More like Debussin’ amirite?!
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Try placing it on top of a clock.
We call this over-clocking 🥁
Happy new year!
Here’s one example: https://tribuneonlineng.com/china-rolls-out-humanoid-robots-at-busy-vietnam-border-crossing/
“Deployment is expected to begin this December” and since we’re at the end of December and I’m not a world renowned journalist I figured it’s acceptable to say they’ve been rolling them out.
Without physically going there ourselves we’ll just have to rely on the sparse reporting and vague timelines but in any case it’s a very real issue that is being publicized by the company and government involved and I’m not sure why you’re being so pedantic.
Why accuse me of lying?
It depends on which source you look at online; some are saying it’s already being rolled out and others say it’s in the process.
And in any case does it matter if it happens next week or happened last week? The contracts are signed and the robots are real and there’s clearly motivation to deploy these things. It’s not “years from now” from what the reports are saying. Whether those publishers are lying is a different story.
Look ma: I’m a marsupial!
Always appreciate your perspective Dr Less!
With all the motivation to onshore more of the supply chain do you think most of the marginal liquidity will be soaked up by physical projects (new mines, construction equipment, robotics, datacenters, etc) before it has a chance to flow into bitcoin like in previous years? And will the tariffs absorb a lot of the remaining excess liquidity?
China has been deploying humanoid robots to its border with Vietnam [1]. This is just the beginning; expect this trend to proliferate to other countries over time and for the robots to become much more capable.
This raises a lot of obvious concerns but one that jumps out to me is the removal of the general public from its own security. Security is being outsourced away from the group who ostensibly wants to be secured and at the sole discretion of a class of people codified into law as “above everyone else” (ie. the State).
This is happening within the broader context of general automation where factories are being automated top to bottom in more and more industries. The general public has less influence in society at an unprecedented scale.
In AI circles there’s always been the concept of the “alignment problem” where researchers are worried about advanced AI being aligned with humans but until we can figure out alignment between groups of us there’s no real “extra” threat posed by advanced AI for the vast majority of people.
A while back I put together a basic intro: https://github.com/machuPikacchuBTC/bitcoin
When you’re 12 Dad doesn’t know anything. When you’re 26 he knows a lot. Question: how did Dad learn so much in those few years?!
Why does Saylor even care about the “quantum threat” to Bitcoin (whether it’s real or perceived) if he doesn’t custody it and doesn’t transact with it anyway?
A powerful lesson about our relationship with AI tools and robotics today. Maybe the Amish got it right after all.
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Nice to see bitcoin flow out of a vehicle where it can’t be used natively. It’s useless if we’re just updating a ledger on Blackrock’s servers.
Everyone grieves differently
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Going on stage and hugging a well known cracked out celebrity with a smile on your face shortly after your spouse is assassinated is textbook grief
One of the most important and influential papers of the last decade was “Attention is all you need” and people are out here giving all their attention to Meta and TikTok. 🙄😂
In hindsight, in my humble opinion, javascript was a mistake. It opened a pandora’s box of complexity that’s made browser implementation difficult to secure and over time led to centralization.
Now only a handful of implementations exist and modern websites are painful to browse without an ad blocker and other extensions. Couple that with the big companies shoving privacy invading AI into the browsers as fast as possible and the war on ad-blocking and we’re accelerating into a situation where users have no control over the content they see.
However, just like Nostr is trying to fix social media (and other stuff) I think we’ll find a way to break the browser oligopoly.
The term vote implies the action carries one of two values but zaps give you also magnitude so it tells you more. That alone means “vote” is not the right word.
On top we can react with emojis each of which carries information distinct from “yes/no/abstain” so again I think “vote” is not the right idea.
All that said, haven’t thought about a better label. Just wanted to add that it’s more than just semantics 😅
Writing open source privacy software (legally protected by first amendment; see Bernstein v USA) and posting effectively politically incorrect jokes (also legally protected by the first amendment) resulted in jail time.
At no point did they have control over anyone else’s funds. This case shows a clearly corrupted justice system. This happened to all of us in this community and we would do well to take lessons from Phil Zimmerman [1].
It will not get better on its own. The least you can do is talk to your friends and family about the need for privacy and free speech and show how both are under attack. If capable, build better systems. We all have a role to play. #FreeSamourai
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann
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Wall St entered the game when Bitcoin was at $42k. If they’re getting rinsed there’s a chance we’ll retest those levels. Not my base case. Not financial advice. And as always GFY.
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After Bitcoin and Nostr the whole concept of “accounts” feels so archaic.
This is why we need to focus more on using it as money (ie increase demand) than “store of value” because that’s just a dead end into ETFs.
Also, people’s expectations were way out of line this cycle. It’s the first time since Bitcoin has been around that central banks around the world have actively fought inflation. Liquidity has been draining off and on the past two years. The 4 year cycle thesis misled many.
Don’t let media of any kind (news, social, etc) distract you. They thrive on your attention and in the end you’ll have many hours/days/weeks of frustration and resentment to show for it.
What has become possible with AI these days is nothing short of insane and now is the time to build. That nagging problem you’ve had with that product or service the last few years? Replace it.
In the last two weeks I’ve stopped listening to any podcasts, browsing hacker news, and anything similar and in that time I’ve built two separate production grade systems to solve real problems I had both at work and personal life.
One of them replaces software I used with family for years and the other was something entirely new that saves me a lot of headaches at work. Minimal dependencies and none on third party platforms.
And although I’ve been writing software for two decades I built these without writing a single line of the code. Full test suite, manually reviewed, etc but the point is that we’re at a point where almost anyone can do it. Most of that was written while I was doing other things like eating lunch, in a meeting, or cooking. Don’t wait for someone else to build your app for you.
