jimmysong

Bitcoin Expert
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Author of 5 Bitcoin books

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2026-03-01 16:52:10 CET

This year feels like it's all kayfabe.

2026-03-01 00:11:21 CET

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The lack of hope is what leads to gambling.

2026-02-28 19:41:51 CET

The more financially unstable a place is, the more altcoins appeal. And they're appealing to a lot of people almost everywhere.

2026-02-27 17:41:39 CET

App development is definitely not just for programmers anymore.

2026-02-26 22:25:17 CET

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It probably works pretty well to engage narcissists.

2026-02-26 17:50:17 CET

Cypherpunks (vibe) code.

2026-02-25 23:39:50 CET

Jane Street has Willy Bot vibes.

2026-02-25 17:39:30 CET

I can hardly remember a time before cell phones.
That's what it's going to feel like in a few years but with AI agents.

2026-02-24 16:44:35 CET

Turns out AI personalization may be the catalyst for all the decentralized tools we need to get off the big tech platforms.
Of course, we'll need private AIs to get much better, but we're not that far away.

2026-02-23 16:56:31 CET

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2026-02-22 15:10:34 CET

I spent a large chunk of yesterday iterating on a browser based coop tower defense game with my sons. Kinda amazed that it's pretty fun.

2026-02-21 22:03:08 CET

How many projects can I juggle on claude at one time? I'm gonna find out.

2026-02-20 21:26:47 CET

What useful tools would you like to see here on Nostr that hasn't been made yet?
I ask so I have more projects to make on Claude.

2026-02-19 17:52:43 CET

I'm about to cross the Rubicon to a Claude Max subscription.

2026-02-18 18:59:03 CET

Announcing that you're unfollowing someone is about the most cringe way of announcing your narcissism.
So of course Boomers are doing this constantly.

2026-02-17 17:28:41 CET

Insurance is such a fiat scam. All the middle men it creates are rent-seeking by nature and the quality of the service not only becomes more expensive but worse. Direct payment, or value-for-value is the far more honest thing.

2026-02-17 00:42:48 CET

I swear the plan for the normie is "Load up on debt and die before you have to pay it off."

2026-02-16 16:40:01 CET

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #488
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2026-02-15 18:53:33 CET

We have outrage fatigue. The last 30 years have been a constant barrage of media that demanded that we be outraged by something or other, that when truly outrageous things happen, we don't have the energy to be properly outraged.
This is why the responses COVID lockdowns and the Epstein stuff are relatively tepid.

2026-02-14 23:32:04 CET

It's not just strawberries, but pretty much every fruit and vegetable that has undergone significant changes after being farmed.
Cows, though, they're mostly the same.
https://blossom.primal.net/a4db01d7da16a94cfc46bb4d70821383930126f8b4a270f7973fb8741c6e7a90.png

2026-02-14 16:53:38 CET

There's always drama.

2026-02-13 20:41:24 CET

Gambling is what people turn to when the hope of real value-adding work is dashed.

2026-02-12 19:34:58 CET

The reason for Bitcoin's success is that it is a great savings vehicle. It has so little competition in that regard that every other use case is a rounding error. I know people don't like hearing that, but it's true.

2026-02-11 16:47:33 CET

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Good question. I suspect not because enforcement probably requires a block being mined.

2026-02-09 21:18:01 CET

What you quickly realize about the elites is that they are generally mediocrities that never had to go through the meritocracy gauntlet, have few moral qualms and lie, cheat and steal regularly. Yet they expect other people to act differently.
This is what you call a leech, a parasite, or a rent-seeker.

2026-02-09 17:11:41 CET

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #487
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2026-02-08 17:04:05 CET

Shill me goods and services that you love that you can't get with fiat money.

2026-02-07 21:58:35 CET

The way you can bring Bitcoin as method-of-payment about is by providing something to the market that it wants and demanding that they pay you in Bitcoin.
That's may more effective than whining about other people not doing the same.

2026-02-06 21:42:20 CET

The capitulation this time came much faster than other times.

