I’m never a fan of censorship.

You get likes on your posts?

Ole Vorhees slashin' us to 58K?

I've got friends in low places...

For the peptide crew out there. I started a new cycle this past Monday after being off my previous cycle for about a month or so. During my break, I also indulged on all of the foods I never routinely eat -- mainly carby shit like pizza, sweets, etc. This go round I have added Retatrutide and Tesamorelin to the Wolverine stack -- BPC-157 and TB-500 for those not privy. Will be running the four for 10 weeks. While I was off, I had some nagging muscular and joint pain return. Most likely due to the increased sugar intake and it spiking inflammation markers. Hoping the combo can make quick work of that. Started at 214 on Monday and have already shed the water weight as ketosis effects hit during my leg day yesterday.

-- tangential to what we talked about last night.

This was a topic of discussion at our Meetup last night. Bitcoin may be cementing its place as digital gold while ultimately missing the opportunity to be digital cash in this new technological era. IMO, this is why you see Vitalik putting his middle finger up at ETH L2s with his desire to bring everything back to the base chain whereas Bitcoin is just now seeing growth and development there.

If there is one thing that irks the hell out of me from "Bitcoiners" is the whole wishing for lower prices so they can accumulate more. That is peak TradFi behavior and cope from those that didn't take the last decade plus to build a position. Bitcoin cannot advance its mission pussyfooting around at lower prices. It needs to be much higher to be able to actually be seen/used an inflation hedge, used by countries to settle trade, etc. I'm not here to fuck about in the existing system especially when history shows all these LARPers don't buy at lower prices, either.

The average user gives zero fucks about client features. There is a standard feature set (for a social media client) and every client has 'em. Now content features is a discussion worth having. Every complaint I hear from anyone that tries Nostr is there is minimal content and the usability sucks. Been here since 2022 and I agree. Content discovery continues an absolute nightmare -- like trying to search only to get hit with endless keyword spam, RSS bots, etc. I don't blame a single user for turning right back around and fucking off back from whence they came.

I’ll believe it when it passes.

Depends on what you consider "The Internet" and when folks had access. I consider the origin point when broadband became a household utility. With that, I would say less than a decade. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 paved the way for broadband deployment. I worked for an ISP in a smaller city (50k; 80k if you include rural folk) through college that started as a dialup only outfit and transitioned into offering DSL. We started rolling out DSL in 2000 and had a decent footprint by the end of 2001. Thinking to early social media apps, I think about MySpace and their peak usage was 2005-2008 or so and they had like 75M users very quickly and became a household name and the Internet's most visited site by like 2006. If that doesn't qualify as mainstream, I don't know what does.

[February 4, 2026] #Vegas #Bitcoiners Meetup - 6:30pm at Sierra Gold - 9465 S Eastern Bitcoin therapy session as well as discussion on the #Bitcoin space, finance, macro, etc. Come make some new friends! #vegaslocals RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/vegasbitcoiners/events/312908523/

Here is an interesting question posed at the Vegas Bitcoiners Meetup last night: Is Lightning a failed project? The individual that asked believes it is. He pointed to being a decade old and still having minimal usage and impact; he pointed to there only being between 5-6K BTC TVL whereas you see 125k WBTC over on Ethereum (for comparison sake) and used in their ecosystem apps; he pointed to it failing as P2P tool and essentially just used as institutional rails slash backend settlement layer. He had a couple more salient points but I'm not remembering them as I'm running on fumes. Would love to hear folks thoughts.

Yep, Vegas. Lulz.

Hyper deprivatization of your data.

Yep, I'm done now. The only way I'll talk Bitcoin with those not already in the space is if they come to me with baseline understanding and genuine questions.

Tally Ho! This guy better be funny… we actually paid for tix this time around.

For a season that was meant to install Ben Johnson's philosophy and culture, the Bears punched above their weight all season long despite endless injuries and being outmatched talent wise. Now the real work begins. The GM has to retool the defense on the fly and now take another hard look at the offensive line with the Trapillo injury. Very few people come back from the injury he has. You essentially have a couple years left on Caleb's rookie deal and that is the typical window before you're forced to pay your QB 25-33% of the cap. Now if DJ would have only given max effort on that last route...

Spending some sats at Steak ‘N Shake — Look, the sign I put up from is still there. Noice!

So if Greenland is under Denmark's rule, why the collateral damage?

I really need a solution to be able to filter out news, rss, and other bots. Every time I try to find to search content from PEOPLE to interact with, all I get returned is shit from those accounts. It's a miserable user experience.