Too bad crypto people stained the "crypto" word (which was just a short form of cryptography). Fortunately the word "cypher" is unaffected.

Bitcoin treasury companies are not treasury companies Over the history of bitcoin, many people has reached the conclusion that bitcoin is where they should keep some/most/all of their savings. The same arguments apply not only to individuals, but to ANY GROUP with an economic activity as well -- be that a family business, a medium sized company, a city, or a country. These entities started saving in bitcoin later (mostly due to inertia and the slowly adopting legal/regulatory system). I expect this to happen more and more, as the natural progression of bitcoin. You may not like some of these entities, but that doesn't matter (bitcoin is for anyone), and coins will never run out (who want them more will get 'em). Treasury companies on the other hand -- and here I mean (Micro)Strategy and clones -- are a different, because they stack coins from the money of OTHER people and entities. In this regard they are more like the "send me a coin, I'll send you two" schemes. Even the name is a misnomer: if you buy MSTR for btc exposure, they stack coins from your money, so not from their own treasury. It's very important to distinguish companies stacking from their organic cash reserves and the debt-sucking investment machines. Be careful with the latter. They may have an accelerating effect on bitcoinization, but come with great risks.

All Nostr key holder apps should support multiple identities! Nostr has some strengths: 1. you can reuse your identity across apps 2. you can create multiple identities (for different use cases) Identity creation is easy, but switching between identities should be easy. as well Therefore all Nostr key holders -- signers (Amber), extensions, bunkers -- should be multi-identity. Unfortunately that's not the case for most extensions.

Bitcoin is money. Money is bitcoin. Let that sink in

Played around with needles&thread with the kids. I bet this beats the skills of most adults in the western world, sadly.

Today it's using bitcoin vs. using fiat. In the future everybody will use bitcoin -- it will be about using bitcoin in a sovereign way vs. through an institution.

I lost trust in the science establishment during covid. I still think that the Scientific Method is the basis of our civilization. But the scientific establishment is a whore to those in power.

hyperbitcoinization > paperbitcoinization someone pls make a catchy meme out of this

Most blocks on Ocean already use already a template managed by the miner and not the pool (using Datum). Bullish.

GitHub is giving free test build runs for open source project, they must spend a lot for all those servers running them. It's free and unmetered and conveniently integrated into the GitHub workflow. Now nice of them, isn't it? Is it though? Never underestimate the risk of GitHub (Microsoft) using its massive leverage against some open source projects. @Five

Confession: I mixed up Cove wallet and Cake wallet... COVE is relatively new, modern, simple mobile wallet (for now for ios but android is coming). Simple UX, but good HW wallet support. At BtcPrague, at the cake wallet stand I mistakenly thought that it's the same project. I was impressed that such a new project has a nice stand, I even accepted a free tshirt. I've realized later that they are unrelated, the latter is multi-coin wallet. So COVE is the one I'm excited about, not the other `C??e` :) #CoveWallet

GitHub

GitHub - bitcoinppl/cove: Cove - The simple bitcoin wallet

Cove - The simple bitcoin wallet. Contribute to bitcoinppl/cove development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ocean's DATUM is a quick'n'dirty hack to a real problem; it's a hack but it works, and one can relatively easily mine his own template in a pool with it. The Datum Gateway is written in old school C, and it's an unusal feeling that you can clone the repo, configure and build all in less then 30 seconds! Overall I consider it a positive development, however, in the long run I would put my bet on Stratum v2.

It was a letdown to find that

BitcoinTreasuries.NET - Top Bitcoin Treasury Companies

Track Bitcoin holdings of public companies, governments, and institutions. Live data on corporate BTC treasuries with real-time valuations.

doesn't show you the full list unless you log on with email. What a shitcoin! Furtunately a 10-minute temp email does the job. Plus, individual entity pages are show without login, if you have the link.

My Cashu.me PWA app keeps disappearing from time-to-time. I suspect it's due to some automatic update of the web browser component (vanadium, graphene). Is this common? Opening it in the browser shows my sats fortunately (all 800 of them), and I can put it back again to the home screen.

Aging and death is nature is not an imperfection. It's a crucial component of evolution. Without it, we wouldn't be here, we wouldn't even be single-cell protozoans.

The LONGEVITY freaks are some extraordinary bright people -- putting their energy and talent to the WRONG problem