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In late 2023 my life fell apart completely.
Lost both jobs.
Girlfriend of ten years left.
Grandpa died.
My mom was sick in a way that had been consuming me for years.
I got Bitcoin in 2010, understood the protocol, and then basically forgot about it.
13 years later, at rock and find an old hard drive.
At @PorcFest 2024 I meet the guy who can help me recover it.
Weeks later, in Colorado, it's done.
Almost 14 years to the day, I recover the BTC I put on it.
Broke and alone → financially stable for life.
January 2025 I finally got mom into a home.
That summer I moved to Tysons, started working out of @Strategy's Hub, built a whole new life and community in the DC area.
At @PorcFest 2025, the same event where my life turned around the year before, I got the call.
My mom was gone.
October 31, 2025. Whitepaper day. I made the first commit on Bitcoin Commons (@BtcCommons), a ground-up alternative Bitcoin node written in Rust, built from a formal specification of consensus rules that has never existed before.
I kept building.
The specification and implementation co-evolved through the winter.
Governance research published January 2026.
Alpha shipped May 7, 2026.
I just got back from Manila.
I'm going to marry her.
Bitcoin saved my life.
I'm spending it making Bitcoin harder to kill.
Lost both jobs.
Girlfriend of ten years left.
Grandpa died.
My mom was sick in a way that had been consuming me for years.
I got Bitcoin in 2010, understood the protocol, and then basically forgot about it.
13 years later, at rock and find an old hard drive.
At @PorcFest 2024 I meet the guy who can help me recover it.
Weeks later, in Colorado, it's done.
Almost 14 years to the day, I recover the BTC I put on it.
Broke and alone → financially stable for life.
January 2025 I finally got mom into a home.
That summer I moved to Tysons, started working out of @Strategy's Hub, built a whole new life and community in the DC area.
At @PorcFest 2025, the same event where my life turned around the year before, I got the call.
My mom was gone.
October 31, 2025. Whitepaper day. I made the first commit on Bitcoin Commons (@BtcCommons), a ground-up alternative Bitcoin node written in Rust, built from a formal specification of consensus rules that has never existed before.
I kept building.
The specification and implementation co-evolved through the winter.
Governance research published January 2026.
Alpha shipped May 7, 2026.
I just got back from Manila.
I'm going to marry her.
Bitcoin saved my life.
I'm spending it making Bitcoin harder to kill.
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Some people say I'm bitter about being left out of the in-group. I never expected to be in it, and I knew I never would once I started critiquing it. The rejection was entirely predictable, and it confirms the critique. If an argument can cost you your seat, the seat was never held on the strength of arguments.
Whoever did the most work should have the most say. That is the standard defense of Bitcoin's informal governance, and Bitcoin itself rejects it. Even a miner with majority hashrate who breaks consensus rules gets the block rejected by every node. Proof of work earns the right to propose, and nothing earns the right to skip verification.
A developer's track record is a weaker credential than hashpower. Anyone can buy ASICs and mine, but a commit only counts after someone with merge access accepts it. Seniority is issued by the people it ranks.
Experience matters, and written rules give it a defined role where objections are stated and answered on the record. Without them, the right person's objection is a veto with no appeal, and people are calling that freedom and a healthy ecosystem.
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Whoever did the most work should have the most say. That is the standard defense of Bitcoin's informal governance, and Bitcoin itself rejects it. Even a miner with majority hashrate who breaks consensus rules gets the block rejected by every node. Proof of work earns the right to propose, and nothing earns the right to skip verification.
A developer's track record is a weaker credential than hashpower. Anyone can buy ASICs and mine, but a commit only counts after someone with merge access accepts it. Seniority is issued by the people it ranks.
Experience matters, and written rules give it a defined role where objections are stated and answered on the record. Without them, the right person's objection is a veto with no appeal, and people are calling that freedom and a healthy ecosystem.
A developer's track record is a weaker credential than hashpower. Anyone can buy ASICs and mine, but a commit only counts after someone with merge access accepts it. Seniority is issued by the people it ranks.
Experience matters, and written rules give it a defined role where objections are stated and answered on the record. Without them, the right person's objection is a veto with no appeal, and people are calling that freedom and a healthy ecosystem.
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Adding @SpecterDIY to my list of signing device + smart card recommendations. Really cool! Worth looking into if you're a fan of trust minimized self-custody.
@Schnuartz @ClavaStack
@Schnuartz @ClavaStack
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Secure Sovereign 🚀₿🧡 retweeted
I disagree with this. Bitcoin isn't dead, AI hasn't replaced it, and "sell and shift into AI" treats two different bets as one choice.
"Bitcoin won't change the world." This claim is wrong. Taking control of money away from central authorities changes who can print it, freeze it, track it and inflate it away. That reaches every person who holds savings, and the potential is much bigger than AI's.
