For over a decade, I have lived and breathed Bitcoin—not as an investment, not as a trade, but as a way of life.
I watched the hard forks, the ego trippers, the cash grabs, the opportunists who tried to mold Bitcoin into something it was never meant to be. I watched people chase power, creating their own chains, their own systems, always believing they could do better—yet always falling into the same traps that led to the 2008 collapse in the first place. They never learned. Because they never let go of ego.
Bitcoin was born, like Occupy Wall Street, from the ashes of a financial system built on corruption and manipulation. It was never meant to be a tool for the same forces that enslaved us in the first place. It was a revolution, a quiet, unstoppable revolution, built by those who were willing to risk everything to see a new world emerge.
To truly live on a Bitcoin standard, to have all your savings in Bitcoin, to relinquish all external income, is to undergo ego death. You no longer think in fiat terms. You no longer chase short-term wins. You are forced to think in decades, in centuries. You see through the noise, the distractions, the shiny new coins and chains that promise easy gains but only lead back to the same system we were trying to escape.
Integrity is everything. If you bend the knee to easy money, to shortcuts, to short-term glory over long-term truth, you were never really here for the revolution.
Bitcoin requires no leaders, no idols, no egos. It only requires conviction. Hold the line. Stay the course. The system will fall. And when it does, only those who held firm will build what comes next.
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had the chance to slash the state, to build something real. And it was working! You could've stayed the course, wielded your chainsaw and made history. But no! You just had to shill a Solana rugpull.
You and your pride and your ego!
Blocked by this degenerate, not yet “Peter D. Gray”, but I have a question for our industry:
Why does no one prominent call this guy out and hold him accountable? Maybe I’ve missed it, but I’ve not heard a peep from those who directly benefited from his scam products publicly insisting he make his customers whole. Why?
Shall I start calling them out by name?
The real Bitcoin revolution happens when we turn ideas into action.
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What we've been working on in BLVM, Oct 20 to Nov 10, straight from the commit log 🤓
GPU. The release binary includes CUDA batch signature verification for ECDSA and Schnorr. On a machine with an Nvidia device, IBD runs on the GPU. On a machine without one, the binary falls back to CPU automatically. No recompile, no flags.
Proofs. Lean now checks the Orange Paper model beside Z3. The subsidy theorem is proved in both Rust and Lean, and a growing set of Orange Paper sentences carry Lean proofs.
Privacy. Dandelion++ transaction relay is on by default. Stem paths are randomized at peer handshake, and each transaction draws its own fallback deadline from a jittered window so there's no fixed timing signal an observer can use to work back to the origin.
Fees. The node ships a full fee estimator with history, block projection, and mempool blending. External fee sources register by name and the operator picks the active one in config. The new fee module pulls from upstream sources and pushes a blended table into the node.
Timers. Modules schedule work through a node-owned timer service: once and repeating timers, cron, chain triggers, and durable timers that survive a module kill.
Networks. Testnet4 and Signet are both supported on the command line.
Migration. For anyone running Core: BLVM reads bitcoin.conf directly, honors your existing config, and starts up storage-aware. The data directory is locked on startup.
Modules. The registry covers wallet and address history, payment processing, miniscript analysis, ZeroMQ notifications, governance signaling, and selective sync. Each runs as its own process. Modules never open sockets directly. The node runs the network on their behalf, and the operator controls which hosts each module can reach.
Consensus. We keep closing places where the implementation accepted what Bitcoin rejects. CSV and CLTV now activate at their correct heights. Version-0 witness programs of the wrong length are rejected at decode. The old 10,000-transaction block cap is gone.
Releases. Nothing is built by hand. Tests, clippy, a security audit, fuzzing, spec-lock, deterministic Linux builds, attested binaries, and deb, rpm, Arch and Windows packages all come out of workflows. Linux aarch64 ships, so Raspberry Pi 64-bit is a supported target.
The Orange Paper is the spec. BLVM is the first implementation. No new coin. 🧡
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It's been a very challenging few days, working relentlessly to get the v1.7 release out after our users and we suffered losses. But what has blown all of us developers away is just how gracious and understanding the community has been. Thank you sincerely for all the support.
People are putting ideas to work. Here is one of them.
A maker has put “Bitcoin for Wildlife Education” on Noderunners Fund. Come take a look.
Take a look. Give the builder some signal. #Bitcoin https://t.co/rgxrn3vqv7
I grew up on an internet where Anonymous was challenging governments, hacktivists were exposing corruption, and cypherpunks were writing code to undermine centralized power.
Now I watch Bitcoiners celebrate getting invited into the institutions those people wanted to make obsolete.
It’s surreal.
We went from “information wants to be free” to paid newsletters.
