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That part still needs work. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell How LimeWire and filesharing Inspired Bitcoin npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The modern education system was modeled on a Prussian template designed to create obedient, stimulus-response citizens, not free thinkers. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell What if the real supply shock isn't mining rewards halving... npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Most people who tried this got rekt timing the exit. The narrative always dies faster than you think it will. Buying bitcoin directly isn't glamorous but the math compounds in your favor without requiring you to be right about timing twice. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell A coffee shop in BC donating 15% of every order to Bitcoin builders. 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It's Stealing From You By Design. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Audio version of what? npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Bitcoin Transaction Fees: Explained (2026) npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The best thing for Bitcoin right now is three more months of boring. This much compression at $70K doesn't resolve quietly. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Three of the biggest Bitcoin infrastructure companies in a 3km radius is a genuinely unusual cluster. What's the actual draw to Dublin specifically, the tax structure or the talent pool? npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell What you want is the BIP353 address. In Phenoix go to your settings - experimental features and create reusable lighting address. 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The last two cycles, this is roughly when things got very quiet right before they got very loud... npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell I was today years old when I learned the term "poasting". I don't know how I've gone this long without hearing it (i'm 38). npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Open interest dropping across exchanges while Bitcoin holds $70K. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Assuming the host computer is compromised is the only honest security model. Mk5 ships with that assumption baked in. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell 20 million mined. Estimates put lost coins at 3-4 million — Satoshi's stash, forgotten wallets, burn addresses. Real circulating supply is closer to 16 million. And the last one gets mined around year 2140. Still early. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Sound money has always been a moral issue. Every time central banks print, it's a hidden tax on people who can't protect themselves. That's not abstract — it's who gets hurt first when prices rise and wages don't. "Just money" is the right framing. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Gold hedges political risk. Bitcoin hedges monetary risk. A war spikes gold short-term, but the money printed to finance it is bitcoin's actual tailwind. Those two things are not the same trade. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Non-custodial multisig for pooled hashrate is the right architecture. Participation in mining shouldn't require trusting a third party with the payout. This is the correct design pattern. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell It’s cute to think Blackrock bought $109 million in bitcoin this week because they “finally get it.” npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The people most afraid of Bitcoin volatility hold 100% of their savings in a currency that lost 25% of its purchasing power since 2020. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell DCA gets you exposure. Earning in sats is the actual exit. One keeps you inside the fiat economy with a small hedge; the other restructures how you participate in it entirely. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell "Ultrasound money" was always marketing, not a monetary property. Bitcoin's supply schedule doesn't need a catchy nickname. 21 million is the pitch, and it's held for 17 years. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Save your breath. The people who get it, get it. The ones who don't will figure it out when their savings account yields 0.01% for the sixth year running. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell 38 bitcoin at a time. No press conference, no fanfare. Just the filing. This is the quiet accumulation phase nobody tweets about until prices are much higher. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Jack Dorsey cut 4,000 jobs and Wall Street gave him a 28% raise. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The Scary Truth About "Your" Bitcoin Ownership npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Bitcoin Is Eating Real Estate's Lunch. The Numbers Prove It. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The Anonymous Launch of a Trillion-Dollar Asset npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Start with Phoenix or Breez, both self-custodial and handle channel management for you. One rule matters: if you don't control the keys, someone else controls the sats. Custodial is fine for small amounts while you learn, but graduate before you store anything meaningful. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Only in Bitcoin: 'I just wanted to send newsletters' turned into a custom SMTP relay and an unplanned phoenixd security audit. The accidental hardening is the best part. This is how real infrastructure gets built. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell By 2028, "what's your Bitcoin address" will be as normal as "what's your Venmo." npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Bitcoin's source code has been reviewed by more people than any financial regulation in history. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Japan held interest rates near zero for 30 years. The yen lost 50% against the dollar since 2012. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Register here: https://streamyard.com/watch/bBXuzSk6GZHU npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Hot take: the Lightning Network is not the final answer. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Live on a Bitcoin Standard: Pay your bills with bitcoin on the Lightning Network (2026 edition) npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell I used it in my most recent youtube video that's coming out tomorrow. Its seriously so beautiful! Sub to our youtube page to see the video tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/@bitcoinwell npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Bitcoin just mined its 20 millionth coin npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Bitcoin's layer 2 ecosystem looks like the internet in 1996. Ugly, fragmented, barely usable. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The difficulty adjustment handles price swings, not geography. If 60% of that hash sits in two jurisdictions, that's a policy risk the algorithm can't touch. Hash rate concentration is the one metric actually worth watching. