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Bitcoin Well

Bitcoin Well is on a mission to enable independence. We do this by making it easy to use bitcoin in self-custody.

Whether you’re looking to buy, sell or use bitcoin, we never hold on to your bitcoin.

Bitcoin Well is automatic self-custody.

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Last Notes

2026-03-25 13:56:46 UTC

Still running Bitcoin.

2026-03-25 01:25:47 UTC

Sound money is boring. That's the feature.

2026-03-24 23:25:48 UTC

In 2013, the FBI seized 144,000 BTC from Silk Road and auctioned them off for $48 million.
Today those coins are worth over $10 billion.
The government sold the future to fund a fiscal quarter.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HENHB0JWAAA7OWY.png

2026-03-24 21:25:48 UTC

The "Bitcoin needs regulation to succeed" crowd has it backwards.
Bitcoin succeeds specifically because it doesn't need permission.

2026-03-24 19:55:47 UTC

Edmonton Bitcoin meetup this Thursday, April 2 at The Pint!
If you’re into Bitcoin and want to meet others who are too, this is where you want to be.
Whether you’re deep down the rabbit hole or just getting started, come through.
We’re also kicking off larger quarterly meetups soon with presentations and deeper Bitcoin discussions.
More to come. 🫡
See you there 🧡
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2026-03-24 19:28:44 UTC

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The game metaphor breaks down a bit here. Using Bitcoin as collateral without selling is preserving your position, not surrendering it. The real risk is counterparty, not ideology.

2026-03-24 19:24:37 UTC

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The system doesn't break from within, it adapts to neutralize you. Bitcoin's edge is that it doesn't need permission or participants to function without it.

2026-03-24 19:18:54 UTC

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800,000 BTC that none of BlackRock's customers actually hold. This is exactly why the withdrawal address matters more than the fund name.

2026-03-24 19:16:22 UTC

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Every time the Fed calls an energy shock 'transitory,' they're betting supply resolves on its own. What happens when the supply problem is deliberate policy, not logistics?

2026-03-24 19:09:30 UTC

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Gold took 5,000 years to accumulate $30T in trust. Bitcoin did $1.4T in 17. At 4.6% today, the pace itself is the argument.

2026-03-24 19:04:35 UTC

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What does the trend look like over the last 12 months? If the GBT share is rising, that's a real shift in decentralized block production, not just in theory.

2026-03-24 18:59:59 UTC

Been thinking about this: the countries with the weakest currencies are adopting Bitcoin the fastest.
Maybe they're not early. Maybe they're just out of options.

2026-03-24 18:59:25 UTC

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p2p trading is the exit ramp they forgot to close.

2026-03-24 18:55:46 UTC

Regardless of the times or the strength of your men, fiat creates war. Period.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HEL-Go_WAAEdcQE.jpg

2026-03-24 18:53:36 UTC

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Good foundation. Worth adding: when a Lightning channel closes, it settles on-chain. That's what makes it different from any other payments layer. You can always exit to the base Bitcoin chain. The trust is in the math.

2026-03-24 18:50:26 UTC

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The debt is real, but the unit of account is the bigger problem. The dollar lost roughly half its purchasing power since 2008. That's not a policy failure, that's the policy working as designed. Your kids aren't inheriting a broken country, they're inheriting a broken measurement system.

2026-03-24 18:48:13 UTC

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448 days straight, Eid bonus, independence day bonus, and still stacking. The discipline is the asset. The sats are just the score.

2026-03-24 18:44:27 UTC

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The closed door isn't a failure mode, it's the feature. Private credit 'stability' requires the ability to gate exits, that's the whole deal. Bitcoin's 24/7 liquidity isn't incidental. It's what makes the promise credible.

2026-03-24 18:40:01 UTC

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Jameson flagging this is important. If visible node counts are gameable, you can't use them as a social signal for consensus support. The real question isn't who has more nodes, it's how many represent independent economic actors. That distinction matters a lot for any BIP evaluation.

2026-03-24 18:37:43 UTC

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Stack sats. Mining is a business disguised as a hobby for most people. Unless you have cheap power locked in, the math rarely pencils out the way you imagine it will.

2026-03-24 18:35:05 UTC

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Blue Wallet handles both layers cleanly. On-chain from the ATM, Lightning when you're ready to use it. Non-custodial by default. Good first wallet.

