Looking for cool conferences where me + my girlfriend can launch our comic book. It’s called “Bitcoin: Year One” & aims to teach people about the first year of Bitcoin in a funny & easily digestible way. Because history is boring and not too many people care about it.

Happy Easter to all my Catholic and Protestant friends! He is not here! He has risen, just like He said! Can’t wait to celebrate Easter next week with my Orthodox family!

There are two elements that make Bitcoin not a Ponzi scheme: 1. The fair issuance via Proof of Work mining 2. The freedom money use case, which empowers individuals who can’t use banks If the governments regulate + monopolize no. 1, then hinder any chance at achieving no. 2, the only use case remaining is the “store of value” aka making more US dollars via speculation. And this is what turns Bitcoin into a Ponzi: mining is only done by big players that governments certify & enable (they’ll say it saves the environment), nobody uses BTC as money anymore because it’s a nightmare from a regulatory point of view and it’s too traceable for freedom activists or “criminals” from authoritarian regimes.

“See, the mempool is empty now. We didn’t need to scale Bitcoin in 2015-2017, it was all a lie that Roger Ver and Jihan Wu made up to attack the project” Meanwhile, USDT on Tron:

The reason many bitcoin podcasters suck is that they stopped learning new stuff sometime during the 2018-2019 bear market and they’ve been recycling the same talking points ever since never spent much time looking at new stuff getting built because it’s “scammy & shitcoiny”

I recently fell down the James A. Donald rabbit hole Aka the guy who first replied to Satoshi and told him that Bitcoin doesn’t scale I disagree with some political opinions on his blog, but when it comes to Bitcoin he was really ahead of his time You can read it too: blog.reaction.la

There are only 2 ways to make Bitcoin scalable and fungible: 1. You upgrade Bitcoin with the best tech out there, accept the tradeoffs 2. You use other networks that tokenize bitcoin, such as Beam/DarkFi/Zano. You get the features for BTC, but don’t use the Bitcoin network But a popular number 3 is: You pretend that the problems don’t exist, Bitcoin is already perfect and it’s the fault of users for wanting to use Bitcoin or having greater expectations from it

Bought myself a Supra

Today in Bitcoin: LNBits comes out of beta by launching v1, after 5 years of development BTCPay Server launches multisig feature If you listened to Bitcoin Takeover podcast S16 E17 + S16 E18, then you already know about these.

Been thinking about the nihilism of the argument “Even if we double the block size, Bitcoin still doesn’t scale. You won’t be able to include billions of transactions, so it’s pointless to increase the capacity” Well, yeah but you enable twice as many people to onboard L2s in a sovereign and affordable way. You reduce the reliance on custodians and trusted solutions. But maybe this is exactly the problem: there’s too much money in “Bitcoin banks” and the narrative that the average user doesn’t want to self custody funds prevails.

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My girlfriend and I are working on a manga about the first year of Bitcoin It describes the event that happened between August 2008 (Satoshi’s e-mails to Adam Back & Wei Dai) and January 3rd 2010 (Bitcoin’s first anniversary). The goal is to make Bitcoin history fun!

We’re about to break Amir Taaki’s record of 7 hours, 7 minutes, 53 seconds 🤪 @Ben Arc is a beast https://www.youtube.com/live/_gT2t7jPdSQ?si=JSETnP_-x7URBaMK

Live with @Ben Arc talking LNBits V1 https://www.youtube.com/live/_gT2t7jPdSQ?si=JSETnP_-x7URBaMK

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Will interview @Ben Arc in 8 hours! If you have any questions about LNbits, Nostr or anything Bitcoin/Lightning related, join the livestream chat (or use the comments section)

Okay bro hear me out So Trump is really one of us bro Shook out the weak hands to give us another chance to stack cheap sats bro And then when the capitulation phase of the market settles in He’ll extend the strategic bitcoin reserve with gigachad omega candle buys Trust me bro it’s game theory bro 4D chess bro

I gave y’all more time to catch up with season 16 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast But next week is gonna be packed! Monday: S16 E16 with Andreas Brekken Tuesday: S16 E17 with @Ben Arc Wednesday: S16 E18 with @UNCLE ROCKSTAR & @Max Watch out, more good stuff is on the way!

Adam Back-san and Hal Finney-san will be your cypherpunk senpai in the upcoming manga “Bitcoin: Year One” As drawn by my beautiful girlfriend 😍