MonkBitcoinson
Monk Richardson

More than happy to help! A lot of people have fallen for Core's outright lies, and it pains me to see so many people say with a straight face things like "it's censorship to not allow strangers to send 100 kb of data to your own personal computer".
Send anybody who has questions my way, I'm not claiming to be an expert but I have all the time in the world to try help people understand this stuff, at least to my own level of understanding.

2026-02-06 21:08:51 UTC

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Well, by 'longest chain' I actually mean 'chain with the most proof of work behind it'
The way I worded that made it sound wrong, my bad, it doesnt just need to be more blocks its more overall PoW. But if anyone is mining on the bip-110 chain it does pose an existential threat to the other chain forever more.

2026-02-06 20:54:24 UTC

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Yeah it's a soft fork, meaning it is a tightening of rules.
That means:
Our chain is technically valid to core nodes
Their chain is not valid to our bip-110 nodes.
Now from a miner's perspective, why would you ever risk mining on the chain that can be deleted if it ever falls behind the bip-110 chain. All your work and rewards would be deleted. (Also there's the side risk of mining a CSAM block and having a legal nightmare, but people don't like to speak about that for some reason).
Basically, if the majority of the miners do not comply with bip-110s rules, all we need to do is chug out 1 difficulty adjustment worth of blocks, difficulty will become way lower, it will be much easier to churn blocks out on our chain, we will overtake their chain. Any foolish miner loses like a month worth of mining rewards.
I'm not sure I'm the best at explaining things but hopefully I've done an okay job

2026-02-06 19:47:23 UTC

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Also you're right 'economic nodes' is meaningless propaganda

2026-02-06 19:46:25 UTC

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If there is a hardfork, it would be core forking, ie going: Ok, this other non-spam chain is just invalid to us - even if it gets longer than our chain at some future date.
This bip is just bitcoiners tightening rules around a loophole from taproot. There's no reason not to run it and mine blocks on it, its ludicrously risky for miners to mine on the other chain that has a permanent existential threat as long as our chain exists alongside it. All their mining work can be wasted if that happens, unless some lunatics hard fork as I mentioned.

2026-02-06 11:36:04 UTC

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Thank you for your rating.

2026-02-06 11:35:28 UTC

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Have you considered that the ones trying to force through changes that are unprecedented and that vast amounts of bitcoiners don't want may be the ones brainwashing you?

2026-02-06 11:12:43 UTC

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You have possessions left?!? 😉😂

2026-02-06 11:11:56 UTC

If you're running knots but not BIP-110, let me know why in the comments. I can't understand how someone can arrive at that posturing.

2025-11-21 15:50:50 UTC

Praying this is the start of the bear market down to $10k 🤞🤞

2025-11-20 18:01:30 UTC

Why are people selling me their sats so cheap? Sure I'll take em off your hands 😂

2025-11-17 15:34:28 UTC

Now that bip-444 has been put out there, you should be able to tell that "We hate spam as much as you!" was a lie.

2025-11-17 10:26:04 UTC

Bitcoin core30 is malware that tricks your computer into accepting and relaying 100 kb files of data. Incredibly reckless to run! Be careful out there folks

2025-11-17 08:26:38 UTC

As of block 924,000
95% of the bitcoin supply that will ever be mined, has been mined.
Huge milestone 🎉

2025-10-20 20:57:33 UTC

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See.

2025-09-12 15:21:41 UTC

Knots adoption going parabolic.
Suck it spam loving core cucks.

2025-09-12 07:57:50 UTC

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Source: Clark Moody Dashboard.
Also I'm unsure if all these new nodes are legit or if someone is playing games.

2025-09-12 07:55:58 UTC

1000 knots 29.1 nodes came online overnight. Combining both knots releases now adds up to more nodes than Core 29.0.0!
Well done, you're on the right side of history. Don't ease up the fight now.
CORE 30 KILLS BITCOIN THE DAY IT IS RELEASED.

2025-09-09 07:20:25 UTC

If you've never run a node before, simply take your beat up old laptop and:
Go on bitcoin knots github
Press lateat releases
Install the package relevant to your OS.
Run the application.
Open the config file and write: prune=2000
Let it sync (may take ~1 week)
This is a huge first step and will show you that running a node is not difficult at all, and my bet is that you'll be running a full node after doing this just for fun and out of your own curiousity.

