The Bullish ₿itcoiner

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Thank you! Love the stuff you're working on in this space ❤️‍🔥

PPS any Canadian producers interested in running an SBS node, let me know! I am working on a bulk shipping / batch process. 👀🔥💡

Branta now verifies that an intended wallet address is the correct address you should transmit your Bitcoin to, without ever seeing the plaintext address.

Now here's where the 50/50 strategy comes in. When we say "50/50," we mean the merchant converts half of those Bitcoin payments to cash immediately and holds half as Bitcoin. So the merchant is holding about 1.15% of their total revenue in Bitcoin over five years. That's it.

Branta acts as an unbiased stamp of approval that allows customers, clients, and corporations to rest easy at night knowing their transactions are protected with an extra layer of security.

And to this whole community You inspire me every single day. Something big is happening here—something profound. It feels incredible to participate in this revolution with people who co-create, uplift, and help each other bring our visions to life. This feels like how humans are meant to build together. The potential is exponential.

Success with bitcoin requires a low time preference, patience, and realizing the characteristics of what bitcoin is. Bitcoin is the scarcest form of currency in the world. And in an ever increasingly digital and global world, bitcoin will win.

With Bitcoin, there’s no need to sift through sketchy stocks or pray a CEO doesn’t tank the company with a scandal. It’s a risk-off asset built for one thing: number go up. Not a portfolio, not an index, just one ticker: BTC. It’s the only asset I trust to outlast the noise.

The lower your time perspective is, the more you win with bitcoin.

The most important perspective to have, not only in finance but also in life, is a reasonable understanding of time preference. Life is a series of choices. Everything you do has an opportunity cost or another choice you could have made.

If you commit to getting 1% better at something every day, you will be 37.8 times better at the end of 1 year.

Bitcoin emerged in 2009 and created the first real anchor of the physical realm to the digital realm.

I like to use Longform by @thebullishbitcoiner for blogs about Aldi 🛍️

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It’s exciting to purchase Ghee from GreatGhee, coffee from Satoshi Coffee Co, Pecan Butter from Oshi, and Fruit from Sats 4 Snacks. It’s exciting to buy apparel from Hodl Hat, The Bullish Shop, or Orange Label, and decor from Archimedes Emporium It’s exciting to reward software devs for their contributions on Lightning Bounties.

The emotions you feel when spending Bitcoin are real because of the cash-like properties Bitcoin possesses. At the same time, every purchase you make forces you to accept the opportunity cost that whatever you are choosing to purchase is worth you parting with your precious Bitcoin.

To remove third-party dependencies, the team at Branta will also be posting our long-form content on Nostr.

Don't get me wrong, I love Nostr and truly believe it's the way forward. Nothing changes its permissionless nature—no one can impose anything on you in Nostr. You can bypass the current specifications and create your own if you want; nothing can be imposed top-down. Nostr is a minimized-risk architecture by design, and that will never change. This is what truly makes Nostr permissionless: no one can stop you from creating, signing, transmitting, connecting, deploying, and being sovereign in your own stack.

The future will be open source, or it won't be—it's that simple. Our security, sovereignty, and digital agency depend on it. Yet, the history of open source teaches us that code alone is not enough. Without intentional and resilient governance, the very protocols designed for freedom can become centralized and controlled. This is the challenge facing many open systems today, and Nostr is not an exception.

The Lightning Address has also become the de-facto standard for sharing payment information in an easy way. "Like an email address, but for money" - is an easy to understand concept for anyone even if they are new to Bitcoin, and asking someone to share their Lightning Address is simple.

i think those of us capable of shaking free of our own free will have already done so. we already believe in truth, goodness, and beauty so deeply that we have found bitcoin and we have found nostr and we have found each other.

The Lightning Address has also become the de-facto standard for sharing payment information in an easy way. “Like an email address, but for money” - is an easy to understand concept for anyone even if they are new to Bitcoin, and asking someone to share their Lightning Address is simple.

Nostr’s promise, in part, is that it truly is for the people, by the people. And people are messy. And what nostr is trying to model is messy too. But it's beautiful, and alive, and promising, and WAY better than it used to be. Warts and all.

This is just the beginning. Right now, I'm using blogstack. But what's to stop me from using another tool down the line? I'll have the ability to do so by simply connecting my private key. Can't wait to see what new tools are created in the future.

Why Bitcoin matters here It flips the script. Instead of borrowing against the future, you save for the future. It is not about how much Bitcoin you already own. It is about building a habit of stacking little by little.

Change the note kind from 1 to 30023 and you don't have an alternative to Twitter, but a replacement for Medium, Substack, and all the other long-form platforms.

Nostr is quickly establishing itself as a base layer for information exchange, one that is identity-native and value-enabled. It is distinctly different from systems that came before it, just like Bitcoin is distinctly different from monies that came before it.

There is something quietly rebellious about stacking sats. In a world obsessed with instant gratification, choosing to patiently accumulate Bitcoin, one sat at a time, feels like a middle finger to the hype machine. But to do it right, you have got to stay humble.