"Dead network." It still settles a block about every ten minutes. Nobody runs it. Nobody can switch it off or change the rules alone.
"Ponzi-scheme nature." A Ponzi has an operator who promises returns and pays early investors with new money. Bitcoin has no operator and promises nothing.
"The memes and NFTs are gone, nobody is convincing anyone." Good. A monetary network doesn't need a hype cycle. It needs to keep working while nobody is talking about it.
"Sell and shift to superintelligence." You can't save in superintelligence. You can fund AI companies, and that's a bet on their success, not money.
If you believe in AI's capability to change the world for the better, it's where to spend your time and resources now. If you believe in Bitcoin's power to separate money from state and affect positive change, you spend time and energy there too. And it's still the best store of value, mathematically.
"Bitcoin won't change the world." This claim is wrong. Taking control of money away from central authorities changes who can print it, freeze it, track it and inflate it away. That reaches every person who holds savings, and the potential is much bigger than AI's.
"Dead network." It still settles a block about every ten minutes. Nobody runs it. Nobody can switch it off or change the rules alone.
"Ponzi-scheme nature." A Ponzi has an operator who promises returns and pays early investors with new money. Bitcoin has no operator and promises nothing.
"The memes and NFTs are gone, nobody is convincing anyone." Good. A monetary network doesn't need a hype cycle. It needs to keep working while nobody is talking about it.
"Sell and shift to superintelligence." You can't save in superintelligence. You can fund AI companies, and that's a bet on their success, not money.
If you believe in AI's capability to change the world for the better, it's where to spend your time and resources now. If you believe in Bitcoin's power to separate money from state and affect positive change, you spend time and energy there too. And it's still the best store of value, mathematically.
A brutal year for Bitcoin is just getting started.
Give me three minutes to explain why you should dump it now.
Outflows from ETFs are signal and will continue.
We will test the 57k low again in the next 12 months.
Why?
Because there are far too many dynamic places to creating MUCH more value.
Why put your resources into a dead network that offers nothing beyond a store of value?
What's the point of place the BTC be if Bitcoin's Ponzi-scheme nature has gone away!?!
The viral nature of bitcoin was it's power... if you didn't own you were MOCKED!
Now? Completely reasonable, heck, SMARTER, to ignore bitcoin and place other bets!
No one is trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin anymore... the memes and NFTs are gone.
No one is saying $ BTC can change the world, because it won't — and BECAUSE AI HAS!
Just sell and shift from Bitcoin to Super Intelligence because one provides little to no value, and the other provides unlimited upside for humanity.
This should be obvious to everyone right now.
Bitcoin will never break its all-time high again.
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Secure Sovereign 🚀₿🧡 retweeted
This guy @secsovereign came up to me and told me he's a "height supremacist"
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Secure Sovereign 🚀₿🧡 retweeted
If you’re in Lugano, reach out! We’d love to meet and tell you more about Plebly.fund 🟣
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Secure Sovereign 🚀₿🧡 retweeted
A real pleasure to meet you. You bring the kind of spirit we want at @LuganoPlanB . Happy to see your new project in the @cypher_tank finals, with such a clearly stated goal!
Plan ₿ Forum was fantastic, an absolute joy from start to finish. I met some truly awesome people and made great connections that I'm going to value for a long time. Lugano was beautiful, a little rain on the first day gave way to a perfect second day, and we couldn't have asked for better people. Thank you @LuganoPlanB and @planb_network for an incredible event, and a huge thank you to @giacomozucco for all of his efforts to make it happen. It was a pleasure to meet the @BitVaultApp team in person, and it was incredible to finally meet @knutsvanholm and @lukedewolf face to face for the first time. Thank you as well to Hermann and @BitcoinEkasi for the work you're doing in South Africa, and I'm proud to now own one of the surfboards from @fairdeeds. I also met two incredible artists, @yonatvaks and @anikmalcolm, whose work is stunning, and picked up a piece from an anonymous artist too. Tomorrow I pitch @joinplebly at @cypher_tank, and after this weekend I'm more energized than ever. #LuganoPlanB
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Plan ₿ Forum was fantastic, an absolute joy from start to finish. I met some truly awesome people and made great connections that I'm going to value for a long time. Lugano was beautiful, a little rain on the first day gave way to a perfect second day, and we couldn't have asked for better people. Thank you @LuganoPlanB and @planb_network for an incredible event, and a huge thank you to @giacomozucco for all of his efforts to make it happen. It was a pleasure to meet the @BitVaultApp team in person, and it was incredible to finally meet @knutsvanholm and @lukedewolf face to face for the first time. Thank you as well to Hermann and @BitcoinEkasi for the work you're doing in South Africa, and I'm proud to now own one of the surfboards from @fairdeeds. I also met two incredible artists, @yonatvaks and @anikmalcolm, whose work is stunning, and picked up a piece from an anonymous artist too. Tomorrow I pitch @joinplebly at @cypher_tank, and after this weekend I'm more energized than ever. #LuganoPlanB
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Secure Sovereign 🚀₿🧡 retweeted
We're in Lugano for Plan B Forum, and Plebly pitches at Cypher Tank on Monday! 💜 #LuganoPlanB
Not every win inside the Tank comes with a cheque.
