when was the last time you changed your mind about something after learning new information? too many people in bitcoin and crypto seem to double down on their beliefs only because they are financially, socially & emotionally invested which is exactly when you become wrong

everyday we stray further from satoshi

Synced Bitcoin Core v30.2 in 4h 43m On a Mac Studio M4 Max with 64 GB of RAM JUST BUY MORE RAM

bitcoin is designed to become expensive more miners -> higher difficulty -> cost to find a block goes up more transactions -> fuller blocks -> more expensive transactions bigger blocks -> more data -> validation cost increases smaller blocks -> full mempool -> transaction cost increases gotta pick tradroffs

according to my stats agent i’ve published 365 bitcoin takeover podcast episodes in 2000 days that’s about 1 new episode every 6 days! having fun with my ai company, will soon vibe code some pages 😍

syncing bitcoin core v30.2 on my new mac studio with 64 gigs of ram the internet speed is 923 mbps gave it 10 cpu cores how long do you think it’s gonna take?

my podcast stats are pure meaning that they reflect directly how popular a guest or a particular topic is lots of shows in this space buy views to report higher numbers to their sponsors the more sophisticated ones pay marketing agencies to do the dirty work but i see a lot of value in honestly reporting how popular something or someone really is i also enjoy tracking organic growth over time – and this is my 7th year of doing just a little better than before i’m also grateful that my sponsors are fans of the show and they understand what i am doing here. because most marketing departments in the space indirectly support buying views/followers because they want to have impressive reports. just a kind reminder that this space is a lot smaller than most people think and the only truly popular & super profitable use case is gambling.

a hard pill to swallow is that bitcoin is an ideal that’s bigger than any one network it’s easy to fall in love with the bitcoin that makes you richer in time or with the one gives you better privacy but the idea of bitcoin is much more powerful than any single implementation which is bad for pseudo-austrian economists larping about the 21 million supply cap, but wonderful for cypherpunks and freedom lovers bitcoin can get completely destroyed, another fork will emerge in spite of all the social and economic backlash

what if the role of bitcoin was to create the electricity infrastructure for ai to thrive? without the pow mining farms and the experience with home gpu mining rigs, this worldwide slop couldn’t happen

Running ollama

running crest wallet on citrea basically tornado cash for bitcoin zk snarks on a zk rollup on top of btc the kind of layer two moon math that toxic maximalists don’t want you to discover pretty exciting, here’s my address if you wanna dump some play money

i respect bmw cars, but i would never drive one because i dislike bmw drivers i sort of like rolex watches, but i wound never buy one because of the snobbery that comes with it i love bitcoin, but if i discovered it today with this spiteful & divided community i’d stay away social clubs matter. and bitcoin used to be friendly, inclusive, hopeful. we gotta promote a new culture and i think post-maximalism might be it

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S17 E13: Charlie Spears on Blockspace, Bitcoin Culture & OP_NEXT

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast · Episode

“Hey Vlad you’re such a loser who’s now giving up on Bitcoin to pivot to AI” No dude, I’m just learning how to use the new revolutionary technology that’s shaping our time I was one of the first kids in my neighborhood to have a home computer I was the first in my social circles to become interested in Bitcoin And I was one of the first maximalists who figured out that the Bitcoin network won’t get any significant upgrades to add privacy and contracts Gotta live up to the expectations, level up my knowledge, get ready for the future Millions of people will be begging for welfare checks from their governments when their job gets automated I really don’t want to get left behind.

my open source ai journey starts today bought myself a killer mac studio complete overkill, it can run 50+ agents and i know i could have bought bitcoin but bitcoin doesn’t feel this exciting the possibilities are endless i want to run an ai company and this box is its hq

bitcoin’s every competitive advantage is being challenged now censorship resistance? knots begs to disagree, they have filters to censor immutability? mark karpeles wants to recover 79956 stolen btc via hard fork unconfiscatable? “the cat” tried to steal small utxos in the name of making it easier to run a node permissionless? not anymore if we activate bip 110

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bip110 is a coordinated psyop to get more bitcoiners to try zcash and it works amazingly well

What book am I missing?

2015: BIP 101 2025: BIP 110 History really rhymes.