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🄩 + šŸ”‘ + ⚔ + 🚐 = Freedom Trying to unify the worlds of facts and values through an exploration of "context-dependant objective value" Bitcoin can't fix everything, but it can fix some things.

Just bought espresso in Lisbon for SATs. Barista using Wallet of Satoshi.

I feel quite privileged right now seeing English signs everywhere in a non-english speaking country

Bitcoin Atlantis, probably due to the setting, is the best conference yet

There's something about going to bed at 6pm and waking up at 3am

Happy birthday #bitcoin

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Bitcoiners seem to wake up earlier than the general population

Judgement is a prerequisite for action

Ignorance may be bliss, but it doesn’t exempt one from responsibility.

With #bitcoin, what you hold is expressed as a fraction of the total supply, which is the only way to represent the number’s meaning.

Language encodes meaning

I feel more and more sovereign everyday...

...and sovereignty is correlated with happiness.

Relativism is just another word for nihilism

Time can be spent well or poorly. "Quality time" is a common phrase for a reason.

So time can be created, and spent, but where does it go?

Having children is literally the creation of time

Coldcard, blockstream jade, foundation passport, paired with open source wallet like electrum.

My uncle asked me to teach him about #Bitcoin today :)

Replying to Avatar Amadee

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LfduUFF_i1A

I've been thinking a philosophy thing should be on here.

I'd be up for it if you have something you'd like to talk about. Maybe there's other closet philosophers out there who would get involved? Maybe a good use case for the longer fomr nostr client too.

I'm no expert but I know enough to misquote myself into embarrassment.

Hope you find this Month Python sketch amusing

Amusing indeed! I had never seen this before and found it absolutely delightful.

What are your thoughts on these two propositions put forth by Austrian economists which I think are contradictory?

1. Value is subjective

2. There's such a thing as a misallocation of capital

Yes, these are economic statements, but I think they have philosophical implications.

We need a nostr Reddit.

I propose we call it "Threddit"

Can anyone direct me to some npubs that engage in discussions that are more philosophy-heavy?

If enough people have cash balances in bitcoin, it will be difficult to persecute bitcoiners.

Sure, they could require you to pay your taxes, but in order to get ahold of BTC that's rightfully yours, they'll have to use literal violence, not implied violence.

That's why the more the merrier. It's easier to be violent towards a minority than a majority.

Well, this was technically done when 30% of the Canadian trucker's funds were seized in a house raid back in 2022. But if you have a brain wallet, passphrase, multisig or there's otherwise no way for someone to find your seed phrase to move your funds, I don't see it happening.

Refusing to acknowledge the existence of evil makes you a pawn for those who wish to perpetuate it.

Just got myself an iPad so trying Dani’s for the first time. I must say I’m enjoying it so far…

Quality is inseparable from iteration

So... We should expect you to announce at some point in the future that you will be announcing something even further in the future?

Playing around with AutoGPT... Cool stuff

A full reserve bank in your pocket (or your head)

#Bitcoin

Your money is your means.

Your means are your boundaries of action, and to an extent your thoughts.

Those who can undermine your money can manipulate your boundaries, and therefore your actions without you even knowing about it.

This is why we #Bitcoin

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

Savage

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Took a break from carnivore. Feel worse as a result.

The truth value of a proposition is dependent on the value of the means by which it is derived.