The CLARITY Act passed with section 110 intact. Y’all know what to do…. It’s time to call your senators! saveourwallets.org has the numbers, get to it! View quoted note →

Sheesh, how do I sell my name and get a windfall from a bitcoin treasury company?

Mining centralization is still horrible. Most users prefer non-private custodial wallets. Next gen wallets are lying about their trust model in marketing and people are eating it up. Things aren’t terrible but if you’re this bullish you aren’t paying attention to anything but price. View quoted note →

This is not an acceptable UX. Too many wallets keep doing it, stop. View quoted note →

I am once again begging wallets to come up with a better user experience than having to select between a list of technologies users have never heard of on the receive screen. One. QR. Code. Nothing more. You don’t need more, I promise.

“onchain” Bro it’s a private database operated jointly by a few large companies that has “blockchain” in the name of the consortium. View quoted note →

If you’re in Bitcoin and you gave the Feds your fingerprints just for TSA PreCheck….🤦‍♂️

Every five years I go through old backups looking for wallets that might have money in them. And every five years I realize that was a total waste of time cause I’m looking through the same backups that were empty five years ago.

Have 25 of the absolute most exclusive hats printed for Vegas. For promoting the actual most important thing in bitcoin this year. Seeking the 25 most interesting heads. DM me.

What was the custom tshirt company that were secretly bitcoiners? Someone posted it here a week or two ago. Maybe @ODELL ?

Bitcoin down on a day where the market is celebrating. Honestly good for Bitcoin.

Learn more about OP_RETURN and why making standardness less restrictive isn’t just Bitcoin Core navel gazing, it’s actually very important for Bitcoin! View quoted note →

I think this is an important thing to grok - there is no reason Bitcoin Core should be bound by “consensus” for things unrelated to Bitcoin’s consensus rules. Bitcoin Core is a software project with a wallet, a GUI, an RPC API, and an implementation of a P2P network for rumoring blocks and transactions. For all of those things, there’s no reason for Bitcoin Core to only act with “consensus” - can you imagine if they needed consensus of the community to make opinionated decisions in the GUI?! But specifically on the topic of the P2P layer - Bitcoin Core contributors’ jobs are to be good stewards to that implementation and do what is right for Bitcoin to maximize decentralization and robustness. There’s no debate (except from people who don’t understand Bitcoin) that reducing or removing paternalistic censorial standardness limits is not only good but possibly important for Bitcoin’s long-term decentralization. There is nothing that says anyone has to run Core, and there is nothing that says Bitcoin Core must only do things when there exists consensus in the broader Bitcoin community, especially when it’s abundantly clear those things are important for Bitcoin. None of this applies, of course, to Bitcoin’s consensus rules - that sub-project of Bitcoin Core has drastically different constraints. View quoted note →

Alright by popular(?) demand, here’s a great track from Shazam in a restaurant bathroom which it turned out was a Moroccan family band.

Currently I post more detailed Bitcoin stuff here, less detailed Bitcoin stuff on Twitter/X, and music on BlueSky. Should I start posting music here or would people be annoyed cause they just want Bitcoin content?