Turns out a lot of “bitcoiners” actually just wanted to win the lottery.

Job of the future: fake digital ID specialist so that people can remain anonymous or continue to use services when governments censor/shut off citizens from services

Me: having children is a wonderful thing that will add deep meaning and fulfillment to your life.

Random nostr users: you are an arrogant douchebag and a privileged rich white guy. Fuck you. I hope you die.

4 babies in… Should we keep going? What the vibe on children out there?!

Guess who's back

I gave a talk about bitchat and the importance of reliable peer to peer communication tech during times of political unrest and natural disasters.

the audience discussed the talk live while i was on stage… on bitchat. lets go!

Working is necessary and intrinsic to human nature.

If you lived alone in the forest, you would have to go out hunting, farming, raising animals, building a home, etc.

When we live in a specialized society, we make a social pact whereby we offer goods and services in exchange for other goods and services, and that is how a society progresses, by working and trading.

Working for others is not a problem either, as Marxism argued. If it were so easy to be an entrepreneur, we would all be entrepreneurs.

The problem, as I say, is not working for someone else; the problem is that the fruits of your labor are taken by someone else, in this case the government. Karl Marx manipulated this simple axiom to exhaustion with surplus value.

Western democracies have gradually been transformed into neo-communist systems. We started in the 1950s and 1960s with tax regimes of 10% of GDP, and now we are at 50% in many cases, but like the frog that was slowly boiled, no one has complained.

So think about it: more than half of your time is spent working for the government. Isn't that surplus value according to the communists?

It's a joke.

congrats Alex - great to see you gaining continued traction

Today I learned that my essay “Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money” in the October edition of the Journal of Democracy is the most widely read/downloaded essay in the first 30 days of publication in the Journal’s entire 36-year history

I think we are on to something 😎

The goal should be to make housing so affordable that you move to a 20-year mortgage. Having to offer 50-year mortgages is a sign that things have gone terribly awry.

"Sign the line here, in half a century you'll own your house outright!"

Laughably out of touch.

Which of these wine boxes feels more high end?

Always amazed by the fact that telling people to get married and have children seems to illicit this emotional response where some go “no, it’s not right for everyone”.

Actually, it is.

This isn’t like being interested in pickleball, this is the core of human existence.

Survive and reproduce.

It’s not a lifestyle decision.

And if you think it is you’re severely brainwashed.

It’s time to delete that bit of malware in your mind.

I’m a proud father.

Why?

Because my children understand the scarcity of Bitcoin.

They understand the value of work.

They know that to achieve something in life, you have to put in the Proof of Work.

But what I’m most proud and grateful for is that my 15-year-old daughter wants to hit the gym with the old man a couple of times every week.

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