That face you make when pants are too tight!

You tolerate other people ten times more if you know ahead of time that you have a shared principal with them. You'll disagree around the margins but realize you're basically on the same page.

Back in like the 1950s USA, people felt that sense with their neighbors, church, and even government. They might disagree on things, and there were some shitty downsides to that (anyone not in the majority) but they were like, flag-waiving Americans. So a question is how to recreate that, and more broadly than it once was.

And ironically, as shitty as the authoritarian economic and legal situation is in many ways, people in Egypt today feel that way today. There's a substantial sense of unity or shared ideals, aside from a small percent of extremist outliers. That's true for many developing places.

One of the major strengths of the "bitcoin community" is this set of shared identity. Bitcoiners will loudly argue with each other, but they know they have at least one foundational shared agreement. That's healthy.

There were times, at like conference side-parties, where I noticed I was standing in a friendly discussion circle with like an anarcho-capialist to the literal right of me, a progressive to the literal left of me, a human rights advocate from an authoritarian state in front of me, a billionaire capitalist with pragmatic politics also in front of me, and us standing in a circle happily talking and basically friends. It's because we have at least one shared major principle that brings us there. A unifying factor for which, as we enter discussions for which we might disagree, we know we can build common ground upon.

As certain countries get hollowed out, and as neighborhoods become more remote and distinct, I continue to believe that local in-person bitcoin communities are absolutely profound. Regular meetups help exchange local fiat with bitcoin P2P, help educate people on the latest tech, help bring people from different viewpoints together, etc. Absolutely essential.

Good morning ✌️🧡

My final slide from my keynote today on the main stage in Nashville

Onwards! ✌️

THINGS ARE GETTING VERY INTERESTING

Either way rfk isnt gonna be president

Also does it count when i was there in Boston when software was presented

Does it count of i heard the audio hahahaha

RFK should just join be Trump ticket as treasury secretary.

He’s got no chance on his own and it’ll be sad to see some of his potential to contribute go to waste…

You guys for get who pays these puppets. None will save you just stack. They all scum all of them. Yes even him hahaha

I don't know man... if I had to chose between Trump and RFK Jr, after this speech? I'm pretty much sold on the latter.

He seems to know his shit.

“I don’t want privacy, I want to complain and defend my sunk cost!”

Tim Scott is ubercringe.