“We often see that once market share is determined to be sufficient (or a competitor sufficiently hurt), the tools used for capture are abandoned or weakened.”
https://stacker.news/items/1065518/r/halalmoney?commentId=1065676
Have a great time!
If you live to see hyperbitcoinisation.....
“Last year, Ashley and a large team of scientists conducted an elaborate experiment on the effects of exercise on the mammalian body. In one test, Ashley put rats on tiny treadmills, worked them out for weeks, and cut into them to investigate how their organs and vessels responded to the workout compared to a control group of more sedentary rodents. The results were spectacular. Exercise transformed just about every tissue and molecular system that Ashley and his co-authors studied—not just the muscles and heart, but also the liver, adrenal glands, fat, and immune system.
When I asked Ashley if it was possible to design a drug that mimicked the observed effects of exercise, he was emphatic that, no, this was not possible. The benefits of exercise seem too broad for any one therapy to mimic. To a best approximation, aerobic fitness and weight-training seem to increase our metabolism, improve mitochondrial function, fortify our immune system, reduce inflammation, improve tissue-specific adaptations, and protect against disease.”
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-sunday-morning-post-why-exercise
“I love to see the private market developing capital intensive tech like this. We always used to hear that we need government for big costly infrastructure.......clearly not. If there is perceived demand then billionaires will invest.”
https://stacker.news/items/1064512/r/halalmoney?commentId=1064605
“the only way to strike a real balance between effort and results is to resort to a sound money”
Oh Mike, one minute you are shitposting and then you become all philosophical.
GM
Fellow Bitcoiners, are we all going to end up dictators in our own regions?
Peter McCormack now has his own army and Nayib has turned himself into a lifetime president 🥹
Am I really destined to become "Mike the Bastard" ?
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/01/americas/el-salvador-presidential-term-change-intl-hnk
You either die young enough as a well-intentioned Bitcoiner, or live long enough to become a Bitcoin baron.
NEW: Saylor breaks down MSTR, STRK, and STRC, explaining the distinct markets each product is targeting.
https://video.nostr.build/45b0dd91096bf68327ac72e1da17056553a7c03fccb83e6831800c46b62f9294.mp4
Stretch! What a great name for the latest product.
“Housing has become the defacto SoV for the masses who can afford to fund a mortgage.”
https://stacker.news/items/1063632/r/halalmoney?commentId=1064396
“Bitcoin solved the double‑spending problem with a global ledger that is independently verified by all nodes on the network. However, to achieve this, Satoshi’s solution traded off the speed and privacy offered by physical cash. Chaumian ecash grafted onto bitcoin reverses that trade‑off. An ecash mint handles double‑spend detection, while users regain instant, local finality along with the option to collapse the token back into money whenever connectivity returns.”
Thanks for sharing!
“Last-Mile Sovereignty
The Bitchat-plus-ecash model widens bitcoin’s surface area without tampering with its monetary policy, showing that hard money can be used in contexts where payment speed is important and internet connectivity may or may not be available. All the while, the ecash tokens used for payment are bearer instruments that remain anchored to an incorruptible base.
To get there, mint implementations need rigorous reputation management features and proof-of-reserve functionality so that users can understand how much counterparty risk is introduced by the mint. The end-user app itself must present ecash payments in a familiar interface, turning ecash payments and bitcoin redemptions into ordinary taps and swipes. If the user experience of this technology can be developed to the degree that it can be readily used by non-experts, it could do for payments what Nostr aims to do for speech: extend the reach of permissionless systems all the way to the physical edges of daily life.”
I read an article I liked on substack. At the end of the article, the author provide a lightning address to which i sent some sats.
“i hate mobile devices, because the way that military and industry have set things up, they want to use it as a funnel for your attention”
“Bitcoin is replacing bonds, not dollars. The dollar's current global power comes from the bonds, not the token that spends.”
🤣 someone's got bitcoin running through his blood!
nostr:npub123sfqjpgf54p28yd7cjlgrpcn4pra5zhlnheyldc39td9r3zhgpshcwk9x - great article!
Extract 1:
"Schaaf's core mistake lies in treating money as a state tool rather than a market phenomenon. This collectivist conception ignores the fundamental truth that money emerges spontaneously from voluntary exchange, not government decree. His worldview represents central banking's pathology of conflating institutional monetary socialism with individual sovereignty."
