James Viggiano 🇳🇿

"Zero tolerance for shitcoiners, can't believe I gotta say it. After how many years this is how you want to play it? Fuck around with consensus, get yourself burnt. Telling twitter lies just to get the plebs hurt. Talking about renting hash just to up your net worth. What you mean bitcoin is dead if this doesn't work?"

https://wavlake.com/track/42679d1f-5c70-476f-ba8c-c6473a4917db

Love this little haul from

Bitaxe case, BTC hoodie can coozie, white paper coaster and a load of stickers.

Pretty excited to play with

Absolute banger

https://wavlake.com/track/46e14aae-ee1d-416c-a9f6-2dbefa972301

In this episode of The Transformation of Value, host Cody Ellingham sits down with Kevin Whitmore from the new Bitcoin Policy Institute NZ. They are engaging with Ministers & Members of Parliament to push for a tax exemption on Bitcoin payments under $1,000. The goal? Fix the compliance nightmare and unlock real financial innovation. Listen here:

https://fountain.fm/episode/mK0sC3kk5NSD5VVdvSOl

Bitcoin’s market cap has slipped from $2.5T to about $1.8T, a ~30% pullback, but the bigger picture still looks like smooth, structural growth. $1 USD now buys 1,100 little bits of Bitcoin, up from a low of ~800. https://blossom.primal.net/1aef8ad194ca8598bc65a276fe32e4f528036eb5de19aadcbc545e2890ddd850.png

In November 2017, Bitcoin dropped about 30% from an ~$8k all-time high to ~$5.5k - then ripped to a new high near $20k by Christmas. Volatility like this isn’t unprecedented. https://blossom.primal.net/ad251db1717a1f2c35a9278834ed5598a927415f9d2528e06a8487b57adadc11.png

Your Bitcoin savings might be down in dollar terms, but with everything on sale for Black Friday your purchasing power is kinda the same ¯_(ツ)_/¯

GM and happy Monday! New Zealand’s cash markets open shortly, with Australia and Asia right behind. Will our local institutions use the head start to buy the dip or are they effectively handcuffed until the US ETFs open in 21 hours?

Since spot Bitcoin ETFs arrived, we’ve had three major “sales”: -35% (Aug 2024), -30% (Apr 2025), and now -25%. Every dip is getting shallower as big buyers step in sooner. Are institutions front-running each other to catch the dip before anyone else can? #bitcoin https://blossom.primal.net/fed85bbc0626a2af7b28f4c5b49f303c7d86fcfd3afc1c2d58dd885e13148f1c.png

A -25% sale on Bitcoin is great, but the chart shows it’s nothing like the -40% to -80% discounts we’ve seen before. Do we still have deeper discounts ahead to look forward to, or is this sale coming to an end? #bitcoin https://blossom.primal.net/fc4e99a247a0eef0e01256858bd207475f33a1c9f7160a1164b86e70377aac42.png

Dollars $USD fall to an all time low. You can now purchase a dollar for less than 800 sats of #Bitcoin

📣 Bitcoin OP_RETURN: Purity vs Pragmatism Should Bitcoin fight economic reality or adapt to minimize harm? 🎧 Dive into the debate 👇

Looking at the chart, it’s clear we’ve passed the bottom and the trend is heading up 🌱 Spring is here, summer next. https://cdn.satellite.earth/e49174cd76ddd4fbdc0a2718cb77dacc7e54e4d649e4b899ce8c1b7b8192f841.jpg

It’s misleading to say Bitcoin “never fulfilled its promise.” Bitcoin was launched in 2008 in direct response to the promises broken by central bankers during the financial crisis. As Satoshi Nakamoto put it: “The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.”

On that front, Bitcoin has never failed. It has never been debased, never been bailed out, and never inflated beyond its fixed supply. It is inflation-proof by design. That is the promise it has delivered and continues to deliver.

On payments, Bitcoin now settles trillions annually in final, bearer-asset transfers - something no other system achieves. For everyday use, the Lightning Network handles millions of instant, near-zero-cost transactions, cheaper and faster than Visa or EFTPOS. To dismiss Bitcoin as “speculative” or just “digital gold” ignores its real-world role as both savings and money - from El Salvador to the United States, to meetups here in New Zealand, and even the Bitcoin Basin in Queenstown.

Bitcoin is the only system that offers open, borderless, censorship-resistant digital cash. Far from failing its promise, it is the only form of money that has actually kept its promise.

