You know that Nostr is really useful tech

when the monero and bitcoin cash communities build their own clients to zap with their favorite coins

Sooner or later, all crypto communities will join Nostr and run relays to maintain censorship resistance

The best answer to the question

“What do you think about BIP110?”

is “I don’t think about it”

BIP110 ELI5:

A bunch of idiots who don’t understand how Bitcoin works

get together to use their feelings and emotions to fix Bitcoin

Woke up feeling super excited about BIP110

My God, what a brilliant BIP

Such a genius team of proponents!

It’s helping Bitcoin work better as money

This means it adds scaling & fungibility

This is exactly what BIP110 does, right?

RIGHT?!

My favorite part about doing the Bitcoin Takeover podcast is that I learn the story of Bitcoin from the perspective of people who were there since the early days

Well, today I will interview the creator & host of the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list – the place where Satoshi Nakamoto first announced Bitcoin on October 31st 2008

His name is Perry E. Metzger and he’s a fascinating individual, with interests ranging from cryptography to open source AI

If you like Bitcoin history and want to learn from someone who’s been into computers for 5 decades, tune in at 4 PM EST / 10 PM CET

The interview will be livestreamed here on Twitter, as well as on YouTube. Feel free to join the live chat and ask questions!

https://youtube.com/live/0_6P7-zUOb8?feature=share

So when BIP110 fails to activate

Are we gonna welcome our Knots brothers back and act like nothing happened

or are they mentally deranged to the point that they’d rather be on a virtue signaling fork than admit that they were wrong?

In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper on the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list

Tomorrow, I’ll interview Perry Metzger – the founder and host of the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list

4 PM EST / 10 PM CET

Join the livestream chat to ask questions!

There’s something new for you to discover on https://bitcoin-takeover.com

Bitcoin plebs spent a decade coming up with conspiracy theories about spooks and who is here to launch an attack on BTC

But they turned out to be the attack on Bitcoin

(and quite possibly infiltrated by spooks too)

During every bear market, Bitcoin had something technologically interesting that was being developed

These concepts are responsible for restoring faith in the future of the project

In 2011, the self custody experience improved with proper SPV wallets.

In 2013-2014 we got Zerocash (today’s Zcash), Counterparty and Omni (the grandfathers of Ethereum & Solana), and the early iterations of sidechains

In 2018-2019 we witnessed the glory days of the Lightning network, which promised to make all altcoins obsolete

In 2022-2023 we saw the first use cases for Taproot and started thinking about CTV, programmability via BitVM, vaults, and scaling Bitcoin across time

But for 2026-2027, we have nothing going on. Some BitVM projects that aren’t getting any traction due to the broken user culture, infighting due to filtering wet dreams, a lot of virtue signaling from people who don’t understand how Bitcoin works, nothing productive or remotely interesting.

The research and development moved to other chains or else pivoted to AI. The smartest people are leaving, or else creating hard forks like Ecash.

Only the most naive or perverse (as in sheep and wolves) seem to be sticking to the BTC only thesis, as regulators and politicians finally caught up with how the tech works and are ready to capture it.

Bitcoin doesn’t die when the price goes to 0. It dies when it no longer becomes useful as unstoppable internet money, as the primary use case is speculation.

Bitcoin Fork Summer

BIP 410 gets activated (110+300)

63 million bitcoins will exist

42 million will get airdropped to HODLers

Everyone gets the technology they want