it's a chicken and egg problem.
is it the humans killing humans or the humans inventing religions that causes humans to kill humans.
is it the religion or the human?
i like this. i believe intelligence is something we can all achieve if we work at it.
especially children--if they can follow their own interests before being put into the education system.
the 2 % book smart people have been able to comfortably carve out their own path within the education system.
the rest of people who might be brilliant in other ways get stripped of their creative branches on multiple choice tests.
is this real? i thought he hadn't publicly clarified his position other than a video that could be interpreted either way.
agreed.
also. the knots creator seems like a really interesting guy. if i understand correctly, he already theorized in these text messages how to solve pruning nodes.
"come back.....we'll be nicer, we promise" they shouted at the spaceship growing smaller and smaller
I like his explanation:
"... entire leaked convo is hypothetical. people are allowed to have hypothetical conversations."
reminds me of people taking comics seriously and jokes unironically
the only reason to do beyond naivity is maliciousness
it's the intention that matters.. what if they just want to prove they aren't a bot. i used to do that in addition to "liking" just to provide some "proof of person' or something. i figure that it adds resistance.
i stopped because i realized a lot of people like me get notifications for zaps. so it's very in-your-face compared to a like or a comment.
you're not homeless are you?
Oh, I see. I thought you meant the legacy mafia.
I'm imagining this is like the concrete company mafia in Northeastern US cities.
What does the mafia look like that they are taking down? is it weakening in power or getting replaced by cartels with other affiliations?
what's replacing the power vacuum.
yay for the ability to change one's mind. i'm challenging myself to remember the last time i changed my mind on something. i don't remember the last time, so that makes me wonder am i really taking in new info with an open mind.
#vlog 37
Is The OP_RETURN Debate More A Left-Right Divide?
https://blossom.primal.net/ea3e69b35aeeb3c4d568f82c2520e1bd957d3facb1e14e738833dceaa153d40c.mov
this explains a lot.
the idea of a software vendor telling clients to "trust us" on a change that the client didn't ask for or want, that was tested (on BSV) and resulted in undesirable repercussions...
to then insult the client's intelligence and push for the change anyway...
as a client, i would fire that vendor... that's when i realize, they don't see us as clients. they are working for someone else.
Saylor appears to publicly support Knots
Jesse Myers has reposted pro-Knots content
Andrew Webley --TBD but i would assume he's aligned with Jesse
Dylan Leclair -- old content from last year that was more aligned with the throw hands up in the air camp and technology aligned than "social contract" aligned
It would be interesting if Metaplanet would make a stance one way or the other. it would be a differentiation of BTCTCs. it would also allow retail investors to vote with their shares -- a sort of fork within the BTCTCs.
i would sell all 100 metaplanet shares and buy 1 Strategy share or 600 SWC shares.
As you say, for such a complex subject matter, he certainly makes it very understandable and accessible to most🙏🏻.
Just as an aside, if you're not already following him, give nostr:nprofile1qqszx0ssu8ywnm9qgxpmap4k6vfxdtlacd69wqgy8gnjfgap63wrhwqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnwv46z7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hszyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekk7mf0uhfs46 a follow and read some of his papers on Medium, they are absolutely mind blowing🤯🤯.
followed, thanks!
haha, yeah. i love the doodles though. his tone is also light-hearted, not pedantic. definitely written well for today's ADHD adults.
"The person who works his land will have plenty of food.
But the one who chases useless dreams isn't wise." Proverbs 12:11
who's the judge of "useless"?
sometimes i hear people's dreams and i'm privately relieved for them that they didn't pursue them. some people's dreams don't make good sense, and they can't see it for themselves.
but i still like dreaming and people who dream. I'm going to add to this verse: the following
"the one who chases useless dreams without calculating opportunity costs isn't wise."
scan reading is a super power. bitcoin will give us more time to read. maybe not tomorrow but in a couple months... that's the plan anyway.
reading this one too from a recommendation from someone on here. so far it's a favorite read this year. the pictures are a blend of "le petit prince" and DIY science experiments.
what would be her leash and objective? i agree about the "Controlled opposition" part -- does some that way sometimes. however truth seeking is sort of a christian tenet in a way. so it's hard to be pretending to do one and not the other.
her face reads angry and defiant when she's doing her detective work.
Nelly's top secret printer in her bedroom woke her up at 12:01am
she clicked on the table lamp beside the bed in time to see the following text print out
"top secret operation cyber autophagy -----"
the words printed one by one on the ticker tape coming through the cryptographically secure mini-printer .
the paper automatically fed into a shredder after 5 minutes.
"oh yeah, today's the day we test the cyber-security systems of the vendors." Nelly remembered.
Just the afternoon before her boss had asked "Nelly, have you prepared the ransom-ware notices and randomized the addresses?"
"affirmative," she replied, "scheduled to be sent."
at 12:02, those emails would already be arriving in vendors inboxes. each email contained security breaches that her AI hacker agents found in the vendors' systems. each email also contained a ransom EmailCoin address.
