For a few years now I've published articles in Bitcoin Magazine. Let's be charitable and call some of my content learning in public! For a long time they did retain a pleb culture with their submissions, which does deserve some credit. Now though, it feels like time to move on. @Matthew Kratter has spoken at length on this recently, and he rarely misses. I'm also going to ditch Medium entirely and post previous content to Nostr and habla.news, sharing half of any zaps with relays. Here is a link to my first transfer - a look at the book "How to Be Idle" and how it embodies many of the same principles as Bitcoin. References to @Jeff Booth @preston #dominicfrisby View article →

One difference between Twitter and Nostr is that likes from people who follow don’t appear on your feed, and given this is a more common action than a complete repost, it makes it harder to chance across further content and accounts to follow. I’m guessing this is because of the nature of how nostr operates with relays? #asknostr In a way though, what I’d value more than seeing likes, is seeing other notes my follows have zapped, adapting the old Taleb maxim to be something like “don’t tell me what you like, show me what you like that much as to zap it with sats”. Might be missing something but is this possible on some apps? (Using primal)

When it’s finished, 21 ways might just turn out to be greatest Bitcoin book of all, based on what’s written of it so far. Albeit it looks like a very low time preference project so might have to wait for a while! View quoted note →

This is a grubby price comment made with regret, but we’re far nearer $100k Bitcoin than most people think. Why? It’s about 44% higher than present price. The last bill run saw 44% higher than prior ATH broken through in days after ATH breakthrough rather than months (and this equated to a price of approx 27/28k back then)

Still largely ignoring! View quoted note →

Interesting to see MSTR go back to raising money via convertible notes again. The devil will be in the detail, but the current high share price presumably allows them to sell them to the market at a pretty high conversion price. This utility for the holder then still serves to reduce MSTR’s interest burden compared to issuing a regular bond. #mstr #microstrategy

Pray for the shorts 🙏 still 20% of them out there. #MSTR

I don't normally repost memes, but.. View quoted note →

Received a very credible looking phishing email from #swan #swanbitcoin re the launch of a Swan token. With news of their foray into Bitcoin mining, this would only be a few steps further and it’s better than most of these types of emails - some will fall for this I imagine. I’m not a Swan customer but more fool me I guess for at some point giving up my email alone - here in lies the general KYC honeypot problem. Anyone else had this email? #asknostr

@Anil great article. The world of Bitcoin is a soap opera in itself. If that’s fun and entertaining, fine, but if not, tune out for a bit. https://www.teachingbtc.com/depression

“Yeah, well Bitcoin is still miles off its all time high” Which is more remarkable then - $65k zero yielding Bitcoin when you can return 1.9% per year on the 30 year treasury (75% return compounded), or $35k zero yielding Bitcoin when you can return 4.75% risk free per year over 30 years (300% return when compounded). The bond market has already spoken. #plebchain

The Guardian in the UK or the WSJ - who has the worse Bitcoin coverage? 🤢 Being British I'm going to place a vote for the Guardian - on the basis of no comments ever allowed on any of these articles (unusually) and the following snapshot of two years of Bitcoin linked material... #plebchain