2026-06-20T22:21:26Z https://nostr.now paulweaver34@rizful.com https://nostr.now/npub1k7z66vr3flc4pax86mgdw3pru5y50avvqnrd3mzyja7alnnncr7qf5pdfv https://blossom.primal.net/771f2478cf2b80187d9f83cc3da0ae288e25a762749cd52fdeeb90552dadfb29.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/771f2478cf2b80187d9f83cc3da0ae288e25a762749cd52fdeeb90552dadfb29.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw3yy7ahfv3c59cad5pjq0vv969vvapch2qr7dn9acl5xqrg06tvgzyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0cchnvjc I doxed myself.<br/><br/>I shared a screenshot of four on-chain purchases from the Midwest Bitcoin Summit as proof that retail isn&#39;t gone. No addresses, no balance. But exact amounts and timestamps are enough to find a transaction, and my spending wallet was also my staging wallet. The screenshot showed the front door to my savings.<br/><br/>The vault was fine. The hallway needed a second door.<br/><br/>Self-custody is not a setup. It&#39;s a habit.<br/><br/><a href="https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/i-doxed-myself">https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/i-doxed-myself</a><br/><br/>#bitcoin #selfcustody #privacy 2026-10-20T12:06:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd46ss9nldqhx6208vqpa6uvqm4u7jc685a2fr0836e8kx9aaxavgzyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0c926kwd New two-part essay today, released together: the crisis Gen Z inherited, and what we build instead. <br/><br/><a href="https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/the-crisis-they-inherited">https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/the-crisis-they-inherited</a> 2026-10-08T16:38:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx8mg8catn9z54pmp3x43jxlc4tptmyaa8elmnvddu6nghtwd666qzyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0c8vc6qc In 2001 I wrote a paper arguing Plantinga made us sound more credulous than we are. His fake-barn example struck me as outrageous. Twenty-five years later it&#39;s just the internet.<br/><br/>New essay on AI, testimony, and why fluency isn&#39;t faithfulness. Pray before you prompt, then bring what you found to people who can tell you you&#39;re wrong.<br/><br/><a href="https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/pray-before-you-prompt">https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/pray-before-you-prompt</a> 2026-10-03T13:50:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdd392j0yfwewpctgljejt5y78wwk9r253jjx022lqxfk9lv96umqzyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0chfvx3q Bitcoin had Satoshi: someone who built it, gave it away, and vanished.<br/><br/>AI will never get that moment. You can&#39;t build a data center in secret and disappear.<br/><br/>So what happens instead? Rural co-ops, common carriers, and honest weights.<br/><br/><a href="https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/what-ai-needs-isnt-a-savior">https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/what-ai-needs-isnt-a-savior</a><br/><br/>#bitcoin #ai 2026-10-01T11:44:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgs4tm20pfw9mrqtrswygfhk6978neua5r2gr6r6j54c8j0v4v6hszyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0c6x2j07 The first Midwest Bitcoin Summit launched in the worst sentiment in a decade. They did it anyway.<br/><br/>I spent most of it on the expo floor: a wallet app that disguises itself, a SeedSigner I failed to build, a home miner at a breakdown discount, sats with no KYC, and a children&#39;s book priced at 25 BTC by accident.<br/><br/>Plus the meme of the weekend.<br/><a href="https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/the-first-one">https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/the-first-one</a><br/><br/>#Bitcoin #plebchain #MidwestBitcoinSummit 2026-09-25T13:30:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvptncqcwepclasqaextvzp9dccc50xhjfw3p0f2lt0mazqwuhx9gzyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0czjmp40 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszrfrjrwwe2dsjhwwjtqndnzlzktnu0zzyukaxfp6smmqcespl94cv4fm6t'>nevent1q…fm6t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Fun how we can get multiple lessons from the film. Stay strong over there. 🙏 2026-09-19T11:50:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswwd8thvx0k2q8rslxdnv5325q5alq4aa2w0uvjlt8euzx4u3t8rqzyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0clqhamh Wile E. Coyote never wins. But when the Road Runner testifies for him in front of Congress, it isn&#39;t because he earned it by winning. It&#39;s because he was known.<br/><br/>I wrote about what Coyote vs. Acme says about humility and self-deprecation, and why nobody in the AI race can afford to be the Coyote.<br/><br/><a href="https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/wile-e-coyotes-testimony">https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/wile-e-coyotes-testimony</a> 2026-09-19T11:34:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs04q6hzn3r7uquqvz9tkzvlwnpq7dl9ylaq99y9wgt0qaqsyzqzkszyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0chg0rj7 BIP-110 did not activate. The miners did not signal. Knut Svanholm wrote an honest retrospective landing on two explanations: capture, or insufficient economic weight.<br/><br/>Samson Mow read it and mostly agreed on the diagnosis, then made a claim I think is wrong: that nodes cannot and should not be able to influence the network.<br/><br/>A node that rejects an invalid block is influence. It’s the only kind that doesn’t need permission. Mempool policy failed because it depends on convention and buy-in. The supply cap has never been tested that way, because everyone already knows how that fight ends.<br/><br/>This piece works through where Mow is right (soft signals are cheap, that’s why thresholds are 95%), where the UASF/SegWit precedent complicates his “iatrogenic” charge, and a succession problem with Knots and Ocean that I don’t think anyone’s naming yet.<br/><br/><a href="https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/the-load-bearing-layer">https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/the-load-bearing-layer</a> 2026-08-13T13:22:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx9ejsdqpt2kfnfszgmfr83aj6cyvs38deqrmsdw7asn74qlk67ygzyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0cymettf Honest weights and measures show up in Leviticus, Proverbs, Deuteronomy. Not as economic policy. As moral requirement.<br/><br/>Bitcoin is the newest expression of the same idea. Not a religion. A protocol that makes falsifying the scale technically impossible.<br/><br/>21 essays on sound money, Scripture, and the radius of trust. Audio companion on Fanfares, 500 sats.<br/><br/><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/paulweaver34/p/money-desire-and-honest-weights">https://open.substack.com/pub/paulweaver34/p/money-desire-and-honest-weights</a> 2026-07-03T11:26:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqvvhzzlhjx3jg0srw8u6wxrvtlptjquvakw5jkpp4003jt08ulsszyzmcttfsw98lz585cltdp46yy0jsj3l43szvdk8vgjthmh7ww0q0chwkzhx A pastor in Turkey once told me the church would never be self-sufficient until it could answer three questions:<br/><br/>Where do you find a wife?<br/><br/>Where do you find a job?<br/><br/>Where do you bury your father?<br/><br/>I’ve been thinking about those questions for years. This essay explores trust, community, Bitcoin circular economies, and the infrastructure that allows belonging to become durable.<br/><br/><a href="https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/the-infrastructure-of-belonging">https://paulweaver34.substack.com/p/the-infrastructure-of-belonging</a> 2026-06-05T10:49:32Z