Best gift and start for the little one #Bitkey


The only things holding us back are willpower and putting in the work.


I want not only to shape the future but also to make it look and feel like the future.


Calm and steady > rushing tides

Be wary when everyone is excited
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LFG! I’m in nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m


Controversial AI take: The true measure of intelligence is not in answers but in questions.


Are you able to share the picture it generated?


Maybe you are right, maybe you are not. There is a place for founder mode. At the same time I’m not a fan of extremes, each approach has its time and place.


Based.


GN!


Option 3: Opt out all together #Bitcoin


Maybe we do need AI-driven democracy: Train an AI on citizens' will, use it to make decisions. Periodically retrain with new input. No more politicians, just people's voices amplified. A feedback loop of direct democracy. https://image.nostr.build/8c960e110ca87dc0b641b3db2a330c8d7633362dca04c9937319c9a11abd9f73.jpg


And I thought I’m the only one using my phone on flight mode and wifi all the time :-)


Inspiring! Thank you for being a great leader. 🙏


Peace > Happiness


There is only one OG. and remember: "There is no second best" ;-)
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Everyone seems to be talking about "founder mode" lately. It may work for Airbnb, but let's not forget the stellar performance of "manager mode" giants like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon & Nvidia. These tech leaders have thrived with it scaling to unprecedented heights. "Founder mode" has merits and I've also learned one size doesn't fit all.
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Congratulations!


This is the way!


We are here and we will not leave!


Stevi

Head of Bitcoin Engineering at Block | Not investment advice | Opinions are mine


Life Lesson: Don't assume you deserve anything by default. Work for what you want and need. If something is given to you, it's a gift. Don't expect it.


Proud dad moment: Watching my kids run their lemonade stand embracing both old-school charm and cutting-edge tech. They're learning about #Bitcoin and Lightning payments - all while serving up smiles, cookies & refreshments. These little ones are dreaming big! #Lightning #Payments
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Welcome to nostr 👋


GM 👋


Life Lesson: Embrace small victories, not greed. Steady progress illuminates the big picture. Consistent growth outshines fleeting windfalls.
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All we can do is build


must watch for anyone who feels anything about social media: https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU


Thank you for sharing nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m


And keep building…


🙏, hope and build


Family, kids, wife and freedom nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a


A decentralized network built by the people, for the people. Protecting free speech through peer-to-peer connections, no central authority, and censorship resistance. Join the movement for a truly open internet. #Nostr https://image.nostr.build/069458f94046cec951014995359d4591460e0a58b9e833290daf6eceb842f6c1.jpg


Want to make peer-to-peer electronic cash a reality for mass adoption? This is the goal of #Bitcoin
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Violence solves nothing. Reject political extremism. Prayers for those suffering from it. Opt out of broken systems peacefully. #Bitcoin
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Bitcoin Lightning is powering the Internet's instant & borderless value transfers. The future of online payments is already here. ⚡
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As centralized social media platforms face increasing scrutiny and control, we may witness a paradigm shift towards decentralized networks. These distributed systems could emerge as the last bastions of truly open (digital) discourse.
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This is the way.


Who is building one?


'If liberty means anything, it's the right to tell people what they don't want to hear.' - Orwell. Yet we must defend even what we oppose. As sunlight disinfects, free expression illuminates injustice. Silence on important matters diminishes us all.


Words may be free but their consequences come at a premium. Let's hope our thought-price index doesn't become doubleplusungood. #Nostr


“If 42 is the answer to everything, #Bitcoin is half the truth to everything.” - Steven Geller


Stablecoins are a real enabler for commerce on the Bitcoin blockchain. This marks an important milestone in bringing peer-to-peer commerce payments to the mainstream. Well done, @lightning... Onwards! https://lightning.engineering/posts/2024-07-23-taproot-assets-LN/


This is … poor judgement


How do you like it?


Calm your mind and focus on what’s important. Life with #Bitcoin
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Interesting take on Proof of Work from #BitcoinPrague. Well done and great talk Jack Mallers loved the context of virtual and physical power. #bitcoin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--IFcOIEfl4&t=9s


#Bitcoin is mainnet, everything else is testnet and devnet


Based!


GN my place of mindfulness #Nostr! #Bitcoin is well and growing. Ignore the price and support the ecosystem!


