Vlad
Vlad @ BTCTKVR.com

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2024-09-02 10:50:43

What happens if everyone who wanted to buy bitcoin already bought it, but nobody really needs it outside the speculative investment thesis?

2024-08-29 21:54:11

In this interview, @npub1c87…8avm explains why he is still bullish on Lightning, but ecash (Cashu, Fedi) is not the solution.
Enjoy!
https://youtube.com/live/KSttiXqsU3g?feature=share

2024-08-27 15:21:41

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Until we have that figured out, Monero, Zcash, MWEB Litecoin, Zano and everything else is fair game and has every right to exist + build.

2024-08-27 15:18:34

Any Monero people here? I want to follow you!
@npub14a6…z6rn who else is a privacy maxi?

2024-08-27 15:17:23

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I’m still here. Trying to make a point about privacy & price.

2024-08-23 13:30:21

Not gonna lie, Cake Wallet looks pretty amazing.
Puts many Bitcoin-only wallets to shame by integrating Lightning, Silent Payments, debit cards, ChatGPT, buying, selling & swapping in a very simple user interface.
It deserves more credit for prioritizing privacy! Even if it doesn’t pass the silly “purity test”. https://image.nostr.build/c26eb0f5f5a2bfd3b3f4740fcd216e489c763c6de3a2109dbc2b9dbbd967cdb9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a0b32d56e1b71aad28640414248e45a490f631e38342bf438daa469e1e412cd7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/01c9f23ff741a35c61ea374241f343889fff1cd8549ac96cbdfb1914548cce58.jpg

2024-08-21 17:51:38

https://www.youtube.com/live/DWxNfI3m8jY?si=t8fdZpkjc50koN2V

2024-08-20 17:38:17

Tomorrow I’ll livestream S15 E51 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast 🤩
The guest is Eric Carson and we’ll talk about digital identity on Bitcoin and why it’s a better idea than the current KYC/AML practices.
Make sure you subscribe & tune in!
https://youtube.com/@bitcointakeover https://image.nostr.build/5dd262770d32155bf8735416b461cc9ae64cc290b811b97cf9e65b970f7bf0c6.jpg

2024-08-20 17:30:42

Read Eric Hughes’ “A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto” today!
If you previously read it, give it another go!
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/cypherpunk-manifesto/

2024-08-14 13:10:27

In 2 hours I will interview Chaincode Labs engineer & Bitcoin Stack Exchange champion Murch!
Make sure you tune in to the livestream!
We’ll talk about whether or not ordinal inscriptions are spam, ossification vs popular soft fork proposals, tail emission, and many more topics that are generally misunderstood by bitcoiners. https://image.nostr.build/1b3188a9d39cde3dd33b6544ab532949a7fb524950029a17ef16cc5f448bd9a6.jpg

2024-08-13 13:16:38

Tomorrow I will livestream S15 E50 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, featuring Murch: Bitcoin StackExchange champion, co-host of BitDevs & engineer at Chaincode Labs.
We will be discussing common misconceptions about Bitcoin.
If this post gets enough zaps, I will also broadcast the interview on @npub1eaz…rcgz https://image.nostr.build/7f7fbde3cc1a4048d0ab38db32ba42a4a36b931a3fa6fe7e099c103ac2d32c3e.jpg

2024-08-09 17:00:05

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Sir, that’s a custodian. Banking with extra steps.

2024-08-06 01:19:13

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I will, don’t worry!

2024-08-06 01:18:27

Stop what you’re doing and listen to @npub1sn0…jdv9's speech from the Bitcoin 2024 conference.
He makes some very good points about Bitcoin’s lack of privacy, how exchanges have data about their users & share them with governments & why AI will make linking transactions much easier.
He also explains why metadata is enough to construct an entire story about your daily habits – they don’t have to know the specifics of what you buy and why, they already see with whom you are transacting and building a profile.
I can’t believe people don’t talk about this more!!!
https://youtu.be/f3NBhSXtE5g?si=KFAJkxhn7yd2NnhZ

2024-08-05 20:04:20

The world needs sound money.
Sound money is fungible.
Fungibility requires privacy.
Privacy makes the world a better place.

2024-08-05 12:56:04

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See his references: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2m30j6/comment/cm1bton/

2024-08-04 23:18:10

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Read the article yourself: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/20/bitcoin-maximalism-currency-platform-network-effects

2024-08-04 23:17:15

Bitcoin won’t reach $100k until we adopt the bits standard as the only denomination.
1 bitcoin = 1 million bits
Until $1 million per bitcoin, everyone can buy a bit below $1.
It’s so simple, beautiful & clear – unlike the sats clusterfuck that makes everyone ask questions.

