Haha i see my comment can be misread. I understand Walkers sarcasm, but marvel at people gobbling up YouTube warnings as gospel. We are not hypothesizeing, its happening, its in your face.
Lol "hypothesize a secretly emerging totalitarian world government" they are building and promoting their NWO for all to see. They write books about it, thousands of policy documents, gather at large publicly brodcasted conferences they are shoving their shit down your normie throat and you still don't see.
We tend to talk about Bitcoin lowering our time preference, but in one sense it massively raises it.
Once you truly get Bitcoin, it's hard to take a long term risk regarding your income because stacking as many Sats as possible right now is going to pay off massively in the long run.
What kind of world do you want to live in?
- One where the only people "dumb enough" to take risk are fiat minded and make shitty stuff
Or
- One where you're the fkn man living the life you constructed, but with less Bitcoin.
You're really gonna wait "another cycle" until you're ready to start building the life of your dreams?
https://blossom.primal.net/8c2591d21b08ab1f625d292ce22b655a1c621177611314c425cc766021424744.mp4
Wise words. Build the life style you want in the future now. Don't wait for bitcoin, just use it to build, and save along the way. Just do it! Bitcoin is not the end goal.
Can't wait to bring this to market 😎 #knifestr
Cool, lets not argue about lexical sematics.
Lol don't be a wuss and reply directly to the person in question.
I said OK because I accept your opinion. However I do not agree as in the end I only answer to my self. I am born free and will die free. We can disagree its OK.
1869 I am a free-born sovereign, sir, an American.‘M. Twain’, Innocents Abroad xi. 100Citation details for ‘M. Twain’, Innocents Abroad
And by freeing your self of fear and acting freely you become a sovereign individual.
Awesome episode this was. Uncle nostr:nprofile1qy0hwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twd4shs6tdv9kxjum5wvhx7mnvd9hx2qg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqzq3e0gs8jnmued6f2rp4c6vs07xqvs4vs8zpwt82smcdch4txjvq76kl2yj and nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszymhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4ej7qpq6c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9qe52zdt got me thinking a lot about how Nostr can become the foundation of new business models that are permissionless by default. They also highlighted the opportunities that lie within the #Nostr ecosystem for both content creators and developers, that gave me a Buckminster Fuller lens for looking at Nostr which is expressed perfectly in the quote below. nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnsv9ex2ar09e6x7amwqyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ycmgv43kktndv5hhyetvv9usqgzn9kpsmllqnsf7wh5tz3wgy4cclsftqqplv8tpayrhwgw8llunevk4p6dz 's decision to focus on building tools for long form written content and video, as well as its discoverability is definitely going to go a long way in hooking more content creators, coupled with zaps that could definitely spur adoption of Nostr. Worth a listen for all Nostr enthusiasts and vibe coders too. Permissionless future is here.
https://fountain.fm/episode/jN4qTAUeO5R3glhc8Jff
How can you not be exsteamly Bullish Nostr and Bitcoin with all the great people building and adoption this awesome tech stack?
Awesome episode this was. Uncle nostr:nprofile1qy0hwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twd4shs6tdv9kxjum5wvhx7mnvd9hx2qg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqzq3e0gs8jnmued6f2rp4c6vs07xqvs4vs8zpwt82smcdch4txjvq76kl2yj and nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszymhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4ej7qpq6c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9qe52zdt got me thinking a lot about how Nostr can become the foundation of new business models that are permissionless by default. They also highlighted the opportunities that lie within the #Nostr ecosystem for both content creators and developers, that gave me a Buckminster Fuller lens for looking at Nostr which is expressed perfectly in the quote below. nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnsv9ex2ar09e6x7amwqyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ycmgv43kktndv5hhyetvv9usqgzn9kpsmllqnsf7wh5tz3wgy4cclsftqqplv8tpayrhwgw8llunevk4p6dz 's decision to focus on building tools for long form written content and video, as well as its discoverability is definitely going to go a long way in hooking more content creators, coupled with zaps that could definitely spur adoption of Nostr. Worth a listen for all Nostr enthusiasts and vibe coders too. Permissionless future is here.
https://fountain.fm/episode/jN4qTAUeO5R3glhc8Jff
Yes, this episode got me even more bullish on the Nostr and Bitcoin censorship resistant and premissionless tec stack. Love to be a small part of this revolution as an early adopter.
Had a simular experience with proton years ago. Accessed my account from different VPNs and tor nodes. Got permanently banned from my email account. This in turn locked me out of everything I used the email for so it created quite a lot of hassle. I been warning people about Proton ever since. Sad to see a lot of bitcoiners still trust them. Hope you at least get access again so you can move on.
GM
The core principal of law at the root of western civilization is the presumption of innocence. The burden of proof of lie on the prosecutor. This principle is now being turned on its head. If this thinking is allowed normalize in a civil society we will lose all civil liberties at a blink of an eye.
* We can mitigate this risk by holding our own keys and using bitcoin as a MoE today
Bitcoin gigabrain economists claim that bitcoin have to go through a broad Store of Value fase to become a Medium of Exchange. If this is true and the SoV fase is compromised by trusted third parties it will never be broadly adopted as a MoE. We can mitigate this risk by using bitcoin as a MoE today and prove them wrong.
There are those who say Bitcoin doesn't scale, and build blockchains with more throughput at the cost of more centralization (generally in the form of it being way harder to run a node), and then also point to Bitcoin as having low fees as a criticism.
The limiter it turns out, 16 years in, is not how many people *can* self-custody bitcoin. It's how many people *want* to.
Not everyone wants to deal with the technicalities of their own car, and not everyone wants to handle the technicalities of their own money. Quite few, in fact. It's always a subset for these types of things. People who are hardcore over their area of knowledge.
