SWC Nebraska - Logan

First 2026 SWC Nebraska Event! 🥳 If you're a #cornhusker and in #blockchain... Free coffee, free friends, and priceless conversation!

@RonSwanonson Deep brain implant. Go Ron!

Had a hotel bar convo with normies last night. They were all history buffs, and they asked if I liked history… I told them I’m not a huge history buff but that I knew a lot about the history of money, the different types of money and how ultimately, central powers were always able to capture the money at the expense of the actual value producers in every society we’ve had etc. I pointed to the fact that money is a language that can direct the course of history more than any other factor They were all blown away that they knew so much about history but had never really thought about monetary history and how it constantly changed the course of humanity One person even said “oh are you into cryptocurrency and Bitcoin?” And I said, well yes this all does lead to Bitcoin as the first money that can’t be captured but I’m not going there, and stuck to monetary history. With their reactions, l guarantee that those 4 people left with an itch to learn more about the history of money Once you understand the history of money, you won’t have to pitch “Bitcoin” I’d even suggest to stay away from the word altogether and plant curiosity that ultimately leads to Bitcoin anyway

@osbornforne I didn't know Pete Ricketts was farmer! He's milking Nebraskans.

This is hilarious. Pete Ricketts introduced a congressional stock trading bill, but unlike the other versions of this bill, Pete's version still allows SELLING stocks leaving half of the problem intact. With Pete's (weak) bill, a Senator could sit in a classified briefing, learn the economy is about to collapse, then sell every stock they own. This is exactly what happened in 2020 with many lawmakers. This bill would do nothing to curb that. This is not a ban. This is all for show.

@BTCBreadMan Improve X? Simple. Make the algorithms less focused on attention-retention and more focused on attention-quality If we start prioritizing for everyone's experiences, rather than our rewards, we might find that the rewards exceed anything we could have imagined @elonmusk

The X platform is great, but has two major problems that need to be fixed. 1) Too many people are posting mindless engagement bait just trying to make money 2) Not enough people are posting clever rage bait to trigger retards purely for the love of the game How do we fix this?

@lilsketch & Roll?

gun pointed at yo head, name a rock

@asanoha_gold I see your hard work - it's all been worth it, though maybe the pay off will be different than what you expected. You can do everything right and still "fail," though I think you're far from failing.

This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. I’m completely devastated. Last Friday, I noticed I barely sold any copies of the magazine that week. I’ve shown up every single day for 5 years straight, pouring everything into creating and sharing Bitcoin Art Magazine and Bitcoin Art. I never ran paid ads to push sales, never bought followers or engagement, never cut corners—just organic growth through consistent, honest work. I spend 6–12 hours a day (on top of a full-time job) designing issues, photographing prints, writing essays, engaging with collectors, packing orders, answering DMs, and shipping art worldwide. I’ve adapted to every shift in the market, every new printing technique, every change in collector taste. I even launched a newsletter to keep the community closer. I’ve stepped away from every other platform because I truly believe in Bitcoin Twitter culture and the community around it. Every holiday, family event, vacation, wedding, birthday—you name it—I’ve been active, posting updates, sharing new drops, and fulfilling orders. I’ve never taken the audience and collectors I’ve built for granted. I cherish every relationship that’s formed through this project. During this last period of low sales, I proposed to my girlfriend. On that entire proposal trip, I stayed active—responding to inquiries, posting new art previews, shipping prints from hotel lobbies. That’s nothing new. I’ve given years of time and sacrifice to build something meaningful, with zero regrets—until now. Having to do this publicly feels pathetic and humiliating. It’s been almost a week, and I still can’t get the visibility I need to turn things around. The Twitter/X algorithm has buried my posts, throttled reach, and made it nearly impossible for new eyes to find the work—no matter how consistently I post, how high-quality the art is, or how much genuine interaction I drive. How can I dedicate myself so completely for so many years and have the platform’s own algorithm decide my fate without giving me any real chance to adjust or recover reach? I’ve never had a single major complaint or flag in 5 years. The first real gut punch comes right around when I thought momentum might build—after spending my entire vacation working nonstop on new magazine layouts and print editions—only to watch impressions tank, engagement drop off a cliff, and sales basically flatline because the algo stopped showing my content to almost anyone. To most people, this is just “that Bitcoin art thing” they occasionally like or retweet—if they even see it anymore. To me, it has completely altered my life. It’s every creator’s dream to make a living from the work they love, and to watch it slip away right as it was becoming real—because the algorithm quietly decided to deboost everything—feels absolutely gut-wrenching. Over the last two years I’ve told everyone how important it is to support Bitcoin-native creators, to buy the physical magazines and signed Giclée prints, to own real art in this space instead of just garbage NFT’s. I couldn’t have been louder about how much I believe in this ecosystem and how grateful I was for the community—until the algo started hiding the very posts meant to reach that community. I truly never thought reach would be strangled this hard for so long. All of this to say: I am not failing because the work is bad or inauthentic—the work is the same high-effort, high-quality thing it’s always been. The sales have dried up because the Twitter/X algorithm has throttled visibility, shadowbanned reach, and made organic discovery basically impossible. If there’s a way to fix the algo suppression, reset reach, or get fair visibility again, tell me clearly and I will adapt immediately. But watching years of sacrifice result in barely any sales last week—solely because the platform’s algorithm buried the content—will never sit right with me.

