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2026-07-03 14:25:27 UTC

Bitcoin's success is all but guaranteed over the long term. The math is sound, the distribution and control is decentralized, the economic incentives are strong, and the need is great. I've made predictions in the past, they turned out incorrect. I think the failure is trying to put Bitcoin into predicted specific outcomes when it should be looked at more elastically.
Bitcoin is on the path to some day bring the world into a new age of energy abundance. Not just in creation and usage, but in storage as well.
Do things, don't do things, the end result of global Bitcoin dominance will still occur according to cause and affect.
Focus on your family, your health (mental/physical), and defend your future by building your stack enough to be ready for anything.

2026-06-05 13:44:40 UTC

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Stealing this.
#nevent1q…vkr7

2026-05-07 04:36:25 UTC

https://www.blocktrainer.de/blog/wtf-happened-in-1971-die-katastrophalen-auswirkungen-von-ungedecktem-papiergeld

2026-04-24 00:51:13 UTC

Today I paid Bitcoin for dinner.
A local food-tent made me a chicken quesadilla and a beef burrito.
The sending app was aqua wallet, over the lightning network, to square.
After paying I tipped a 1/2 Idaho Goldback that I bought with Bitcoin, which the kids absolutely loved.
Paid my bill with digital gold, tipped in physical gold. I just got a taste of the new Bitcoin and Gold Standard, and it was glorious.
This is digital cash, use it as such.
This post is not sponsored.

2026-04-22 12:41:33 UTC

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Bitcoin or slavery.
#naddr1qq…u3ua

2026-04-13 14:42:39 UTC

Pro-tip. Don't have the new prebiotic sodas more than once a day. Very uncomfortable bloating will result until you pull your head out of your ass and realize that the discomfort you're feeling is indeed bloating and that the prebiotics in the sodas are the cause...
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2026-04-12 19:11:25 UTC

Bitcoin is mathematically enforced scarcity relative to time and energy and whatever value society gives those things at the time.
Over time energy prices tend to go down, but the amount of energy competing for Bitcoin goes up on average more than the value falls, coupled with a programmed reduction of block subsidy output against time every 210k blocks, and you get near certainty that over the decades the value of Bitcoin will grow against everything else humanity produces.
As you begin to truly understand this and find you have enough sats to live slowly, meaningfully, frugally, uncompromised on the hardest and most honest money, I would suggest stacking silver coins from your largest local mint. For those of us in the United States this means old silver coins from pre-1965 and new Silver Proof coins minted from 1992 onward.
These coins often have no premium, if you pay attention you'll often be able to find them at or even below their current silver melt value meaning they are treated as nothing but the raw metal in terms of market value. Become familiar with the various methods of verifying the coins you receive for true silver content, understand the look of copper-clad vs silver coins by checking the edge, understand the difference in how they sound when dropped, and how they feel when held.
To have savings that bring true peace of mind, you have to make your savings real. Holding real physical silver coins, and even gold for those stackers with truly substantial holdings, truly feels magical and connecting to a time in history when society used quality money in everyday commerce.

2026-04-12 18:43:01 UTC

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I guess I don't understand your point, do you disagree?
I'm talking about this specific scenario: hyperinflation in paper, no internet access and I need to pay my bills at home. In this scenario I can't access my Bitcoin at home, it doesn't matter if it's hard to travel with substantial silver or gold holdings because I'm not traveling. And if I am traveling it's to somewhere that I can access the internet (and thus Bitcoin) I don't need to worry about the difficulties of traveling with metal as I'll have access to funds when I arrive.

2026-04-12 15:24:23 UTC

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Silver and Gold would be good to have in this scenario, as a backup.

2026-04-05 19:09:10 UTC

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People who agree that money should be sound and who don't understand digital Gold so they instead save in physical Bitcoin are alright in my book. Need to build bridges not insult allies.

2026-04-04 15:28:18 UTC

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Are these images real? With all the corruption, conspiracies, photoshop, and now AI capabilities... IDK. But they're beautiful images none the less.
#nevent1q…56c5

2026-03-19 16:38:32 UTC

Most days for me be like.
https://blossom.primal.net/48ca3133e731be8dc8b4c1dd2812a79c9837e1909d06074215cc85dc7fc0ff20.jpg

2026-03-19 16:33:49 UTC

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I think it's the fact that there's no algorithm. If I post there's no weight to my posts, I'm just thrown in with every other post and I get buried unless they look around the time I post or check my post history directly.

2026-03-19 13:11:37 UTC

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I have over 800 followers allegedly and usually I get 0, 1, or 2 interactions lol.