2025-09-09 07:17:19 UTC

For years we've told gold bugs that other non-monetary uses of gold are actually an impediment to it's function as money.
Nows the time to show that we believe that with bitcoin.
datacarrier=0

2025-09-09 06:48:12 UTC

I no longer have doors on my car.
The thief can always just smash the windows and get in, so doors are pointless.

2025-09-07 18:00:15 UTC

Upgrading to Core 30 kills bitcoin. It's as simple as that.
We have case studies of bitcoin forks making the exact change Core are forcing through. It ended up with illicit material in the chain instantly.
Migrating to Knots is more than just a virtue signal, it's showing core that they can't fuck with our money, and that NODES ARE IN CONTROL.
If you're running Core you're voting that miners are in control, and that nodes must bend over backwards to accommodate their ever increasing demands.
This is so obvious by now, tbh I'm appalled that Knots is only at 18% and not 80%. I thought bitcoin was a community that could see through bullshit and do simple logic.
#runknots

2025-09-06 15:45:17 UTC

The coinbase insolvency blow up will be epic. No one's coming to save you. Protect yourself - you and only you are responsible for yourself.
Cold store your sats in a coldcard in the meantime, and start learning how to use geographically distributed multisig.

2025-09-06 15:43:46 UTC

In case someone lied to you, bear markets will still be a thing in the future.
Train your mind not to care about the price of dollars in sats, think only of the price of the goods you wish to obtain in bitcoin.

2025-09-06 15:40:13 UTC

Would people benefit from me making small tutorials on server running, node running, and self sovereignty/privacy in general?

2025-09-06 15:39:24 UTC

If you're not running your own node and asking it about your own transactions, you've never used bitcoin.
You wouldn't use nostr by asking your friend that has it to post something everytime you want something posted - and that's just something trivial. Why are you doing it with your money, the most important thing of all.

2025-09-04 12:03:41 UTC

The rate of block download during IBD once you get to around block 800k should be reason alone to filter OP_RETURN.
If you're unsure how, simply put this line in your bitcoin.conf file:
datacarrier=0
Nodes cannot become expensive/cumbersome to run, or bitcoin is just an even worse ethereum.

2025-09-01 11:56:32 UTC

What are some excuses you've heard made for not running a node?
Comment below!

2025-08-31 11:10:21 UTC

The best way to orange pill your friends is to simply send them some bitcoin to a simple custodial lightning wallet that they can download on their phone, then 5 years later tell them to check the balance.
When they see that "it's gone up 10x"! explain to them that it hasn't, they have the same number of sats; it is actually the dollar that has gone down to one tenth of it's former value.

2025-08-29 16:56:16 UTC

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No problem, I'm glad I was able to help!!

2025-08-26 20:40:00 UTC

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Yes, since both your incoming and outgoing connections are over the tor network, your IP is hidden.
Tor sends encrypted data from your machine to a first tor node, which can see your IP but not the data, then to a second which decrypts, then a third which knows the data but not your IP, and then that node is the broadcaster which foreign machines will see. In this way no one individual node knows all information.
Bitnodes can see your node because the IP is being forwarded, this will allow an external probe to detect your node. If you want it to not find it, try putting
listen=0
In your .conf file. I believe that should stop it.

2025-08-26 20:09:05 UTC

I want to help as many people as possible get a node running
Ask me anything!

2025-08-26 07:52:30 UTC

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Go and play with ethereum

2025-08-26 07:34:02 UTC

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Anyone touting that nonsense is incredibly naive and would enjoy the shitcoin world far more than the bitcoin world. Go and play with little toys we're actually trying to obsolete the central bank over here.

2025-08-26 07:32:16 UTC

Bitcoin core is malicious software that strips your rights to tune YOUR node how YOU like.
Be smart. Run knots.

2025-08-24 12:00:40 UTC

Those of us who have been here longer than a decade actially understand what our nodes are written to do.
Filter any shit that isn't pure necessary monetary transaction data.
If you're running core I'm certain you must've showed up in 2021 or 2025 with all the cucks who want to chase fiat gains.

2025-08-24 10:46:11 UTC

Anyone apologising for or rationalizing spammers is either being paid by shitcoin scammers or is a naive cretin.

2025-08-24 10:45:03 UTC

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Stop apologising for people that are actively trying to destroy our one attempt at decentralised money and stating this as their intention. You are unimaginably naive.

