- I feel like seeing open-source developers of critical open-source software release an update (Sparrow v2.4.0 - @craigraw), immediately be one of the most trending posts on Nostr, and receive one of the larger zap loads that a post has gotten this week, is a really cool sign to see. That's where I'd like to see the future go. I'd like to think @OpenSats, in a lot of ways, is a stopgap accelerant into a world where ideally bots and humans are funding maintainers of software projects that they need directly using Freedom Money.

@ODELL - RHR 396: PUSH FORWARD, NEVER STOP

Feb 12, 2026

BTC/USD: $65,430
Network hashrate: 1,019.5 EH/s

- Maybe you think Bitcoin developers shouldn't get any funding whatsoever - I would disagree with you on that. I think critical open source developers should not have to worry about rent and should have some financial stability. We can agree to disagree on that. It doesn't matter if you don't want them to get funded - they will find funding from someone, and it will be funding from malicious actors and questionable sources like Epstein or some company that has ulterior motives and wants to fuck with Bitcoin, and will pay them a big salary. And so the answer there - if you're concerned about malevolent funding and bad funding and bad incentives - is to offer a different path where they can have ethical, transparent, reliable funding. *That's* the answer. It's not complaining on social that we should just defund all the developers. And that's why @OpenSats exists. And maybe you disagree. We have 371 grants out. Maybe you disagree with a couple of them or 10 of them - that's a fucking win. It's like, okay, so you agree with 360 of them. That's a pretty fucking strong hit rate. And we try and lean to "fund" rather than to "not fund". As it should be.

@ODELL - RABBIT HOLE RECAP #395: STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS

Feb 5, 2026

BTC/USD: $65,630
Network hashrate: 1,024.8 EH/s

- This is God saying - He's got another test for us: "Do you really want this? Do you really want freedom money to be a thing in the world? A little 45% price dump gonna shake you out, gonna stop you from pushing for freedom in the digital age?" That's a test - embrace it.

@Marty Bent - RABBIT HOLE RECAP #395: STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS

Feb 5, 2026

BTC/USD: $65,630
Network hashrate: 1,024.8 EH/s

- Bitcoin to me has always been the ultimate safe haven. Where else would I keep my wealth? It's so uniquely risk-reduced because you're not trusting third parties. But if you got onboarded through your Schwab account into buying a Japanese hotel company that is stacking bitcoin, then of course you're going to think of it as a risk asset. You're never going to think of it as safe haven, because it's not a safe haven in that situation. So, here we are... Stay humble, stack sats.

@ODELL - RABBIT HOLE RECAP #395: STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS

Feb 5, 2026

BTC/USD: $65,630
Network hashrate: 1024.8 EH/s

- Nostr is the honey badger of comms and identity. And all these other ones are just slowly dying.

@ODELL - RABBIT HOLE RECAP #394: MONETARY RESET - 2026.1.29

BTC/USD: $84,020
Network hashrate: 944.4 EH/s

- We're just finishing the Macallan 15. We'll drink Macallan 18 once we turn into a bull trend
- Yes
- That's a promise
- Yes
- We're going to stick with 15. If we go under 3K, we're going to switch to 12, we're going to switch to Macallan 12. But if we…
- No, I'd say we switch to Jack…

Rabbit Hole Recap - Week of 2018.08.20

BTC/USD: $6,273
Network hashrate: 47.6 EH/s