I have been deeply entrenched in Bitcoin since 2018 when I first got orange-pilled through watching antonopoulos videos. Through those first videos, I started forming my own thought experiments and challenging the ideas behind Bitcoin's economical and philosophical notions, further sending me deeper into the rabbit-hole before being absolutely convinced Bitcoin was a revolutionary answer. This was in 2020, when I was able to proudly declare I was a Bitcoin "maxi". Since then, I had been constantly researching and studying Bitcoin, applying my knowledge to keep myself secure along with the minimum of contributing to the decentralization of nodes by spinning up my own. However, after a while information became stale and a lot of videos I was watching were starting to become repetitive. I realized I wanted to become more involved in Bitcoin. In 2024, I had been actively applying for jobs that were Bitcoin-only companies. I unfortunately never got accepted. I was fine with that, since my fiat-paying job was cushy enough to supply me with my stacking. But I get more and more restless each day, as I feel like I am not living aligned to my ideals and philosophy. I want to apply as well as amass more knowledge in Bitcoin and contribute more than what I can right now. I realized I don't have a resume or a portfolio to neither showcase my passion nor expertise (at least compared to the general public). I am considering posting and writing about Bitcoin in substack (anonymously) which would hopefully serve as some kind of resume as I continue to job-hunt within this field. I am also looking for suggestions if anyone can. Thank you.

Now that Bitcoin has finally reached a new ATH, you will see an influx of grifters and thieves and a lot who claim that they have believed in Bitcoin early on. Never let your guard down. I have gone submarine mode and when asked by people IRL (which I foolishly tried to convert in the prior cycle), I just claim that I had liquidated my stack a long time ago and am no longer involved. During discussions among people about Bitcoin, I no longer offer mine. And when asked, I feign nonchalance and say it seems to be doing well because of Trump. Best to remain silent. Reduce your attack vectors, please.

There will come a time when even brain-wallets are not safe. An aggressive actor can force electrical nodes into your brain and extract information.

Hopefully someone has an answer to this : Will running a full node also include all the jpeg ordinals? Like if someone does a forensic on your node, will there be jpegs saved on to your system?

I notice a lot of people posting jpegs liberally. For the sake of privacy, try to scrub the image of metadata.

What would happen if there is a 1602 on the BTC held by the ETFs?

On that note : What happens during the advent of Quantum Computing? Since the cryptography right now is not quantum secure, will this mean a compromise of the Bitcoin network?

I was hanging out at the r/buttcoin in reddit to see how they were reacting to BTC hitting new ATH in mcap, and was met with a question that I pondered myself : What does Bitcoin provide when stocks can provide dividends, part ownership of a company that provides real goods & services. There are a lot of ways to answer for the above but for me : Bitcoin is digital truth. Bitcoin is the ONLY ledger (via solving the Byzantine's General Problem) that is agreed upon by ALL the participants. It forces accountability and integrity because it cannot be lied to. You expend infinite energy to lie and twist reality and fight to keep it that way. Bitcoin is feeding off these free energy. The longer the fiat fraud, the stronger Bitcoin will become. And then it will swallow everything and become the new standard to measure every goods & services. The funniest thing is if our Centralized Overloads were never fraudulent, we would have never needed Bitcoin. Bitcoin is unavoidable accountability, the light that shines on the darkness that the fradulent try to hide under. And I hope they keep fighting and keep lying and keep trying to hide their wrongdoings. They think they are smart by trying to get Bitcoin under their control via the ETFs. The hubris. They will only realize when it is too late, that Bitcoin will lay bare all their lies, and stupidity, and arrogance. The fiat overloads think they can be God, they think they can control Nature and Truth, twist it and use it for themselves. That is the definition of the Devil. They will lose, Truth always prevails since all you need to do is to open your eyes. Thank you Satoshi, you enlightened me. I am never selling, my Bitcoin brothers. LFG.

Just trying Primal on Android. I am not sure how all of this works, just jumping on after Jack Dorsey said we need to get on nostr.