2026-03-18 20:54:39 UTC

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Number 1!
https://blossom.primal.net/02a34dc41fa68d7a992b06a7a17497d9f9eac07ccff13fe86d3b7e347af18b84.gif

2026-03-18 14:45:02 UTC

United States Dollar, Physical Models Released for circulation:
Original Gold Dollar:
1/20.67 Troy Oz of Fine Gold. Minted in denominations of $1, $2.50, $5, $10, & $20.
Source of value:
Gold composition.
Dates:
1795 - 1933 (de jure end of circulation).
Issuing entity:
The US Mint, Department of the Treasury.
Current status:
Discontinued.
Original Silver Dollar:
0.77344 Troy Oz of Fine Silver (16 to 1 ratio with Gold).
Source of value:
$1 face value tied to 1/20.67 Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1933, and 1/35th Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1971, underlying supportive value from Silver composition.
Dates:
1794 - 1935 (de jure end of production, de facto end of circulation).
Issuing entity:
The US Mint, Department of the Treasury.
Current status:
Discontinued.
90% Silver Fractional Dollar:
Mostly made with 0.72 Troy Oz of Fine Silver per $1 face value.
Source of value:
$1 face value tied to 1/20.67 Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1933, and 1/35th Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1971, underlying supportive value from Silver composition.
Dates:
Minted for circulation: 1796 - 1964.
Minted for collectors of Silver Proof sets: 1992 - 2018.
Issuing entity:
The US Mint, Department of the Treasury.
Current status:
Discontinued.
40% Silver Half Dollar:
Mostly made with 0.32 Troy Oz of Fine Silver per $1 face value.
Source of value:
$1 face value tied to 1/35th Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1971, underlying supportive value from Silver composition.
Dates:
Minted for circulation: 1965 - 1970.
Issuing entity:
The US Mint, Department of the Treasury.
Current status:
Discontinued.
Federal Reserve Note:
Cotton linen blend.
Source of value:
$1 face value tied to 1/20.67 Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1933, and 1/35th Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1971, 1972 to present fiat value comes from face only (backed by debt).
Dates:
1913 - Present.
Issuing entity:
Federal Reserve Banks (former) and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (current).
Current status:
Circulating.
Copper/nickel/zinc fractional and whole dollars:
No standard of composition.
Source of value:
$1 face value tied to 1/20.67 Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1933, and 1/35th Troy Oz of Gold by fiat until 1971, 1972 to present fiat value comes from face only (backed by debt).
Dates:
Penny: 1793 - 2025 (Discontinued).
Nickel: 1866 - Present.
Dime: 1965 - Present.
Quarter: 1965 - Present.
Half Dollar: 1971 - Present.
One Dollar: 1971 - Present.
Issuing entity:
The US Mint, Department of the Treasury.
Current status:
Circulating.
As of 2026 with Gold around $5000/Oz, the modern paper and copper dollars have 1/242nd of their 1792 - 1933 value and 1/143rd of their 1934 - 1971 value and falling.
Going from 0.0484 Troy Oz of Gold per $1 in 1933, to 0.0002 Troy Oz of Gold today. A loss of 99.6% in less than 100 years.

2026-03-18 13:10:18 UTC

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#MEIRL
#nevent1q…yc9s

2026-03-18 13:09:54 UTC

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How did you get a picture of me on here?

2026-03-18 12:58:41 UTC

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Wish I could get my normie liberal friends who go to protests to understand this.

2026-03-18 12:53:51 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/b6ea35f9997c9a277de4b1b9b0b58b7ddab11ef4e0933c4988d985256bca2a93.gif

2026-03-17 01:00:50 UTC

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This is 🔥
#nevent1q…msr4

2026-03-16 19:44:33 UTC

Don't worry so much.

2026-03-16 17:51:46 UTC

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I'm done with them. They don't own me.

2026-03-16 17:50:42 UTC

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Fascinating how Brian still doesn't get it after all these years. Go ahead and stack fiat treasuries by focusing on fiat stablecoins. Sigh.

2026-03-16 17:46:31 UTC

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It's a very vulnerable thing to post not only when we're doing well but when we're not. 🫂 Things will get better.

2026-03-16 13:49:49 UTC

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Says one of the most followed people on NOSTR 😂.
Doesn't make it not true though.

2026-03-16 13:48:39 UTC

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Indeed! Y'all may be be a cooky bunch, but you're my kind of cooky bunch and it's good to be here. 😎
#nevent1q…laet

2026-03-16 13:47:06 UTC

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Very well put. 💯

2026-03-16 13:46:29 UTC

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LMAO

2026-03-16 13:46:16 UTC

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#DiamondHands #HODL 😂
#nevent1q…pa7m

2026-03-15 13:37:00 UTC

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Love it when ad 2 of 2 finishes and then another ad plays. 🫠

2026-03-15 13:35:59 UTC

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Decentralized and secure. 💪
#nevent1q…pef3

2026-03-15 13:20:58 UTC

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RIP George.

2026-03-15 13:20:39 UTC

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RIP George Carlin.
#nevent1q…ul4j

2026-03-15 13:11:56 UTC

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Why would you post less than 0.000001% of the digits of pie?

2026-03-14 21:33:03 UTC

,there ArE nO ruLeS

2026-03-14 19:50:26 UTC

The Egg - A short story by Andy Weir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
https://blossom.primal.net/f6aed6ea4f3b4bb4de77c3684b52d9f4a795b466bcdab297c6058a09ed816fd9.mp4

2026-03-14 19:45:03 UTC

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#nevent1q…z5vx
https://blossom.primal.net/5d5a19e66112e3f7caff87b62818a2a7bcdf922101d596a8137a30231bb3522c.mp4

2026-03-14 18:18:21 UTC

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A free mind and imprisoned body, is preferable to an imprisoned mind and free body.
I don't work for anyone that I don't choose. I don't belong to anyone other than my chosen family. I am a peaceful individual, and I do not support liars and thieves that take from us in order to pay those that kill us.
The more authoritarian and murderous those in power become, the more my resolve grows to resist. Not openly, not suicidally directly, but in every indirect and private way I can. Avoiding theft through inflation by choosing to save in Bitcoin is the first and biggest step, the second is becoming invisible by reducing expenses and living life without grandeur. This avoids the attention of the worst of those among us, and allows one to be among the most free people on earth.