Being selected to pitch, having your project reviewed and facing questions from judges of this caliber is an achievement in itself. A true badge of honor. 🦡
Every challenge will sharpen the founders’ thinking. Every question rojects. Every conversation will bring greater knowledge, clarity and vision.
Whatever the final verdict, they will leave the Tank stronger than they entered it.
Witness the journey live during the Cypher Tank recordings at pow.space at the end of October.
Only a few seats are available. Get yours through the link here: planbweek.com/golden-ticket 🎟️
#cyphertank
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Incredibly proud! Kick ass and take names 💜
At @LuganoPlanB, and on Monday I'm pitching @joinplebly as a finalist at Cypher Tank at PoW.Space in Lugano. Plebly is non-custodial funding for Bitcoin bounties and projects. It uses multisig escrow, independent keyholders review and sign disbursements, and all of the code is open source. If you're in Lugano this weekend, find me and I'll walk you through it. #LuganoPlanB plebly.fund
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At @LuganoPlanB showing people @DecodeBitcoin. It's an MCP server over roughly 900,000 passages of Bitcoin governance research, Core history, and the specification, so your own model can answer hard questions about consensus rules, past incidents, and who argued what, and it returns the passages it drew from. Access is paid by the day over Lightning. Find me here and I'll connect it to your model and let you ask it something difficult. #LuganoPlanB
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At @LuganoPlanB this weekend telling people about the part of Bitcoin nobody wants to look at. One codebase serves as the spec and as the only implementation that matters, and that concentration is a risk for everyone, including the people who maintain it. @BtcCommons has a formal specification, the Orange Paper, which I wrote, and a separate from-scratch Rust node verified against more than 900,000 blocks with differential testing and fuzzing against Bitcoin Core. The coordination model sits on top of that. If you're here and want to talk through the spec or the model, find me. The Orange Paper and docs are at thebitcoincommons.org. #LuganoPlanB
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BitVault treats time as a security layer. @BitvaultApp puts a delay of hours to days before a transaction executes, on top of 2-of-3 multisig and QR-signed hardware wallets, so a stolen key or a coerced signature leaves you time to react. It's built in Lugano and has a table at @LuganoPlanB, so go see it. #LuganoPlanB
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At @LuganoPlanB, and on Monday I'm pitching @joinplebly as a finalist at Cypher Tank at PoW.Space in Lugano. Plebly is non-custodial funding for Bitcoin bounties and projects. It uses multisig escrow, independent keyholders review and sign disbursements, and all of the code is open source. If you're in Lugano this weekend, find me and I'll walk you through it. #LuganoPlanB plebly.fund
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Secure Sovereign 🚀₿🧡 retweeted
Bitcoin is not as decentralized as we've been led to believe.
There is still much work to be done.
And I'm not afraid to admit it.
There is still much work to be done.
And I'm not afraid to admit it.
The story Bitcoin is telling itself goes like this. Kimi arrived, Coldcard got hit, the Red Team mobilized, and now we're battle tested. Most of that story is wrong. Kimi trailed frontier models that were already out, and the Red Team scanned 390 repos for about $40,000 of able all along. The ecosystem waited until Coldcard cost self-custody users $100 million to pay for it, and Ledger users lost roughly another $90 million this month.
Code is also the smaller attack surface. The bigger one is the social graph. The opening strike on Iran killed its top leadership in one morning. In Venezuela the US went after one man. The fewer people a system depends on, the less force it takes to break it. Five people hold merge access to Bitcoin Core, and Brink's own report shows one of them merged 56% of all changes in 2025. The usual answer is that miners and nodes decide, not maintainers. Three pools produce roughly 63% of all blocks, and a small set of exchanges and custodians decide which rules stick. Add the five maintainers and everyone who decides Bitcoin's rules fits in one conference room. Nobody needs to break the code if they can pressure, capture, or replace the people in that room.
