Zelensky sure lives in a dream world if he really thinks that Russia would capitulate if only sanctions were a bit harsher

"This situation is not unprecedented. In preindustrial times most people's jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong people, but only those who choose to be.

It will be the same with writing. There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be."

https://paulgraham.com/writes.html

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My thoughts on the topic are simple: treasury companies want Bitcoin, they're valuable because of Bitcoin, therefore I stack more sats

And Biden was more I'll than we had imagined

Your friend is also going to get in on the latest random treasury company that will do well for random reasons.

One more reason to HODL

It's the weird empty feeling one has after having reached something apparently very important: was that all? What now?

Pretty humbling to say the least, a reminder, that wherever we're going, we should keep in mind that ordinary life goes on after that.

Hopefully they mine with ocean!

For whatever reason I immediately read "conservation is key", which might be true as well depending on the context

Thanks, great points! I'm familiar with Lyn's work, which I find has a lot of explanatory power.

I think free banking on top of Bitcoin might emerge and we might find out that it works pretty well since falling back to self custody is so much easier with Bitcoin than wiith gold.

As for Saylor's stack becoming the government's, interesting take

Ah, the comforts of remote work

I'm sympathetic to this view, it's not however clear to me whether free banking on top of gold was a solution to the technical limitations of the time and if it would make sense on top of Bitcoin (yes it's slow, but still much much faster and cheaper than transferring gold was)

Are there any more structured opinions on this that anyone knows?

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Officially IN!

When next block party? And when block hit?

Pretty far from the anarchist utopia I'd say

How does UBI work in a Bitcoin standard, i.e. who's going to actually pay for it and how?

Europe lives in a dream outside of history. European countries are going to have go wake up sooner or later and confront the harsh truth of reality

That our imagination is the greatest limit to what can be accomplished.

Imagine a society where people have the time to actually sit down and think about what they want to do with their time, and maybe contribute something new to the world.

Too bad most people are too busy just surviving

Yep, now go explain this to most people who think that is how things should be

I agree, after all the whole point was supposed to be censorship resistance achieved through decentralization

Interesting post, but I feel like I didn't really understand its meaning fully. What's the core of your argument in a sentence or two? Thanks

Only one side is right, just which one might that be?

I'd like to see this implemented in all major central banks' offices: committee members would meet underneath the block, and whenever their forecast don't match up, one of the threads gets cut.

I'm not sure whether this is a critique on his part, or merely a statement. Think about his "masterly manipulation" quote

Can someone explain to me why Ark is considered to be a trustless L2 given that VTXOs which are in a pre-confirmed state do not allow for a unilateral exit to the main chain without going through a batch swap first (which inherently relies on the Ark operator) ?

They always go together, it's almost inevitable. What matters for the rest of us is reminding ourselves that we're only passing through the mines, otherwise we risk falling for the fiat games.

Yep exactly what I was thinking, which is good news!

Still not sure why OP_CTV is having such a hard time being taken seriously into consideration for the next soft fork

Fiat debt used to buy Bitcoin is literally the best way to short the fiat ponzi game, provided one has the ability to withstand volatility without being burned.

Why do you suggest keeping away from fiat debt, other then playing it safe?

How to explain this stuff to the average person? I feel that bridging the gap is very hard, since the very basic understanding of how society works from an economic standpoint seems to be totally missing and the willingness to carefully listen to these arguments is definitely missing in a lot of cases, since people might be relatively comfortable in their fiat lifes

The essence of fiat in a few words. What's let's to figure out is why people hear this and then go back to their normal lives as if it didn't matter.

I see what you mean (the number 5 is green)

I think it's a very interesting worldview, it basically tries to make a very rational case that we are all *in* consciousness, and that reality is fundamentally a field of subjectivity

holy shit indeed

This could actually happen IRL for example in Italy, where the name "Assunta" literally means hired 😅