Went to the flea market yesterday and I picked up this Blackberry Classic (Q20) for $5 The screen is a bit broken, the back cover is scratched, but it charges and everything works so far. $30 in parts and I’ll have the ultimate texting/e-mail machine 😍

You may not like it But this was peak Bitcoin maximalism 9 years ago, before the community split during the scaling debate When everyone was working to make Bitcoin better and increase adoption Most of today’s successful alts didn’t even exist. Now you have 1000 projects.

Over the last couple of days I’ve been asking you guys what you recall about Gavin Andresen & Mike Hearn. Only one person mentioned that Gavin created multisig and P2SH. Nobody mentioned that Mike Hearn created the first SPV wallet, which Satoshi described in the whitepaper but never put into practice. Also, nobody mentioned that Mike Hearn’s LevelDB upgrade has caused an accidental hard fork in Bitcoin back in March 2013. Both Gavin and Mike did a lot of cool stuff before the community crucified them. However, it’s only the bad deeds that get remembered – and a narrative gets constructed around them to justify the excommunication. Kind of sad in hindsight, as any of today’s heroes will have his merits erased from history the moment he or she doesn’t conform with the latest version of maximalism.

Alright so Gavin was the CIA informant who legitimized the Craig Wright is Satoshi cosplay (Few mentions of any contributions he’s made to Bitcoin over the years) So let’s try this again but change the subject: Who is Mike Hearn and what did he do for Bitcoin?

Just out of curiosity: How many of you know who Gavin Andresen is? And if his name rings a bell, what do you know about him?

Hi @jack wen podcast? Let’s talk about using bitcoin as money

Bitcoin history is only 17 years old But we're really bad at keeping records & bringing up the relevant information So every wave of adopters must get misled by the loudest influencers, spend years misunderstanding Bitcoin while having no context for recent events This sucks

Bitcoin was the best outcome of the Obama presidency

Bitcoin plebs turning on Adam Back wasn't on my bingo card for 2025 The irony of the situation is that Adam's been pretty consistent in his views over the years It's the plebs who got radicalized by influencers that promote ridiculous purity tests You reap what you sow? Blockstream has taken advantage of this culture for many years, with "toxic maximalist" marketing. But now the culture is turning against the stuff that Blockstream wants to build on Bitcoin lol

I’d rather research and talk about shitcoins than treasury companies. They’re much more interesting to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

Most podcasts serve the purpose of providing assurance, make people feel like they invested well and Bitcoin has a great future. These tend to be more popular, especially if they discuss price & institutional investments. Not my podcast, though. Bitcoin Takeover podcast aims to discover the truth about what’s going on, teach Bitcoin history, present alternative takes on events with mostly one-sided perspectives, criticize the culture and remind the listeners where we started and what our ideals used to be. I don’t expect this to be popular. But I expect this to be impactful where it matters and contribute to the history of this movement. In the end, price talk is ephemeral but ideas will outlive us.

“Yeah but Satoshi compared Bitcoin to gold” Yeah, but “gold” meant that it’s limited in supply and you mine it with your computer. Satoshi was an optimist in terms of scaling Bitcoin for payments to replace Visa, Mastercard & PayPal. For him, digital gold didn’t mean slow & expensive to transfer, a settlement layer for high value transactions, or something that you should only store speculatively.

Satoshi Nakamoto was in favor of using the Bitcoin blockchain for non-monetary transactions & supported the creation of altcoins. v0.1 of the Bitcoin code included a marketplace in the style of eBay, with descriptors for ratings, usernames & products. All this data would get registered ON CHAIN. Same for the unfinished poker game, which was later removed from the codebase. As for altcoins, Satoshi liked the idea of BitDNS (later Namecoin) and wasn’t toxic about issuing a new token or using the blockchain technology for other use cases. It’s becoming really ridiculous with some guys around here who are trying to push propaganda about what Bitcoin should be, while they only promote the agenda of a company that makes money from a particular situation or use case. Satoshi would disagree with you in the same way Jesus would frown upon religious zealots who don’t enjoy a glass of wine every now and then.

Satoshi Nakamoto inscribed data on Bitcoin “EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on the brink of second bailout for banks”, as seen in the genesis block Before he sent the first Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney 9 days later Bitcoin has always been for money AND data.

Got pickpocketed in Istanbul and lost all my cash How’s your day going? 🤪

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When does a shitcoin stop being a shitcoin? After it survives 2 bear markets and still has users? When it stays in the top 20 for longer than 10 years? When it does what it says it does, delivers exciting new features and is different enough from Bitcoin? When it gets its own annual conference and people actually buy tickets to see it?

This was the top 10 on CoinMarketCap 10 years ago What will it look like in 10 years?

This is the most fed-like behavior ever: Paying both sides of the war, in order to control the narrative and make sure that no significant development ever happens Jack Dorsey is no stranger to collaborating with 3-letter agencies, as evidenced by #TwitterFiles Now we have to believe he’s a new person who somehow adopted a new lifestyle under the Bitcoin standard… while completely cutting ties with his old friends. I ain’t buying it. Unlike many of my peers, I’m not under Jack’s payroll and can afford to speak my mind: this is what we get in order to prevent us from scaling Bitcoin and making it private. Eternal conflict, chaos, and infighting that breaks year-long friendships and reputations that took many years to build. But hey, at least the price went up. Why aren’t you happy?