2024-08-04 18:48:27

Buy my book, pay $500 to join my steak dinner ($500 extra if you want to sit closer to me), buy my stonk because there is no second best, buy your BTC from this extremely compliant exchange because at least it has no shitcoins, listen to my podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/live/NRYFjS8UT1M

2024-08-04 18:36:28

Bitcoin maximalism used to mean “this network is the most robust, so every successful experiment that has market demand will be built on top of it”.
It somehow degenerated into “anything but this one network is a scam, so we’ll ignore markets by calling participants scammers & frown upon different tech by calling it scammy for even being developed”

2024-08-04 16:59:55

Will Bitcoin’s layer 1 get replaced with something else that secures the network in perpetuity, as the coins only get transferred on an L2?
In S15 E58 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Paul Puey makes this bold prediction!
He also talks about privacy & how light wallets work!
https://www.youtube.com/live/NRYFjS8UT1M?si=tior9wxrp1tAH72v

2024-08-02 19:58:27

Listen to Edge wallet CEO Paul Puey, as he talks about Bitcoin scaling, privacy, and why the UX is important 🫡
https://www.youtube.com/live/NRYFjS8UT1M?feature=shared

2024-08-02 04:36:17

There are only 2 ways to scale Bitcoin: you either upgrade it, or else create monetary inflation through useful forks that serve a designated use case.
Essentially, the entire crypto market is Bitcoin’s experimentation layer & consists of stuff that could have been built on Bitcoin.
In a perfect world, there would be no “privacy coins” & no blockchain analysis industry: Satoshi wanted privacy, Hal Finney famously tweeted about trying to make Bitcoin more private. But somewhere down the line the “Bitcoin is transparent” narrative prevailed because it makes more people trust the system.
It doesn’t have to remain so. Bitcoin without confidentiality is a panopticon and every authoritarian’s wet dream. Time to get better!

2024-07-18 12:10:43

Don’t miss my new interview with @npub1ej4…ndrm
He talks about full RBF, Bitcoin covenant proposals, tail emission, some controversial stuff, and why Lightning is still the most exciting payments tech ⚡️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb2fK4Y2ZkA

2024-07-18 00:16:45

Now live on @npub1eaz…rcgz:
@pkt on Bitcoin covenants, OpenTimestamps, relay attacks, tail emission, and why he still likes Lightning ⚡️
Watch here and make sure you send a zap or two:
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2024-07-15 14:46:10

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Thank you for noticing!

2024-07-15 14:45:30

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The Zcash sidechain that Drivechains enable is gonna be sick 🔥

2024-07-15 14:43:41

My YouTube channel needs 80 more subscribers to reach the 3k milestone.
Help a brother out! Maybe also listen to the Bitcoin podcast that seems to attract OGs & intellectuals.
Escape the “sound money bro, we’re so early, we are gonna get rich” matrix with Bitcoin Takeover 😎 https://image.nostr.build/266a1c9f42bb9e02046f4b6c23849ad5007d8fabf806574e1912af4bb40090cf.jpg

2024-07-12 10:01:49

hot take:
the ultra masculine, carnivore, conservative right and “based” version of bitcoin maximalism is a psyop to alienate the community from the actually competent coders who are nothing like that (one guy turned his blue hair into a trademark, another one became a woman) and maybe replace them with “based” but code illiterate parasites.

2024-07-06 14:22:50

Is there anyone you’d love to see/hear on the Bitcoin Takeover podcast?
Tag him/her below 👇🏻

2024-07-03 16:52:00

Now live with @npub1ncc…z7mj & Turbolay, talking about the future of @npub167h…schc
Watch us on @npub1eaz…rcgz
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2024-07-03 15:18:28

40 minutes left! #note1dud…s7yf

2024-07-03 11:21:10

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Look into MWEB

2024-07-03 11:20:51

In 5 hours I will broadcast S15 E45 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast 🔥
The guests are @npub1ncc…z7mj and Turbolay, the two devs who are now working to take the FOSS @npub167h…schc to the next level.
How can the project function without funding from a centralized coordinator? Which features should Wasabi users expect in the future? Wen 3.0?
Find out more at 2 PM UTC/4 PM CET! The episode will also stream here on Nostr via @npub1eaz…rcgz! https://image.nostr.build/bb179fcf8e49e0513e72809e0a5ab2248c3f3840db67a95da2817b3694880800.jpg

2024-06-30 17:11:48

Make Bitcoin cypherpunk again!
Being in bed with Wall Street & becoming compliant barely brought the price above what the free market accomplished 3 years ago.
Rich people don’t need another store of value. But billions of people need something to make unstoppable & untraceable payments.

2024-06-30 00:43:21

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

2024-06-30 00:43:05

“Bro Peter Tiel is only FUDing Bitcoin so he can buy more.
He admittedly spoke with friends at the FBI & attends the annual Bilderberg Group event as a member of the Steering Committee.
Peter Tiel is such a spook that he believes Bitcoin should be private & ETFs are bad for the project’s mission. His views are not at all consistent with his 2004 essay “The Straussian Moment”, he never wanted Bitcoin to succeed where PayPal failed.
Just listen to Michael Saylor, he is definitely not a spook and wants what’s best for Bitcoin!”

2024-06-29 18:40:07

Peter Thiel:
- has more money & more powerful friends than Saylor
- probably owned more BTC too, didn’t spend every day bragging about it
- attends the annual Bilderberg meeting
- wanted Bitcoin to stay cypherpunk & add base layer privacy, dislikes the ETF & thinks it captured Bitcoin
Wasn’t the narrative that privacy is bad for mass adoption and big money will no longer want Bitcoin if it’s black market money?

