hodlrand / HODLRAND is on Nostr

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2026-04-23 17:32:25 UTC

today Tether announced the “freezing” of $344 million in USDT.
the main conclusion here is that self custody is not the same as sovereign ownership.
what happened today is another reminder that bitcoin is the only thing known to mankind that no one can prevent you from owning, that no one can prevent you from paying with, that no one can confiscate from you unless YOU made a mistake, that cannot be printed, whose users have a self-sovereign way to steer the protocol while consensus is tightly, objectively, and materially subject to the laws of physics and thermodynamics, and all of this without blood on your hands.
chainalysis, “sanctioned” bitcoin, et. al. are mere fragile coordination between centralized parties. they will disappear sooner or later.
these are inherent, emerging realities given the coordination and conflict resolution mechanisms in place: the mechanisms of governments and institutions that do all this are based on words, handshakes, laws written on some paper, bureaucrats. bitcoin's coordination mechanism is thermodynamics.
the same process for that laws and regulations are not self-sufficient, they need force and kinetic energy. it's all agreements, regulation and discussions until the first shot is fired or the bomb drops. and it's all chainalysis checks until someone else accepts your "sanctioned" bitcoin and the tx is mined in blocks at 970.6 EH/s.
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2025-12-10 18:12:51 UTC

i definitely left twitter, aka X. my account has been deleted. there’s an incentive for spam, manipulation, and validation farming on that platform. if that wasn’t enough, it was clear the game was rigged.
i’m done with that, specially when it comes to discussing publicly about bitcoin.
here on nostr, the audience is so niche that it only makes sense to be present if you are interested in that specific niche. i believe algorithmic autonomy and decentralization are becoming increasingly desirable for regular people, which means in the long term this will eventually cease to be a niche. we will then encounter spam, manipulation, and validation farming. i suppose i will cross that bridge when i get there.
the good thing is nostr is an open protocol, so there will always be more social sovereignty to seize.

2024-08-02 17:46:35 UTC

energy is the apex abstraction for all human activity.
you can think what you want about digital technology, the internet, computers, ai, et al. — the truth is electricity is its only means of existence, so it's simply inevitable they will shift towards whatever unit of value that abstracts energy and electricity into a unit of account.

2024-04-26 18:27:08 UTC

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fuck this
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2024-04-26 18:26:19 UTC

over the last few weeks, it has been proven that lightning, in the most practical, real-world terms, is not censorship-resistant.
"you can use lightning in a self-custodial manner" is just as true as "nobody does."
the ux is flawed from its root—the inbound liquidity problem is unacceptable, sorry—so we accepted the compromise of centralization by relinquishing self-custody and made all the mainstream ways of using lightning vulnerable to state-backed DoS attacks.
before you jump out of your chair: fuck big blocks and fuck changing the base layer. bitcoin's limited block size and allowing fees to float based on demand on a true free market not only favors decentralization but also makes it prohibitively expensive to spam the network and to perform DoS attacks against it.
but we need to do something about lightning. we either need to re-think it from the ground up, or we must find new alternatives.

2024-04-07 16:46:28 UTC

bitcoin
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layer 1 smart contract for proof of stake and airdrop of nfts and cross chain atomic swap for rollups and iot and ai utility token for decentralized finance defi and decentralized autonomous organization dao for decentralized exchanges dex and liquidity pools for yield farming and stablecoins and wrapped tokens and zero-knowledge proofs zk-snarks for sharding and sidechains and state channels for off-chain computation and interoperability and decentralized storage and decentralized identity solutions for multi-chain ecosystems and layer 2 scaling solutions for decentralized lending and borrowing and flash loans for automated market makers amms and governance tokens for non-fungible token nft marketplaces and fractional nft ownership and decentralized insurance and prediction markets for decentralized social networks and privacy coins for decentralized cloud computing and decentralized virtual reality vr and augmented reality ar applications for tokenized real-world assets and decentralized supply chain management solutions and decentralized advertising platforms for decentralized gaming ecosystems
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2024-03-06 01:45:25 UTC

#note1gj5…5tgy
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2024-03-06 01:44:44 UTC

sold the ATH and upgraded my home gym, time for a better squat rack
we are not the sam, fuck lambos

2023-02-18 16:50:28 UTC

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Thanks so much for sharing this. I’ll give it a read!

2023-02-18 16:49:49 UTC

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true