jimmysong

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Author of 5 Bitcoin books

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2026-05-07 22:29:12 CEST

You don't have to understand every technical detail about Bitcoin, but it certainly helps when you're asked to justify your belief in it.

2026-05-06 19:44:10 CEST

Gresham's Law forces good money out of circulation when there's an artificial peg.
Thiel"s Law naturally makes good money the preferred medium when the money freely floats.

2026-05-05 21:48:09 CEST

Most people are deeply demoralized by the lies they are propagandized to swallow.
The truth would set them free, but they fear it. They'd rather be the doorkeeper at an acceptable institution than ruler of their own castles.

2026-05-04 17:04:04 CEST

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #499
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2026-05-03 19:25:23 CEST

Experiences vs. Stuff debate is a wrong framing because it's missing the third option: saving.

2026-05-03 00:07:09 CEST

The work of self-sovereignty is never-ending.
Best to understand that before you start out.

2026-05-01 17:38:01 CEST

If you don't trust the government with your money, why are you trusting them with your children?

2026-04-30 18:10:38 CEST

LLMs have not just increased the volume of spam, but have blurred the line—the distinguishing marker—between signal and noise in every content arena.

2026-04-28 16:46:51 CEST

Put your money where your mouth is.
You don't get to route around the powers that be for free.

2026-04-26 20:26:54 CEST

I'd hate to say it, but Trump getting assassinated would have saved his presidency and legacy, much in the same way it did with Lincoln.

2026-04-24 17:27:43 CEST

Hard forks are a clever way for investors (VCs, mostly) to exit losing investments.
They'll run the same playbook as they did with ZCash, just watch.

2026-04-22 21:21:40 CEST

In retrospect the country-by-country bans/restrictions/taxes on smoking (~2005-2015) was the canary in a coal mine for authoritarian government.

2026-04-22 01:47:54 CEST

Fiscal irresponsibility has real consequences.
Do you honestly believe MAiD would be a thing if Canada were on sound money?

2026-04-21 18:28:18 CEST

Anything with a security council cannot credibly claim to be decentralized.

2026-04-20 16:22:17 CEST

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2026-04-19 20:16:37 CEST

The reality of the left is that most of their activists/supporters are paid in one way or another by fiat money printing, so the right has no chance from within the system.
The only way out is through.

2026-04-18 21:15:12 CEST

If you're getting deceived, it's worth finding out what flaw the liars are exploiting.

2026-04-17 19:22:47 CEST

So much of maturity is just becoming comfortable with uncertainty.

2026-04-16 16:19:04 CEST

Fear is the easiest emotion to stoke, and boy are we getting a lot of that in Bitcoin these days.
Another reason that holding is hard.

2026-04-16 02:38:45 CEST

GN
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2026-04-15 19:00:26 CEST

There's a particular type of delusion where you think that the people you like all live up to their ideals and the people that you don't like only respond to incentives.

2026-04-14 17:22:17 CEST

I started using autodrive, and it's a game-changer.
Funny how things go from "pointless" to "essential" in a very short period of time.

2026-04-13 16:23:02 CEST

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2026-04-12 20:40:37 CEST

The commerce through the open seas being so cheap is, sadly, a fiat phenomenon. It was never that cheap to trade over such large distances. It's largely a function of Pax Americana (and Pax Britannia before it) and it's heavily subsidized through the dollar hegemony. It will be more expensive when that hegemony collapses, and we can kind of see it in real time with the Strait of Hormuz.
That said, I believe there are much cheaper ways to have free trade through the seas, and instead of relying on the US Navy, entrepreneurs will figure out something much more effective (like Nike shipping containers only of left shoes or right).

2026-04-10 23:47:07 CEST

Exposure to Bitcoin is not Bitcoin because one is centralized the other is not.

2026-04-09 19:16:51 CEST

Get rich righteously.

2026-04-08 16:54:50 CEST

Propaganda has nothing on the financial system in how you're controlled.

2026-04-08 04:29:14 CEST

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This is called blazing a trail and exploring the frontier.
*tips cowboy hat*
#nevent1q…e6yd

2026-04-07 19:01:36 CEST

You don't get to decide what a particular tech disrupts. That unpredictability is what I suspect government officials and bureaucrats everywhere hate about innovation.

2026-04-05 19:18:12 CEST

Western civilization was born today about 2000 years ago.

2026-04-04 20:55:14 CEST

I get sad seeing brilliant former colleagues and classmates announcing that they're in some clearly rent-seeking job.

2026-04-03 19:46:40 CEST

I'm now obsessed with good feedback loops.

2026-04-02 16:58:00 CEST

The big overlap between Bitcoin and AI is that they seem to be used overwhelmingly by men, specifically young men that have a particular streak. High-agency, maybe.
Is it an early adopter thing or something deeper?

2026-04-02 01:41:16 CEST

I Spent a Day Writing a Short Story with Claude.
I had an idea for a science fiction story. A device that gives you the best version of yourself for 72 hours, then kills you. Only eight exist. What would people do with them?
I wanted to explore the allegory that life itself is that device. We're all given extraordinary capabilities for a limited time, and most of us waste them on the same things the characters in the story waste theirs on: status, money, vindication, pleasure. The question was whether I could turn that into a story that actually worked as fiction, not just as a thought experiment.
I can't write fiction. I've never written a short story. So I collaborated with Claude. I came up with the premise, the characters, the plot structure, and made every creative decision. Claude generated the prose. We went through six rounds of editorial review using AI subagents acting as a sci-fi editor, a prose editor, a story structure critic, and a general sci-fi reader. I caught inconsistencies, pushed back on suggestions, changed direction multiple times, and shaped every element of the world and the characters.
The result is a 10,000-word short story called "Seventy-Two." You can read it here: https://marcusvero.com
I don't know if it's good. That's partly why I'm publishing it: to find out. If you read fiction, I'd genuinely like to know what you think. Did the ending land? Did you finish it? Where did you stop caring?
If you're more interested in the process than the story, I'll write about that separately: how the collaboration worked, what the AI was good at, what it was bad at, and what surprised me. But the story should stand on its own first.