2024-06-29 18:09:11

“When people in the FBI tell me that they’d much rather have criminals use Bitcoin than $100 bills, it suggests that it’s not working the way it was supposed to”
– Peter Thiel, a billionaire investor who says he was in it for the disruptive cypherpunk tech and not for the compliant NGU that’s all about becoming part of the legacy financial system.
Something to really reflect upon. This guy has more money than Michael Saylor, more powerful friends, attends the Bilderberg annual meeting. Says he was in it for the revolution, clearly wanted base layer privacy – while the narrative we’ve been told that privacy is bad for adoption turned out to be just a lie on order to politically capture the system.

2024-06-29 10:29:48

*Picks up ukulele*
*strums two random chords (in the shape of Amaj7 and Dmaj7) on guitar, then slowly finger picks them*
Holy fuck, I’ve just discovered how to play “No Surprise” by Radiohead 🤯
Maybe that Thom Yorke and/or Johnny Greenwood wrote it the same way 🙃

2024-06-29 10:10:57

Listen to my interview with Chris Derose this weekend.
It’s hilarious and it will remind you of the old days!
If you joined Bitcoin after 2019… just keep scrolling, you’ll find the Saylor/ETF note somewhere below 🙃
https://www.youtube.com/live/k2Fte-O-We8?si=AdhikgjNQN2ErBA9

2024-06-25 19:55:14

I am now live with Chris DeRose on @npub1eaz…rcgz
https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrywfk8ycrscf395mxyve5956xvvfc95unzwfs95cnxd3jx3snqcmxx5enzq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxw5us777 https://image.nostr.build/9e3db032147ed964f8086cbf4a8086e15c842654fc9d20a47cde7328c23afe9e.jpg

2024-06-25 13:14:38

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Never received any income from YouTube, it’s a very niche podcast that discusses mostly technical topics for a narrow audience that cares about much more than NGU.
But no, I’m fine. The funny part is that my sponsors fully support my work and don’t submit to a loud minority.

2024-06-25 12:12:08

7 hours left until the Chris DeRose interview gets livestreamed here on Nostr via @npub1eaz…rcgz https://image.nostr.build/9e3db032147ed964f8086cbf4a8086e15c842654fc9d20a47cde7328c23afe9e.jpg

2024-06-24 23:41:17

This one goes to all my friends who used to be bitcoin millionaires but now they’re just humble hundred k-ers.
The 2-comma club kicked you out, welcome back to poverty.

2024-06-22 16:38:01

Two days ago, I encountered some technical issues during my livestream with Sergio Demian Lerner.
For the Spotify version, I’ve edited & fixed the audio.
For YouTube & Nostr, I will do another stream to feature the improved version.
Hope you’ll tune in and enjoy it! BitVMX is really interesting. https://image.nostr.build/cd631a2ee2ea8e3bf25b9399311d8d47ed769af16d83fb276d72641be9484df8.jpg

2024-06-22 00:25:19

One of the most effective attacks on Bitcoin involves paying developers to do nothing significant or disruptive.
Stall development by a decade or two, push everyone else to create impractical workarounds, then create a culture of complacency in which stagnation is celebrated.

2024-06-19 17:59:24

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Subscribe:
https://youtube.com/@bitcointakeover?si=rrMpt93uj3_GAMDm

2024-06-19 17:43:59

Will interview Chris DeRose on Tuesday, June 25th, 1 PM EST/8 PM CET.
Got questions for him? Leave them in the comments 👇🏻 https://image.nostr.build/8a60e3792041404b449696a3c708fce955ec47dbc7ac4c9eb20180877fb8c5a7.jpg

2024-06-19 16:21:46

Follow me for Bitcoin uneducation.

2024-06-19 14:33:34

OP_CAT is where it’s at https://image.nostr.build/9d6b24f6a6f85f79b339005dd71880f77d8afeb31a32dfb102945ec5a4bff5bd.jpg

2024-06-17 22:33:04

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Just download the GUI wallet on your phone, run a node and mine!
https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/

2024-06-17 22:30:20

I e-mailed Chris DeRose.
Told him since we last spoke I got canceled by the people I was trying to please, so now I can relate to his 2018ish struggles much better.
Hope he’ll find a couple of hours to record a new podcast episode with me.
Fingers crossed! 🤞

2024-06-17 09:45:46

How to mine #bitcoin without buying ASICs:
1. Mine Monero in the background while your computer is on
2. Send your XMR to Cake Wallet
3. Swap XMR for BTC
Congratulations, you just mined Bitcoin like it’s 2010!

2024-06-16 23:57:06

The future is multi-chain.
Litecoin will always be around to try features that are too reckless for Bitcoin and to do fast payments.
Monero will always be around to offer privacy & experiment with avant-garde cryptography.
Ethereum (or something similar) will always be around to allow devs to build financial apps & create tokens.
It doesn’t matter that they don’t scale – they scale Bitcoin + provide features that Bitcoin doesn’t have. All of them can work as Bitcoin L2s – Ethereum already does with WBTC.
They also add monetary inflation, meaning that we won’t have everything divided by 21 million coins. But that’s the price we pay for rejecting true maximalism (one coin to rule them all, with all the features integrated in sidechains + layer 2s).

