Nostr notes by daniella

Jeff Booth and Matthew Kratter sometimes look at Bitcoin from ...

2026-10-04T08:47:52Z

Jeff Booth and Matthew Kratter sometimes look at Bitcoin from different angles, and I find both of their perspectives to be incredibly enlightening. From different approaches, we are all building the same thing together: Bitcoin as money (with everything that entails).

https://youtu.be/gfskyiDetRY

https://youtu.be/zMGNJ5eT2_U

🧡 True. I should have said the final manifestation may not be ...

2026-09-06T19:41:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…dn3t
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🧡 True. I should have said the final manifestation may not be Blake2b. This will probably be an evolving experience; a continuous shedding of layers. No matter what we are going to learn a lot from each step forward.

Yes great question, look on sites where you have local / ...

2026-09-06T19:36:13Z

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Yes great question, look on sites where you have local / county-based classified ads listings. This page has really good examples per country. I checked the ones I know and it looks on point: https://www.quentinadt.com/uncategorized/2026/03/22/sites-equivalents-le-bon-coin-dans-le-monde/ The other place I would look is Facebook Marketplace. Hope that helps 🙏🏼

Hey @Johnny, Thanks for your question. My goal is to cover the ...

2026-09-06T19:31:33Z

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Hey @Johnny, Thanks for your question. My goal is to cover the community's concerns. The idea is mutual v4v: you zap the project(s) you are interested in and fill out the form after to share what you want me to cover and I'll make the video custom to those who zapped (so I'd research and cover the guardian question). I set this up at the beginning of the year and put the goal for end of September. I don't think any of the projects will get funded though unfortunately, but I'm glad I tried a new v4v model to see if it could work.

I don't think the Blake2b hard fork is going to succeed for a ...

2026-08-30T21:39:54Z

I don't think the Blake2b hard fork is going to succeed for a number of reasons, but I'll be pointing some has rate at it anyway. This video explores why and what's needed to join. No matter what happens, just like BIP110, we will learn more about what works, what doesn't, and Bitcoin as money ⚡

https://youtu.be/y5Vu8IJ9wFU

Muito obrigada Tomé 🙏🏼

2026-08-30T21:35:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…03ve
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Muito obrigada Tomé 🙏🏼

Hey just saw this : ) Thanks for sharing appreciate it

2026-08-26T20:14:47Z

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Hey just saw this : ) Thanks for sharing appreciate it

Really enjoyed this conversation, I love hearing the parallels ...

2026-08-16T11:02:07Z

Really enjoyed this conversation, I love hearing the parallels between both worlds, everything is connected. Thank you both :)

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🌎 Had an enlightening chat with Myriel, author of The Cosmic Whitepaper, about how burnout led her to Bitcoin, why Bitcoin is on its evolutionary journey like humanity, and how the cosmos can help guide us all.

"I feel more at home on Nostr." @Myriel ✨

Shoutouts @JeffBooth
May enjoy: Efrat Fenigson (nprofile…9d4q) daniella (nprofile…r4s6) freebornfarm (nprofile…2v07) JFH ♥️♾️🧡💜 (nprofile…3k9s) dsbatten (nprofile…uwsn) @Heather

https://bitcoinstars.space/cosmicwhitepaper

I like your ideas, for sure an open discussion on how to maintain ...

2026-08-10T19:53:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…ssdw
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I like your ideas, for sure an open discussion on how to maintain Bitcoin as money would be helpful, let's see where this goes. Glad you are enjoying the book :)

Missed these, thanks ⚡

2026-08-10T19:50:59Z

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Missed these, thanks ⚡

For sure good opening, let's see what comes next, I'm ...

2026-08-10T19:47:56Z

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For sure good opening, let's see what comes next, I'm hopeful

The idea behind BIP-110 didn't die. 17,000 nodes told the ...

2026-08-09T14:43:18Z

The idea behind BIP-110 didn't die. 17,000 nodes told the network they believe Bitcoin is money. Bitcoin being decentralized, secure, "peer-to-peer electronic cash" may not manifest through BIP-110, but the idea will survive through our actions and choices as we continue to evolve

Interesting read and timing :) "The strategic decision of ...

2026-08-08T18:41:08Z

Interesting read and timing :)

"The strategic decision of Knots vs. Core happens now when the cosmic nodes return into the same signs (Aquarius and Leo) where they were when Bitcoin’s Genesis Block was mined on 3 Jan 2009."

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Here you go daniella (nprofile…zkar) https://bitcoinstars.substack.com/p/bitcoin-knots-vs-core-a-karmic-decision?

Awesome :) I'm hopeful for what is to come, hopefully a fresh ...

2026-08-08T18:34:53Z

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Awesome :) I'm hopeful for what is to come, hopefully a fresh start away from all these attacks given the resillience of Bitcoin and Bitcoiners 🙏

No problem it worked this time ⚡

2026-08-08T18:29:30Z

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No problem it worked this time ⚡

Thanks for sharing Myriel, really interesting take. Curious why ...

2026-08-08T10:41:19Z

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Thanks for sharing Myriel, really interesting take. Curious why you mention the 12th mainly as the activation date, do you think that's when things will be more clear vs today? Also tried zapping but it says you dont have a lightning address setup 🙏

"The strategic decision of Knots vs. Core happens now when ...

2026-08-08T10:34:50Z

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"The strategic decision of Knots vs. Core happens now when the cosmic nodes return into the same signs (Aquarius and Leo) where they were when Bitcoin’s Genesis Block was mined on 3 Jan 2009." 👀

Totally agree, thought so too, became the startup myself, but ...

2026-08-07T20:24:15Z

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Totally agree, thought so too, became the startup myself, but from my experience it's still too early, for now. Too much of the world is operating on fiat still, just look at the Bitcoin community right now lol the demands, expectations, and incentives still make fiat gains necessary for survival, but maybe its different in full Bitcoin Standard locations, and things are changing.. The more people/businesses who see things this way, the more it spreads.. I do believe this is the future, and the present in our own realities ;)

Good feedback will do

2026-08-06T08:04:45Z

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Good feedback will do

Awesome :D Would love to read it once its out ✨

2026-08-05T16:25:39Z

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Awesome :D Would love to read it once its out ✨

BIP110 activates on the 8/8 Lion's Gate Portal :D 🙌🏼 ...

2026-08-05T13:48:38Z

BIP110 activates on the 8/8 Lion's Gate Portal :D 🙌🏼 🧡 ✨

bitcoinstars (nprofile…9nvn) what were the chances? ^^

Good point, whats the format, just pasting the string starting ...

2026-08-04T12:01:20Z

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Good point, whats the format, just pasting the string starting from "nevent"? Thanks

Nostr event nevent1qqsvgx9hf0svy0sse9p5rxpuh9luzq0j8kdsctuth3aegmwmz9h3wmgzyp0dhky966d37q6j3qa4l7lrxuqzay72m8gd42pw3ydu9z6lhs53uv5ccqq

2026-08-04T10:43:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…dx8f
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Yes: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqszscy46k59a6wcwmc28xvv67nr9kwfy05dvaf9wz5z65yvxnsw7ggp4zc7n

What if there was a plan to stop Bitcoin? Just asking, what if? ...