I leave my car details to pros down the street who I know the name of, and handle my money myself. There are those who handle their own cars but leave their money details to others.
Bitcoin currently processes about as many transactions per year as Fedwire, which handles $1 quadrillion worth of gross settlement volume per year for the US and for a good chunk of the world (in context, it's approximately 200 million $5 million average-sized transactions). That's actually a crazy stat. Bitcoin is casually this open-source global Fedwire with its own scarce units, and unlike Fedwire anyone can permissionlessly build on it or transact with it, for low fees despite it being a +$2T network. And if it gets clogged there are all sorts of permissionless layers above it with certain trade-offs.
Some people say paper bitcoin holders detract from the network. I say the opposite- their willingness to hold IOUs helps add to price stability and network size without clogging it. That leaves more room for cypherpunks to develop with, and work on. And those who finance them.
This has been foreseen as early as Hal Finney in 2010, when he wrote about bitcoin banks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211).
We live in a sweet spot by most metrics. A golden age. Historically, so few recognize it when they have it so good.
Bitcoin is big enough to be of interest to many, and yet is still niche enough in a global context to have low base-layer fees. Suitcoiners are happy to add to its scale, and yet cypherpunks can also build, and users can transact right on the base layer, and move to Lightning and Ark and BitVM and Liquid and any sort of trade-off they want if fees get high.
And you're bearish, anon?
The real battle, though, is the ongoing government crackdown on privacy.
Bitcoin itself is in a pretty good technical place. It's a great tool. Certain conservative low-risk covenants might make it better, but even the existing design space is great and still expanding.
The US, Europe, and China cracking down on privacy is the threat. The headwind. And they're all expected. They're not surprising, but they're indeed fierce. That's the real battle- for the hearts and minds of people to embrace why privacy and permissionlessness are good traits.
In this ongoing funny contrast between podcasters and developers, that's the ideal role of podcasters- to spread the good news of what developers have built. To educate people. To tell them what's now possible thanks to developers. To articulate why cypherpunk values are good to a broad non-technical audience. That's where the overlap is. In overly-simplistic D&D terms, those with high CHA try to spread the work of those with high INT. It's not so much that "governments" are the problem. Governments often at least partially represent the people. If you convince a lot of people that privacy and sound money are good things, then you defang the problem. And you also challenge them legally in jurisdictions where it makes sense.
The technical foundation is good. The development of the past 16 years has been amazing, and it has brought us here. The scale has reached institutions, which is expected, not a threat. The actual threat is not treasury companies; it's anti-privacy regulations by governments. And more deeply that's a social issue, given how many people accept it. A vast amount of people believe privacy is only important for bad people who have something to hide. There's a ton of education work to do on it. Privacy is good. It's the default. But most people don't realize it when it comes to money.
We're winning. For 16 years ya'll have been amazing. But we'll need another 16 years more. More developers. More podcasters. All of it. We're a $2 trillion in market cap entering into a global fiat network of hundreds of trillions. And as their own institutions melt down from their own failures, their own top-heavy demographics and false promises, they will look for scapegoats. They will look toward those who are winning, and say they are the enemy.
When interviewers ask my price predictions, I tend to be conservative. That's mostly a liquidity assessment, and a rotation from OGs to new buyers. Price growth does take time.
But under that surface, I also have the benefit of being a general partner at among the largest bitcoin-only venture funds. I see what people are building, and I'm bullish. And for those who are working on stuff that doesn't align with profit, entities like the HRF and OpenSats are doing great work. Across all of the options, people are building great things.
I couldn't be more bullish on the ecosystem that's in place. All of you.
Let's go.
Good evening.
Paper bitcoiners sacrifice the 21 million hard cap, censorship resistance and price discovery on the alters of adoption. I will never endorse fractional reserve bitcoin. Onboarding people with IOUs reintroduce trusted third parties, weakens censorship resistance, feed the fiat beast, divert demand and suppress the price. I rather promote second layer bitcoin solutions and the bitcoin circular economy. Bitcoin a peer-to-peer electronic cash system for the win
Well I guess picstr is out of the question then, domains available.
Love reading random pleb stories from my nostr:nprofile1qqsrgrj2a7rv65jq4t6lc4g0506zj8n2qv5p535mdme57ps0d9zqx0cpzemhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skcqghwaehxw309a38gcedd96xzmrfvyhx7mnvd9hx2teusqr collection
Nhaa I had a 70 year old Norwegian electrical stove in the old place I rented. No cannot convince me a new electrical stove last that long based on survivorship bias alone. There is something called inflation, and planned obsolescence rejecting you claim.
Hahaha nostr where likes don't count and follows disappear. We are still early
Yes Bitcoin's incentieves wil take care of everything. Its a beautyful autonomous truth machine. Or as Ralph Merkle said:
Bitcoin is the first example of a new form of life.
It lives and breathes on the internet. It lives because it can pay people to keep it alive. It lives because it performs a useful service that people will pay it to perform. It lives because anyone, anywhere, can run a copy of its code. It lives because all the running copies are constantly talking to each other. It lives because if any one copy is corrupted it is discarded, quickly and without any fuss or muss. It lives because it is radically transparent: anyone can see its code and see exactly what it does.
Good luck BIS! Bitcoin don't care about your fiat decrees, it doesn't even recognize your existence. Fork off!
Postmodern Story Generator 😂
https://www.semanticpen.com/tools/postmodern-story-generator
He is just having fun playing with bitcoin, give him some slack. 😂
To steps forward and one step back. Thats how they do it. Slowly but surely tightening the nose.
Whats Lord Saylors take on this?
Testing out wooden scale overlays. Came out OK, may be a little pale and to much contrast to the black G10? Think I gone try a pair with darker wood or some stain.
Cyberita.no #custom #knifestr
