Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008: builds P2P marketplace with reputation system like eBay in Bitcoin v0.1 Bitcoin university, 2025: Bitcoin is not for arbitrary data, only shitcoin degenerates who enjoy CSAM want to do this.

The guys who listen to 40 hours of Bitcoin podcasts every week Clearly don’t listen to Bitcoin Takeover and probably shouldn’t, as they seek reassurance instead of actual learning

You spend a decade+ trying to find software engineers who are simultaneously patient enough to refine Bitcoin’s code and ideological enough to take less money than Google/Microsoft/Apple would pay them Just to vilify them at the whim of Saylor, Ocean mining & a bunch of evil marketers This is exactly how you destroy Bitcoin.

When I first joined bitcoin, it was bitcoiners who were more knowledgeable than shitcoiners and had technical to explain what’s wrong with every other coin In the meantime, bitcoiners became lazy and stopped learning The average shitcoiner is usually technically right when he talks about Bitcoin, but the average bitcoiner has no knowledge except for the mighty price chart. Sad!

Michael Saylor: really good friends with the CEO of MARA pool MARA pool: offers a service named Slipstream, which allows users to pay outside of the Bitcoin network to include transactions in a block Bitcoin Core v30: makes MARA Slipstream pointless Follow the money.

The boomers had Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison & Janis Joplin. So famous you can see teenagers wearing t-shirts today. Bitcoiners have Aaron Swartz, Hal Finney, Len Sadsaman & Dan Kaminsky. But they have yet to reach the same cultural status.

Bitcoin was the hippie movement of our generation a bunch of idealists who got together and thought we can end all wars and build a better world if we use our scarce digital currency then a decade later, lots of guys sold out to become useful idiots in mainstream politics no different from the yuppies of the 1970 and 1980s. At least the boomers reshaped the entire world, albeit in ways that are entirely different from the flower power ideals of the 1960s hope we will live to do the same and not be as hated by our grandchildren. But I cannot shake off the feeling that we already failed. Bitcoin is not as culturally impactful as the hippie movement. Our art mostly sucks and is a lazy remix of existing stuff (just stick a BTC logo on it and sell t-shirts). None of the Bitcoin events will be remembered as the Woodstock of our generation. Our representation in media is mostly negative and we don’t have any “Easy Rider” to morally redeem the movement. Culturally speaking, we got nothing on the boomers.

I miss the time when I used to think that bitcoiners are smart and able to build a fairer and more honest civilization. seriously, it was such a nice time!

Listen to the Bitcoin Takeover podcast It’s better to learn how Bitcoin works than to waste your time engaging with useful idiots View quoted note →

While it’s tempting to ride the wave of recent trends and talk about whatever is on the news only to do some mental gymnastics which include Bitcoin into the conversation I’ll just stick to interviewing builders and devs. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

My dream interview would involve Nick Szabo When he followed me back in 2018, my journey changed for the better Since then, I’ve learned a lot about social scalability, God protocols, the basics of smart contracts, lactase persistence & Bitcoin I don’t care that he’s not Satoshi – for me, he is the equivalent of the same wise and patient guy who replied to almost everyone on Bitcoin Talk for a year. And while I esteem other cypherpunks too, none of them gave me the same amount of education. Through him I’ve also discovered Timothy C. May and got interested in David Chaum’s work. Who’s your Satoshi?

If it wasn’t for the manufactured drama, Ocean would have like 12 pleb miners. But thanks to this manufactured drama, Ocean mines *checks stats* 2 blocks per day You blink and you miss ‘em lol 😆

24 years ago when 9/11 happened, I was just a schoolboy who was days away from starting 3rd grade in Romania I had no idea that some airplane crashing into a New York skyscraper would affect the way that I travel, legitimize mass government surveillance & lead to the kind of indoctrination that even to this day makes me think twice before saying hello to someone from the Middle East. Not trying to downplay the tragedy and the role that NYC heroes played in saving lives. I’m just saying it’s ridiculous that the rest of the world got dragged into a new era of surveillance and paranoia which prevented many of us from ever knowing the freedom our parents had. To this day, KYC/AML practices find their legitimation in “we don’t want to fund terrorists to have another 9/11” – even if they were proven to be inefficient and just security theater. Now you cannot fly to another country without getting groped by a bunch of paranoid policemen if you forgot to remove your belt. You can’t even carry your water bottle, how can they trust that it’s just water? And if you just want to wave goodbye to your departing friend or family member, you can no longer walk to the airplane door. Hell, you can’t even pass your plane ticket to someone else as a last-minute gift when your plans suddenly change. Because of 9/11 and the subsequent Patriot Act, all of your communications are monitored and recorded under the assumption that anyone can be a terrorist. Instead of tracking bad actors and clear suspects, now all phone conversations and internet data gets stored and monitored. Which usually leads to a dilution of efficiency, as suspects aren’t that much of a priority when even grandma can potentially wire money to Al-Qaeda. 9/11 is a tragedy in the history of New York City and the United States of America. But what it caused all over the world is truly a shame. Here’s to hoping that we will someday return to the freedom of the 1990s!

Before the internet age: Oh no, I’m stuck in a shithole country, nothing ever happens here and the job market is very limited. Internet age: Thank God I can live in this beautiful developing country where nothing much happens, while the global job market is just one click away!

Hi FBI I don’t understand how Bitcoin works and don’t care to learn either I just hate these pompous and elitist Core devs so much that I’d rather have them raided and sent to jail for an accusation I made up with my internet friends … than actually learn how Bitcoin works So please, do something about it. Permissionless decentralized network and all, there has to be a way to replace these assholes with my crazy cult leader who lost his 200 BTC a couple of years ago but can be completely trusted to cooperate. I just don’t like being wrong, that’s all. So when I lose the technical debate, I can always try to ruin the life of the winner. This is how it is and how it should be: it doesn’t matter who is right, it’s all about who screams harder. Your biggest fans, Matt & Mechy

If these principled bitcoiners want their devs to go to jail for the supposed crimes of others It’s no wonder they never supported the Samourai wallet devs when they got arrested And I can only imagine how much worse it would’ve been if Tornado Cash was built on Bitcoin.

Calling it now: during the next bear market when we dip to $58k, the Bitcoin miners will activate BIP 300 Of all the BIPs and proposals around, it’s the only one that explicitly maximizes the miner’s revenue by expanding fee collection. In this conflictual & nihilistic environment, the miners are facing a very uncertain future. And I’m sure they will put up a fight before giving up.

Bitcoiners: store of value, inflation hedge, 100x up against my fiat currency since I bought my first coin & I keep stacking Also bitcoiners: I run my node on a 7 year-old Raspberry Pi on dial-up. What do you mean I should upgrade my RAM or storage? Can’t afford a laptop, I will complain to Core

If you like game shows such as “Wheel of Fortune” and know a little bit about what’s going on in Bitcoin You’re gonna find this episode hilarious. Great for a lazy Sunday! https://www.youtube.com/live/08FncDDpgyA?feature=shared

I’m old enough to remember when the Lightning network was gonna revolutionize gaming with Lightnite a Fortnite clone that gave BTC to the player than scored a frag and removed BTC from the loser Whatever happened to that?