Bitcoin gave us a new kind of sovereignty. A way to hold value without permission. To coordinate without identity. To build outside the system.

There's something different about the level of care put into a good or service when you're trading it for the hardest money that has ever existed. Or maybe it's the fact that these merchants are carefully cultivating their reputations on Nostr amongst discerning peers.

Bitcoin represents an opportunity to protect money from the influence of violence, abolish undesirable inflation and restore high quality decentralized market signals. It will take time for society to realize these benefits as bitcoin is still young in comparison to other forms of money and is not currently widely adopted across humanity. If more people start to understand that money represents human energy, I believe humanity will start to demand better money, and when they do, bitcoin will be here for them.

Though “concrecent” isn’t a standard term, it beautifully captures Bitcoin’s essence. It grows not through top-down control, but through bottom-up consensus. Every miner, developer, investor, and meme-maker contributes to its evolution. Bitcoin is a living system—organic, emergent, and self-sustaining.

Perhaps the most compelling reason to care about sound money isn't what it does for us, but what it does for those who matter most—our children. Every parent works not just for their own security, but to build a better world for the next generation.

ZapPlanner is an app powered by Lightning and Nostr Wallet Connect that allows you to support someone with bitcon on a recurring basis.

I also wonder if I need to continue building with stacks in order to take advantage of all the Nostr context or if I can figure out how to enable it in Cursor or if it’s there already?

Hey, I think that's a pretty good idea. Thank you for making me think of it!

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Meanwhile, Bitcoin re-approached all-time highs late this evening and looks primed for another breakout to the upside. This makes sense if you’re paying attention. The high-velocity trash economy running on an obscene amount of debt in both the public and private sectors seems to be breaking at the seams. All the alarm bells are signaling that another big print is coming. And if you hope to preserve your purchasing power or, ideally, increase it as the big print approaches, the only thing that makes sense is to funnel your money into the hardest asset in the world, which is Bitcoin.

However, free users’ images, GIFs, and videos are automatically viewable via Nostr.Build’s free media gallery. This is something to particularly bear in mind when uploading images you intend to share via direct message. Though your DMs are encrypted, the images uploaded to Nostr.Build are not, and if you don’t have a paid account, they will be viewable to the all paid users in the free media gallery. If you want to upload images that will not be viewable unless you actively share them, you must have a paid account.

USE THE TOOLS, RUN THE CODE, HOLD YOUR KEYS, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.

Bitcoin gives you time, gives you mental space, and does not demand anything from you because bitcoin doesn’t need to. Bitcoin doesn’t have more of it being made by some unseen actor. Maybe someday you might spend it, maybe not. It doesn’t matter. It will be there.

For those who believed from the beginning, it will be the ultimate reward for their patience. For those who hesitated, it will be a harsh lesson.

Stay vigilant, stay focused, run a node, and tune out the madness of the system of extraction trying to drag you back into its centralized structure.

Last but not least — small little fun app Bullish Bulletin is a web cork notice board. You pay with sats per each note you want to share https://bullishbulletin.vercel.app

Mining centralization is the biggest threat to Bitcoin that’s ever existed. We will not sleep and we will not stop until Bitcoin mining is decentralized and back into the hands of the people which it was once instilled.

Source: image.nostr.build

At Bull Bitcoin, we see it very differently. We have a realistic and optimistic approach towards building a bright future for Bitcoin. I have never been so bullish on the future Bitcoin as I am today.

Reject Gainz Ideology. Stop investing. Stop gambling. The best and highest integrity move is to simply save Money by stacking sats.

Payjoin breaks the common input ownership heuristic, an assumption used by hackers and fraudsters to track ownership of addresses on the blockchain. The neat thing about this property of Payjoin is that it benefits everyone on the network, not just the Payjoin users themselves.

It is imperative that every individual, company and government adopts a bitcoin treasury strategy if they want to be able to succeed moving forward without the inherent resistance that is introduced from storing the fruit of your labor in a money or money-like asset that does not preserve purchasing power over time.

Nostr has its problems but its strength is that weekend warriors can contribute and for a scrappy distributed protocol this is what you want. Not $10 million dollar per VC app companies that refuse to hire american citizens and don't really welcome opensource part time contributors. You are gonna need all the hands you can get to build something anti-big tech and by removing as many complexity barriers as possible you can achieve it with max leverage, less labor and less time to generate the network effect for survival. #Nostr  Will Survive. There are enough builders who don't need a PHD to make it work. That's the #1 key factor here.

KYC/AML policies are a direct attack on bitcoiners. Lists of bitcoiners and our transaction history will inevitably be used against us.

Source: www.discreetlog.com

To that end, I am relaunching Eligius as OCEAN, a new type of pool that enables miners to be truly miners again. At the start, we are already the most transparent pool giving you full visibility into block templates, generation payouts, miner stats, etc. As miners, you should have the ability to know what transactions you are mining with your hashrate. We are also the only non-custodial pool, making you, the miners, recipients of new block rewards directly from Bitcoin.

Source: ocean.xyz