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Author, editor, yogi | Meat, bitcoin, chess | calling BS on most things
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GM

GM dude -- that's fantastically beautiful

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Fuck yes

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Go ahead and try; test your own irrelevance.

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There's clearly still hope for young people, putting no faith in political institutions or captured, corporate media.

B-E-A-U-tiful!

#econstr #WSJrelay #generations #NextGen

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/gen-z-voters-election-tiktok-5bcdc524

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GM

GM mah dude

Clown world central:

https://www.ft.com/content/10b65d40-2ae8-468c-ad0e-759e12298251

#nostr #bitcoin #fiatfinance #financenews

Replying to Avatar Trey Walsh

I am a progressive, American, nonprofit director, vegan, forever student of sociology, man, husband, etc, and I will be the first one to tell you that #Bitcoin does not belong to any one ideology or group. #Bitcoin is for everyone.

Being a #progressive, I talk and think about Bitcoin from that lens/vantage point, which some may resonate with and some may not, just as anyone else can speak on it from their worldview.

Bitcoin is an open, decentralized ledger; money; a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

It is also permissionless, money for enemies. Bitcoin does not care.

To say #Bitcoin  IS progressive or #Bitcoin  IS right wing, is just as silly as saying the internet is right wing or left wing. The same applies to saying #Bitcoin  doesn’t “align” with progressive values. It’s absurd.

Bitcoin is neutral money. It is software; code. Bitcoin doesn’t care.

Now, where things get interesting is Bitcoin being used as a tool by people for a variety of reasons. Bitcoin does not inherently make someone or some cause good. But Bitcoin can be used for incredible good. For activists seeking censorship resistant money, or energy providers looking for incentives to build out renewable energy to electrify remote villages in Africa. For the worker looking to save their hard earn wages without it losing purchasing power over time, to the small business owner looking to more easily accept global, borderless payments. Good people doing good things with Bitcoin is what is good. It is an upgrade in every way to our current system of fiat and centrally controlled money.

People using Bitcoin and holding their own private keys gives them incredible power not seen perhaps in the history of humanity.

As more and more people from all walks of life learn about Bitcoin, and bring their diverse perspectives, ideologies, and backgrounds, Bitcoin will continue to look like a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Gone are the days of Bitcoin being an anarcho-capitalist pet-project. This global community will build on top of Bitcoin, create businesses, research collectives, write books, create films, podcasts, events, build communities, etc.

Building toward a world where Bitcoin is baked into every aspect of our day-to-day lives, just as the internet is today. Call me crazy, but this game theory has been playing out for just 15 years now, and look where we already are.

Remember, #Bitcoin is for everyone. If you don’t like that, sorry, the permissionless thing comes with the gig 🧡

"Gone are the days of Bitcoin being an anarcho-capitalist pet-project. "

Nope, it's still that. It's gonna pull YOU THERE faster than you change IT.

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GM

GM...

Surprise March snowstorm #yeeeey #winterisback

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GM, my dudz

"_Natural Order_ is a powerful, vehement objection to that very common and popular current idea: money, institutions, and wealth can be whatever we want them to be, operate any which way we like, be arranged and re-arranged any which way we prefer. The way Sebag sees money, and thus gold, is that it first has to be harvested from nature: it’s an “energy embodiment” that must be resistant to entropy. He concludes therefore that the “only remaining option is for money to be elemental.”

Interestingly enough, nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y , a prolific Bitcoiner with a deep interest in Austrian economics, has already delivered that elemental connection to bitcoin. In _Bitcoin: Everything Divided by 21 Million_ he writes that bitcoin is the essential element, element zero, the top-left and missing piece of the periodic table — a pure, unforgeable object of pure (economic) energy without mass.

Sebag doesn’t see it that way, but instead obsesses over weights, as if the physical quantity of something — the gold, the harvest — is what economically matters. But it was never the quantity preservation aspect of gold that made it a functional and flourishing base money in the nineteenth century, but its built-in long-run price stability."

https://mises.org/mises-wire/sebag-and-natural-money

My latest for Mises Institute--shitting on goldbugs.

Bc, in 2024, that's what we do:

"It is not the case that the world can be any which way its people want — or the way us moderns may delude ourselves into thinking it should be instead. There are hard rules and bright shining lines that lead us toward prosperity, well-being, harmony, and conflict-minimization. Rules, morals, behaviors, and most importantly economic arrangements are not arbitrary."

https://mises.org/mises-wire/sebag-and-natural-money

#Econstr #nostr