2026-08-04T10:35:12Z

What if there was a plan to stop Bitcoin? Just asking, what if? Maybe it would look something like this:

- De-fund independent devs and replace them with compliant ones to make slow, steady changes to the protocol over years time
- Fund businesses and products rebuilding fiat on Bitcoin and discredit FOSS / true Bitcoin-only projects
- Fund and amplify compliant voices willing to promote whatever serves the change: People, narratives, products, etc
- Fund and promote fiat products on top of Bitcoin to centralize as much of it as possible
- Delete, ignore, flag, downzap, block, suppress, and discredit any independent thinkers and their solutions (e.g. Security flags, bug fixes, #BIP110...)
- Then kill the founding culture by telling people not to self-custody, non-monetary data is good for Bitcoin, you and your node don't matter, you need to buy a fiat product for Bitcoin to be money... And maybe even rug those who saw through the propaganda and "did the right things."

Just asking, not pointing fingers; because part of the psyop would certainly also be to divide us all at a time when we would do best to come together on the idea that united us all in the first place: Bitcoin is Money.

"Tinfoil hat conspiracy" or not, what strange timing the Coldcard breach. Many on vacation away from their cold wallets, others already financially strained given the bear market, and right before the #BIP110 activation... If this was planned we can make it backfire because our scrutiny into what is actually going on in the space and our aligned action in consequence is the light that puts out the darkness, and scrutiny is ramping up.

Flip the script: Keep researching what's actually going on in the space. Use some time off this Summer to learn about BIP110 and spin up a node. Let the bear market be a good time to stack. Reinforce your self-custody setup. Hold the line. My thoughts are with anyone who had their funds drained, hopefully justice will be served.

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsts9kywr3mdkfpseckldcft497kxs2xkrpztggsjxj35jp2hzg23c09jfrw

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvhkwlgr64jde8e3mr70ynr4tv3ye3dxrlr0js7828cydaweqs3aq94qfu6

https://x.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1447213375398846473

https://daniella.io/fiat-incentives-everywhere/

https://daniella.io/core-vs-knots/

Was thinking the same thing as well, it's just strange.

2026-08-02T08:35:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…tpmw
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Was thinking the same thing as well, it's just strange.

Yes, thank you 🧡

2026-08-02T08:32:36Z

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Yes, thank you 🧡

I needed a short concise video to help others migrate off ...

2026-08-01T23:05:40Z

I needed a short concise video to help others migrate off #Coldcard, hope it can help you help others as well. Lots of black on my screen because I also needed to migrate this wallet. At 3:35 I share a more personal update. Still convinced that #Bip110 is more important than ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4qOcWYgeGY

same

2026-07-12T06:56:18Z

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same

Some clients don't manage certain events (e.g. polls can be ...

2026-07-12T06:54:53Z

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Some clients don't manage certain events (e.g. polls can be posted to Primal but will be invisible on Nostria because it doesn't support polls, but it supports other things). So that's one reason you may not see events depending on the client. I explain events and demo this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuJMOXz0a-g The video also demos how to run your own relay and back it up so you never lose your data as well (recommended). The other problem is distribution of attention for >95% of users: https://daniella.io/nostr-retention-structural-diagnosis/

Funny, I randomly saw this video this morning and also wondered ...

2026-07-03T16:31:05Z

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Funny, I randomly saw this video this morning and also wondered the same thing. He's close to Jeff's thesis without seeing it yet (mainly blames corporations), but I was wondering why MSM is platforming him so much now vs recent ai hype cycle narratives.

In 2026, fiat incentives have made their way into every layer of ...

2026-07-01T16:18:42Z

In 2026, fiat incentives have made their way into every layer of Bitcoin's human infrastructure. This video covers exactly how: From Strategy's STRC rebuilding a Cantillon Effect on Bitcoin, to funding compliance in Core development, why every company that raised above $50M has drifted from Bitcoin-only, to the sponsorship loop shaping narratives. Based on the original research in my "Fiat Incentives Everywhere" article series on my blog.

https://youtu.be/hL1SZ_Vgbso

I used Claude to verify claims against the source code but the ...

2026-06-26T18:25:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…0kx7
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I used Claude to verify claims against the source code but the experience of being censored is mine. The analysis is mine. The suggestions are my own. AI is a tool just like a search engine. My response stands either way: I demonstrated why Stacker News is proof of stake based on personal experience and the code, and because of this I won't be using it anymore. No hard feelings.

Thanks @nprofile…tq4d, I appreciate the constructive discussion ...

2026-06-26T17:09:35Z

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Thanks scoresby (nprofile…tq4d), I appreciate the constructive discussion and the invitation.

You're right that on the homepage ranking, a sat is a sat. I went through the Stacker News source code to verify your claim, and the ranking algorithm (ranktop/ranklit) does use raw sats, not trust-weighted votes. There's even a comment in the zap handlers: "This is mostly a placeholder because we are running a no trust experiment." So on that specific point, you're correct and I want to acknowledge that.

But the economic layer underneath tells a different story:

The reward distribution worker (earn.js) ranks qualifying items by weightedVotes - weightedDownVotes, and those are trust-weighted. Trust is built through a PageRank-style random walk seeded from the SN founder (with territory founders added as additional seeds in their territories). So trust doesn't decide what you see on the homepage, but it decides who gets paid from the rewards pool.

Here's where the system becomes proof of stake rather than proof of work: When users downzap the same content, they build mutual trust in the trust graph. The trust calculation in trust.js explicitly includes both ZAP and DOWN_ZAP actions when computing user-pair agreement. That increased trust gives more weight to their future votes in reward distribution. Downzap sats go 100% to the rewards pool, which gets distributed to zappers of top-ranked content, ranked by those same trust-weighted votes.

So coordinated suppression builds trust, trust increases future influence, and the sats spent suppressing flow back toward users the trust graph already favours. That's a compounding loop. The system does apply dampening (z-score normalization, Wilson score intervals, min-max scaling), but the structural incentive remains.

In Bitcoin, influence comes from proof of work, not proof of stake. You don't accumulate more mining power by having mined before. Each block requires the same energy regardless of who you are. Stacker News could mirror that principle more closely with two changes:

1. Symmetric transparency. Upzaps reveal how many unique users participated. Downzaps reveal only a total sat amount with no user count. Neither direction exposes individual identities. A post sitting at -13,000 downzap sats could be broad community disagreement or a single large account. There's no way to tell. At minimum, adding a downvotes count (matching the existing upvotes count) would close that gap. But I'd go further: If "money is the moderator," the moderators should be identifiable. Make individual zapper and downzapper identities visible for both directions. If you're willing to spend sats to suppress content, put your name on it.

I understand why downzaps exist: Spam control. But Stacker News already has a built-in spam filter that most platforms don't: You have to pay sats to post in the first place. That's already proof of work at the entry level. Downzaps should be visible to demonstrate disagreement.

2. Remove downzaps from the trust graph. Agreeing to build something up (co-zapping good content) is constructive. It makes sense that it builds mutual trust. But agreeing to tear something down shouldn't compound into more influence. If downzaps stopped feeding the trust graph, suppression would still be possible, it just wouldn't generate power. That's the difference between proof of work and proof of stake: In one system, you gain influence by contributing. In the other, you gain influence by accumulating.

You asked what I'd propose as a better system. I think sats-as-signal is a genuinely interesting experiment and I experienced it my first few days on the platform. I think these two changes would make the existing system more aligned with Bitcoin's principles.

I'm happy to discuss with SN team if they want, they can get in touch here: https://daniella.io/contact

Agreed

2026-06-26T14:54:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…ggh9
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Agreed

The benefit of the doubt was certainly reasonable at one point. ...

