My recommended podcast episode from the past week:
Bitcoin People podcast interviews Peter Dunworth.
You will hear ideas about Bitcoin you haven’t heard before.
If I could encourage you to watch one 20min video about China, this is the one.
Having followed this streamer, Laowhy86 (and his partner SerpentZA) for many years, I can assure you they loved living in & exploring China for more than a decade, having launched their channel long ago to show daily life there to the world.
But under Xi Jinping there came a creeping police-state that forced them to leave. They now report regularly from the US on all things China - the warts and the roses - benefitted by their understanding of the Chinese language and their friends and family still living there.
This video is jarring…it is not fud and misinformation…it is concerning to us all, and needs to be viewed widely, imo.
In the 1960’s computers were nothing more than oversized, glorified calculators. Yet virtually everyone automatically assumed they were destined to have true Artificial Intelligence that anybody would have access to for full conversation. It’s worth noting, imo, that this ‘destiny’ was achieved this year…in 2023. 
Bert Lahr undoubtedly had many great performances in his lifetime, and I have no idea if this is one of them. It’s like “iykyk” existed before the internet.
Satoshi Nakamoto almost certainly - IMHO - did more than Jesus the Christ did.
But that will be arguably arguable for another 2 millennia, so put a pin in that and don’t judge me for it…
I had a moment just now tonight, scrubbing a heavy cast-iron enameled pot in a too small sink, and I thought about all the plebs and good people at the Bitcoin Conference tonight and why I didn’t go and what they’re doing and what I’ve chosen not to do and what I’m doing now….
And I realized, scrubbing this pot and fending away my jackass cat who is amazing but an annoyance I never wanted in my life…
There are two rivers of Life. They’re Energetic. One flows upward, one flows downward. I know and feel these rivers of energy inside me, sometimes, obey them always.
Bitcoin is a Truth, I know that. It gives me a pole-star outside the turbulence of these rivers. I’m grateful for that.
It also gives me an anchor.
I appreciate the transformative influence Bitcoin has had on my life, even peripherally in only a few short years.
But I don’t need Bitcoin.
All I need is the promise Bitcoin has awakened in me. I don’t need my life to be guided by a Bitcoin future. I just want to know that another future is possible, and then I’m good.
I washed my dishes in a different stream of Life tonight than I did years ago. I had a moment where I became aware of that, so I wanted to share.
Last bull market was ‘Wall Street’ coming in…they played stupid game, won stupid prizes…but they stayed and adopted.
By definition the coming bull market will be corporate and nation state funds of all stripes. And they’ll do the same.
Bull market after that is when energy become priced in BTC.
And of course the cycle after THAT is when Peter Schiff will buy.
Just want to voice that I was trying to compose a post, and the frantic animation in this post behind my post-screen (on Damus) was very distracting.
Just an observation…and in fact even now as I type this reply, its still super distracting.
Would like to see animated posts on mainpage muted until call on them.
Also, you’re a hero, everybody loves you.
Most people respond to feeling, not thinking.
The initial feeling w/ self-custody is “if I fail, even once, all is lost”.
Thus people prefer to feel that they are held by a community.
In the developed world, corporations cater to this need for “community & trust”.
So Bitcoin is a challenge to most, because we don’t want to feel that “if I fail, even once, all is lost”.
This is the direction for Bitcoin, sooner or later.
As so many respected Bitcoiners seem to be accepting the ordinals-inspired immigration into Bitcoin, I feel for myself, personally, I just want to leave a final statement and then let it go and embrace whatever the future holds.
The floodgates opened via ordinals should not be written off, imo.
It’s an unexpected, unprepared for invasion.
These are not No-coiners - a flood of no-coiners rushing into Bitcoin would be welcome.
These are Shitcoiners. They are the antithesis of Bitcoin. They inherently, if unconsciously, reject Bitcoin. They don’t want Bitcoin.
Welcoming or simply abiding them will backfire.
They are fiat, they will poison the well.
Yes. They won’t hurt Bitcoin the token, they won’t hurt Bitcoin the network. Obviously.
But they WILL hurt Bitcoin. Somehow.
Most likely in the true, original Meme-space, the social sphere.
Again: they can’t help but do that, because they don’t value what they’ve been given. They will become toxic - and in a way that is by no means cool.
Love it. Simple, eye-catching, inspires a little contemplation but not too much, appropriate for our times….
I don’t know about this, but I do strongly feel that people who’ve dedicated themselves to the fiat system, like ‘economists’ or ‘investment/finance pros’ or ‘corporate leaders’ continually seem to face a problem understanding Bitcoin.
I believe we all know a number of them who’ve tried to address the problems in our financial system, revolve around and around an answer, yet when they get to the center of the question they are right on the doorstep of Bitcoin but cannot, cannot bring themselves to actually knock on the door.
Its because, imo, Bitcoin changes the laws of their world. The world they’ve studied their whole lives, Bitcoin casts aside.
There is no ‘economics’ of Bitcoin. None. There will be. In the future. But that is a future yet to be understood. Bitcoin is a new economic system. Its not the same as ‘free banking’, not the same as a ‘gold standard’ etc, it isn’t the same. Similar, but entirely new.
I suspect its like in the late 1800’s when Newtonian physicists (who just were ‘physicists’) believed they had almost nailed down all of the laws of the Universe, conscripted all the known Universe within their grasp by way of Math…they just needed to work out a few annoying details about how atoms functioned within themselves.
But voila, they opened up an entirely new realm of physics. Because atoms didn’t operate by the laws of their system. Everything they’d learned was obsolete.
I imagine a lot of those, now ‘Newtonian’ physicists lost their minds in Sub-Atomic Derangement Syndrome. And yet, the study of sub-atomic physics initiated a Renaissance in scientific discovery and propelled Humankind to astonishing new possibilities.
Bitcoin changes everything about Money. We don’t actually have rules or laws for Bitcoin Economics yet. Our kids will begin to write them, hopefully.
Loved the pic!
It’s so heartwarming to see that people who are changing the world for the better are just people like I hang out with every weekend.
Blessings to you and your family!
not to spam…I get that Bitcoin is not useful for them, but that implies they have no means of exchanging btc for any useful currency.
If that’s true, fair enough…we’re all way too early.
But I’ve travelled enough to know that money exchange is very fluid, esp in border countries. There’s always connections.
Anyway, not arguing, this report just triggered a couple red-flags for me.
Appreciate you!
it links to a hamas telegram channel with 185k people in it - https://t.me/qassambrigades/27035 - with a post there that translates to the above quote
it is clearly not a "Bitcoin is for Terrorists" piece since it claims that bitcoin is not useful for them
this reminds me of how putin pressured binance to go after navalny donors - https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-crypto-giant-binance-built-ties-russian-fsb-linked-agency-2022-04-22/ - just instead of putin it is Israel and the US
Fair enough, didn’t find that link and obv can’t translate.
Would like to know what/if they offered an alternative, even Monero?
Why would Hamas or any pro-Palestinian group deny funding w/o offering an alternative…?
If I read you right, I agree it seems like a counter-party has crafted this message.
#armchairquarterback
Federal Reserve is playing the longest, most boring, yet most consequential
Let’s Play livestream ever.
Most Economists are just fanbois.
Prove me Wrong.
Controlling money is like a very long, very boring sim-game.
And only a handful of people got the pre-release.
Bitcoin opt’s you out of having to live thru the livestream.