jimmysong

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Author of 5 Bitcoin books

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2026-02-12 18:34:58 UTC

The reason for Bitcoin's success is that it is a great savings vehicle. It has so little competition in that regard that every other use case is a rounding error. I know people don't like hearing that, but it's true.

2026-02-07 20:58:35 UTC

The way you can bring Bitcoin as method-of-payment about is by providing something to the market that it wants and demanding that they pay you in Bitcoin.
That's may more effective than whining about other people not doing the same.

2026-02-06 20:42:20 UTC

The capitulation this time came much faster than other times.

2026-02-05 16:12:30 UTC

My conversation with Max Keiser and Russell Brand on Bitcoin, El Salvador and Christianity
https://rumble.com/v75b5be-max-keiser-russell-brand-and-jimmy-song-on-christianity-and-bitcoin.html

2026-02-04 17:32:28 UTC

The elite are slaves of their many vices... but so are the middle class and poor.
The two communities where I've seen countertrends are Bitcoin and church.

2026-02-03 18:08:21 UTC

What distinguishes the high achievers is their willingness to do the work.

2026-02-02 16:15:45 UTC

Free issue for the first Monday of the month!
Case for Corruption, Esoteric Reading of Philosophy, Graying Congregations, Ulbricht's Pardon, Core v Knots X, Bithoven, Hornet UTXO, BLISK, Connector Swaps, Helix Verdict, AI/Bitcoin parallels and more!
#Bitcoin Tech Talk #486
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-486

2026-02-01 17:31:53 UTC

Let's hear your take on how BIP110 plays out

2026-01-31 19:52:32 UTC

I recorded with Peter Schiff. He thinks about gold the way we do about Bitcoin, and even recognizes gold's inherent inferiority with respect to self-custody.
His opinions on Bitcoin are trash, but his opinions on government, central banking and markets aren't too far off from what Bitcoiners believe.

2026-01-30 15:03:12 UTC

I'm questioning all "news" since 1971.

2026-01-29 16:02:47 UTC

I talked to Angela McArdle about Trump, Libertarianism, Ross and much more.
#Bitcoin Fixes This #135
https://rumble.com/v74zxle-bitcoin-fixes-this-135-libertarianism-with-angela-mcardle.html

2026-01-28 17:44:28 UTC

Open Borders vs Deportation in the Bitcoin Blockchain.

2026-01-27 16:09:55 UTC

A large amount of civilization is being entrusted to functional eunuchs.

2026-01-26 19:54:54 UTC

You know what drastically slowed its rate of growth in the 70's?
Energy production, from something like 9%/yr to 3.5%/yr.

2026-01-26 15:39:25 UTC

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #485
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-485

2026-01-23 22:35:40 UTC

Another episode with Tone and Chris Guida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9wLnGb9O8

2026-01-23 16:26:01 UTC

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The only way out is through. And that means hyperinflation, the chemotherapy that will exorcise the cancer.
Yes, people will suffer, but to quote Andrew Jackson:
“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.”
The suffering that is inevitable in this fiat Ponzi scheme is not something we can prevent and in any case is not our fault. What would be our fault is if we keep the scheme going and cause even more people to suffer.
You might not like it, but that's the reality.
#nevent1q…g83h

2026-01-22 16:43:32 UTC

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The Lesson: It always works out better when Bitcoiners build businesses than Bitcoiners beg businesses to take Bitcoin.
Go forth and build.
#nevent1q…nluy

2026-01-21 17:12:03 UTC

We've all lost years paying attention to stuff that doesn't matter.

2026-01-20 23:38:34 UTC

Loving "humanity" is a cop-out. It's your rationalization for why you don't love your neighbor or even your family.

2026-01-20 16:15:30 UTC

Yea, there were finance bros buying negative rate bonds, but the kids taking out huge loans to study psychology were stupider.
Elite overproduction explains a lot of how society is debasing.

2026-01-19 22:07:01 UTC

There will always be cheaters.
The question is do you let them get away with it or punish them?

2026-01-19 15:22:53 UTC

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #484
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-484

2026-01-18 21:12:03 UTC

Desire is difficult to manage without values.

2026-01-17 18:45:07 UTC

If Bitcoin and Nostr have taught me anything, friction matters, especially on the margin.

