CONTINUUM MEMORIALS AND MILESTONES Permanent memorial and milestone inscriptions on Bitcoin Some moments deserve more than a place in a passing social-media feed. After the recent loss of Whiskers, our beloved dog of more than 16 years, I created my first permanent Bitcoin memorial inscription for him. I then created inscriptions honoring Champ, my father, James A. Stanton, and my mother, Daphne C. Chun. These inscriptions don’t replace an obituary, memorial page, photographs, or the stories we share. They do something different: each short message becomes part of Bitcoin’s public record. The inscription can be independently viewed and verified, and it does not depend upon my maintaining a website or social-media account. This can commemorate more than a life that has ended. It could mark a birth, wedding, anniversary, graduation, the opening of a new business, or any milestone you believe deserves a permanent inscription. For $21, you choose a short message—generally up to 80 characters—and I will record it in a Bitcoin transaction. I will provide the transaction ID and a link to mempool.space, a public Bitcoin block explorer, where the transaction and its OP_RETURN inscription can be verified. If there is a person, pet, occasion, or milestone you would like to commemorate, please message me. Here are the inscriptions I have created: WHISKERS May 4, 2010 - Sept. 5, 2026 FOREVER LOVED Verify the inscription on Bitcoin:

The Mempool Open Source Project®

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CHAMP May 4, 2010 - June 2011 A SHORT LIFE, FOREVER LOVED Verify the inscription on Bitcoin:

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JAMES ANDREW STANTON MARCH 18, 1937 - SEPT. 29, 2025 BELOVED HUSBAND AND FATHER Verify the inscription on Bitcoin:

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DAPHNE C. CHUN AUGUST 7, 1941 - JULY 4, 2011 BELOVED WIFE AND MOTHER Verify the inscription on Bitcoin:

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Whiskers passed away just over 48 hours ago. It hurts less each day but it still hurts like hell.

Whiskers May 4, 2010 - Sept. 5, 2026 FOREVER LOVED

I’ve been thinking a lot about reciprocity, respect, and basic etiquette on Nostr today. I recently went through the personal npubs I follow. If someone didn’t follow me, I unfollowed them. I went from following 600+ accounts to about 295—almost exactly the number that follow me. This isn’t about ideology. In fact, I follow people with whom I strongly disagree, sometimes on very important things. If they treat me with respect and there is some basic reciprocity, I’m perfectly happy to hear what they have to say. Nor do I think anyone owes me a follow, reply, zap, repost, or anything else. But the reverse is also true: I don’t owe anyone my attention simply because they’re prominent, have a large following, wrote a book, built something useful, or are considered important in Bitcoin or Nostr. To me, a social network should be social. If someone follows you, regularly replies to you, quotes you, reposts you, or otherwise takes an interest in what you’re saying, occasionally acknowledging that person is basic etiquette. You don’t have to agree with them. You don’t have to become friends. You certainly don’t have to respond to everything. Just recognize that there’s another human being there. What increasingly repels me is the influencer model: thousands of people are encouraged to follow, repost, zap, listen, and engage, while recognition flows primarily toward a small inner circle. That may be how someone chooses to use Nostr. That’s their prerogative. But I don’t have to participate in it. I’d rather have a smaller social graph containing people who disagree with me but recognize me as a fellow participant than follow hundreds of “important” people with whom the relationship consists entirely of me listening to them. You don’t have to agree with me. Just treat me like a human being, and I’ll try to extend the same courtesy to you. That’s the kind of Nostr I want. And yes, I had AI help me craft and organize this note. I use AI as a tool to help me express what I’m thinking more clearly, and I’m not ashamed of that either. The thoughts and judgments are mine. If you disagree with that—or with anything I’ve written here—so be it.