Our cities are in decline, people can’t have universal healthcare, University education is pay to play, Pensions were scrapped for 401ks, Social Security is on the ropes, 100k children have gone missing in the US, Europe is in full meltdown…

…but theres always money in the Hadron banana stand.

https://gizmodo.com/physicists-turned-lead-into-gold-for-a-fraction-of-a-second-2000601850

I feel you. Being semi-retired myself I really only use social media to check-in on world events with the most observant people I can find there.

I will post if I feel the urge, or out of boredom, but mostly I don’t have a desire to have my voice heard, or build a following, or any of that.

Here’s a “meh” kitten.

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Oil continues to languish in kilosats, despite improved trade landscape.

WTI Crude floating about the $61ksat level this morning. $61,288 sats per barrel atm.

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I believe we all have this nameless, endless Want in our Being.

We identify it differently, and at different times in different ways.

But the Want is always there. It feeds Me, feeds on Me.

Accepting, recognizing and managing this Want is what builds character.

Feeding this unidentifiable Want is our life-path. A necessity.

Allowing it to feed on Me is a mis-judgement.

It’s quite the conundrum, just trying to Be Me.

My 2-sats this evening, apropos of the spam-wars.

Why are you arguing that we arguing “minutia”, if I can just run my own node and Pleb out? There’s no argument, just individual choice.

Calling opposition to this change a “dishonest and inauthentic social media campaign” is a fatal mis-step, imo.

I try to never have a personal incentive in any serious matter.

But its clear, clear to me that the Core dev PR team is desperate, on the ropes, and lashing out.

The crux of this is that Etherium gas-fees became too exorbitant to justify the overwhelming and various “wild west” of spamming, and therefore as Eth fell out of favor, the grifters moved to Bitcoin - spurred by an unrecognized opportunity in the Taproot upgrade.

And now, because they drove fees high on the Bitcoin mainchain, they’ve recognized a change to leverage the core Bitcoin node software itself.

It’s not about anything but letting Bitcoin be Bitccoin.

It’s not about Bitcoin supporters doing anything.

But it IS about not allowing the easy grifters to go unchallenged.

Spammers are at it again.

Bitcoin has successfully scaled.

Cycles are done, as we knew them.

Plebs will be replaced by Retail.

Institutions will accumulate, but unemotionally (b/c they handle other peoples money).

Deep State/Mike Benz’ “The Blob” will assail anyone who has access to Bitcoin code from all angles, not to stop Bitcoin, but to shape it in their own image.

Those who have loved Bitcoin for most of their lives need to kneel and make a parting grace.

Bitcoin is venturing out on its own. You need to accept that its not Yours anymore.

OG Bitcoiners will always be selling now, into $100k.

Class of 2017 will always be selling soon, into $500k.

Class of 2020 will always be selling later, into $1million.

Wall Street (or its like) will always be buying, always.

We all bought and will sell Bitcoin at the price we deserve!

But we’ll always leave a smaller bag for our heirs.

And they, a smaller bag still.

Ad terminum.

[Except the corporations who live indefinitely and leverage their Bitcoin bags and therefore might accrete non-degenerating wealth and will be fighting far beyond our mortal lives to accumulate the Bitcoin we mortal beings will continually sell to them.]

Hope is funny that way. Fleeting, even in the best of times.

But it has always has been.

Even with Bitcoin.

Nostrovia!

Yeah, wow.

Beijing Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

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Oil plummets further, below the 59ksat level.

WTI Crude Oil is at 58,888 sats per barrel on this fine Friday.

Enjoy your weekend Pleb!

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Signothermal Spectralwallet photography of Max Keiser’s “OG” Pre-History bags shows they’ve been massively depleted at the sub-$100k stratum.

Osiris is the only limit now for Bitcoin.

The first tiny steps toward Oil priced in sats.

Hyper-Bitcoinization has begun.

“Emarat, a state-owned oil company in the UAE boasting a market value of nearly $14 billion, has begun accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as fuel payments.

The cooperation with Crypto.com, announced on May 8, 2025, stands to benefit both the digital currency adoption in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the energy sector.

Ten Emarat service stations, which already have the Crypto.com payment infrastructure installed, will be the first to implement it. This attempts to make it possible for consumers to use supported digital assets to pay for gas and convenience shop purchases. In addition, this pilot program intends to spread throughout Emarat’s more than 155 service stations in the United Arab Emirates, contingent on regulatory permission and consumer feedback.”

https://www.banklesstimes.com/articles/2025/05/08/14b-emarat-now-accepts-bitcoin-and-other-crypto-for-gas-payments/

If you’re not running a node, have your girlfriend/wife message me. She left her earrings on my night stand….

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Crude Oil rebounds sharply today on rumors of declining production - following record highs in 2024.

WTI Crude at 63,188 sats per barrel.

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Evidently China has sold a shitload (pun intended) of yuan, to the tune of something like $680billion worth.

Which is being correlated with the huge upward move in Gold today.

Which would explain the air-pocket under Bitcoin.

Also, here’s a no-coiner kitten.

Appreciate you.

Southern District NY Court is a literal pay-to-play kangaroo court. It needs to be disbanded.

Countless, obvious criminal indictments are taken there to be given a “fare” trial.

Agree.

The 2025 will be a watershed. The Year of the Bitaxe.

Home mining is already far out-pacing node-runner adoption.

Because of incentives.

And home mining will drive node adoption in it’s wake.

Core devs will cannibalize themselves because of a few.

Most will move to improve on allowing subjective, independent control over node-management software, imo.

This is all for the best. Just a wake-up call for the node zeitgeist.

Apple app store fees were just tariffs.

You pay to have access to their markets.

How do Democrats not see their own cognitive disconnect?

I can’t even watch a few minutes of one without getting sucked into the whole 11+ hours.

Glorious film-making.