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Building @BTCstillrunning. Glitch hunter. Long scarcity, short noise. Optimizing for the ability to say no.

Joined April 2016
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It's live. I built a way to experience the Bitcoin network itself. This is a real block being found, captured live. Sound on.

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In January 2009, Hal Finney wrote two words: "Running bitcoin." Seventeen years later, this is what that looks like. Two minutes, sound on. Full film on the site. stillrunning.live Works on a phone, best on a big screen with sound on.
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Before Bitcoin had a price, it had a whitepaper. 18 years ago today, Satoshi published it. Nobody's stopped it since. Thank you, Satoshi. Still running. stillrunning.live Works on a phone, best on a big screen with sound on.
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Mt. Gox, 2014. Binance, this week. The companies around Bitcoin can fail. Bitcoin isn't a company. Still running. From the Still Running film. stillrunning.live Works on a phone, best on a big screen with sound on.
If you are wondering about the somewhat muted price impact to Bitcoin after last night's Binance hack, for reference, the MT Gox hack of 2014 was ~750K Bitcoin, which was about 30 days of trading volume at the time. Yesterday's Binance hack was 18,270 Bitcoin, or roughly 1/5th of a single day of Bitcoin's trading volume today, making Mt Gox ~167X worse for price impact.
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Every payment you've ever sent did this. You just never got to watch.
Every bitcoin payment waits until a block seals it. Paste your transaction ID and watch yours. This one was sealed by @ViaBTC. stillrunning.live Works on a phone, best on a big screen with sound on.
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Been listening to the blockchain for a long time bitlisten.com/ I like that new visualization too.
It's live. I built a way to experience the Bitcoin network itself. This is a real block being found, captured live. Sound on.

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It's live. I built a way to experience the Bitcoin network itself. This is a real block being found, captured live. Sound on. The lights are real transactions, waiting. The higher a transaction's fee rate, the closer it sits to the bright center. That's roughly the next block. The whole time, miners around the world are guessing. A counter estimates how many guesses they've made since you showed up. You'll see it climb while you watch. When one of them gets it right, the block is sealed, the pool that found it is named, and it joins every block before it, all the way back to 2009. You can also paste in your own transaction ID and watch it go from waiting to sealed. A new block every ten minutes or so, for almost 18 years. Still running.
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I wanted a way to experience Bitcoin. Not the price. The network itself. So I built one.
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Nobody is drawing this. The network is. Four days.
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Been building a way to watch Bitcoin breathe. One week.
Every point is a transaction, waiting. Seven days.
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"Running bitcoin." — Hal Finney, January 2009 Still running.
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Let me know when AI can recreate this
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The old instruction was work hard and save. The hidden modern question is: save into what?
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The minimum viable team keeps shrinking. AI changed the price of the first honest attempt. Astra just pushed it lower. I don’t think we’re anywhere near the floor yet.
This is GPT-6 Astra. Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.
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The paycheck was never the destination. It was supposed to be the bridge between work and ownership.
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RT if trust Gods plan for your life.
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Proud of all you guys @ccarterjr3 @brandon12pirie @_gorgeousballer and Ashlyn....Keep up the good work! teapaw.org/cnathletics1/status/97…
Congratulations to #CardinalBasketball 🏀 players Chico Carter Jr., Brandon Pirie, Tyra Beadle and Ashlyn Watkins for being named to the High School Sports Report All-State Team #BackTheBird
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Replying to @CNathletics1
@CNathletics1 #CardinalBasketball Senior @brandon12pirie with a couple of nice highlights from this past Saturday #BackTheBird well done @hoopaville and @KHANtentMedia teapaw.org/hoopaville/status/9731…
Check these highlights from the Senior Boys game @SCHoopsFestival brought to you by @TheCaptain_03 video creds @KHANtentMedia #WHEREYOUFROM #HOOPAVILLE youtu.be/sjgC-ov6AZU
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