I've been working hard on a new business for a year. Been working 7 days a week for months. Got my first two sales today and it's a relief. Some random thoughts before I head to bed. - I'm a good coach in my domain, enough to make a living in the domain. But without my business coach I'd be screwed. Having a set of eyes on what you're doing is so important. He's the best - honest, but very tactful with is feedback, which makes it easy to take. I get credit for taking almost all of it because he's the coach and I'm coachable. We're now friends outside of the working relationship and that's neat too. - The 4% Stripe is taking pisses me off. I'm used to having to pay just over 2.6% in transaction fees, but for this, it's 4%. - I've riden my bike - very slow - most days this month. Consistency in that area has been so great to sustain the effort. - I work in Codex and Claude Code every day. And there still is so much to learn with what they do well and what they do poorly, and how you have to be strategic about how you use them in tandem. - Codex browser control and computer control is still vodoo. Excited to listen to the @The Bitcoin Way podcast with Matt Hill in the coming days. Might need to drive to get the dog some special bones to celebrate and listen on the way. I have no idea what the bitcoin prices have been the past week, which is a good thing for me.

Gm 😀 ☕ 👊 I love getting Seth Godin's emails each morning. This is a good prompt for me to have a hard-ish conversation after this weekend. "It’s difficult to ride a bicycle in the pitch darkness. We need to see where we’re going to avoid obstacles. And it’s hard to maintain our balance. When we choose to avoid the conversations that make us uncomfortable, we’re pedaling in the dark. Talk about it. Turn on the lights." Have a great day!

Seth's Blog

Left unsaid

It’s difficult to ride a bicycle in the pitch darkness. We need to see where we’re going to avoid obstacles. And it’s hard to mai...

I made something that I think will help me when I’m trying to get merchants to accept Bitcoin on their Square Terminal. I struck out pretty hard at my local coffee shop yesterday. Total non-starter. I’ll write about that separately. But it made me realize something: I didn’t have a simple way to show the owner what my weekly coffee habit would save them in card fees. And then it would be nice - if they're curious - to have them just scan a QR code and read a quick overview of why they can easily accept it, rather than read some flyer...which I tried in the fall. So I built a simple app that does this. The default is $10 purchase for 2 times a week. If somebody spends $10 twice a week at a Square merchant, that is $50 a year on credit card fees the merchant saves. If somebody buys a $5 coffee every day, the $0.15 Square charges the coffee shop adds up...to the tune of $100 for the year. The tool is simple - you just put in the sale amount, pick one purchase or repeat visits, and it shows: - Credit card fee - Bitcoin fee in 2026 - Bitcoin fee in 2027+ - What a regular customer adds up to over time At this point we hope we've gotten their attention, and if so, you click the QR code toggle. The merchant scans it and gets a short page explaining the fees they save, common questions, and links to Square’s resources for turning Bitcoin Payments on. There is a link to Square's onboarding video. I'm not sure it's been updated, and it's not as quick process, unless one of use is helping them, but again, I might have found an older video. The merchant will want to know if this gets automatically converted to USD. The docs I found say merchants can receive Bitcoin Payments as USD or BTC, yet recent Square release notes say USD is the default for new sellers, but the video made it look like they had to choose. It'd be great if we could get clarity on that. The bottom line is for people here care about merchant adoption, and I think this is useful...and not ai slop, but you be the judge.

Square Bitcoin Savings Calculator

Show a Square merchant what they save when they turn on Bitcoin payments.

@Cash App @npub1ds3h...hzcn #merchantadoption #bitcoin

I’m working on a dad-to-dad BIP110 guide for normal node runners because I need to teach myself how to do this. I have @Start9 running the latest @npub13rhy...cgea and I want to support BIP110, but I want the wording to be correct. Is this accurate? - My node can support/enforce BIP110. - Miners are the ones who actually signal BIP110 in blocks. - If I add DATUM and point hashpower at it, then I can say I’m mining/signaling BIP110 and more importantly, move the needle a bit. What am I missing? And sorry if all of this is obvious. Thanks in advance for your help. #asknostr #DATUM #BIP110 @npub1qtvl...7dze @Unhosted Marcellus @Tauri | BIP-110 @nomadshiba⚡⚡ @ForrestHODL @npub1s33s...252p

I started my gratitude practice 🌱

GratefulDay - Daily Gratitude Calendar

A Nostr-based daily gratitude calendar for personal reflection and community sharing

Braiins → DATUM → OCEAN "Set up the node first. Then point Braiins at it. Build blocks on OCEAN." If you're curious about renting hash, check out this guide. Unless I'm missing it the creator is unknown, but a huge thanks from this pleb to them for putting it together.

