9x9xBertha
9x9 Bertha Returns

Being a forced seller to pay living expenses for many many months during this downturn has given me a new perspective.
Was sickening to have to sell some of the stack as the price went down. But now I feel far more immune to future pain and the current price action.
Will be staying humble, just grateful I can start re stacking some sats. Gonna be a sweet feeling.

2026-06-19 01:43:21 UTC

“Today was the most difficult day in the history of Digital Credit”
The 6 month history ?
These guys are just finance bros looking for a new market to pedal obtuse products that screw people over.

2026-06-17 01:59:42 UTC

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If you can’t make sense of it, it probably doesn’t make sense 😂

2026-06-17 01:55:25 UTC

I just burned a non significant number of sats on braiins “feeling lucky” solo hash rate pool.
The Bitcoin network is secured by greed 😂 (for example mine). Seems like a robust strategy.

2026-06-13 23:22:07 UTC

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I think that’s also fair in isolation, from what I understand but the “strategy” has been to pitch MSTR products as money like, and Saylor is pretty strong on his “it’s not currency” (for goods) it’s an asset.
That seems like a narrative that intentionally or unintentionally turns down the volume on the censorship resistant P2P payments property. That’s why this post is called out - same theme.

2026-06-13 20:27:06 UTC

The one thing that made me pretty skeptical of crypto were the incomprehensible white papers that i couldn’t understand as someone slightly technical.
Same in 2008, the derivatives traders invented highly technical formulas that nobody could reasonably understand but looked impressive.

2026-06-13 20:11:28 UTC

This meme template has been living in my mind for a while
so I made it.
https://blossom.primal.net/7adc62bf224c4a12a28dfb2d3c31f30f01862766b7a811fa757b4db2bfd80908.png

2026-06-13 20:08:23 UTC

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I think that’s an interesting point but i think strike frame it as don’t sell bitcoin for expenses which is slightly different in my mind.
Strategy seem to be doing a full tilt pivot into “I like bitcoin, buy my ….” territory though.

2026-06-13 02:55:17 UTC

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Saylor is a very patriotic man

2026-06-12 10:06:26 UTC

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One or two years ago Saylor had the narrative that he was repeatedly using AI to conceptualize and create the next product in the next MSTR yield curve.
Found it a bit hard to believe Saylor was vibe coding financial products for a publicly listed company.

2026-06-11 00:46:55 UTC

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If you’re in wine, pivot to orange ties.

2026-06-10 20:32:52 UTC

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Never had eczema until 5 years ago, stopped using a big name body wash and moved to glycerin soap now (initially because it was cheap) and my situation improved a lot. I have soap miner soap now and it’s easily the best soap - the difference is immediately obvious.

2026-06-08 03:11:11 UTC

Just borrowing other people’s insights but seems non zero that the ZCash bug wasn’t just discovered and has been known for a while explaining the desperate attempt to preemptively pump it.

2026-06-08 02:50:36 UTC

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I think and hope that most young people are reversing the trend. Plenty of young parents where I live. If you had kids in your 20s you were crazy but the psyop that a life well lived is dedicated to working hard for a corporation seems to be dying.

2026-06-08 02:35:20 UTC

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I like the pod. Not into ordinals but there’s a lot more Bitcoin than macro content which makes a change.

2026-06-08 02:31:51 UTC

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Everyone got older, to be fair my young nieces and nephews love life. But things do seem different and more degenerate? Negativity is aggressively monetized?

2026-06-08 02:18:49 UTC

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🙏snd knight rider

2026-06-08 01:42:57 UTC

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I remember being on a united flight on New Year’s Eve and people were drinking whiskey, smoking and dong the conga dance while we were descending to land. The flight attendants were not pleased but people didn’t care 😂

2026-06-08 01:37:44 UTC

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The A team, the Fall guy, Baywatch, Terminator, Predator.
I didn’t live in the USA at the time but this was the finest era.
Still the best country in the world but a lot of things have been lost including the joy.

2026-06-08 01:26:52 UTC

When I first bought bitcoin it felt edgy, new. This was not even that long ago!
With all of the political and tradfi simping and aging out adopters it feels stale. The price action doesn’t get me down it’s the lack of new entrants.
AI is the new frontier and exciting and where all the grift goes.
17 years is a ridiculously short window.

2026-06-08 01:01:40 UTC

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Agreed this “sudden” find seems incredibly sus - extra cynical with the AI found it add on.

2026-06-08 00:57:03 UTC

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Born in Lima, half Peruvian ❤️
Shame the politicians can’t be as good as the alfajores instead of being serial thieves.

