A good resource for pensions is https://proofofworkforce.org/pensionfunds/

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To preserve privacy in Bitcoin, we just need to integrate AI, & tada!, the Whitehouse just issued us an executive order

Yes, the AI Executive Order is ironic given the administrations stance on eliminating the privacy to transact & the arrests of tornado cash devs (who made cryptographic tools to preserve privacy)

"Privacy for me, but not for thee"

The WH EA on AI: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/

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A haunted house but each room is a different letter from Liz Warren & other lawmakers citing factually incorrect articles from WSJ & NYT

A worthwhile read about freedom to transact, forced statelessness, survival, & the fragility of the social contract we think we have with our country

👇🏼 https://twitter.com/intrepid_p/status/1718021366329565586?t=Q9N7mMEM0i7W6OI1cwfInQ&s=19

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Bitcoin: UPTOBERRRR 📈

Fiat: OCTOBRRRR 💵 🖨

Bitcoin miners have already invested billions in infrastructure that improves the resiliency of the US electricity grid

The incentives for grid resiliency are aligned, but the policy goals are misaligned

If the US governments worked w/ the Bitcoin mining industry, vs banning it & raising red tape, we could accelerate this outcome

Bitcoin is a NATIONAL SECURITY ASSET:

* Provides access to an alternative, unrestricted financial system

* Incents domestic innovation, onshoring of manufacturing, & new economic ecosystems

* Mining improves grid reliability & financially supports new construction + revitalization of aging energy infrastructure

1. Bitcoin is Plan B. Bitcoin is an alternative, unrestricted, uncensorable financial system. Its an alternative to the freedom restricting surveillance CBDCs like the e-RMB, which threatens the US' global reserve currency status. It allows greater participation from under/unbanked citizens & preserves human rights (see nostr:npub1csuq0wzew7r6nynh97vjfamxrcqk70hgk8a3hvqz9ftzuu0sshtsm5xfjj work) - thus increasingly, Bitcoin is Plan A for certain global citizens

2. Bitcoin boosts economic growth. It incents domestic innovation in hardwar & software: from ASIC cooling methods that can be exported to traditional data centers, to new & better financial tools or energy management software. Mining is also a growing market for the onshoring of manufacturing (form chips to domestically produced ASICs (eg nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m Block). We are also creating new economic ecosystems/ biz clusters & the rate of deployment & scale of these is accelerating: from heat recovery for district heating, food manufacturing, & agriculture/aquaculture; to alternative revenue streams for traditional industries like oil & gas or pulp & paper.

3. Bitcoin mining improves domestic energy systems. It boosts grid reliability through demand response participation wrt load & frequency balancing. The elegant system of economic incentives bitcoin is founded on means it can subsidize/support both new energy infrastructure consutruction: hydro across Africa, renewables & nuclear in US, & geothermal in El Salvador; as well as the revitalization of aging infrastructure (again, see El Salvador's energy projects). Bitcoin mining is also helping boost domestic oil production - of particular importance to energy security given current geopolitical events - in North America by providing an alternative revenue stream for traditional O&G to otherwise wasted flare gas (+ lowering carbon compliance costs); mining is also supporting the construction of PRTIs waste tire to oil & gas infrastructure

These are a few examples of how Bitcoin *is* of national security interest. Not all nations understand this yet or mistakenly assume it's a threat, while others like El Salvador are forging ahead (eg it just launched a mining pool)

So keep building & sharing these stories, the world & politicians will catch up 💪🏼

AI Faceoff: Mushroom ID edition. I ran ChatGPT4 (paid version) & Google lens (free) to see how they fared. Google appears to be better at showing similar results & correctly IDing mushrooms - it got every 🍄 of the 5 I ran correct (in this set). ChatGPT4 especially had trouble with bolettes. ChatGPT4 does allow for multiple picture uploads, which is a helpful feature if it improves IDing.

Thought foragers may be curious & its a useful tool if you want to double check - I found it useful to compare pictures with what I found & especially to see if there are any similar toxic ones & how to avoid them. AI tests 👇🏼

Thanks!

I belive I also collected them, but they were sooo gross and slimed over everything :(

I had trouble peeling the cap and chucked them

I found a spot a few days ago. I did pick one up & its drying. I've more research to do on it before I'm comfortable

Proof of Work! Foraged a variety of mushrooms on my 4hr, 6km hike: zellers bolettes, cat tongue, winter & golden chanterelles, shaggy mane, cauliflower, & slipper jacks.

When people don't belive us when we say they're artificially keeping BTC down, show them this

https://watcher.guru/news/caroline-ellison-sbf-conspired-to-keep-bitcoin-under-20k

Posted too fast, this is bitcoin bear math (Bitcoin trends to 0) 😆

Bitcoiner girl math is knowing there's only 21,000,000/∞

'Secure custody' at FTX was 3 weasels in a business suit

We live in a world where you're born into a country & that's the money you use

It's like a casino, where you get given chips that you can only use at that casino; & the casino next door has its own chips. This cannot be the best system 🎰

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