FRANCIS - BULLBITCOIN.COM

Announcing Recoverbull, a privacy-first encrypted hot wallet backup and recovery protocol. Implemented in BULL wallet, it serves as an alternative to custodial wallets for beginners. A key milestone in our journey to make self-custody the safest default Bitcoin user experience!

https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/recoverbull-a-bitcoin-wallet-backup-system

BULL wallet is BIP172 compliant

I've build three physical Bitcoin hubs in my life, (Bitcoin Embassy, BlockHouse and Bitcoin Jungle help) and I've visited countless others.

The new Freedom Center we are building in Bitcoin Jungle will become the most awesome.

Think of it as a private members club with gym/sauna/cold plunge/pool with wellness activities, that's also a coworking space for digital nomads and expats, that has classrooms to teach freedom tech to locals, and dozens of monthly events on a massive rooftop terrasse.

Yes, it's real. Opening today!

Guess who's back

Here is

showing a room full of rest estate investors how to zap memes on Nostr with Primal 🤩

one of the most iconic photos in Bitcoin history, it's so real

ma tentative d'expliquer l'impact de Trump sur Bitcoin à radio x

https://radiox.com/podcast/tu-ne-peux-pas-imprimer-des-bitcoins/

y'a tu des quebecois icitte?

We've entered the "Imperator Calligula" stage of crypto. Corruption and degeneracy no longer need justification. The industry acts a powerless senate mindlessly applauding, whoring its legitimacy with the plebs to remain in the inner circle of power Virtue is kept alive by a few philosophers in exile.

look at me now I am the floor

A world premier, on Nostr

Photo of my copy of Antifragile autographed by Nassim Taleb in 2016 with the phrase "en le remerciant de rendre la société plus sûre" which means "thank you for making society a safer place". This is in reference to my work in Bitcoin, as Taleb was visiting the Bitcoin Embassy in Montreal which he had coincidentally booked our event space for a private networking event.

I showed him our mining farm, our memes, some gadgets, explained how we turned cash into Bitcoin and vice versa and Nassim Taleb was very excited about what we were doing at the Bitcoin Embassy and about Bitcoin. I think it probably helped that I had a literal portrait of him in my office as well as "Antifragile" on my book shelf.

This copy has been burried in my personal museum vault for many years and I have not seen it since, this is the first time I release this photo (just found while backing an old drive) taken 8 years ago.

currently reading about the fall of the Roman Republic right now

not sure if it's the biography of Cicero or Twitter. both probably

STRIKE WHEN THE IRON IS HOT

WELCOME

let's fucking GO

I don't have any contacts to Ian Carroll but if ever there was an opportune time to nostr-pill him it's right now!

someone for the love of God set up a meeting with Ian Carroll

the Canadian Bitcoin scene on the other hand is pure 🔥

nice new little sticker for people that make the trip to Bitcoin Jungle

when your brand is so strong that your are feature in an article from a country you have no business presence in, about another country where you also have no business presence in

more non-french people need to get to know the Indiana Jones of Bitcoin mining Seb Gospillou

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/mining-bitcoin-in-the-congo-and-beyond-the-journey-of-bigblock-datacenters-s%C3%A9bastien-gouspillou

anybody wants to make 100,000 sats to design a physical sticker for me? basically just using an existing logo I have and adding a bit of text to it and make it into a nice shape I can send to a printer? must be done very quickly and require zero effort on my part

live later tonight at 6PM EST

https://www.youtube.com/live/8-i0UQ4oVN4?si=mGkPjvjbrkjqDBH8

back in the @CBP tonigiht with my homies

and @joey

PFC mixed martial artist lightweight world champion Olivier Aubin Mercier was the first and only professional athlete sponsored by Bull Bitcoin. Become world champion right after we sponsored him 🐂

just created a Nostr feed that is only photos of steaks lmao and guess what... it actually does show me pretty much just photos of steaks. and apparently there are lots of photos of steaks on Nostr 😂

incredible

Bull Bitcoin sera présent à la Bitcoin Expo, organisée par NormandieBTC, le vendredi 24 janvier à Rouen.

N'hésitez pas à nous rejoindre pour une journée de conférences et d'ateliers autour de Bitcoin!

https://lu.ma/gluk14gm

phenomenal video

this also applies to Bitcoin exchanges

Curate a playlist that makes you feel like a dangerous person, especially when working on Bitcoin. Start with High-Tech Minimal if you are coding privacy-related software.

The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally.

Get angry.

The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin.

If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them.

Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across.

That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous.

And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people.

Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate.

And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal.

Well, fuck them. Make it personal.

• Takeshi Kovacs (Altered Carbon)

"What's the ROI?"

got some new toys. what mean? I don't know

Orange-Pilling Costa Rican merchants

Total time: 5 minutes

ACT 1, SCENE 1

me: do you accept Bitcoin payments?

them: no

me: why not?

them: I don't know... I don't have the app

me: do you have a phone or tablet with you?

them: yeah

me: can I show you how it works quickly?

them: sure (shrugs)

me - I take the phone and download the Bitcoin Jungle, we add their phone number, and hand it back to them

me: here is how to receive Bitcoin, click receive enter the amount

them - they do as I say and the QR code pops up

me - use ninja speed to pay the invoice

me: congratulations you now accept Bitcoin payments

me - I show them the advanced settings and how to convert Bitcoin to local currency in a bank account with the Bull Bitcoin

me: you're all set. here is our phone number if you need help

them: cool, thanks

END

P.S. - When dealing with the owner of the shop the success rate is very high. Failure is usually do to the fact that they are not the owner of the shop. ACT 2 of this story is showing the owner how to use the Point of Sale feature and explaining how to make sure employees don't steal the money which takes another ~3-4 minutes.

Costa Rica wagyu with fries cooked at low temperature in olive oil and fire roasted veggies

for medicinal purposes

paid with Bitcoin

Now reading the Cicero series by Robert Harris. Book 1 "Imperium" was really good. I am enjoying it because I studied and translated Cicero's speeches from Latin when I was a youth. I went to Rome to visit the forum and was reading his speeches on the trip. might fuck around and bring back the Roman republic who knows

"When in doubt, eat a goddam steak"

I have never failed to follow this advice by

mobile app was very good and easy to use to publish my article

What app should I use to write long-from content on Nostr?

I haven't been keeping up with Bitcoin mining at all. What makes foundry so "special" that if can capture the market? I bet it's some stupid reason like they have a neat accounting dashboard or something.

really nice obituary of Hal Finney in the Economist. part of my personal Bitcoin history collection

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2014/09/09/hal-finney

Congratulations Pieter and Gmax on winning the Finney Prize! If I had been asked, it would have been a very tough call between these two and Adam Back. Many others deserve recognition (such as Luke). Finney prize is a really nice initiative.

www.finneyprize.org

affirmation: in 2025 we will deliver the greatest open-source mobile Bitcoin app of all time

testing in production on mainnet

cool! Joinstr wallet library in Rust. I'm excited with Nostr as a protocol for wallets to communicate and Bull Bitcoin is happy to support projects that leverage nostr for this purpose.

Bull Bitcoin has also been working (stealth) on our own protocol for wallets to communicate over Nostr for another purpose which doesn't have anything to do with collaborative transactions... I think it will be a huge breakthrough in Bitcoin wallet user experience. coming soon... but yes the Bull Bitcoin will have a Nostr component soon (but it won't be for social media, since that area is already well covered by Primal Damus etc.)