Just listened to this masterpiece after reading it 2 years ago, and IT IS JUST SOOO FUCKING GOOD!!!

I did not appreciate it as much as I do now.

How do they bring us to heel?

The real power of #Bitcoin is it's fixed supply, and with cold storage Unconfiscatable asset. It's your work/energy stored and backed by work/energy, to be used ANY TIME you want for ANYTHING you want.

And those that have it now will need to be wise or they will lose it - REGARDLESS of their position in society. You will eventually need to work and provide value to others to gain more Bitcoin. No way elites can print it, or create laws/rules that favor them.

To 'bring us to heel' would require doing the right thing by other people. Or, you lose your wealth. Nothing like this has ever existed for humans.

I will keep an eye out, but it will be an eye on how secure the network stays and how diversifed the nodes and mining progress. Nothing I see can stop the honest network of #Bitcoin.

Sometimes I run into a tech guy on Twitter, who talks about how cypherpunk he is.

I’m just a financial analyst and investor, so that’s cool to hear. The more cypherpunks, the better. I like to fund cypherpunks.

But then I look around, and he’s not active on Nostr for over a year. He’s only active on centralized social media.

So then I am confused at how supposedly cypherpunk he is. Is he really that reliant on centralized media? Often, it turns out yes. If not, what other cryptographic proof does he have for his work?

As Nostr increasingly gains network adoption, it becomes weirder when I analyze why someone who is techie is highly active on Twitter but not at all on Nostr.

I doubt he will, but fingers crossed

I am barely hanging on just to see if he might end up saying at least one thing of substance.

Good afternoon.

The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump headliner is front and center much to everyone’s joy or frustration depending on where you stand on that, but I’ll take a moment to highlight something that’ll get lost in the shuffle.

Today on the main stage, Jason Maier (author A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin) interviewed progressive congressman Rho Khanna. They talked about a lot of stuff but the TLDR headline takeaway statement from Khanna was “Bitcoin is about freedom. Bitcoin is about human rights.”

And around the same time, a bunch of Democrat Congress people sent a letter to the DNC chair saying the party needs to embrace this industry better, and basically that the Warren wing of the party isn’t the way to go here anymore. Whether it’s polling data, sheer numbers about how many Americans own this stuff, or more knowledge conversations about bitcoin’s energy impact and other things, being anti-bitcoin is a losing strategy.

Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic. And there will be shitcoinery. Politicians are currently in their pandering phase. But when I began writing about this industry nearly seven years ago, I would not have expected to see this much explicit support by 2024.

The builders, the educators, the advocates- all of your work does matter. At least when it comes to protecting Americans and others against some of the most potentially hostile government positions, the narrative war is working. We need more work on the right to privacy, and that imo is the harder battle, but given how successful things have been on other fronts, I think that front is workable too.

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