london announced two things and the timeline mashed them into one. first, the exchange wants its own uk tokenised equity structures. that's lse trying to keep the share, the rights, and the register. second, payward/kraken will wrap the 100 largest london names as xstocks. 1:1. live in weeks on kraken and the alliance venues, about 110 countries. uk residents are locked out at launch. the token tracks the stock. it is not the stock. you hold a wrapper. london still holds the register. the screenshot everyone will post is "listing on lse 24 in 2027", subject to approval. lse 24 is not 24/7. it is 24/5 with a 30-minute pause at 18:30. the main market stays 08:00-16:30. we're now seeing european exchanges, and in the coming years globally too, push hours closer to 24/7. that tells me the future isn't tokenized assets. they're still very useful though for people who only have crypto wallets and don't want to mess with a broker account.

Bitcoin just ran 40% off the July low and stalled at the 50-week. that’s the line. lose it and every bull since 2014 was over. hold it and every bear was over. the 200-day doesn’t close this. 2015 ripped through the 200-day, died at the 50-week, then made one more low. 2018 still maps. feb low, slightly lower summer low, 40% squeeze into the same average. 5700 then. 57k now. 2022 did the same bounce and failed. midterm years print these rallies inside a bear. nothing new. july 1 is when accumulation started. q4 still gets a vote. october keeps showing up. a few weekly closes above the 50-week and i stop being careful. until then the low isn’t confirmed. not here to call the wick. 2027 pays this either way.

Brian Armstrong says tokenized assets are the next iPhone. Apple didnt predict Uber or Coinbase, the phone just made them possible. same pitch now for finance. the 24/7 part is already getting eaten. nasdaq goes 23 hours a day, 5 days a week from dec 6. sunday 9pm ET through friday 8pm, one hour pause. they already said the 9:30-4 session still sets the official price. we already have tokenized stocks trading when nasdaq is closed. ondo, xstocks, bstocks, coinbase on base. $29.5b in transfers last month on a ~$2.5b market. thats movement, not depth. when the primary is shut the book thins out. price still comes from nasdaq. the primary exchange always leads. tokenized assets do one useful job. they help people who dont have a brokerage and only have a crypto wallet. thats the product. not a new iphone.

There’s way too much begging on Nostr purely because of zaps. Some profiles actually deserve the sats, no question. But the ones that don’t? Absolute flood of them now. It’s getting ridiculous. Zaps will either become the best thing that ever happened to this place… or they’ll quietly destroy it long-term. On other platforms you can’t do something like this because even if they added payment methods between profiles the algorithm dominates and would catch them (not that bots don’t exist there too). It’s more controlled. On Nostr? Not at all.

Gm nostr fam Grok scanned the viral posts on X. 82% pure doom and FUD. When the timeline looks this bleak, crypto is usually near a bottom. Still see room for one more mini downtrend, then a longer grind sideways, and only later the real bull. Plenty of time left. The consolidation is where you want to be buying. Stop obsessing over the exact bottom and just DCA.

Gm Nostr ! Excited to go home and scroll Primal!

Nostr is at a real risk of dying a slow, quiet death. Right now it’s still overwhelmingly a Bitcoin room with better plumbing. Most of the energy, most of the big accounts, most of the long-form notes, most of the zaps — all orbit around BTC. That’s understandable. Bitcoiners built the early culture and they still care the most. But if that never changes, Nostr becomes just another specialized chat protocol that slowly loses relevance the moment the next shiny thing appears. Protocols don’t survive on tech superiority alone. They survive when different tribes start living there. Artists who got shadowbanned everywhere else. Journalists who refuse to play by corporate rules. Open-source builders who actually want to own their identity. Privacy people who aren’t already deep into crypto. Even the people who just want to talk about training, books, local politics, or weird niche hobbies without an algorithm deciding whether they’re allowed to be seen. If those groups never show up in meaningful numbers, Nostr stays a high-signal Bitcoin circlejerk with fancy cryptography. And circlejerks eventually get boring, even for the people inside them. The conversation stagnates. The same takes get recycled. New people look in, see only orange-pilled discourse, and leave. The protocol is already good enough. The real bottleneck is cultural. Are the current users willing to make space for topics that have nothing to do with Bitcoin, or will they keep treating every non-BTC note as noise? Because if the latter happens, Nostr doesn’t get killed by regulators or competitors. It just slowly becomes irrelevant. Curious what people actually think. Is this already happening, or am I being too pessimistic?

I was one of the first to get @Bitkey back when it didn’t even have a screen. Everyone kept telling me the multisig wasn’t something you could really trust because one key sits with the company. Now after the Coldcard mess I see Bitkey everywhere. Happy people finally started recognizing the actual security they’re buying with this thing. • real 2-of-3 that works without seed phrases and has proper recovery paths for normal life • company key only activates with time delays + notifications so you can still stop it • every unit is physically unique with the embedded chips, makes replacement attacks much harder The most secure way to Bitcoin

gm nostr from Halkidiki! Nowhere important to be today, except right here. ☀️🚤🌊

At first you play with crypto, staking, swapping, trading, all the shiny stuff. Then one day you realize all you really needed was Bitcoin. Just arrived at BTC Prague!

GM fam, Proof of sun. Proof of rest. ☀️ No charts today. Just taking profits in sunlight.

I’ve been mostly doing lump sum buys, but I’m switching to hourly Bitcoin DCA now. Not sure if it’s the right move, but I’m giving the steady approach a try. Tiny buys, steady hands. ⚡ Strike, for sure. @npub1ex7m...vyt9 @jack mallers

Still processing last night. Metallica live hits different. What a night. 🤘🔥 #metallica