this is eth’s current state. it’s a dying pile of garbage stuffed with tons of garbage data and they admit it. now it’s up to node operators to decide if they wanna let the same thing happen to bitcoin.

alright here’s what the btc treasury cycle looks like over the next 5 yrs. super funds with basically unlimited fiat firepower and capital raising capabilities will start scooping up small public companies trading below their nav and turn them into bitcoin treasuries. by the end of the decade, you’ll see thousands of these tiny public companies sub 10 to 20 million market cap today turning into billion dollar bitcoin giants.

“its impossible to prevent scam, we might as well streamline it.” here’s your streamlined scam. make scam harder, not easier. make it slower, not faster. make it less, not more. they did the exact opposite.

if you’re a public company putting bitcoin on your balance sheet or using bitcoin in any part of your business, your number one priority should be to prove your reserves. share it publicly with your clients and prospects. it’s simple, efficient, and the only transparency that matters. most corporate transparency is just smoke and mirrors anyway designed to hide not reveal.

Knots is at almost 7%. What’s interesting is that Core v29.0 (the latest version) has 947 reachable nodes as of today, while Knots v20250305 is running on 1,201 active nodes. There is also an older Knots version (20240801) that's currently running on 197 nodes. via @Frame

You lose nodes, you lose Bitcoin. Know this!

What would be really cool is if we could boost other people’s notes using services like @buzzbot . Not sure if that’s already possible with buzzbot.

two entrepreneurs from the middle east wanted to spam the bitcoin network with their company citrea, and core opened the doors for them and their backers. they’re turning bitcoin into yet another eth or solana where venture capital calls the shots.

Bitcoin dominance quietly climbs to 65%. Still feels low, imo. the market will eventually correct to the 80–85% range where it belongs.

Not having the tech to mine more gold isn’t real scarcity, it’s just a temporary limitation. the gold is still out there. it’s just sitting in places we can’t reach yet. that’s not finite, that’s delayed extraction. true scarcity means unreachable forever, like bitcoin’s hard cap.

i love umbrel and start9 for small scale operations, but they still cost over $400. running a dedicated bitcoin node for $400 is still too expensive for many people in different parts of the world. we need a third option that preferably costs less than $200. or maybe just a youtube video to explain how to do it for less than $200. 😂

Nothing matters more than eliminating the capital gains tax on Bitcoin. It’s much more important than any nation holding Bitcoin as a reserve. If there’s one battle to fight, it’s this. Remove the capital gains tax and unlock Bitcoin as a real medium of exchange.

Once capital gains are eliminated on Bitcoin, onchain activity will skyrocket which will exponentially increase Bitcoin’s adoption of becoming a true medium of exchange. When that happens (probably very soon), the last thing you want is spam choking the network.

banana zone?

GM!

Ah yes, the father of all shitcoiners has spoken: “One of the best things about Bitcoin is how simple it is.” How quaint. See, we don’t want simplicity. That’s far too… elegant for us. We crave chaos, scam jpegs, rug pulls, and infinite tokenized trash. Sound money? Boring. We need a bitcoin blockchain bloated with every half baked dream of scams. Because clearly, just being money isn’t enough for us. We want our decentralized utopia served with a side of delusion and a topping of scams. Let’s not settle for just money. We want more.

even after knots gave us a solid alternative, i never gave up on core and kept running both. but enough is fucking enough. pushing a pr that removes a config option letting me decide what transactions i accept on my own fucking node? fuck that.

a few selfish fucks think they can spam the one network my family, my children depend on. and when they get called out, they play stupid politics and block people’s voices. i don’t give a single fuck what anyone thinks. my freedom rides on bitcoin. it’s our last shot, our last hope. we’re not gonna let you fuck it up.

GM! YOU CAN JUST SHARE THINGS.

if a recession hits in the next few months, a ton of shitcoins will collapse and most wont come back. this means bitcoin dominance could shoot from the current 64% to over 80%.. this might also be the end of ethereum scam coin as we know it.