Transfer: Alice → Bob

What happens? Alice’s wallet constructs a transaction spending her UTXO. She signs it with her private key, broadcasts it to the Bitcoin P2P network, and a miner includes it in a block. Bob’s node sees the confirmation. Within 25 bytes of locking script the transaction is then complete and the amount is creditet to Bob's wallet.

OP_DUP OP_HASH160 <bob's pubkey hash> OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG

However, Alice may do some things different: This is more her way of doing things nowadays.

She opens her digital wallet app, which she doesn’t hold the keys to — Steve does. Therefore, she doesn't need to run a node — Steve also does this.

Alice innitialises the transaction to Bob's wallet, Steve then constructs and broadcasts the transaction within the network. On the other end, Bob doesn’t need to validate anything either. Steve's App tells him whenever the transaction arrives. So Steve built a wallet on Alice's and Bob's trust, Alice's transaction and it's arrival at Bobs wallet adress, proof it to work.

The cryptographic proof that makes Bitcoin Bitcoin — the part where you don’t have to trust another party — is missing, a proof of work only transmitted by Steve.

Alice and Bob didn't even have to know Steve, nor eachother.

Alice → Steve's wallet app → Steve's wallet app's node → mining pool → block → Steve's wallet app's node → Steve's wallet app → Bob

The transaction was technically valid. It obeyed every consensus rule. It paid the fee. It will persist in the UTXO set until spent. By every protocol-level measure, it was a real Bitcoin transaction. But by the measure that actually matters in P2P cash system transactions (two parties transacting without a trusted third party) it failed.

Alice doing thing's differently nowadays is quite possible given the median Bitcoin experience in 2026. There are 1.26 million BTC sitting in ETF cold storage. 194 public companies holding bitcoin on balance sheets. Exchanges custodying the vast majority of retail coins.

The protocol is peer-to-peer. The product is client-server.

Even if the tools for real P2P usage are better than ever: Sparrow Wallet builds transactions locally. Lightning settles in two seconds for a fraction of a cent. Running bitcoind on a Raspberry Pi costs less than a month of Spotify.

The exit from custodial dependency is always available. Alice could hold her own keys, run her own node, and send directly to Bob’s address without any corp. in the middle.

Still, she chose trust over work. Maybe as it's easier, maybe because of it's effortlessness.

And, maybe we then need to build on self-custody again.

Few years later I got occupied with my mind, the self, all I am, all we are, all there is.

In high school I first came in contact with the concept of blockchain & web3. Didn't think much of it though, however, after the following time was primarily used to study philosophy at uni and getting into web building and python, my fascination for bitcoin suddenly brought me back to all of this…

Since I can imagine, I wanted to somehow merge my fascination with ontologic philosophy, the psychological mind, but also technology, cryptographic encoding, bitcoin and finances.

It all still seems quite far bridged, a bit out of frame. However, it's somehow merging together, maybe not in the most proficient ways. I think integration of self, of me and you, of us, into the digital realm, into the artificially intelligent, into the crypyographic, the financially monetized,...,has already impacted ourselves so deeply in terms of usage, utilization, building and deployments. We can create what will be, we can realize ourzelves somewhere totally new • all these incredible territories of unknown self implementations…

framework: 0xself (₿SLF) 

0xself in it's own term equals 0 
→ it's no self, no entity, no mind;
nothing streaming into any realm, not physical, cognitive, digital, cryptographic…
Still, self, is all there is [my-self/your-self/our-self/…].
All self is everything the world is, all you got, all we are. As we become, mind's streaming into everything and turns into all self there truly is present.
With 0xself you hold a part of this self, maybe anybody's, maybe yours, maybe somebody else's, humanity's,...(or simply something, which will always result in anything).

a part of mindstreamed self in blockchained form. 
→ a contract for self (self = something, which is anything). 
→ a proof of mindstream (mindstream = streamed mind as any x self).
[→ resulting in 0xself equaling anything of self, through somethingo of mind. ]


[mindstream]by.balgar 
// [→ balgar.btc balgar.ord 0xbalgar.eth mindstream.base.eth]

Once again, I find myself seeing all there is around me more vividly through my phone's camera, than within the lost memory of what my eyes just glanced at; visualizing the incongruence of this momentarity.

-> a one second long video can seem so incredibly long, if put on another person's screen and played in a loop.

-> a moment can shrink to such shortness, if investment in capturing the fleeting light of passing days on glowing screens, overpowers experiencing itself.

//

[Sometimes I take a look at the circular clock in my parents' hallway, asking myself, if there is any or all space contained between a second after, and one right before, the small rotating arrow's current position…

Maybe I wouldn't think about capturing the present if I could move forward in time, whilst still returning to the exact same places of past's former times...or maybe the arrow just tries to escape from such burden.]

interpersonal is based on collective, interferring the personal, overshadowing the individual point of view.

the modernized a place, in which god isn't based an ethical morality, but money.

a society of collective being overshadowed by individual means is inevitably established.