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Matthew D
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Dreaming of a front porch fit enough for banjo plucking. Specializing in forestry and agriculture for over a decade.

Beware any #covenant advocate, or educator who does not talk about how adding covenants to #Bitcoin further decentralizes the network, and makes it more secure.

These are the two first principles we need addressed.

really drives home the point: we're not interacting with artificial intelligence, we are interacting with LLMs

Here's what I do.."does this piece resonate with me?"

if it doesn't, I move on.

Every new follower I get on Nostr feels like a real person. Maybe 1/10 is a scammer or a bot.

Every new follower I get on X shitcoiner platform 9/10 are scammers and bots.

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE CENTRALIZED.

I wonder if that girl I messaged in 2006 will ever get back to me. 😂

SPEAK IN ALL CAPS AND CARRY A BAG OF SATS

An overwhelming % of family farms in the US derive their income from on farm and off farm income sources. I'll spare you the specific statistics, because I can't recall them at the moment and I don't want to lead anyone to believe something that isn't true.

The last 30-50 years in American agriculture has been dominated by the "get big or get out" mantra. Basically farms are coerced by current system incentives to take on massive piles of debt and/or make one sided deals with big agriculture. I can tell you a number of anecdotes about families selling their farms or being forced to rent out their land because they just can't cut the margins any longer.

The commodity crop insurance racket is another massive rabbit hole to talk about. But simply put, producers are aware of this subsidized safety net..so they can make year to year decisions and take the path of least resistance when managing their crops. This leads to crop failures, rampant disease spreading, soil erosion, reduced water quality, and food deserts..the management of the farms natural resources take a back seat to squeaking out another year of funding chemical inputs, seed bills, and farm loan payments.

When you stack it all up you have a seriously fragile food system. Bitcoin represents a massive opportunity to restore conservation of energy on farm business operations. A shift where natural resource management decisions would not take a back seat, but would be in the driver's seat. An ecologically productive farm is a profitable one.

HUNNNNGRRYYYY

Saturday grill out.

appreciating Roger Ver taking the limelight once again. I think when folks from the OG days of Bitcoin resurface it gets everyone interested in the history of Bitcoin.

One of the most crucial parts of the rabbit hole I love is the history of Bitcoin. It's crucial because it lets new participants see where Bitcoin has been, and get armed with the knowledge of what could be coming.

Bitcoin Billionaires about the Winklevii and Bitinstant is a great book, I've read it several times.

The statistics around on farm income in the US are sad. It's no wonder people end up automatically trying to juice the system each year.

Self reliant in principle, but often times farmers and ranchers play crop insurance games and look for government handouts.

Turtles all the way down.

if a system can be corrupted. it will be corrupted. thank God for Bitcoin.

"I see you gave her one more satoshi than me, what are you trying to say Matt?" 🤣