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Nostr makes you feel like a kid in the 80’s

It is wild to me to listen to people that cling to government benefits. I have never understood what you expect government to do for you? When I got my first job after college I started a retirement fund for myself. I earned basically nothing so my contributions were pathetic, but it was a start. I added a basic medical plan when I could so that a serious accident would not financially ruin me. I’ve been self employed most of my working life so it just became the norm to plan and take care of myself and my family.

Why would you look to someone else to do your job for you?

The problem with benefits is how do you know who really needs them? You can’t just look at who is at a certain age - not everybody at age 60 needs help. In fact, if you do need help at age 60 there should be pretty damn good reason for it. You’ve had you whole life to plan for this. Things certainly happen and some people do need legitimate help, but how do you distinguish from the people that hit the casino every Friday night, or could not hold down a job, or consistently made bad decisions over their whole life that put them in a bad place at age 60?

Towards sovereign states and ultimately sovereign individuals

https://mises.org/mises-wire/now-great-time-california-secede

So gold has been a store of value for 5000 years. But when last did any of your mates talk about stacking gold. We are so early #bitcoin.

I’ve had two separate interactions with friends this week that have made me realize that there are two alternative universes in play. One where mainstream media and the government is right about everything. The other where mainstream media doesn’t exist and the government is lying. What’s weird is that they don’t seem to overlap at all.

I don’t think it useful to think like that because each person and family is different. Even neighbors do things differently. Figure out what your family needs and find a place to fits that requirement. There is also never going to be a ‘perfect’ place. Things you don’t think about now, might because a big deal in a new country.

This is incredible. It’s the one bottleneck that prevent AI from delivering a turnkey solution. Instead of telling what to do, it can now do it and deliver a working product. WOW nostr:note1c76vhvcm30mpmmk3wwyk2skmyzetecxxy4zv4yee9efjnzwfgmfqem2x64

Still failing Tuur

It would be unthinkably stupid, until you realize that’s what the Fed is.

Thanks Craig. Love Sparrow - it’s made life SO much easier.

Welcome brother

Reminds me of the first time I read Game of Thrones, this was probably 15 years ago. It was incredible to see more brutal reality portrayed in the story, and many of my favorite characters getting killed off suddenly.

But that’s what makes great stories - it’s the ‘outliers’ as you call them. The ‘norms’ lead regular lives and that’s no good for exciting storytelling.

It’s the same in our day to day lives. It’s the day you had a flat tyre, in the rain, on the way to a job interview that makes for a good tale - not the day when everything happens as expected and it essentially a non-event

Everyone needs a plan b passport. Those of us coming from countries with terrible passports are often ahead of the curve on this.

Bitcoin and the tariff wars

The New Testament Bible talks about building your house on a foundation of rock and warns of the dangers of building your house on the sand which is a poor foundation.

Your home is the place where you have chosen to stake your claim in this life. It's the place where you are going to build a place of safety and raise a family. It's the place you come home to at the end of a busy day to rest, and it's the place where you and your spouse talk about your dreams for the future and make your plans.

Similarly, a business needs solid foundation, but this stability is not created about the physical location you choose to operate your business from. It is the political, social, and economic environments you choose to place your business. Some regions are better than others, and some countries are better than others.

However, it does not matter how great things are right now, circumstances can change quite quickly. The recent global shutdown caused by COVID are still fresh in everyone's mind. Political changes, through elections or revolution, are famous for making sweeping changes to the laws and regulations of the previous regime. Right now, the phrase “tariff war” is on everybody's minds. Stock markets have reacted strongly to the Trump proposed tariff and countries are responding with tariffs of their own. Nothing rattles international global trade quite like a tariff war, or at least threats of one. All of this creates uncertainty.

Uncertainty makes planning extremely difficult. But businesses need to plan. They need to figure out supply chains, distribution channels, new product lines, branding and marketing to introduce these new product lines, and of course the regulatory environment into which these products fit.

Even with stable political conditions, legislation can change. Suddenly with the swift stroke of a pen, your bestselling product could be in trouble.

We haven't even added currency fluctuations into this discussion. Sometimes it's a country on the other side of the world that has a problem which reverberates all the way through to affect your business.

One common thread about uncertainty is that is generally completely outside of your control.

So where does Bitcoin fit into this? Bitcoin’s is a simple idea perfectly executed and runs entirely unsupervised and uncorrupted since its inception in 2009. Bitcoin has a simple supply issue schedule of a new block every ten minutes and this supply halves every four years. That’s it. And it has done this without interruption since 2009. It is so predictable the reliable that it is often described by the phrase “tik tok, next block”.

I think it is worth emphasizing the fact that this is Bitcoin just following its code; no more, no less.

It is not affected by a politician calling for a tariff war.

It is not affected by the sudden devaluation of a currency or the hyperinflation of said currency.

It is not affected by COVID lockdowns.

It is not affected by a supply chain shock anywhere in the world.

In fact, there is nothing that can be done to shut Bitcoin down or to alter it in any way without expending such significant resources as to make that likelihood nigh impossible. Even people heavily involved in the Bitcoin community that have, in the past, called for changes to the Bitcoin protocol, insisting that there is a dire emergency or cataclysmic event about to happen that required an urgent change, and have not succeeded. Bitcoin continues uninterrupted, unconcerned, and unchanged.

This is the rock foundation for your business that is called bitcoin.

If your business accepts Bitcoin for payments of goods and services, you have started building your solid foundation. This foundation will get stronger, and as your business accumulates more and more Bitcoin, you know that you are accumulating an asset that is not swayed by public opinion, political bias, newfangled fashionable ideas, currency debasement or the need humans have to change everything constantly, all the time to try and make it better.

It is for this very reason that bitcoin exists.

Tik tok, next block.

The Bitcoin network was pretty damn secure before the fees and block space went up in early 2023. No change since then - still damn secure. nostr:note1zrm7e3yfcw2rdq8vyju54y4c34sx3wmvxhlhgaacd75pzmpp6r6s6vt4kw

What a winner. Well done guys. First time I’ve used nostr on my desktop. Super cool nostr:note1rzr5aslq8e0j790my52r7nr0gan2uup5cj5sqku5mhegualyasqsr3jzwg

This marks the beginning of the end for Central Banks. When nation states and other start adopting money that can't be inflated, then Central Banks no longer have a purpose.

This is a great summary of the current political position on Bitcoin in the US, neatly summarised and easy to understand. While not all of us live in the US, it is useful to understand how much has changed in such a short time.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-digital-asset-executive-order-means-bitcoin-bcxrc/?trackingId=EQ7JYj3X1w5p0jrpBJy2VA%3D%3D