Rob Warren
@BikesandBitcoin
Helping Build @bitcoinpark_ || Author, The Bitcoin Miner's Almanac
I didn't expect the Tik Tok to North Korea pipeline to be a thing, but here we are....

Yes, we are going to have to engage with intelligent people making the same 5 boring (and wrong) anti-bitcoin arguments for the next 20 years.
At present, there is no legitimate use case for Bitcoin. Even if there is, 99% of holders don’t understand it and are holding as a pure speculative play. Making it still, even at $118k, susceptible to a spectacular collapse under the right circumstances.
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Gawker was a rag and Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel tearing it to the ground was a gift to humanity.
This is awesome to see.
Fidelity amends its #Bitcoin ETF to allow in-kind creations and redemptions.
It will take nearly 40 years to mine the last new bitcoin. Crazy to think about.

Very nice, @thetrocro! This OP_Daily byte from @BitcoinPark_ 👇

People often ask me, upon hearing that I am a philosophy professor, what I have learned. What wisdom have I acquired through decades of study? Are we free? What things are conscious and why? What is the divine? Perfectly reasonable questions, but I have nothing useful to say!
People often ask me, upon hearing that I am a philosophy professor, what I have learned. What wisdom have I acquired through decades of study? Are we free? What things are conscious and why? What is the divine? Perfectly reasonable questions, but I have nothing useful to say!
absolute banger
In Trump’s first term, he referred to himself as a very stable genius. In Trump’s second term, he signed a bill into law called the GENIUS Act, which provides a regulatory framework for the issuance of stablecoins.
1. Is this confirmed true by @nayibbukele? 2. What are the long term implications? This OP_Daily byte from @BitcoinPark_ 👇

For context, this is over 4x the largest known US Bitcoin megamine.
we have signed a deal for an additional 4.5 gigawatts of capacity with oracle as part of stargate. easy to throw around numbers, but this is a _gigantic_ infrastructure project. some progress photos from abilene:
Men will literally start mining bitcoin at home instead of going to therapy.
This is what you listened to in high school while cramming for your AP exams and worrying about which scholarships you'd get.
Musical taste by SAT score. Much of this is unsurprising — smart people like Beethoven, Radiohead and Sufjan Stevens, while the less bright prefer Nickelback and Beyonce — but some of it is puzzling, like smart people liking Counting Crows. While the way most of the artists…
Both Wei Dai and Nick Szabo initially rejected Bitcoin as money due to the volatility associated with a known issuance schedule and fixed supply. It is 2025 and Jared thinks this argument is novel and/or damning. Groundhog day.
BTC bros are some of the most optimistic, dumbest people on the planet. "It's gone up a lot" is their only argument as to why it's worthwhile.
These are the (mostly ignored) incremental improvements that harden Bitcoin. This OP_Daily byte from @BitcoinPark_ 👇

1/n After @PresidioBitcoin's Quantum Summit, a "big picture" is beginning to form. Here's a high-level view, informed by many of the brilliant talks and conversations. (Apologies to @brian_trollz for a rambling interview this morning when it was even more nascent and hazy.)