Edit: Not looking for sympathy, although you're nice. Everyone gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve. I wasn't as deserving as I thought. I'm trying to share a lesson while explaining why I'm not completely delirious with joy.
I don't want to pretend like I'm unreservedly happy right now.
I organized Scandinavia's first #Bitcoin conference and fucked up the budget really bad. Got depressed and stupidly found brief comfort in drugs. Having suddenly lost so many hard earned sats I had held for years made it feel like nothing mattered anymore. Before I knew it, I had wasted what little I had left in a self-destructive spiral. I will never be able to earn them back and I still wake up with a panic attack every few nights. My kids keep me going, but also racked with guilt π
I'll never stop stackin' though and I'm never spending another sat in my life!
Fun fact #1: monopoly money saw an astonishing rise in fiat value over the past century.
Fun fact #2: far more fiat than monopoly money continues to be printed each year.
Conclusion: monopoly money was and remains a better store of value than the Euro or the Dollar!
The German economy is tanking, but Berlin remains largely unaffected because:
a) No one pays taxes
b) Elon's Gigafactory
c) We were already poor
Is it true that people will only remember you for the zaps you sent?
Gonna start saying data instead of data so people respect me more.
Cool! but what does privacy oriented X client even mean?
I love Nostr as much as the next ostrich, but I'm damn glad I didn't leave X right now.
I see the analogy but I think it's a bit more complex when people are actually dying right now and there is no clear path, or even any path, to a Ukrainian victory (defined as return of territories). Should the shopowner keep fighting the shoplifter or let hin go and focus on improving his security for next time? And yes, I understand that you'll say the shoplifter will be encouraged to return, so it won't increase future security, but it might still be the best bet. I haven't personally concluded on this but I'm more pragmatic than you'd probably appreciate. I still appreciate you though π§‘
Β«Our greatest fear is that Trump will make peaceΒ», says Norway's former (and probably future) PM Erna Solberg.
I wrote a #Bitcoin song this summer. It didn't get much traction, but maybe this is a better time to share it with you all? π
https://video.nostr.build/7951218249082dae81bb7e910d929bab5efa73d7d24b6306c3a94c1a9f53112d.mp4
"Did you know there was once a country called Germany that had over 50.000 coins?"
"No way, that's impossible!"
"I swear! My mom said it was back on Earth in the Dumb Age. It's actually why we call it that."
Were we really going "$8.2k! $8.3k! $8.4k!" back in the day?
Call me at $0.1M π
Moving this to the living room now that it's gonna be every day.
- Why don't you build something like me, nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m? π€
- Because you're already building it for me, Elon π
Very #few!
Do you ever worry about 'The Spirit of 1914'? π¬
At the outbreak of war, enthusiasm ran high among many young Germans. This would be the adventure of a life time, an opportunity to shape the new century and return home with glory and honor.
Their unfettered optimism is easy to understand.
There hadn't been a major war engulfing the continent since Napoleon over a century earlier. No one knew how all the technological, economic, military and cultural developments since would play out in an actual conflict. But they were quite excited to find out and certain it would be over by Christmas.
Does that sound eerily familiar?
Fast forward four years and 40 million people had been killed or maimed in battle. By 1945, as many as 125 million were lost. Without even counting the countless victims of communism.
I sometimes see ghosts of that same madness in our current zeitgeist, that same exhilarating acceleration of history leading us into utter darkness.
Let's pray that I am wrong, but don't you ever worry?
My daughter's went to a Montessori kindergarten and we had great results, but they was also down to fantastic staffing. In some sense, all online learning is Montessori, if you provide the right boundaries.
How do we actually fix education? π€
Everyone seems to agree that our current model is hopelessly stuck in the industrial age, where students sit in neat rows completing mundane tasks to make them good factory workers.
Yet I haven't seen many real platforms or proposals on what education should be like.
Is homeschooling the only way? π€·
I'm sure there must be other ideas out there.
Enlighten me.
Problems don't disappear just because you think the wrong people pointed them out.