2025 was my first year working on Bitcoin full time and honestly, it’s been nothing short of incredible. I’m deeply grateful for the people I met along the way, the friendships that grew out of this space, and the inspiring projects I had the privilege to contribute to.
If there’s one thing this year truly taught me, it’s that we’re winning, ladies and gentlemen. Being able to witness this moment firsthand, to build, learn, and grow alongside so many brilliant minds, is something I don’t take for granted.
Feeling excited, humbled, and incredibly stoked to be here for what’s coming next. Happy new years and lots of love to all of you 💜
I think my Bitaxe is broken. It’s been a week and still no block found… pfff
Spent my Christmas holiday cooking up the most requested npubx.cash feature :>
She decided that she’d like to get up at 3am today. After two hours of reading her favourite stories and some tea, she is fast asleep and I am working on nostr logins 😍
Going to be a tough day, but working in the dark while listening to her breathing is worth every bit of it
I think I just understood why people have a hard time comparing Bitcoin and Gold. Gold is objective (its value is not, but its existence is), but Bitcoin is an intersubjective thing. In this regard it’s not different from Fiat currency. Bitcoin does not exists outside of our conscious mind.
Of course that is true for many many things and it does not make Bitcoin any less valuable. But somehow thinking about this makes me understand the old and wary folk a bit more.
Sometimes the best gifts are the coincidental ones 🤙🎅🏼
Merry Christmas nostr ❤️
If we Sapiens are so wise, why are we so self-destructive?
- Yuval Noah Harari
Finally found my favourite AI stack:
nvim + claudecode.nvim
Configure claudecode.nvim to use an external terminal, then I can have Claude running on a second workspace, while diffs are still being rendered in nvim splits. I miss Cursor Tabs, but it’s not too bad actually.
Christmas came early this year 😍
Trigger Warning ⚠️
I had a very busy morning and no time to prepare proper breakfast. So I put a sweet potato and a frozen rib eye in the air fryer and went to shower. 15 minutes later I had a 7/10 rare (borderline medium-rare) steak with amazing potato wedges.
Fat rendered nicely, proper sear is obviously missing, but definitely would do it again if time is tight.
Nostr is a superpower for SPAs... I needed a way for users to report issues in the new eNuts app. Of course I would prefer detailed issues on Github, but not every user has a GH account. Now there is a simple web form that sends a nostr DM with the issue report to me.
Had my first call this morning. Without having completed basic training all I could do was stand by and watch, but I learned so much already 🚒
View quoted note →> Cashu has consciously positioned itself in this area of tension: not as a replacement for Bitcoin, but as a complementary layer. Bitcoin provides the global, scarce, and censorship-resistant foundation; Cashu builds on this to offer privacy, speed, and user-friendliness in everyday life. Together, they fill a gap that neither traditional payment systems nor blockchain alone can fill.
I decided that I’ll be doing less conferences in the first half of 2026 and spend that time on something completely unrelated.
I think sometimes it’s good to take a step back and experience something new, to regain your focus. So I’ll become a fire fighter 🧑🚒
Fired a 6.5’ .44 revolver yesterday. Suddenly I feel like I understand Americans a lot better.
The Melt Saga in Coco is probably the most interesting piece of software I have written in a while.
First of all sagas by themselves are also really cool, and I had a lot of fun writing the first one for the Send API. Now melt adds more complexity by needing to support different methods, that will have different behaviour. While the SendOperationService owned all behaviour the melt one does not. This is where I added the MeltHandlerProvider, a little piece of code that provides handlers based on the method used to the Saga. The saga will get the required behaviour from the provider when it needs to advance.
This way each method can implement its own behaviour, and consumers can even add their own methods via plugins or at runtime.
PSA ⚠️
There has been report of data-loss when upgrading coco to the latest RC33! We are still investigating the issue, but for now you should not upgrade to this version.
Unfortunately npm doesn’t let me plush the version, but as the RCs are alpha releases npm will not upgrade you without explicit permission
Sell kidney and get Cursor 200$ subscription?
Opus 4.5 (Cursor) cost is only reduced for another four days… what are you building?