"what do we do if they actually send EmailCoin to the wallet?" she asked her boss.
"they get fined and fired." he replied. "the department has been wanting to stockpile these tokens already, and it's their fault if they fail the security test anyway.
...
so Candace should go find the hospital and doctor and ask them if they saw him.
i don't think it makes sense that he would just give up his hard work and passion for some ulterior allegiance... it goes against who I thought he was or was becoming at least.
what is the first train and how do you get on it?
very interesting. back to barter. funny
real commodities... i've got a lot to learn here.
e.g.
round bales are 50$, weigh several hundred pounds, last for a couple years. and feed maybe 10 cows in a day...
I see. If I were more of a history buff I would look at what happened in the past. I know there's the gold/silver story with India/China and Great Britain,but those were both physical commodity monies.
So I wonder how long the Bitcoin/gold duopoly can last.
Guy #2 is either a very robust human beings or they are just using saline nowadays in those boosters.
So why do they buy gold too? Is there an advantage to both( I think no since superior money can always buy more of the less) unless it's 4 D chess somehow to raise price on one to sell for the other?
yah, i don't see the point in owning gold. i only now understand the value of gold after studying bitcoin.
so most people i talk to don't understand gold at all. they think people investing in gold are eccentric and borderline problematic. in fact, i think bitcoin is an easier sell than gold just because i can demonstrate a simple payment with it.
so the future really just is bitcoin IMO as long as we are progressing in a digital direction with lights on. this has been the trend for the last several hundred years, if not 1000 years
the lights will stay on somewhere on the globe if not everywhere and bitcoin allows you to move there and participate in that society.
whereas gold is more like owning real estate that fixes you in place.
gold would be valuable in regions where they don't have electric/internet grid. but i don't think i want to live there!
that reminds me of the Josh Mandell prediction that Brazil precipitates the next BTC leg up. so Americas will double down on Bitcoin and Asia on gold.
The RIC? Brazils not in there?
do you mean that Orly relay could live on the Start9 server? and ask for a subscription?
the Start9 menu has Nostr relays... i haven't gotten around to that. mainly because i don't understand the whole "spam" issue and how to filter it out of a nostr relay.
you're getting inspiration from stars that "aeons cannot vex or tire"
my mom has been orange pilled by the youtube algorithm. she started quoting Saylor to me.
i was shocked and a tad bitter. i'm coming around to the realization that i am not gatekeeper to the land of orange.
"Where are your orange shoes?" she asked me. (my shoes are yellow).
"Where did you learn all this stuff, mom?" I asked.
"I've been watching Youtube video of Saylor standing on a table. He says we are in year 1 of adoption. So that means I got in in year 0."
She explains bitcoin as the alphabet. 26 letters but infinite combinations.
June 16 to September 16 QTD portfolio comparisons:
Bitcoin only control group: (106,000 to 116,000)
33% BTC | 66% Bitwise OWNB ETF: 0.2% BTC gain
33% BTC | 66% Grok AI managed portfolio: -0.25% BTC loss
33% BTC | 40% MSTR 10% Metaplanet 10% SmarterWebCo 6% MSTR Leaps: -15% BTC loss
As much as it sucks to be beat by AI, bitcoin, and by a passive ETF, this makes me happy about the OWNB etf. Passive investing has a lot of proponents, and this is an ETF of companies who have committed to a bitcoin standard in some shape or form.
The OWNB weighting for Tesla is 1.8% which isn't far off of the Nasdaq weighting. Tesla is the most interesting stock to me outside of bitcoin. However, I don't want the TESLA risks of CEO, batteries, supply chains, LLM hallucinations, etc. I also don't want the public miners.
what i'm trying to do is just strip out the companies from OWNB that have any risk other than accumulating bitcoin. I just want the ones that have publicly active management so I can judge their characters/actions. I want the 20% foreign exposure that the classic portfolio recommends. even tho this is kinda silly because bitcoin is already global.
I can't go to public mining sites and make sure they are getting good deals on land, electricity, etc. I can watch presentations of BTCTC CEOs and have confidence for how they handle business.
December 16, 2025 will tell if my bets paid off, and I will beat OWNB, AI and "just buy bitcoin".
that's a cool idea. it should. seems that understanding bitcoin/austrian economics is a foundational layer for interpreting all the market data
ok so he did say something:
love him or hate him, he's pretty logical
"if i wanted to destroy bitcoin, i would fund intelligent, well-intentioned developers and tell them to 'make it better'" --Saylor
everything has a risk, not everything has a reward
yes, great idea. in mexico this is a holiday in October ( if i remember correctly) where families put their dining room table out in the street and it's a party.
yes, more brittle aka temper is the word. i think what you just explained is why some of the smart people don't seem to care because they assume it will just go the way bitcoin chooses to go due to the game theory and that's where we will all end up anyway.
i also wonder if some of them are catalyzing this whole process to just get this discussion out of the way. some of the core team appear to be playing devil's advocate. either that or their arguments are just landing wrong.
and on the bright side this whole kerfuffle takes a chunk out of the technical debt as newbies like me get a kick in the rear to learn more
it's bizarre now that very smart people that I admire are throwing in character assassination.