2025-08-23 13:48:25 UTC

Set up a local economy with your family and friends where you settle among each other with lightning.
The path to destroying the central bank is to just make them obsolete.

2025-08-23 06:51:15 UTC

There are currently more than 21 million 'bitcoin'. Not on the blockchain, in people's various custodial wallets.
If you're all using a custodian 21 million is not enforced. You can throw your 'digital scarcity' argument out the window.
Everyone needs to use bitcoin how it was intended to be used.

2025-08-22 08:45:15 UTC

The difficulty adjustment is the only metric that matters.

2025-08-21 17:29:47 UTC

You're still worrying about the price of dollars in bitcoin? Really?

2025-08-20 07:00:07 UTC

Yup 👍
https://image.nostr.build/e93e071911c6e61ab70ac9b33ed3c16d690d8e4e1a17f574d8a60f59367ba1d0.jpg

2025-08-19 19:24:37 UTC

Bitcoin is PEOPLE, not an autonomous network. That's why the only way to kill it is to alter the MINDS of the PEOPLE that defend it.
Any serious attack on bitcoin will start on the cultural level.
Be prepared for them and VEHEMENTLY oppose them.

2025-08-19 12:57:58 UTC

Spam fucktards are now resorting to character defamation as their argument for why we need spam relay.
Are you paying attention? Let them make their bed and lie in it.
https://image.nostr.build/a4fe821fea1baf2675cc1988453181d60b63a66fc25d6cf7be32d3b33a7ef83d.jpg

2025-08-18 20:49:21 UTC

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Don't expect to be blessed with freedom just because you hold bitcoin; you have an immense responsibility to act with diligence and combat hostility wherever it rears it's head.
Right now the problem is bitcoin core and the rotting of bitcoin cypherpunk culture.
This also extends to the financial sector adopting bitcoin. You'll get people that just don't get it at all try to sell you their MSTR and MSTY and STRK and whatever other nonsense.
Remain diligent and understand the mission.

2025-08-17 21:26:20 UTC

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The UTXOs are definitely never going to be spent, known as 'provably unspendable', so can effectively be forgotten about by a pruned node. A full node would still store them on the other hand.
A new node syncing will check through everything including the provably unspendable utxos, but once verifying the transaction information eg signatures etc, it will remove the data from memory.

2025-08-17 20:56:35 UTC

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From a 1 dimensional viewpoint, what you said is true. However both are still available whether you nuke the OP_RETURN filter or not.
Bitcoin is money, and the idea of facilitating and accommodating spammers is the most anti-cypher punk thing I have ever heard. Any type of spam can be mitigated with a filter, don't be gaslight to believe otherwise. It's just one game of whack-a-mole we need core to play here.
Keep learning man, you're doing the work that most won't bother to do 💪

2025-08-16 15:06:14 UTC

Block 1,000,000 is well under 2 years away.
If I live a long and healthy life, I might live to see block 4,000,000 get printed.
Really puts things in perspective.
TIME is the truly scarce commodity.
Spend it wisely with those you love, and don't waste it on grudges and arguments.

2025-08-16 09:45:49 UTC

No serious bitcoiner can be running bitcoin core.
Trust has been betrayed. It needs to be dissolved in it's current state.

2025-08-16 07:11:35 UTC

Your daily reminder to run knots
I WILL NOT let shitcoiners turn my money into an art gallery of dickbutts.

2025-08-16 07:09:44 UTC

The pressure is off. You no longer have to be a part time investor. You have good money.
Life will be so good on a bitcoin standard, our current fiat brains can't even comprehend it.

2025-08-15 16:59:57 UTC

Bitcoin is a nascent dialect of the language of money, spreading around the world like wildfire.

2025-08-15 14:22:32 UTC

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Thank you, good luck in yours brother 🤝

2025-08-15 13:46:11 UTC

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I'm very suprised to hear it on Nostr of all places. There are no examples of monopolies ever existing without an authoritarian government structure. Looking forward to his rebuttle 👍

2025-08-15 13:42:13 UTC

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False. A competitor can always copy a company's process and compete to make the product cheaper. The only thing preventing this are government decrees and government issued patents etc.

2025-08-15 13:40:14 UTC

Friends don't let friends use a custodian.
Friends don't let friends use someone elses node to check the utxos in their address.
Friends don't let friends run a node implementation that is actively trying to spam their money ledger database.
Be a good friend.

