Good morning! Start every day with a smile and whatever else. (2020 quote)

I studied Bitcoin on July 15, 2012. I was so impressed that I had to share my excitement, and I recently rediscovered my post. I'm still excited! Bitcoin is amazing. A credibly scarce digital bearer asset is a superpower for personal sovereignty.

You kids with your "bitcoin" and "sats" have no idea how easy you have it. Do you even know how many bitcoin-bongs to a san-bitcoin?

I see Jack Dorsey was scheduled to give a keynote on FOSDEM 2025 this weekend. It's a very big European conference for the free and open source community. The plan caused outcries in the community. "In my view", wrote one, "billionaires are not welcome at FOSDEM", warning that Dorsey would promote his "AI/blockchain/bitcoin/climate-disaster-as-a-service grifty business ventures". (https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html) A protest was planned. FOSDEM responded by asking them to reach out about planned crowd sizes, so that they could scale crowd control and fire safety measures accordingly. (https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2025-01-16-protests/) "We will be occupying the stage for the duration of the scheduled time slot in order to prevent the talk from proceeding as planned.", wrote the protest organizer in a later update. (https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/20/2025-01-20-FOSDEM-protest.html) Finally, last week, FOSDEM appears to have quietly relented, withdrawing Dorsey's keynote from the schedule. "We extend our heartfelt thanks to the staff for reconsidering the decision to platform Dorsey and Block, Inc. at FOSDEM.", wrote the protest organizer. (https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/23/2025-01-23-Transparency-and-governance-FOSDEM.html) Block remains one of the main sponsors of FOSDEM 2025. (After doing this research I noticed it's been reported widely already, but this is my post and I'm sticking to it)

This Twitter friend says he was put through full KYC, including an embarrassing session on webcam, in order to get his account back. He doesn't understand why it happened, it all seems arbitrary. Please I don't want this to happen to me. What can I do??

Calvin and Kurt continue to rekt themselves. #BSV

This generation of bitcoiner is an attack on Bitcoin.

Imagine getting a legal judgment against you saying you're not nearly as clever as you think you are. Now imagine you're a narcissist. #Faketoshi