2024-06-16 10:35:43

From now on, every new Bitcoin Takeover podcast episode will get livestreamed here on Nostr too via @npub1eaz…rcgz
Find all livestreams here, make sure you follow the channel:
https://zap.stream/p/npub12qz56plzehejkyp4waaannmnny4y4c30j8q55a3wlk49haslga2snypdx8

2024-06-15 20:00:21

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Owner of Bitcoin Magazine

2024-06-15 19:53:56

Love him or hate him, David Bailey is writing history these days.
Maybe Trump will turn on Bitcoin if he gets elected. But his voters got exposed to ideas about Bitcoin and its importance.
Millions of people who otherwise don’t care about BTC are now convinced it’s important for the USA. This is a massive paradigm shift.
It’s also likely for Biden’s campaign to change its views/policy agenda on time for the election – thus elevating Bitcoin to bipartisan common ground status.
Just imagine presidential debates during which Bitcoin mining and self-custody are major talking points. This is super likely to happen at this point.

2024-06-15 15:22:30

Hey anon, make sure you don’t miss out on the most important podcast episode of the week.
You’ll definitely learn A LOT from @npub1yxp…399s & @npub1xap…cnde , as they describe Bitcoin projects that suck & what sucks about them.
Link to stream 👇🏻
https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxywpjvesnycfe943n2efj956rsep4943r2vek943xvc3cxcunxcfcvscnyqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwensgnzuns

2024-06-15 09:21:04

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Hope you’ll enjoy it, sir!

2024-06-15 03:36:01

Listen to my livestream with @npub1xap…cnde & @npub1yxp…399s here on Nostr, broadcast via @npub1eaz…rcgz
https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxywpjvesnycfe943n2efj956rsep4943r2vek943xvc3cxcunxcfcvscnyqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwensgnzuns

2024-06-15 03:33:56

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxywpjvesnycfe943n2efj956rsep4943r2vek943xvc3cxcunxcfcvscnyqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwensgnzuns

2024-06-15 03:01:31

Now live here on Nostr: @npub1xap…cnde & @npub1yxp…399s talk about Bitcoin projects that suck.
Spoiler: Nostr gets mentioned too 😂 https://image.nostr.build/c016f7bdf70b15d10fa1591913d3453a918fc6c2aa1c77d714decbbd739043a7.jpg

2024-06-14 05:25:49

S15 E42 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast is a conversation about Bitcoin projects that suck.
Across 72 minutes, @npub1xap…cnde & @npub1yxp…399s explain why popular projects such as Nostr, Core Lightning, Samourai + Wasabi + JoinMarket, Seedsigner, BitVM, Citrea & more actually suck.
Dropping later today, stay tuned!

2024-06-14 05:24:12

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How do you onboard LN without an on-chain transaction that most people around the world consider expensive?
Custodial solutions are anti-Bitcoin, you get more freedom using any altcoin.

2024-06-14 03:52:52

Super ultra mega unpopular opinion that will get me cancelled:
Bitcoin would be just as decentralized with 8 or 16 MB max block size. Even today, we rarely hit >2.5 MB
Millions of people would benefit from it every day. But the reason we don’t do it is political + business related (there’s way too much money in custodial solutions that profit when Bitcoin has high fees that most people aren’t willing to pay).

2024-06-14 02:49:52

Post the best meme on your phone and I’ll follow you back
(only if it’s great) https://image.nostr.build/6fc6015ac94e5a3863518620384cfd4277aa16a58db6dc3d509d4534a4de0afc.jpg

2024-06-14 01:10:01

I didn’t see any BTFD posts in my feed.
Are we still buying the dip or has the plan changed into waiting for ETFs to do something? 🙃

2024-06-11 11:13:02

Gm, don’t look at the price.
Just don’t.
Instead, here’s a picture of what my girlfriend cooked for me yesterday while we were still at $70k 🤪
And let me tell you about the nightmare I had last night: the BTC price went to $1 million, but there was no liquidity to buy your bags outside of the banking system & ETFs.
No way to spend your BTC with merchants, no more P2P markets. You wanted to benefit from the NGU? Shake hands with the enemy.
Shitty nightmare, I know. But think about it! https://image.nostr.build/ace450242486eaa0c037937d14e3885e627716fe401840c9e91e494acd277ecd.jpg

2024-06-11 02:50:15

Apple just destroyed the “instant payments” narrative which used to give Lightning + fast payment altcoins a competitive advantage.
What we still have (in the absence of any custodians) is freedom of transactions, censorship resistance, real self custody & a transparent monetary policy.

2024-06-10 03:58:20

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Damn 🚽

2024-06-10 02:40:49

Just renewed my annual Nintendo Switch Online subscription via ⁦‪@bitrefill‬⁩, using the zaps I’ve received on Nostr over the last couple of months.
Truly NGU (New Game Up) technology 🫡
Thanks, guys! https://image.nostr.build/6272cf71bbc2260eaf7677dca98e74cd2e95e78575a26e6d75a6c8cb80159a48.jpg

2024-06-09 20:58:17

Your favorite #Bitcoin bull once again proved that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
The Supra Cycle is undeniable: the most accurate bitcoin price prediction chart you will find!
It’s not just predictive, it’s aspirational: by 2026, you should get a Supra & a girlfriend! https://image.nostr.build/18a1ef7f3d5105a83e87b23027008226558c5b5635c9df81502262640ba38b1d.jpg

