My name's Wicked ✌️🍎🍻.
I'm an apple who loves art, math, programming, and Bitcoin.
Exit fiat, save in bitcoin, and take it into self custody.
Learn UTXO mgmt.
https://wickedsmartbitcoin.com/
Added a couple of extra KPIs to this block size dashboard: number of blocks added year-over-year (underneath the block height), blockchain year-over-year growth, and the 1-year average block size underneath the color bar.
In dollars, prices of houses have more than doubled. In bitcoin, they continue to collapse, trending toward zero. Wake me up when the average new house costs less than 1 BTC.
Only twice in Bitcoin’s history have October and November both closed red: 2011 and 2018.
Every 7 years, it seems…time to break the pattern or keep it alive in 2025?
My friends were in El Salvador, sent me a Lightning invoice for their meal, and I paid it from thousands of miles away in seconds. Their minds were blown. ⚡🤯
It’s a good day to reread the white paper and remember how far Bitcoin has come. Ignore the noise and anyone who would make you believe Bitcoin has failed at being the best money the world has ever seen. Less bitching about what others use it for, more using it as money yourself.
There are now over 170 million OP_RETURN outputs on Bitcoin.
You can frame that as a success or a failure.
✅ Success: 170 million fake pubkeys didn’t bloat the UTXO set.
❌ Failure: 170 million pieces of non-monetary data still got on-chain.
Improved the modal view's look and functionality on my site. In modal view, double-tap to zoom in on visualizations and again to zoom out. There's one more small optimization I'm working on now...you probably won't even notice it once it's finished though. 😅