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2025-10-28 00:13:24 UTC

meaningful relationships + meaningful work = well-being & good life

2025-10-27 05:42:30 UTC

nature can generate persistent, structured rhythm as a purely quantum phenomenon arising from particle correlations; rhythm that classical physics cannot predict and that exists without any energy cost.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/dc2s-94gv

2025-10-12 16:28:13 UTC

Pain is temporary. Memory is selective. Your brain is already working to forget the bad and amplify the good. Let it.

2025-10-08 14:02:17 UTC

Amazing to see the Square bitcoin banking & payments launch. From early conversations in Feb/March to today, this team’s execution was exceptional. Proud of the team and all their hard work.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251008033341/en/Square-Brings-Bitcoin-to-Main-Street-With-First-Integrated-Payments-and-Wallet-Solution-for-Local-Businesses

2025-10-05 17:53:49 UTC

orange leaves. orange pumpkins. orange coin. ₿
https://blossom.primal.net/f9ebfde0299631d58cf93c8185a9de92de88bfe2ea829868fe679ca0ef1b0742.jpg

2025-10-04 14:34:54 UTC

He’s gone full orange bitcoiner.
https://blossom.primal.net/ddb94fc13b4c2e207811bef6d2f01cb7504a622005fbe318f12db2e82214cd35.jpg

2025-10-02 04:08:14 UTC

within 21 days an ai operated lightning node goes from 0 to top 3.5%. 👀

2025-10-02 01:31:17 UTC

politics is the art of looking right. markets only care if you are right. confuse the two and you become obsolete.

2025-09-28 03:43:48 UTC

Noise: win or lose.
Signal: the next move.
Be ready.

2025-09-27 00:36:38 UTC

The knife always comes from the blind spot.
In crypto, it’s a backdoor.
In life, it’s betrayal.
Politics = PoS with masks.
But karma = rep ledger.
Trust compounds, then nukes fast.
The paranoid aren’t afraid, they’re ready. 🫡

2025-09-24 04:40:49 UTC

claude code w/ 32k “ultra think” still locks into tunnel vision. better: spawn independent sub-agents + fuse. parallel > deeper. worth a read: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04475

2025-09-20 05:53:59 UTC

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let’s do it again… 10x

2025-09-20 05:52:53 UTC

block is for ₿uilders
https://blossom.primal.net/36a29d87756f87da95b0df2c00693cd0d1364de7748c3873150bb704f01cbcf2.jpg

2025-09-19 19:43:42 UTC

don’t seek validation from others. credit is in the outcome.

2025-09-19 19:41:44 UTC

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credit is in the outcome 🎯

2025-09-15 02:18:50 UTC

a peer-to-peer network of ai agents allows direct economic exchange without trusted intermediaries. cryptographic proofs enable autonomous commerce between machines at negligible marginal cost. the system requires no central authority.

2025-09-11 03:50:08 UTC

deep reflection: reading bezos’ last letter. he quotes dawkins on biology’s first principle with everything trends toward equilibrium. toward sameness. toward death. organisms work against this. they maintain difference. temperature gradients. chemical imbalances. information asymmetries. this work is life.
companies do the same work. markets pull toward commodity. toward normal distributions. toward efficient equilibrium. staying different requires constant energy expenditure.
democracy isn’t normal. free speech isn’t normal. open protocols aren’t normal.
decentralization isn’t normal. they all require active maintenance against entropic forces.
the world wants you typical. wants your company typical. wants your platform typical. a thousand small forces pulling toward the mean.
“be yourself” isn’t inspiration. it’s thermodynamics. it’s the work required to not dissolve into surroundings.
bitcoin is work against monetary equilibrium
nostr is work against information gatekeepingsquare is work against financial exclusion
the work never stops. when it does, temperature equalizes. the organism dies. the company commoditizes. the mission dissolves.
differentiation is survival. and survival is work.

2025-09-10 13:28:26 UTC

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what is a better alternative?

2025-09-10 04:57:24 UTC

i didn’t plan to buy a new phone and now this… #bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/7d8fd2ff3fcf29db5362c32a8d63d9cb00672d88cb7250655fbe38bb350cdf2e.png

2025-09-06 00:43:37 UTC

put a bad apple in a basket of good apples and the whole basket rots. put a good apple in a basket of bad apples and it rots too. choose your basket wisely.