2024-06-09 16:00:56

Gm, my girlfriend made me chocolate pancakes with watermelon juice 🍉
Now let me tell you about my nightmare.
Thanks to the influence of Wall Street billionaires, HODLing had become such a religion that people preferred to watch their parents die in public hospitals than spend any of their hard-earned sats.
It all started from selling chairs, then it degenerated into not buying new socks and underwear when the old ones had holes in them.
This adoption of a radical “low time preference” lifestyle turned into an excuse to never do anything with your life other than accumulate more bitcoin. Why accumulate more bitcoin, you say?
For no reason, because those guys swore they’d never sell “a single sat”. So they would never move into a nicer house. They would never take a girl on a nice date, make her their girlfriend and start a new life together. They would never even aspire to the sports car dreams of the previous generation of HODLers. They wanted to get buried with their bitcoin just because a fiat billionaire who runs an underperforming company said he would too.
But one day, the billionaire who said he would take the bitcoin to his grave decided to sell. So did his company, which was holding reserves of nearly 1% of the bitcoin supply.
The price plummeted, the mainstream media once again reported the death of bitcoin, but these guys cheered because they could use their $600 paycheck (which they earned from “miming fiat”) to buy 60% more BTC.
“BTFD!”, they would tweet while trying to forget about their failed marriages and the kids who won’t talk to them anymore since they went together on a trip, the car broke and the dad was too “low time preference” to call someone to pick them up… and made the entire family walk on the side of the road to the nearest town where they wouldn’t even get hotel rooms and dinner.
But shortly after the tweet got published, the electric company pulled the plug and the internet provider blocked the service due to failure to pay the bills. That’s also when the Lightning network died, as all the channels were kept by these Raspberry Pi nodes while the rest of bitcoiners had moved on to better layer 2s.
“Have fun staying poor”, echoed through the walls of the sat stacker. In 300 years of HODLing, he would be able to buy the electric company and the ISP at the 2023 fiat valuation.
So with a last ditch effort, the sat stacker decided to dust off his copy of The Bitcoin Standard and finally read past page 5. The book wouldn’t help him to fix his life – but then again, this was never his intention. https://image.nostr.build/0d16fa0e1d550218f34c7850ed4b66d8af895bd289b3629dd96dcc0c003df5dd.jpg

2024-06-08 13:41:02

Gm, I woke up late (again) but my girlfriend cooked salmond with potatoes & salad for me 🐟
Anyway, last night I had yet another nightmare.
The same guys who 16 years ago marched with Ron Paul to protest against the crony capitalism on Wall Street & the evilness of banks were now cheering for Bitcoin ETFs.
They would run analyses, compare volumes, and then act like they’re confused when high ETF inflows don’t pump the bitcoin price.
Dude, I thought you knew you were dealing with crooks who are regulated by government institutions that don’t want bitcoin to succeed.
Of course they want to maximize ETF NGU and make the real asset underperform in comparison.
Of course they trade paper bitcoins and most likely aren’t 100% backed by reserves. God only knows how frequently they are legally required to make settlements and how they make sure to manipulate demand in order to keep the BTC price suppressed.
Did you honestly believe bankers & Wall Street guys are your friends? If they were honest, bitcoin would have shot past $100k a long time ago.
Welcome to the new paradigm, where a bunch of institutions that hate Bitcoin are in control of the demand (and therefore price action). Will they make the number go up? Probably, but their game is to tame the BTC while making their ETFs look like a much better investment.
Are we better off without them? Of course, but even these OGs seem to have a hard time dealing with reality. Maybe that they are happy there’s enough liquidity for them to sell their bags and they’re supplying the ETFs while virtue signaling the plebs.
Maybe that the bad bears are among us. DID YOU THINK OF THAT?!
Oh wait, I woke up from that shitty nightmare. What a relief! https://image.nostr.build/c97cd6ef7f64c5789bcd599188c8e465b94376f866100246c5beebc47e4e82a0.jpg

2024-06-08 13:40:27

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❤️

2024-06-08 13:07:46

Satoshi Nakamoto would have told you to launch your token on Solana.
Fortunately, Bitcoin is permissionless and everyone is free to degen 🙃 https://image.nostr.build/df0e4ea44fa9dc134cfbb66d1165971f03d1f3f77a70440bd69e29441c8973f4.jpg

2024-06-06 05:37:53

Not sure if anyone will care/notice, but I changed the YouTube thumbnails of the season 15 episodes to make them more visually distinct from each other.
You can also notice a wider variety of Supras (mk4 + mk5) in different colors & from different angles!
Thanks for your help @Andrej_designSats
Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhvEWDFJqc5_HqEnqrzWmbH4LiQNs1P8m&si=sIqAF7IGhv5UXm-U https://image.nostr.build/68ad299a3963a1dc8d6973a00ecec189842c901b4ba5af1603d56e54904c62c6.jpg

2024-06-05 05:10:32

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That’s cheating!