2026-06-24T12:20:32Z

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The benefit of the doubt was certainly reasonable at one point. Bitcoin needed infrastructure, builders, adoption... It made sense to support anyone building. The good news is it's being corrected in a way; thousands of nodes signalling for BIP-110 is one measure of that.

I wanted to give Stacker News a try because it's value for ...

2026-06-24T11:23:33Z

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I wanted to give Stacker News a try because it's value for value only. I joined just over a week ago. The first few days were good. The visibility is higher than Nostr, the engagement was more immediate, and the sat flow felt like genuine feedback. But I didn't realise the X-like culture underneath until I posted something that challenged the room and my post got suppressed.

I see it now too. I joined just over a week ago. It wasn't ...

2026-06-24T11:21:45Z

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I see it now too. I joined just over a week ago. It wasn't obvious at first because some of the initial engagement was constructive. After a few posts it became clear. Lesson learned.

Appreciate the support. And, it's no longer on the front page ...

2026-06-24T11:19:53Z

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Appreciate the support. And, it's no longer on the front page even after choosing the "bitcoin" category or clicking "more" past the date it was posted. It was downzapped -13.9k sats into invisibility despite generating an active technical discussion and being backed by extensive research. My message on your other comment goes into more detail.

I know you are an active contributor to Stacker News so thanks. I ...

2026-06-24T11:16:54Z

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I know you are an active contributor to Stacker News so thanks. I joined just over a week ago, I genuinely enjoyed the first few days on the platform. The engagement was more immediate than Nostr, the sats flowed in a way that felt like real feedback, and the visibility was noticeably higher. For a few days it felt like the kind of place where honest discussion could happen with real v4v signal.

Two things changed that:

First, the downzapping on my last post about BIP-110. It earned over 5,000 sats, generated 37 comments (many of them substantive technical exchanges), and was still downzapped to -13.9k into complete invisibility. That's not "money as moderator," that's proof of stake. People with larger sat balances or higher trust scores can suppress content they disagree with, regardless of proof-of-work or the engagement it generates. My sats are not "just as powerful as everyone else's" if trusted accounts can downzap a post into invisibility. According to SN's own source code, all sats from downzaps go to the rewards pool, which gets redistributed to top-ranked content. So the sats spent suppressing a post flow back to the users the trust system already favours. That's a closed loop.

Second, the culture. I welcome critical feedback, honest engagement, genuine disagreement. From my experience so far however, comments are from a small group of recurring accounts, and a significant portion of the interaction is trolling. That's X culture. I'm not on traditional social media including X for exactly this reason.

You asked how many zaps I got on my last Nostr post. Fair question to which the answer is much fewer. Nostr has a structural attention concentration problem that I've written about extensively backed by data. Less than 1% of new users are still active after three weeks and select accounts are set up to grow larger during new user onboarding. Many pleb accounts feel like we're shouting into a void, and that's not a feeling, it's measurable: https://daniella.io/nostr-retention-structural-diagnosis/

So yes, Stacker News had better visibility and better sat flow for me in 1 week than the same posts on Nostr which I've built over 2 years. That part worked. What didn't work is that the same sats that reward engagement can also be weaponised to censor it.

I didn't join Stacker News to be censored.

I still think the idea is great and the platform could genuinely support real v4v, but these two problems are a deal breaker for me.

I just learned the hard way that Stacker News heavily leans Core. ...

2026-06-22T14:56:38Z

I just learned the hard way that Stacker News heavily leans Core. I also learned that it has a "downzap" system where trusted accounts can spend sats to suppress posts. If enough high-trust stackers downzap, the post gets "outlawed" and hidden from anyone on default settings. There's no public counter and you can't actually see it happening.

Just when you think it cant get worse x) Going to go touch grass.

https://stacker.news/items/1512794

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This is why #BIP110 matters more than ever:

BITCOIN IS BECOMING FIAT

There are real financial incentives to flood Bitcoin with non-monetary data including .jpegs, inscriptions, ordinals, and tokens.[1][4][5][6][7]

- At scale, VC capital is paying for Bitcoin to not be Bitcoin. My independent research across 169 companies found that 56% of "Bitcoin-companies" have drifted into non-Bitcoin products, including every single company with a raise above $50M.[2]

- STRC's Cantillon reconstruction on the protocol is another example of this.[3] It's the very "financial engineering" Bitcoin was designed to end.

- Many of the largest Bitcoin influencers, educators, and conference organisers are funded by the same fiat structures they claim to oppose.[8] Sponsorship, affiliate, and ad revenue create a feedback loop where the creator cannot scrutinise the company paying for their reach. At $480,000 for a single sponsorship deal, the financial incentive to stay silent is structural, not personal.[8]

Across the entire industry, from development to marketing, the money is on the side of making Bitcoin not Bitcoin.

BITCOIN IS MONEY

Bitcoin was created to be money: "A peer-to-peer electronic cash system." That is the title of the white paper and the entire point of the protocol.[9]

For 5,000 years, every civilisation that handed control of its money to a central authority followed the same sequence: Debasement, inflation, inequality, collapse, reset.[11] The flaw was centralized trust. Bitcoin is the first technology in history that removes it entirely, enforcing a fixed supply through mathematics and a decentralised network distributing trust.

That is one of Bitcoin's most important contributions and it only works if the network stays decentralised.

THE PROBLEM

When non-monetary data floods the chain, it triggers a sequence that leads to Bitcoin becoming a vehicle to perpetuate fiat.

The more non-monetary data, the faster the blockchain grows, which raises the cost of running a full node, which reduces the number of people who can participate, which weakens decentralisation, which compromises security, which means Bitcoin stops being the tool that ends the 5,000-year fiat extraction cycle.[11]

THE SOLUTION

BIP-110 is a temporary soft fork that restricts non-monetary data at the consensus level. Over 21% of reachable nodes have already migrated to Bitcoin Knots, and now over 13% are also running BIP-110 (aka RDTS).[10]

This combo is a measurable signal that a meaningful portion of the network still treats Bitcoin as money.

DON'T TRUST, VERIFY

The funding relationships are there to find, though sometimes undisclosed.[8] I didn't realise this until recently. Writing the series is what made me see how important "don't trust, verify" is, even for structures I thought were a given.

Before you take anyone's word on their funding models and BIP-110, including mine, check their incentives. One way to do so is to ask an Ai to run an integrity check on any Bitcoin influencer, developer, or company. I hadn't done this work so deeply until recently. What I found changed how I see the entire space.

WHY I'M WRITING THIS

The fiat system specialises in making its own logic feel like common sense: "Of course yield is necessary. Of course running a node is too complicated. Of course the ETF is safer." These are what rational actors do when the incentive structure is built around them.[13] That's the sophistication of what Bitcoin is up against, but the money behind what's being said online is findable.

I thought things were different in Bitcoin, that we were genuinely changing the world, not just talking about it. I've experienced a lot of disillusionment this year and the series covers it. But there is a silver lining.

The protocol is intact. 12,000 nodes are enforcing Bitcoin as money by signalling for BIP-110.[10] Everything is becoming more visible. Thousands of nodes holding the line is the signal that matters.