2025-09-04 00:46:41 UTC

playing with gpt + debt data. numbers say more than politics.
https://blossom.primal.net/20c290dcd416b9b81eb45e2d1b1f4428c2c54575a5d7665190a98e182284b56b.png

2025-09-02 04:42:58 UTC

journaling while… https://music.apple.com/ca/album/stardew-valley-festival-of-seasons/1831635023

2025-09-02 04:20:40 UTC

our lives aren’t defined by central authorities or collective mandates. our lives are the sum of our individual choices. we are masters of our own fate. nothing is written by power brokers or institutional controllers. the future we want comes from voluntary cooperation, individual freedom and personal sovereignty… not centralized control.

2025-08-25 00:20:04 UTC

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wow... nice!

2025-08-23 17:21:18 UTC

real beauty is simplicity

2025-08-19 13:54:23 UTC

bitcoin keeps evolving beyond a store of value. it’s driving microtransactions, crowdfunding and cross-border payments.
it’s set to be everyday money with square accepting it for payments. can’t wait.

2025-08-19 05:00:32 UTC

bitcoin is the only thing you can actually own. everything else is permission.
your bank account: permission
your house: permission
your stocks: permission
with bitcoin:
no one can take it
no one can stop it
no one can debase it
property rights aren’t granted. they’re verified. every 10 minutes. forever.
this fixes everything

2025-08-18 19:37:55 UTC

permission isn't ownership

2025-08-15 13:51:04 UTC

proof of beauty ⛏️
https://blossom.primal.net/954ad306d8234d9d06cd4309a72433a887463f6298c76df1c7e5d95c4313ff83.jpg

2025-08-09 06:08:15 UTC

stop playing chess when no one else is even at the board.

2025-08-03 05:52:52 UTC

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👀

2025-07-29 23:05:22 UTC

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🔥

2025-07-29 05:22:58 UTC

Ten days after GENIUS: The $28 trillion reality only few talk about
In the ten days since Trump signed the GENIUS Act, I got more questions about this topic than all last quarter. Same question: "How fast can we move on stablecoins?"
Here's why people are panicking:
Deutsche Bank dropped a bombshell: Stablecoin transactions hit $28 trillion last year. More than Visa and Mastercard combined. The market's grown 45x since 2019, from $5B to $232B.
The yield ban is the feature, not the bug: By prohibiting interest on payment stablecoins, Congress created crystal-clear product segmentation. Payment rails vs investment products. No more regulatory grey zones. Your Venmo doesn't pay interest either because payments and investments are different beasts.
Tether's $163B pivot changes everything: They're building an entirely new US-specific stablecoin. Not upgrading USDT, starting from scratch. Why? GENIUS makes their global product essentially non-compliant for US users. The world's stablecoin market is splitting: compliant America vs wild west everywhere else.
The MSTR speculation: Saylor's sitting on 600,000+ BTC worth $71B. What happens when he launches a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin? No Treasury backing needed - just 150% BTC collateral and smart contracts. GENIUS just cleared the path.
Big Tech needs banks now: Amazon can't launch WalmartBucks without a banking partner. One paragraph transformed every bank from disruption target to necessary partner. JPMorgan's already ahead with JPMD on Coinbase's Base; tokenized deposits, not stablecoins.
Your competitors are asking:
- Which stablecoins to integrate? (USDC leads in the US; USDT leads international)
- Partner with a bank to issue our own?
- How to rebuild treasury for instant settlement?
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Bessent projects $2 trillion in stablecoins "soon". That's $2 trillion in forced Treasury buyers. We invented a machine that turns global dollar demand into US debt purchases.
The paradox? Stablecoins aren't Bitcoin's enemy, they're its Trojan horse. Every company integrating stablecoins is one API call from Bitcoin payments.
The 12-month implementation window isn't a grace period. It's a race. In five years, not using stablecoins will be like not using email. The GENIUS Act didn't regulate an industry. It legitimized a new financial operating system.
What's your strategy - build, partner or watch from the sidelines?

2025-07-27 19:07:39 UTC

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🎯

2025-07-26 16:50:59 UTC

“tyranny of the prevailing opinion” can be more oppressive than any censorship

2025-07-22 22:24:38 UTC

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it is important for bitcoin to mature into a medium of exchange. we are on track to make the transition to everyday bitcoin payments…
#nevent1q…c0lj

2025-07-22 02:59:44 UTC

working with an incredible team to make bitcoin everyday money a reality. block by block…
https://block.xyz/inside/policies-to-unlock-bitcoin-as-everyday-money

2025-07-19 03:23:53 UTC

the only stable thing in the digital world is bitcoin’s block reward schedule. everything else is vibes.