2024-06-05 05:00:37

Tonight I tried to join the “100 pushups a day until $100k” movement
(or whatever it’s called)
My triceps gave up after 44 pushups and I guess I will be sore for a few days 🙈
This should take a while…

2024-06-05 03:01:19

To the 100+ self-custody maniacs who bought Cryptosteel devices using promo code BTCTKVR for a 10% discount:
Thank you for contributing to my Supra budget 🫡
It’s not much, but one day you’ll see me on the news that I drove into a tree 🌳 https://image.nostr.build/952e70d8a51130285f8d6d4d85dd737f55c417079bd0b5e26416fd395c8448a9.jpg

2024-06-04 16:21:54

Gm, me and my girlfriend tried Europe’s finest sparkling water and came to the conclusion that S. Pellegrino is the smoothest, Borsec is a close second, while Perrier is overrated.
Anyway, here’s last night’s nightmare:
A Bitcoin philosopher came up with a theory that block space is as scarce as the 21 million supply.
Wait, what?
The worst part: he’s getting a cult following of believers who now think he’s some kind of genius.
So how can something predictable, whose schedule we know for the next 116 years, be just like something that is infinite (there will be a new block every 10 minutes for as long as someone mines Bitcoin) and which was changed many times in Bitcoin’s existence (most recently, in 2017 with SegWit)?
These people are batshit crazy. If you go back to study the history of the block size wars, you will see that even the small block camp said “not now” and/or “not under the terms presented by the New York Agreement”. Ask any developer today and he will agree that 8 MB or 16 MB blocks would benefit Bitcoin users worldwide with a minimal impact on decentralization.
But this is beside the point: of course the phony philosopher gets praise in an environment where businesses sell custodial solutions that take advantage of Bitcoin’s lack of scaling. It’s a multi-million dollar business and there’s a lot of money to be made from exchanges, federations and mints.
The worst part is that most bitcoiners struggle differentiating between facts and dogma. Instead of listening to the devs being interviewed on the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, they seek comfort in predictable LARPing which feeds them reassurance.
So happy that I woke up from this nightmare and now I’m dealing with reasonable human beings who can do their own research!

2024-06-04 15:28:37

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That’s really dumb. Especially since Bitcoin has increased the block size and will do it again in the future.

2024-06-03 20:47:50

Now live with @npub1v6q…nzyr
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2024-06-03 14:28:04

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The fruit cake 🍰

2024-06-03 14:27:09

Gm, my girlfriend made me fruit cake 🍰
So now let me tell you about last night’s nightmare 🙃
Originally, the Bitcoin maximalist thesis could be described as “one coin to rule them all”. Everything interesting which has market demand was supposed to come home to Bitcoin.
Until a bunch of high priests created a defeatist & contradictory dichotomy that simultaneously says “everything that is not on Bitcoin is a shitcoin” and “you should only use Bitcoin like this, everything else is shitcoinery”.
So they nurtured a culture of stagnation, where anyone trying to create innovative ways to use Bitcoin would get bullied into giving up.
“Bitcoin is for everyone. It’s permissionless!”, they would say. But the moment someone built a non-monetary use case or some layer 2 that has a native token (like Counterparty), they would call him a shitcoiner and tell them to leave.
That’s why some people built other networks outside of the Bitcoin ecosystem, to only suit these non-monetary use cases. They took the load off of Bitcoin, so that it can become focused on payments.
But these guys were vilified to a much greater extent. “They’re shitcoiners, they create monetary inflation with premined tokens that aren’t even sound money”.
But wait, nobody ever claimed this would be sound money, it’s just the native currency that incentivizes participation.
“REEEEE, that’s a shitcoin. It will go to 0!”
Alright, so a bunch of very smart people brought these features to Bitcoin. Now all this economic activity can pay the Bitcoin miners and effectively increase demand for the BTC token.
“Nooooo, you’re a shitcoiner, don’t spray graffiti on the timechain! Bitcoin is only for these types of transactions, not for those! But if anyone asks, it’s still inclusive and permissionless!”
Fine, then why don’t you pay the miners just like the people you call shitcoiners do? Pay for the security of your savings if you care so much about the long-term sustainability of the Bitcoin project.
“I’m only HODLing you shitcoiner, the only on-chain transaction I ever do is to withdraw from Swan to my Coldcard. I don’t want to have another pizza event now, 15 years into Bitcoin’s existence, when the price is $70k and Blackrock is buying our bags!”
Alright, so who’s gonna pay the miners?
“Miners shouldn’t get paid more, it’s a race to the bottom in which only the strongest survive. 3.125 BTC is not enough for you? That’s enough to buy a citadel after hyperbitcoinization. If pussy miners sell, they have no conviction and no skin in the game. Just HODL!”
How about BIP300, though? Every interesting use case becomes a Bitcoin sidechain, so all the innovation gets easily drained and appropriated by BTC.
“I only agree with soft forks that ger proposed by Blockstream or Ocean Mining!”
Hunky dory, did you know that Blockstream CEO Adam Back publicly stated that he likes Drivechains and believes they could have been a much more usef upgrade than Taproot? Also, Luke Dashjr worked on the BIP300 proposal to bring improvements, declared himself neutral on the matter.
“REEEEE, your truth collides with my narrative, blocked!”
That’s when I woke up. What a shitty nightmare!

