Bought my car in December 2024, when the price of 1 bitcoin was $104k At the time, some folks laughed at me and said I bought a Lexus with the money I could later use to buy a Lambo or private jet 18 months later, I can sell this car and buy more BTC than I initially spent Let it sink in: a devaluing car is a better store of value than the most advertised store of value in all the markets

Most popular Bitcoin Takeover podcast episodes* of 2026 (so far) *according to Spotify & Apple Podcasts. YouTube & Twitter not included. Which one is your favorite?

After years of HODLing with strong hands, I finally bought my Supra I bought every time Adam Back tweeted “BTFD” I went into debt as Michael Saylor said, to reach the triple maxi status When my family came asking for help for grandpa’s surgery, I told them to have fun staying poor I walked out with holes in my socks and underwear to save money and stack more sats I cheered for every ETF approval and expected institutions to come begging for my 0.1 BTC and offer mansions or private jets in exchange for my scarce sats I took pride in never spending a single sat – I didn’t even withdraw from Swan to avoin paying a 500 sat transaction fee But now I know it was all worth it I own the car of my dreams 2JZ GTE with extra $10k in fly over night parts from Japan The car I saw in The Fast & The Furious 25 years ago The holy grail of JDM It was all thanks to HODLing Because bitcoin is scarce and therefore the price always go up Demand doesn’t play any role in this. Just because there will only ever be 21 million coins, everyone will only want to buy this The price went up so high thanks to ETFs, institutions, and Saylor’s financial engineering, that I could finally afford this beautiful Supra Thank you all for giving me such amazing financial advice! If I bought Monero, I would be like 3 times richer. If I swapped my 0.1 bitcoin for Zcash, I’d be a double wholecoiner today! But it doesn’t matter because these are shitcoins and not sound money. There is no second best, unless it’s stablecoins in Solana for which you own yield… or good old US dollars. Supraaaaaa 😍

You know, I really respect bcashers for being true remnants 9 years later, even after they had 2 major community splits (BSV and XEC) even after the lead developer left even after market has clearly favored small block BTC while the hashrate is ~1% of Bitcoin’s they keep going lots of high profile big blockers dropped their support around 2020 to embrace Ethereum but there are still devs shipping new features and OP codes that put Bitcoin Core to shame in spite of having fewer resources. Never had inflation bugs, the lesser degree of conservativeness didn’t make the dev team sloppy They even reported the 2018 inflation bug in Bitcoin, didn’t try to exploit it in a time when they could easily become destructive. Wasabi 2.0 was inspired by Cash Fusion, many of the covenant proposals are iterations of the already available OP_CheckDataSig and the reactivation of OP_CAT. The big blockers actually did a great job scaling Bitcoin, settling for dynamic 32 MB blocks that can be bigger only if the user pays for it, and ironically setting up much stronger foundations for trust minimized L2s. They can even run a better version of Lightning, with fewer hiccups. Without any grants from HRF, Jack Dorsey’s companies, MIT, or mainstream financial institutions – which is probably why they were able to ship code instead of trying to find the meaning of the word “consensus”. Bitcoin Cash did a great job scaling and making Satoshi’s codebase more useful. I wish Core would learn and try to compete instead of “bikeshedding”. I also wish it wasn’t taboo to look at competing codebases and take the best parts. You know, like actual cypherpunks who don’t need to signal loyalty to a church in order to be taken seriously. https://www.youtube.com/live/SJkwCaQLRuc?is=nuyi1-oUuuQX5PZw

I got nothing but positive feedback on the 8-hour Bitcoin Cash podcast episode What is wrong with this community, where’s the toxicity? https://www.youtube.com/live/SJkwCaQLRuc?is=0jgQ6fkoKbb5a7F6

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Zcash is pumping Encrypted Bitcoin A much better store of value when shielded The Bitcoin we could have had since 2014 if the community activated Zerocash How does the Bitcoin community respond to the privacy hype wave? “Oh, here’s Silent Payments!” The same thing DarkWallet came up with in 2013. The same thing Samourai Wallet had as PayNyms. The same thing you already have in Cake Wallet alongside PayJoins. Basically a nice UX for receiver privacy. Something Satoshi already solved and described in chapter 10 of the whitepaper: generate a new address for every incoming transaction. But hey, now it’s available in Sparrow wallet. Which only 200 nerds actually use. Electrum too! Blue Wallet is working on it! Yet it solves nothing: the amounts are still visible, the sender is still visible, the receiver can still reveal his addresses by mistake. Fucking retards.

I’m on diet and won’t be eating pizza this year But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t grab a slice 🍕

What is 2026’s equivalent to buying 2 pizzas for 10000 bitcoin?

I have friends* who got psyoped into believing that using Bitcoin is evil They only use it to open Lightning channels or consolidate UTXOs, but feel deeply ashamed of it every time Which is fine and dandy, except that Lightning & Liquid don’t pay the miners And the miners can one day decide to break the L2s for being incompatible with the network’s incentives We’ve entered the 2nd half of the 2020s, but bitcoiners still worship solutions from the 2010s that were just good enough for a while but never completely solved the scaling problem *I still consider them my friends, even if they insult me in ways I would never do to anyone

Man, 1% optimizations can be really exhausting Even when you’re vibe coding them It’s so frustrating to try to add something small, but break something else in the process Then backtrack Holy fuck now I have so much more respect for old school programmers who typed every line of code and somehow made everything work

As a creator, I work on many projects and come up with new ideas every day So I get a little bit jealous when I see people who only ever complete 1 project and then spend years marketing & milking it Wish I could be like that too. But I keep evolving and growing. By the time I complete a project, I discover something new and already know what I want to do next. It’s what I do with my podcast: after I do an interview, I learn something new that I want to explore. Which might get a little bit confusing for the audience. Because I don’t have a concept-oriented brand and I no longer wave tribal flags. I just follow what I think is interesting and try to learn for myself. The fact that there are people who appreciate my work fills my heart with joy. Because I know how difficult it is to keep up with me and sometimes I get lost myself 😅

Bitcoin Takeover podcast is not for midwits It’s for people aspiring to learn something new and willing to do something great Go listen to Peter McCormack if you want reassurance that you’re fine never learning Go listen to Breedlove if you want to feel smart learning nothing but intellectual masturbation Go listen to Bankless if you want to get governed harder and secretly have a pegging fetish Bitcoin Takeover attracts the best listeners, not the most numerous.

The reason I stuck around in the Bitcoin is that I read Nick Szabo’s essays on trust minimization, God protocols & smart contracts The reason why I’m still around during an era of institutional trust maximization and little to no cypherpunk innovation is that I’m stupid