2026-06-07 16:06:13 UTC

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I imagine it’s hard to purge the love of tradfi when that’s where you started.

2026-06-06 16:47:07 UTC

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How fast can a fractionally reserved token depeg?

2026-06-05 19:33:32 UTC

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What does the power law say about this.

2026-06-05 15:34:06 UTC

Be interesting if everyone sells everything to get in on the big IPOs the common man has unusually been given access to and that crashes all markets.

2026-06-04 18:46:38 UTC

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I’ve noticed a few emails very recently where email verification codes for things like Google or Tesla are coming through (it’s not me).
My guess is that the scammers are going to call up and say my account is compromised (because I’m primed by seeing all these codes come through) then offer to reset my password for me - just a feeling…

2026-06-04 16:50:09 UTC

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My bose pair stopped working 5 years after I got them - to the month - refused to connect to Bluetooth. My foam looked battered but no where near as bad as yours.

2026-06-04 03:11:55 UTC

The sooner tradfi internalizes we are a religious cult the better

2026-06-04 02:57:08 UTC

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Ride or die

2026-06-04 02:01:02 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqswz2pr8a2rwjueqtdjjt5h00ylqkenthqg9jk58p6fzfpk4eylhjsf4cxg7

2026-06-04 01:59:36 UTC

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I heard the clarity act will solve that.

2026-06-04 01:50:40 UTC

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Despite the grift it seems plausible that the crypto degens were creating a fee market.

2026-06-04 01:45:13 UTC

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When I first got into buying I knew nothing of the 4 year cycle etc. I kept buying and it kept going down in price and I kept buying for like 12 - 18 months and it kept going down. At one point similar to this draw down I had a little bit of doubt and paused and then was like fuck it I guess I keep buying . If you’re new these are the best buys (not financial advice 😅)

2026-06-04 01:38:28 UTC

I gotta say the “Saylor controls the market and crashes it by selling 32 coins” psyop is pretty lame.

2026-06-04 01:27:53 UTC

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Sounds f-ing delicious

2026-06-04 01:22:14 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqswz2pr8a2rwjueqtdjjt5h00ylqkenthqg9jk58p6fzfpk4eylhjsf4cxg7

2026-06-03 03:08:09 UTC

I don’t care if no one wants to buy bitcoin I love it and I will keep buying as much as I can.

2026-06-03 02:42:49 UTC

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Britain is probably the most diverse culture in the world owing to its colonial past. That was always a topic. But really we all had cool from various backgrounds with the same struggles.

2026-06-03 02:35:04 UTC

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Most people just want to fit in and have a normal life!

2026-06-03 02:27:48 UTC

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I would love it if bitcoin does an 80% drop. All these people with new models and diminishing effects stuff. No it’s still a volatile monster.

2026-05-22 02:25:23 UTC

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When i lived in London 15 years ago the narrative was that you couldn’t walk down a street that didn’t have a camera on it. You could be tracked everywhere.

2026-05-22 02:13:05 UTC

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Binance CCP vs Coinbase USA
Antpool CCP vs Foundry USA
Right?

2026-05-22 02:06:44 UTC

Spending a lot of time trawling tech jobs on LinkedIn gives you a very disturbing view of the world.
I can say I’ve seen a LOT of jobs in:
AML/KYC/KYB
“Free money” loans
Stablecoins
Surveillance

2026-05-22 01:52:08 UTC

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Once with an Uber driver and that’s it

2026-05-19 01:53:35 UTC

Less than 50k blocks to 1 million now. Thanks for the moment blockclock.

2026-04-11 00:20:09 UTC

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You hear the odd person saying it’s a way of getting bitcoin exposure via an IRA or retirement account like there are no other options - but you can just move those dollars to an unchained IRA and buy real on chain stuff you can see exist via sparrow etc…

2026-04-10 18:09:10 UTC

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Right said Fred are using Nostr??

2026-04-08 20:46:57 UTC

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Can’t wait to hear what Elizabeth Warren has to say about this…

2026-03-29 02:18:18 UTC

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You read my mind, it was the hair…

2026-03-29 02:17:35 UTC

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Destroyed 2 packs of the coconut ones “for charity”

2026-03-29 02:02:42 UTC

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Post surf chill

2026-03-29 02:01:11 UTC

@nprofile…03mx live is fun

2026-03-29 01:58:35 UTC

Lot of respect for leaders.
Most of the time they are trying to drag the rest of the bell curve forward.
Still there are a lot of stupid leaders.