2026-01-16 18:25:00 UTC

The problem of violence is very hard to solve. The modern way has been centralizing authority, who can then monopolize the violence and abuse that authority. But the traditional way was to use decentralized justice, where revenge and tit-for-tat would eventually get people to game-theory optimal morals.
Like it or not, the traditional way is what we're doing here in both Bitcoin and Nostr.

2026-01-15 17:33:07 UTC

The real sin of fiat money is that technology is used to debase everything to keep up with the monetary debasement rather than enriching our lives.

2026-01-14 14:52:47 UTC

The most common reason normies go along with stupid things is because they're lazy.

2026-01-13 22:04:08 UTC

Your Bitcoin wealth went up 3% in terms of dollars today, which for many OGs may be pretty substantial.
Resist the temptation to feel entitled. Every day like this is a gift.

2026-01-12 15:23:33 UTC

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #483
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-483

2026-01-12 14:34:45 UTC

Are there any Nostr clients that do scheduled posts?

2026-01-12 14:17:18 UTC

You're married but you're not ready for kids.
True, but that's not an excuse.

2026-01-12 03:02:08 UTC

The r/buttcoin subreddit has existed since 2011.
The Bitcoin haters have had the same arguments, same level of wishful thinking, and same delusional unreality about Bitcoin since.
They're not worth your time. Block, mute, and don't engage these pitiable creatures.

2026-01-11 17:11:06 UTC

Yea, this is an argument for more people going to uncensored places, but what bothers me is that we're still lumped in with "crypto bros"
https://blossom.primal.net/45bd20c14d1881c23e3c1ecb19d53ab620b775f7987a171bcdaa8d64e89602e5.png

2026-01-11 16:31:09 UTC

The worst part of censorship is that not speaking or writing about something naturally diminishes your thoughts about it.
Sometimes you need to be unhinged so the rare pearl of wisdom can be captured.

2026-01-10 16:26:25 UTC

California seems intent on collapsing itself.

2026-01-09 17:03:47 UTC

We can't really verify elections, can we?

2026-01-08 20:28:41 UTC

We're going to find out that most billionaires are complete frauds.

2026-01-07 21:31:21 UTC

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I'm game. DM me.

2026-01-07 13:47:48 UTC

"International Law" and "Rules based order" were always polite progressive fictions.
We'll see them crumble quickly in this new Age of Empires.

2026-01-06 17:29:54 UTC

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Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.
Indeed, very good advice. Also important to note that most such people will hate you and attack you for it.
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2026-01-05 23:46:38 UTC

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I remember during some riots which had looting in London back in 2011-12 that the best selling thing in the sports category in the UK were baseball bats.
This is a country that doesn't play baseball.
People will make creative use of all kinds of objects. Regulating all of them is killing mosquitos with bazookas.
#nevent1q…n9pv

2026-01-05 20:07:29 UTC

Your parents are probably more addicted to their phones than your kids are.

2026-01-05 15:24:00 UTC

Free issue for the first Monday of the month!
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #482
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-482

2026-01-04 19:57:50 UTC

I don't like war, but if you have to have one, then one that's limited to soldiers, or better yet, the leaders themselves is much more preferable than total war that fiat money inevitably trends toward.

2026-01-03 15:51:45 UTC

Bets are zero sum, just like status games. And zero-sum games don't add value.

2026-01-02 15:43:20 UTC

About as credible as Solana saying they're going to stop pushing memecoins.
The real news is destined to be here on Nostr and not on these outdated legacy systems.
https://blossom.primal.net/7d4484a3482e9dfe0184dd75324c1d6686aa93271a71394807a4e88d79a653cb.mp4

2026-01-01 18:08:32 UTC

What Bitcoin taught me in 2025:
Stop relying on price models and be more low time preference.

2025-12-31 20:24:49 UTC

With great power comes great responsibilty... unless you have the money printer.

2025-12-30 17:22:55 UTC

Gross fraudulent behavior is unfortunately incentivized by the fiat system we have.
The theft of our resources is bad enough, but what's worse is that all these rent-seekers ultimately end up destroying their souls.

2025-12-30 06:30:43 UTC

If you're tempted to whine about the current price, don't.
Complain enough times and you'll start to believe something's wrong.
Then you'll start listening to the haters.
Then you'll start to doubt.
Then you'll sell.
Holding is supposed to be hard. And even little slip ups can lead to failure.

2025-12-29 16:06:11 UTC

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #481
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-481

2025-12-28 15:27:46 UTC

You don't need to fix the world. You'd probably screw up if you could, not because you're so incompetent, but because nobody has that level of knowledge and skill.

