Had a dream that bitcoin crashed to $100 and the alts were in the single digits Michael Saylor had deleted his account Everyone was freaking out, wondering if this is the end. Should they buy the 99% dip or short it to 0? But I was feeling hopeful that we can finally rebuild

genuinely happy that gold is finally having its moment honestly unsurprised that bitcoin hasn’t replaced it as the preferred store of value in times of financial uncertainty it’s only been 17 years and we still have a lot of stuff to figure out: scaling, privacy, contracts, quantum resistance, user experience for self custody, education and honest narratives about what this is and what it’s supposed to do not too late for bitcoin to get replaced by a better design either

Cure your derangements with Paul https://www.youtube.com/live/GMX_Agbe-9w?si=NhhSn3hGYrWRG3-n

> citrea launched today > the bitcoin fees are going up > sub 1 sat/vbyte transactions take longer to confirm > the bitcoin miners are eating again

Bitcoin needs more awkward nerds and schizophrenic geniuses Fewer sleazy suits, self confident conference speakers, and self help book salesmen It’s the nerds who stop mid sentence during podcasts because they had an eureka moment and lose their train of thought who make BTC great

> there was no demand for an internet currency for payments, so we turned bitcoin into a store of value > tether has about 2x the volume of btc on a daily basis usdt is the ultimate blind spot for the maxi cult

how to use the quantum craze to crash the bitcoin price: 1. find 2009 miner who is not satoshi 2. buy his 50 btc utxo for 10x the spot price 3. short btc on exchange 4. move the 50 btc to a new taproot address 5. pay a journalist to publish a piece about quantum computer stealing satoshi’s bitcoin 6. profit 7. rinse and repeat with diminishing returns until bitcoin replaces ecdsa with post-quantum signatures

The year is 2026 and the Bitcoin virtue signalers are still talking about spam, filters, and for some reason Udi Wertheimer I thought last year’s battle was ridiculous (and chose to spend my time studying Zcash instead) but it seems like we’re amping up for another round of dumb analogies and screaming at Bitcoin users for not choosing the orthodox path

> stop doomscrolling > listen to Bitcoin Takeover podcast > continue doomscrolling

If you’re gonna listen to a single podcast this week Let it be this one, there is so much to learn & discover!

Bitcoin Takeover

S17 E4: {ideal} on BitVM Optimizations (Robin Linus, Liam Eagen, Ying Tong Lai)

On January 19th 2026, the Bitcoin development world was taken by storm: Ideal Group, aka {ideal}, launched Argo with a 2000x efficiency gain over B...

Bitcoin Takeover podcast is sort of like Bob Dylan’s “Renaldo and Clara”: LONG Except that Dylan launched a rather overindulgent 4-hour film only once in his life I launch a 4-hour podcast pretty much every week 🥹

Bitcoin Core devs be like: “here’s a new version of our software. It doesn’t add any significant features, but it might have a bunch of bugs that we will fix in upcoming releases”

Early 2000s joke that I remember hearing from Romanian politician Mircea Geoana: An American visits Romania and starts bragging: “In the US we have lots of famous people. Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, Stevie Wonder!” “Well, here in Romania we have no jobs, no hope, no wonder!”

This is what I think about Bitcoin maximalism and why I believe post-maximalism will replace it

Bitcoin Takeover

On Bitcoin Maximalism, and Dogmatically Losing the Currency and Platform Network Effects

By all significant metrics, Bitcoin maximalism is a failed ideology. What started out as an initiative to bring all post-experimental technology fr...

My journey to 1 million continues tomorrow with S17 E4 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast At 2:30 PM CET/8:30 AM EST Listen to Robin Linus, Liam Eagen & Ying Tong As we talk about BitVM optimizations, why they still bother to build on Bitcoin + the meaning of post-maximalism https://youtube.com/live/HlQJtCdkj4I

2026 will be the year when I become a millionaire: 1 million downloads for Bitcoin Takeover podcast 1 million Nostr likes on my notes Hopefully $1 million dollars too 🤑 I plan to achieve it by doing more of the same, but more efficiently!

The Bitcoin ETF was supposed to be the ultimate prize for staying pure and not shitcoining “There is no second best”, “Bitcoin is a commodity, everything else is an unregistered security” Then the SEC approved Ethereum ETFs in 2024! Ripple, Solana & Litecoin joined in 2025. Cope and seethe. You have been deceived by a bunch of unserious people who produce entertainment. The same Max Keiser who was selling Maxcoin and Startcoin. Shilling Dash. Promoting Monero on his show. Told everyone that there is no war in Ukraine and it’s just Western propaganda. The same presidential advisor who made the president of his adoptive country criminalize selling small bitcoin UTXOs. Escape the programming, regain your freedom. Stop moving goalposts to justify a broken ideology. Read about Bitcoin post-maximalism today!

Nothing humbles you more than the free market. The 4 year cycle appears to be alive and kicking. Everyone who didn’t believe in it is now getting punished.

Oh wow, Steak ‘n Shake is making the waitresses rich $0.21 per hour in Bitcoin?! OMG that’s a whole dollar after 5 hours of work! But wait, there’s more: when bitcoin flips gold (30x from here) that $1 will turn into $30! My God, they will be able to retire! Unbelievable!

This kind of announcement used to make the number go up, bring a fresh sense of optimism But the market has now become immune to good news and very reactive to anything negative They said the 4 year cycle is dead, but it appears to be punishing all the nonbelievers!