2026-03-14 17:36:21 UTC

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#nevent1q…cdfp

2026-03-14 17:30:04 UTC

To own Bitcoin, is to be a Shepherd of value.

2026-03-14 15:58:00 UTC

It was declared illegal to refuse to pay taxes to Caesar, but where is Caesar now and when was the last time you paid taxes to him? When was the last time that declaration was able to be enforced?
At another time it was declared illegal to refuse to pay taxes/tithes to the Holy See, but when was the last time that was able to be enforced?
Those who proclaim authority over others will always declare it illegal to refuse them the rent they seek from you, but if they cannot enforce it then is it really something worth worrying about?
Call their bluff, make them work for their theft, do not become your own tax collector. They have no authority over you, the only power they have is the power people let them have. Even the smallest delay is a form of effective resistance to tyranny, and time is on our side.

2026-03-14 15:44:07 UTC

I do not believe in the gods of the state.

2026-03-14 15:42:43 UTC

Your attention is your life energy. Your attention is value.
Only give value to things that give you value in return. Things that demand you give them value without anything in return, do not benefit your life and should be ignored.

2026-03-14 15:34:01 UTC

Goldbacks don't compete with Bitcoin, they compete with the paper dollar.
Gold in any form devalues against Bitcoin faster than paper devalues against Gold, they're not even in the same game.
But there's something unique to seeing a growing amount of physical Gold and Silver monetary units in your possession, whether coins or Goldbacks, that just scratches an itch that digital wealth can't reach.
Physical value makes wealth real, wouldn't it make sense that those who command the most digital value end up accumulating the most physical value as well? All humans do is coordinate the movement of various forms of matter and energy around the physical world, Gold and Silver are a part of that coordinated movement.
Bitcoin is the galactic center, everything else simply orbits it.

2026-03-14 15:25:06 UTC

In the last 10 years the United States mint has produced copper coins with a total cumulative face value of roughly $9 - $10 Billion.
During the same period of time the M2 money supply has increased by $10 Trillion. Meaning in the last decade only $1 out of every $1000 has been produced in actual copper coinage, 0.1% of all new dollars were made of physical metal.
Copper may not be silver or gold but it is still a metal that was used as coinage throughout history, it is harder to create than paper or digital fiat, and I enjoy spending it far more than I enjoy spending any other form of the dollar other than old silver when a small business or individual decides to accept it.
In 1933 we lost the circulating Gold Dollar, in 1935 the production of the whole circulating Silver Dollar, in 1965 the circulating 90% Silver Fractional Dollar, 1971 the circulating 40% Silver Fractional Dollar, and in the future we will lose the circulating Copper Dollar / Fractional Copper Dollar just like we just lost the Penny.
If I'm forced to spend fiat, I will spend copper as much as I can, paper after that, and card only when dealing with large purchases where cash and coin have been made impractical. But I will do my best to go to businesses that accept sound money in any form, to spend money is to create it and introduce it into the economy so the better the money you can use to do that the better the economy will become.

2026-03-14 15:03:52 UTC

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Both. The mental shift occurs gradually in everyone, but it will happen to everyone given enough time. I think the Satoshi will be the unit of account for a time, before it too becomes too valuable to be used in that way practically. I think one day Bitcoin will evolve increased divisibility, perhaps the halving will be modified to be endlessly occurring and alongside each new halving a decimal will be added to increase division.
Every halving causes the cost of Bitcoin to double in terms of time, given this it's only a matter of time until the increased value from each halving adds up and makes increased division necessary. The Bitcoin network of today may one day look antiquated to Bitcoiners of the future, in the same way the Turing Bombe computer looks antiquated to us today.
It will change in ways we can't predict, it will evolve organically into new forms and perhaps it will experience hard forks that spawn children that are not shitcoins but instead symbolize different generations of Bitcoin that if successful will be able to coexist. I don't know what will happen for certain, but I know Bitcoin is still a baby that has yet to mature. When fully mature everything will be different, the world will look alien, and Bitcoin will become humanities economic foundation for centuries if not millennia.

2026-03-14 00:56:17 UTC

One day, some respectable amount of time from now, 1 Satoshi will be worth more than what 1 Bitcoin is now.

2026-03-12 13:37:49 UTC

The government is controlled by people who traffic, rape, eat, and taxidermy children, their goons are disappearing and murdering people in the streets, bombing and murdering children in foreign schools, and sending billions to their friends while cancelling food stamps for millions.
But don't forget to be your own tax collector for them, report all your Bitcoin transactions and calculate the capital gains taxes, compared to the forever war enabling and endlessly printed devaluing dollar, which you self report and send to the IRS. If you don't you'll be committing a serious crime.

2026-03-11 13:50:24 UTC

Bitcoiners support all forms of sound money. This isn't a battle between Metals and Bitcoin, it's a battle between all forms of fiat and all forms of Sound Money.
I just ordered some of the new Idaho Goldbacks, killer designs with Lady Justice and Sacagawea!
https://blossom.primal.net/c8ef07105178df2078d24b340979ad5dc235f0929f24a043e190cb4767d97402.mp4

2026-03-10 22:44:32 UTC

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Great work Daniel! People are starting to have less FUD about bitcoin's environmental affects thanks in no small part to your efforts.