2025-12-27 20:15:09 UTC

Moderns have spurned family, community and God. The only thing they cling to is life, which is severely debased as a result of their spurning.

2025-12-26 23:39:22 UTC

There's no place in the rent-seeking apparatus for young men, which is why they'll inevitably become people who add value.
Bad times make for strong men, indeed.

2025-12-25 18:07:49 UTC

ETFs Bitcoinize the stock market, but it also financializes Bitcoiners.
https://blossom.primal.net/a3dc20d8063d1c79192bcbefbd609e317aea78a38541a6d96f564dc0ef87ed6b.png

2025-12-24 22:48:35 UTC

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I was a vegetarian for 20 years and I can confirm, eating meat again 13 years ago felt like this.
#nevent1q…5agm

2025-12-24 15:40:38 UTC

Research and ideas used to require a lot more effort. But with the internet, search engines and now AI, these have gotten ridiculously easy to generate.
The difference now is execution, which requires prudence, courage and temperance. Virtue, now, is more important than ever.

2025-12-23 18:58:37 UTC

Most fiat institutions will die with a whimper. The one that ends with a bang is the one funding everything.

2025-12-22 20:50:31 UTC

Nihilism is hopelessness and cowardice.

2025-12-22 19:17:26 UTC

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Soon

2025-12-22 17:36:26 UTC

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #480
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-480

2025-12-22 17:11:42 UTC

2025-12-21 20:13:36 UTC

Culture is downstream of elite behavior. And elite behavior is downstream of incentives. And incentives are downstream of money.
It always comes back to the money.

2025-12-20 17:11:42 UTC

The truly evil things are always going to be hidden. It's a sign of humanity and conscience for organizations to not just be committed to showing the truth, but even documenting and recording events and not just destroying them.

2025-12-20 02:20:20 UTC

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Not partying exactly (played a lot of sports and was pretty involved in my Christian fellowship), but I wasn't disciplined in most other areas of my life. I was obsessed with math but treated other subjects as an annoyance, which understandably upset those professors and TAs. I did have a lot of fun, though.

2025-12-20 01:19:25 UTC

For a large part of high school and college, my dream was to become a math professor. I loved math, particularly discrete math, like combinatorics, probability and graph theory. There's something about solving, or even understanding a problem that you noodle over for days, usually at the end of many hours of frustration. There's something about developing intuition for certain concepts, seeing patterns that was really attractive.
But I didn't go. I've told myself in the past that it was because I didn't want to and that the life of a professor seemed too grueling and lonely, but if I'm honest, it's because my grades weren't good enough. I goofed off too much in college and coasted through a too many classes.
But looking back, it was a blessing to not have that option. Academia in general and grad school in particular suck. It's a difficult life of moving to where the jobs are, of debasing yourself to fit the mold of the powers that be, full of egos, red tape and politics. And the type of people that graduate PhD programs come out a particular way. You can see it in their eyes. It's like they've lost a bit of their soul.
Academia, like most fiat institutions has that effect on people. It's driven by a zero-sum game of status, where demand remains high despite the economic prospects getting worse and worse.
I bring this up because apparently, the Brown shooter was a grad student. And like many grad students, the system broke him. It's a reminder that as much as it would be nice to have a chance at high status professions like the ones offered in grad school, there's a lot of risk as well, particularly to your soul.
Back in 2019, I got to teach a graduate class at the University of Texas on Bitcoin. I hold no graduate degrees, so the only reason I got to do this was because a couple of the professors there recognized that I was an expert. Sometimes the road less traveled still takes you to where you wanted to go.

2025-12-19 17:28:30 UTC

At some point, we're going to see a lot more luxury brands market to us here.
I would honestly be a bit more inclined to listen than the cheap slop they sell on FB or X or YouTube.

2025-12-18 18:05:41 UTC

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From here: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

2025-12-18 18:05:14 UTC

Peer review is a scam.
https://blossom.primal.net/6d2d74da5b978359f7e66eefbfad0bb9612fe4fe6d48aa2c4f20602f374030e2.png

2025-12-17 13:42:41 UTC

There are always unintended consequences of new tech.
https://blossom.primal.net/2bdb70393d14ac0a8f020dc06d0e9ad87e7b32aab2e4720d0de0ec6ebe5b0594.png

2025-12-16 22:17:23 UTC

If you haven't gone down the parasite rabbit hole... Let's just say it explains way too many things, particularly the morality around food and sexual mores of past societies.

