A lot of people don't seem to get it. e-cash is A solution. It's not the answer to all our scaling problems. If you open your eyes and see what's happening outside you will quickly realize e-cash can be very quickly shut down in a lot of parts of the world. If you didn't realize yet, the fedimint federation everyone got excited and started using said they're shutting down and asked everyone to withdraw their funds. We need real scaling and privacy solutions. Not hacky workarounds.

The state of Indian politics from several years. Political parties campaign in small towns and villages and distribute cash and buy votes. These are the kind of politicians we are living with, Bitcoin is hope to get away from all this. I hope we get there one day but we have so many challenges to overcome and tbh my hope that we will succeed isn't that high. For almost everyone who don't know what this means, it's my mom texting in our family group saying she received 5K rupees from a political party to vote for them.

A good post from fiatjaf on how Nostr is centralized and not very censorship resistant as of today.

Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

Only Xcode can make the most powerful laptops heat up and turn the fans on.

Why are Apple stores so full all the time? What do people go in there and do? Every store has like 25 people working inside it and all of them are occupied.

The ossifiers and the NGUs will be happy this year. Bitcoin will probably hit $100k. I'm going to be unhappy because we are behind on privacy and scaling. Like Zeus Evan Kaloudis said, self custody is the hill I will die on. Success isn't the ETFs or 100k, success is everyone can use Bitcoin holding their own keys.

Maybe it's too late but I want bolt12 onion messaging to be paid and not free. Maybe there could be a range from 0 to a maximum of 1 sat in fees but I am completely against it being free.

MMT is the most ridiculous bullshit ever. You having credit card debt is not ok. Businesses having bad balance sheets is not ok. The govts having deficits year in and year out is ok?? Wtf?

Bitcoin's success is not guaranteed, if you think it is, you're delusional. We have so many challenges that we have to overcome including us bitcoiners being a hurdle to our own success.