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Bitcoin all time high also means beersies all time low at Andrew Andrew, the Pub on Quay St (Auckland's PubKey). Alongside a great lineup of craft NZ beers on tap, they serve up some seriously good skin-on fries with aioli. https://cdn.satellite.earth/be714f410f2a01cb81f5f1f5fc75e3182f3cde45861876446355113f08eb1234.jpg https://cdn.satellite.earth/2e2b1d5f16c113d21a8a23cb0ebdb9e901f4fb24f2b9d396683e533a4ef0e832.jpg

#Bitcoin Market Update. £ GBP 1114 ₣ CHF 1026 € EUR 966 $ USD 828 $ CAD 602 $ AUD 540 $ NZD 493 ¥ CNY 115 ฿ THB 26 ¥ JPY 6

from

drops some great thoughts on building better spaces online with Bitcoin incentives - not your average social feed. Worth a listen.

https://fountain.fm/episode/uARov2i4l5ZonulP920a

Great episode — Cody and Allen break down how Tether dominates the stablecoin market and why Lightning could make altcoin rails obsolete. Imagine sending private NZD ecash to someone who wants USD Tether — no friction, just shared Bitcoin rails. The future of stablecoins might finally be interoperable.

https://fountain.fm/episode/WffGGefLT12sQcxDWDXZ

Bear markets: when it rains, it pours. Bull markets: make hay while the sun shines. Right now? The sun’s out. Get to work.

In New Zealand, you can buy beers with Bitcoin by tapping your ring. 🍺⚡ Shoutout Andrew Andrew &

for making it real.

I often find myself having to re follow people that I know I've already followed in the past. Is this a weird nostr relay thing. https://chatgpt.com/share/67e5131b-ff48-800d-8df8-de49f9dca6d2

GM from Auckland, New Zealand ☀️

Fiat comeback szn? $USD now trading above 1,200 sats, up more than 30% from its ATL of ~900 sats earlier this year. Dead-cat bounce?

🎥 Live from Queenstown, NZ! Tune in to @Bitkiwi1 and catch all the action. Watch now: zap.stream #Bitcoin #BitKiwi #Queenstown https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjr2vt9x4jxgdtp95urwepc956rjvtz95ungdty95ckvep5v33k2d3kxvmrzqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq3jamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz7qg7waehxw309ahx7um5wgkhqatz9emk2mrvdaexgetj9ehx2ap0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qgsv73dxhgfk8tt76gf6q788zrfyz9dwwgwfk3aar6l5gk82a76v9fgrqsqqqan8p3wmx6

GM! Auckland in February hits different. Warm sunny days, blue skies, and calm waters—can't beat it. ☀️🌊 #NewZealand #Auckland

Good night from New Zealand 🇳🇿 Another stunning sunset tonight. https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjx2dp3xp3rxerr95cx2vpc956r2dfc943rxvmp94jxxdr98qcnzerzvdjnzq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxw0p3q9l

Never go full yetard.

☕ GM, support your local caffeine dealer.

ChatGPT on nostr vs X.

The Dollar hangs on at 1000 sats... for now. Is 2025 the year Trump decides to drop the peg and revalue to 100 sats? A bold move or inevitable reality? #Bitcoin #DollarDilemma

"shitcoin stockpile"

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Ethereum investors are reeling after Vitalik's outburst exposing the centralization and internal politics of Ethereum.

In 2017, 1 ETH was worth 15M sats ($16k). Now, it’s worth just 3M sats ($3.2k)—an 80% loss of value. Remember everyone, don't gamble your #Bitcoin!

The head of the Department of Government Efficiency has confirmed Ross will be freed.

Uncle Scam

⚡ Zaps you receive on #nostr are tax-free in New Zealand! They meet the definition of 'Koha' (gift) under NZ law: the zapper gives sats with no expectation of goods/services, and the zappee shares content freely with no expectation of payment. Learn more:

https://www.ird.govt.nz/income-tax/income-tax-for-businesses-and-organisations/types-of-business-income/donations-koha

If Bitcoin were a large city, about 2,100 square kilometers like Los Angeles or Bangkok, the commonly transacted piece would be like the tip of a ballpoint pen (1 square millimeter). These tiny pieces—often called sats, zaps, or little bits of Bitcoin—are what Bitcoiners zap to each other as tips. For context, a cent is worth about 10 sats, while a dollar is about 1,000 sats.