@oelma__ I quit entering and exiting buildings a while ago

Do men still open doors?

@SenLummis I farm that.

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@TheCinesthetic I'm finally not alone - thank you Cinesthetic

Waterworld (1995) is over-hated. Strip away the budget jokes and what’s left is a huge, strange, ambitious adventure packed with real stunts and a fully built world. It’s messy, but there’s way more movie there than people remember.

@brian_armstrong The digital economy that spring up around AI will be at least 10x greater than the value humans are generating. In 2.6 years.

How long until agentic payments overtake human payments?

@jimcramer No... stop... just. Ahhh man. Jim.

Very oversold...

@Chilearmy123 ever tried to play chess with a pig? it's a different game

What happened to Trump playing 5D Chess Now we're stuck with high gas prices, $60k BTC while their family made billions off Crypto, and a war no one asked for I'm not a pessimist but wtf happened lmao

@dom_kwok If you can find the time to work out, you'll work out how to make time for everything else too Exercise is the ultimate productivity hack 💪

people often ask me when i get time to work out, given my crazy busy schedule. answer is simple. you have 24 hours in a day. you can make time for a 1 hour workout. whether that’s at 1am after the day’s finished or at 4am before it starts. most important is you make it a daily habit, just like brushing your teeth (hopefully!)

@elonmusk Might be cool if you did.

I don’t even smoke lol 💨

@Bankless Working on it...

The midterm picture for crypto is worse than most people realize — and it's not about floor votes. Here's the structural problem: - Democrats are projected to flip the House (~85% chance) and potentially the Senate - The majority party chairs EVERY committee. No exceptions - Crypto bills don't go straight to the floor. They live or die in committee. Chairs control what gets hearings, markup, and what quietly dies - If Democrats flip the House, Maxine Waters chairs House Financial Services. She called the GENIUS Act "a full-scale crypto con" - If they flip the Senate, Elizabeth Warren chairs Senate Banking. She's voted against every major crypto bill - It gets worse in the House: when party control flips, subcommittees fully reset. Waters would steer who leads the Digital Assets subcommittee and control freshman assignments The frustrating part: pro-crypto Democrats exist. ~47% voted for the GENIUS Act. 37% voted for CLARITY. But that support is bill-specific and evaporates at the committee level, which is where legislation actually begins. David Christopher mapped this out in detail, including which specific races actually matter for committee composition. The pro-crypto Democrats exist. They're just not where the gavels are.

@ShaniceBest woohoo!

Proud to do so 🛡️🫡

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@barneyxbt NOT going to miss 50% of those people, who came here only for a slice of the pie, rather than to bake one 🍕 Those who remain are the ones with the real conviction to build something meaningful 'The moon' has always just a pit stop towards something greater

people are leaving crypto in numbers i’ve never seen in 9 years on this space and I get it. we turned this space into the exact thing it was built to destroy. institutions own it now. etfs, kyc, regulated everything. the 100x is dead. that era is gone. you’ll be lucky to pull a 2x going forward and you’ll be grateful for it like a boomer staring at their 401k statement. that’s what institutional adoption actually looks like. nobody told you the tradeoff was giving up everything that made crypto worth being early to and the last window for real money was memes. but memes are also ironically the final nail in the coffin. we allowed every dollar to be drained out of the ecosystem and funneled it to insiders while retail held bags and pretended it was still fun lmfao we literally destroyed the greatest financial revolution of our lifetime from the inside and now everyone’s shocked it doesn’t feel the same it doesn’t feel the same because it isn’t

@BitcoinConner On it. Talking to congressional representatives.

Kentucky is suddenly about to ban self-custody. Tell your friends. More details below.

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@bitcoinpolicy @RandPaul How much does this lack of blockchain education cost the state, and society at large? - Hours of of legislator work (+overhead) - Attention spent examining nonsense - Freedom We should work together to make things make sense again.

🚨BPI has just learned of an amendment buried in Kentucky HB 380 that would require hardware wallet providers to reset users' seed phrases on request. This would effectively outlaw self-custody in Kentucky. BPI is sending a letter to the Kentucky Senate informing them of the harmfulness of this language. Section 33 was added as a last-minute floor amendment to a 77-page virtual currency kiosk regulation bill. The underlying bill has political support and is expected to move through the Senate for final passage, possibly within the next week. The mandate is technologically impossible for non-custodial wallets. Hardware wallets are specifically designed so that no one — including the manufacturer — can access or recover a user's seed phrase. Requiring a backdoor for seed phrase recovery breaks Bitcoin's fundamental security guarantees and pushes users toward centralized custodians that are vulnerable to hacks and failures. Kentucky legislators should be protecting their constituents' right to secure their own property. We urge the Senate to strip this provision before the bill reaches a vote. Relevant text below