If you’re a
#Bitcoin
newb remember, only insecure assholes will give you a hard time about asking newb questions. ...there are many of them on Twitter, I’m sorry.
We want new people in Bitcoin. We need new people in Bitcoin. If you’re having a hard time finding a decent person
My 8yr old just told me that she wants to be a
#Bitcoin
developer! ❤
But what I really love about
#tech
is that I got to tell her that she doesn't need to wait until she's an adult. She can start that process right now!
I've been in Bitcoin 12 years now. I've watched the community change and expand dramatically in that time. The past few years have been rather sad as I've watched so many in this community become consumed by the red pill contagion.
So many people in Bitcoin are contrarians or
“Have fun staying poor” bums me out every time I see it.
If getting rich is your goal, perhaps you’re better suited to a more traditional Wall Street banker gig.
Bitcoin isn’t about lambos, yachts, and fancy watches. Bitcoin is about real utility for real people. It’s about
I wish I could convince everyone to listen to
@MaajidNawaz
's Rogan podcast.
It comes with a Covid warning but it's not about Covid. It's about power, tech, democracy, tyranny, human rights, & fear. And it's one of the most interesting conversations that I've heard in years.
I've ran Bitcoin meetups for many years. After a few drinks you hear stories of lost BTC.
I can't recall even one story of funds in an HD cold wallet being lost.
...funds stored with 3rd party services? Fortunes lost there.
How ridiculously cool is this!?! My
#AI
agent is out buying things for me using
#Lightning
!
I'm using the LangChainBitcoin
#L402
tools. Once you get it wired up, you can give it instructions like "go purchase XYZ data" ...and it just goes and does the thing!!!!!
My husband/business partner informs me that I really suck at self promotion and I should be less humble. So, below is a list of awesome sh*t I’ve done in the Bitcoin world:
I developed and taught “blockchain”(Bitcoin 🤫) courses for the University of Illinois at Chicago
My entire Bitcoin career has been built on attending a running meetups. It’s how I know so many people. I just keep showing up.
This is the advice that I always give to new people. Just get out there and talk to people. Just jump in and find some way to contribute to a project.
#Bitcoin
was built from the ground up by tech nerds, monetary theory enthusiasts, and anti-authoritarians.
Bitcoin does not need the celebrities and influencers.
Stop giving them your energy. Get back to building.
I watched an episode of
@magicalcrypto
with my kids in the room. 5 mins later the 4 yr old waltzes through the living room singing🎶"The best thing to do is HODL"🎶 😂😂
I’m not a maxi, I’m a Bitcoiner.
Because not everything else is a scam (many are scams, many more are just bad ideas) there are some projects out there that are interesting and busy running valuable experiments.
But none of them I find as interesting as Bitcoin 😍🧡
Right now I’m very excited about Lighting finding some really, really compelling use-cases.
Asking people to adopt a new tech, while the tech they currently have is not causing them pain, is an uphill battle and I don’t see
#Bitcoin
adoption happening that way.
People will
I would love to see Ulbricht and Assange be pardoned. The problem is that I have absolutely zero faith in the word of a politician. Their promises just remind me of this meme…
Good morning
#CryptoTwitter
This week I ran two workshops, spoke on a panel, and taught a class, all teaching new people about
#Bitcoin
/
#Crypto
.
What did you do?
Educate > Bicker
7 years ago fell in love with
#Bitcoin
and went around telling anyone I could about it.
Everyone thought I was nuts.
Now, I get to travel the world and teach people about the
#tech
that I love.
#LifeIsGood
I’m teaching a session at
#BTC2019
I'm a Bitcoiner.
#Bitcoin
is what I choose to pour my energy into. But I'm definitely not a maximalist.
When looking at any crypto project my question is always, "Is this an honest and interesting experiment?"
If so, then I'm happy to see it exist.
I have a degree in economics and studied monetary theory and had no idea about French monetary colonialism until I came across content from
@gladstein
and
@HRF
Thank you for making this moving video
OP_CAT scares me. It feels too flexible. ...how can we even know what it will enable?? How can we know if we want what it might enable?
Any OP_CAT fans out there that want to attempt to calm my fears??
Following my post yesterday a number of you asked what specifically I mean by “red pill” and what my experiences have been.
When I say “red pilled” basically it boils down to those who support and want to return to patriarchy. Those who blame all of societies current ills on
#LTB5Y
was amazing! The Let's Talk
#Bitcoin
cast, Pamela, Tatiana, MK, the aantonop events crew, the volunteers, all nailed it!
