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 If you run a bitcoin business, plushies of Itty Bitty are available to be purchased in bulk at wholesale prices. At #BitcoinTokyo in September, 80% of our stock sold out in a day. Email hello@herecomesbitcoin.com for more info.
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 Become ungovernable.
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 It’s as real as a giant puppet standing in a crowd on a busy Japanese street can be. 
 Become ungovernable. 
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 We are still in the market for bitcoin wizards. If you know someone who considers themselves a bitcoin wizard, 1) you keep weird company, but 2) please send them our way: https://spiral.xyz/blog/spiral-is-hiring-bitcoin-wizards/ 
 Become ungovernable. 
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 The official position of the Spiral team is that Satoshi is a cat:

1) Never around when people want them to be.
2) Impossible to find when they don’t want to be found.
3) Eats weird gross food.
4) Proficient in C++, which has the number of characters as “cat,” starts with a C, and has a character that looks like a lowercase T.
5) Keeps weird hours.
6) Prefers English spelling because all cats have British accents.
7) What are cypherpunks if not mysterious? What are cats if not mysterious?
8) Independent and unknowable.
9) Whiskers, probably.
10) Could be sitting next to you and you wouldn’t know it.
11) Could be sitting on you and you wouldn’t know it.
12) Knows how to use a keyboard.
13) Very popular online.
14) Known to “move on to other things.”
15) Satoshi Nakamoto is a Japanese name. You know who eats a lot of fish? The Japanese. You know who else? 
 “Sat rhymes with cat” is such an obvious miss on our behalf. 
 21. Cat rhymes with sat. 
 They said being idiots who make bitcoin stickers for a living would never last. They say a lot of things. 

Use these and all the dozens of others as gifs for whatever dumb stuff you’re up to by searching “herecomesbitcoin” on GIPHY. Or visit http://herecomesbitcoin.org to download them all for Signal and Telegram and spam your friends until they like you even less.
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 Why not Bitcoin as a forest god? Give us one good reason. 
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 Exactly. 
 New banner on bitcoindesign.org just dropped thanks to nature’s ultimate, organically grown interns, Abhijay Jain and Sushant Faujdar, who came to us and herecomesbitcoin.org via summerofbitcoin.org.

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 * https://bitcoin.design

Please, someone righteous and powerful, give us an edit button. 
 When creating the big furry Bitcoin video, we wondered: which country would be first to dub it into their local language?

It was Japan. It had to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=5BTDdm6OoLqxhlO9&v=UOnNqcSufrI&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1 
 He doesn’t think much, to be perfectly honest. About anything. 
 Chainalysis’ offices are different than how I imagined them.
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 Ahhh… yeah, that might prove more challenging. 
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 Copy away. Free to use however you want. 
 Do it! 
 Spiral recently had its annual hack week. With @GBKS’s help, we created a hypothetical, first-ever all-outdoor ad campaign for Nostr: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-Sec0h3ad7Eq6jDrtWW1KdfpKYvMQlhzhq3YZgIOXf4/edit 
 You get two buying options and no excuses. The herecomesbitcoin.org plushie is now available at #Bitcoin2024’s official store, in addition to the one we share with our pals at booth B46 with our pals  @SHAmory.https://m.primal.net/JfRK.jpg  
 Every Bitcoin plushie delivers itself in a 1975 GMC High Sierra that you get to keep.https://m.primal.net/Jbhm.jpg  
 🎉  Honk if you love sound money 🎉

🧡 The Orange One is now available with help from our strange friends at Uncute. Get in before the eBay resellers.

https://www.uncute.com/products/here-comes-bitcoin

☝️ https://m.primal.net/JaRC.jpg On-chain⛓️ and #Lightning⚡️ payments are accepted via @`BTCPay Server`

Supplies are, fittingly, limited.


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 Catnip also affects Bitcoins. That's why he looks like a talkative scarecrow just revealed the secrets of Stonehenge to him.https://m.primal.net/JZcg.jpg  
 Just because bitcoiners are on the carnivore diet doesn’t mean Bitcoin has to be.https://m.primal.net/JXpr.jpg  
 Summoning the fiat gods to a crumbling, otherworldly landscape somewhere to finish this thing once and for all.https://m.primal.net/JWij.jpg  
 We caught the grind but missed the backflip. https://m.primal.net/JVPO.jpg  
 Uncute.com on Monday the 22nd 
 As the prophets foretold.  
 The biggest threat to fiat currencies is a fun loving plush toy with indigestion.

Coming to Uncute.com via @`BTCPayServer` on 7/22 and to @`TheBitcoinConf` on 7/25.https://m.primal.net/JUFH.jpg
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 Perhaps our best Spiral newsletter ever, this extremely late post covers all the bases: weather-induced spirituality, cosmic Jerome Powells, and, most importantly, the phrase “senior technical fungus.” 

https://spiral.xyz/blog/spiral-quarterly-update-h1-2024/ 
 Kinda want to start a podcast where I only  talk to the outspoken, angry, weird plebs from deep w... 
 Do it.  
 Your bank could already be insolvent. It’s not like they’d tell you. 
 We’ve got more herecomesbitcoin.org stickers, this time featuring  @HRF,  @jack,  @ROCKSTAR,  @jack mallers,  @SN,  @OpenSats,  @BTCTokyo, and Brink.