2025-08-15 13:37:28 UTC

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A monopoly cannot exist without coercive control; coercive control cannot be maintained without government.

2025-08-15 13:29:40 UTC

You know your normy friends who have ethereum and solana on coinbase?
Please help them run a bitcoin knots node on an old laptop, even if it's pruned at first.
Install sparrow wallet software. Write up a transaction, sign it, propogate it to the network.
Doing this for the first time is an other-worldy experience, and will surely turn them to maxis.

2025-08-15 07:20:54 UTC

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Yes 100% agree. If you're running core and not Knots, you are facilitating the monero-ization of bitcoin.

2025-08-15 07:19:40 UTC

Nodes are the bosses.
NOT the miners.
This can never be forgotten; if it is, we lose bitcoin.

2025-08-15 07:18:58 UTC

Imagine listening to a bunch of screeching children and rainbow flag dickheads at bitcoin core over using your own fucking head 🤦‍♂️😂😂

2025-08-14 20:14:47 UTC

Bitcoin Core flipping from one rationalization for spam to another and being debunked by Luke and Mechanic time and time again should tell you everything you need to know about what implementation to run.

2025-08-14 18:36:27 UTC

The US government are not buying bitcoin.
Music to my ears.
If you wanted them to buy it's because you're a high time preference, fiat pump chasing cuckold.

2025-08-13 10:44:23 UTC

FRIEND DON'T LET FRIENDS RUN CORE.

2025-08-13 10:44:10 UTC

How dare you not trust the experts! Run Core like a good little boy.
The infestation of core with children and high time preference bad actors will kill bitcoin unless you act now.
Spread this message far and wide.
Friends don't let friends run Core.

2025-08-13 08:58:21 UTC

https://youtu.be/4al3Cum_cPY?si=cuopJuz1kLASuUl5
Run Knots or all your HODLing will have gone to waste.
We didn't let shitcoin scammers beat us in the 2010s and we WILL NOT LET THEM BEAT US NOW.

2025-08-12 16:36:20 UTC

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It's worse than that. They have no issue destroying the only workable money to lift the third world out of poverty and severly hamper wars worldwide jusy to make a quick million dollars for themselves. They are sick sick people.

2025-08-12 16:32:02 UTC

When Coretards try to argue with you, simply answer them:
What exactly is your issue with me using a node implementation that is almost exactly the sane as core, but allows me to change things if I want to.
They want it so that your node does only what they say. This is not about what's best for bitcoin, it's about what's best for lining their pockets with shitcoin sponsors.

2025-08-12 16:10:37 UTC

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You do realise no one's going to use Core 30 when it drops lmao. Core are so out of touch. Can't wait to wipe the smirk off of all these smug genius computer scientist devs faces

2025-08-12 16:00:58 UTC

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Have you realised you are Core's little cuck subject?

2025-08-12 11:57:34 UTC

Patiently awaiting the next fake scare like covid to sell all my belongings for bitcoin...
Anyone else?
My guess is it's some form of fake cyber attack, but my tin foil hat is fairly tight...

2025-08-12 09:37:39 UTC

Ground yourself everyday without fail.
This means walk around barefoot on the Earth (grass, dirt, sand) for ~15 minutes.
It will boost your mental strength 2x

2025-08-12 09:36:35 UTC

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Yeah if you install knots and ensure it doesn't save to the same place as and wipe the current core files you have, you can transfer the blockchain data over. The file structure is the same, knots is 99.99% the same as core - just has additional toggles!

2025-08-11 17:57:24 UTC

I can't wait for the shitcoins of this cycle ("Treasury companies") to fall like dominoes.

2025-08-11 14:02:07 UTC

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Could you tell me more about your set up?
Most of the time you just need to download the knots implementation, and copy the blockchain data over from the directory associated with your core node to the correct place in your new bitcoin knots files.
If you have something like umbrel OS or start OS, this is even easier, you just 'pause' the bitcoin core node app, download bitcoin knots. It should figure out what to do itself.
Please don't hesitate to ask me about anything that doesn't make sense!

2025-08-11 08:18:57 UTC

https://youtu.be/FMZ_aqm2pQM?si=qk0N286Q8aSM4CHm
Do not fall for Core's shit. The time to change to knots (or set up a node with knots if you don't have one) is now.