Grace Hopper bounced her checking account because she was using Binary to balance, so Luke losing his bitcoins sounds about right.
even if there's a 10 % tithe to the Vatican in knots. i didn't check the code.
i listened to Bitcoin Mechanicus. 60 minutes to drill into my head 60 times the same message. I actually was reminded of how low IQ i must be and hard-headed.
apparently bitcoin mechanicus also understands he has to talk to me like im an idiot to get me to change anything.
---my understanding---
if i understand correctly :
i can run bitcoin core as it currently is
however, if I update my node after October i have a choice to upgrade to Bitcoin Core version 30 which allows larger Op return. to avoid this in future updates i will need to go with Knots version.
-----a question-----
if a majority of the nodes DO upgrade to version 30, will that mean any blockchain data that is downloaded with my node will include what those machines failed to filter? or does my machine also filter historic data when setting up new nodes.
----how i understand the situation--------
it's a branding kerfuffle. what we know and love as "bitcoin" and by extension "bitcoin core" is being forked into Bitcoin Go-to-Jail edition.
Bitcoin Knots is "Classic Bitcoin Core" edition where classic bitcoin core respectors should download their future updates.
it just feels like i'm being pushed and herded to make snap decisions and i thought bitcoin code was fine *As is.
there are a lot of eyes upon bitcoin core as there are 2.5 trillion dollars of value riding on this piece of software. i'm doubtful something insidious could be hiding there.
Is there a Bitcoin meetup or Bitcoin scene in Portland OR?
yeah, i try to keep an open mind without getting attached to certain things which reminds me i'm getting attached to religion at the moment--christianity.
conspiracy or not. the american evangelical movement that supports zionism is the weirdest scam ever. you would think if God actually spoke to ministers you would have a lot that would realize the scam.
it's as bad as the covid vax brainwashing...
and now back to questioning myself, what scams am I falling for that I don't even know right now? big life scams.
i think i found out that "sex outside of heterosexual marriage" is a big scam last year.
"tanins in wine" are good for you. --although to be fair i think my body is having extra difficulty consuming alcohol after covid vax. but now that i'm not drinking, i see the subliminal cues to drink everywhere that i never noticed before.
It's time to top up the steering fluid and change the oil in the 25-year old vehicle. On queue, my Walter Mitty-esque car contemplations start:
I astral project alongside a SUV speeding across a dusty desert. It's sleek, low-slung yet has ample ground clearance for overlanding in the West Texas deserts. lots of windows that open and a tow hitch. a dinghy sailboat trailer pops out of nowhere bouncing along behind. It's for reconnaissance missions of shoreline cactii and birds in Lake Amistad. the paddleboard on the roof racks deploys to investigate ancient paintings in water-filled caves. there's a feeling of excitement of possible run-ins with cartels along the Tex-mexico border. Billy the Kid is rumored to have held up trains in these parts. The Sunset Limited train whips up tumbleweeds, and i zap back to reality as i need to pee from the morning coffee.
Youtube already read my mind top of feed a "Car care nut" review of new Toyota 4Runner. This reminds me i really want to degoogle my phone to stop these creepy thought prediction/reading scenarios.
it looks like Toyota already anticipated this vehicle. it looks great, and it's made in Japan:
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/suvs/2025-toyota-4runner-review-a3128307508/
Ok Rodrigo, you may have set me down my next tech challenge.
i've heard that Graphene doesn't work great with GPS tho... but i don't actually need GPS and maybe need to stop relying on it.
if Youtube doesn't work on Graphene, that would also be an added benefit.
although long road trips are nice with GPS and podcasts, i don't have any more of those planned for a while.
hello!
consciousness following from microtubules and zero point energy? or just the religious part of gnositicism
Magnets do seem magic somehow.
I thought you were an expert... How did you get interested in this?
I tried reading "Understanding Physics" by Asimov as a teenager and couldn't read past a couple pages before falling asleep.
Computer chips then are very complex field conductors...
The Buga sphere had lots of tiny fiber optics emerging in tiny holes along the outside.
Perhaps elf craftmanship can combine fiber optics plus circuitry to rival human spinal cords...
Also does that mean our nerves if they are relaying electric impulses are communicating with the zero point field?
so it's like a solar cell but for ether.
Reminds me of those calculators with the tiny solar panel . i was always amazed how such a tiny solar cell could power the calculator back in the 90s.
i guess for companies looking to manufacture, it's just a question of, are the palladium and nickel used for the layers cheaper than the normal metals/materials used in solar panels.
at some price point it's just cheaper to plug into wall current or use a standard solar cell even if it requires sunshine.
ok, fren,
i'll turn around in a huff and head to my laboratory at the top of the garret...
and don a black lab coat and goggles and start up the electromagnets and summon the cat... and start inventing shit until i disappear into thin air