CONTEXT & SOURCES

I referenced my own work a lot here but each piece contains independent research and refers to the work of others:

[1] Liberati, D. (2026, June 12). Fiat incentives in Bitcoin: A department-by-department map. https://daniella.io/fiat-incentives-everywhere/

[2] Liberati, D. (2026). Why Bitcoin companies drift. https://daniella.io/bitcoin-funding

[3] Liberati, D. (2026, June 12). STRC explained: The Cantillon effect rebuilt on Bitcoin. https://daniella.io/bitcoin-strc

[4] Liberati, D. (2026, June 9). Bitcoin Core vs Bitcoin Knots + BIP 110: Which node should you run? https://daniella.io/core-vs-knots/

[5] hodlonaut. (2026, March 27). The capture: The network. Citadel21. https://www.citadel21.com/the-network

[6] hodlonaut. (2026, April 29). The capture: The lever. Citadel21. https://www.citadel21.com/the-lever

[7] hodlonaut. (2026). The capture: The merge. Citadel21. https://www.citadel21.com/the-merge

[8] Liberati, D. (2026). How money shapes the signal. https://daniella.io/bitcoin-marketing

[9] Nakamoto, S. (2008). Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[10] Dashjr, L. (2026, June 22). Bitcoin network statistics. Luke Dashjr. https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/services.html

[11] Liberati, D. (2026). The 5,000-year economic karmic cycle that Bitcoin is ending [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9HtTw897BA

[12] Liberati, D. (2026, June 1). Nostr's retention problem: A structural diagnosis. https://daniella.io/nostr-retention-structural-diagnosis/

[13] Liberati, D. (2026, June 14). The comfortable trap: The fiat-to-Bitcoin transition. https://daniella.io/the-comfortable-trap/

Additional reading:

Liberati, D. (2026, May 21). The 5,000-year economic karmic cycle that Bitcoin is ending. https://daniella.io/fiat-money-karmic-cycle/

Liberati, D. (2026, May 7). The prison door is open. https://daniella.io/leaving-fiat/

This is why #BIP110 matters more than ever: BITCOIN IS BECOMING ...

2026-06-22T12:52:14Z

This is why #BIP110 matters more than ever:

BITCOIN IS BECOMING FIAT

There are real financial incentives to flood Bitcoin with non-monetary data including .jpegs, inscriptions, ordinals, and tokens.[1][4][5][6][7]

- At scale, VC capital is paying for Bitcoin to not be Bitcoin. My independent research across 169 companies found that 56% of "Bitcoin-companies" have drifted into non-Bitcoin products, including every single company with a raise above $50M.[2]

- STRC's Cantillon reconstruction on the protocol is another example of this.[3] It's the very "financial engineering" Bitcoin was designed to end.

- Many of the largest Bitcoin influencers, educators, and conference organisers are funded by the same fiat structures they claim to oppose.[8] Sponsorship, affiliate, and ad revenue create a feedback loop where the creator cannot scrutinise the company paying for their reach. At $480,000 for a single sponsorship deal, the financial incentive to stay silent is structural, not personal.[8]

Across the entire industry, from development to marketing, the money is on the side of making Bitcoin not Bitcoin.

BITCOIN IS MONEY

Bitcoin was created to be money: "A peer-to-peer electronic cash system." That is the title of the white paper and the entire point of the protocol.[9]

For 5,000 years, every civilisation that handed control of its money to a central authority followed the same sequence: Debasement, inflation, inequality, collapse, reset.[11] The flaw was centralized trust. Bitcoin is the first technology in history that removes it entirely, enforcing a fixed supply through mathematics and a decentralised network distributing trust.

That is one of Bitcoin's most important contributions and it only works if the network stays decentralised.

THE PROBLEM

When non-monetary data floods the chain, it triggers a sequence that leads to Bitcoin becoming a vehicle to perpetuate fiat.

The more non-monetary data, the faster the blockchain grows, which raises the cost of running a full node, which reduces the number of people who can participate, which weakens decentralisation, which compromises security, which means Bitcoin stops being the tool that ends the 5,000-year fiat extraction cycle.[11]

THE SOLUTION

BIP-110 is a temporary soft fork that restricts non-monetary data at the consensus level. Over 21% of reachable nodes have already migrated to Bitcoin Knots, and now over 13% are also running BIP-110 (aka RDTS).[10]

This combo is a measurable signal that a meaningful portion of the network still treats Bitcoin as money.

DON'T TRUST, VERIFY

The funding relationships are there to find, though sometimes undisclosed.[8] I didn't realise this until recently. Writing the series is what made me see how important "don't trust, verify" is, even for structures I thought were a given.

Before you take anyone's word on their funding models and BIP-110, including mine, check their incentives. One way to do so is to ask an Ai to run an integrity check on any Bitcoin influencer, developer, or company. I hadn't done this work so deeply until recently. What I found changed how I see the entire space.

WHY I'M WRITING THIS

The fiat system specialises in making its own logic feel like common sense: "Of course yield is necessary. Of course running a node is too complicated. Of course the ETF is safer." These are what rational actors do when the incentive structure is built around them.[13] That's the sophistication of what Bitcoin is up against, but the money behind what's being said online is findable.

I thought things were different in Bitcoin, that we were genuinely changing the world, not just talking about it. I've experienced a lot of disillusionment this year and the series covers it. But there is a silver lining.

The protocol is intact. 12,000 nodes are enforcing Bitcoin as money by signalling for BIP-110.[10] Everything is becoming more visible. Thousands of nodes holding the line is the signal that matters.

CONTEXT & SOURCES

I referenced my own work a lot here but each piece contains independent research and refers to the work of others:

[1] Liberati, D. (2026, June 12). Fiat incentives in Bitcoin: A department-by-department map. https://daniella.io/fiat-incentives-everywhere/

[2] Liberati, D. (2026). Why Bitcoin companies drift. https://daniella.io/bitcoin-funding

[3] Liberati, D. (2026, June 12). STRC explained: The Cantillon effect rebuilt on Bitcoin. https://daniella.io/bitcoin-strc

[4] Liberati, D. (2026, June 9). Bitcoin Core vs Bitcoin Knots + BIP 110: Which node should you run? https://daniella.io/core-vs-knots/

[5] hodlonaut. (2026, March 27). The capture: The network. Citadel21. https://www.citadel21.com/the-network

[6] hodlonaut. (2026, April 29). The capture: The lever. Citadel21. https://www.citadel21.com/the-lever

[7] hodlonaut. (2026). The capture: The merge. Citadel21. https://www.citadel21.com/the-merge

[8] Liberati, D. (2026). How money shapes the signal. https://daniella.io/bitcoin-marketing

[9] Nakamoto, S. (2008). Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[10] Dashjr, L. (2026, June 22). Bitcoin network statistics. Luke Dashjr. https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/services.html

[11] Liberati, D. (2026). The 5,000-year economic karmic cycle that Bitcoin is ending [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9HtTw897BA

[12] Liberati, D. (2026, June 1). Nostr's retention problem: A structural diagnosis. https://daniella.io/nostr-retention-structural-diagnosis/

[13] Liberati, D. (2026, June 14). The comfortable trap: The fiat-to-Bitcoin transition. https://daniella.io/the-comfortable-trap/

Additional reading:

Liberati, D. (2026, May 21). The 5,000-year economic karmic cycle that Bitcoin is ending. https://daniella.io/fiat-money-karmic-cycle/

Liberati, D. (2026, May 7). The prison door is open. https://daniella.io/leaving-fiat/

Thanks Danny ⚡️

2026-06-20T13:46:39Z

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Thanks Danny ⚡️

Bitcoin has no treasury, no foundation, no built-in developer ...

2026-06-20T13:45:52Z

Bitcoin has no treasury, no foundation, no built-in developer funding model. Fiat filled the gap and the incentive structure followed.

