Hal Finney Claims He Received Satoshi’s First Test Bitcoin
Or was Hal Finney Satoshi sending Bitcoin to himself?🤔 “I was likely the first person after Satoshi to run Bitcoin. I mined block seventy-something and received the first BTC transfer when Satoshi sent me 10 coins as a test. We emailed for days after that, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them in real time, almost instantly.” - Hal
Bitcoin Energy Fears Fade, AI Becomes New Target
Wild how the Bitcoin energy FUD has almost completely disappeared. AI taking the full front of the energy luddite movement now 🫡
First Bitcoin Feels Like Earning Your First Million
It used to be "The first Million is always the hardest" Now it's become "The first Bitcoin is always the hardest"
Peak Bear Sentiment Passed, Still Holding Strong
Feels like we hit peak bearish sentiment in January. Cautiously optimistic we're out of the worst part of the bear cycle🫡 Regardless, I HODL.
Most Crypto Firms Skip Proof of Reserves, Kraken Leads
Insane that most crypto companies don't provide proof of reserves. @krakenfx was one of the first, and only a handful followed.
Bitcoin's Market Cap Dwarfs Gold, yet Remains Undervalued
Bitcoin is very undervalued. Bitcoin: $1.5 trillion Gold: $34 trillion Stock market: $140 trillion https://t.co/d1Kv9xpsL6
Bitcoin’s Fixed 21M Supply Beats Gold’s Unknown Total
Bitcoin supply = 21M Gold supply = we have no idea how much exists today or will exist in the future. Which one do you think is a better sound money?
Inflation Destroys Fiat Value—Bitcoin Offers Protection
Watch inflation erode the value of fiat currency over time 🤯 This is why we Bitcoin. https://t.co/I4kr7XH48q
Spam Can't Stop Bitcoin; Governments Are Bigger Threat
If you’re worried about spam taking down Bitcoin, how did you think we were going to beat governments? 🤨
Paul Tudor Jones Calls Bitcoin Best Inflation Hedge
The legendary wall street hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones: “Bitcoin is unequivocally the best inflation hedge that there is…it has the greatest scarcity value of anything.”
Speculation, Not Payments, Fuels Bitcoin Adoption—Educate Newcomers
Payments do not drive Bitcoin adoption, speculation does. This is undeniable. Just look at growth during the 2013, 2017, 2021, and 2025. Our job as educators is to take the wave of speculators and educate them about sound...
Bitcoin Poised to Soar with Rate Cuts and ETFs
Bitcoin is going to fly if we get rate cuts, end of Iran war, more ETFs/institutional shilling, positive earnings news from tech companies, etc. Imagine being bearish right now 😂
DeFi Swaps Counterparty Risk for Protocol Risk, Not Safety
If DeFi you’re trading counterparty risk for protocol risk. DeFi is NOT completely safe, it just has a different set of risk tradeoffs. There’s been quite a dishonest reframing that it’s a new system with minimal or no risk.
Freezing Inactive Coins Threatens Bitcoin’s Core Value
I'm anti BIP-361. For those who don't know, it deprecates or freezes coins that don't move after a certain migration date (for post quantum upgrades). It's not a full confiscation of every pre-quantum coin, but a good chunk of them. Bitcoin's...
Bitcoin Price Myths Mirror Gold‑bug Suppression Complaints
One of the dumbest narratives in the crypto space is that Bitcoin's price isn't going up due to paper Bitcoin and "price suppression." It's identical to the same whining gold bugs did for years. Of course when the price moves...