEARS
If you’re not already using a bitcoin rewards credit card, you are missing out on some of the easiest , mindless, effortless stacking you could possibly be doing


Bitcoin treasury companies are products designed for old Wall Street fartheads who are too chicken to buy their own bitcoin and send it to cold storage . Or maybe are legally not allowed to.
It’s a loophole that lets them “kinda” own Bitcoin.
In 10 years, $100 of spot bitcoin bought today will be orders of magnitude more valuable than an equivalent amount of money in shares of any Bitcoin treasury company .
So would you rather own a loophole, or the truth?
Every dollar you spend on MSTR, 21 , Metaplanet, Semler scientific, or any other company , represents a huge amount of sats you could have passed down to your great grandchildren
If you can’t realize this today, you’ve lost sight of ethos of Bitcoin. You have been consumed by your greed, by your lust for “number go up”
Buy Bitcoin. Not a company that buys Bitcoin.
I opened a River account to start earning interest on cash that pays in bitcoin. It’s a great product and I love the platform and interface. A clean and sleek UI, easy onboarding and setup 10/10.
That all being said, I’ve decided to transition my cash holdings out of that account to acquire more spot Bitcoin .
The quickest way to stack sats is to buy them. Not sit on a pile of cash and wait for interest payments.
Perhaps an alternate strategy is moving my emergency cash fund into that account instead of the HYSA it’s currently sitting in.
What are your thoughts on bitcoin-interest-on-cash accounts? Is it better than a HYSA for parking your emergency cash savings?
Working at a company that does payments is so frustrating
EVERYBODY in the world wants to get paid in a “Venmo” model. Instantaneous payments. No waiting on banks, no bank holidays, immediate access to money.
Yet NOBODY even THINKS to consider bitcoin as an option to get this done!
Bitcoin does all the things they want: instant payments, no middle man, instant settlement, no complicated setups, no bank compliance laws, no “next day” fees, no “if you get it in by 2pm you’ll have it same day otherwise you have to wait”. Instant low-fee payments directly to anyone in the world in a matter of minutes.
Bitcoin is like the third rail in financial service companies today. They’re so afraid to touch it. They’re too afraid of the “legality” (???), they have no idea how to even approach the idea.
It’s so far removed from their minds it’s a non-existent option.