2026-03-29 01:53:30 UTC

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Tis beautiful

2026-03-29 01:47:36 UTC

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Crossing fingers and goin on with life.

2026-03-29 01:45:31 UTC

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Would be cool to have a samurai day where we all use the open source project and 10% goes to the guys.

2026-03-29 01:23:37 UTC

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Somewhere sometime somehow there needs to be a Bitcoin x Tulips conference.

2026-03-29 00:26:54 UTC

The scarcity and novelty and immaturity of Bitcoin still amazes me. There are a ton of tradfi pioneers (ex Goldman, ex Morgan Stanley etc) with totally rational takes on adoption, price, and “market structure”.
Yet.
They apply current rules to the thing that breaks the rules. 10 million let’s fucking go.

2026-03-29 00:03:29 UTC

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Could also be a Bitcoin self custody q&a but I guess if people are on Nostr that’s probably not a need but would be fun also.

2026-03-29 00:00:06 UTC

Anyone doing a Bitcoin bookclub?
I guess that has to happen over zoom or google meet.
Never read but would
like to:
The Philosophy of Bitcoin
Álvaro D. María
Anyone else down (eastern time zone) ?

2026-03-28 23:47:11 UTC

Bitcoin hashrate is basically US vs Chinese hash power. Go figure.

2026-03-28 23:29:42 UTC

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Oh for some good Indian food. Been too long.

2026-03-28 23:11:57 UTC

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Looks amazing. Any other titles in the future?

2026-03-28 22:48:52 UTC

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Majority scared

2026-03-28 01:21:59 UTC

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I walked past HODL once and he is tall so taller is tall is tall as I used to be called tall.

2026-03-28 00:01:21 UTC

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🙌

2026-03-27 23:47:58 UTC

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My memory is that Walker invented the n-ostrich mascot. Which would be a pretty big deal if true . Not sure i hallucinated that.

2026-03-27 14:48:25 UTC

The NASDAQ muggles are selling their bitcoin again 😂

2026-03-27 02:32:17 UTC

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I’m not sure what the emotions or possibilities are but I know they are new!

2026-03-27 02:04:21 UTC

Claude cowork just called an annoying Apple Music notification. We are one. I know why I can’t delete Apple Music but I’m glad Claude calls out that bs too.

2026-03-27 01:50:52 UTC

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I had Claude co-work vibe coding stuff via the Codex app yesterday. Felt surreal.

2026-03-27 01:13:10 UTC

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😂

2026-03-26 23:58:37 UTC

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The real England.

2026-03-26 02:58:40 UTC

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Today I asked Claude for some project ideas.
Then I enabled computer use with Claude.
Claude is now vibe coding and debugging the project by prompting in the Codex app.

2026-03-26 02:50:49 UTC

Today I had Claude come up with some project ideas.
Now I’ve got Claude with Computer Use driving the vibe coding project via the Codex App.
…Claude is checking the output then promoting Codex…

2026-03-25 01:55:15 UTC

Everything is fate. Can’t remember if that was always my opinion.

2026-03-25 01:49:54 UTC

I’ve been a massive fan of Notion over the years but could be the first big scalp of AI.
You see this with how hard the leadership has them pitching in to AI connectivity.
The simplicity of the formatted artifacts was the strength and yet makes them easier to attack with vibes.
In the long term the company could still create value but will it last that long with the narrative you can just vibe things? Silicon valley is eating itself in the short term.

2026-03-24 18:31:47 UTC

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Mallers on fire recently.

2026-03-24 10:20:24 UTC

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After the initial setup pains and figuring out how to setup qubes in the configuration you like with the software you want in there and allowing them to talk to each other…
It’s a great setup. Love the USB blocking and the fact you can control which apps are exposed to the internet or tor.

2026-03-24 02:19:51 UTC

Hold
On
To
Your
Butts

2026-03-24 02:11:16 UTC

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Tradfi are the OG degens.

2026-03-23 02:03:31 UTC

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To clarify anyone that seems to pay any attention to bitcoin is either a massive institutional player, a Bitcoin twitter or Nostr noter.
I’m just surprised by the lack of spectrum in between. (All perspective)

2026-03-23 01:59:04 UTC

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I’m perplexed by the fact the institutions dominated without more people knowing what Bitcoin is.

2026-03-23 01:13:26 UTC

Bitcoin consciousness is like nation states and uber wealthy then plebs and no normies in between.
So strange.

2026-03-23 01:04:21 UTC

The big wave of adoption comes from Gen Alpha who don’t remember under 100k and didn’t experience bitterness or early FUD.