2026-03-09 13:23:02 UTC

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@nprofile…kclk This note won't show up in the Primal app as a part of my feed. It shows up in the Web browser though.
#nevent1q…fkwj

2026-03-07 20:44:46 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/56aced1611f3b11b61b6735d0905e6a6e0b83ad05963f93cc106a5edb14ed0eb.mp4

2026-03-06 04:41:46 UTC

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Guess I just felt like posting more than I have the last few years (average of less than 1 post a year the last few years). But the post being censored quickly reminded me what Facebook is, I'm back to not using it again 😂.

2026-03-06 02:12:32 UTC

Shared this video on Facebook only to have the post not even show up on my timeline when I went to look at it.
Being censored for posting this felt so surreal.
Here's the clip:
https://youtu.be/tN-aTVkI5W0

2026-03-05 01:39:47 UTC

For the first time I read the Apology of Socrates this last week, in the middle of it the following statement stood out to me:
"What do they say? Something of this sort: That Socrates is a doer of evil, and corruptor of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state"
The gods of the state.
What is a "god of the state" exactly. Are not the gods worthy of being placed on circulating coinage? They were in ancient Rome, the coins of the Republic featured the faces of the Pantheon of Rome. When the Republic fell to Julius Caesar, he was the first to have his face on his coin while he was still alive. That evokes power.
But the emperor's of Rome did not want it to seem like the city was conquered, but liberated. They wanted the people to believe "Rome" survived a troublesome time, just under new leadership.
They kept making coins, but with their faces on them instead of the Pantheon. Functionally declaring themselves gods. This is where we get the term "God-Emperor", because the emperor's declared themselves living gods.
The empire over time developed into a religious theocracy under the Catholic religion, having originally started out as a Republic it transitioned into a God-Emperor theocracy it became a religious dictatorship where the emperor was the head of the Church. Instead of a god, he was closest to God. This still evokes power.
Eventually though, the collapse of the government was also the collapse of the coinage as everytime the government couldn't pay it's bills it dipped into the savings of it's people by reducing the silver content/value of the coins as they were issued.
The coinage of the United States started out very much the same, honoring only the Pantheon of America. Namely Lady Liberty, who ruled along side Lady Justice in the courts of law. The only things that mattered to Americans, being "Liberty and Justice for all". Opposite Lady Liberty on our coins was the majestic eagle in the seal of our country and our original non-theocratic motto "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of many, One) proudly displayed on the coin. To show we were united in Liberty, even though we were all independent states.
But over time the dominant form of the dollar changed, and instead of Lady Liberty being on the front as was always the case on our Constitutional Silver and Gold Dollars, our paper dollars instead featured the gods of the state. Namely the God-Emperor presidents, and the paper dollars became so popular they eventually became dominant and the US Mint switched to dead presidents on it's coinage as well. After replacing the Liberty herself with dead men, it replaced the guardian of Liberty - Gold/Silver - with copper and paper.
Our coinage is how we do business, a dead coinage is a dead government. As the dollar is slowly replaced by digital versions of it, such as "Bitcoin-backed dollars" (apps paying dollar denominated bills with pure Satoshis over the lightning network), the government slowly becomes the slowest issuer of new exchangeable value to the market and they start to lose influence and power as they cannot control the Bitcoin network.
We are already on the path to freeing the world from the fiat yoke, it's a mathematical certainty that (with the halving and a stable or rising hashrate) Bitcoin grows in value exponentially over the next hundred years. Within a decade it will likely eclipse or have already eclipsed all the combined value of every other currency on earth. It wins because it makes the other issuers of value antiques, it makes them irrelevant and ignored, and everyone is perceived to suddenly be exposed to higher quality forms of money (Bitcoin and free market precious metal moneys) and their honest depiction of costs changing over time.
Observe the world with an attitude of wonder and pity, as the transition slowly happens over the next few years there will likely be bumpy patches where it will be very rough, but whatever happens we're already off the fiat death spiral train and growing more stable all the time.
It's going to be interesting watching it all happen with y'all #nostr. I look forward to it. 🫡

2026-03-04 19:43:42 UTC

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Apparently. 😂
I would never store substantial value in any mobile wallet, just enough for spending and experimentation. Don't really get the hate for some wallets that aren't purely lightning/on chain.

2026-03-04 13:51:45 UTC

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I like Aqua wallet too.

2026-03-02 22:15:06 UTC

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Happy to hear! Look forward to new phones running Graphene being available ready to use from the manufacturer.