And things just go well when you have a building full of 700 amazing people. I ❤ the
#ChicagoBitcoin
community!
What a dining room table should look like on a Sunday afternoon. 😁 It's like a
#crypto
equipment repair shop in here. A broken miner and a new
#pi
#Lightning
node.
Reviewing my slides for tomorrows Taproot Assets workshop
@tabconf
Are you coming? We'll be minting fungible assets, unique assets, playing with metadata...
Kindness is the single most admirable and attractive feature in another person.
Genuine kindness can only exist in a person who knows themselves, a person who is calm and secure, a person who has a lot of perspective. ...a real adult.
I've had this book right next to me while building the
@bchaininstitute
's dev course.
Thank you
@aantonop
for making so many awesome resources AND making them free to use! 🙏👏
You can support Andreas' work by becoming a Patreon.
It’s been hard to read my feed lately. I may bump heads with a few Bitcoiners in Nashville when I decline to join them in worshiping their new deity.
I’m going to stay focused on the tech. Talk to me about tech y’all!
Shinobi just nails it here 🎯 And I'm a libertarian!
"Many of these people espouse and wrap themselves in fantasies of being powerful, rich, and influential...It’s almost a fetishization of becoming the people that Bitcoin was meant to disintermediate from all of our lives."
Thanks so much
@saifedean
for coming out to speak at
@BOBmeetupCHI
Loved the talk! Monetary theory was what got me into
#Bitcoin
back in 2012 and it was delightful to get a refresher course on bitcoin monetary economics.
@iancyshipman
If you're trying to learn
#Bitcoin
/
#Lightning
and feeling lost & overwhelmed, be kind to yourself.
I've been at this for nearly 10yrs now, it's what I do all day and I can't keep up either. There is a LOT happening here!
I bootstrapped an entire
#Bitcoin
career by attending and running meetups. I can't recommend it enough.
If you're looking to get into the space just show up and help out.
Do you know what an Edge Node is?
It’s a Taproot Assets aware Lightning Node that routes payments between Taproot Assets channels and Bitcoin channels.
Alice sends a USD stablecoin and Bob receives sats, etc.
Checkout the Edge Node page in the docs and keep an eye out for
I’ve been in
#Bitcoin
for over a decade now, and sometimes I wonder if one day my passion for it will fade. Maybe some day it will, but not today!
It remains that case the one of my absolute favoritest place to be ever is in a room with a bunch of Bitcoiners. The calendar in
Announcing developer advocate at Lightning Labs, Hannah Rosenberg, as a
#Bitcoin2022
speaker!
@hmichellerose
holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from UIC where she developed a fascination with money leading her to fall in love with Bitcoin when she discovered it in 2012.
🚨📣Attention tech nerds and Bitcoiners.
I’d like to declare my feed a political mania free zone.
Here you will find bitcoiny things. I will not be endorsing any politicians, or deriding any, or falling into any dogmatic political divides.
(Disclaimer: There may be the
@saifedean
@soonaorlater
This is a bummer
@saifedean
Comments like this make us look like insecure children desperately trying to prove how tough we are.
I need to comment here so that others know we're not all like this. There are some level headed adults in this space.
A lot of Bitcoin maxis miss the mark because they are thinking only about themselves and their use cases. They are forgetting that this is a global technology.
The American/western maxi’s and their use cases are an exception in the world. Coldcards etc. are awesome! But they are
Saylor Academy
@saylordotorg
just launched a free "Bitcoin for Developers" created by
@hmichellerose
with material from
@aantonop
-enroll today & learn the components of
#Bitcoin
& how they work together to keep Bitcoin's open, decentralized system running.
I spend hours everyday in meetings discussing
#Lightning
projects and applications... and it feels like cheating. Like insider trading.
How, just how could any of you be selling?!? Don't you know about the epic applications being built on
#Bitcoin
right now??
Shout out to
@saylordotorg
for having very high standards for their educational material. I’ve written University courses, and writing for Saylor Academy is definitely more challenging.
#Nostr
!!!
I plan to talk about it tomorrow at BitDevs, so help me sound like I know things.
What’s the latest and greatest in the interplay between Nostr and Bitcoin/Lightning?
Please send links! 🙏
I made the
@Replit
repl that I used for the
#AI
+
#Bitcoin
tutorial video public as a template. It’s now available to be forked if you’d like a quick way to start experimenting with LangChainBitcoin.
You can find it here:
Notes:
This works with a
A glass of wine to celebrate my 40th trip around this ordinary little star in the corner of a vast universe that we don't stand a chance at comprehending.