Rent Some Hash

Rent Some Hash: rent hashpower to your DATUM node

Set up a DATUM node, then choose PickHash with MiningRigRentals or Braiins to aim rented hashpower at your own block templates on OCEAN.

#hash #mining #DATUM @npub1qtvl...7dze @Start9 @Umbrel ☂️

I built a free tool for people running bitcoin events to get the word out and save time - primarily for posting on Twitter/X. The idea is that you already put the time in to get your event on Luma, Meetup, or Satlantis. Paste that event link into the tool and it creates posts for Twitter as well as Nostr. Once it kicks out the drafts, you can edit the text however you like. Scroll down a little to add things like the speaker's Twitter handle, their npub, and whatever hashtags you want for the event. It's pretty straightforward. You can fiddle with it a bit, but it works, and it works for all three event types. I left Eventbrite out - that one's trickier and I decided not to go down that rabbit hole. Luma, Meetup, and Satlantis seem to cover most bitcoin events, whether it's a BitDevs or anything else.

Event Megaphone — Twitter/X + Nostr post generator

A free, self-contained tool to turn event pages into Twitter/X + Nostr post campaigns.

GitHub

GitHub - orangedaddocs/event-megaphone

Contribute to orangedaddocs/event-megaphone development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here's two bright spots tonight in our little world of bitcoin... Bennet.org 's site is so, so good. My guess is it's the site we'll all send people to when they get coins off an exchange and into a wallet. Not overly technical, but also assumes you want to understand how bitcoin works. I don't think anyone has thread that needle as well as this guy.

What is Bitcoin and how does it work?

A first-principles introduction to Bitcoin. Interactive diagrams explain the double-spend problem, hashing, mining, keys, transactions, and fixed s...

I only found @npub1g353...px62 's site last night, but wow, I've had to recalibrate what a smart person working with a Hermes agent can do. Even if you don't like the project, check out the design consistency. That alone is worth a tour of the site.

FF2K

FF2K.us | Midnight Signal From The Stack

Pseudonymous Bitcoin signal, market dispatches, and midnight keyboard bunker energy.

So what is that project? From this article... https://medium.com/@FF2K/signal-is-the-product-why-i-built-ff2k-us-d70be43aed4f "FF2K is a place to publish signal without asking whether the signal serves a platform’s business model. It is a place to test voice, satire, argument, and independent distribution without begging existing systems to bless the attempt. Its point of view is simple: dependence is dangerous, permission is fragile, and a society that outsources its information rails should not be shocked when those rails start serving someone else’s interests." Two more gems... "I do not trust systems that depend on humans acting against their incentives for long periods of time. That is not cynicism. It is engineering. If a bridge only works when every person crossing it is honest, calm, and selfless, you do not have a bridge. You have a prayer with bolts in it."

FF2K

FF2K.us | Midnight Signal From The Stack

Pseudonymous Bitcoin signal, market dispatches, and midnight keyboard bunker energy.

#PoW #ai

GM 😀☕️👊 Target buy placed 10 days ago at $68,500 might hit soon. Have a great day! #bitcoin

Dinner for 17,877 sats. Steak and Shake. Food is good, bathrooms are not. 😬 I go there once every 4-5 months when I’m in the area. Not worth the drive otherwise, and honestly, the place is depressing. But again, the meal was good. We need to get In-n-Out burger on board!

I wish @npub1luz2...ee93 posted here, but he posted this graph on Twitter and then said that "something undeniable broke on October 10." Core V30 came out on Oct 10, 2025. Plenty of people think this is unrelated to the price drop, but my limited understanding is whales started selling after this. My guess - and what do I know having been in the space less than two years - as that whales understand the possible damage having a bunch of non-monetary data on the blockchain can/will cause, and possible CSAM images. Curious what long timers think.

X (formerly Twitter)

Magoo PhD (@HodlMagoo) on X

Undeniable that something broke on 10/10.

GM 😀👊☕️ I love this image I got from @Goldgraphy - paid in sats. Having photography and art from bitcoiners in the house makes me smile. And the orange tones are fun too. End of the school year here in the US and the kids can’t wait to be done. Have a great day.

GM 😀☕️👊 Lots of inspiring artists here on Nostr. I paid in sats for this photo from @Goldgraphy and finally got it framed. Check out his photos - they’re exceptional. Have a great day!