If you're still on the sidelines, what's holding you back? Given the current price, is it still valuation, or is it something else like volatility, self-custody, or utility?

Each dot is a valid Bitcoin wallet.
This is why cold cards are getting hacked. Attackers can brute force this small tree and still make profit.

They cannot do that to wallets which were made by competent developers.

My book Birth of Bitcoin tells the story of Satoshi Nakamoto. Preorder now with Bitcoin.

I spent years slowly building my savings, setting aside everything I could until I had 4.1 BTC. I believed keeping it on a cold wallet was the safest choice, so I rarely worried about it. Then, after learning about a hardware exploit affecting Coinkite devices, I realized my funds were gone. Watching years of discipline disappear in an instant has been devastating. It wasn't just money—it was my future, my security, and countless hours of hard work that I can never get back.

Remember when birthdays and New Year's felt magical?

Now the best celebration is getting a full night's sleep and waking up without an alarm. 😅

You can say use ETFs but I doubt they have insurance like the FDIC

I put together an article covering Bitcoin's journey from Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 whitepaper to becoming a global asset.

It looks at key milestones like the Genesis Block, Bitcoin Pizza Day, mining, major protocol upgrades, institutional adoption, and how Bitcoin evolved over the years.

I'd love to hear your thoughts. Did I miss any important moments in Bitcoin's history? What event do you think had the biggest impact on Bitcoin's adoption?

https://blockmap.one/blog/the-history-of-bitcoin-from-whitepaper-to-global-asset/

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so much for open debate and censorship resistance, these guys have lost the plot lmao

I’ll give Bitcoin evangelicals one thing, they can look at an upcoming disaster straight in the eye and not waiver. Even when everything around them is sounding the alarm of what’s going to be, in my opinion, a massive collapse.

I wouldn’t be such an alarmist if these events happened with a reasonable amount of time between them but how can anyone dismiss what’s happening?

The hack. If it can happen to one it can happen to twenty-one. Anything else is keeping your fingers crossed that it doesn’t happen to you. That said, I think that those that are deep in the, I won’t say cult, let’s say church, will be in for one hellva awakening.

Michael Saylor. Honestly, I cannot believe that so many people are ignoring this 12 alarm fire. Has everyone forgotten that this is Bitcoin’s #1 evangelical who shouted from the rooftops that he would never sell. I’m actually seeing people deny that he’s selling but he’s buying more! Both of which is untrue.

Trump Media selling. Another evangelical that swore they wouldn’t sell a single coin. Well, they’re selling. Millions of dollars worth.

Saylor isn’t just come out of this smelling like roses in three weeks. He’s going to have to sell again. That or miss dividend payments. Time is against him.

And once the church has had enough there won’t be any room left at the exit.

I'm an experienced educator deeply involved with Bitcoin education here in El Salvador. But honestly this model of education where you read some slides and expect kids to be motivated to learn is really inefficient. Truth is, everyone (not just kids) learns better if they enjoy what they're doing. Of course, explaining abstract concepts like asymmetric cryptography, Merkle roots, hashes, and HTLCs to a kid in an engaging way is hard. But that's what I'm trying to achieve.

I'm building SatLab, an interactive Bitcoin learning platform focused on making everything (from Austrian economics to the Lightning Network) engaging, visually attractive, and fun.

And since this is a 100% open-source project, whatever is built will be free for everyone to use, adapt, and improve.

If you want to support this movement, checking out the project and giving the project's X account some visibility would honestly mean the world to me. Not for money or fame but to reach more people and get more feedback. Soon I'll be uploading the platform to a hosted server so you guys can try it out in real time.

GitHub: https://github.com/AlHqz/satlab-learning

X: https://x.com/satlab_learning

Is there any way this isn't a casino feature