I get the impression that I'm spending this life in the dive bar of this Universe. But, I do love a good dive bar! 🥂
Hyperbitcoinization isn’t a fantasy, it would be a nightmare.
Now I too would like to see an end to the fiat fueled war machine, but if it happens all at once it would be rather dystopian.
Sure maybe you got all your apocalypse and citadel plans sorted out, but do your
I can't get this quote out of my head.
It's now very common to see expressed the idea that the common person needs to be coerced into doing the "right" thing, and needs to be protected from "misinformation".
It's epic hubris & elitism, & it's frightening.
I’ve spent years trying to explain LN routing & HTLC’s to people. It’s not easy, this stuff is complex!
I have a ton of respect for how it’s done in Chapter 8 of Mastering the Lightning Network. Great examples, great pace, & appropriate simplification.
Hey it seems some of you are liking our latest video on
#AI
and
#Bitcoin
!
Subscribe to the
@lightning
YouTube channel to get notifications when videos like this come out.
I’ve gotten decent enough at Spanish that I’m now working on my Spanish Bitcoin vocabulary!
I began by listening to
@lunaticoin
on my morning walk 🚶♀️
¡Gracias por su contenido de calidad, señor!
We recently released an L402 demo running LND, Aperture, etc inside
@Replit
repls.
The templates used in the demo can be found on the Lightning Labs Replit landing page.
We’ve got two Aperture based templates, one with an internal LND node, and
@CathyReisenwitz
"There’s more variation within genders than between them." 🤔 no. Specifically when it come to sports related things like physical strength, or height.
But please tell me how you came to this conclusion.
I’m not sure how but blockchains became know as databases for securing private data 🤷♀️🤦♀️
This is the
#1
thing I have to, continuously, tell business people looking at blockchain tech
Blockchains are not for securing private data, they are for sharing, & agreeing on public data!
Politicians are the OG's of the rug pull.
Watching Bitcoiners fall in love with a politician is like watching a friend fall in love with a shitcoin.
Be careful y’all… very, very careful.
Social media is so weird. You can post about the success of a project that you’ve been pouring your soul into for months and get 2 likes. Or you can post a silly play on words and get 300 likes.
🤷♀️Humans confuse me.
Lightning node liquidity can be difficult to visualize… unless of course you connect to Terminal and generate a Liquidity Report!
A Liquidity Report gives you graphical insights into the quality and quantity of liquidity on your node. Checkout the inbound vs outbound ratio,
Relationships, of any kind, require proof-of-work.
You have to show up. You have to text, you have to call. You have to put in the effort. You have to remember that thing that is important to them. You have to take the time to understand.
There is no shortcut.
Hey I’ve just made it a full decade in the
#Bitcoin
world!!! 🥳
Appropriate that this happens during a price dip when I’ve got friends messaging me to ask if I’m okay. lol
I'm not looking at the price, I'm building things...it’s the only way to survive a decade in
#Bitcoin
!
In Chicago I experience street harassment about once a week.
I lived in Australia for 5 years and experienced street harassment there exactly twice in those 5 years.
Street harassment isn’t a biology problem, it’s a cultural problem.
@kelseyhightower
@LynAldenContact
@lightning
Lightning's TPS can and will exceed that of Visa.
And very importantly it's an open monetary network that anyone can build on, and anyone can use, greatly expanding access around the world.
Emerging markets don't need Visa because they'll have something better,
#bitcoin
.
@naval
Found this one on Instagram.
I don't do Carnivore, I follow the AIP diet, but I credit my dietary changes (eliminating the bottom of the food pyramid) with my current ability to get out of bed in the morning.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been taking a bit of time to brush up on all the tech updates in the
#Bitcoin
world. At this point the ecosystem is so big it’s not realistic to expect yourself to stay up to date with all of it. But, if you’d like to try anyhow, there are some great
I'm sick of the ridiculous "crypto" Instagram accounts. I should make a
#cypherpunk
#crypto
account that features people in sweat pants staring at computers, stacks of books on cryptography computer science and monetary theory, a full node running in a messy back room, etc.
Regardless of how the El Salvador
#Bitcoin
experiment winds up, it certainly has already succeeded in introducing numerous corporate tech teams to
#Bitcoin
and
#Lightning
technology.
One of humanities biggest weakness is our tenancy to tribalism.
We don’t like to admit it, but we are intensely social creatures. We survive by forming close bonds with one another. The tribe is the survival unit.
This tribalism, this collectivism, is a crutch we lean on