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Bitcoin · Community · Node
Sunday Sats
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The morning after Bitkiwi — welcome in.
Block 0  ·  03 Jan 2009
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
— written into Bitcoin's first block, forever.
"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."
— Satoshi Nakamoto, July 2010
21,000,000
That's it. That's the supply. No exceptions, no reprints, no bailouts.
// audit corner
Bitcoin's supply: verifiable by anyone, on a laptop.
(ethereum's supply is best described as "vibes".)
BTC Supply Shock Calculator Node Labs · Live
labs.node.org.nz/labs/btc_supply_shock_v2.html
Don't trust.
Verify.
Every 210,000 blocks
The new supply halves.
No committee. No vote. No exceptions.
"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work."
— Satoshi Nakamoto, February 2009
Running since 2009
No CEO. No headquarters.
No off switch.
(some chains have a foundation for this. and a chairman. and a roadmap.)
Node Labs · Research · Track 3
Got a Spare Whuffie?
Reputation money, and why Bitcoin was built to be its opposite.
labs.node.org.nz / research
tick tock.
Every ten minutes or so, a new block. Bull market, bear market, weekends, Christmas. It does not care.
Sovereignty
Money you can hold, send, and save —
without asking anyone's permission.
Fix the money,
fix the world.
@ node.
Taught as literacy — not a price chart.
How money and trust actually work.
22 May 2010  ·  Bitcoin Pizza Day
10,000 BTC for two pizzas.
— Laszlo paid that lesson forward for all of us. Eat the pizza anyway.
// monetary policy changelog
Bitcoin: zero changes since 2009.
(ethereum: see roadmap. no, the new one. no — the newer one.)
"It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on."
— Satoshi Nakamoto, January 2009
Stay humble.
Stack sats.
node.org.nz
Come and have a look around.