From challenging surveillance to accepting it as the price of compliance.
From fuck-you money to “look how many billionaires own Bitcoin.”
From questioning the monetary system to cheering for dollar stablecoins and Wall Street adoption.
And apparently, if you still care about the political and philosophical principles behind this technology, you’re being divisive.
I remember when being divisive toward concentrated power was the entire point.
The early internet wasn’t perfect. Neither were the hacktivists. But at least they understood something we’ve almost forgotten:
The goal wasn’t to become powerful enough to sit beside the people controlling the system.
The goal was to build a world where nobody had that kind of power over you.
We didn’t lose the technology.
We lost the audacity.
BITCOIN MINING HEAT IS NOW BEING USED TO HATCH AND RAISE QUAIL 🐣
HeatHarvest by @BeeEvolved has launched “Satoshi’s Hatchery,” a project designed to capture waste heat from Bitcoin mining and use it throughout the entire quail life cycle, from egg incubation to adulthood.
The project aims to demonstrate how Bitcoin mining can simultaneously generate revenue and provide heat for food production, agriculture, and wildlife conservation.
The team is also repurposing obsolete electronics, including old 3D printer enclosures and retired mining hardware, to reduce waste and construction costs.
I encourage all operators to assess the risk surface area of their sites. Especially vendors with closed firmware, management software, and of course more important than ever, proper network security.
The mining industry is still very new and immature.
UPDATE: we're now 4.31% of the way to get this Bitcoin ad into the NY Times. (151% of our first objective to get enough to put this in a highly reputable Royal Society magazine)
Some key stats
1. Nostr donations are outpacing Twitter donations 3:1
2. 75.4% of donations have been in Bitcoin.
So it's working!
If you'd like the chance to help make history and change not just minds but hearts, this campaign is a great way to do that.
And ... if you are thinking "what is this all about?" - read the backstory below.
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NEW - EU approves the establishment of its first military mission presence on Ukrainian soil. Russia previously warned that European troops in Ukraine would become legitimate targets.
For over a decade, I have lived and breathed Bitcoin—not as an investment, not as a trade, but as a way of life.
I watched the hard forks, the ego trippers, the cash grabs, the opportunists who tried to mold Bitcoin into something it was never meant to be. I watched people chase power, creating their own chains, their own systems, always believing they could do better—yet always falling into the same traps that led to the 2008 collapse in the first place. They never learned. Because they never let go of ego.
Bitcoin was born, like Occupy Wall Street, from the ashes of a financial system built on corruption and manipulation. It was never meant to be a tool for the same forces that enslaved us in the first place. It was a revolution, a quiet, unstoppable revolution, built by those who were willing to risk everything to see a new world emerge.
To truly live on a Bitcoin standard, to have all your savings in Bitcoin, to relinquish all external income, is to undergo ego death. You no longer think in fiat terms. You no longer chase short-term wins. You are forced to think in decades, in centuries. You see through the noise, the distractions, the shiny new coins and chains that promise easy gains but only lead back to the same system we were trying to escape.
Integrity is everything. If you bend the knee to easy money, to shortcuts, to short-term glory over long-term truth, you were never really here for the revolution.
Bitcoin requires no leaders, no idols, no egos. It only requires conviction. Hold the line. Stay the course. The system will fall. And when it does, only those who held firm will build what comes next.
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had the chance to slash the state, to build something real. And it was working! You could've stayed the course, wielded your chainsaw and made history. But no! You just had to shill a Solana rugpull.
You and your pride and your ego!
One Bitcoin = one Bitcoin.
Bitcoin doesn’t need a higher dollar price to become better money. It already has the properties that make it revolutionary: scarcity, verifiability, permissionless ownership, and freedom from discretionary monetary policy.
The BTC/USD exchange rate measures what the market is willing to exchange one for the other. It doesn’t define Bitcoin’s purpose or its success.
Of course purchasing power matters. But if our measure of success is how many dollars we can eventually get for our Bitcoin, aren’t we still measuring our freedom in the very system we set out to make obsolete?
Hyperbitcoinization isn’t about Bitcoin becoming worth more dollars. It’s about a world where we no longer need to think in dollars at all.
This isn't an opinion; it's an indispensable technical fact. If bitcoin doesn't go up in value it can't work because nobody wants to willingly hold a money that drops in value, and even more importantly, we can only increase its liquidity, market cap, scalability and moneyness by increasing its price, since the supply is fixed. At a price of $1 bitcoin is a $20m joke among nerds online, practically useless for everyone as there's no liquidity. At a price of $10m bitcoin is the biggest money on earth, and necessary for everyone. If you want bitcoin to work you need NGU. Virtue-signaling "tech, not price" is as silly as saying you like car technology but don't care if the car moves.