2026-03-02 22:14:11 UTC

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Incredible news. I look forward to my next phone being a Graphene OS Motorola!
#nevent1q…vmvm

2026-02-24 15:05:06 UTC

My thoughts on the recent price actions between precious metals and Bitcoin:
1: Global stage.
• Recently the US has had an unstable government, since the government supports the dollar the result is trust in the dollar is down on the global stage and central banks are already seen to be liquidating their US treasuries more than normal.
• With governments and central banks around the world reducing dollar holdings, what do they trust most as the alternative? Precious metals. China in particular appears to be stockpiling gold and went from 3000 kg to 40000 kg in only 18 months. If other nations, groups, and wealthy individuals are doing the same that would explain gold growing nearly 3x in the last 2 years. If this continues it may rise further.
• Like it or not Bitcoin is still very much too small for nation states to truly jump into in the same way, it would need to 10x - 20x before that point is reached where it could support that much liquidity. Trust isn't yet there, but with every higher bottom that trust is building.
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2: Pleb stage.
• Average people are really hurting from the last 5 years of inflation, plus they are scared of Bitcoin's historic crashes, so there's been less participation this cycle from this group than previously.
• The unpopularity of the current president after he declared himself the "Bitcoin president" and then proceeding to become in reality the Shitcoin president among other things, also the mention of Bitcoin in the Epstein files, Bitcoin is being hammered in the views of people who don't understand what makes Bitcoin unique and not a part of all the scammer's and elite's bullshit. It's not part of the problem, it's the solution, but people don't know that.
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3: Bitcoin is money.
• AI is causing lots of job losses.
• Government instability and shutdowns are causing government workers to either lose their jobs entirely or go long periods without pay.
• Government tariffs are causing significant strain on the overall economy. Leading to struggling economic activity across the board. Less economic activity = less savings buildup.
• Bitcoin is the easiest asset you can both self custody and liquidate quickly and at a low cost of ~1%~, compare that to precious metals which when self custodied are much harder to liquidate and often have a 5 - 10% fee for doing so.
• All things considered anyone holding Bitcoin as their savings that ends up affected by these things, easily accesses their savings and sells some of their holdings as needed. Bitcoin's advantage as money, leads to it appearing to lose as a long term store of value as its price falls in the short term.
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Conclusion: As the world struggles Bitcoin gets used as emergency access money with savings easily liquidated, and Gold and Silver get jumped into at the nation state level to be used as a store of value. The result is they travel in opposite directions in the short term.
If Bitcoin were difficult to liquidate then it wouldn't have it's fast short term crashes, but it also wouldn't have it's fast increases when times favor such movements. Nobody knows what the future holds, and as the economy suffers Bitcoin will spread from the wallets of those who need it now to those who can afford to stack now. Remember the heartbeat of Bitcoin is it's hashrate finding blocks, while the price has cut in half the difficulty only reduced roughly 25% from a high of 155.9 T in October/November to 125.9 T a week ago, and this last adjustment saw a massive jump back up to 144.4 T.
IMO we're massively oversold, and we're forming a solid bottom around the 2021 ATH level. But things remain uncertain on the global stage as well as in the halls of government, and AI fears continue as well. Those who can afford to stack in these times will be very happy in the future when things turn around. But nobody knows if that's right around the corner or months or even years away. Do your best to disattach from short term market movements and live in the moment, enjoy the rollercoaster that is Bitcoin and life itself. 🤟

2026-02-23 21:16:52 UTC

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I think you should add a gif button to that list.

2026-02-23 02:14:52 UTC

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You guys are off to a great start, only a few suggestions really come to mind.
1: Improving the "open in app" experience when I click links to fountain pages for podcasts as it doesn't really work well.
2: Reducing the minimum sats per minute, this will only get more important as the price rises long term.
3: Increase the options in speed control, I don't like 25% faster as I usually do a modest 10%.
4: Add options that customize Bluetooth button controls when listening to podcasts.
Thanks for asking!

2026-02-22 19:08:56 UTC

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Lately I spend more time with real people in the real world. I spend less time on the platforms of doom and more more time on Nostr for algorithm-free and ad-free independant social media enabled with Bitcoin. I'm much happier as a result. ❤️

2026-02-22 19:05:22 UTC

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I've been a heavy user of the app Podcast Republic for years. Tons of customization options, fine speed variability control, able to download episodes ahead of time automatically and other stuff. I enjoy fountain too though, I use both at this point. I want to support the Bitcoin/Nostr ecosystem!

2026-02-21 15:13:30 UTC

I may seem really smart, but I'm just a math loving mildly autistic person living with childhood CPTSD. Growing up my family was always hyper afraid of government, you could argue they were justified in that fear but you could also argue that they focused on it too much and let it rule their lives.
Not being put in school was good in some ways, it helped me develop my open minded nature which led me to learn about Bitcoin much earlier than the majority of people. But what my parents labeled "homeschooling" was actually child neglect. They were violent with each other, physically and verbally abusive, paranoid of the end of the world and government conspiracies. They were hoarders, who allowed a massive infestation of roaches to continue living in our home for my entire childhood until I took matters into my own hands as a young adult. They even almost let me die from dental infections that would swell up my entire jaw, because they were too lazy to take me to the dentist and they were afraid of the drugs the dentist used (like the super deadly... ibuprofen) would kill me. 🙄 I still like the idea of homeschooling when done right, but I also like the idea of a trusted environment where division of labor gives children a better education than I could alone (provided the government is not involved). I'll probably find a good private school or tutors which will assist me in my educating my own children. But only time will tell.
Despite the early exposure into Bitcoin, I was not in command of much money and I didn't really know what I was doing. So even if I wish I had made different choices and wish I had more Bitcoin, the choices I did make allow me a more comfortable existence than many and that is it's own wealth. These days I study Bitcoin still, I also study the history of the US dollar and the Roman system of money and am in the early stages of writing a few books, but my focus is shifting to working on healing myself from my trauma and supporting my partner in her journey to heal hers as well.
The truth is we're all waiting for/working towards a world of abundance when if you choose to see it the world is already in abundance. When viewed from a lens of the original US gold standard anything that costs less than a 1/2 Goldback (~$5~) is under $0.02. on the $20.67/oz of gold US monetary system. I picked up a package of sliced ready to eat cheese at Aldi's for $1.48 the other day, that's less than a gold standard penny.
I am not posting as much lately, my analysis of a long term bottom in Bitcoin was evidently incorrect given the last 4 months of significant downward price action. So I'm not focusing on Bitcoin right now, I don't know what it's going to do other than eventually go up again. Instead I'm working on letting go of fear, accepting that there's little chance those who wish to control me affect my personal life directly, little chance a pleb like me is on anybody's radar. Even if they did try to affect me, I'm very insulated from indirect methods of attack these days. I could honestly live without a bank account, just order precious metals online and sell them for cash if I need it. I choose not to participate in the broken system anymore, the only fix for the world at large is Bitcoin allowing us to focus on the world immediately around us and help our family, friends, and communities in their own journeys of growth.
Stack Bitcoin, and focus on your own sense of inner peace, the rest will follow. Love you all. ❤️