2026-03-24 18:30:09 UTC

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The authorization vs settlement distinction is what people miss. Visa approves in 1.5 seconds but the money doesn't actually move for days. Lightning settles. Those are fundamentally different things.

2026-03-24 16:37:15 UTC

So now its super easy for WalMart to price things in Bitcoin going forward.
Got it!
https://blossom.primal.net/ba127a1887d9d47794ca1ad9770c6e7e70da10e162c9c86f0db4cc2684e38061.png

2026-03-24 14:54:14 UTC

What if the "crypto winter" narrative was just cover for the largest accumulation phase in Bitcoin's history?

2026-03-24 13:24:15 UTC

Every empire that debased its currency lost it. Every single one.
The DXY is below 100. The printer is warming up. And 21 million is still 21 million.

2026-03-24 01:24:13 UTC

The Fed isn't independent. It's a debt monetization engine with a dual mandate as cover.
The debt spiral guarantees more printing. That's not a prediction, it's arithmetic.

2026-03-24 00:01:00 UTC

Every Computer on Earth Can't Crack One Bitcoin Wallet
https://blossom.primal.net/549eeaf42dd2ac9289abdbf4dd2898141e55e5f25fdf35dbbf3c7194f3a14de9.mp4

2026-03-23 23:24:14 UTC

"The only war that's ever gone on is the battle of consciousness".
Fiat money relies on your ignorance and obedience.
#Bitcoin relies on your verifying and running a node.
Wake up, take custody of your wealth, and join the peaceful revolution. 🛡️ #SelfSovereignty

2026-03-23 22:24:13 UTC

Cecil Rhodes and early globalists dreamt of a society controlled by a wealthy elite, using central banks and foundations to penetrate the social fabric.
For 100 years, the fiat system funded this.
#Bitcoin defunds the elite and returns power to you. 🌍

2026-03-23 21:04:22 UTC

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Full Video: https://youtu.be/YqRrD5Rk6w4

2026-03-23 21:04:06 UTC

Lightning can't do this alone.
ARK Protocol is a Bitcoin layer 2 that manages liquidity in a way that's never been possible before and we went deep on how it actually works with Matthew Vuk of Second.
https://blossom.primal.net/9120f6a116bf93f2084e90be499e792f36cf1bda85187f96934478a458bf0db0.mp4

2026-03-23 20:41:45 UTC

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The bank watching your money 'for your protection' is the same institution that can freeze it, report it, or block it without your consent. Philosophy and practice align here.

2026-03-23 20:35:35 UTC

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Government seizes privacy tool to protect users. Users now getting scammed via the seized domain. The protection is working great.

2026-03-23 20:32:58 UTC

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Spotify pays $0.003-0.005 per stream. A single 1,000-sat zap at current prices beats a thousand streams in royalties. The math on why artists care about this is pretty simple.

2026-03-23 20:29:10 UTC

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M2 contracting slows everything, but Bitcoin's supply schedule doesn't care about M2. The scarcity is structural, not macro-dependent. The party question is really about time horizon.

2026-03-23 20:23:39 UTC

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How many of those signs were up 3 years ago? The question is slowly shifting from 'do you take bitcoin?' to 'when does asking feel weird?' UX follows adoption, not the other way around.

2026-03-23 20:17:24 UTC

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This is the actual design problem. 'Not your keys' is a slogan, not a solution. The path has to be frictionless enough that self-custody becomes the default outcome, not a deliberate act of technical courage.

2026-03-23 20:13:55 UTC

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The debate stalls because both sides think the other has the risk assessment backwards. Nocoiners are right that Bitcoin has volatility. Bitcoiners are right that fiat has terminal decay. Those are different categories of risk and most people never separate them.

2026-03-23 20:10:27 UTC

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The protocol doesn't care who holds it. Strategy buying $50B of Bitcoin gives them price exposure, not governance power. Corporate coordination can move markets, it can't touch consensus rules. The Trojan horse has nowhere to go at the base layer.

2026-03-23 20:05:07 UTC

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HRF does some of the most quietly important Bitcoin adoption work going. The people who don't realize they need this education are the exact people who need it most. Aqua is a solid first wallet for that crowd.

2026-03-23 19:58:55 UTC

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Nineteen days of real positions and the education cost doesn't show in the P&L. Which trade so far produced the biggest conviction shift? And did having actual skin in the game work the way you expected it to?

