The same guys who went to great lengths to destroy my reputation & get me banned from conferences last year after interviewing Roger Ver are now on team Knots It’s funny, really. Literally all of them. Almost as if they were mentally and ideologically inclined to side with the censorship camp.

“We gotta keep Bitcoin for financial transactions. Data, even if it enables layer 2s to work, is spam” “Bitcoin doesn’t scale, the base layer can’t include everyone’s transaction and we need layer 2s” Pick one, Knotzis.

All I want for Christmas is that Bitcoin maximalists reevaluate Zcash (and the idea of a Zerocash soft fork) like it’s 2016 again Because the progress is amazing: ✅ no more trusted setup since Halo2 ✅ mobile wallets for shielded transactions are now a reality ✅ more scalable ✅ capable of supporting shielded assets ✅ the tech stack that Bitcoin needs to transition into the 2030s with a technological edge

Took an anti-tetanus vax shot today Feeling a strong urge to run Bitcoin Core v30

Reflecting on the success of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast I’m stuck between “Man, I would be so much more successful if I spoke with a British accent” and “Holy fuck, this Romanian guy hosts a top 10 show which he started from his bedroom with no budget while big media organizations can’t keep up”

Bitcoin Takeover is the most selfish podcast ever I don’t do it for you, I don’t care about popular demands, I couldn’t care less what you want to hear I do it for myself because I want to learn for myself and create a historical record But you can learn from it too!

2019: Canadian exchange CEO rug pulls all users. 2025: Canadian government rug pulls an entire exchange, steals the coins of all users. This is gentlemen! Mainstream adoption is here.

Hal would love Zcash And probably daydream about Bitcoin getting the Zside drivechain, ZK coins, shielded Client Side Validation, a fork of Tornado Cash on Citrea, or even the fabled Zerocash soft fork that’s long overdue.

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 😆