I don’t spend a lot of time in the libertarian meme of picking your exact genre but I’m pretty sure at this point I’m not an ancap.

Don’t get me wrong I have friends who are, and I love everything about the ideology, but it’s hard for me to get behind the real end goal, which appears to me to be burning it all down and replacing it with ~not much~

I rarely pick the “mid” option but I think I’m much more of a minarchist. Or rather I’d love to see ancap work, but I’m not going to let that prevent me from trying to influence our institutions today.

What I see right now is a huge push of the Overton window towards liberty. Doge could very well be the minarchist dream and it seems to be driven by the same sort of thought.

To have many libertarians say “that’s not good enough” and “I’m not aligned with any politician,” …while I understand the sentiment, I think it’s a bit of a shame.

The bitcoin community could stand to get a lot out of the current US administration. I’ve seen x posts about going back to the gold standard, negativity around debanking. Questioning regulatory overreach.

I’m going to do my damndest to try to push these conversations, and at this point I have no shame in working within the current political system.

I half think ancap is a psyop to get libertarians locked in a “I’m more anti state thou” loop instead of actually doing something. It’s performative, and to let it get in the way of changing something at such a prime time would be a mistake.

He just implied that he is above all written law.

When will it be too late to realize this is the Writing on the Wall?

But he is an authoritarian.

Has anyone else watched "The Substance"? OMG.

Reclaim it.

Reclaim it.

Property, fairly earned, is absolute. Commerce, freely chosen, is sacred. Regulations are violence. We reject them all.

If that were the case they would have done it already. This isn't a problem of technical feasibility (they most definitely can support it technically); it's a problem of legal and regulatory feasibility within the existing banking system that leads to high costs on their end, and it's hard to roll back policy. You can even see it now with Visa partnering with Coinbase, Fold, USDC, etc.; they just can't operate within the bounds of the existing regulatory environment to support instant micropayment systems. These companies have to branch out into "crypto" and Bitcoin to compete.

The card processors can't create tailored features because all payments on the internet (that don't rely on PoW and/or have "instant" settlement) require trust, meaning they require minimized credit risk and longer settlement times, meaning they have to take on large fees for all transactions, making small payments infeasible. They HAVE to move over to rails that have at least instant finality, and that's not possible on any fiat rails and won't ever be unless it's as a CBDC or stablecoin.

And I also would argue that agents need the ability to send payments without risk of being censored (users would want any task they send an agent to do to be performed without hindrance) and privately (users might not want other agents or users to know who was paying for a task). And the regulatory arbitrage in this case is just being able to avoid the need deal with all the credit bs of the banking system, so that's baked in.

It would take too long for the agent to earn enough money to have a single transaction that could be used to top-up the account; you can't do many micropayments to top-up which is the issue. And on top of that, the whole point of agents is that they can perform menial, small tasks for you to focus on the big stuff, and no one will want to pay an agent $5 for something small, especially if it's not their own agent.

Eventually it will also primarily be agents communicating with agents, and that definitely can't be done with account-based funds at scale with humans expecting the agents to run along on their own doing their thing. It's not that agents need Bitcoin, it's that they need micropayments, it just so happens that Bitcoin makes micropayments easier.

You can't make an account unless you're KYCd, and agents aren't capable of KYCing since they're not humans. Sure, a human can add their account and key the agent do it's thing, but then their has to beanual intervention and that takes away from the agency of the agents; with Bitcoin, of the agent runs put of funds, it could find ways to earn micro payments and still continue with it's tasks.

most people speak about 150

words per minute, and read 200 wpm.

most type about 50 wpm and listen around 150 wpm.

text-to-speech, and speech-to-text is the optimal interface that gets us closest to thinking velocity.

yet our thinking is mostly limited and constrained by our language.

in terms of removing contract workers from your payroll and replacing them with agents “is the initial mvp,” as for paying in bitcoin that will be more about machine to machine payment automation and its final settlement aspects that only bitcoin lightning has, you could use PayPal or any merchant with an ayce model but that doesn’t solve for the meta data leakage, and the machine to machine payment automation from each hop to get the task done, lightning “will be” incredibly flexible now with all the usd poopcoins coming online

Transactions fees for payments that would be used for single LLM calls are not sustainable on fiat rails; Lightning and ecash are all that would be viable at a large scale.

Bitcoin is quietly making its way into startups through the back door.

The era of building explicitly for a Bitcoin-native experience is fading.

The next wave of innovation?

AR, MR, and AI agents—whether they realize it or not, they’ll be integrating Bitcoin too.

It’s Early Days but it’s happening.

I should be sleeping but instead I am psionics poasting yip yip

I offer you my fun little recruitment poster for psionic operators inspired by vintage sci-fi novel covers and military propaganda/recruiting posters as well as everybody's favorite eggcellent UFO / UAP whistle blower Jake Barber.

"Do vaccines save lives?

Well, we can’t know for sure, because vaccinated-unvaccinated RCTs can’t be conducted, because they would be unethical, because vaccines save lives.

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-TakeThiamine on X

drivechains are the only bitcoin “banks” i can accept

fuck federations that cosplay as sidechains, fuck custodians, fuck layer 2 solutions with no unilateral exit

the miners have most skin in the game, they invest most money in this network

i’d rather trust them than coinbase