Doing the Lord's work.

The name is telling: bond. You're financially tied to a broke asshole that wants to control your life. Textbook abusive relationship. On the other hand, I've only ever tried to convince one person to get into bitcoin, and I'm not in a hurry to do it again. I think it's just something people have to come to on their own terms, or not. Or maybe I'm just shitty at explaining things. My wife gets to come along for the ride at least, because her husband's a bit nutty but she still trusts him with the "investments." God bless her, I haven't heard a peep about it this whole bear market.

Dude's straight out of a comic book 😑 It'd almost be funny, except for the fact that he's a real person with immense power.

It's a cliché, but for good reason: go for a walk. Especially since my work largely consists of staring at screens all day now, it's incredibly helpful to ground myself in the real world again, hear the crunch of the gravel.

GM It's a little after 5 AM and the city is dark. Or rather, as dark as it gets which is not very dark at all. The day is naught but potential right now. In a couple of hours the sun will rise and that potential will begin crystallizing into reality; problems, headaches, some small victories. It will all be very focussed and contained in the here and now. For now the coffee is strong, the fire is warm, and my mind can wander deep into the caverns of possibility.

It doesn't bother me quite as much but yes, it strikes me as the kind of thing that a parent might say to their teenage child or something.

Recently overheard from an MSTR bro: "Stay humble and stack shares." 😒

Nice, what's it called? I remember playing something called Tokar's Arcana back in middle school, but the guy who introduced it to me would always whip me with his undead army...

My girl and I, we're going places. #catstr

Man, that's beautiful.

Nice. Man, I remember the days back in the early 2000's when I was shelling out a couple hundred bucks for a standalone digital camera with maybe 1 megapixel, big chunky thing, used obscure B cell batteries, and getting the pictures onto my computer was a challenging puzzle involving bespoke cords, janky software, and minutes-long upload times per picture. Technological advancement rocks 🤘

Alright, so "nostr is dead" is a pretty common refrain, and I never really questioned it much. But then I pulled up this little gauge on Wisp. How accurate do we think this number is? 242 people in the entire world are on nostr at this particular moment? I mean, sure, the nostr community probably has a higher than average proportion of people who attend church on Sunday mornings, but on the other hand everything on nostr is so fragmented and janky that a global metric like this seems unlikely to be capturing everything. Anyone got any insight on this? #asknostr

Yeah those look amazing. Are you using a specific camera or is that just off your phone?

Inside of me there are two cats. One of them is fat, and the other one is crazy. #catstr

Well... I think it's antithetical to their business model. The whole thing is predicated on people choosing to put their money into a stock rather than bitcoin itself. Drawing attention to self custody and its benefits would be against their business interests. It's an odd position they're in, but explains why 2020 Saylor sounds so different from 2026 Saylor. For the ship to stay afloat, he can't say that bitcoin is money, self custody is important, or many other truths about bitcoin's power beyond NGU. I don't think he's an enemy to bitcoin, but he's not exactly an ally either. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.

Alternative view: MSTR holds zero bitcoin. Coinbase sure has a lot though 🙄

It's good stuff, always got a tub in my fridge :)