2026-02-05 17:12:30 CET

My conversation with Max Keiser and Russell Brand on Bitcoin, El Salvador and Christianity
https://rumble.com/v75b5be-max-keiser-russell-brand-and-jimmy-song-on-christianity-and-bitcoin.html

2026-02-04 18:32:28 CET

The elite are slaves of their many vices... but so are the middle class and poor.
The two communities where I've seen countertrends are Bitcoin and church.

2026-02-03 19:08:21 CET

What distinguishes the high achievers is their willingness to do the work.

2026-02-02 17:15:45 CET

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #486
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-486

2026-02-01 18:31:53 CET

Let's hear your take on how BIP110 plays out

2026-01-31 20:52:32 CET

I recorded with Peter Schiff. He thinks about gold the way we do about Bitcoin, and even recognizes gold's inherent inferiority with respect to self-custody.
His opinions on Bitcoin are trash, but his opinions on government, central banking and markets aren't too far off from what Bitcoiners believe.

2026-01-29 17:02:47 CET

I talked to Angela McArdle about Trump, Libertarianism, Ross and much more.
#Bitcoin Fixes This #135
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2026-01-28 18:44:28 CET

Open Borders vs Deportation in the Bitcoin Blockchain.

2026-01-26 20:54:54 CET

You know what drastically slowed its rate of growth in the 70's?
Energy production, from something like 9%/yr to 3.5%/yr.

2026-01-25 16:58:21 CET

Today is one of those days where all that cold plunging pays off.

2026-01-24 17:59:21 CET

I wouldn't get too excited about a new Fed chair. All of them become swamp creatures soon enough.

2026-01-23 23:35:40 CET

Another episode with Tone and Chris Guida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9wLnGb9O8

2026-01-23 17:26:01 CET

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The only way out is through. And that means hyperinflation, the chemotherapy that will exorcise the cancer.
Yes, people will suffer, but to quote Andrew Jackson:
“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.”
The suffering that is inevitable in this fiat Ponzi scheme is not something we can prevent and in any case is not our fault. What would be our fault is if we keep the scheme going and cause even more people to suffer.
You might not like it, but that's the reality.
#nevent1q…g83h

2026-01-21 18:12:03 CET

We've all lost years paying attention to stuff that doesn't matter.

2026-01-21 00:38:34 CET

Loving "humanity" is a cop-out. It's your rationalization for why you don't love your neighbor or even your family.

2026-01-20 17:15:30 CET

Yea, there were finance bros buying negative rate bonds, but the kids taking out huge loans to study psychology were stupider.
Elite overproduction explains a lot of how society is debasing.

2026-01-19 23:07:01 CET

There will always be cheaters.
The question is do you let them get away with it or punish them?

2026-01-19 16:22:53 CET

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #484
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2026-01-16 19:25:00 CET

The problem of violence is very hard to solve. The modern way has been centralizing authority, who can then monopolize the violence and abuse that authority. But the traditional way was to use decentralized justice, where revenge and tit-for-tat would eventually get people to game-theory optimal morals.
Like it or not, the traditional way is what we're doing here in both Bitcoin and Nostr.

2026-01-15 18:33:07 CET

The real sin of fiat money is that technology is used to debase everything to keep up with the monetary debasement rather than enriching our lives.

2026-01-14 15:52:47 CET

The most common reason normies go along with stupid things is because they're lazy.

2026-01-12 15:34:45 CET

Are there any Nostr clients that do scheduled posts?

2026-01-12 15:17:18 CET

You're married but you're not ready for kids.
True, but that's not an excuse.

2026-01-12 04:02:08 CET

The r/buttcoin subreddit has existed since 2011.
The Bitcoin haters have had the same arguments, same level of wishful thinking, and same delusional unreality about Bitcoin since.
They're not worth your time. Block, mute, and don't engage these pitiable creatures.

2026-01-11 18:11:06 CET

Yea, this is an argument for more people going to uncensored places, but what bothers me is that we're still lumped in with "crypto bros"
https://blossom.primal.net/45bd20c14d1881c23e3c1ecb19d53ab620b775f7987a171bcdaa8d64e89602e5.png

2026-01-11 17:31:09 CET

The worst part of censorship is that not speaking or writing about something naturally diminishes your thoughts about it.
Sometimes you need to be unhinged so the rare pearl of wisdom can be captured.

2026-01-10 17:26:25 CET

California seems intent on collapsing itself.

