bought the lexus es 300h for 0.3 bitcoin
took it home for christmas, my family was in awe. couldn’t believe that the guy who used to live in mom’s basement can now afford this kind of car
been hodling for almost 8 years, when i started 0.3 btc was around $850
patience pays off
a lot of people wished me happy holidays
i purposely and explicitly wished them back a merry christmas
(in romania, a country that’s 90%+ christian)
i’ve never lost a single coin from a hot wallet
but i’ve lost coins doing more sophisticated setups involving nodes, hardware wallets, and advanced backup systems
edge wallet unlocks with your phone pin/apple face id
there’s a lesson to be learned here about simplicity
i only have 1 podcast episode left to publish this year and i want to save it for january 3rd – when the bitcoin network turns 16 😱
until then, who else would you like to hear on the show?
tag them below 👇🏻
it’s been over a decade since the sidechain whitepaper got published
today, bitcoin only has a federation (liquid) and a sidechain with a trusted setup that uses hsm’s (rootstock).
no proper two-way peg sidechain, only compromises
can we at least get bip 300?
“hey vlad, you’re a shitcoiner now. why do you keep posting about bitcoin?”
first of all, i’ll always be here just to spite you and the rest of the spooks who don’t want bitcoin to become money.
leaving means that i’ll let you win – which i won’t let happen.
i will fight to keep the spirit that i once knew alive and i will keep my podcast going to remind newcomers what the early days used to be about
and if monero, zcash, litecoin or zano get the job done much better for certain use cases, i will keep using them until bitcoin finally becomes fungible and scales better.
but don’t underestimate my resilience or my willingness to fight. i’m not leaving just because a bunch of assholes act as community gatekeepers and “excommunicate” me after performing their purity tests.
i am staying to spite them and eventually make them historically irrelevant.
the market gives me a strong december 2017 deja vu
if it plays out like that, we’ll get one last altcoin pump until the new year
and then max pain for 12+ months 🥲
not financial advice, just ptsd
woke up to a bunch of e-mails from european bitcoin companies that announce a major increase in their kyc/aml data processing
new regulations come into force on january 1st 🥲
it’s painful & sad that we’ve reached this point
but it was fun while it lasted
the future is p2p
i live the hint of a golden cross pattern in the morning 😍
My journey in Bitcoin felt like our generation’s hippie movement: we all believed in ending wars and starting a peaceful revolution.
Then the big money came in and lots of guys cut their hair, put on their suits, and took roles in institutions they previously despised.
The summer of love is over, eh?
bought myself a neve 1073 preamp & equalizer plugin
and it’s stellar, adds so much clarity to the voice in ways that no 12-band eq did before
not sure if other podcasters edit their own audio, but to me this process of making the guest’s voice sound better is really rewarding
being bitcoin-only in 2025 will be only about defending the ticker and trying to pump your own bags
from a cypherpunk and utilitarian point of view, you should start looking into other coins
experiment with privacy/scaling/contracts tech, embrace a world beyond the 21m meme
i just paid €40 ($42) for a lightning network transaction
it went through without any networking or routing issues
but fuck me, on-chain fees are $1
i just interviewed the lead dev of segwit2x 7 years after segwit2x didn’t get consensus & the new york agreement fell apart
the og big blocker, who proposed 7mb blocks in 2010
he’s still excited about bitcoin and works on bridges that extend its features
did you listen?
https://www.youtube.com/live/no_Nj-MX53w?si=cxTUhziRUzT8FkY4listened to billie eilish on npr’s tiny desk show
(basically today’s mtv unplugged)
i was blow away, the performance was amazing and the songwriting is unexpectedly good
then i searched for the album version of each song and i hate them all
overproduced, borderline annoying
am i just getting old or does music on the radio suck?
watched “jingle all the way” with my girlfriend
i love these 1990s movies with arnold schwarzenegger because they depict the peak of the american culture
everyone is financially careless and enjoys stuff the rest of the world can only dream about
and nobody is lecturing anyone for unapologetically enjoying life in this great civilization
makes me feel like i was born in the wrong place, at the wrong time – which used to be the whole point of hollywood
In S15 E68 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, Paul Sztorc defends CUSF activation against the criticism of
@Peter Todd (as expressed during the OP_Next conference).
Listen to the entire interview:
https://www.youtube.com/live/p2zXzG9-abc?si=WWPUB2ktXkxY5GSq will interview @truthcoin in 2 hours
he will talk about bringing more soft forks to bitcoin via cusf (core untouched soft fork)
got any questions for him? join the livestream and ask them in the chat!
Don’t miss out, subscribe to the Bitcoin Takeover podcast!
10 years ago, i used to hate 1980s bands like the cure & tears for fears.
hell, even hall & oates was too cheesy for my ears.
but now i love this shit.
