@dmweisberger The most powerful argument for Bitcoin is watching the most powerful banker in the world lose his composure over stablecoins.
"Mad is Bad" is a perfect frame. Tip o' the hat to Artie. Appreciate the actual clarity here Dave
Lightning has had a first-mile problem. Using it meant understanding channels and inbound liquidity before you could move a single sat. For years, that was the bottleneck.
In 2026, the bottleneck is gone.
Ark, from developer Burak Keceli, replaces bilateral channels with a shared coordinator. One on-chain transaction onboards hundreds of users at once.
Spark, from Lightspark, took a different path: statechains with "leaves" that let a single UTXO be subdivided and transferred off-chain. Fast finality. Native stablecoin support. USDT on Spark is already live.
Ark and Spark aren't competing highways. They're both on-ramps to Lightning. Breez wrapped both in an SDK developers can actually ship on. Block's Spiral team built LDK, the open-source toolkit behind Cash App's Lightning experience.
Lightning's first-mile problem is solved. The app ecosystem on top of it is just getting started.
Full piece: bitcoinfieldnotes.com/p/inside-bitco…@DocumentingBTC
Another take: The "digital cash vs digital capital" debate assumes these are opposites. Maybe Bitcoin becomes cash *because* it first becomes trusted capital. Bugiri suggests they're sequential. @brindonmwiine just showed the receipts.
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And yes, the real war is between Bitcoin and the system it's replacing
The Bitcoin whitepaper described peer-to-peer cash.
Here’s Bugiri, Uganda, showing what that actually means.
A school development project born from the Bitcoin community, paid for almost entirely in sats.
Bitcoin economies don’t need permission. They need people willing to
The Bitcoin whitepaper described peer-to-peer cash.
Here’s Bugiri, Uganda, showing what that actually means.
A school development project born from the Bitcoin community, paid for almost entirely in sats.
Bitcoin economies don’t need permission. They need people willing to build.
@brindonmwiine@geyserfund@BitcoinBeach@BitcoinEkasi
A Bitcoin school exists in rural Bugiri that should not be possible.
100+ children. 4 classroom blocks. 22 staff.
Paid for almost entirely in sats.
The story starts with 34 strangers and a single plane ticket in May 2023. I opened a @geyserfund campaign asking 5.9M sats for a
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh for the win in 2025:
Interviewer: "Charlie Munger attacked Bitcoin. He called it evil, in part because it would begin to undermine the Fed's ability to manage the economy."
Warsh's reply: "Or it could provide market discipline, or it could tell the world things need to be fixed... Bitcoin does not make me nervous. I see it as an important asset that can help policymakers discern right from wrong in decision-making. It is not a substitute for the dollar. I believe it can often serve as an excellent overseer of policymaking."
@HansonHash So well said. This is exactly what Andreas was calling "neutrality" back in 2013:
“Neutrality in Bitcoin means being able to adopt Bitcoin in any culture, any language, any religion, any geography, but also any political or economic system.”
What if Bitcoin's adoption plays out the same way TCP/IP's did?
Andreas drew the parallel in 2013, to a nearly empty room.
Today, almost every battle and every opportunity he described has played out.
Full transcript, video, and four quotes that aged remarkably well:
@isabelfoxenduke@lightspark@davidmarcus@spark This stuff matters right now to grow Bitcoin adoption. The stack finally exists for self-custody + great UX: Spark, channel factories, non-custodial SDKs. Lightspark is building the proof.
@engljanie@byuidaho@BTCedu@BTCStudents I’d ask them to explain that distinction in writing, because “blockchain but not Bitcoin” doesn’t really hold up academically. Bitcoin is the original real-world blockchain application. Studying Bitcoin is studying the protocol that made blockchain relevant in the first place.
There's also only one Bitcoin.
Oh and it's got mathematically destined scarcity.
It's auditable in real time.
Permissionless, borderless, immutable.
Predictable deflation until the year 2140.
And some other stuff.
Yep there's only one gold.
We just can't verify how much of it actually exists.
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