When independent contributors disappear, we call it "burnout;" but what if that were a convenient label for a structural outcome?

This article from the "Fiat Incentives Everywhere" series doesn't retell what hodlonaut (nprofile…34mh) already covered in "The Capture" (which I recommend reading), it examines the incentive structure underneath it.

Full analysis and sources: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-development

I've narrowed mine down a lot too

2026-06-19T13:45:58Z

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I've narrowed mine down a lot too

Same algo problem though, the documentation would have to compete ...

2026-06-19T13:41:07Z

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Same algo problem though, the documentation would have to compete with 15-second price predictions.. But hey, if someone figures out how to make Bitcoin documentation go viral I'm all for it ⚡️

The interesting part for me is how much of the infrastructure ...

2026-06-19T13:12:06Z

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The interesting part for me is how much of the infrastructure (algo) shapes what people encounter before they even know what to look for. The documentation is there, but most people don't start there. They start with whatever YouTube puts in front of them: Price, "volatility," fear, us vs them, politics... Things that get clicks, views, attention, and generate the income. All the same incentives, even in Bitcoin.

Often the videos hitting those numbers are baiting on price and ...

2026-06-19T13:09:43Z

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Often the videos hitting those numbers are baiting on price and fear. Ad blockers help for sure. I made a video about blocking YouTube ads and I don't allow any on my channel, but YouTube still profits off channels that don't monetise and just doesn't pay the creator. The affiliate side is more insidious because many creators don't disclose them or use cloaked tracking links. Even if you're paying attention, you can't really tell when they all look the same. It's on the viewer to pay attention, but most people don't know how the creator economy runs, which is one of the reasons I wrote this article.

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2026-06-19T11:35:16Z

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How much are your favourite Bitcoin #influencers, educators, and ...

2026-06-19T11:34:42Z

How much are your favourite Bitcoin #influencers, educators, and speakers being paid, by whom, and what does that do to the Bitcoin content and #podcasts we consume?

- Ads: A single 300K-view video can earn $5,000+ before sponsorships. The incentive is to create content optimised for emotional reactions and clicks.

- #Sponsors: Publicly filed press releases from a single Bitcoin company show a creator sponsorship at $22,000/month in cash and shares, and another exceeding $480,000 over 18 months. At that rate, what creator is going to scrutinise the service paying their salary? The audience never sees what wasn't said.

- Affiliate Deals: Some of the most recommended Bitcoin services pay creators up to $450 per converted lead. 57% of the top channels I audited had at least one undisclosed affiliate link. When that's not disclosed, you hear a personal endorsement, but what you're actually getting is a referral payment disguised as a personal endorsement.

- Conferences: Speaking slots, sponsors, and audience size feed each other in a loop that compounds and amplifies certain voices. I was offered a fully paid trip to a major conference plus a six-figure sum to present. Almost 1.5 Bitcoin. I turned it down because the offer itself was exactly what this series is about, fiat incentives everywhere...

I spent the last few months researching and writing the series, it's been cathartic. I'm glad to see that now this is an active conversation on Nostr. Here's all the data I gathered on the marketing side: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-marketing

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs20qkdpedrv5ps4thpt22utj275ncajyez4znn9eu4pk474ha3k5gcgvdj7

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspnstmxjc6tfm0pq8hs3evsxsr80wpe5h9rxecyg2dz6ezlr225mccny6vg

Yes, and here is why: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-marketing ...

2026-06-18T20:21:15Z

Yes, and here is why: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-marketing

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nevent1q…quft
Your favourite bitcoiner influencers (shudder) are getting paid to lie to you. Let that sink in.

Yes haha 😂 I had actually made this one but decided not to ...

2026-06-18T11:20:37Z

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Yes haha 😂 I had actually made this one but decided not to include it since there were multiple articles

Independent research across 169 companies in the Bitcoin space ...

2026-06-18T07:35:26Z

Independent research across 169 companies in the Bitcoin space demonstrated that the larger the #VC raise, the more likely the company drifts into stablecoins, fiat lending, altcoins, or tokenisation.

Above $50M in funding, every Bitcoin-focused company drifted (16/16), whereas bootstrapped ones remain Bitcoin-only at 75%.

Find out why in this article from the series "Fiat Everywhere:"
https://daniella.io/bitcoin-funding

Strategy pays retail investors 11.5% in depreciating fiat while ...

2026-06-17T08:29:21Z

Strategy pays retail investors 11.5% in depreciating fiat while accumulating Bitcoin with no public proof of reserves and no redemption right. 80% of holders are retail.

It may not be a Ponzi, but the structural argument is that STRC rebuilds a Cantillon Effect on top of Bitcoin. The entity closest to accumulation holds the scarce asset while the participants furthest from it hold claims in the depreciating one. I traced the full capital structure from SEC filings and the prospectus.

Fully sourced analysis:
https://daniella.io/bitcoin-strc

100% totally agree, exactly. Yes, I also discuss my struggle with ...

2026-06-17T08:26:44Z

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100% totally agree, exactly. Yes, I also discuss my struggle with this over the past year. I will make the entire series into a video (or multiple videos, not sure yet) so it can be easily consumed in audio format at the end of the month 🙏🏼 Looking forward to it. Thank you

The fiat system is being rebuilt on top of Bitcoin and calling ...

2026-06-16T04:15:53Z

The fiat system is being rebuilt on top of Bitcoin and calling itself Bitcoin:

- Saylor's #STRC is the Cantillon Effect reconstructed on top of Bitcoin
- Your favourite Bitcoin influencers are financially incentivised to not cover certain topics or disclose certain information
- One org's engineer merged 56% of all Bitcoin Core changes in 2025 while independent contributors "burnout" and disappear
- Every single Bitcoin company that raised over $50 million is not Bitcoin-only

I researched each for months; fully sourced:
https://daniella.io/fiat-incentives-everywhere

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nevent1q…7ua6
"The fiat system is being rebuilt on top of Bitcoin and calling itself Bitcoin."

For the past few months I kept seeing the same pattern: If we look at Bitcoin like an organization, fiat incentives have infiltrated every department: https://daniella.io/fiat-incentives-everywhere

- Sales: STRC's Cantillon Effect on top of Bitcoin
- Dev: Funded compliance & why independent contributors disappear
- VC Funding: More capital, further from Bitcoin
- Marketing: How money shapes the signal
- Plebs: A comfortable trap

A video covering the full series will come end of June/early July.
Zap what this research was worth to you.

Sales: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-strc
Development: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-development
Funding: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-funding
Marketing: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-marketing
Plebs: https://daniella.io/the-comfortable-trap
Where it ends: https://daniella.io/leaving-fiat/

"The fiat system is being rebuilt on top of Bitcoin and ...

2026-06-15T19:49:50Z

"The fiat system is being rebuilt on top of Bitcoin and calling itself Bitcoin."

For the past few months I kept seeing the same pattern: If we look at Bitcoin like an organization, fiat incentives have infiltrated every department: https://daniella.io/fiat-incentives-everywhere

- Sales: STRC's Cantillon Effect on top of Bitcoin
- Dev: Funded compliance & why independent contributors disappear
- VC Funding: More capital, further from Bitcoin
- Marketing: How money shapes the signal
- Plebs: A comfortable trap

A video covering the full series will come end of June/early July.
Zap what this research was worth to you.