2024-06-01 22:49:03

A few words about @npub167h…schc's final day in the centralized CoinJoin coordination business:
I’ve always loved the product, been a fan of Wasabi since early 2019. When I interviewed David Chaum in April 2019, I told him about my new Chaumian mixing hobby (it’s on video, look it up).
I’ve held @npub1qqv…0c3j in high regard since I first interviewed him and I was the one doing the praising while he was trying to explain what he improve. He struck me as a relentless geek who took on a challenging mission – a true cypherpunk who continued the tradition of creating privacy tools in an Orwellian environment.
I also have a lot of respect for @npub1klk…x3vt , whose drive and passion are contagious. He was definitely the right choice for holding the CEO position, as he led the project through its hardest moments and established valuable partnerships.
For the rest of the devs, from @npub1ncc…z7mj & @npub1799…qt3d, all the way to David Molnar & WabiSabi architect Nothingmuch (who blocked me), I have nothing but great respect. You took a rough rock and turned it into a shiny diamond. I hope that you will keep on working on Bitcoin privacy projects.
Sure, there’s a lot to say about the non-dev team members who pushed the project to the next level in a philosophical and design-centric way. @npub1g8h…gh4l was instrumental in making the company work smoothly, while Roland created a beautiful UX that’s still unmatched among Bitcoin wallets. @npub1t2j…hgkn also helped with communication for a while, and I enjoyed the funny & adversarial edge he brought to the table.
There’s also Trellz, Alexa, Norbo, Daniel, and a few others who created beautiful graphic designs & engaging social media posts. Their work is noteworthy because they stuck around the company for 3+ years and brought the project to new heights.
When I asked Wasabi if they’d be interested in sponsoring my work, it was a match made in heaven: I told them that I promote Wasabi to everyone anyway, and I will continue to do so even if they don’t accept to support my pod.
Subsequently, Wasabi covered my travel costs at various events, printed my BTCTKVR magazines, and helped me and my project even in ways that don’t involve any money.
I am happy to have promoted Wasabi’s CoinJoins over the years and I am proud to have stuck around with the company until the end 🫡
However, the end of ZK Snacks does not also spell the end of Wasabi. On the contrary, things will only get more interesting. The devs are committed to keep up with their research, and the community seems interested in spinning up independent coordinators.
It’s gonna be really interesting to see how a more decentralized Wasabi wallet is going to work.
As the guys liked to say, privacy is not a human right but a human fight – and I believe that the Bitcoin project is not complete until it acquires a reasonable way to achieve base layer privacy.
ZK Snacks is dead, long live Wasabi! https://image.nostr.build/c1467c238fed9816fdb4c87d6dc607aed2ae8c947ca2b96bcd718cf31ef5fb94.jpg

2024-06-01 13:18:12

Gm, my girlfriend made me carrot cake with banana and nuts. Plus hot chocolate!
Now let me tell you about my latest nightmare:
Governments had already caught up with how Bitcoin works. They knew how to regulate it in ways that fundamentally destroy the value proposition of uncensorable internet money.
Thankfully, Bitcoin devs had a few aces up their sleeve: a bunch of OP codes which enable new use cases, plus some really solid privacy proposals. Enough to keep the governments in the dark for a few more years, until more advanced cryptography gets discovered.
The problem, however, was the culture of the average bitcoiner who surrendered his freedoms for fiat gains. Here’s what a Bitcoin maxi told me:
“Just use Monero if you want freedom, you shitcoiner! Don’t touch my money layer, who knows what will happen?!”, they would say.
Developers would kindly point out to irrefutable facts: OP_CAT already exists on Bitcoin Cash for years, MWEB is already available on Litecoin mainnet. If you think you can do something evil to destroy the value proposition of these networks, why don’t you do it?
“I’m not touching shitcoin tech, keep your impure proposals away from my sacred money!”
Yeah but did you know that SegWit was first tested on Groestlcoin, Litecoin & Viacoin? Charlie Lee even set up a $1 million bounty in a LTC SegWit address to disprove the FUD that anyone can steal your coins if you activate SegWit. Afterwards, everyone understood that SegWit is safe and it got activated on Bitcoin!
Also, Lightning network was first tested on Litecoin’s mainnet. At the time, it was too reckless for ACINQ & Lightning Labs to deploy their software on Bitcoin, so they experimented with Litecoin for a few months. Everything came home to Bitcoin after it was proven safe.
“REEEEEEE shitcoiner, just use testnet”
Yeah, but there are no incentives on a testnet. It’s great for verifying if a piece of code runs correctly, but there’s no bounty for anyone who might want to break the software or steal coins from a buggy implementation. Also, the newbies don’t use the testnet and sometimes their feedback is extremely valuable in improving the features & performance.
“REEEEEEEE shitcoiner, I will tag your podcast sponsors to call them out for supporting such blasphemous opinions. I will also make up stories about you and make sure you get banned from speaking such nonsense on conference stages”
Alright, but if you don’t want any new very well tested and incentivized to be exploited OP codes to get added to Bitcoin, then you can still activate BIP300 and enable the free market to create trust-minimized sidechains which support mining.
“The only soft forks that we should have are the ones which fix the Lightning network, everything else is a shitcoin!”
Yeah but you can’t rely on a single solution for scaling. Competition is healthy and it would be bad if we switched to government-custodians.
“You have the Liquid sidechain if you want more blockchains for scaling!”
Yeah but that one has a single point of failure, and has a security model which relies on geopolitics rather than cryptography or computer science. It’s centralized, and L-BTC is arguably worse than private BTC on a Zcash drivechain.
“I refuse to engage with such a dishonest person. Read the Bitcoin Standard again and make sure you pray to the altars of Swan & Blockstream every morning. They are the only ones who have any answers about anything”
Yeah, but Blockstream’s head of research endorses OP_CAT. Liquid also enabled it.
“REEEEEEEE, BLOCKED!” https://image.nostr.build/397f88e9668d4a6e1612d4c81537ca729af7f7d487c07b8f5009ae1e14dd4284.jpg

