Serious question: why buy into an ETF with all the paperwork, management fees, etc when you can just buy the underlying asset?

Why do people insist #bitcoin  is not crypto when it certainly IS a crypto currency? Is the analogous statement “Humans are not animals”? Can’t we find a better way of differentiating between #BTC  and altcoins?

Check out progress to the inevitable 1 Satoshi = $1 at

One Dollar...

Polar Bitcoin - plotting prices on a polar logarithmic chart

I am proposing to teach #Bitcoin ideas at a *very* basic level and working on a simplified explanation of the Byzantine generals problem. a) five generals need a majority decision to attack/retreat. b) to convey a vote they must create a gold engraved wonderful thing to indicate their decision. It would take ages to create this wonderful thing. c) if a general sees 3 wonderful things that agree on attack/retreat they can be sure that is the consensus because of the time required to craft those answers. Is that valid / good enough?

Last week, I saw a film about [un]sustainable fashion. A quick Google showed yearly production of CO2 for... - fashion 1.2 billion tonnes - #Bitcoin  22 million tonnes It seems that lazy Greenpeace has just picked the easy target, jumping on the anti-Bitcoin bandwagon.

Here's a little something: go to polarbitcoin.net/falls-from-aths, click on the graph showing #Bitcoin  falls and you get a zoom into the falls from 2017 onwards. Nice!

Good News: I can post using Damus connected to Nostr on my Umbrel. Bad News: I can’t post using Snort on Chrome connected to my Nostr. When I loaded Snort I was expecting to have to enter my private key somewhere but never had the opportunity. What an I missing?

I might be biased but I like this graph… https://polarbitcoin.net/static/polar-graph.php?paramsFile=likeAlice&size=1000

The dollar is declining fast. Here’s a useful page to keep track:

One Dollar...

Polar Bitcoin - plotting prices on a polar logarithmic chart

It’s a live, auto-updating image. http://polarbitcoin.net/static/one-dollar-buys.php

There's a chart demonstrating the obvious decline of the dollar at polarbitcoin.net/one-dollar.

Check out the chart at

Polar Bitcoin

Polar Bitcoin - plotting prices on a polar logarithmic chart

and understand that nobody who bought #Bitcoin and held for four or more years lost money.

There are 10 types of people in the world; those that understand computers, money and #Bitcoin and those that don't.

Here’s a link to a live #Bitcoin chart showing falls from ATHs. Neat, eh? https://polarbitcoin.net/static/ath-falls.php