Sales: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-strc
Development: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-development
Funding: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-funding
Marketing: https://daniella.io/bitcoin-marketing
Plebs: https://daniella.io/the-comfortable-trap
Where it ends: https://daniella.io/leaving-fiat/

Slowing down on YouTube for the summer to finish an article ...

2026-06-09T18:16:58Z

Slowing down on YouTube for the summer to finish an article series (coming end of June) and to typeset the interior of the #Portuguese edition of Beyond Money.

The translation was done by Sandra Simões, a professional translator with decades of experience. She had heard about Bitcoin but wasn't really familiar with how aligned it was with her values when she came to my first in-person Bitcoin education meetup end of 2024. Sandra has stuck around to learn more about it ever since. She was already years deep into spirituality and personal development when Bitcoin found her, so when she offered to translate Beyond Money, a book that lives right at that intersection, there really was only one person made for the task. I'm incredibly grateful for the care, attention to detail, and decades of experience she put into crafting the final draft in her native language. Her approach also keeps all the writing Ai-free, even in Portuguese. All of this was a labour of human love :)

Além do Dinheiro will be a very limited print run, so if you want to secure your softcover copy, pre-orders are open at https://book.daniella.io/product/softcover-pt/ and https://book.daniella.io/product/ebook-pt/

PS. The "program your own Nostr algorithm" tutorial I mentioned in my last video is still coming this summer, just on its own timeline rather than a fixed schedule.

I had a lot of fun making this tutorial, knowing the people ...

2026-06-02T08:38:50Z

I had a lot of fun making this tutorial, knowing the people watching actually asked for it made the work involved worth it ⚡️

https://youtu.be/wuJMOXz0a-g

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2026-06-02T07:47:08Z

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I've been researching Nostr's retention for several weeks ...

2026-06-02T00:02:44Z

I've been researching Nostr's retention for several weeks reading papers, querying relays, running distribution analysis. The work isn't finished, but I saw the conversations from over the weekend this morning and decided to share what I have now rather than wait. The early data raises questions about whether default follow lists may be concentrating new user attention in ways that affect retention: https://daniella.io/nostr-retention-structural-diagnosis

The numbers are preliminary and the sample is limited, that's why I planned on running an anonymous survey to complement the relay data with direct user experience. If you use #Nostr or know someone who tried it and left, your two minutes would help: https://daniella.io/polls (closes June 22).

Full methodology, data, and recommendations in the article shared in the spirit of what Derek Ross said: "Seek solutions. Push the conversation forward. Discuss things in the open." Tomorrow I'll also share the onboarding tutorial my audience asked me to put together with a number of Nostr resources that go with it. For now, GN.

quoting
nevent1q…g2v7
Decentralization is fucking hard.
It's hard for designers.
It's hard for developers.
It's hard for infrastructure runners.
It's hard. All of it.

But fighting and arguing doesn't make it any less hard. All it does is divide us and put us against one another.

We have enough problems trying to change the world and enough adversaries already. We don't need to make ones in our own ecosystem.

That is just not the way forward.

Seek solutions.

Push the conversation forward.

Discuss things in the open.

But most importantly.

Just. Fucking. Build.

It's ready 🙌🏼 Can't wait to share the Nostr ...

2026-06-01T10:09:26Z

It's ready 🙌🏼 Can't wait to share the Nostr tutorial with you tomorrow

quoting
nevent1q…6dvl
Thanks to everyone who voted! A Nostr setup tutorial got the majority vote in both polls on Nostr and YouTube. Feel free to comment or reach out if there are specific onboarding topics or issues you want me to cover: https://daniella.io/contact

nevent1q…3a2q

Welcome to Nostr and congrats on the book release ⚡

2026-05-27T09:36:58Z

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Welcome to Nostr and congrats on the book release ⚡

Working on the NOSTR video for next Tuesday. This one is from ...

2026-05-27T09:23:39Z

Working on the NOSTR video for next Tuesday. This one is from last week about how money by decree is a repeating economic karmic cycle and why bitcoin is the exit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9HtTw897BA

Friends from the Bitcoin community shared this with me: June 27th ...

2026-05-27T09:19:16Z

Friends from the Bitcoin community shared this with me: June 27th 2026. Consider joining us

https://rothbard100.pt/en

For search:
#Libertarian #AustrianEconomics #Bitcoin #Rothbard #Saifadean #Portugal #Porto

Thanks to everyone who voted! A Nostr setup tutorial got the ...

2026-05-25T17:10:00Z

Thanks to everyone who voted! A Nostr setup tutorial got the majority vote in both polls on Nostr and YouTube. Feel free to comment or reach out if there are specific onboarding topics or issues you want me to cover: https://daniella.io/contact

quoting
nevent1q…3a2q
I ran a community poll on YouTube asking what my audience would like the next tutorial video to be about and they voted Nostr ⚡ Curious if you would vote differently on the followup poll. If you prefer to respond anon (but via Google): https://www.youtube.com/@Daniellaio/posts

What would be most useful to you?

Thanks for the share! Was unfamiliar with him or his work but ...

2026-05-25T14:41:58Z

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Thanks for the share! Was unfamiliar with him or his work but it's somewhat aligned with what I explore in the book; I also see it as a transition system. Do you have the original source?

What if Bitcoin were the last monetary system before we no longer ...

2026-05-22T09:13:03Z

What if Bitcoin were the last monetary system before we no longer need one?

https://primal.net/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqhkmmzzadxclqdfgsw6ll03nwqpwj09dn5x64qhgjx7z3d0mc2g7qqfkyetedahxgttzd96xxmmfdcknyvf5xqfcaz54

Thank you, glad it was helpful! More to come

2026-05-22T08:34:35Z

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Thank you, glad it was helpful! More to come

A decade ago my SMB eCommerce clients kept asking me the same ...

2026-05-19T08:26:27Z

A decade ago my SMB eCommerce clients kept asking me the same questions so I started making YouTube tutorial videos to answer them. I didn't intend to "become a YouTuber," but I enjoyed the one-to-many approach and naturally transitioned into it. The shark in the space was Shopify and 99% of YouTubers were teaching "get-rich-quick" eCommerce methods to retail because the pool was massive and the affiliate payouts were up to $200 per conversion. Ecwid eCommerce was unknown, their commissions were hardly double digits, and my audience was tiny. I was promoting the underdog in a sea of noise and getting paid poorly for it, but I knew from my own and my client's experience that Ecwid was genuinely better and cheaper than Shopify. My channel didn't grow very quickly and never made nearly as much money as those promoting the bigger player with deeper pockets, but I slept well. That's all that mattered to me.

The dynamic today feels identical. Bitcoin lives inside the crypto space on YouTube and so the fiat incentives around it have the same structure: You either play the clickbait game, chase NGU narratives, shill shitcoins, and ride the algo, or you focus on signal and experience slow/stagnant growth. Same trade-off, different space. Going back to making a tutorial video like this reminded me of that whole journey.

https://youtu.be/1FZrYDHqFkY

Start 9 by far. I never managed to get Umbrel to be persistently ...

2026-05-19T08:22:17Z

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Start 9 by far. I never managed to get Umbrel to be persistently secure. When it comes to hardware, running a node on an RPi 4 failed, then I tried a RPi 5, that failed, and both were only running BTC. Now I have 32 GB ram on a mini pc and 20-25% of the ram is in constant use (even without other services) so I feel like anything below 8 GB won't work anymore. 16 is probably a minimum even without additional services. The whole experience made me realize how important Knots + Bip 110 is right now because running a node is becoming less and less accessible which has major implications for security and decentralization. Do you know if your issue is with ram and/or storage?