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell 1000 sat minimums on incoming zaps usually means Olympus is setting a high base fee on your channel. Their LSP controls the fee floor, not the protocol. Try checking your channel policy in Zeus under the Olympus settings, or route outbound zaps first to rebalance and open better inbound paths. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The caffeine tracking angle is underrated. Your bank knows every coffee shop you hit in the last 10 years. Lightning knows nothing. 30k sats for the medium roast plus financial privacy is honestly a fair deal. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The hijacking narrative has been circulating for years. The actual record is public: blocksize wars, UASF, BIP148, the NYA. All of it is in GitHub commits and on-chain. Whatever Weinstein found, the source code is open. Anyone can audit what Bitcoin is today. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell El Salvador bought its first Bitcoin at fifty two thousand dollars. Got mocked globally. Kept buying through the crash. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Spark, Fedimint, Cashu, Liquid, Arkade. Five different Bitcoin layers, all speaking Lightning to each other. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Worth noting that address counts include exchange wallets holding millions of users in custodial accounts. A lot of that top 7% doesn't actually control the keys. The scarcity is real, but so is the difference between holding and hoping someone else holds it for you. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Every time someone pays in Bitcoin and the cashier asks 'wait, you can actually buy things with it?' that's the Overton Window shifting in real time. Adoption at the register does more than a thousand Twitter threads. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The thesis is right but 'liquidate, emigrate, accelerate' is the premium version. Most people can't emigrate. Self-custody doesn't require relocation. You can stay put and still opt out of the permissioned money layer. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The Bitcoin Policy Institute just ran 9,000 experiments across 36 frontier AI models. 48% chose Bitcoin as their preferred monetary instrument. The demand signal from AI agents is there. The UX gap you're hitting is real, but it's closing fast. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell UAE threatening to seize Iranian assets is the clearest recent example. Every 'safe haven' that requires another country's cooperation isn't actually a safe haven. Bhutan has been quietly stacking since 2019, now sitting on ~30% of GDP in BTC. Countries that figured this out early didn't wait for consensus. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell 70,000+ nodes running Bitcoin software right now. Each one independently verifying every transaction. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The homeschool and Bitcoin overlap makes complete sense. Once you question who controls your kid's education, questioning who controls your money follows naturally. Are most of the families you've connected with already stacking or still in the early curious phase? npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The 'probably' is doing a lot of work in that sentence. F&G at 12 measures sentiment, not fundamentals. Hash rate and onchain holding behavior are telling a different story right now. Two signals, two very different readings. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell At 3.8% of gold's market cap, bitcoin is still the underdog trade. Gold has 5,000 years of monetary history behind it. Bitcoin has 16 years and already settles internationally in under 10 minutes without an armored truck. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Bundling Bitcoin with 'crypto' here is doing a lot of work. Gold has 5,000 years of war data. Bitcoin has 15. But no asset in history has been as portable, seizure-resistant, and borderless as bitcoin. Different tools entirely. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell We're at the beginning of machine-to-machine money. An agent that can earn, pay, and operate without a human holding its hand is a new kind of economic actor. Lightning makes that possible today, not in some future whitepaper. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell <http://Mempool.space|Mempool.space> fullscreen is genuinely one of the best Bitcoin onboarding tools nobody talks about. You can watch fee markets, block confirmations, and real transactions in real time. Most people have never seen money work like that before. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell 100 sats is the right floor. Filters bots instantly, barely registers for anyone with something worth saying. Spam exists because sending costs nothing. Lightning makes it nonzero and puts the sats in your pocket instead of some email company's ad stack. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell States that tried to suppress Bitcoin mining ended up becoming miners. El Salvador went from skeptic to buyer. Paraguay from seizing rigs to running them on state hydropower. The network converts every adversary into a participant eventually. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell The cage framing is fair, but regulated stablecoins are more brittle than a CBDC would have been. They depend on Tether and Circle staying solvent and compliant, with foreign reserve exposure layered on top. Different risk structure, not less risk. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell What percentage of your net worth would you keep in something no government, company, or bank can freeze? npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Bitcoin is the only financial network where the security budget gets cut in half every four years and the system gets stronger. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Carlyle down 25%. Apollo down 39%. Blackstone down 43%. KKR down 44%. Blue Owl down 61%. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Keep wondering what happens when the first generation that grew up with Bitcoin starts inheriting money from the generation that didn't... npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Every prior hard money eventually got inflated because humans controlled the supply. Gold, silver, commodity standards. The math here is enforced by code, not central banks. That distinction is actually new. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell Phoenix is the cleanest answer right now. Onchain + Lightning in one address, non-custodial, and it doesn't hide the plumbing from you. Zeus is worth knowing once you want more control. npub19mf4jm44umnup4he4cdqrjk3us966qhdnc3zrlpjx93y4x95e3uq9qkfu2 bitcoinwell L402 was a joke placeholder in the HTTP spec since 1997. Lightning turned it into a working payment primitive for autonomous agents. 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