Avatar
Phundamentals
5677fa5b6b1cb6d5bee785d088a904cd08082552bf75df3e4302cea015a5d3e1
Author: Bitcoin for Institutions https://zeuspay.com/btc-for-institutions Co-Host of Rock-Paper-Bitcoin, Motivating the Math, Sound Coffee, and Back on the Chain podcasts Study math, be sovereign

https://youtu.be/dRwq9HrkTI0

28 years. He’s Gone - like Satoshi

He’s gone - and nothings gonna bring him back

If you got fired for liking a meme, you sucked hard at that job.

Go build something. Provide value, and you’ll be free.

Replying to Avatar Jameson Lopp

His master, Darth Plageus, was a banker and not nearly as evil. Palpatine murdered his family

Daily test to see if I can Post using Primal on iOS. Success?

Cryptography would never be invented by citizens of a benevolent dictatorship.

Only in a century of World War and hegemonic power would we flip the tech on the powers as quickly as we have.

Moral: Bitcoin is given by the strength of our enemies not our friends. If you’re waiting for a President or a Harvard to validate it socially you’re NGMI

It was already clear to me that Backwards Down The Number Line had to do with hash functions but - TODAY I LEARNED-

The most effective attack against hash functions stems from a famous math problem called “The Birthday Paradox” where it only takes about 28 people at a party to have a probability of 0.5 that 2 will have the same birthday.

A hash collision, when 2 different inputs can produce the same output, is analogous to the Birthday Paradox - and we use the math to determine how long a hash needs to be to be sufficiently confident that a collision can’t occur.

The only rule is “It begins”

Happy Happy oh my friend! nostr:note1n7au43dqvreurvtwn0w3aj5k70hahcau6v0gcr2h8d6z4vu02wsq34zsrr

Bitcoin fixes portfolio construction by 1) replacing Bonds as the risk-free asset: 2) kicking out all but the greatest risk-adjusted asset classes

We made a banger about meetups, how to talk to nocoiners, and e alienating life of being a standard bearing leader

https://fountain.fm/episode/yjDbbmPVgMRtYBlkYObP

Blackrock’s ETF and Bitcoin turn isn’t about loading their bags - it’s about not being stuck with the Bond bag.

Blackrock doesn’t understand Bitcoin but they understand bonds and they hold the worlds majority of them.

This is a liability move, not an asset move.

Bag holders going to Blackrock looking for their Bitcoin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTvtSKXwu0o

Thinking back, the most useful classes I had in school were...

1. Gym class in elementary school where we got to climb the rope up to ceiling in gymnasium and had a bike safety course and had to balance for an amount of time in the small box

2. Learning to use pens and cursive in elementary English classes. Relatedly, all the basic maths up to simple algebra helped reinforce what was already learned before public school.

3. 5th grade science gave an intro to basic chemistry and safety in the lab

4. Home Ec classes in middle school with touch points on cooking, sewing, cleaning and sex ed focused on body parts, feelings, risks, std types and protection (all pre propaganda)

5. Shop classes in middle school where we got to make acrylic photo frames, tic tac toe game boards with pegs, wall mount coat hangers, shelves and more. I still have this stuff.

6. Spanish classes in middle and high school, though I need to make time to really learn and immerse myself

7. Biology and Chemistry classes in high school. Practical information.

8. Accounting and Business management classes in high school at vocational center. Helps have a basic understanding, be able to do bookkeeping, reporting, organize stuff.

Pretty much everything else did not add any practical life value and was meant to conform to the factory slave mindset. We need to fix education to be more efficient and effective and less full of fluff.

What I wish I knew more of...

History. The most readily available but just skimmed over in my education. Challenge now is discerning what history is true, and what is written by those in power.

Not all learning has immediate practical significance - but working with your hands is essential and should be part of all educational philosophies.

My kids learned knitting, blacksmithing, woodworking, various forms of drawing, and were required to play a stringed instrument - these are essential for kids.

Just because someone paid $X for something doesn’t make that thing worth $X.

That thing does not have a value of $X.

The idea that we can know the value of anything in a world so abundant in printed fiat money is a pathetic childish illusion and anyone serious about having a Bitcoin Standard should grow the fuck up and stop promoting the illusion that we know the value of anything.

Ordinals? Don’t try and tell me a Satoshi is worth $1M because some dipshit paid it.

Even the $ value of Bitcoin on MSTRs balance sheet isn’t what you think it is. It’s closer to zero than the reported number.

We don’t know what the fuck anything is worth and that’s where we’re starting at building the future.

Peace!

Black-Scholes-Merton gave us forever bailouts

Diffie-Hellman-Merkle fixed it.

#phish

Carini is self-explanatory. SpaceBoy wasn’t even born when this was written.

“That thesis that you’re writing is a load of shit………..but I’m glad you finally finished it”

https://youtu.be/rGIg9w9qmlA

Price-boi s are all gonna get rekt.

If I were FASB, I wouldn’t recognize the value of Bitcoin on a balance sheet unless there was a protocol like @AnchorWatch behind their coins.

Even then, the probability of a total loss is so high that Id require a haircut.

Bitcoin will be a superconductor of AI.

— my thinkboi thought of the day