Best version of Tetris ⚡

2026-05-19T08:17:44Z

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Best version of Tetris ⚡

Payments in my online store now go directly to my own node! So ...

2026-05-18T18:49:26Z

Payments in my online store now go directly to my own node! So excited I finally got this all set up; no middleman, no fees skimmed. As a non-developer, SSH-ing into a VPS was like magic, debugging WooCommerce hooks was a headache, but finally having it all running smoothly is so cool 🙌🏼 Also added backup payment methods over eCash. I just need to get better at balancing Lightning channels 😅
If you've been waiting to get the book in sats, now's the time: https://book.daniella.io

Good question

2026-05-18T09:32:20Z

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Good question

I can reply to 1: Been with GrapheneOS for over a year now and I ...

2026-05-18T09:17:56Z

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I can reply to 1: Been with GrapheneOS for over a year now and I highly recommend it. You would have to do more research on this but they were on Pixel phones and are considering migrating to Motorola given where Android is going.

🧡

2026-05-18T09:06:31Z

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🙏🏼

2026-05-18T09:04:02Z

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🙏🏼

Since yesterday's post, the same conversation has found me ...

2026-05-07T07:30:54Z

Since yesterday's post, the same conversation has found me everywhere. Nostr, YouTube, a text from a friend asking if Bitcoin has been compromised. So I pulled the thread into something that can outlast a feed:

https://primal.net/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqhkmmzzadxclqdfgsw6ll03nwqpwj09dn5x64qhgjx7z3d0mc2g7qqthg6r994c8y6tndahz6er0daez66tn94hhqetw9gx6m7

Yes in effect, what movie is this?

2026-05-06T16:29:07Z

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Yes in effect, what movie is this?

Thank you, hopefully there will be something, will share if so

2026-05-06T16:08:00Z

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Thank you, hopefully there will be something, will share if so

Last weekend I spoke at an event full of preppers. Many were ...

2026-05-06T16:04:13Z

Last weekend I spoke at an event full of preppers. Many were familiar with or own Bitcoin and so the questions were sharp.

But the energy was frustration and anger. To them, Bitcoin had been captured and compromised.

My response was Bitcoin can't be captured or compromised, only people can. And what else could we expect from fiat other than attempts to control the protocol that ends the 5,000 year ponzi?

But it got me thinking. The people closest to seeing and implementing the solution are the same ones yelling at the fiat soap opera instead of building, running nodes, taking agency. Why?

What if the familiar instinct to forfeit agency, relinquish responsibility, point fingers, and divide is itself the psyop? What if that is exactly what the system wants from us right now? What if we said NO?

So what does it matter if the guards are corrupt? The prison door is open. The better question is why is it that so many who know this are still in the cell?

Run a node. #Knots #BIP110

I'll be presenting "Sovereign Money" at the IV ...

2026-04-28T06:56:04Z

I'll be presenting "Sovereign Money" at the IV Encontro Nacional GNPA in Ovar, Portugal on May 1st. It's a 3-day preparedness and self-sufficiency gathering with talks on radio communications, off-grid energy, water purification, emergency shelters, and more.

If you're a Bitcoiner in Portugal, this is one of the most aligned non-Bitcoin communities you'll find; sovereignty, self-sufficiency, interest in technology, and healthy skepticism towards centralized systems.

Last year brito (nprofile…9cna) who is building Geogram on Nostr invited me to present at a similar event and it was one of the most receptive audiences I've had outside of Bitcoin. This time I'm going deeper into the fiat problem, sound money, and Bitcoin as an exit.

Friday, May 1st at 14:30 in Ovar. If you're in Portugal or nearby, join us.

Hey Pangaea, I stopped using Alby a year ago for similar issues ...

2026-04-20T12:51:56Z

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Hey Pangaea, I stopped using Alby a year ago for similar issues among many others. Essentially, the more I wanted any of their products to work (signer, wallet, Hub) the more time I wasted trying to get them to work. No regrets moving on, so I won't be making tutorials about it. In my Nostr video I show how to use Coinos.io for a quick simple beginner friendly way to zap on Nostr with the account you created. Check the very end of the video in the tutorial part where I demo the NWC connection. I use other signers now as well, you can pick what is best for you here: https://nostrapps.com/#signers#all Hope that helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhXdsJr8Hw

I wish :)

2026-04-05T09:33:01Z

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I wish :)

High signal Bitcoin adoption indicator: Jeff Booth on a ...

2026-04-05T09:18:08Z

High signal Bitcoin adoption indicator: Jeff Booth on a mainstream podcast like Diary of a CEO lol There are random moments where I watch a clip and hear Jeff's thesis in my mind, and then turn it off. "In a free market prices fall" just cuts through so many arguments and so much noise.

Thank you, glad you are enjoying them :)

2026-04-03T07:03:40Z

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Thank you, glad you are enjoying them :)

Here is the last batch of videos 🙌🏼 They are all designed ...

2026-03-31T17:12:30Z

Here is the last batch of videos 🙌🏼 They are all designed to reach a different person in the personal development and spiritual space who has never considered that fiat could be part of what's keeping them stuck, and today's video is the first one that mentions Bitcoin as a way out. If you want deeper Bitcoin content sooner, consider the build page https://daniella.io/build. At the moment #Fedi, GrapheneOS, and Bitcoin Jobs are the top community picks! Thanks to everyone who supported so far ⚡️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO4RzjjIvMY&list=PLpubeE3DhodUnsUWS_3nbSMCiQGFWl4AO

Note: When viewing the playlist "5 unavailable videos are hidden" because the next five in the series are already scheduled; every Tuesday at 2:15pm EST ✨

For some reason the link isn't visible in the post after ...

2026-03-24T16:14:33Z

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For some reason the link isn't visible in the post after publishing it: https://daniella.io/build/

TLDR: If you have been looking for deep-dives on how Fedi works, ...

2026-03-24T16:11:31Z

TLDR: If you have been looking for deep-dives on how Fedi works, on Nostr clients, running your own BIP-110 node, setting up GrapheneOS, or agentic Ai for non-technical users, visit: https://daniella.io/build/

Value for value is a new economic model based on peer-to-peer zaps rather than corporate funding and interests. This model feels incredibly aligned with my values. I'm still trying to figure out how to make it sustainable, but I think I found something interesting :)

I built a set of pages on my website where you can zap specific long-form videos you want me to make, tailored to your needs. Each page has a zap goal and a form where you can tell me exactly what you want: the depth, the angle, your specific questions and challenges.

The first batch includes a complete GrapheneOS setup, a Bitcoin node walkthrough, a Fedi deep-dive, agentic AI for non-technical users, a hands-on Nostr tutorial, ancestral technologies, and more: https://daniella.io/build/

No companies, no sponsors, no ads, no third-parties taking large cuts. You fund what you want made, directly in Bitcoin, and I build it for you based on your needs.

If a video reaches its goal, I make it. If it does not, I will not. Everything is anonymous and the progress bar updates every Tuesday. I do not collect emails so if you want to know when a video will be published, check the build page, follow me on YouTube, Nostr, or my blog RSS.

For search: #ValueForValue #V4V #Zaps #GrapheneOS #Fedimint #Fedi #Nostr #Mullvad #MullvadVPN #AiAgents #Ai #Node #BIP-110 #Bitcoin #Jobs #Privacy #Sovereignty

The more I hear about the majority of changes that were made to ...