2024-05-31 18:41:37

On Monday, I will do a livestream with f/dev to talk about Bitcoin privacy, Electrum wallet development, Supras, girlfriends, and everything cool in between 🫡
Join us at 7 PM CET/12 PM EST and feel free to ask questions in the chat! https://image.nostr.build/f1578db8667c2ea14b74c6759eb4587452884f18f5f02266e3893ee5a75fc782.jpg

2024-05-31 17:03:20

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Girlfriends & Supras! 💪🏻 https://image.nostr.build/c772c3ac56f8288b367ab81ce7502744b7a5638ff2c9580eeb1ae2cc63055c7f.jpg

2024-05-31 17:02:31

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That’s the spirit 🫡

2024-05-31 14:20:17

If you’re reading this, please like/comment so I can follow you!

2024-05-31 09:38:32

Check out the first Bitcoin Takeover podcast episode that I livestreamed on Nostr!
https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjx2vrxx56rwe3c94jnxd3n956xvv3c94skzcnr95ungve5x4jxvwpc8pjk2q3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwlzfgy7

2024-05-30 22:07:36

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Made it work! Thanks for the zap @npub1mkz…kq7q
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2024-05-30 22:07:03

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You can find it here:
https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjx2vrxx56rwe3c94jnxd3n956xvv3c94skzcnr95ungve5x4jxvwpc8pjk2q3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwlzfgy7

2024-05-30 17:02:36

See you in 2 hours!
Save your zaps ⚡️ #note1lve…fq09

2024-05-30 14:32:46

Every day we stray further from Satoshi.

2024-05-30 13:25:30

Gm, I woke up late today but my girlfriend made me avocado bread anyway 🥑
Anyway, let me tell you about the nightmare I had last night:
Bitcoiners were listening to this guy whose whole thesis is “we need more compliance to make the number go up”.
They surrendered privacy, they gave up on the medium of exchange aspirations, all they did was to accumulate more BTC and wait for the number to go up.
Except that the number wasn’t going up anymore. The magic that previously got them to $72k now wouldn’t work to break new ATH. Not even $100k so they can remove their laser eyes for the first time in 3 years!
So they came to the conclusion that they weren’t compliant enough. Which is why they gave up on self custody too!
Who needs that anyway? Why would you want to hold your own keys in a world where even Blackrock uses Coinbase? What are you, some anti-establishment libertarian who wants to delay NGU? Don’t you trust banks, the very foundation of our economy? Then you clearly don’t want $100k!
Anyway so they gave up on self custody because, as Alex Mashinsky famously said, people lost more bitcoins due to forgetting keys. But the number still wasn’t going up!
It was almost as if the compliance playbook didn’t work because the powers that be are not interested in helping Bitcoin but want to destroy it instead. Or maybe they were not complying hard enough?!
The high priests kept talking about digital gold and generational wealth, but the number wasn’t going up. The institutions would promote their ETFs to normie boomer investors, but the number still wasn’t going up.
So eventually, everyone lost patience and moved into stonks. First it was MSTR, then Coinbase (custodian of all ETFs), and ultimately every Bitcoin maxi had his own diversified stonk portfolio to beat inflation. Because of course, investing in the financial system that Bitcoin was designed to replace is much better than “shitcoining”. God forbid you buy Litecoin or Monero, you’re screwed!
But as a consequence of this stonk diversification, Bitcoin lost its mojo. It was just as boring as gold, but with a much smaller network effect due to the neutering of the medium of exchange dimension. Gold could at least be melted into a new shape for privacy – Bitcoin became so transparent that it made no sense to transact with it.
But this is still bullish, right? An open source money project gets integrated into the mainstream. The only problem is that the lack of NGU made mining unprofitable. Luckily, Blackrock offered to maintain a Proof of Stake fork which obliged users to KYC if they wanted to claim their coins. The old chain quickly died due to losing its purpose, while the new one came with the promise of HODLing rewards if you stake with big financial institutions!
Of course these institutions weren’t 100% honest and did fractional reserve. Sure, a few of them got caught. But to compensate their customers, they lifted the 21 million supply cap to give everyone fresh bitcoins!
At this point, all CBDC pilots were abandoned and Bitcoin became everyone’s favorite medium of exchange: tracked, custodial, inflationary, with no transaction fees thanks to Blackrock’s generosity, and with a vague distant link to a free market history that supposedly makes it fair and honest.
It all came full circle! And that’s when I woke up from this horrible nightmare! https://image.nostr.build/f39f3ab1f42bf6a5f5cabae0d29681bc1ffbb11016426d1f7e52329c12b3c8ee.jpg

2024-05-30 02:37:18

Two new Bitcoin Takeover podcast episodes are now available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts!
In S15 E38, Crypsi talks about memes, art, and what happens when you tokenize culture.
In S15 E39, Pete Rizzo explains why Bitcoin history matters & tells some inspiring OG stories.
Check them out! https://image.nostr.build/ad86e0538250ac435b7078c1ce65be85255f0389890fe22064e3770a76d0ab41.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6492a233a111356db753788fe3001dc3b9c7673882a68346a8af7ed54e4d1631.jpg

2024-05-28 09:03:18

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I hope I set it up correctly 🙈