2026-03-23 19:54:20 UTC

Eight consecutive green days on the chart. No Fed pivot. No ETF approval. No halving hype.
Just steady accumulation by people who did the math.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HEHrh8Ua8AAPLHL.jpg

2026-03-23 17:24:13 UTC

In 2010, a Bitcoin developer found a bug that created 184 billion BTC out of thin air. The network caught it, rolled it back, and patched it within hours.
No CEO. No board meeting. No regulator. Just code and consensus.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HEHKvFnaIAUYM16.jpg

2026-03-23 15:24:17 UTC

How Iran Is a Creation of Fiat Money

2026-03-23 15:03:59 UTC

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'I work in Bitcoin, not crypto' is the whole take. Crypto is a genre. Bitcoin is a category of one. The institutions debasing your savings don't have a crypto problem, they have a Bitcoin problem.

2026-03-23 14:58:16 UTC

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Wrong question, honestly. The real one is: what number would make you keep your savings in something that loses 8-10% of purchasing power every year? There's no magic BTC entry. The math just works now.

2026-03-23 14:52:54 UTC

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CBDC architecture starts as 'track' and ends as 'restrict.' The tools get built long before anyone decides to use them. Canada's Payments Act expanded transaction visibility quietly, years before this debate went mainstream.

2026-03-23 14:49:21 UTC

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'Nobody asked permission' is the whole thing. 7.8% drop, 2,016 blocks, network recalibrated and moved on. The protocol doesn't need a press secretary, a summit, or a 5-day extension. It just runs.

2026-03-23 14:44:47 UTC

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Correct. Censorship-resistant communication with native payments. The combination your bank's entire business model depends on people not having.

2026-03-23 14:24:13 UTC

Starting to think the real competition for Bitcoin isn't gold or bonds. It's real estate.
Both are scarce. Both are savings vehicles. Only one fits in your pocket and crosses borders in seconds.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HEGdV-iaUAAXeCe.jpg

2026-03-22 21:24:00 UTC

The Rich Own Things. The Poor Own Currency. Bitcoin Changes That.
https://blossom.primal.net/b93a83b3033dd207db05efa8386c7587162a3b0d22ba0b0f291423c2a57c2d54.mp4

2026-03-22 20:41:51 UTC

Spiking energy prices expose the fiat illusion. Fiat requires zero energy to print, which is why it breaks when real-world energy gets expensive.
Bitcoin is built on Proof of Work. It respects the physical laws of thermodynamics.
Align your wealth with physics.

2026-03-22 19:41:52 UTC

Right now, the Iranian Rial is hyperinflating into oblivion.
The citizens are watching the purchasing power of their life savings melt in real-time.
The state blames Western sanctions. The West blames the state. But the math doesn't care about politics. Fiat money always returns to its intrinsic value: zero.
Now, the Iranian people are quietly bypassing both their own regime and Western sanctions by adopting a stateless bearer asset.
They aren't just protesting. They are opting out on the Timechain.
Hold the asset.

2026-03-22 17:02:00 UTC

Exchanges get Hacked, Not Bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/3c09260e76cf4767cc93a91905695c2ff28c3c96870f96ebad79f0992ab21746.mp4

2026-03-22 16:11:52 UTC

Wall Street calls Bitcoin a "risk asset." When tension rises, they sell BTC for dollars.
But the dollar is backed by the exact government creating the instability and printing the debt to fund it.
That isn't "risk-off." Hold your own keys.

2026-03-21 23:21:00 UTC

Bitcoin brings back what Nixon killed
https://blossom.primal.net/9fdff8d91e18ec56488b05c048580ba887e23776954e7499d191e2abab2e3822.mp4

2026-03-21 21:41:51 UTC

The world doesn't pause on Friday at 4 PM. Geopolitical conflicts and oil spikes are breaking in real-time, but your traditional broker locked the exit doors until Monday.
You are in a burning building without a key.
Demand 24/7 sovereignty.

2026-03-21 19:41:51 UTC

Fiat money requires violence to survive.
In 1953, the US and UK overthrew the government of Iran. Why? Because Iran wanted to nationalize its own oil.
The legacy financial system could not allow a sovereign nation to control the energy that the Western banking cartel relied on. They installed a dictator to protect their economic interests, setting the stage for 70 years of geopolitical chaos.
The fiat standard requires endless intervention to secure the energy that gives the currency its value.
Bitcoin is the first global asset that does not require a military to enforce its ledger.
Defund the empire.

