I didn’t take AI too seriously until I discovered Claude
I was mostly using Grok or ChatGPT to do research
But what Claude does for coding is absolutely amazing.
Now anyone can build a webpage of app from scratch, with the proficiency of an experienced software engineer & actually good guidance all the way through
Now everyone can verify code and build applications, smart contracts, wallets, and everything you can use and repurpose from existing open source repositories!
So now anyone with enough patience can make significant contributions to make the online world a better place
Learning by doing will also help you grow immensely, as you discover stuff you preciously never thought about
But the best teacher is the debugging and refinement phase. Claude will get you to a satisfactory 90% result in a matter of minutes – but the remaining 10% can take days to pull off… and this is when most of the learning takes place!
Now you have no excuse to not dig up your own notebook with ideas and see which one you still want to build. Become the internet entrepreneur you’ve always wanted.
Build a social network like the old MySpace. Create a tailored community forum. Build a better page for your business. Replace Wordpress with something that you build from scratch for your own needs.
Claude is as smart as you are, essentially: so if you are able to describe specifically what you want, he will be able to get you there. It’s like having an engineer best friend who actually tells you what is a good idea and what you should probably not be tried from the get-go.
Truly amazing! And the best part is that qwen (an open source model you can run on your computer) is about 90% as good as Claude!
Man, I haven’t felt this excited about spending all day in front of my computer for years. I wake up wanting to pick up from where I left off, start more projects that I can manage and learn a lot in the process!
Over the last 3 months, I’ve learned much more than 4 years of computer science classes taught me in high school.
I think Zooko is by far the most misunderstood person in Bitcoin
But a top 10 bitcoiner by contributions to both cryptography & internet money tech that’s 100% BTC-compatible
More bitcoiners should study his work: the smartest ones are already trying to bring Zcash to Bitcoin
https://www.youtube.com/live/Vs2gTXzqe4Q?is=M5LiSoq1d1ygoi1XJust in case you were wondering
Bitcoin Takeover podcast is doing pretty well
4610 downloads per episode on average in 2026
April was a great month!
Onwards 🫡
Made a deal with Zach Herbert yesterday after the podcast ended
Now you can buy a Passport Prime using promo code “BTCTKVR” at checkout
With this code, you receive a free bumper case worth $19
If I sell 3000 Passport Prime security devices, Zach will buy me a Supra 😍
Buy now!
https://www.youtube.com/live/piIhSCxHC6o?is=HkXWWEbUIaKNou2v
I like Saylor because he’s able to bring out the worst in people
He reveals the greedy fucks who used to LARP about ending the fed and hyperbitcoinization
He sheds light on the hypocrites who said they were Bitcoin-only, but bought MSTR and STRC
He perverts the devs who used to talk about Bitcoin maximalism as a movement that brings planetary scale, privacy & smart contracts to Bitcoin
It’s tragic, but somehow beautiful too
Even if bitcoin goes to 0 tomorrow
the AI bubble bursts
the internet gets shut down
I’m optimistic about the future as long as I have local open source AI models.
We can use these LLMs to rebuild everything from scratch at an accelerated speed, which is truly amazing!
Gm, everyday I wake up having an existential crisis
AI has become so good that it can correct me & completely redo hours of my work within seconds.
As a worker, I am obsolete.
Soon to be replaced by a faster, cheaper AGI.
But as a creative person, I am just getting started!
In case you missed it:
My interview with
@Hunter ₿eaṩt & Mark Karpelès is now live
💪🏻 We recorded it last week at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas
🖥️ we talk about BIP 360, 361 and the pros and cons of Bitcoin’s quantum upgrade
Listen 👇🏻
https://www.youtube.com/live/L11orkEbtb4?si=xbLMnf-k1VAHYJ2IRoger Ver was right
When he said that people save the currency that they use for spending
One good example is Tron: an unoriginal Ethereum clone that used to be the laughing stock of the industry when it launched in 2017
But has been outperforming bitcoin since 2021 because it’s the most popular gas token for USDT payments
Nobody likes it, but it’s useful. Which is why people bought it and held it 🤷🏻♂️
Been reading opinions that the Bitcoin community is more “mature” and “tolerant” than 5 years ago when it comes to Ethereum and other successful altcoins
I don’t think that’s the case, it’s just that the maximalist dogma has taken so many Ls and thought leaders moved goalposts so many times that everyone must be more careful with their predictions
But the biggest issue is that Bitcoin itself hasn’t evolved to incorporate all the altcoin use cases, which renders the dogma moot.
Tron has been a much better store of value since adding USDT. Payments in third world countries are made in stablecoins, not Bitcoin. Litecoin is the number one payment coin on BitPay, and now Monero has more user nodes than Bitcoin.
Now Zcash is being promoted as a better store of value because it has the same economic scarcity while actually hiding everyone’s amounts, and Ethereum will become quantum resistant before Bitcoin.
It’s hard to stay cocky when your worldview is constantly being challenged by the market reality… and your coin fails to compete.
So no, I don’t think anyone became nicer or more tolerant. Everyone gets humbled by the free market.
I really dislike the way Bitcoin’s scaling debate is framed as “Blocksize wars”
Because everyone agreed that Bitcoin needs larger blocks and it got 4x larger blocks via SegWit
The conversation was more about HOW to scale Bitcoin (hard forks were not popular due to their contentious nature) and whether or not layer 2s are the way to go forward
Today, Bitcoin mostly scales through custodians (exchanges, ETFs, Lightning operators, federations) while Bitcoin Cash took on the risk of enabling OP codes that ironically support much better layer 2s.
In a world where Bitcoin won, there would be no miners choosing to secure BCH. But here we are nearly a decade later, still unable to scale properly for the popular use cases and kicking the can down the road until other projects figure out better cryptography.
You don’t need to be a PhD in economics to understand the basics of supply and demand or Bitcoin’s need for transaction fees
If you’re not using bitcoin for payments, you’re not increasing the demand for it and you’re not paying the miners
It’s that simple!
If you fell for the “HODLing is using” psyop, you’re a gullible fool and I have an NFT collection to sell to you
If your podcast is predictable because you’re following the established party lines
and you’re analyzing everything through the lens of the same old dogma instead of thinking for yourself
Not only that you’re not gonna make it
You will get replaced by AI very soon!
Today I listened to my podcast during a long drive
I gotta say, it wad much better than expected
Understood some ideas much better when I didn’t have to think about what to say next
10/10 would listen again
Paul Sztorc is a marketing genius:
✅ found exactly the taboo element that triggers bitcoinerd (Satoshi’s coins on a fork)
⏱️ published the announcement about Ecash just a week after BIP361 proposed freezing Satoshi’s coins in BTC
🍿 got 6 million views in 24 hours with his tweet, now everyone has an opinion
If the Ecash software really delivers in late August, the entire industry will want to try it.
Even the guys who want to dump their Ecash to buy more Bitcoin will have to see how this works. They are forced to become users, even for a few minutes.
Then if the users stay, Bitcoin is in trouble.
What will Saylor do with his ecash airdrop in August?