2026-01-09 18:03:47 CET

We can't really verify elections, can we?

2026-01-08 21:28:41 CET

We're going to find out that most billionaires are complete frauds.

2026-01-07 22:31:21 CET

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I'm game. DM me.

2026-01-07 14:47:48 CET

"International Law" and "Rules based order" were always polite progressive fictions.
We'll see them crumble quickly in this new Age of Empires.

2026-01-04 20:57:50 CET

I don't like war, but if you have to have one, then one that's limited to soldiers, or better yet, the leaders themselves is much more preferable than total war that fiat money inevitably trends toward.

2025-12-31 21:24:49 CET

With great power comes great responsibilty... unless you have the money printer.

2025-12-28 16:27:46 CET

You don't need to fix the world. You'd probably screw up if you could, not because you're so incompetent, but because nobody has that level of knowledge and skill.

2025-12-27 21:15:09 CET

Moderns have spurned family, community and God. The only thing they cling to is life, which is severely debased as a result of their spurning.

2025-12-24 23:48:35 CET

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I was a vegetarian for 20 years and I can confirm, eating meat again 13 years ago felt like this.
#nevent1q…5agm

2025-12-22 18:36:26 CET

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #480
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2025-12-20 02:19:25 CET

For a large part of high school and college, my dream was to become a math professor. I loved math, particularly discrete math, like combinatorics, probability and graph theory. There's something about solving, or even understanding a problem that you noodle over for days, usually at the end of many hours of frustration. There's something about developing intuition for certain concepts, seeing patterns that was really attractive.
But I didn't go. I've told myself in the past that it was because I didn't want to and that the life of a professor seemed too grueling and lonely, but if I'm honest, it's because my grades weren't good enough. I goofed off too much in college and coasted through a too many classes.
But looking back, it was a blessing to not have that option. Academia in general and grad school in particular suck. It's a difficult life of moving to where the jobs are, of debasing yourself to fit the mold of the powers that be, full of egos, red tape and politics. And the type of people that graduate PhD programs come out a particular way. You can see it in their eyes. It's like they've lost a bit of their soul.
Academia, like most fiat institutions has that effect on people. It's driven by a zero-sum game of status, where demand remains high despite the economic prospects getting worse and worse.
I bring this up because apparently, the Brown shooter was a grad student. And like many grad students, the system broke him. It's a reminder that as much as it would be nice to have a chance at high status professions like the ones offered in grad school, there's a lot of risk as well, particularly to your soul.
Back in 2019, I got to teach a graduate class at the University of Texas on Bitcoin. I hold no graduate degrees, so the only reason I got to do this was because a couple of the professors there recognized that I was an expert. Sometimes the road less traveled still takes you to where you wanted to go.

2025-12-17 14:42:41 CET

There are always unintended consequences of new tech.
https://blossom.primal.net/2bdb70393d14ac0a8f020dc06d0e9ad87e7b32aab2e4720d0de0ec6ebe5b0594.png

2025-12-13 15:53:38 CET

Solving a small problem for a lot of people is generally going to be more impactful than solving a big problem for a few people.
The former is usually the better fit for decentralized systems, anyway.

2025-12-11 21:24:10 CET

A government that doesn't punish violations of Natural Law is not a legitimate government.

2025-12-02 05:41:44 CET

Despite the prevalence of GLP-1 drugs, you can still tell how much self-control and agency people have just by looking at them.

2025-11-28 17:29:46 CET

You can lead a horse to water. But he won't drink until he understands that water is what will quench his thirst.

2025-11-08 17:46:12 CET

The more I look into parasites, the more I'm convinced they modify human behavior significantly, including what food we crave, sexual kinks and much more.

2025-10-29 15:36:02 CET

Too many people are assuming the dynamics of a soft fork will play out the same way it did in 2017. That is, a soft fork starts, but to prevent wipeout, one side or the other makes it a hard fork.
But because of what happened in 2017 and in 2018, particularly with respect to all those hard forks most going to 0, we're not getting a hard fork. Neither side is going to be so stupid as to do that and relegate themselves to obscurity.
No, it's going to be far more intricate and complicated and disruptive. Or seeing the possibilities, one side will cave.
Either way, you're probably not going to get an x% dividend.