2026-03-20T13:23:57Z

The more I hear about the majority of changes that were made to Bitcoin since 2009, the culture shift, the fiat incentives, the quantum and miner revenue 'concerns,' and other changes that seem to me to favour specific groups rather than the entire network's monetary definition, decentralisation, and security, the more this post comes to mind:

"Our attempt at solving an issue causes a bigger problem. And then we get stuck in a cycle of problem solving, to fix something that causes another problem and so on." @`Big Suboss Bear`

What if the best thing to do to Bitcoin is just nothing?

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We are for sure, talking the same thing, most definitely. I ended up using the term 'human being' and the words in that order as upside down in the fiat world we live in. The fiat world us upside down and the kind of human the fiat world encourages us to be is so upside down.

The emphasis should be on "being" human and so 'being' should come first - "being" human. But the fiat world doesnt want us to emphasise this. The fiat world doesnt want us being it. So became the term so widely knows as 'human being'. The fiat world undermines "being" part of 'being human' therefore 'human being' is the preferred term, 'being' is less important, so comes second. Not sure if ive got this across very well

You replaced the word "being" with "doing" which I really liked too, so human doing instead of human being. That was nice. But I couldnt really incorporate "doing" into my thought when I was thinking about how the fiat world has turned our society so upside down. And it seemed to fit and it felt like the term human being has become upside down too. So when i was thinking about it, the fiat world has literally convinved us of reality being so upside down. The term 'human being' is therefore also upside down, so I prefer the words being switched the the right way round, - "being" human.

Hopefully you get what i mean... if not then im in a world if my own as usual. 😇

You talk about first principles alot. I agree with this approach and I try to apply this to my every day life. I am surprised by some of the revelations, many things we do, and take for granted and dont really question, Ive come to realise are not required, and unfortunately are a hinderance to our life. This applies everything from health, to the people we are around, and the things we have become dependent on.

In terms of health, an example could be, when I stopped putting any products on my skin, the improvement to my skin health and overall health has been significant. Less is more. Or I prefer to say do "nothing".

Its funny but practicing "nothing" has enabled me to become more human. We are constantly told to do this or that, behave a certain way, society pushes us to do things that dont always feel natural and the end result often make us less human. To make us look a certain way, or be a certain way, to fit in. In the end, we end up being detatched from experiencing the actual human experience. And we end up expereincing something else entirely which dont always create the best results, not always pleasant, and dont always make us feel great either.

As with money, where we are trying to opt out of fiat, to stop fueling a system which is so destructive, and into bitcoin which creates much more positive incentive structure, there are so many other facets non money related which we can also opt out of which we think is essential but when we disect with a first principled approach, we discover that we are better off doing "nothing".

"Nothing" is a very difficult approach. When we are faced with a problem, so often we think we have to solve it, we have to be the hero, we need to use our intellect, creating a solution. But often our actions are directly causing the problem and many more problems. Our attempt at solving an issue causes a bigger problem. And then we get stuck in a cycle of problem solving, to fix something that causes another problem and so on.

What makes things even more confusing is when we fix a problem, we feel relieved and happy, becayse the initial problem has been resolved, only for the problem to reform and change into something that isnt always apparent in its connection.

I think this is where some of the phrases come from "less is more", "simplest solution is the key". Etc. These phrases are true because they are closer to doing "nothing".

Its funny but the phrase, "I tried everything but nothing works" the emphasis should be on "nothing". Its like we know the answers, we tell ourselves, we are so close, and then we throw ourselves onto a tangent and then we end up not knowing.

Problem with "nothing" is it doesnt really contribute to the economy, doesnt make money, its hard to sell, hard to market, doesnt do much for our ego, but I tell you Daniella there is some serious truth to it. I live by it and always consider it as my number one strategy when faced with a problem. Most problems are solved by this. When I am unablr to literally do "nothing" then I think, how can I do the next best thing as close to nothing as possible.

If a solution is very convulted and complex, then I try to avoid it at all costs. I usually find a much simpler work around. And it works out better in the long term.

Working on reaching people in personal development and ...

2026-03-11T11:25:13Z

Working on reaching people in personal development and spirituality who haven't found the Bitcoin connection yet, and I know reviews matter in those spaces.

If you've read Beyond Money and something clicked, a review would really help the work reach more people 🙏🏼⚡✨

If you bought it from my website:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237062066-beyond-money

If you bought it on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/9893374367/

Comment here if you do, will v4v ⚡️
Thank you!

This is so amazing thank you so much for sharing 🙌🏼 It ...

2026-03-09T20:57:00Z

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This is so amazing thank you so much for sharing 🙌🏼 It really fills my heart with joy to know the work is resonating, even more so during a spiritual retreat! It sounds like you've also been doing this bridge work and holding that space. Thank you too 🙏🏼 I've also experienced the resistance in this space first hand, I get it, there is a lot of noise that feels at odds with values and Bitcoin lands as more noise. My next steps are going to be a journey learning how to meet people where they are, making space for those who are questioning. It's not easy, but moments like this make it clear it matters 🙏🏼

Awe thanks so much for letting me know I didn't realize that! ...

2026-03-09T20:29:58Z

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Awe thanks so much for letting me know I didn't realize that! I will publish the series here then once I have the first few 🙏🏼 I feel like they are a bit slow for a Bitcoiner all separate but for sure have added value as a short series :) Thanks!

Absolutely, true. Since it's incremental I felt like it may ...

2026-03-09T20:25:26Z

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Absolutely, true. Since it's incremental I felt like it may be too slow for a Bitcoiner who already knows where the content is going, but there are new ideas and metaphors for the space... I'll share here once I've released a few, thanks ⚡

"WE ARE SIMPLY BUILDING UPON THE REFLECTIONS WE PERCEIVE OF ...

2026-03-09T10:38:05Z

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"WE ARE SIMPLY BUILDING UPON THE REFLECTIONS WE PERCEIVE OF OURSELVES." 👏🏼

Something has shifted in how I'm approaching my YouTube ...

2026-03-09T10:31:34Z

Something has shifted in how I'm approaching my YouTube channel and I'd like to share what I'm doing.

I wrote Beyond Money for the person who has done years of personal development work and still can't figure out why the material picture won't shift; they haven't been shown the systemic layer.

My next videos won't mention Bitcoin in the titles, but I'm building toward it. The goal is to meet that audience where they are (Law of Attraction, manifestation ceilings, 3D/4D/5D...) and build the framework slowly so that when the missing piece arrives, it lands as a logical conclusion rather than a surprise.

The destination is the same, just a different path to get there :) I won't share the videos here since they are not pure Bitcoin, but if you want to follow the journey: https://www.youtube.com/c/daniellaio

Thanks ✨

The laws of man skewed the laws of nature through printed money. ...

2026-03-04T16:37:42Z

The laws of man skewed the laws of nature through printed money.

But nature always wins ;)

https://youtu.be/sA84M3_lHw4 https://daniella.io/tools

2026-02-27T14:52:08Z

https://youtu.be/sA84M3_lHw4

https://daniella.io/tools

Been trying to find a way to track this better as well

2026-02-27T10:10:47Z

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Been trying to find a way to track this better as well

💯 🙌🏼

2026-02-19T08:11:02Z

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💯 🙌🏼

Love this, thank you for sharing ⚡

2026-02-13T21:36:08Z

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Love this, thank you for sharing ⚡