Lately I haven’t had access to my fancy Universal Audio interface
So no fancy compression/EQ plugins in post-production
I had to use the open source alternative, Audacity
To he honest, it’s not bad at all. Most listeners won’t figure out the difference (but I can because I’m a nerd and I had a particular signal chain/plugin stack)
Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m doing my podcast for human listeners or for AI training
A version of Bitcoin with:
– 300 kb blocks to relay transactions via radio signal – people with no internet access would be able to send transactions to the closest node, hundreds of miles away
– sidechains for every use case (BIP300)
– CTV, CAT, everything builders need
– quantum resistance
– atomic swaps between sidechains
– a different kind of proof of work, that SHA256 miners cannot attack
Who’s building this?
January: Venezuelan dictator Maduro gets captured
February: Iranian dictator Khamenei gets assassinated
Who’s next in March?
You know what Bitcoin needs more of?
Address types!
Like seriously, I can’t get enough of these
Maybe call it bc1b or whatever to make it even more confusing. Make it only useful for one particular scenario that 99% of users will never touch.
Will interview Mark Karpeles in about 4 hours
The BIP110 debate reminds me that it’s much cheaper and more efficient to fix a problem with free markets than with politics
Tldr: just fork off and see what the market thinks about your ideas
During my 4-day stay in Denver, I watched TV for about an hour every morning.
Based on the ads I saw, I realized that the US is heading towards a recession:
– bank ads are about refinancing debt, not cheap loans to spend recklessly
– lots of ads about saving money buying cheaper alternatives (even Burger King menus and generic viagra lol)
– aggressive ads for apps that track your spending to cut unnecessary subscriptions and realize where most of the money goes
When these are the products/services needing advertisement (and considering it worth the expense), that’s how you know that the economy is in a critical state.
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More than 100 podcast episodes related to Bitcoin get published every week
(including the “crypto” label)
Thousands of YouTube videos featuring “Bitcoin” in the title get uploaded every day
I am truly grateful that so many people choose to listen to mine ❤️
If I had the maximalist “everything sucks except for the thing that I own and use” mindset when I discovered Bitcoin
I would have never touched Bitcoin.
Ideologies are great for as long as they are grounded in facts and serve an achievable goal
Toxic bitcoin maximalism was mostly a reaction to the 2017 forks, to make sure that the original chain remains known as “Bitcoin” and promising tech like Lightning gets a chance to compete
Almost a decade later, Bitcoin is less relevant for payments and the Lightning network is still a small-scale experiment. Other digital money networks emerged and took 40% of what used to be Bitcoin’s market.
There used to be a time when everything was a reaction to Bitcoin or an attempt to improve Bitcoin’s design. Today we have projects that don’t care about Bitcoin at all and serve entirely different use cases.
You can’t possibly live in complete ignorance like it’s still 2017 and a whole decade of market information doesn’t exist. Update your worldview, adapt to the new conditions. Understand that there are people who don’t give a shit about Bitcoin, but use other blockchains instead.
Don’t be afraid of learning. Because if you are and you convince all your friends that ignorance is the way, that’s how Bitcoin keeps on losing market share and relevance. Adapt or die.
Zcash is private Bitcoin
Litecoin is faster Bitcoin
Kaspa is scalable Bitcoin
Decred is governance Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash is big block Bitcoin
Ethereum is smart contract Bitcoin
Quantus is quantum resistant Bitcoin
Monero is reactionary fungible Bitcoin
“Bitcoin” is not just a ticker.
“Bitcoin” is not just one network.
Bitcoin is the name of a movement, the symbol of a revolution, and the ecash that actually changed the world.
I agree with “Bitcoin, not crypto” – with a twist!
Crypto has historically referred to cryptology and cryptography. It should probably remain so.
“Cryptocurrency” makes no sense without the existence of privacy.
So instead, use “Bitcoin” to describe everything that resembles it: private Bitcoin, scalable Bitcoin, smart contract Bitcoin, proof of stake Bitcoin, quantum resistant Bitcoin.
Why? Because Bitcoin is open source just like Linux. Also, Bitcoin is the only for of ecash (electronic cash) that succeeded in starting a revolution.
Of course, every Bitcoin uses a different ticker and trades for a different amount of money. But the shared goal and use of blockchain-derives tech make them all Bitcoins.
Of course, we could have had one Bitcoin that does everything. But the ossification culture has killed any chance of achieving the 21 million coin utopia.
Instead, we have a Bitcoin for every new use case that branched out of Bitcoin due to deficient upgrading. And that’s just fine.
Bitcoin. Not crypto.
It’s my 34th birthday, I’m sick in bed, haven’t been outside in 4 days, and I’ve never felt lonelier.
At least my girlfriend drew this for me, but it might be the last one.
I can’t even drink alcohol because I’m taking antibiotics. No cake or candles either.
Good night!
Sometimes I feel like my podcast would be more successful if I didn’t post my pessimistic thoughts
If I just claimed that everything is great, came up with a bullish spin to all the bad news, completely ignored the data that destroys narratives
But then again, that’s not who I am 🤷🏻♂️
And if a bunch of people never get to listen to my awesome show because they don’t like my tweets, then so be it. This only makes my audience smarter.
The 3 bullish scenarios for Bitcoin:
1. JD Vance becomes US president and we get another 4-8 years of light regulations + building without fear of retribution from the left.
2. Gen alpha switches from collecting Fortnite skins to buying digital currency.
3. AI to AI settlements use BTC. It’s likely that the agents will choose to build their own high throughput payments network, with their own token. But in between trades, to avoid higher volatility, they will swap into BTC. Might be an issue is stablecoins get in the way.
Someone who started DCAing into bitcoin in October 2021 and never sold
Hasn’t made any profits, didn’t beat inflation, wasn’t able to store any value
Would be much better off DCAing into gold or the S&P500
Stop the store of value psyop. Bitcoin’s value proposition is freedom of transactions and unconfiscatable money. The price discovery is just a side effect.
