"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to run Knots. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on Core, that they will fight to protect it."

This speech from @Neal at a recent meetup in San Antonio is absolute 🔥! It starts at 0:35, and ends around 40 minutes in, and is then followed by Q&A. Main point: In our orange pilling, we should lead with a moral case FOR Bitcoin and AGAINST fiat, before getting into economic details. Bitcoin's moral superiority is 100% verifiable and 0% speculative, so it's moral implications should be our primary focus.

Opt out of fiat; switch to Bitcoin. Not to end all fiat, but to keep it out of your life. Opt out of Core; switch to Knots. Not to end all spam, but to keep it out of your mempool. If enough of us opt out, then fiat/spam will die, but that's knot the point. It never was.

Today is my 3rd son's 15th birthday. My wife made this card (I forgot she even knew about the sats symbol! 🤯), & I sent him 10k sats just as he pulled this card out of the envelope. His Lightning Address is joshua@coinos.io. In case you'd also like to gift him any sats. 🧡

Pre-1971, the Fed could print money, but only when a precedent made it palatable for the public (e.g.: war, after propaganda). But then Nixon removed that filter, which didn't work anyway, and the rest is history. Do we really want the equivalent of that for spam in Bitcoin?

GM. Today is my last day of being 39. Others at this age: "Oh, no! Tomorrow I'll be 'old'!" Me: "So *this* is how long the Tribes of Israel wandered in the wilderness..." Tomorrow I'll be 40. Bring it on.

Walking is now my 1-year-old's preferred mode of transportation. He is officially a toddler. That makes him a toddler hodler (which rhyme, to me).

$21 stamped and ready to go back into circulation! Thanks, @UNCLE ROCKSTAR! #BitcoinCircularEconomiesSummit #ElZonte

I'm SO excited for the Bitcoin Beach Circular Economy Summit next week in #ElZonte, right before the Plan ₿ Forum in #SanSalvador! I'll be speaking there about @Satlantis: Social Events , and how we can use it to supercharge all our efforts in building, maintaining, and improving Bitcoin circular economies. If you're going to be there, then let's meet up! 🧡

"When they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, 'How can we, #few as we are, fight against so great and so strong a multitude? And we are faint, for we have eaten nothing today.' "Judas replied, 'It is easy for many to ₿e hemmed in ₿y #few, for in the sight of heaven there is no difference ₿etween saving ₿y many or ₿y #few. "'It is not on the size of the army that victory in ₿attle depends, but strength comes from heaven. "'They come against us in great insolence and lawlessness to destroy us and our wives and our children and to despoil us, "'₿ut we fight for our lives and our laws. "'[God] Himself will crush them ₿efore us; as for you, do not ₿e afraid of them.'" - 1 Maccabees 3:17-22 Happy #Hanukkah, fellow Maccabees! 🕎