Everybody says Bitcoin is money but everybody is afraid to spend it.

Okay, so everybody knows Bitcoin Pizza Day. 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas. The number's basically a meme at this point. But here's the thing nobody talks about: the actual interesting part happened 12 days earlier. So back on May 10, 2010, this guy Laszlo Hanyecz posts the first working GPU miner for Bitcoin. Before that, everyone's just mining on their CPUs like normal. GPUs? Way, way faster. We're talking orders of magnitude. By December that year the whole network's hashrate had gone up something like 130,000%. And get this, between April and November, Laszlo's own wallet pulled in over 81,000 BTC. Almost all of it from his own rigs. So when people gasp about the 10,000 coins he spent on pizza? For him, that was like a week of mining. Pocket change. He didn't even stop there. He later said he blew through close to 100,000 BTC that year. Pizza, random stuff, more pizza. But here's why he was doing it. Satoshi had actually messaged him privately and basically said, hey, GPU mining is bad for the network. The whole point was fair distribution, and that needed CPUs. Once you concentrate all the hashrate, the design kind of falls apart. And Laszlo agreed! He literally said he felt guilty for "crapping up the project." So he started dumping. Not for cash, just... anything that wasn't Bitcoin. And pizza happened to be an easy target. So yeah, the most famous transaction in Bitcoin history wasn't some clueless dude who didn't get it. It was the guy who basically invented modern mining, feeling bad about it, and paying in the exact coins his own breakthrough let him pile up. So this Friday, when the pizza jokes start rolling in, maybe remember the other story. #bitcoin #money #grownostr #selfcustody #pizza

If you had the chance to make/milk shitcoins with the only goal of getting more bitcoin, would you do it? #study #bitcoin #selfcustody #gm #nostr

If you know what you are holding you wouldn't freak out. If you focus on the price you are still in the FIAT system and you are still giving your energy to it. Stop and hold, look at your stack and realise how scarse it is. #study #bitcoin #selfcustody #gm #nostr #grownostr

Bitcoin was built to remove the middleman. Now banks want to be your bitcoin middleman. When they hold your keys, you don't own bitcoin, you own a promise, a "Trust me bro". We've seen how those end: frozen accounts, withdrawal limits, insolvencies, taxation. Self Custody isn't paranoia. It's the whole point. #study #bitcoin #selfcustody #gm #nostr #grownostr

DO NOT download shit Core v30.0 malware: Instead, report it to GitHub! #FuckCore #RunKnots #Bitcoin #Knots #malware

GitHub

Release Bitcoin Core 30.0 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Bitcoin Core version 30.0 is now available from: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-30.0/ For the release notes please see the git repository...

Simple question: can somebody explain me what are THE benefits of running Core V30 and HOW does the network benefits from doing so? #bitcoin #core #knots #questions #money

Becoming a #Bitcoin maximalist is the result of a lot of study, research, mistakes, shitcoin scams... until the moment you see the light, when something clicks inside you and everything is suddenly clear. Many people ask me "where should I start?", I always say "study what money is and its history, the federal reserve, the Nixon shock, the inflation, the fractional reserve". Read a few books such as The Bitcoin Standard and The Price of Tomorrow. After this foundation then you can start diving into bitcoin. It is worth it! #federalreserve #money #selfcustody #history #gm #nostr

Bitcoin, Nostr and Bitchat are the present and the future of the internet and sovereignty! #GM #Nostr #Bitcoin

Don't be scared of the self custody journey. The reward is big and is the total control of your own keys without stress, as a true self sovereign. Give yourself a chance to deep dive into this rabbit hole. There's nothing better of feeling confident in managing your stack because you learnt how to protect it, by using backup redundancy, inheritance, multisig, coinjoin, software and hardware tips. You will be able to securely cross borders with your stack, isn't that amazing? You've got nothing to lose! #GM #Nostr #Bitcoin #plebchain #selfcustody #proofofwalk #touchgrass #grownostr

🟢 Start the Proof of Reserve Addresses! 🔴 End the Paper Bitcoin! 👍Thumbs up for good examples like Tether, @jack mallers' 21, and El Salvador. 👎Thumbs down for @Michael Saylor and co. #GM #Nostr #Bitcoin #SelfCustody

What really makes you HODL Bitcoin? In one word: STUDY! #GM #Nostr #study #bitcoin

People angry everywhere because of internet control, age verification and whatever other bullshit. I want to tell this people that the new world is already here as well as the tools. We, as humanity, just need to embrace them. Use Bitcoin, do self custody, use Nostr, study, be curious, it's all you need! #GM #Nostr #Bitcoin #Study

#Bitcoin Knots 15%! Fuck you Core! #Gm Nostr

#GM #Nostr For many years I thought I was a lazy person because I never wanted to work. Many years later I found out why: deep down, subconsciously, I knew that I never wanted to work for fucking toilet paper fiat money. Now that #Bitcoin is reality, I can't wait to trade my time and energy for it. Fuck you fiat!

We want everybody to leave the centralised shitsocials like X, FB or Instagram and move to Nostr, but the problem is that most of us ourselves are still there because we are greedy and hedonic, and not because we want to help users moving out of it. Fuck X, that's bullshit. #GM GN #Nostr

One mistake many #Bitcoin maxi do is to easily forget how long the journey was to get to this point. Journey: FIAT -> Shitcoins -> Bitcoin. Let's be compassionate towards those who are still on the journey! No noooooo, it's so fuckinf hard, I hate shitcoiners!!!

#GN #Nostr What about #Bitcoin in Self Custody?

People not owning #Bitcoin

When your friends ask you if you took profit because #Bitcoin is at its ATH, you realize they still don't know what money is, therefore they don't know they are still FIAT slaves. #GM #Nostr