Why do people vote, you ask?
https://video.nostr.build/ba3c8525f5a2e2d0597bb3b53c2b1ddbba630dac32521194e4d15744b27d2c54.mp4
Even worse is that if they scare you but the threats are not believable then the voters learn to ignore them so they have to have some credibility. If the threats weren’t real before then the politician has to make them real. Nice little game they created huh?
The herder must run wild and free
https://blossom.primal.net/7a70c17d5e5717c8569f8242380a75ad33488e5337577c8986a17e8697e85ab4.mp4
Where are the sheps?
50 tons is roughly $6B at a spot price of $3700.
According to Google about $56B worth of Bitcoin trading volume today.
Seems obvious which one should settle international trade long term given security and speed of settlement.
Learning out loud here:
I love Nostr and the community here. Relatively high signal, customizable (even to a fault 😂), extendable, etc.
Because I wanted Nostr to grow and compete with the activity on platforms like X for a while I had a goal of having some kind of interaction on Nostr every day whether it was a post, comment, repost, or a handful of zaps.
On reflection I’d prefer a relatively inactive but thoughtful and thought provoking feed. I don’t need the dopamine rush of a firehose feed. I don’t usually want to contribute to a firehose.
There’s a great cohort of builders, artists, cryptographers, shit-posters that you can filter for and have a great experience and in that narrow view it’s already won the social media wars in my eyes. I may hop on Nostr 20 times a day or go a week without opening a client but it won’t be because of any vanity metrics. Touching grass is real. Distractions are real. Lifespans are real.
I asked others this, but curious on your take as well. Given how much electricity China is bringing online and how dominant they are in producing ASICs and how much control they have over block template creation via Antpool and their proxy pools do you think China will run parallel systems (gold and BTC) for settling international trade eventually? This chart that Marty shared seems to indicate a big move coming.
Curious if you’ve seen this chart and what you think about China trying out a gold backed currency. Do you think they’ll replace CNH with such a currency?
And given how dominant they are in producing ASICs and their enormous energy production push whether or not they’d have parallel systems (ie. gold and bitcoin) for settling international trade or if they’re more likely to go all in on gold.
Freedom tech just hits different. You can build your own payment system in whatever way works for you and without asking.
Imagine building something like this on the legacy fiat rails…
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Is this whale potentially the ECB? Sounds crazy but they’ve been buying up Gold for years so they’re clearly stocking up on reserves and no reason to advertise buying bitcoin when they’re attacking it.
They’re openly considering a euro stablecoin on Eth so it could make sense to push down BTC sentiment while they’re accumulating shitcoins for their layer 2+ shitcoin.
If bitcoin runs up it hurts their messaging and shitcoin adoption narrative.
Life is short. Spend as much time in front of a screen while you can!
According to Richard Thomas, a wildlife biologist and notable Woodchuck (aka groundhog) aficionado, it can chuck about 700 lbs of wood!
Source: https://gf.nd.gov/wildlife-notes/how-much-wood-can-woodchuck-chuck
Late GM ☀️ Why are pandas retarded?🤣
https://video.nostr.build/e747b4e1b9236ec86bac6a8be9c426596d80e6ed9432659b1548d239f5eb3204.mp4
That ending 🥶 lmao
Be prepared. The world is becoming overly hostile to bitcoin. “Then they fight you” is definitively here.
ETH and the other shitcoins are not a threat to TradFi so they’ll embrace it in short order. It’s a captured network already.
Vitalik et al will slip in some backdoors and some AML protections because they can. Few people on that network will mind and TradFi will love it because it appeases the regulators.
Bitcoin? It will become prohibitively expensive (in terms of risk) to use in a sovereign way and all the normies will flock to the easily manipulated ETFs. Nations might still move forward in selling international trade with it but along the way they’ll squeeze every sat they can from the plebs.
Saylor has done a great job pulling coins off the market in a sly way pretending to be in it for the “thermodynamically sound money” but in the end he’s going to hand over all of that stash to the government.
European countries and the EU have accelerated their crackdowns on the internet this last year.
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The phrase “linked to potential crimes” is doing some heavy lifting in that document. So invade privacy first and ask for the evidence of crimes later?
Highly recommend this book if you want something to supplement your video course. It gives a solid overview and has plenty of exercises in there:
“Understanding cryptography: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners”
It’s true Saylor brought the discussion mainstream, but he also coopted the narrative and is clearly pushing for it to be used a database rather than money.
He tells people not to spend it and to borrow against it. He advocates to stop making changes (because then bitcoin could serve more people as a currency). He preaches “trust; don’t verify” by laughing at self custody and mocking proof of reserves while touting an audit by other mega corps instead.
He tells everyone the work is already done and there’s nothing else to do but buy bitcoin in their brokerage or bank account and leave it there: literally the exact opposite of the lesson the whitepaper taught us.
Bitcoin has no value unless it’s being used by as many as possible. As decentralized as possible. A world where 10 governments, 20 banks, and a few hundred companies own the vast majority of bitcoin is a complete failure of the mission and yet if you follow his lead that’s the world you end up in.
I’ve had friends tell me they’re not spending their bitcoin. HODL they say. And yet they’re spending their fiat nonetheless. They’re still spending money but can’t bring themselves to use bitcoin for purchases because this influencer “super maxi” says not to.
Nevermind the fact that people get shot or stabbed leaving the ATM or just walking down the street with jewelry on. Nothing inherently different with bitcoin in that regard.
Imagine having 20 ounces of gold in your house and bragging about it at the bar. Guaranteed you’d have similar results.
Nostr is putting on its big boy pants and making the leap to a first class social network. Grateful for your work, nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg
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Lately I’ve been craving autocross and/or go karts.
Been a while since I had a fun car. Maybe this summer I’ll get back into it. Would love an E30 M3 or something if I could find it cheap.