sooo monero is what bitcoin should be in the first place?

What are you guys interested in seeing more of? Kayaking? Homesteading? Day to day life? Lmk

GM. I only wear Injinji socks. Just received 5 more pairs for free for getting third place in a trail race. Life is good.

This is what I got today when I tried posting a reply nostr:note1wjgzmww97j9rhp8t4cztfc4xx4a9sqfftmaxjsk48ql3auuglvlsfcf7dw

Published in the late 1970s by Tadanori Yokoo. This now very rare book titled " Meditation By Record Covers" is a collection of artwork inspired by album cover art.

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cos I saw the original

Bitcoin must be renamed to endless pain at this point

We’re on the edge of massive breakthroughs: AI, self-driving cars, robot butlers, gravity propulsion systems, and maybe even aliens. These are things that could fundamentally change our day-to-day lives.

And yet, the future Bitcoiners describe—a world where you can save money and its value holds or even increases—is the one people still find unimaginable.

Why? Because no one thinks about money. No one understands it. It’s the foundation of society, but that foundation is built on theft. And we’ve been conditioned to ignore it, to accept that constant erosion of value as “just the way it is.”

Maybe it’s not that Bitcoin is too futuristic—it’s that imagining a world where theft isn’t baked into the system feels impossible. A world where you can save what you earn and hold your place in line without constantly falling behind.

Those other breakthroughs? They’re aspirational. You look up at them. But without sound money, they don’t fix the root problem—they only make it worse. Without Bitcoin, the divide between the haves and have-nots grows larger with every new advancement.

Ironically, it’s a sound monetary future that allows all those cool, crazy technologies to truly thrive. It’s Bitcoin that makes a future of innovation sustainable—because when theft isn’t built into the system, progress benefits everyone, not just the few.

While everyone focuses on the big, flashy breakthroughs they hope will change the world, Bitcoin is changing the world—one person at a time.

And it’s already here.

Wouldn't the world's most renowned hackers not advertise themselves?

I want to talk about something that some people may find offensive, and that I can’t talk about on Twitter to not get shadow banned as I have to rely on reach for my work.

The first time I attended Chaos Computer Congress was over 15 years ago. It had the best parties in town, and we would sneak in for the nightlife.

As I rekindled my interest in politics, computers and the internet, I became more aligned with the CCC’s mission: hacking the planet to hold power to account.

While I was already disappointed with some of the CCC’s policies – particularly on things like COVID and Bitcoin – this year was the first time that I seriously lost hope for and trust in the CCC as an institution – starting with its opening speech.

The CCC’s opening speech sets the theme for the event. This year, it was dedicated to the global rise of fascism. Speakers talked about Germany’s protests against the far-right AFD, about Donald Trump, LGBTQ and abortions, and pro-democracy protests in countries like Georgia.

But not a single word was lost to the genocide in Palestine.

Checking the CCC’s schedule, I merely found a single talk on Palestine, which explicitly made clear that it did not take a stance on whether Israel was right or wrong in its operations.

There were still a lot of great talks at the congress, and many assemblies showed their solidarity, but this complete lack of mention is what really stood out for me.

To understand what a hackers congress has to do with genocide, we need to take an uncomfortable look at Nazi Germany.

What enabled the Holocaust 80 years ago was not just a bunch of bloodthirsty eugenicist maniacs high on ungodly amounts of speed and their fascist ideologies. It was the streamlining of exploitation and murder to never before seen efficiency, with the help of new, more efficient technologies.

It is these same advancements in technology that are fueling the genocide in Palestine today. It’s surveillance on an unprecedented scale, evermore invasive spyware, AI enabled targeting and automated drone warfare.

You can think of Palestine what you want, but this technology is being exported from Palestine to the rest of the world today.

It’s facial recognition systems and license plate scanners that Israel uses to enforce apartheid that you’ll soon see scanning your biometrics for your next flight on holidays, or your car on your next trip to work.

It’s spyware companies that test their products to soon sell them to governments around the world targeting activists, journalists and opposition.

It’s psychological warfare utilizing dating sites like Grindr to social engineer Palestinians into spying on their peers and extort their sexual preferences.

Just last month, the a16z portfolio company Skydio, which is a major Israeli military contractor, was caught providing its surveillance drones to Yale University to monitor and track student protestors.

Some of you may find this topic uncomfortable as it may not align with your political views.

But the reality remains that the genocide in Palestine is a testing ground for never before seen surveillance tech that will soon be used on you. And the world’s most renowned hackers are silent.

Google is the problem. They purposely rig the OS to slow down phones or don't give us security updates.

Google will be disbanded in the next 4 years because they interfered in the U.S. elections.

I can't wait for that to happen.

Agreed. The laws of Man must align with the laws of God to be just.