Quick reminder that at this point post-halving during the early innings of the 2016 bull run, bitcoin had still failed to break cleanly above its 2013 all time high...and then a few weeks later, we were off to the races!

MOAR FANCY!!! View quoted note →

Class of 2013 remembers their last bitcoin purchases below $100. Class of 2016 remembers their last bitcoin purchases below $1,000. Class of 2020 remembers their last bitcoin purchases below $10,000. Class of 2025 will remember their last bitcoin purchases below $100,000.

ChatGPT’s surprisingly good at color theory. If you give it a list of a few hex codes and ask what the next best color would be to add to that list, it’ll give back one that hasn’t been used yet and that matches the aesthetic of the other colors.

Imagine capitulating and selling your bitcoin at $92k. RIP. 💀

I may or may not have just spent the past couple hours developing a fancy progress bar for one of my python scripts. 😅 If I’m gonna be running this one for the foreseeable future, I want it to at least be nice to look at.

Now we’re cooking. Just crossed 500k blocks processed from genesis and a few thousand from the current chain tip. Pretty interesting to see how the median was affected during the 2015 spam attack. Will be even more interesting to see how it drops with the most recent spam attack.

My accountant just told me I need the cost basis of every zap I've ever received "as a gift" so if ya'll wouldn't mind passing along that info, that'd be great. Lol...jk. The IRS is cooked.

Can a bitcoin friendly CPA (assuming there are any on Nostr) riddle me this...? And please assume I'm a cucked normie who wants to pay taxes. If I send a single 1 sat zap on Nostr, what are the tax implications of that single zap? Even if we assume a cost basis of $0, the gain would be far less than a $1 so do we even have to technically report it? Or do we report it with a gain rounded down to $0? Now let's assume I've sent 10000 zaps, 1 sat each...what are the tax implications of those? Does each one individually round down to a $0 gain like in the original example, or are we supposed to take the sub-penny gains in aggregate and then round to the nearest dollar?

Where's bitcoin headed this epoch? 🔴🟠🟡🟢

What's the largest zap ever sent over Nostr? Someone's gotta be keeping track of that, right? Would be cool to get the complete historical data set for all zaps and make some animations with it.

What happens to zaps that are sent while my Alby Hub is shut down? I'm assuming they just fail.

Note to self…when replying with GIFs, use Damus…not Primal. 😅 View quoted note →

How does it make you feel knowing that over half of the current bitcoin UTXOs are worth 1,000 sats or less?

Chugging through the 2015 spam attacks now. Would be interesting to see how many of those smaller 1k - 10k sat UTXOs remain unspent to this day.

Just posted this one over on X and YouTube. It's a bit long for Nostr but I might clip the last year and at least post that part here later today. X (1080p with music):

X (formerly Twitter)

Wicked (@w_s_bitcoin) on X

History of Bitcoin: 16 Year Anniversary

YouTube (4K no music):

What's the story behind the 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr Bitcoin address? It controls the most "whole coins" (UTXOs worth exactly 100,000,000 sats) of any address. 1,283 whole coins to be exact.

The Mempool Open Source Project®

Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

1 sat/vB txns are finally starting to get confirmed. Time for some UTXO management.