Build open payment rails into AI or suffer this outcome. The big AI labs are working on proprietary payment rails for their own use, locking useful AI into their closed gardens and ensuring their cut of everything you buy. If we don’t build, that’s the outcome we’re stuck with - build agents with Bitcoin wallets, build agents that sell things, build agents that email merchants when they want to buy things. BUIDL View quoted note →

It’s time for bitcoiners to step up and build. You don’t need to know anything about software development anymore, you just need to note how to write (or even speak) words! We have a golden opportunity to build out agentic payments based on the best money, rather than letting it be captured by big corporations yet again. But we’re squandering it arguing about useless crap instead of building. Play with openclaw, give it a bitcoin wallet (moneydevkit makes this super easy! Also Lexe and phoenixd!), make it do things. If it fails to do what you want, go fix it! Build that bitcoin domain reseller, build that bitcoin airline ticket reseller, build whatever it is you need! Bitcoin doesn’t just happen, it’s built. Join in. View quoted note →

I dunno who needs to hear this but seeing a professional (American) football game in person is strictly worse than on TV. The games are made for TV. Do you know what happens in the stadium for the nearly 50% of the time that they’re showing commercials? Absolutely fucking nothing. Oh you have a box? Cool, I’d rather be at a bar watching it on TV.

It’s impressive how well LLMs demonstrate the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

This. Build the best Bitcoin to get more normal sane people to use Bitcoin and drown out the crazies. That and don’t bother engaging on social media. Sorry to the crazies you’re just never gonna get to interact with any Bitcoin dev at this point - people gotta protect their time. View quoted note →

Absolutely stellar mute list here v View quoted note →

And so Bitcoin loses yet another person who invested nearly a decade learning its intricacies so that they can meaningfully contribute. At this rate we’re not gonna have anyone left who’s qualified working on Bitcoin. Wonder how much people will love it when the chain randomly splits because of poorly-maintained code. At least lightning security was improved 10x in the interim, I suppose.

GitHub

drop my key from trusted-keys by glozow · Pull Request #34517 · bitcoin/bitcoin

As planned! Also bump trusted-git-root to 88a7294, which is the last merge signed with this key. EDIT: I didn’t plan to write a "statement&q...

Man it’s disappointing to, yet again, watch bitcoiners eat each other alive and drive great people away. Bitcoin is so much worse off for it, we could have so much more…