2025-08-10 14:45:54 UTC

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Great! Beings hands on is the best way to learn 😃

2025-08-10 14:45:13 UTC

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Bitcoin knots is a node implementation. It allows users to configure their mempool policy 👍

2025-08-10 13:26:52 UTC

If somebody wants to run a node but it's not currently financially viable to them.
Contact me, I'd be happy to help out a new bitcoin knots runner.

2025-08-10 13:25:18 UTC

If you're not paying for the product.
YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.
Become a sovereign individual.

2025-08-10 11:28:38 UTC

Why shouldn't you sell your bitcoin when hype is high to buy back lower?
Simple
One time, it will not be possible to get back in.
Either no one with bitcoin will accept dollars, your government will crack down and make it incredibly difficult and expensive to get in, or your fiat will simply be frozen, expire, or be controlled so that it can only be spent on verified goods.
DO NOT play the game.

2025-08-10 10:49:14 UTC

Bitcoin knots needs to 50% of the nodes yesterday.
Nothing about what Core are doing is ok.
They could be making the best most beneficial change in the world - if they FORCE it on users, THAT IS NOT OK.

2025-08-09 18:55:26 UTC

Make your friend run a node.
Pay for their hardware
Hold their hand through it.
Bitcoin CANNOT fail. Humanity depends on you.

2025-08-08 16:37:10 UTC

Nostr is full of real bitcoiners. I feel my work might be required more elsewhere. Trouble is no normies will listen to my advice on becoming a sovereign individual.
I have to open up a terminal? Too scawy 🥺

2025-08-08 08:15:33 UTC

Admit it, you're just here for number go up.
You're NGMI if so.
You will get shaken out of your lifeboat seat.
If you own any shitcoins or 'bitcoin treasury' scams, this is you.
Study up and become a sovereign individual.

2025-08-07 07:45:15 UTC

If one satoshi is held custodially, there is NO 21 million cap.

2025-08-07 07:44:47 UTC

I know that a lot of you find this hard to hear.
But we need Strategy and other people using a custodian to get RUGGED, or bitcoin will DEFINITELY fail.

2025-08-06 14:00:32 UTC

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He is actively destroying the 21 million cap by using a custodian, meanwhile poisoning the culture by calling node runners 'paranoid crypto-anarchists'. I'm sorry but Saylor fanboys do not get bitcoin.

2025-08-06 08:24:16 UTC

Michael Saylor is net negative for bitcoin.
Argue below.

2025-08-06 07:53:26 UTC

We need another wave of:
"See, you NEED to run a fucking node."
NEED not SHOULD
I wanna see a fuck ton of people get scammed with their paper bitcoin.

2025-08-03 16:06:26 UTC

You are my enemy if you hold bitcoin with a custodian.
You are actively destroying the 21 million hard cap.

2025-08-03 09:49:53 UTC

Beginners often perceive starting a node as more difficult than it actually is.
If you're beating around the bush with regard to starting your own node: I implore you it is so easy.
To start, just to whet your appetite, take an old laptop, download bitcoin knots and begin syncing the network with a pruned node.
This will take you minutes to set up, and will inspire you to go all the way and run a full node (storing the entire blockchain).
Even if you don't, your pruned node is better than nothing.
I promise it's so so easy and so fulfilling.

2025-08-02 18:00:31 UTC

Use this weekend to change your core node to knots. The usability of layer 1 depends on it.
Layer 1 will be a ghost town in 5 years if you allow core to shit all over it.
It will no longer be feasible for plebs to run a node on cheap hardware .
What are 85% of you noderunners not understanding?

2025-08-02 08:40:57 UTC

If you're still running core you are a shitcoiner. Go and play with ethereum.

2025-07-30 19:25:11 UTC

Love it when the work I do earns me more sats because high time preference cucks bought dollars with their bitcoin 😂😂😂😂😂

2025-07-30 13:44:21 UTC

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You and me both brother!

2025-07-30 09:49:49 UTC

But strategy keeps buying! How is price going down.
If this is you you're a crybaby.
...Because more people bought dollars with their bitcoin than bought bitcoin with their dollars.
Simple economics.
Try pricing houses in bitcoin, or cars in bitcoin, or holidays in bitcoin, or hardware wallets in bitcoin, or food in bitcoin. You can live in this deflationary world and ignore the dollar if you simply choose to.