#Bitcoin 🔥 https://github.com/martindale/toshi


Soon also in your country - and mine 😩


Stoic ;-)


huge

(small)

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This is wonderful progress. Can’t wait to see the products powered with it


This is the way


#Bitcoin
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#Bitcoin is freedom


GM 👋


LFG!


Confirmed


This is the way!


+1 especially if you try to find things


🧘 it’s my safe space


🙏 yes!


#Leadership


Agreed. Slack is chaotic and hard to search


Strong Lindy effect


GM


when will we see easy and wide spread use of red envope using crypto for Luna New Year?


time for Attestation and DiDs on blochcain.


stats from my Jan 6 post on X:

#Nostr vs #Farcaster stats

Weekly Active User: 25,000 vs 5,400
Total posts: 62M vs 1.9M
Decentralization: 2100 relays vs ? Hubs


great to have you on nostr!


There are 60 million millionaires in the world, and every single one of them has a store of value problem. And so does everyone else in the world.

The cost to ship a sizable amount of gold internationally costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. Even if you just buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold domestically and bring it home, you're paying a spot markup of thousands of dollars. The cost to close a luxury mansion real estate deal (which many wealthy people just own and leave empty as a store of value) can be hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and then depending on their jurisdiction they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in property taxes on it. An international wire transfer often costs like $30 and takes days and is entirely permissioned/centralized/credit-based. Credit card fees are like 3%. The global banking industry generates hundreds of billions of dollars in fees per year even though it's all centralized.

Bitcoin is a decentralized global liquid store of value and settlement network. You can send money to any internet-connected person in the world generally in an hour or less depending on desired block confirmations. You can indefinitely self-custodially store value in a unit that is scarcer than gold and scarcer than real estate and that unlike both gold and real estate is globally portable. It currently costs like $35 to do this and everyone is losing their minds at how expensive that seems. But $35 is an *outstanding* price for this service, and in ten years I have no idea what the price will be but there are many scenarios where it could be way higher.

Right now, bitcoin fees are higher than normal because people are trading frogs on the timechain and so forth. But regardless, people need to be ready for the prospect of sustained high fees if bitcoin adoption continues to grow structurally with limited block space. This means users, developers, businesses, etc. To put it into this bigger context, fees are still insanely cheap compared to other alternatives listed above that give similar store of value and global payment properties at scale.

I'm a bit surprised fees haven't *already* been $35 on a regular basis by now. So to flip it around; fees aren't expensive because there are frogs on the timechain; fees are still cheap because relatively few people are using bitcoin to send and store money compared to the total addressable market that could be doing so.

Does this price out small users? Unfortunately, yes. That's where layers come in, and the options vary depending on if someone is a power user or not. Hal Finney wrote about that in 2010; it's not a new narrative.

A couple Lightning channels can open a lot of payment liquidity for you. Sidechains like Liquid didn't get much attention when fees were low but now people are giving them a second look. Chaumian mints allow communities around the world to set up their own community banks/custodians with built-in privacy.  Places like Cash App allow people to buy bitcoin with decent custodial assurances run by serious people (eg it's not some crazy-haired idiot in the Bahamas). These are all tools that people can use to have bitcoin price exposure, pay in bitcoin, etc. And a unique aspect of bitcoin is the ability to split control. Multi-institution multi-sigs, or federated sidechains: the fact that ownership can be broken into several different entities is not something available to gold or similar assets, and yet a lot of people take it for granted on bitcoin. These are all tools that businesses can offer and people can use for smaller amounts, and then pull into on-chain self-custody if they have a sizable balance for longer-term storage.

In the future, some soft forks or non-form upgrades might allow other types of models. I think the ecosystem is still in its infancy. But in the meantime, it helps to have perspective on what bitcoin offers compared to alternatives, and to be realistic about the long-run inevitability of substantial base-layer fees if any meaningful adoption becomes sustained, and thus the importance of preparing for them.

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bitcoin is energy, uranium is energy 🤔


"Bitcoin hasn’t yet been displaced in twelve years despite the arrival of over 8,000 competitors." —Lyn Alden


GM and Happy 2024. It’s going to be an interesting year.
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nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z thank you so much for the recent podcast about nostr