We need to reframe Bitcoin as sats. Let the normies get excited about sat/dollar parity. Only then will they slow down, download a wallet and transact over lightning.
BREAKING: Democracy
The people in power are narcissistic sociopaths that will stop at NOTHING to maintain their power and the privilege's associated with it.
The media has been compromised by the State. "Education" and social media have turned the masses into useful idiots.
Opt out #Bitcoin
Filecoin is becoming a smart contract layer 1 soon. Could have some implications on its utility.
Making money a mystery was a brilliant move by the Fiat Mafia. #Bitcoin is fixing this.
Zapping is cool but would be extremely powerful if it was used to filter content. #Bitcoin
It's amazing that you can now deposit a check to your checking account using just your phone. Just think, what if you could withdraw cash from your checking account without having to go to an ATM? Seems impossible, doesn't it? Well, #Bitcoin makes it possible. #FEW
How do you sort posts based on zaps on Iris and or Damus? Trying to filter out the crap.
Created some content that got a zap from @xekcc ...That was a first! Pretty cool.
I've developed a new theory...I'm calling it the "Humans Can Drive" theory. When left to their own devices, humans tend to make decent decisions, even when driving a 4,000-pound vehicle at 70 mph we somehow typically arrive in one piece. We are driving... like our lives depend on it.
This theory suggests that governments shouldn't get bigger than the driving example. Quality roads and a few prompts to navigate potential dangers are all that's needed. Anything more disrupts our natural incentives and leads to unintended, dysfunctional consequences.
Let's give us humans some credit and trust each other to make the right decisions. The next time you're on the road, just remember - humans can drive! And if we can do that, we can surely handle other decisions in life too.
Watching #TeslaInvestorDay section on #Teslas virtual grid concept. Can't help but think the missing piece of the puzzle is streaming money over IP. Wen #Bitcoin over lightning integration?
Just completed my monthly transfer of #Bitcoin from my fiat onramp/CEX to cold storage. Always bitter sweet. The 30-day wait kills me!
Will BlueSky attempt to be a Bitcoin Financial rail? Integrate into the square ecosystem?
How to search by zapped posts?
How do you sort messages by messages w/ zaps? #Bitcoin
How to you sort by posts that have been zapped?
My latest article for @BitcoinMagazine is about the nation-state level incentives of fiat money. Excerpt below.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/fiat-money-funds-government-corruption
Fixing The Incentives: How Fiat Funds National Corruption
In the first two parts of this series, I wrote about the individual-level incentives and company-level incentives of fiat money. The individual-level incentives made personal lives have much higher time preferences through ubiquitous debt and lack of savings vehicles. The company-level incentives made communal life much more zombie-like and artificial through unnaturally-large companies that have replaced our families.
In this essay, I'm exploring the incentives at the nation-state level, where fiat money has perhaps its greatest effect. The power of fiat money gives governments the ability to become more authoritarian. Not only do we get a welfare/warfare state, but we also get a surveillance state, a police state and militaristic, corrupt tyrannies. The siren song of Marxism, of positivist law and an authoritarian vision are some of its rotten fruits. The unprecedented destructive power of governments in the last 100 years can be laid squarely at the feet of fiat money. Government authority and power have expanded more than the average American's waistline and the consequences have been just as deadly.
Problem is if Americas petrodollar hegemony and her ability to export inflation is it's primary means of power projections...how far does game theory need to play out before she pivots? Seems like there's a lot of kicking and screaming left. #Bitcoin