The world is ignoring Bitcoin right now. Price is within about 1% of what it was 6 months ago. In the same time the US 10 year has increased 150 basis points. 🤯 Like one of those episodes of Mad Men where you think to yourself - nothing really happened. And yet plenty happened.

Just followed up on something which has been in the back of my mind for a while now. I’ve been off twitter for over 6 months now. #bitcoinactuary I had around 2,100 followers - not bad, I told myself, though I didn’t ever have huge engagement on most tweets. Around 1,500 of those follows came from one Saylor retweet alone. Now that the option to verify is there, I’ve been wondering - how many of those are now paying users? Here’s the brutal truth from my followers - 62. The rest are either refusing to pay, or not real people. I suspect a chunk of both - but neither suggests I left too much behind.

Trying to set up zapplepay on Damus using Alby wallet and just getting an "error:something went wrong" message. Any ideas? The connection string I'm trying from Alby starts lndhub and ends //ln.getalby.com - is that correct format? #zapplepay #asknostr #alby

@jeffbezos welcome to NOSTR! This is probably obvious to you, but if you really are Jeff Bezos and want to prove this then the crucial step to show that would be a message of your public key on any other social media or medium that you control. If you don't do this you'll just be seen as an anon with a penchant for zapping chunky amounts of sats - also fine!

Keep up the great work @walker - yet another, maybe, but I really like this one. News round up easily as good as castle island before Nic Carter snapped and Bitcoin only into the bargain. View quoted note →

Kind of wish I’d had Bitcoin around in my twenties. Not from some kind of price appreciation point of view, but because it would have helped me get my priorities straight a lot lot quicker.

When you know, you know.

Just read this passage in “What technology wants”. Thanks #[1]​ for the recommendation. Does the description below remind you of anything? Surely Kevin Kelly must be a bitcoiner..

When I look at the tether latest I can’t quite think of that old (mafia?) quote “if I’d have known how hard it was going to be, I would have gone straight” Even just 3% on $70bn is more than $2bn a year profit.. perhaps it’s easier just having the reserves actually there after all 😆 #plebchain

So so true.

Wow. No Words Wasted. 🎯 “Being an enemy of a technology is a fairly dumb way to waste your time, because you’re not in charge of whether a technology is adopted at any meaningful scale.” Natalie Smolenski

#[0]​ Hi Preston - loved your conversation with Kevin Kelly - one of the most interesting podcasts I’ve heard this year and everyone should check that out. I’m interested especially given his comments on time preference and decentralisation - what does he make of Bitcoin?

Seeing a lot of hate on here for ordinals, given the current mempool. I have no love for ordinals, but the market will decide if they have any value, and it’s a long long road. At absolute worst, see them as a type of denial of service attack on the mempool, that causes transaction fees to rise - for now at least. Could that ever be a meaningful attack? I doubt it. Tick tick, next block. Chomp, chomp, chomp…