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Dr. Bitcoin, MD
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Bitcoin OG since 2010, former laptop solo miner, blockstream satellite node runner, #2A rights user, radiologist

Every 4 years, I up my security game. Getting ready for this one and I’m looking at some hefty fees for my roughly 1 dozen UTXOs…I regret not consolidating and learning mixing in years past, but c’est la vie.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

After analyzing it for a thousand hours over more than a decade, I still can’t find a better nutrient-to-cost ratio than grass-fed ground beef.

I also think non-grass beef is fine vs normal beef, but then I have certain environmental permaculture soil maxi ethical views. So I mean, ultimately my opinion is to eat beef, and preferably from cows that are as close to nature as possible (ie they eat tall deep-rooted grass and have space and thus don’t usually need antibacterial medicine because they are healthy).

I don’t like to conflict with real scientists, but more than a decade ago I began researching nutrition and experimenting on myself. Many bitcoiners find nutrition, but I found nutrition and then found bitcoin, which is the less profitable direction.

I am not a doctor or a nutritionist. Most doctors and nutritionists are shitty at nutrition, but nonetheless I am not one of them.

I am, however, an athlete and engineer. I began to notice my performance issues with industrial carbs and seed oils, and began removing them. Huge health boost, and I felt so much better. This was after reading many studies.

I then did personal blood tests. I logged my food, pricked my finger and tested my glucose each day, pricked my finger and tested my ketones each day, for science, etc. I felt good and performed well under ketosis, subject to certain athletic details depending on the sport.

Ultimately I practiced seasonal ketosis. Seasons of normal health-conscious food. Seasons where I go more hardcore on ketosis for health.

My main view is that low carb eating is good, grass-fed ground beef is particularly good and cheap, etc. Eat while foods and minimize toxins. I am happy to debate nutritionists or whoever on this, it isn’t my expertise, but imo a pre-qualifier to such a debate is that they need to have visible abs. I have no tolerance toward the opinion of a flabby university nutritionist.

Anyway, good evening.

I am a doctor and an engineer…and I totally agree that doctors are unhelpful regarding nutrition.

In fact, my secret weapon to outperforming all my medical school classmates on the pathology mini-board exam was to study the nutrition chapter in a pathology course outline from a different institution. We simply never covered nutrition in our pathology class, and the best way to perform better than those who know everything you know is to learn something they didn’t.

That said, carnivore is not a realistic diet for many people because of the cost. Even if it works great, which I feel it does for me these past two years, it’s not medically appropriate to recommend if it’s unrealistic for the patient…and it’s not clear that adding saturated fat to an otherwise shitty American diet is safe; there’s evidence to the contrary in fact…also, as doctors we are first and foremost there to make recommendations that have a chance at helping. Otherwise it’s wasted time/money/effort.

It’s a little crazy to me. Bad times to buy are fomo’d into like crazy and massive discounts are avoided like the plague.

I remember those days.

Generally trophy hunts are what provide the otherwise unavailable funds for conservation. Highlighting the harvesting of an animal is an easy way to get donations, but consider the effect of ceasing hunter funded conservation efforts. I highly doubt donations could come anywhere close to the revenue harvest licenses brings in.

Is it not in fact best to have the government incentivized to keep population levels sustainable? I fear a hunter-free Africa supported by donations would lead to excellent care of an increasingly smaller number of animals…which is unsustainable.

You young kids these days with your zaps and compound words…us OG can’t keep up with your meanings…

I’ve been a long time advocate of bitcoin. But very hesitant to recommend people buy bitcoin as investment advice and friendships don’t always go well together.

Well, I’ve recently become a bit more forward in my discussions of bitcoin with friends.

Specifically, I used to warn strongly that bitcoin price is volatile and this means losing value at high percentages and gaining value at high percentages and one must be ok with losing half before doubling…

Well, now I underscore the risk of having precisely 0 bitcoin. I still warn that price is volatile, exchanges have risks, self custody has risks, etc, but I lead with the risk of having none being a risk that should not be ignored.

You’re avatar always reminds me of fluffy pony (Riccardo spagni, the monero guy)

I would like to say good morning to my wife, my girlfriends, and all you jealous guys wondering how I can pull it off.

The p320 is just as pp unsafe as a Glock. Even more so, I’d argue. Don’t glocks have a tabbed trigger dingus? I know glock leg is a thing, but I think it’s only a matter of time before sig leg is a thing.

That said, I put either a manual external safety or a tabbed trigger on all my home made p320s, depending on type of carry.

Oh, and that’s not counting the drop safety oversight on the consumer tested beta version of the p320. There’s some interesting physics there…someone did a very in depth YouTube video on is (sig mechanics channel, I think).

There are more people willing to fight evil than be evil in this world. But most will be neutral.

Here’s a business idea: custom p320 pistol grips. Every hand is different, but there are only half a dozen different grips out there. There’s got to be some 3D printing that can lower the cost of low run items…

Replying to Avatar CitizenPleb

Ya gotta point. Snowden is a hero, even if most haven’t a clue of what he exposed.

Don’t be a gay sissy, it’s just the internet…

I almost died when I read that (in the humorous sense).

No. But you’d be surprised how much one misses in 10 years of medical training. It’s a bit like awakening into a new world.