2026-02-21 14:19:52 UTC

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This is the Bitcoin revolution in real time. People creating devices that replace the normal heaters with Bitcoin miners. This is how Bitcoin explodes. Everyday home heating from Bitcoin mining.
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2026-02-16 23:12:08 UTC

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Yes! They were included with the burgers. 🤟

2026-02-16 22:33:48 UTC

Just paid 21,520 Sats for some Burgers at Steak n Shake for my Mom and I. Feels good to pay sound money, no matter the current fiat price.
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2026-02-15 13:01:30 UTC

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It's early 2000s and you got a Gameboy Advance SP for Christmas, with Pokemon Leaf Green Version to go with your copy Pokemon Ruby Version you've been playing.
The weight of the world has yet to be placed on your shoulders, so when you sit on the couch or in the car commanding your Bulbasaur to use vine whip you truly enjoy it and don't even think about the future.

2026-02-13 13:10:13 UTC

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Lol. It do be like that sometimes.

2026-02-12 14:40:12 UTC

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Bitcoin will win. Hodling is using it as money. People want dollars, the average person will never understand the reasons why Bitcoin is better but they do understand that hodling dollars secured by Bitcoin means they will have more dollars in the future when they need them.
Bitcoin is the conversion of electricity and time into new units, and the constant shift of value in those new units caused by increasing hashrate and decreasing output (from the Bitcoin halvings) guarantee the value of all fungible units will increase as well.
This is a long game, fiat will only ever decrease in value which sucks the life energy away from all users. Eventually most people will put 2 and 2 together that fiat money is a leach and holding Bitcoin is the cure. Have faith in humanity, there are a lot of us out there and many of us are building something even if it's just our own mental stability thanks to the firm foundation of truth and value that Bitcoin gives us.

2026-02-08 15:43:11 UTC

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We're losing battles, but we're not losing the war.
The war is growing Bitcoin to a valuation that can support everyone on earth. That is happening, but it's a bumpy ride.
To use Bitcoin the world needs Bitcoin to be distributed to it, the primary group that drives that growth in distribution is the mining network. They are the issuers of new Bitcoin that sell most of what they receive to the open market.
Old Bitcoin can be convinced to come into the market when the price rises, and the price rises more than it falls. As long as new Bitcoin is being made in a decentralized way, and sold to plebs around the world, eventually it will become the defacto mode of payment.

2026-02-08 15:37:27 UTC

"Bitcoin isn't money if you don't spend it!"
The primary and most important function of money is as a store of value.
If your money doesn't preserve your value from the time you receive it until the time you spend it then it's not good money. It doesn't matter if the amount of time is 5 seconds or 5 centuries. Preservation of value is the most important function of good money, and provides the foundation for a growing and stable society.
Everything else comes second. If it doesn't preserve value in the short term then it cannot be a medium of exchange. If it doesn't store value over the long term then it cannot support a growing society over that time period. If it doesn't preserve value then it doesn't matter if people accept it, doesn't matter if it's fungible, doesn't matter if it's divisible, doesn't matter if it's physical or digital.
If you stack sats and nothing else, you are using Bitcoin as money without doing anything else. All the rest comes later, when you spend the value that has been preserved until you need it.

2026-02-08 15:04:13 UTC

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In my view the privacy issues in Bitcoin are only a problem in the Fiat world where Bitcoin is a minor player, that's the world we're leaving behind. In a world on a Bitcoin standard the lack of privacy on layer one means the bigger the wallet the more eyes are on it and any activity.
In the new world of a Bitcoin standard, those who are the most wise and patient will be the most wealthy as they outlast those with high time preference who spend what they accumulated.
I'll take 20 years of questionable privacy for thousands of years of honesty.

2026-02-05 14:30:38 UTC

With all the drama about the elite and their inconceivably awful actions, it's never been more clear than ever.
Bitcoin's traceability is a feature, not a bug.
Once the network gets dominant, and Bitcoin is the money most people want the most, the biggest addresses will have the most scrutiny. The average pleb won't have much to fear.
Plus, it's a lot easier to increase privacy for small transactions than it is for big ones.
The world will be a better place on a Bitcoin standard, it can't come soon enough for me.

