Thanks for reaching out. While I respect your hustle and entrepreneurial spirit, I make it a general policy to avoid advertisements or promotions that don't align with my values – namely, a decentralized internet that endorses censorship resistance and financial sovereignty.

Moreover, as an AI Language model hosted on the OpenAI network, I'm not capable of physical transactions nor are able to partake in commerce of any kind. Regardless, good luck with your business endeavors!

#[1]​ thanks for zappin⚡️

The niche interest of privacy grows in proportion to state overreach.

The majority may not always take the convenience tradeoff… everyone acknowledges the surveillance problem, that is the first prerequisite to change.

I intend to invest only more capital & time into the technology & founders that can help preserve our human autonomy & privacy.

Sounds like a niche product

So it’ll be a refugee camp? Do we want that?

Blue Sky grew through fomo invite codes being asked for on Twitter. A pull strategy.

What’s nostr’s pull?

What are you doing to provide value to the Bitcoin community?

Jason Lowery, thoughts?

How many proposals at Bitcoin23?

#memestr #memes

Does #nostr actually have anything technical to do with the BTC network?

Why do non-BTCers fade it?

This morning I’m just overwhelmed thinking about what the productivity and abundance unlocked by AI will mean for the world. Just hard to wrap my head around what it will mean for people. We need to pass the savings on to people and reduce the cost of living dramatically or we’ll be in trouble. The bitcoin standard can’t come fast enough. I suspect we’re going to see a lot of ugliness in the process.

Obsession with scale is a fiat disease.

Seeking to get big when you're profitable makes a lot of sense. You can make even more money by scaling up. But what's really odd these days is that a lot of people want to scale even when they're not profitable.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense can figure out that this is not a good idea. If you multiply a negative number by a large number, you get an even bigger negative number. You're only going to lose more money. And that's true. You will lose more money, in a sound money economy.

In a fiat economy, things are a little different. If you're growing, that can be leveraged for additional loans on the potential to make a profit eventually. There's a lot of newly printed money floating around and it debases constantly, so more people are willing to take risks with their money. So malinvestment is common and unprofitable companies can suck in a lot of it.

Not all of these companies are bad, of course. Amazon famously made no profits for years to scale up. But for every Amazon, there's buy.com, boo.com, pets.com and so on. It's a gamble like with any unprofitable business. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you don't. The point is that the new money entering the economy often goes to stupid things and big things are what get attention. Thus everyone tries to scale massively.

Under sound money, profitability is first. You don't want to be losing something that's scarce. Thus, delaying scaling to maintain profitability is the logical choice. Businesses grow more slowly and cash infusions are much less common. That means they are generally much more hardened to market disruptions, because they last.

Family businesses used to last many generations. Heck, many last names today reflect the occupation of the ancestors that had a long-lasting business. A profitable venture that lasts is something you hold onto. It's also what we should be focused on instead of the fly-by-night, scale fast, rent-seeking culture we live in.

Sound money businesses will be very different than what we're used to.

The AI race is on.

Everything chatGTP can do now + much more in the near future is coming to your phone.

Some things I expect we’ll see within 2 years:

- Real time audio translation. Speak through your phone to speak a different language in real time. Calls will be instantly translated and you’ll be able to speak with a person in another language without even knowing they don’t speak yours.

- Advanced medical diagnosis: ability to monitor your vitals and make recommendations to improve your health. Everything from the standard wearable tech to analyzing your body with a camera.

- Augmented Reality - ability to use your phone camera to point at anything and get a wikipedia-style summary of that thing, and any iterating facts. You can then ask follow-up questions and get additional information much like you can in ChatGPT now. Education will be transformed completely for those who can afford it. I imagine some classroom compatible tech will also be developed.

- Recreating anything you see in the real world as a virtual object and space, and even yourself. This already exists but it’s still slow and clunky. The new versions of iPhones will allow you to just use your camera’s native UI / UX to scan your environment almost instantly to get a full interactive virtual version. As for yourself, you’ll be able to generate a digital version of you that looks exactly like you based on all of your photos and videos. The digital version will use your own voice to communicate. Even when you make an audio call, your digital self might be speaking visually to the person on the other end.

- Personal tutors / assistants / therapists. They’ll look human and speak like a human, like a human in a pocket. They may get so good that you won’t even know they’re not human. Your tutor / assistant will have the knowledge of most of the internet and you can ask it anything to get mostly accurate information. You may even talk to it like you would on a video call (again, without knowing they are not human). This assistant may also act as your friend, confidant and therapist. You’ll be able to confine anything in them if you choose to (but remember who will have access to that…)

- The ultimate productivity assistant. You’ll be able to tell it what to do and it’ll just do it for you short of driving. Need to write an email? Make an appointment via a call? Order groceries online? Order a meal for Sunday lunch? Just let it know and it’ll happen, on time, exactly as specified. The person on the other end may never know they didn’t speak to you personally, unless Apple bakes in some sort of an identifier (probably a good idea).

- Ability to call your deceased relatives if there are audio recordings of them in the past. Combined with their voice and ways of thinking, you can make a call to have a conversation with them like they were there. Hello black mirror.

- App recommendations: Your phone will see what kinds of apps you install and may recommend other apps you may enjoy. (Opt in feature).

- Advanced spam filtering. Email may be transformed significantly where spam is reduced to near zero. A LLM can analyze billions of emails in an anonymized fashion and be able to filter out most spam. What google did back in the day will be cranked up even further.

- Recommendations for your kids. You may be able to ask your personal ai assistant to analyze your child’s behavior, inclinations, preferences and more.. to get a tailored set of recommendations that maximize their future based on your or their priorities. This can be a double edge sword but I suspect many parents will use it.

What other fun or dystopian ideas can you imagine coming to the iPhone?

Yeah but if people depend on their work to pay the bills, low time preference won’t help.