Harden the graph the way we harden code, by removing single points of failure. Put the rules in a written spec, which the Orange Paper does. Run enough independent implementations that two can be compromised and the network still holds. Let miners build their own block templates. End self-merge and make exit cheap. Bitcoin solved consensus between machines. It still hasn't solved consensus between the people who write the code, run the pools, and operate the nodes. I've been red teaming that room, and the findings are public. Nobody else has picked it up.
btcdecoded.org
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Secure Sovereign 🚀₿🧡 retweeted
If we care about the long term viability of bitcoin, we should all be shining a light on the growing centralization of the social layer that needs to be urgently addressed. NGU will amplify this issue over time
The story Bitcoin is telling itself goes like this. Kimi arrived, Coldcard got hit, the Red Team mobilized, and now we're battle tested. Most of that story is wrong. Kimi trailed frontier models that were already out, and the Red Team scanned 390 repos for about $40,000 of able all along. The ecosystem waited until Coldcard cost self-custody users $100 million to pay for it, and Ledger users lost roughly another $90 million this month.
Code is also the smaller attack surface. The bigger one is the social graph. The opening strike on Iran killed its top leadership in one morning. In Venezuela the US went after one man. The fewer people a system depends on, the less force it takes to break it. Five people hold merge access to Bitcoin Core, and Brink's own report shows one of them merged 56% of all changes in 2025. The usual answer is that miners and nodes decide, not maintainers. Three pools produce roughly 63% of all blocks, and a small set of exchanges and custodians decide which rules stick. Add the five maintainers and everyone who decides Bitcoin's rules fits in one conference room. Nobody needs to break the code if they can pressure, capture, or replace the people in that room.
Harden the graph the way we harden code, by removing single points of failure. Put the rules in a written spec, which the Orange Paper does. Run enough independent implementations that two can be compromised and the network still holds. Let miners build their own block templates. End self-merge and make exit cheap. Bitcoin solved consensus between machines. It still hasn't solved consensus between the people who write the code, run the pools, and operate the nodes. I've been red teaming that room, and the findings are public. Nobody else has picked it up.
btcdecoded.org
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The story Bitcoin is telling itself goes like this. Kimi arrived, Coldcard got hit, the Red Team mobilized, and now we're battle tested. Most of that story is wrong. Kimi trailed frontier models that were already out, and the Red Team scanned 390 repos for about $40,000 of able all along. The ecosystem waited until Coldcard cost self-custody users $100 million to pay for it, and Ledger users lost roughly another $90 million this month.
Code is also the smaller attack surface. The bigger one is the social graph. The opening strike on Iran killed its top leadership in one morning. In Venezuela the US went after one man. The fewer people a system depends on, the less force it takes to break it. Five people hold merge access to Bitcoin Core, and Brink's own report shows one of them merged 56% of all changes in 2025. The usual answer is that miners and nodes decide, not maintainers. Three pools produce roughly 63% of all blocks, and a small set of exchanges and custodians decide which rules stick. Add the five maintainers and everyone who decides Bitcoin's rules fits in one conference room. Nobody needs to break the code if they can pressure, capture, or replace the people in that room.
Harden the graph the way we harden code, by removing single points of failure. Put the rules in a written spec, which the Orange Paper does. Run enough independent implementations that two can be compromised and the network still holds. Let miners build their own block templates. End self-merge and make exit cheap. Bitcoin solved consensus between machines. It still hasn't solved consensus between the people who write the code, run the pools, and operate the nodes. I've been red teaming that room, and the findings are public. Nobody else has picked it up.
btcdecoded.org
Code is also the smaller attack surface. The bigger one is the social graph. The opening strike on Iran killed its top leadership in one morning. In Venezuela the US went after one man. The fewer people a system depends on, the less force it takes to break it. Five people hold merge access to Bitcoin Core, and Brink's own report shows one of them merged 56% of all changes in 2025. The usual answer is that miners and nodes decide, not maintainers. Three pools produce roughly 63% of all blocks, and a small set of exchanges and custodians decide which rules stick. Add the five maintainers and everyone who decides Bitcoin's rules fits in one conference room. Nobody needs to break the code if they can pressure, capture, or replace the people in that room.
Harden the graph the way we harden code, by removing single points of failure. Put the rules in a written spec, which the Orange Paper does. Run enough independent implementations that two can be compromised and the network still holds. Let miners build their own block templates. End self-merge and make exit cheap. Bitcoin solved consensus between machines. It still hasn't solved consensus between the people who write the code, run the pools, and operate the nodes. I've been red teaming that room, and the findings are public. Nobody else has picked it up.
btcdecoded.org
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Secure Sovereign 🚀₿🧡 retweeted
If you are in Lugano, this is going to be amazing, come say hi!
Satoshi Spritz Special is tonight 🍹
The night before the Plan ₿ Forum, Piazza Cioccaro becomes one big Bitcoin aperitivo, and our sponsors @Blockstream @Braiins @blockrise @terminus_events are offering drinks to everyone in the square 🥂
Free entry, open to all 👇
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