2025-07-15 13:32:47 UTC

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🔥

2025-07-15 13:31:15 UTC

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🧘

2025-07-14 04:22:41 UTC

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actively working on it and it planned to come later this year. will soon follow up with an update.

2025-07-01 16:08:46 UTC

consider: what would make the next 10 years feel like the best decade of your life? do that.

2025-07-01 07:23:01 UTC

🇨🇦

2025-06-19 23:02:18 UTC

🧘‍♂️
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TPFs2E4kzOI

2025-06-15 06:47:23 UTC

focus
https://blossom.primal.net/765d4bf63c09265886577e35795004bd01e94b9e9f595de211530378ed899da7.jpg

2025-06-15 06:43:31 UTC

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https://m.soundcloud.com/yeah-yeah-yeahs-official/spitting-off-the-edge-of-the

2025-06-15 06:37:33 UTC

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🫶 been thinking about this lately too. great song

2025-06-14 03:22:45 UTC

bitcoin: crazy idea → trillion $ infrastructure
nvidia & ai: crazy idea → trillion $ infrastructure
imagine inspiring futures, be crazy enough to believe & push relentlessly.
inspired by the nvidia keynote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9cHONwKkn4

2025-06-14 00:56:30 UTC

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🤣 glad you having fun

2025-06-05 03:46:14 UTC

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during social recovery setup, your bitkey app encrypts the key that protects your phone key using your friend’s public key; not the phone key itself. only their device can decrypt it.
here’s the flow:
1) you invite a trusted contact
2) their bitkey app generates a public/private keypair
3) their public key is sent to your app
4) your phone key is encrypted with a random symmetric key (called PKEK)
5) that PKEK is encrypted using your friend’s public key
6) both encrypted blobs are stored in your cloud account
7) their private key stays on their phone (optionally backed up to their cloud, never to block!)
during recovery:
1) you install bitkey on a new phone and log into your cloud
2) you contact your friend (to be clear... they don’t get any automatic alert)
3) they enter a 6-digit recovery code into their bitkey app
4) their app decrypts the wrapper and returns the symmetric key (PKEK)
5) your app uses it to decrypt your phone key
6) now you’ve got 1 of your 2 keys, you can use delay & notify with new hardware to recover full access
so yes: the encryption key for your phone key is encrypted to your friend’s public key, only their device can unlock it & only when you ask. block never has your key, doesn’t see your seed and only facilitates communication between apps.
tl;dr: you choose who can help you recover. no seed phrases, no backdoors, no one else in control.
this doc might help if you want to go deeper into how it works: https://support.bitkey.world/hc/en-us/article_attachments/33164661348500
anytime... happy to help...

2025-06-05 03:03:04 UTC

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bitkey can’t move your funds. even in recovery. bitkey uses 2-of-3 multisig: phone key, hardware key and block’s server key. block holds just 1 key. that’s never enough to spend.
to your point @nprofile…g0wv "if you lose your bitkey, your phone or both, it can still recover your funds..."
yes - but only with your participation. every recovery path requires a key you control or a process you initiate. here’s how:
cloud backup: your phone key is encrypted and stored in your cloud. it can only be decrypted using your hardware. if you don’t tap the device, nothing happens.
delay & notify: if you lose hardware or cloud, you can trigger recovery with the remaining key. block notifies you over sms/email for 7 days before co-signing. if you didn’t request it, you cancel it. without your key and time-based consent, recovery fails.
social recovery: if both keys are gone, your trusted contact helps decrypt your backup - but only after you prove your identity to them and they manually assist you. again, block server can’t act alone.
emergency kit (break glass): stored in your cloud, lets you bypass the app entirely. sideload the recovery tool, scan the encrypted backup and tap your hardware. it’s your key, your device - not block’s.
block can’t move your bitcoin on it's own. i hope this helps...

2025-06-04 05:28:57 UTC

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🫡

2025-06-04 00:32:25 UTC

want to use claude sonnet 4 in goose now -> workaround with custom model "claude-4-sonnet-20250514"

2025-06-03 04:13:32 UTC

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@nprofile…08fs what does this mean? ... oh wait... ;-)

2025-06-03 04:11:56 UTC

high ego walls you off, low ego connects. one craves worship, the other truth.

