Serious question. Now that even JPMorgan is bullish on Bitcoin, is it time to get out?

Which other blockchain doesn’t need to burn tokens because it’s not scamcoin?

Unpopular opinion. I hate seeing European cities burn. Historic buildings destroyed, family businesses looted, ordinary people losing everything they’ve worked for. I have no sympathy for the mobs doing it. But I also find it obscene that people are expected to watch their purchasing power evaporate year after year and remain perfectly civil about it. You work, you save, you sacrifice today to build a better tomorrow. Meanwhile governments spend money they haven’t earned, borrow against your future, and central banks keep diluting the currency. Your time and labour are quietly confiscated to finance political promises, foreign commitments and missiles. People should be fucking furious about how money works. I fear decades of financial repression and declining living standards have created pressures that won’t disappear with another election.

By definition? Whose definition? The people issuing the currency? CPI is an extraordinarily misleading measure of inflation, and the problem is built into its design. Redefine inflation from the expansion of money and credit into the changing price of a selected basket of goods, then pretend you've measured the destruction of purchasing power. Here's the absurdity: In the UK, beef prices have risen 60% over the last decade, compared with just 27% for poultry. Imagine a family that used to eat steak regularly. As beef becomes increasingly unaffordable, they switch to chicken. Eventually even that becomes a luxury, so they start filling their plates with cheap starches and ultra-processed industrial sludge. Of course people substitute cheaper goods when they can no longer afford what they used to buy. What choice do they have, starve? And here's the beautiful trick: CPI weights are periodically adjusted to reflect what people actually spend their money on. The very inflation that forces people to downgrade their consumption influences the basket subsequently used to measure inflation. It gets worse. UK CPI excludes the cost of purchasing a home. But even more absurd is that none of this captures the prosperity we should have gained from decades of technological progress and increasing productivity. That's what makes CPI such a wonderfully convenient political instrument. Expand the money supply, watch people gradually settle for less, update the basket to reflect their new spending habits, and then point to the index as proof that inflation is under control. The population gets progressively poorer in what it can afford, while the official statistics remain respectable.

Hey @grok what is the single biggest reason my taxes keep going up while the quality of the public services I receive keeps getting worse?

When I fully ported into Bitcoin and the price just keeps dropping

Btw building a personal brand should give you more freedom, not make you a slave to the algorithm.

Is Bitcoin in trouble? Claude has just solved a 25-year-old mystery involving the NSA and the mathematics used to secure much of the internet. It took less than 30 minutes. Here's what happened, and why Bitcoin is different. In 2000, the US adopted mathematical standards used to verify digital signatures, allowing computers to confirm that someone authorised a message or transaction without revealing their private key. Some of the numbers behind those standards came from the National Security Agency (NSA), which never explained how they were chosen. For decades, researchers wondered whether those numbers could conceal a weakness known only to the agency. Claude finally traced their origins by investigating computer software from the 1990s. It recognised patterns associated with an old program that generated random-looking numbers, worked backwards through its calculations and recovered timestamps from 1997 and 1998. Those timestamps allowed it to reproduce the original numbers exactly, solving a mystery that had puzzled cryptographers for over two decades. So, has Bitcoin security been compromised? No. But there's a fascinating parallel with the recent Coldcard hack. Both involved numbers that appeared random but came from predictable processes. With Coldcard, that weakness affected private wallet secrets, allowing attackers to recreate some of them and steal Bitcoin. Claude used a similar approach, working backwards through predictable numbers to uncover how the NSA had generated public mathematical parameters decades earlier. No private keys were cracked.

Your dream body could be just 4–5 months away. Think about that for a second. I lost 10kg (22lbs) in 90 days. And those 90 days included THREE full weeks of holiday when I didn’t track a single calorie or set foot in a gym. The rest of the time? I went to the bloody gym every day. Tracked my calories, got serious about nutrition and did the work even when I was tired, busy or couldn’t be bothered. Imagine what you could achieve with 4–5 months of consistency. And here’s what excites me even more: the same principle applies to almost everything in life. Pick something worth pursuing. Get borderline obsessed with it. Show up when you’re exhausted, when motivation disappears and when life makes it inconvenient. You don’t need a perfect streak. You need to become the kind of person who gets straight back to work whenever life interrupts. Proof of work. Now imagine applying that same energy to every other part of your life.

You can waste your entire life for perfectly valid reasons. You're tired. You're stressed. Work is demanding, you're not feeling well, things are unfair and the timing is terrible. I believe you. But here's the problem: life will never run out of perfectly reasonable excuses for why today isn't the day to start. Dante had a word for something close to this: accidia. A kind of spiritual paralysis, where the will slowly gives up and surrender becomes a habit. I've never been able to stand the victim mentality. Some people seem to put more effort into justifying their inaction than it would take to actually change something. And the more they repeat those excuses, the more convinced they become that they have no choice. Life is bloody hard. I know because I've failed more times than I can count. I've made terrible decisions, wasted opportunities, fallen flat on my face and had to rebuild things I thought I'd finally figured out. And I'll probably fail a thousand more times. But I'm trying. With everything I've got. I refuse to make peace with mediocrity simply because the alternative is difficult. I'd rather reach the end of my life with a thousand failures behind me than a thousand perfectly good excuses for why I never tried.

Not impressed I must say. They have flying cars now? That's nice, I suppose. Meanwhile, here in Europe, we've achieved something considerably more important: the plastic cap is now permanently attached to the bottle. Every time I try to drink water and the cap scratches my nose, I'm reminded of the extraordinary progress we've made as a civilisation. Americans can keep wasting their time trying to defeat gravity. We've already defeated the much greater threat of someone accidentally throwing a bottle cap into the wrong bin. And when those flying cars eventually arrive in Europe, I have every confidence that Brussels will make sure they're permanently attached to the ground. Proud to be European. 🇪🇺

when you think about the future, you’re mostly...

Bitcoin removes the requirement for state permission. AI reduce our dependence on institutional expertise. The future is bright.

Serious question. If BTC spends the next two years going absolutely nowhere, stuck below $100k, wouldn’t you start questioning whether something is wrong?

Started a new non-anon account to talk about building things, health, personal growth, and figuring life (no BTC allowed). My most successful post has 43 views. Starting from absolute zero again. Wish me luck, lads.

I got my brother into Bitcoin in 2021. He’s accumulated a substantial position throughout 2026, but still keeps everything on an exchange earning a decent yield on his BTC. I’ve been trying to convince him to take self-custody. We’ve discussed Ledger, Coldcard, seed phrases, generating entropy with dice, supply-chain risks, and all the precautions you can take to secure your Bitcoin. Tonight I mentioned that you can even open a hardware wallet to inspect its components for tampering. His response (translated from Italian): “Come on, man… First I have to generate the seed phrase with dice, and now I have to dismantle the bloody device too? At this point I might as well buy a Bitcoin ETF and avoid all this hassle.” And the ridiculous thing is, I couldn’t even tell him with a straight face that self-custody was definitely the best choice for him. I know it is for me. But Jesus Christ.

Love to see it. SUPPORT BUILDERS IN THE BITCOIN SPACE!