"Look out for the way concentration on a particular destiny reduces the present to the lowly status of a paving stone towards a predestined future" ~ Ogilvy, Living Without A Goal.
We're somewhere between Weimar and 1939.
Bitcoin is full and final settlement, fiat is not. There will always be risk as we move between the two.
Multiple small transactions with different parties limits the risk.
In the presence of my enemies, Psalm 23 .
Is nostr:nprofile1qqs0gh6kvll7weya0j0kfzfse9ycek5gja88ag5f9yv56qt8eh9uzfqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqan48t9 working?
Went on today and tried to add funds, but I get "Internal Server Error" instead of a ⚡ invoice.
Still run by nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpzpmhxue69uh5ummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnymlvvup?
#GM
#Bitcoin
I respect their right to express an opinion, but the opinion must earn respect on its own merits.
I dunno anymore.
This used to be my default drug but lately started having a brain like the NASA Spider.
Came off the stuff completely and my thinking is sharp again.
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I disable autoplay on all clients. It's enough to build up a picture from words that my fellow plebs are using, and to see the odd photo.
You're right about empathy triggers, and I don't need to waste mine on things that didn't happen right in front of me. I've seen tragedy up close and it's enough to be dealing with my portion over my lifetime.
I understand the scale and implication of the event, and the background and complexity surrounding it. I have sympathy for the family and respect for the lifework of the deceased. I share the universal call for justice and understand the deepening rift in society between those who want to build civilization and those who find pleasure destroying it.
But I don't need to become a voyeur of other people's suffering just because the black mirror in my hand wasn't restrained enough to interrupt my day and serve it cold to my face. Shortly followed by a meme or two, cementing the banality of it all to my already overloaded brain.
I hit this point during the pandemic nonsense, and again during peak eurowar, and most recently with peak ziowar.
Empathy, like attention, needs to be guarded as a precious resource, something to be denied to the machine.
Sometimes, less is more.
Too much signal here, it's becoming the new noise.
Need to find the signal in the signal.
Gave up disrespectfing the seed oils after discovering an endless fiat-food source in local trash cans. The rest is history.
Profound episode. Lived up to the hype intro.
I have more satoshis than bezos has bitcoins.
Yes. Both are true since we live in the already not yet tension, where Christ is reigning but the kingdom has not yet been delivered back to God. Where we are redeemed from the penalty of sin, and find victory over the power of sin, but not yet removed from the presence of sin. Where the life of God in us is sinless but in tension with the flesh that is clearly still capable of sin.
Clustering verses around one or other of these polarities doesn't prove the point, it just highlights the polarity. There is a day when that tension will be removed. Meanwhile, we groan inwardly for it and continue to strive against sin.
God sees me sinless in Christ because He sees me outside of time, with the completed redemption already applied. It's as good as done for me to be eternally in his presence in the new creation. However, I'm not able to see from that perspective. I'm firmly bound within time, and therefore limited to the present moment where my struggle with sin is real. What to God is a momentary detail that's already been dealt with, is to me my present reality in which I struggle so that Christ may be formed in me.
With a little humility, these polarities become occasions to glorify God rather than strive over incomplete positions. Which I think is the point of Sola Dei Gloria.
Ai is becoming the most invasive surveillance tool ever, it’s explicitly bypassing all encrypted communications, sandboxing, and privacy implementations so that it has “the right context.”
It is literally reading passwords off your screen. For a little bit of convenience, we are losing literally every major barrier we have built for privacy and security in one swing.
https://blossom.primal.net/36819088184b6d7674f0485dba8ecbd44088c64ab4aa246ff23498cf474d0216.mp4
Resisting it all is just becoming exhausting.
Laughing.
I don't disagree but what specifically brought this on?
On first pass I thought nostr:nprofile1qqstzt0wugc7sklvr8e7fcl7ukyn63ym3ns4nmf2mnk0vqnz4l9x65qpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6un9d3shjtnhd3m8xtnnwpskxegamescj owned 17,000 BTC and thought "yeah man, that's how you underwrite independent thinking".
Went back for a closer look and false alarm, nostr:nprofile1qqswswmx4rkj6d7q05dtafhpkqq2z42fc62s37jvtp642m2jkpfxc2cpzamhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhks6tnwshxummnw3ezumrpdejqpuwr42 was taking about the social engineering experiment that is Michael Saylor.
Sometimes I think the alternative reality formed by misunderstandings is far more interesting than the world as it is today.
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I must admit I prefer your wiser, more grounded, and biblically filtered takes on masculine frame to the original grudge fest that is Jerr.
I admit that's slightly disturbing. Here's the cryptolizard at his best.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010244372/peter-thiel-and-the-antichrist.html
How exactly does he use Bitcoin for this goal?
Assuming he has a stack, does he sell this down to pay expenses for the number of years they're homeschooling? If so, how big does that stack need to be, and can they live with the regret of having a much smaller stack in say 10 years time?
Now if he can live on a bitcoin standard already, earning in bitcoin and spending in bitcoin, without tax implications, then perhaps that's a different story. But guys trying to make it with a bitcoin business are still in a precarious position, and probably still working night and day as if working two fiat jobs. At least that's impression they all give me if I email them for support.
Using bitcoin to generate more bitcoin, or more fiat to convert to bitcoin, well that's an investment... maybe buying a business or share of one, or some real estate on which yield can be earned... that gives income now, but then he misses the boat when trying to buy back into the corn. And most lend or borrow against your corn schemes are untested or scammy.
So it's a dilemma that I wrestle with often... while I work two jobs so my wife can homeschool our kids another eight years or so.