2025-12-15 22:08:25 UTC

I like that Trump is considering pardoning the Samourai devs, but we're trending to be dependent on centralization to solve problems.

2025-12-15 15:14:05 UTC

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #479
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-479

2025-12-14 15:42:32 UTC

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So many bad decisions are cope for middle school/high school trauma.
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2025-12-13 14:53:38 UTC

Solving a small problem for a lot of people is generally going to be more impactful than solving a big problem for a few people.
The former is usually the better fit for decentralized systems, anyway.

2025-12-12 15:55:31 UTC

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Threshold signatures over Nostr!
Now organizations can have a single account that requires threshold (k-of-n) approval to post.
Easy to compromise one person, hard to compromise a bunch.
#nevent1q…m568

2025-12-11 20:24:10 UTC

A government that doesn't punish violations of Natural Law is not a legitimate government.

2025-12-11 15:11:33 UTC

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Insightful and wise.
#nevent1q…azl2

2025-12-11 15:05:26 UTC

Bitcoin Fixes This #134: Charity and Legacy with Johann Kurtz
https://rumble.com/v72ttx8-bitcoin-fixes-this-134-charity-and-legacy-with-johann-kurtz.html
We talked about his book Leaving a Legacy.

2025-12-10 20:34:19 UTC

Once you have Bitcoin, you can start thinking about accomplishing things that can't be done with just money.

2025-12-09 16:31:01 UTC

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Can even 5 members of Congress do this?
Can even 1% of the managerial state do this?
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2025-12-09 14:54:31 UTC

Boredom is either a lack of purpose or the impatience felt when you have a purpose but can't make progress.
If you're bored by the sideways action, that's what this is.

2025-12-08 20:31:00 UTC

The whole concept of platforming assumes centralization. The people that get upset about it don't understand what decentralization means.

2025-12-08 15:30:31 UTC

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #478
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-478

2025-12-07 18:53:35 UTC

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Not sure why the tagging didn't work: @nprofile…mzvs

2025-12-07 18:43:22 UTC

"Jimmy and I agreed there is no economic incentive to use bigger up returns, right? so it's basically two sides of a coin. If nobody's going to use it, we should not enable it or we are not worried about enabling it, right? But either way, if nobody's going to use it, it's probably a pretty marginal issue." - @Murch
I would say that there's no *obvious* economic incentives to use OP_RETURN, not that there were none.
And this is an important difference. To say that there are none is to say that you know all possible future things that people might use it for. I don't think anyone can know that.
h/t @nprofile…gvjw

2025-12-07 15:14:10 UTC

If you don't have a hill you'll die on, your either a coward, a nihilist or both.

2025-12-06 16:34:41 UTC

Garbage in, garbage out.
True for programs, true for brains.

2025-12-05 17:47:22 UTC

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It's almost like the truth will set you free.
Also, if you don't seek truth and get bogged down in lies, you're eventually going to collapse like an AI model training on too much AI output.
#nevent1q…tg4r

2025-12-04 22:19:14 UTC

Savings, not debt.

2025-12-03 18:10:39 UTC

A life without risk is not that different than death.
But risk without reward is just masochistic.
Risks that have the right amount of reward in them, that's what makes life interesting.

2025-12-03 02:06:34 UTC

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Of course it's divine providence.
Intelligence is not scarce.
Courage is.
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2025-12-02 17:42:39 UTC

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Stacker News Bitcoin Property

2025-12-02 16:22:45 UTC

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Really? I thought Mike told me it was the other way around, but maybe I'm misremembering.

2025-12-02 16:11:39 UTC

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Was he defending government lockdowns still? He was when I talked to him. My understanding was that he was into Bitcoin because he was working for Jack. My gut feeling was that he hated everything else about it, especially the community.

2025-12-02 16:04:51 UTC

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When was this roughly? 2021? 2022? I ask because I had a long argument/conversation with him in May 2022 and had the same read.

2025-12-02 14:40:54 UTC

There's a thin line between being charitable and making excuses for other people.

2025-12-02 04:41:44 UTC

Despite the prevalence of GLP-1 drugs, you can still tell how much self-control and agency people have just by looking at them.

2025-12-01 19:01:54 UTC

The Neocon schtick is so tiresome.