The "BTC" unit (annoyingly also sometimes called Bitcoin) is 100 million times larger—100 square meters, about the size of a 2-bedroom apartment. And the total area of Bitcoin that will ever exist is 21 million times larger than a BTC and 2,100 trillion times larger than a sat.

But it all adds up to just one Bitcoin. Every sat you zap or BTC trade you make is simply an exchange of different-sized pieces of that one finite #Bitcoin.

There's 👏 only 👏 one 👏 #Bitcoin.

You can divide it into 21 million pieces and call them BTC, or into 2100 trillion pieces and call them sats, zaps, or just bits of bitcoin.

No matter what you call them, it all adds up to the same: one true #Bitcoin. There will never be more.

Thanks for having me on, Cody! Had a great time chatting. ⚡

https://fountain.fm/episode/cawL87uo4Xxp0MUGo7sD

https://realitycheck.radio/replay/james-viggiano-bitcoin-advocate-nzs-geothermal-mining-future-and-the-digital-cash-revolution-navigating-privacy-in-a-crypto-world/

Things today cost a lot less sats than they did 4 years ago.

No matter who wins, remember: just like they once headed west to the frontier, you can head west again—this time to New Zealand, the new frontier of opportunity in the Pacific. 🌏 #NZ #US #debate https://image.nostr.build/6458b77effcf608d9539a67d4a3b6739611ed00e26ed22a23a94c5dd539861ac.jpg

is there a Bitcoin only brokerage service in Thailand? #siamstr

GN nostr https://image.nostr.build/95fa3183897feb4fe28085a34d530deffc796a53aac08c05d1f9c7b6ed478afd.jpg #newzealand #nz

☕ GM

#breakfast #foodstr

Consider scheduling tweets to promote nostr to your followers instead of deleting your Twitter account. What link would you share? #grownostr #nostame

"In 2013, there was a poll taken that asked young people under 35 in this country, are you proud of the United States? 85% said yes.

The same poll taken five months ago, 18% said yes.

So somehow, during the administration of these two presidents, an entire generation of Americans has lost pride in our country and a hope in their own futures. And they they feel that way because they see what's happening.

They can't get into a home. This is the first generation in history in America that is going to live worse lives than their parents.

They see the vitriol that you saw here, the division, the polarization that makes them disgusted with politics.

They're seeing the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that has transformed our agencies from the CIA, health agencies, the environmental agencies, into sock puppets for the industries they're supposed to regulate.

They're seeing the destruction of our soils, the destruction of our air and water.

They're watching this happen, and the politicians do nothing about it except for hate on each other.

If you want more of the same, you should vote for President Biden, President Trump. You know what's going to happen. You know that. They're going to give you four more years of the same stuff.

If you want things to completely change, you're going to support me because I'm going to change everything.

This is a moral battle for the soul of our nation to restore our moral authority around the world by projecting economic power abroad rather than spending $8 trillion on regime change wars that have left every nation we've touched worse off than we found it and restoring our moral authority here at home.

The first day in office -- you heard what they're going to do. You don't even understand it.

Here's what I'm going to do. Day one in office I'm going to issue an executive order saying any federal official who tells a lie to the American public will lose his job.

I'm going to stop the surveillance state.

I'm going to stop the propagandizing by our agencies of of the American public.

I'm going to unravel the war machine.

I'm going to unravel the corrupt merger of state and corporate power.

I know how to do it. I've been litigating against these agencies for years, and I'm uniquely suited to do this.

But I can tell you, I'm going to do these things when I get in there. I'm going to make sure that our Constitution is protected, that AI is deployed to make government more transparent rather than by government to enslave the rest of us.

I'm going to bring AI home and blockchain home because we need these new industries to grow our way out of the debt crisis.

This is something that these two aren't even talking about.

If you want everything to change, you'll support me.

If you want to vote out of fear, you need to support one of those.

Guys, if you want to vote out of hope, out of inspiration, out of pride in your country, out of restoring the moral backbone of our people and our nation, you should vote for me." - Robert F Kennedy Jr #election #kennedy #2024

https://image.nostr.build/67c2ed17046f9d108d5603635d0ef098624750a88cea8d5f61b99c2df0f5021b.jpg 🍁 Autumn colours in Auckland, New Zealand today 🌤️ 18°C | 64°F

🧡 je t'aime #bitcoin https://youtube.com/shorts/mzpLH2L6tcY

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