Plus Black Ops Bitcoin, Girls Night Out 2, Ride the Lightning Bitcoin, and Old Charlie “Can O’ Beans” Bitcoin.

Will your brand 100% go under unless it gets its own anthropomorphic Bitcoin mascot? Weird problem, but relatable. https://m.primal.net/JGwO.jpg DMs are always open.  
 Perfect money doesn’t just happen. https://m.primal.net/IjvA.png  
 Soon. Very soon. 
 Bitcoin on a Ferris wheel. You can’t hear him because it’s a gif, but Bitcoin is doing Daenerys’ wheel monologue except it’s about the wheel of fiat currencies and how bitcoin eventually breaks it. https://m.primal.net/IjTu.gif  
 Ooph, Nostr botched the formatting. Regardless, the content is the same.

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 good call. Messed up formatting is only on primal desktop web. 
 Bitcoin marketing projects from our many long years at this company we are not allowed to leave:

500 Headlines About Bitcoin: https://www.500headlinesaboutbitcoin.com/

Spiral Presents: The Lightning Development Kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOT78Bgy1Qw

Bitcoin Mythology Volumes 1 & 2: https://bitcoinmythology.org/volume-1-bitcoin-mining/

Who is Bitcoin?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHUOr8ruMw

Here Comes Bitcoin: https://www.herecomesbitcoin.org/ 
 Ooph, Nostr botched the formatting. Regardless, the content is the same.

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 Nostr Implementation Protocol, or… https://m.primal.net/IcGC.png  
 Catnip.  
 One of our first projects just turned 5. https://www.500headlinesaboutbitcoin.com/  
 Early DALL-E was wild. This was supposed to be an abstract of  @moneyball, but it went photorealistic. https://m.primal.net/IRyc.png  
 Steak and potatoes. Very Tuscan.  
 Few things are nicer than all your friends, acquaintances, and professional connections coming together to celebrate bitcoin and pizza for a day. 
 Only banks and vampires try this hard to convince you that they’re human.https://m.primal.net/IIus.jpg  
 Of course, we can’t forget Hieronymus Bosch Bitcoin, Orangepeace Industrial Cyber Skull God Bitcoin, Bitcoin de Milo, and Level 18 Beholder from Dungeons & Dragons Bitcoin.
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 They’re for sale but not for long. After that, you have to guess an 18-word BIP39 phrase in order to even be considered for the waiting list: https://www.spiralswag.xyz/product/the-21m-faces-of-bitcoin-mug/4?cs=true&cst=custom

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 It loves you too. 
 Glad it makes sense to someone. 
 They’re for sale but not for long. After that, you have to guess an 18-word BIP39 phrase in order to even be considered for the waiting list: https://www.spiralswag.xyz/product/the-21m-faces-of-bitcoin-mug/4?cs=true&cst=custom

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 Someone translated our bitcoinmythology.org project into Spanish without telling us and we love it. If you need proof that the spirit of open source extends well beyond code, here it is:  https://mitologiabitcoin.veintiuno.world/volumen-2-seguridad-bitcoin/ 
 I dunno. It’s a Sunday night.
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 Brand guidelines aren’t very bitcoin, so we did a pseudo-quasi-semi brand guidelines, which isn’t very anything except dumb. Anyway, herecomesbitcoin.org https://m.primal.net/IEfr.png  
 22 new Bitcoins are available on herecomesbitcoin.org, including several created specifically for brands we wanted to partner with. If your team wants an HCB partnership of their own, DM us here on Nostr or email hello@herecomesbitcoin.org https://m.primal.net/IEKZ.png https://m.primal.net/IEKb.png https://m.primal.net/IEKc.png https://m.primal.net/IEKd.png  
 They sound similar but ossification, being conservative with changes to bitcoin that could have unintended consequences, is very different from ostrichification, which is the reason you’re all reading this.

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 The future of finance isn’t a seven hundred page securities contract prepared by a stadium’s worth of lawyers but a cartoon interpretation of digital currency that walks into a bandsaw every four years as dictated by an open-source protocol. https://m.primal.net/Hwnl.png  
 Hey nostriches,

BOLT 12: yay or nay? Why? 
 Yay for reasons galore. 
 Our inability to embrace and be content with simplicity is the root of our discontent. 
 This resonated. 
 Doing what we said we’d never do and crossover posting between Twitter and Nostr to bring you guys the dumbest accounts on TikTok and YouTube Shorts, which is saying something. If there was ever a time to promote your most inane bitcoin content, it’s now:

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@herecomesbitcoin

YouTube Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@herecomesbitcoin/shorts 
 It’s not even his shirt. He borrowed it from me.  
 How dare you. 
 YOU ALL HAVE IT WRONG. BULL MARKETS ARE THE WORST TIME TO GET GIRLFRIENDS.

YOU WANT A REAL RIDE ... 
 Same goes for meeting your partner on Nostr vs. Twitter. If they can commit to never being able to delete posts, they can commit to a relationship.  
 just a few hours on nostr and already hooked

the feeling of *using* freedom tech is exhilarating... 
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