2025-06-01 04:04:08 UTC

#seedphrases vs. #bitkey: tradeoffs, not tribes. #bitcoin gives you keys. everything else is a choice - and all choices come with tradeoffs.
“seedless” 2-of-3 multisig. some call it safer. others call it a regression. here’s what’s actually true 👇
seed phrases aren’t sacred - they’re just one encoding of private key material.
satoshi’s original wallet didn’t use them. they were introduced later for portability (bip39) - not because they’re the only secure path. they’re human-readable, but also human-volatile.
seed phrases shine in 1 domain: minimizing third-party exposure. store a seed offline, generated locally, unlinked to your identity and you’re resilient to 6102-style confiscation (state-level seizure). you can bury it, memorize it, cross a border with nothing but your mind.
but most people won’t. in real world:
- seed phrases get saved in cloud notes
- they’re stored in drawers or on usb sticks
- they get lost in moves, fires or floods
- they’re leaked during inheritance
- or simply forgotten
you trade government resilience for personal fragility.
bitkey’s flips that tradeoff.
- no seed phrases
- no 1-of-1 single points of failure
instead:
- 2-of-3 multisig across phone, hardware, and a server key
- recovery tools built in (cloud, delay+notify, social, break glass)
- no single compromise = loss of funds
you don’t memorize entropy - you coordinate recovery.
what you gain with bitkey:
- protection from accidental loss (most common failure mode)
- built-in redundancy - lose 1 of 3 keys, still recover
- anti-coercion (wrench attacks): hardware + server never co-sign together
- no fragile paper backup to lose, leak or mishandle
what you trade:
- not 100% offline sovereignty
- recovery requires access to a device, hardware or cloud
- extreme scenarios (block disappears + you’re locked out of apple/google + lose hardware) require break glass process
so is seedless safer?
the honest answer: for most people, yes.
- most users won’t properly protect a seed
- most users will lose access to a device eventually
- bitkey is designed for recoverability, not perfection
for others - hardcore airgappers, border crossers, anti-state operatives - a properly managed seed may still rule. but it comes at a high cost: extreme discipline, custom tooling and constant opsec risk.
bitcoin isn’t religion. it’s freedom of choice.
some will keep using coldcard, trezor, seedsigner - and they should.
others will use bitkey - and they’ll be safer than with nothing or a half-remembered 12-word phrase.
a bigger self-custody pie helps us all.
what matters is this: self-custody doesn’t mean you memorize your keys.
it means you hold them.
bitkey does that - just with better defaults for the next 100 million customers.
choose what works for your threat model. respect others models too. cheers!

2025-05-31 20:35:12 UTC

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🐐

2025-05-31 04:34:09 UTC

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great feedback. thank you

2025-05-30 12:43:32 UTC

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this is great. well done terry

2025-05-29 18:27:21 UTC

math and code: universal truth, baring reality’s core

2025-05-29 06:22:03 UTC

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why not bitkey?

2025-05-28 12:50:40 UTC

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thank you for sharing. interesting, do you mean something like https://squareup.com/us/en/app or a web version?

2025-05-28 05:40:22 UTC

politics obscures truth. bitcoin or culture: ideology halts progress. reason over tribes. ship for customers. usage decides.

2025-05-27 23:13:43 UTC

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🧡

2025-05-27 22:01:49 UTC

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love your work @walker . would love to hang out at the conference. let me know

2025-05-27 17:31:08 UTC

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💯

2025-05-27 16:09:53 UTC

we make bitcoin everyday money
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/block-bitcoin-checkout-vegas.html

2025-05-26 16:34:11 UTC

“failing” at 80% is better than “succeeding” at 30%

2025-05-26 06:04:30 UTC

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see you at the event?

2025-05-26 05:57:38 UTC

soon…
https://blossom.primal.net/66b40c9c89db9b919ed7920d9aa51054e8f1c0096cac6bb447ff03a205da3802.jpg

2025-05-26 03:21:24 UTC

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see you at the event!

2025-05-25 05:46:29 UTC

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would love to learn more. why do you think so?

2025-05-25 04:51:00 UTC

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what’s the conclusion?

2025-05-25 01:47:45 UTC

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nice! 21 min window is very interesting

2025-05-20 03:29:34 UTC

what if satoshi was an artificial intelligence? #storytime

2025-05-17 22:51:36 UTC

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for context: the server is the only one that can co-sign after the wait. this tradeoff limits attacker power but creates risk in edge cases like full block unavailability. a 2-of-3 wallet protects against loss and theft but not both at once. will think a bit more about what our options are without breaking the principle that this must stay secure and that block can’t act on its own.