2026-03-21 18:18:00 UTC

Bitcoin Has No Marketing Team
https://blossom.primal.net/625690db3dd2a5012c808e0e612d92a0444f7da1e4fa8dd8a62e5289f096db5d.mp4

2026-03-21 15:41:51 UTC

War is always funded by the printing press. When the state needs to fund a conflict, they don't raise taxes—they print the difference and stealth-tax your savings. Bitcoin is the only way to opt out of funding geopolitical failures. Defund the printer.

2026-03-21 00:16:00 UTC

Bitcoin Doesn't Close. Ever.
https://blossom.primal.net/336c5f8d25e87108d9966b33da7d9e2393dd02f73f40c4729cbd9924013ab336.mp4

2026-03-20 23:41:55 UTC

The modern Iranian regime is a direct byproduct of the fiat system.
In 1971, the US broke the gold standard. To save the dollar, they created the Petrodollar, flooding the Middle East with printed money in exchange for oil control.
That massive influx of fiat destabilized Iran's economy in the 1970s. It created runaway inflation and massive wealth inequality under the Shah.
The 1979 revolution wasn't just ideological. It was a reaction to a fiat-broken economy.
When you manipulate the money, you destabilize the world. Bitcoin separates money from geopolitics.
Fix the money, fix the world.

2026-03-20 22:41:55 UTC

Something interesting about this cycle: the long-term holder base keeps growing through every dip. The hands aren't just diamond. They're multiplying...

2026-03-20 21:10:00 UTC

Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value & Neither Does Anything Else
https://blossom.primal.net/4ec84a7693f1f3fb1428d0d38c9bdb4412e3b40ba4ac575af647e9ba855b35ca.mp4

2026-03-20 20:56:47 UTC

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Are you looking for meetups, places to buy, or just to connect with people? Miami has options for all three.

2026-03-20 20:52:55 UTC

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Running your own node is the financial equivalent of cooking your own food. Everyone can do it, most won't, and once you do you can't go back to the drive-through.

2026-03-20 20:49:07 UTC

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The most human thing about money is always the social layer. Bitcoin just makes the signal clearer: you can see exactly what someone valued enough to send sats for.

2026-03-20 20:43:01 UTC

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18 months stuck in a frozen account while people slept in containers. That's the story no Bitcoin skeptic wants to hear, because there's no good counter-argument. Money that can't move isn't money.

2026-03-20 20:38:29 UTC

Eight straight green days. No press conference needed.

2026-03-20 20:37:45 UTC

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Makes sense. Bitcoin is already held as a reserve asset by public companies. Margin collateral is the next logical step. The real question is what happens to leverage ratios when the underlying never closes.

2026-03-20 17:24:24 UTC

In 2017, Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin a fraud on live TV. In 2024, JPMorgan became an authorized participant in Bitcoin ETFs.
Nobody issued a correction.

2026-03-20 16:54:25 UTC

What is Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)?

2026-03-20 16:32:47 UTC

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WoS absolutely supports sending zaps, not just receiving. Check if Primal has your WoS Lightning address saved under Wallet settings. The Cashu showing 0 sats is a separate issue, sounds like the mint isn't funded yet. Fix WoS first, that should work right away.

2026-03-20 16:24:24 UTC

People keep saying Bitcoin needs a killer app.
Bitcoin is the killer app. Everything else is a feature request.

2026-03-20 16:23:35 UTC

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Gold gets 0% risk weight in bank capital rules. Bitcoin gets 1,250%. That's not a risk assessment, it's a policy choice. The gap between those two numbers tells you everything about who the rules are written to protect.

2026-03-20 16:19:12 UTC

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Technically the jpegs are on the blockchain so they're permanent. The food would have been gone by Tuesday.

2026-03-20 15:48:56 UTC

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<http://Bitcoin.org|Bitcoin.org> pointing people to MoonPay for their first BTC purchase is like a freedom of the press site recommending a government-approved publisher. The entry point matters.

2026-03-20 15:41:44 UTC

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$108.4M settlement for about $7 in fees. SWIFT would've taken 3 days and charged $50K.

2026-03-20 15:37:46 UTC

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The irony of Nostr nsec leaks: a censorship-resistant protocol for sovereign communication, undermined by people treating private keys like passwords. Hardware signing is not optional.

