I like bitcoin, buy my shitcoin.

It's laughable how little most people understand about money, finance, debt, opportunity cost, and markets.

It's also laughable how little most people still know about crypto. Outside of Bitcoiners, most couldn't tell you the first thing about how their favorite shitcoin works. Even simple questions like total supply and block times will be met with a blank stare.

This is nothing to be upset about. That's our edge. That's why Bitcoin isn't 10 million dollars. From an altruistic perspective I might want people I like to get it, but outside of that, they'll get the price they deserve.

Something has gotten into people. I’m finding myself muting more. I don’t want negativity and anger in my feed. There are other places to find that noise, and I’m not here for it. Besides, there are brand new pubs showing up every day, so it makes up for it.

“May we live in interesting times.”

Curse or blessing?

Always a blessing, in my opinion.

Novelty keeps life moving. To resist change or remain stagnant invites excess entropy - the kind of chaos that builds unnoticed until it demands a price.

The wise stay curious, leaning into what they don’t yet understand, finding strength in adaptability.

Take snow in South Carolina, for example.

It’s rare to get 2-3 inches of snow here, let alone have it linger for days. Growing up with family from Buffalo, NY, snow doesn’t usually impress me - they moved south for a reason. But as a photographer, I’ll always take an unexpected snowfall as a chance to step outside and engage with light, texture, and color in ways I don’t often get to.

Embracing the cold has been part of my routine for years now. Cold showers every morning - not because I enjoy them but because I’ve learned to appreciate what they build: resilience. Starting the day with something uncomfortable makes it easier to face bigger challenges head-on.

Stepping barefoot into the snow has become another ritual; a reminder of what the body can endure when the mind allows it.

Yesterday I walked three miles to the grocery store since the roads were too slick to drive. It turns out that this town doesn’t own a single snowplow. Should I be surprised? Probably not. Snow like this is a novelty here - an anomaly.

Here are some photographs I made over the past few days. I hope you may enjoy them.

Made with my Leica M262.

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Always prioritize your kids.

I hung up a business call on an “important” person in order to watch my daughter do the hula hoop.

When I got back on the phone with the guy, he was like “what was that about?”

I was like oh my daughter just wanted to show me the hula hoop.

I could tell he was annoyed by being interrupted by a little girl. Because we were doing “very important business stuff” lol

I don’t care.

I likely won’t know this guy in 10 years time and I’ll always remember watching my daughter do the hula hoop.

Worth it.

Be annoyed.

I don’t fucking care lol

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The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is not only the tallest building in the world, standing at an astonishing 828 meters (2,717 feet), but it also holds several other impressive records.

One fascinating aspect is its advanced engineering: to combat the extreme wind forces at such heights, the tower's design incorporates a "buttressed core" system, which uses three wings set in a Y-shape for structural stability. Additionally, the tower's spire alone is 244 meters tall, longer than most skyscrapers in the world!

Another intriguing fact is that the exterior of the Burj Khalifa is covered with over 103,000 square meters of glass, enough to cover about 17 football fields! This massive surface area reflects the desert sun, reducing heat gain in Dubai's scorching climate, and contributing to its futuristic look.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the 29th Secretary of Defense of the United States.

Interesting how Trump, the peaceful dove (lol), will work with this war hawk…?

GM from beautiful Colombia.

With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.

(*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group)

According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.

Why is that important:

Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards. Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.

In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.

#bitcoin has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power. Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day.

That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.

It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.

What a time to be alive.

SATURDAY SHARE!!

Every Saturday we round up the photographers of #nostr community to share our latest photos from the week, or just all time favorites.

It's a time to connect with others here in this space and kinder some new relationships and insights.

Who has snow photos? Here's a few from South Carolina.

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