The strongest governments are those whose culture persuades people that they are the government themselves.

Just cancelled over $60 worth of subscriptions that I wasn't using or wasn't really getting my money's worth out of. Should have done that months ago!

Libertarianism IS self sovereignty as a form of governance.

Sounds like oxymoron, until you ask: Would a functional society of free individuals even need or want governance?

Because humans are biologically social yet fiercely independent, the answer is inevitably yes. Humans need to cooperate AND we need agreements to cooperate at scale.

Like it or not, the only path toward self sovereignty is libertarian.

#belibertarian

#makeityours

#votelocal

#votegold

You might spend some bitcoin sometimes, but you can't spend all the bitcoin all the time.

The thing that made Twitter good was the character limit. Without that now it is just Facebook.

Hola, acabo de instalar Amethyst pero no se si estoy en Nostr? Me puedes confirmar por favor

Dark gray, cold, ashy, ruinous

A purple flower, fragile, hope.

An orange sunrise, warm, birth, life.

A future, uncertain, disturbing, promising.

My friend that had two dead Lightning channels was able to manually recover his 6M sats by manually creating and signing the transactions to do so. This was only possible because he knew the two other parties, contacted them, and gave them the transactions to broadcast.

Addictions I've beat this year:

Gambling

Alcohol

THC

Masturbating

Addictions I still have:

Nicotine

Caffeine

Talking shit

Yeah, I'm a fucking mess. Judge me. Jesus will.

Shareholder value was more at risk prior to the bitcoin strategy. Most other business analytics companies went away or were absorbed into the tech titans. MicroStrategy was hanging on, but it was a melting ice cube, which then makes it hard to attract the best employees or maintain the best economy of scale, which then accelerates the melting of the ice cube.

And within the bitcoin strategy, taking on debt is the bigger risk. If bitcoin is in a bear market when their debt matures and without a lot of gains from the cost basis, that could cause them to dilute equity at a bad time, or have to sell bitcoin, or do other inopportune actions that would damage shareholder value.

Issuing overvalued equity to buy more bitcoin and thus improve the bitcoin-per-share metric, mildly de-risks the company by improving the equity/debt ratio, and is good for shareholder returns, assuming shareholders are bullish on bitcoin (which by this point, most of them are). It makes the overall company size way bigger, gives them a warchest of capital if they need it, helps them hire top talent including for their business analytics business, and reverse the melting ice cube trap.

Elon said they’re not called Tweets, they’re called posts, unless there’s something better to call them

The Mormon missionaries came and visited me today. Mormons are such nice people. I think this is the church I'm going to go to from now on.