I got nothing but positive feedback on the 8-hour Bitcoin Cash podcast episode What is wrong with this community, where’s the toxicity? https://www.youtube.com/live/SJkwCaQLRuc?is=0jgQ6fkoKbb5a7F6

2025: paper bitcoin summer 2026: ???

What is the most exciting thing in Bitcoin right now?

Zcash is pumping Encrypted Bitcoin A much better store of value when shielded The Bitcoin we could have had since 2014 if the community activated Zerocash How does the Bitcoin community respond to the privacy hype wave? “Oh, here’s Silent Payments!” The same thing DarkWallet came up with in 2013. The same thing Samourai Wallet had as PayNyms. The same thing you already have in Cake Wallet alongside PayJoins. Basically a nice UX for receiver privacy. Something Satoshi already solved and described in chapter 10 of the whitepaper: generate a new address for every incoming transaction. But hey, now it’s available in Sparrow wallet. Which only 200 nerds actually use. Electrum too! Blue Wallet is working on it! Yet it solves nothing: the amounts are still visible, the sender is still visible, the receiver can still reveal his addresses by mistake. Fucking retards.

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.