What happens when #bitcoin price is above $500,000 a coin? Is there still FUD around?

#asknostr #fud #btc

How to find true happiness:

1. Sift dryer lint.

2. Loot neighbor's trash.

3. Bribe squirrel for secrets.

#howto #humor

Eat your flapjacks.

Stack your Sats.

Simple

Might have just bought a new domain 👀

You get a woman a house, she'll make it a home.

You get a bitcoiner a girlfriend, he'll make her a wife 😎

Grok branding on point.

Do you think the Wachowski Brothers, now known as the Wachowski Sisters, were forced to become transgender as punishment for making films such The Matrix, V For Vendetta & Jupiter Ascending? (conveying themes of human farming, political/virus, ad*renokrome)

Or do you think it was just part of the deal they made in exchange for their success?

Do you think those films were sanctioned, or even designed, by the overlords in order to show us what they are doing? Transparency = absolution of sin, etc

Or do you think they wanted to transition and were actually just transgender in some bizarre twist of irony?

This is how change is created..

People conflate your identity with your keys. Your identity is you. Your keys simply hold a history of your comments. They are not your identity. Just a temporary verifiable proxy for it.

You can have as many keys as you want. That might represent one or more of your identities.

Stop thinking Nostr keys are forever. They are not.

Stop thinking they are you. They are not.

Stop thinking you need to bundle everything in just one key. You should not do that.

Stop thinking people follow your identity. They don't. They follow one of your keys.

If I knew that #bitcoin was the only honest ledger but chose to spend most of my time trying to accumulate wealth on dishonest ones, it wouldn’t say anything about #bitcoin

I realize that most people still don’t know.

As with all technology, AI is neutral, neither good nor bad.

But the hearts of the people that use technology use it for good and bad.

(Guns can be used for protection or aggression. Planes can be used to travel the earth, or drop bombs on people.)

The technology is always neutral.

AI will be used for good and bad. That’s life.

But there are plenty of doomsayers that believe AI can be an omnipotent god. I’m sure many will be tricked into it. There are always people who are ticked into things.

No matter how much data AI has, there will always be more data that it does not have (and cannot have). So AI will never have complete knowledge.

Without complete knowledge, AI must always deal in probabilities and uncertainty.

People do not act the same when they know they are being watched. People lie and fake it. People act emotionally and irrationally. We’ve been living in a time where people tried to make error into truth (i.e., no difference between a man and woman).

AI can never calculate the incalculable, a person’s heart and motivations.

Central planning cannot work, whether it’s attempted by a Soviet Politburo or AI. So there’s no worry there either.

And from a religious perspective AI can never anticipate what the Holy Spirit will do next.

With that being said, the potential to use AI for good is extraordinary.

Using it to counter AI that’s used for evil will always be an option.

So I’m an AI optimist…despite the deceptions that are sure to come from this technology.

It's not about conquering the world, it's about conquering your world. Victory from the inside harmoniously emitting outwardly in a gm direction .

Nostr is the Church of Bitcoin. And as a bitcoin unbeliever, I'd like to probe the understandings and beliefs of those who are really into bitcoin.

These false dichotomy questions are meant to spur discussion, of course I don't think anyone can simply choose one over the other, but I wonder what people are thinking.

Which of the following is true:

1. If government went away, the people would be free of the oppression of taxes, all interactions would be voluntary, and anarcho-capitalism can finally bring in a utopia.

2. if government went away, the infrastructure would erode (roads, the internet, power distribution, sewage, etc) and people would be living in fear of violent gangs that would have bloody and terrible battles for power.

Which of the following is true:

1. Bitcoin will grow to the point of being the world currency, at which point government won't have any reliable way to collect taxes and government will shrink away.

2. Bitcoin won't get much larger than it already is today because if it gets much bigger governments will shut it down, seeing it as an existential threat.

I could ask more but I think you get the point.

My belief is that small governments are good and necessary things, and governments will not allow themselves to lose revenue in any significant amount, so bitcoin can't grow much larger unless it embraces KYC (which the Church of Bitcoin clearly doesn't). And therefore IMHO there is no bitcoin endgame other than where we currently are. I believe we are living in an abnormal period of laxity.

I"m about to run off and I won't see the replies to this for hours, so don't expect me to participate in the discussion right away.

BTW: I am libertarian, I believe in free markets, I like power in the hands of the people, I hate the fact that governments are necessary, and I love free speech. But also I think I'm pragmatic and realistic.