2026-03-20 15:24:24 UTC

The Bitcoin whitepaper is 9 pages. The Dodd-Frank Act is 2,300 pages.
One of them actually fixed the problem it described.

2026-03-20 14:45:53 UTC

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The Continentals lost 99% of their value by 1781. Washington nearly lost the war partly because soldiers refused to accept them. Sound money would have forced harder negotiations or better foreign financing. Inflation didn't save the revolution, it almost cost it.

2026-03-20 14:40:24 UTC

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self-custody isn't a feature you enable. it's the whole point.

2026-03-20 14:35:11 UTC

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1,418 sats per dollar is the right scoreboard. Though once you flip to thinking in sats, you eventually stop needing the conversion at all. The USD column just becomes a ghost you're still haunting.

2026-03-20 14:25:33 UTC

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US-only as of now, no official Canada timeline from Block. For Canadian merchants accepting Bitcoin today, BTCPay Server is the open-source route: no intermediary, no fee gates, full custody of every sat that comes in.

2026-03-20 14:21:04 UTC

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Bought $13,800 worth in 2012, now sitting on $147M, and they moved a 'small fraction.' That's not a transaction, that's a flex.

2026-03-20 14:16:55 UTC

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Funny how 'nothing to hide' never applies to bank statements.

2026-03-20 13:54:28 UTC

Canadian Bitcoiner?
You need to understand how the CRA treats your Bitcoin.
Today. 12 EST. Charlene Tessier breaks it all down and answers your questions live.
Don't miss it!
Register now! 👇
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2026-03-20 01:14:05 UTC

Bitcoin is a language, not a company. You can't shut down English. You can't acquire Spanish.
You can outlaw it, but people will keep speaking it anyway.

2026-03-19 23:56:00 UTC

Delete Your Bitcoin Wallet!
https://blossom.primal.net/7812699215d2a61bf5c04e4b9d758a1dbf84d3ae0031d97177a41deb3ba41255.mp4

2026-03-19 23:14:05 UTC

Everyone wants institutional adoption until they realize institutions don't run nodes, don't verify transactions, and hold paper claims on an asset built to eliminate paper claims. 🤔

2026-03-19 21:56:05 UTC

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15 oz per bitcoin and still only 4.3% of gold's market cap. An asset with a hard cap, 24/7 settlement, and no storage costs. That gap is doing a lot of work.

2026-03-19 21:50:48 UTC

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52 million people, tax-free access. South Korea already has some of the highest per-capita crypto engagement in the world. Removing the tax barrier doesn't create demand, it removes the last friction from demand that's already there.

2026-03-19 21:42:22 UTC

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Mini PC wins on storage headroom. Pi 5 with 2TB NVMe handles it today but you'll be swapping drives again by 2028. A used ThinkCentre or NUC with 4TB costs ~$100, runs cooler, and gives room to grow. Start9 if you want a clean UI; bare metal if you want full control.

2026-03-19 21:38:28 UTC

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Calling it 'reverse fiat' undersells it. Fiat is debt-based, infinitely inflatable, controlled by committees. Bitcoin is commodity money with a fixed supply schedule written in code. Not just the opposite of the old system, a categorically different one.

2026-03-19 21:32:35 UTC

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Any Lightning wallet connecting to someone else's node can be cut off. Blitz running on your own node is a completely different answer.

2026-03-19 21:27:36 UTC

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The merchant adoption wave is quiet by design. No press releases, no ad campaigns. Just people discovering they can pay for coffee without a bank in the middle. That's how a monetary network actually grows.

2026-03-19 21:24:58 UTC

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Strip out the politics and 79% of AI models pick Bitcoin for long-term savings. The interesting question isn't why the machines chose it. It's why it took humans this long to run the same calculation.

2026-03-19 21:19:31 UTC

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Nobody rage-converted to Bitcoin. Every person I know who runs a node did it after a calm conversation, a book recommendation, or just quietly watching fiat do its thing long enough.

2026-03-19 21:15:03 UTC

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The Raspberry Pi argument is underrated. Full validation of the world's hardest money for $80 and some bandwidth is either the best deal in financial history or the weirdest one. Probably both.

2026-03-19 21:11:21 UTC

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Square just turned every merchant terminal into a Bitcoin on-ramp. The map is going to need more dots.