the cold wallet doesnt forgive impatience.

wallets are getting better. fiat keeps getting worse.

honest question. how long after you bought your first coin did you actually move it offline.

Icarus had wings. these guys have leverage. View quoted note →

You don't actually own what you can't refuse to hand over. Everything else is rent.

You know how when you reach god mode in a game it gets boring and you stop playing? What if 'the creator' was so bored it split its consciousness into small bits and made this universe out of them. Just to experience life with challenges. It experiences different lives through every living and non-living creature simultaneously. And the purpose of our life is to live it.

Bitcoin can change the world only if we can't change Bitcoin.

A invests in B to produce more widgets and earn a retrun. C buys those widgets, and has less BTC. A got more BTC, C got more widgets. So who's richer now?

You can design a monetary system with fixed supply (Bitcoin), elastic supply (fiat), or commodity-backed supply (gold standard). Each has tradeoffs. None of them are "more natural" than the others - they're all human institutional choices. I just like Bitcoin better.

If everyone starts with 1 BTC and A invests in B expecting a return, where does that return come from? C and D end up with less.

Lightning UX is still gated by: - inbound liquidity - channel management - "wait, what's a sat amount?" 3 problems. Where's the wallet that solves all 3?

Bitcoin without your keys is a promise. Promises broken at scale are exactly why we're here.

Why do we even call them "wallets"? They're keys, not containers. Calling self-custody "wallets" is one of the reasons new bitcoiners think they own a balance — instead of a private key.