Sometimes people ask me, “what if American bans bitcoin like they did for gold?”

1) That’s why it’s useful to engage politically. To prevent that draconian tail risk. And it’s working. Prevent any sort of anti-Bitcoin supermajority.

2) America had a supermajority in Congress when they did that for gold. They could override every check on power. That’s uncommon. We became highly collectivist for a period of time.

3) America literally put Japanese Americans in camps back then. But not German Americans. Because we were outright racist. And this was all pre civil rights for Black Americans too. Terrible.

4) This was all pre-internet. Centralized media. Few memes. The slow speed of communication was relevant.

The meme-work makes the dream work.

What are your opponent considerations for selecting? Like requiring armor penetration, and thus going with the tanto?

If for some reason you were to find yourself in a knife fight, would you rather have a tanto knife or a bowie knife?

Any knife connoisseurs here?

Serious question though.

That's strange I been flushing them for years

The synergy in my Amazon cart today

To strongly disagree with someone, and yet engage them with respect, grace, dignity and honesty, is a superpower.

I seem to now be on the Nostr. Thanks to Lyn and Eric.

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I'll post on Twitter.com/rudyhavenstein so you know it's me. Don't expect too much right away.

Baby steps.

Trump is on the Spaces with Elon.

One thing I've noticed for a while is that amid all of the Secret Service failings and inside-job theories or concerns, Trump hasn't really been promoting those failings and theories at all. And this interview confirmed it- he's actively pushing back on them.

Elon tried for like 15 minutes to coax out some thoughts from Trump regarding Secret Service incompetence or corruption and yet Trump just kept defending the Secret Service for doing their work and saying that yeah they should explore why someone got on the roof, but that it's chaotic and he's thankful for the counter-snipers, that he's thankful for those that physically shield him, etc. He's literally more defending of them than me as a witness that was like, "wtf happened here?"

Trump presumably travels with mostly the same SS team and gets to know them. He's hesitant to personally criticize them in a way that many of his followers have.

I found that interesting because he routinely throws lawyers and other insiders out that defended him once they stop being useful. But things are different when you have a team physically shielding you. Like fellow soldiers in war. So far he won't touch them at all.

Life hack: you can control your attention, your opinions, and your feelings.

Oof. This gonna happen at bitcoin conferences eventually?

I honestly don’t know which type of discovery algorithms I would prefer.

A large part of learning comes through iterations. Aka choice and trial.

I can imagine some ideas for algorithms, but until I experience them, try different ones, and provide feedback on my experiences, it’s hard to say what will work.

That’s why a marketplace of algorithms could be so powerful.

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Do you think that if the Left was more aligned with the Democratic platforms of the 70s-2010 that you might have better luck convincing them that bitcoin circumvents the power of a large government / corporate machine oppressing the freedoms of the individual?

Soon after Occupy Wall Street, it feels like the Left aligned itself with a “govern me harder” platform vs. the previous focus of policies that prioritized the individual over the corporation.

Through the prior lens, pockets of Democrats might have been among the first groups to “get” bitcoin (i.e. Rage Against the Machine). However, now that the D platform aligns with a government / state-aligned corporation … a threat to centralized control is counter to the Left’s current priorities.