Can you tell me if this is the correct way to look at it:

- government is not efficient

- if we can build without government interference (free market)

- eventually it will lead to abundance

- people in this new system will share the abundance since there is enough anyway (will never happen in current system)

- in the shift to the new system people without bitcoin, AI/robotics and/or added value will be fucked until the shift is complete

As Ai does more of the work, we won’t have to. Prices over time (in Bitcoin terms) fall in direct proportion to the work removed. We will compete with everyone to provide more value which will drive the process faster - reducing prices (in Bitcoin) faster, decentralizing faster, breaking all monopolies - including the AI monopolies of today (growing in power and influence because of broken money), large government, and structures arising from them today. Giving us more agency, freedom and abundance with each step.

Or - we will give our energy to and measure from….. a system that coerces, controls, and centralizes by stealing that all of that from you - with everything getting worse from within that system.

The systems are incompatible together. One must consume the other and every single person is making the decision about which one with their time and energy.

The jobs will be gone anyways. The question is have we transferred all of our power to a control system that gives rise to a type of totalitarian control (that you mention) before they do……or break that control structure by building onto bitcoin and ensuring its decentralizing and security.

Hope that helps.

I would fucking never own gold.

Ever.

Just crossed a border with $10,001 in btc (undeclared) stored on a piece of paper sewn inside my underwear and nobody knew about it.

There will only ever be max 8 nakamoto’s.

1. Satoshi

2. Microstrategy?

3. U.S.A?

4. China?

5. Germany?

6. ?

7. ?

8. ?

I got 18. I think the one about predicting the future. There were two of those. In hindsight I get the context, pattern recognition and whatnot.

If you're a hot sleeper like I am OR if you sleep with a partner who has very different temperature requirements, you'll likely benefit from an Eight Sleep mattress topper.

What is the most important thing in life? Otis Sha (anagram for Satoshi) gives us a clue. Curious what is most important for you when you see this?

If someone tells you that they have a trading system that can beat hodling, while also claiming to be an OG Bitcoiner from the early days… ask them a simple question.

Are you rich as fuck?

Because you should be massively wealthy if you’ve been here since the early days and your trading system works.

was introduced to Vipassana meditation in India 30 years ago while backpacking. Went on a 10 day retreat and it was amazing.

It is supposedly the technique taught by Guatama the Buddha himself. Quite straight forward and very effective. Popular throughout India and Nepal.

Quite an old organisation works on a voluntary basis so the retreats are free with the ability to make a donation of your choice.

I was surprised to see Vipassana here on nostr. I didn't dig in so I'm not sure who it is exactly.

Anyway, I recommend it. It is a technique I always come back to.

I'm proofreading one of my upcoming articles and realized I accidentally rhymed.

"It's faster than fiat currency, and harder than gold. It's liquid, and it's easy to hold. However, the Bitcoin network is only about 15 years old."

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Happy Friday bitcoiners! 🧡

This is just the beginning. #artstr

Now I am really starting to understand the “bitcoin and chill” bio that nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m has

Recently I got overwhelmed thinking about layers and AI, and damus and primal. And chat groups and meet ups…

Took a break

Now I’m back kinda

I have my work

My family life

I’m busy and stressed and have a lot of shit going on

I may have mental problems also idk

But anyway “bitcoin and chill” hits hard

Flush out all the noise

All I wanna focus in on is the # of sats I have under my control.

Coin management

Hygiene

Sats under management by me

That’s all I care.

Ps

I have 11 words stamped in high temp stainless steel

1 word in my head

Ordinals and inscriptions aren’t using bitcoin the money. They are merely using #Bitcoin  *nodes* to store their garbage, and the bitcoin *name* to sell it to people.

It makes perfect, and necessary,

logic to build, optimize, and restrict the #Bitcoin  system to only allow and facilitate the bitcoin *money.*

This isn’t a contradiction, it isn’t censorship, it’s necessary to defining what the protocol even does.

Any other arguments you want to have about the difficulty, feasibility, or foolishness of making or trying to reverse changes or certain data that is already included are valid. But the above point is true no matter what side you take.

anyone watch the Cyberbunker documentary?

we know time travel will never be discovered because the bitcoin price is way too low

When people historically asked me who my favorite rapper was, I used to say Eminem.

My favorite individual rap song was Coolio's Gangster Paradise; I haven't seen anything to beat that yet, but Eminem's overall work was my favorite, among several top rappers. Eminem was generally my default answer.

Maybe going forward I should say nostr:npub1hrctsg2qwu5gsp65gvj29968z460g0th755jq92c8uaz620lewmq6qk525 is my favorite rapper. When they are like, "who?" I could be like, "Meh, google 'Break the Frame' and have fun."

Although it was predictable ahead of time that so many Palestinian civilians including children would die as a result of Israel’s response to the attack on Israel by Hamas, as the numbers continue to add up it is increasingly hard to watch.

Half of Gaza’s population is under the age of 18. There is not much more sad in this world than children, cut off from electricity and communication, violently dying from air strikes in darkness.

And sadly this happens in other places of the world too.

For much of human history, people were only aware of their own local area. Now we have awareness of large swaths of the world, and so we can keep track of tragedies in real time. We then desensitize ourselves out of necessity. Like, the sheer amount of negative information and unsolvable problems hit us through media, and in order to productively do something to add value to someone else, there is little choice other than compartmentalization it. An electrician can’t be caught up in the troubles of the world as he goes out each day and fixes things and building things, for example. In order to add order to his small part of the world, he can’t be fully caught up with its global chaos.

And then, I see these crazy protestors tearing down flyers about kidnapped Israelis, as though that activity could possibly be the best use of their time. People have a strong tendency to want to be part of something bigger and longer lasting than themselves, whether it is their religion, their community, their ideology, or their work. But some people chose such fruitless ways of doing it. Yes, you can and should advocate for not bombing children. No, you shouldn’t try to erase what happened to murdered or captured Israelis either. It is not rocket science.

The world is an increasingly polarized place, and my biggest concern is for those polarizations to be used to take rights away in a more broader context, or to wage war between larger opponents. Politicians will propagandize any small share of “crypto funding” to bad groups to justify more restrictions on those technologies and privacy in general. As countries go through sovereign debt crises, having some sort of enemy to point to helps their narrative for capital controls and keeping their citizens in currency and bonds as they are inflated away. I’ve studied the 1940s financial environment too much to be unaware of this.

Always look through to the bigger story, and ideally with a perspective of empathy toward many sides of any complex issue. Strive to be able to articulate your opponent’s view as well as they can, so that your counter argument can be most effective and surgical in its nature. And then, when there is nothing you can do about something globally, try instead to bring order and reason and improvement and kindness to whatever small portion of the world that you can.