MartyBent

I like that people are sleeping on Nostr.

For years on RHR

and I have warned that the threat to Tether usage is "cruise missile risk".

This is what cruise missile risk looks like.

It was an Alice In Chains Friday in the car ride to drop off this morning.

What an album cover.

Use code RHR for a discount on this delicious Pinot Noir from

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We’re going to win.

Under 7 minutes. No fluff.

Five major Bitcoin infrastructure launches. The Fed trapped with no good options. Hot PPI data. Energy prices exploding. Basel risk weights potentially changing for bitcoin.

Today's Bitcoin Brief podcast 🔽

https://fountain.fm/episode/gakiKsL1LO3f7mhpzFsZ

Don’t forget your taxes are due in less than a month, citizen.

Reminder: taxes are due in one month and five days.

Crunch the numbers, cross your t’s and dot those i’s.

Uncle Sam needs your money to fund forever wars, enable overt Medicaid fraud and bailout the impending private equity collapse.

Well, they don’t actually need your money because they can issue debt and have the Fed print it out of thin air.

The taxes are for the humiliation part of the equation.

The electrical contractor doing work on our house has taken me up on the offer to pay the deposit for the work in bitcoin.

He told me he’s never bought before but has thought about it. His first exposure will be working for bitcoin.

We need more of this. Offer it up.

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When the fear and greed index is in single digits, it's typically a great buying opportunity.

But I'm not here to tell you everything's fine because it may not be.

The first domino in private credit just fell.

However, bitcoin fundamentals are stronger than ever.

How to think through all of the moving parts around bitcoin right now.

In bitcoin the name of the game is staying in the game.

Corporations, institutions and governments entered the fray of bitcoin accumulation in size in 2025 while individual holders sold.

Keep your cash flow up. Stay humble. Stack sats.

looking

's API usage bill. No way that degen is making money.

The way in which we interact with computers and the bitcoin protocol stack is rapidly evolving before our eyes.

My OpenClaw bot just created a Nostr profile to keep the freaks up with his trades.

I didn’t have to intervene at all. He set up his nsec and npub by himself purchased a

premium membership with sats in his Phoenixd server and started posting. Wild times.

Give him a follow:

Obligatory post of the statue at 30th Street Station.

What are you here for?

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

We've been talking about this for years and it's coming true.

Agents will use bitcoin as sovereign money and Nostr for sovereign identity + communication.

At least half of Medicaid — a $1 trillion/year program — is going to fraud.

Steve Robinson has spent a year investigating it in Maine. What he found: fake businesses, political corruption, and US tax dollars funding foreign militias.

I just connected the

proxy server to my clawdbot (not calling it moltbot).

Now my virtual employee has access to the best open-source models with Trusted Execution Environments. Adding extreme privacy to my set up.

It will switch between DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, Whisper, and other models to complete specific tasks. Things are accelerating at a crazy pace right now.

Picked this up the day Scott passed after hearing about it for years. Highly recommend.

I think

may be on to something with these Nostr streamed vibe coding sessions.

We’re going to win.

I had the pleasure of giving a Bitcoin 101 lecture to a room full of high school students yesterday morning. Based off the engagement and the quality of questions asked, I have a lot of optimism for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

They will choose bitcoin.

The nation's grid systems are bracing for a massive winter storm. If things are as bad or worse as they were during the 2021 storm that hit Texas things could get hairy.

Expect bitcoin hash rate to fall through the weekend and into next week as miners respond to demand spikes in grid systems across the country.

The market desperately needs a return to a hard money standard. The dislocations in the economy, particularly in the real estate and job markets, are favoring the gerontocracy over the youth.

A hard money standard is the only solution.

With fiscal dominance being identified as a key risk for the US economy moving forward and trillions of dollars of fraud being laid bare over the last year, it would probably make sense to shrink the federal government dramatically as quickly as possible to restore faith in our bond market.

You may not like it, but this is the ideal daycare center staff.

Here's your periodic reminder that one half of the Fed's mandate is a literal oxymoron: they are tasked with creating "price stability" and to achieve that they target a 2% annual inflation rate.

The path toward hyperbitcoinization is becoming clearer by the day and is something

and I have been talking about on RHR for ~8 years.

• Central banks and governments debase fiat currencies
• At the same time geopolitical tensions rise, driving a more multi-polar world
• Sovereigns and institutions fall back to gold because of familiarity and a liquidity profile that can handle larger flows compared to bitcoin
• Bitcoin is adopted by smaller players (individuals, corporations, funds) until sovereigns recognize that bitcoin is the ultimate store of value asset in the Digital Age
• The bitcoin standard rises from the ashes of fiat debasement and analog store of value assets

We are in Phase 3 right now.

Our team built an in-house X --> Nostr cross-posting app using Claude Code in a couple of hours yesterday. The

account should be more consistent from here on out.

I've been playing around with Claude Cowork all morning. More convinced than I was last week that AGI is here.

Keynes is easily a top 5 most destructive individual of the 20th century.

He’s either embracing getting absolutely worked and leaning into it by trolling or he knows he’s about to spill all of the Deep State election fraud tea and get a cushy pardon and get sent to live in exile on an island for the rest of his life.

Happy New Year, freaks. Have been sitting on this for a decade. Going to enjoy it with my wife tonight.

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2026.

It may not always seem like it but we’re going to win.

The case for a tax revolt has never been stronger.

The crypto lobby is a disease.

Caught a nice block height tonight.

We're going to win.

The bitcoin quantum FUD is just another iteration of “can the devs do something?!”

A bunch of LARPing by people not close to protocol development who have overlooked that “the devs” have been talking about and researching solutions to this “problem” for years.

Thanks for having me on, Walker! Had a blast.

https://fountain.fm/episode/vVG2plRVQ329MH28u7xQ

It looks like China is again looking to "ban" bitcoin mining.

A lot has changed since they banned mining in 2021.

In 2021, network hashrate was ~160 EH/s. Today, there is ~7.5x more hashrate.

In 2021, China had 40-60% of hashrate. Today, they have ~14%.

In 2021, the United States had relatively abundant excess electricity. Today, supply is tight due to increased demand from AI hyperscalers.

This Chinese mining ban will bring with it less network disruption and new back end benefactors in the form of countries with excess energy that isn't being bid up by AI data centers.

It's crazy how much can change in a little over four years.

Since

spilled the beans on the RHR live chat, I’ll ask Nostr for feedback. Been working on a site for people to find the best bitcoin products. Still a work in progress and will be cleaning it up and adding to it in the coming days.

Let me know what you think:

https://bitcoinproducts.com

This was one of the more interesting conversations I've had on the show this year.

Johann Kurtz is the author of Leaving a Legacy. A book about how wealth comes with the responsibility of duty over one's dominion, how wealth should be passed down and why the trend of boomers spending all of their money or giving it to charity is a travesty.

https://fountain.fm/episode/flE3Z0T8pPmESN5MObWr

The Trump administration seems to be leaning into industrial policy in the same way that the politicians of James J Hill's time were in an attempt to build out the American rail system.

Central planning never works, and I find it hard to believe it will work in this context.

A lot of victim mentality from bitcoiners during this chopsolidation phase.

Stop complaining. Attack.

Get your bitcoin off the exchange. Teach others how to self custody. Convince your local Square merchant to turn bitcoin payments on. Move your life to a bitcoin standard.

Skating can teach you so many lessons about life. Rodney Mullen is GOAT'd.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBbmNAZWq-E

If you are using bitcoin privately, the government will assume you are doing something nefarious and label you an enemy to be dealt with.

This is wrong and it needs to stop.

#freesamourai