I was reading The Beginning Of Infinity and it was breaking my brain.

Then I was like why is thinking so fucking painful?

Deutsche’s work made me realize that we mistake coherence for truth because our brains are optimized for simulation, not verification.

But if we compress reality by creating better explanations, we can re-simulate it more accurately and edge closer to truth.

This hurts because it breaks the old coherence. Every new insight like a neural demolition.

Essentially the mind grows by breaking and reforming itself over and over again.

Which is why real thinking is unpleasant, because it’s a process that if done in earnest destroys parts of your own mind.

But nothing new can form in your mind without this painful fracturing.

This means that collapse is necessary for renewal.

And if it’s true on the individual level, then it’s likely true on the collective level as well.

Which means we cannot stop what’s coming and further more why would we want to?

Because to stop it is to retard progress and our understanding of reality.

Had a crazy day yesterday. I broke my arm in the morning, then I got back from the E.R. and I found my dog writhing in pain. I scooped him up and took him to the vet. They told me he had a brain tumor that was causing him severe nerve pain. I made the decision to put him down.

Then I got home and told the kids what happened. They cried and i held them. The whole time i just thanked God for everything that was happening that day. And I felt calm all day.

I was genuinely grateful to god for the broken arm because it could have been much worse. Thankful for the years we had with our dog.

Thankful I was able to comfort our children. It was honestly a beautiful experience.

Life is simply better when you trust God and his plan for you.

Needs more orange dots.

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Underneath everything you see in the news is a monetary system unraveling.

Important we remember that and not get sucked into the circus.

We’re the only group who can see it happening in real time.

That’s our job.

To keep pointing to the root cause instead of the shadows on the wall.

For years if we must, knowing it is thankless and tiring work.

Not to be grandiose or self important because believe me I literally dont want this to be the truth.

I want to live in the woods and pretend the world can’t touch me on my own little paradise , but I know that’s not our destiny.

Our calling is to help people onto the lifeboats as the ship sinks.

Knowing they don’t even believe or know it’s sinking.

And they might drown you in the process.

It’s still what must be done.

Crazy how many bitcoiners don’t actually believe in the free market.

I was emotional yesterday about Charlie Kirk, a friend asked me if I was ok today...

I took my three year old to the park and afterwards we layed on the floor and watched her shows.

She had a grape juice box and kept offering me sips. Which I gladly accepted despite them being 75% backwash lol 😂

My wife pointed out to me that in that moment my daughter has nothing, no possessions, no money except for that juice box and she was willing to share it with me because she loves me and feels grateful that I love and protect her.

There are people in this world who might want to erase me from her life for the things I say.

There are others who would cheer it on, or say I brought it on myself.

And she would be left alone in a world without a father to protect her.

Nah. I’m not ok.

I’m pretty fucking far from ok.

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I REFUSE TO GIVE YOU AN EPISODE SUMMARY. IT'S AMERICAN HODL AND ERIK CASON... YOU KNOW THIS EPISODE WILL BE GOOD. JUST LISTEN TO IT. THERE IS STRONG LANGUAGE USED THROUGHOUT THIS EPISODE WHICH MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN OR THIN-SKINNED LIBERALS...

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What do you see?

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What retard decided it was a good idea to hold packs of socks together with these?

If I'm ever talking to you about something other than #Bitcoin, I'm just being polite, and it's safe to assume I'm thinking about Bitcoin on the inside.

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I think JPEGs on the timechain are stupid.

But the idea that they're going to hurt Bitcoin seems so weak to me. Like the US dollar can withstand people scribbling on it but Bitcoin can't?

In fact, the idea of Bitcoin as a glorious digital monument with some graffiti scribbled on it represents humanity pretty well. That's kind of us in a nutshell. Seems on-brand. Perfectionists trying to keep their little gardens tidy while trolls come in and find ways to mess with them anyway.

NFTs and memecoins already had their peak fad moments. People now know that they're non-scarce gambling toys rather than investments. It's just echoes of that peak now. The only thing that concerned me about the ordinals/runes period was the rapid UTXO bloat, not the blockspace usage, since the latter already has a consensus limit on it.

And if Bitcoin transactions can't outprice JPEGs in the long run, then it's just not that valuable. Bitcoin currently does about 1% of the gross settlement volume of Fedwire. That's peanuts. Imagine if it reaches a point where it does even like 10% of Fedwire. What would you pay to move a full bitcoin globally, permissionlessly, in 10 minutes, in a world where it's no longer a niche thing?