2026-02-05 14:27:43 UTC

If Bitcoin were crashing while everything else was holding steady, I would be concerned.
But Bitcoin is crashing along with pretty much everything else. This is a societal issue, not a Bitcoin issue. The network is doing just fine, and will continue to mine blocks without a problem.
Remember the why behind the network, the world we're trying to build. It's coming, and it cannot be stopped.
Tick tock, next block.

2026-02-03 21:20:44 UTC

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Beautiful work.

2026-01-05 16:06:04 UTC

At this point I'm sick of the banks. I've been offering to pay Bitcoin, Goldbacks, Silver Rounds, Silver Coins, US Mint Copper coins, and (reluctantly) cash. I'm rarely using my old credit cards anymore except at big box stores and card only self checkouts.
The banks can go fuck themselves, commerce is between the buyer and the seller and nobody else. Fiat money is the worst but the most accepted. It's actually enjoyable to pay with coins, I wish it was easier to pay in anything but copper and paper though.
I find that your average person still has no clue about anything money related and most are confused even by the US Mint dollar and half dollar coins which they sometimes refuse! It's awkward to offer to pay in Bitcoin or Goldbacks or Silver because they don't understand any of them. So now I have a 4 pocket wallet, I unfold it in front of them to reveal US Mint Copper dollars in the first pocket, old US Mint Silver coins in the second pocket, new silver coins and rounds in the third pocket, and some Goldbacks in various denominations and state series in the 4th pocket, Cash I keep in a different wallet in my bag.
In the old silver pocket I have a peace dollar and a silver certificate as educational tools to show how our money has gotten worse. I'm having some success in offering silver dimes and quarters, and 1/2 and whole Goldbacks, as tips. People generally like the copper US Mint coins and sometimes take pictures or enthusiastically tell me they're going to take those coins home with them. This is a frustrating process, but it's very revealing as to the current state of the economy on the ground floor.
Just have to have patience and gently educate people as I offer to pay my bill in various instruments. IMO once I establish myself as a trustworthy source of low value money, cash and coins, then with time they may open up to accepting the better forms of money.
Bitcoin is better understood by those who understand money, and it's easier to start teaching them with physical sound money and maybe their interest will be sparked enough to lead them away from fiat and towards the best sound money ever discovered. I like Goldbacks and Silver coins for this purpose, they're beautiful and they're free market money backed by precious metals. All types of sound money are beneficial for humanity, and with Bitcoin anchoring the entire system globally Gold and Silver will find a place as physical money again.

2025-12-23 16:06:26 UTC

What's up y'all. How's life.

2025-12-22 05:10:49 UTC

There are 2 types of people. Those who believe in authority, and those that don't. If you come across someone who believes they have authority over you, and they're supported by a system of other people that says they have authority over you, treat them like you would a gorilla.
You can't reason with a gorilla, talk to a gorilla, or fight a gorilla and win. A gorilla is a dangerous animal, they have no actual authority over you but they believe they do and they have the ability to kill you if you disagree.
You bow down, you make the gorilla believe they're in charge and you are not. If you make the gorilla believe you are subservient to them, they are more likely to leave you alone largely intact.
Like it or not might makes right, "he who has the Gold makes the rules", and those who command the most economic energy are in charge until they aren't. Unfortunately for us, it is authoritarians who in today's world have near total control of the most important good required for a truly free market: money.
Governments every year spend more value, acquired through theft and devaluation, than the value of the entire Bitcoin network combined. But as they do that balance is shifting little by little every day, the more they devalue their networks the weaker they become. It won't be much longer until Bitcoin's exponential growth and the Dollar's exponential devaluation reach a major tipping point and everything changes exponentially fast. Until then, bow to the gorillas in public while fighting them in private.
Understand that there is little point to open conflict, we have already won! We won't win by conflict with them, we win by outcompeting them. Bitcoin is spreading across the world like an out of control wildfire and it cannot be stopped. The world needs better money and while Gold and Silver are great physical trade units, they those and fell on that backs of the authorities that made them too many times in history to be trusted again. Bitcoin fixes everything wrong with money, it's literally just sovereign tokens of values of time (average block time divided by block reward) and energy (average hashrate divided by block reward) and both values are constantly growing.
Imagine Bitcoin powered hospitals, Bitcoin powered food kitchens, Bitcoin powered fire departments, Bitcoin powered schools, Bitcoin powered factories, Bitcoin powered everything. With Bitcoin, just acquire a critical mass of Satoshis and spend them slower than they grow and you'll never run out of money. No obedience to arbitrary rules given by authoritarians needed.
The world doesn't get better out of nowhere, the world gets better when Bitcoin grows big enough that Bitcoiners spend more money and build more services that provide more value to society than the fiat money printers do.
That day is closer than you think.

2025-12-18 05:11:43 UTC

#NOSTR more and more is becoming my most trusted and frequently used app.
I love it. I love you guys (meaning all y'all reading this), and I'm excited for the future we're building.

2025-12-15 14:42:07 UTC

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Like something from a movie. Beautiful and scary.

