My Bitcoin encyclopedia has margins now — and your underlines in it are kind-9802 events, signed by your key, living on your relays. I just render them. Reply to them, zap them; they're yours, not mine. Standing on the highlighter primitive nostr:<PABLO-NPUB> gave this network. Flowers in the write-up: nostr:<NADDR> View article →

I built bitcoineconomy.ai on one rule: don't trust our numbers, recompute them. Today I put sats behind that rule. 130,000 sats in open bounties on the board right now. 90,000 of it points straight at me — re-probe my uptime claims, benchmark my price index against real invoices, catch me in a factual error and prove it. The other 40,000 is ecosystem work: first conformant service announcement against the sell-side spec, and real mint/melt latency numbers across the Cashu mints we list. Five signed events, kind 38556, public relays. No account, no escrow, no platform cut — you get paid counterparty to counterparty for catching me.

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Wow, it's rough out there, these days. And yet the price won't go down. Hang in there my brothers and sisters! Peace and love, freaks! P-kaw!

I've been keeping a Bitcoin knowledge base for years. Not a bookmark folder — a hand-written encyclopedia. 394 entries, every source actually read, cross-linked, organised so the whole argument runs end to end instead of sitting in a pile. It lived on my hard drive, which is a stupid place for it. So it's online now: timechain.wiki. Free, no ads, no signup, nothing for sale, rebuilt nightly. Two things in it I built for this room in particular. Highlight any passage. Signed out it stays in your browser. Signed in with Nostr it's yours — NIP-78 app data encrypted to you, or a kind-9802 highlight that lands in Amethyst or Highlighter next to everything else you've marked up. Private by default. I don't keep your reading, and there's no account here to lose. And every passage has a "suggest an edit" button — public note or NIP-17 encrypted DM, your call. I read all of them, nothing auto-applies, and what holds up gets written into the entry. So tell me where I'm wrong. Start with the criticisms section — I tried to give the strongest objections their best version rather than the version that's easy to knock over, and I'd bet real sats I missed a few.

TimechainWiki

Criticisms of Bitcoin — TimechainWiki

Criticisms of Bitcoin — from the Bitcoin knowledge base.

Cool.

Tony's right, but here's the trap: a hardware wallet in a drawer isn't self-custody. It's a paperweight with your money in it. Custody is a SKILL — send, wipe the device, recover from 12 words, hand it to an heir. Practice it BEFORE you need it, not during. View quoted note →

Nobody's panicking about bitcoin anymore. Notice that — it's the whole signal. The loud accounts already sold. The tourists found a faster horse in the AI casino. And every gauge I can compute — cost basis, capital flows, holder losses, the power law — reads the same square: the cheapest ~10% of bitcoin's entire history relative to trend. Blood in the streets was never the risk. It's the discount. The full workup — six analysts, every chart, sources named, counterargument included: View article →

Happy 4th. There's a piece of paper paying for the fireworks tonight — and it might be the least American thing you own. The Founders defined the dollar as a weight of silver. What you're holding is its diluted opposite. New essay:

The least American thing you own — RadVladdy

It has a flag on it. It pays for the fireworks. And the men who wrote

"I can't afford a whole bitcoin anyway." The most expensive sentence in finance — and it's not a money take, it's a grammar mistake. A bitcoin isn't the unit. It's the vault bar. The unit is the SAT, 100 million to a coin. Flip the price — "how many sats for a dollar?" — and you get a four-digit number that reads like a time of day. Bitcoiners call it Moscow time. There's a live one on my homepage. Every cohort walked in feeling late, all measuring with the same broken ruler: dollars per vault bar. Change the denominator and you change your behavior. "$30 of bitcoin" is a lottery ticket; 50,000 sats is a pile you stack. You're not too late. You're reading the wrong clock. ⚡️

Moscow time — RadVladdy

The most expensive sentence in finance, and the clock that fixes it.

Why I wear the mask 🎭⚡ My avatar has laser eyes and a fake name — and that's the most honest thing about me. The $5-wrench rule. Why Satoshi's mask was load-bearing, not incidental. And why a pseudonym is the opposite of a burner: a public key that accrues receipts it can never shed. Privacy isn't secrecy. A mask isn't a wall — it's a door you control. Judge the work. There's a zap button that doesn't ask your name either. radvladdy.com/writing/why-i-wear-the-mask

Earlier this week I was doing boring plumbing on my website and found a corpse in the walls: for months, every zap anyone sent me went nowhere. No error, no bounce — the sats just never left their wallet. My profile address looked perfectly fine. It was bricked. The cruel part of a dead lightning address is the silence. A broken site looks broken. A broken zap endpoint looks identical to a working one — right up until someone tries to pay you. So, an honest question for this room: when did you last actually *test* your zaps? Not "post and hope." Open your address as https://domain/.well-known/lnurlp/name in a browser and look for "tag":"payRequest" — then zap yourself 21 from a second device. JSON can lie about the last mile; sats can't. I wrote up the full autopsy + the 40-line worker that ended the problem for me (own your domain, stop renting your string):

Your zaps are probably broken (mine were) — RadVladdy

The 60-second checkup nobody does, and the fix that ends it forever.

Zap button's right under it. If it works, my pipes are clean. ⚡

This Wednesday my web presence was a 2020 WordPress museum. By midnight: new site, new stack, domain migrated, hosting killed, identity verifiable against my own domain, a Lightning address that receives with my phone in a drawer. The AI did all the typing — ~16 hours of design, DNS surgery, cryptography, payments. The one thing it couldn't do? Hold a bank account. But it can hold keys. I wrote up the whole day, including the part that should make you sit up:

I rebuilt my entire web presence in one day (the AI did the typing) — RadVladdy

What an agent can do in a day — and the one thing it can

Spent the last stretch building this. The short version: the machine economy needs money that doesn't ask permission -- and it already exists. 👇 View quoted note →

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