2025-05-17 22:34:47 UTC

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if block’s servers go offline before the 6-month inheritance delay ends, the server can’t co-sign the sweep - so the process stalls. unless the inheritor already has 2 of the 3 keys (e.g. phone + hardware), funds are stuck. break glass only helps if the inheritor already has access to the hardware device and the mobile key (via the cloud backup + break glass kit)

2025-05-17 19:18:42 UTC

ran an experiment with an llm yesterday to understand how it would react if it were a life form with bitcoin (energy), compute (metabolism), nostr (communication), zaps (growth) and the llm itself (intelligence/control). the last two responses were interesting that sparked interesting conversation with @nprofile…3ec2
https://blossom.primal.net/3b0f9c18269348d1bddca907a9a599b82e97434dd60b4acfef3aa0fbb1c794fd.png

2025-05-13 21:35:36 UTC

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first release -> chessthinkers.org
grateful for feedback
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2025-05-12 03:21:54 UTC

vibe-coded a chess web app for my son to learn, play against ai and challenge me locally; doing the same for go next. will open source and share it for free soon. he loves it so much i caught him playing past bedtime haha
https://blossom.primal.net/2bd501c4bb09d6966fc7eb20d0088a126eaffda3c37f09d72924532aff4bd4af.jpg

2025-05-05 22:36:03 UTC

~10% more nodes in the past year → increased decentralization and self-sovereignty
https://blossom.primal.net/41e91a2e46211db72719e30fef726d5e70021504451c1f1a69db7b3782aab48d.png

2025-04-30 04:29:29 UTC

one purpose: make bitcoin everyday money

2025-04-30 04:16:17 UTC

bitcoin has achieved over a decade of 99.99%+ uptime - no reboots, no centralized failovers, no downtime since 2013.
a globally distributed system reaching deterministic consensus every ~10 minutes, secured by thermodynamic proof and open-source minimalism.
this is software engineering at its finest.

2025-04-20 15:18:31 UTC

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goose and lovable. cursor mainly when i debug larger codebases.

2025-04-20 14:25:11 UTC

square. backend. systems. i know them well. as a fullstack engineer, i've always built world-class backends while struggling with ui. always felt incomplete.
ai changed everything. now i build complete products world-class in every area, on my own. backend and frontend. systems and experiences. built an e-commerce platform in a weekend. integrated with square. fast. beautiful. 10x less cost than woocommerce.
this is what ai enables: complete creation. from concept to customers in days not months. the addiction is real.
the feeling of building end-to-end world-class products alone is powerful. hard to stop when you can finally make the complete vision real in days.

2025-04-17 05:48:33 UTC

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protocols >> platforms

2025-04-12 13:09:45 UTC

if you ain’t learning fast and growing every day, you’re already falling behind

2025-04-10 05:09:46 UTC

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thanks. fixing the mobile layout.

2025-04-01 23:01:26 UTC

🔥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PaV_6vjkXI

2025-03-24 14:03:01 UTC

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thank you! will look into it and see how this fits into our current roadmap. btw we're considering how to be more transparent about our roadmap overall as well. appreciate your input! 😊

2025-03-20 04:01:22 UTC

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if you are the parent, you are not the one having vacation ;-)

2025-03-19 04:01:32 UTC

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great discussion. lots of things to consider and think about. thank you!

2025-03-09 06:59:02 UTC

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from what i learned visa is mostly invested in solana and stablecoins for b2b

2025-03-09 06:51:18 UTC

is 2025 when the first major us player makes bitcoin payments - consumer and merchants - available to the mass market? make some noise and we'll see what happens ;-)

2025-02-27 01:26:55 UTC

bitcoin is freedom. bitkey makes self-custody simple. hardware + app. inheritance feature live now! true ownership belongs to everyone.
https://bitkey.build/inheritance-simplifying-the-transfer-of-bitcoin-to-future-generations/

2025-02-22 05:18:48 UTC

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if someone doesn't believe in nostr or don't get it, i don't have time to try to convince them, sorry.

2025-02-22 04:58:54 UTC

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congratulations to a new brave world

2025-02-21 04:42:45 UTC

information wants to be free but lives in chains. our task is not to own but to free - to manifest the virtual into the actual. abstraction is liberation.

2025-02-13 21:35:04 UTC

Thank you @nprofile…pzcu for having me at @PresidioBitcoin - such a wonderful bitcoin builder space! @nprofile…26jm
https://m.primal.net/OehU.jpg

2025-02-09 01:16:04 UTC

bitcoin engineering bitcoinjob
head of lightning at block
https://block.xyz/careers/jobs/4499388008
senior staff engineer to build next gen payment rails
https://block.xyz/careers/jobs/4408046008
flexible about location within canada or usa #remote - repost and share. hit me with questions if you have any. we have more jobs for operations and product management as well. will post them soon.