One other thought - could Trump have loaded his Bitcoin bags and go all out convincing his base to pull their cash out of banks?
It’s not where you buy it - it’s how long you can hold it that matters.
Pura Vida - it’s a great day to be alive. Today is the only day that we will ever experience what is in store.
Block by block we continue to confirm our money and make it immutable by the laws of physics.
Also the moments we get to experience are uniquely unencumbered by concerns of rugpulls or debasement.
The vision we get to have for the world is privileged by a sense of betterness with humanity.
We are blessed.
Trey Anastasio of #phish belongs on Nostr and in then Bitcoin community whether he knows it right now or not.
I will keep writing until this happens.
Did the ivermectin ban cost lives?
The TGA in Australia banned ivermectin’s use for the prevention or treatment of Covid in September 2021 because, according to the TGA, if people had access to it they may not get vaccinated.
In whose interests are decisions really being made? Ivermectin is safe, cheap, fully approved, and has been shown effective in the prevention and treatment of Covid.
Ivermectin is one of the safest medications on the planet. Why, then, in 2021 the TGA decided ivermectin was all of a sudden unsafe is perplexing. Coincidentally, ivermectin was banned just as the government was about to start implementing vaccine mandates.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/did-the-ivermectin-ban-cost-lives/
The censorship of treatments proven to work - whether nebulizing H2O2 or IVM or HCQ - and the eventual self censorship in the medical community…
Cost lives but also so much more.
Hard to argue. If anything - Trump does have a genuine network effect that is orthogonal to Bitcoins - it would be interesting as all hell to see what happens.
We’re about a year from Do Kwon trying to use Bitcoin to power his grift. It doesn’t end well for people who aren’t compliant with Bitcoin’s signal.
If Trump does as you suggest - I think he eventually gets rekt for good.
Trump is the antithesis of Bitcoin. He is the highest time preference individual we may have ever seen in our lifetime. He does no favors to plebs. Bitcoin don’t care either way.
That said - he’s usually good at hitting the bulls-eyes of the issues he goes for - and it’s hard to see him coming close here - I do agree that he will have his bags loaded and that might just be enough to tip him right.
Umbrel is great but not for dev. You lose a lot of command line access - probably worth it though to have everything work right.
I keep a 2nd node for all the cli access
I guess don’t look at Nigeria
This isn’t necessarily true. There is hard money that isn’t Bitcoin. Private insurance CAN compete with governments for property protection and have incentives to do so.
If the insurer is the government - well - you’re fucked
Nostr has been in a sweet spot. The influencers have stayed in Twitter so nobody is getting shit on for simping.
Looking forward to is figuring out how to live with a little bit more toxicity and bring the smarties over here from Birdland.
Almost never talk about bitcoin. I’m taking a sledgehammer to their trust of the world - I only want them to think about it and feel dumb for not doing so.
Of course it will be different. This is a peaceful revolution and we homestead and eat real food. This will result in more children, not less.
I bet Bitcoin mining pays a lot less for electricity than the socialized losses that Silicon Valley Bank foisted on a public who didn’t share the upside risk.
Can we start talking about SVB’s use of electricity? What a horribly waste of watts!
Jeff Booth: spend as much time in the world you are trying to create
You’re always welcome in this world!
People say that we should prosecute a politician because it will open a floodgate to prosecuting all of them.
Sounds pretty great - I don’t see the problem
Integrity is not morality. It’s the structural foundation to fulfill an entity’s stated purpose. It’s either sufficient or it isn’t.
Maybe the shelling point is when the system’s integrity is sufficient for that system to reach its shelling point.