2025-12-13 17:47:53 UTC

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The difficulty adjustment does fall, it just falls much slower when the price drops than it rises when the price increases. The reason why has to do with the economics of mining operations.
Mining has several costs that need to be considered, the first is the initial cost of the time and money to set everything up. This would be contracts for energy and the purchase, relocation, and setup of the equipment to begin mining that energy into Bitcoin.
The next cost would be the upkeep, staffing, rent, maintenance, and energy costs.
When the price is rising it's easier to invest the primary starting cost to get the operation running and/or expanded, once setup the continuing costs of keeping the whole thing going is much lower, so they can keep mining even at a temporary overall loss considering their original investment, as long as they're still marginally profitable given the operation is already in place.
When the price is falling, the only cost that matters is the marginal continued maintenance and energy costs. The initial investment has been made, it makes little sense to completely shut down an operation during a temporary dip if they're able to keep running at marginal profit. Marginal profit is better than zero profit.
These factors mean mining operations reacts to upside price volatility much more than it reacts to the downside and, since the market reverses quickly, it causes resistance to the downside and helps increase confidence in the network which increases the value and raises the price again.
Take a look at the last 1 - 3 years (attached) and compare the price action to the difficulty adjustments. We're still in a bull market, it's just difficult (heh) to see when focused on the price.
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2025-12-13 15:29:43 UTC

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It will over the long term.
For those who don't understand why:
The Bitcoin of 4+ years from now will always be worth more mining cost in time than the Bitcoin of today. This fact will always be true due to the halving.
The fact that it's programmed to be worth more time later, gives incentive to get more NOW while it's easier. This drives up competition, which increases hashrate faster than it would if the halving wasn't a thing.
Hashrate is simply an increase in the effort of mining equipment, which don't get more efficient faster than the difficulty adjustment makes it harder. The increased hashrate means increased energy input. Energy has value and, coupled with the increased time required, this increase in the value input leads to an increase in the value of the output.
Regardless of how many Satoshis that value is divided into. The less Satoshis in the output, the higher the value per Satoshi.

2025-12-07 21:50:09 UTC

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Bitcoin does a 10x typically every cycle.
$0.1m - 2024
$1m - 2028
$10m - 2032
$100m - 2036
$1000m - 2040.
Checks out.

2025-11-27 00:01:56 UTC

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#nevent1q…0h4t

2025-11-25 01:27:25 UTC

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2025-11-17 04:34:27 UTC

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Love to see it.
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2025-11-15 13:42:38 UTC

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Amethyst acts like I muted myself yet I'm not in the mute list so I can't undo it. I get frustrated seeing every single notification "hidden" because it's about a post "from a muted account" 😕.

2025-11-15 05:30:02 UTC

Price is falling much more than expected, my take is the government shutdown made many stackers sell to cover bills while awaiting paychecks, combine that with everyone and their mother believing we're about to enter the next Bear market.
We're not going to enter another bear market, at least not yet. There's been no blowout top, no crazy climb to multiples of the current production cost, no slowdown in the growth of the mining network.
When this bear trap ends we're gonna see fireworks as everyones FUD switches to FOMO.

2025-11-14 01:05:43 UTC

I rate this new 6 7 meme 5 out of 7.

2025-10-22 18:13:55 UTC

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I like it.

2025-10-22 14:06:13 UTC

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Cool. Fig Pizza...

2025-10-21 13:24:11 UTC

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I love pineapple pizza! Here's my favorite meme about it.
#nevent1q…9l02
https://blossom.primal.net/8ede770f2ffa4bbe807bf73bc311aa920830db7e2663864ea3835620da787bdf.webp

2025-10-21 13:22:48 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/8ede770f2ffa4bbe807bf73bc311aa920830db7e2663864ea3835620da787bdf.webp

2025-10-21 03:07:05 UTC

So I've been wanting to use physical Cash instead of cards for any bills that don't accept BTC yet, but it is quite a headache for all involved given the 13 different denominations in circulation.
To solve this I believe I have figured out the most efficient Cash system, by reducing the denominations you use to only 6, allowing quick and easy exact change with no need to fumble with receiving anything back.
Simply carry with you:
* Paper denominations: $50, $20, $5.
* Coin denominations: $1, $0.25, $0.05.
The paper adds up to $420, a reasonable amount of buying power, in only 18 notes. And you can always withdraw extra $20s at an ATM whenever you need a top up. Also having only 3 note sizes means you don't have to search through your wallet for the right note: the back is $50s, the center is $20s, and the front is $5s, easy peasy.
While the 3 coins are visibly different in size or color from each other which makes selection from a single coin bag easy and fast.
Further, the beauty in the system is how simple it is:
$50: divides into 2 $20s and 2 $5s,
$20: divides into 4 $5s.
$5: divides into 5 $1s.
$1: divides into 4 $0.25.
$0.25: divides into 5 $0.05s.
Every step up of currency between $0.05 to $20 is either 4x or 5x. Very simple. While the $50 is able to be broken into the smaller units for more value density in a small amount of bills. Also, you very well might spend a $50 on a single bill and few places don't accept them unlike the $100. Since $20s are the bill likely used the most, it works well since that's the most common bill able to be withdrawn from ATMs when top ups are needed. 🤟

2025-10-19 15:39:52 UTC

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Acceptance of diversity is the opposite of fascism lol.

2025-10-17 14:10:26 UTC

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Wow. Just tested with my @nprofile…2km9 readable receiving address and it was able to extract my full transaction history.
Testing the invoices and/or readable receiving addresses from @nprofile…jv3w and @nprofile…0j5p both did not reveal that data.
Until this changes I will stop using Wallet of Satoshi. It's a shame, I really like the app.

2025-10-16 12:59:36 UTC

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Preaching to the choir my friend. 🖖