El Flaco

Bitcoin is but a piece of the puzzle.

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

More bitcoin economies means less fiat economics

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

@rektsorekt @stephanlivera More than someone who advocates chainsplitting bitcoin rather than changing their local bitcoin.conf file

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

@PatrickvdMeijde Both available and used

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

I didn't know there was activity on bitcointalk Turkish section, thanks BTK 😘

[EngelliWeb @engelliweb]

Bitcoin ve kripto para ekosisteminin en eski ve en bilinen çevrim içi forumlarından olan Bitcoin Talk, Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu Başkanının 2 Haziran 2026 tarihli ve 490.05.01.2026.-593209 sayılı kararıyla, yasa dışı bahis gerekçesiyle erişime engellendi.

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

Fiat bros are gonna lose so hard and they know it

[Schnuartz @Schnuartz]

🚨There is NO SPECTER App on Mobile.

Don't get scammed by this fake Specter App that has made it into the App Store and tries to hack your funds.

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

@aaaljaz @grok what's a5000

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

@PalazzoVincenzo Why do you think people are saying that?

[Andrej designSats @design_sats]

Fight Club: Hyperbitcoinization Edition

Dank edit inspired by a thread by @utxo_one (active on nostr only)

(reupload v2)

#fightClub #bitcoin #destroyFiat

[Vincenzo Palazzo @PalazzoVincenzo]

Last week was the Lightning Dev Summit in Vienna, full of great people & talents, where we discussed the future of Lightning at the protocol level

Here are my personal takeaways:
1/N 🧵

[Ben Arc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊⚡️ @arcbtc]

Blocking @SeedSigner from receiving a grant is the most revolting show of nepotism from @OpenSats. There is no excuse. Opensats needs a change in guard + reform the grant process. I spent last week with a bunch of high-signal bitcoiners, and the skepticism is widespread.

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

NVK blocked me after finding out that the software we develop was open source.

That alone should tell you that he's entirely unfit to be even just the janitor of an org like opensats.

However, the problems at opensats run much deeper than NVK's involvement, as jb55 other posts indicate.

[Seed @sesi_the_man]

I have heard “off the record” from multiple sources that Rodolfo Novak also continues to block funding for the SeedSigner project as well — his involvement with OpenSats continues to poison the organization.

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

@bergealex4 Or it's just convenient opportunity to shit on a competitor? Either way, it's funny that you bitch about him since have work thanks to him, and he might put you out of work, too 😁

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

@bergealex4 You think that's delusional, yeah?

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

It's certainly not his shitcoin investments that will suffer that make him say these things

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

@BitcoinScoresby Last I interacted with him a month or so ago he seemed to be having a psychotic break and deleted his account.

[El Flaco @_pretyflaco]

I believe in free markets and risk sharing, that's coincidentally the capitalism invented by Prophet Muhammed (see Benedikt Koehler's book "Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism" - here's a good lecture by him on the topic
https://t.co/VEvXFUipwc) and practiced for many centuries in the Islamic World.

Rent-seeking is mostly forbidden (leasing is ok + profit making from trade). Islamic economics draws a hard line between earning from risk-bearing productive activity (encouraged) and extracting from gatekeeping, money-lending, or monopoly position (prohibited).

The test is: are you adding value and sharing risk, or are you just sitting in the middle collecting tolls?

This is why Islamic finance developed profit-sharing structures instead of interest-based lending (riba is haram) - the capital provider must share in both upside and downside.

So I think your claim that rent-seeking is inherent to capitalism is not correct. Capitalism existed before Florentine and Venetian families started circumventing the usury prohibition in Catholicism and got rich with interest-based banking.

The irony is that for most of recorded civilization, the default position was that interest was wrong. The current system where it's the unquestioned norm is the exception.

[Blink Wallet @blinkbtc]

Weekly Brief 2026/22

Wallet of Satoshi says POS merchants must switch to self-custody addresses or stop accepting payments — citing worsening custodial reporting rules. Kenya's 40M Lightning-addressable M-Pesa numbers now sit on a $4B remittance corridor. And an AI agent just bought FRED economic data for 20 sats.

link to article in next post 👇

[Scoresby @BitcoinScoresby]

Burak (the guy who broke LND with a 998-of-999 multisig and who came up with ARK) proposed a new layer 2 design:

Link below 👇

[Kevin Ravens₿erg ⚡️ @KevinR4v]

This is a https://t.co/uPqse1gYgJ tx graph, analysing possible ownership paths 🕶️ with A+ privacy rating by https://t.co/4dYoysmetN (use VPN / Tor when filling in personal txs)