2026-04-01 21:05:17 CEST

Lots of data centers, software startups and VCs pivoting to AI.
Good riddance, I say. Let's starve the altcoin industrial complex of its fuel.

2026-03-31 17:03:37 CEST

Quantum FUD is a DoS attack because of the well known asymmetry between making claims and refuting them.

2026-03-30 18:19:04 CEST

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2026-03-29 20:24:08 CEST

What would we doing without Sundays?

2026-03-28 17:21:37 CET

A lot of people swear by using voice to communicate with AI Agents. Maybe I'm weird but I like typing it out because it helps me figure out exactly what I want.

2026-03-27 17:44:44 CET

I've come to realize that the duty of the father is to instill discipline. Children don't have much willpower. It's your job to lend them yours when they don't have enough and to grow whatever willpower they have.
The lack of fatherly discipline is a fiat phenomenon and it shows in the kinds of adults that has been produced.

2026-03-26 20:45:23 CET

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if my stupid framework laptop would clear customs I would be right there with you.

2026-03-26 16:54:17 CET

AI coding agents are like Viagra for coding.

2026-03-26 15:57:37 CET

It's 2026 with 18 different kinds of communication between devices and it's still annoying to get a file from one computer to another *without a central server*.

2026-03-25 18:40:37 CET

Deus, Familia, Patria, Bitcoin

2026-03-24 17:58:03 CET

Staying focused on the long term is a lot harder than you'd think.
But those are the people who win and that's why it's hard.

2026-03-23 15:36:48 CET

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2026-03-22 19:37:42 CET

I'm diving into GrapheneOS and NixOS as my daily drivers. Wish me luck.

2026-03-21 21:23:01 CET

Social media these days isn't that social anymore. I suspect it's not just the fact that there's a bigger influencer culture. People just have fewer meaningful friends. Sadly, one of the results of COVID.

2026-03-20 17:50:38 CET

Goodbye fair-weather Bitcoin fans!

2026-03-19 16:56:04 CET

The state is a gigantic blob that penetrates every facet of life. The work of self sovereignty is neverending.

2026-03-19 02:38:45 CET

Politics is people trying to scam each other in the name of helping.

2026-03-17 16:31:21 CET

My telegram handle (jimmysong) is compromised. If it's asking you to take a meeting, it's not me!

2026-03-16 16:01:53 CET

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2026-03-15 19:28:42 CET

There has never been a better time to build your own thing if you don't like the alternatives.

2026-03-14 22:48:40 CET

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The faith journey of Bitcoiners is one of the true joys that I never expected but got. God is good.
#nevent1q…h4zq

2026-03-13 22:41:34 CET

Programming and development are changing very rapidly. And yes, that will (if it doesn't already) include Bitcoin programming and development.

2026-03-12 15:16:52 CET

I can't decide whether the world is run by malicious or incompetent fools.

2026-03-11 18:55:53 CET

Lent is always a great season for increasing discipline.

2026-03-10 21:28:36 CET

I think my telegram got deleted. Maybe it's all the bots I made, but it's sad, nonetheless.

2026-03-10 16:10:45 CET

Building Bitcoin stuff with Agentic AI may be one of the healthier addictions I've had.

2026-03-09 16:53:45 CET

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2026-03-08 18:28:48 CET

The world around us was always going to be chaotic. The accumulated debt was always going to cause problems.
Bitcoin is chaotic too, but it's banking some learning for the future. It's of a very different character.

2026-03-07 17:14:32 CET

A truly self-sovereign digital existence is hard work, but totally achievable, especially with AI agents.
The hard part has always been physical existence.

2026-03-06 20:49:16 CET

I forgot how much I enjoy making stuff.

2026-03-05 18:00:49 CET

One of the downsides of having your own software is that you're constantly changing it to suit your preferences. It might be a little *too* flexible.

2026-03-04 17:46:43 CET

What is a world where you can make and modify software to your heart's content going to look like?
A lot more decentralized, that's for sure.

2026-03-03 14:36:35 CET

I'm looking for a guest for my podcast that can show how to build something with Claude Code from scratch. I have a web-based Claude Code environment you can use during the show to see exactly what you're doing.
Drop me a DM with what you've built and I promise I'll reply.

2026-03-02 19:48:44 CET

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I agree. AI-usability should be the first consideration for most tools.

2026-03-02 16:57:40 CET

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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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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.
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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.

2026-02-11 16:27:54 CET

predyx has this bet going for BIP110:
https://beta.predyx.com/market/will-bip-110-activate-and-be-enforced-on-bitcoin-by-sept-1-2026-1770282509
The market seems to be roughly split 85/15, though it's not that liquid. Any movement in that market will be a way better signal than mere words and chest puffing by people on either side.

2026-02-11 01:03:43 CET

Live with Tone
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2026-02-10 20:42:11 CET

A sign of the times: Self-hate is so unbelievably common.

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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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.