Extract 2:
"In all honesty, what are stablecoins redeemable for? More fiat, debt-based, inflationary paper backed by government credibility drowning in deficits. This creates multiple layers of counterparty risks: the stablecoin issuer, the banking system holding reserves, and the deficit-spending government backing the securities."
Extract 3:
"Claiming Bitcoin lacks value because it isn't "backed" resembles arguing email has no value because it isn't printed on paper. This represents the dying gasp of fiat apologists and Keynesian witchdoctors; a worldview where money is decreed, not discovered; where value is granted, not earned; and where economic truth serves political necessity.
"Backing" isn't a feature, it's a trap keeping you tethered to the system Bitcoin was created to escape. Stablecoins aren't stable; they're pegged to a sinking ship, maintaining 1:1 backing with inflating dollars. As dollars bleed value through systematic debasement, so do they."
Extract 4:
"When Schaaf warns that USD stablecoins might "weaken ECB control over monetary conditions," he inadvertently reveals central banking's coercive nature.
The ECB's euro stablecoins and digital euro aren't about empowering consumers, they're about re-centralizing monetary control under slick looking interfaces and Orwellian surveillance. Both CBDCs and regulated stablecoins remove bearer instruments while subjecting all transactions to state scrutiny."
Extract 5:
"Whether your chains are denominated in dollars or euros matters little when the shackles remain identical."
Extract 6:
"Stablecoins and CBDCs represent the old world's final attempt to prevent monetary evolution through technological camouflage and regulatory capture. They offer innovation's appearance while preserving monetary authoritarianism's substance."
https://kudzai.substack.com/p/the-irony-of-unintended-consequences
“To be reliably able to focus on something, you need to be intuitively, emotionally invested in the outcome.”
“…when Covid was at the peak of madness and the Biden Admin was about to MANDATE the poison vaxx on over 80 million working class Americans or they were to lose their jobs... the Supreme Court stepped in and the Biden Admin realized it had lost total control of the population, the Covid hysteria wasn't going to win them the next cycle... they sent Kamala Harris to Europe where she declared Ukraine would join NATO.
They had set the population up for 8 years that Putin was the source of evil and they played that card to deflect from their atrocious policies on Covid. Putin took the bait/ or had to and the next day every mask wearing covid vax fanatic had shifted their emotional ire onto Russia. Classic bait and switch Wag the Dog ops.”
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“If you can afford to off-board you can afford a Lightning channel without the trustodial shenanigans run by scammers.”
https://stacker.news/items/1060679/r/halalmoney?commentId=1060715
"I have previously used VPNs for occasional regional issues like accessing Polymarket to see how badly my 12 x $1 bets are doing."🤣
“If we don't become obsessed with our own hardware we will not stay free.”
NGU is the only signal that will get people's attention. People are dumb. They are distracted. They are ignorant. They are lazy. Their one weird friend getting rich will be a wake up call. If you think people are suddenly gonna wake up to Austrian economics or sovereignty or any of the many other things that attracted most of us you are delusional.
https://stacker.news/items/1057917/r/halalmoney?commentId=1058141
“In the short term, the basic arithmetic of bond markets has deteriorated; more supply coupled with a reduction in both reliable and speculative demand. And that means higher bond yields look probable, forcing governments to pay more to fund their ever-growing deficits. The maths of governing developed countries looks likely to get increasingly difficult.”
“Most "liberals" are just larping and are actually tribal partisans. I learned this the hard way when all my fellow liberals suddenly stopped opposing war, prohibition, and mass deportation the second Obama was the one doing it.
They aren't saying anything that gets them expelled from mainstream platforms. It's entirely predictable that alternative platforms are dominated by fringe weirdos.”
https://stacker.news/items/1054931/r/halalmoney?commentId=1055067
“Trump is a reflection of both sides. He's a result not a cause. He's the dam not the flood. I don't fear him in the slightest. I fear the hatred and disillusionment that created his rise. Half of the people are fed up with the system (as they see it) and the other half want it back as it was. It's not going back, but the new right hasn't won either.”
https://stacker.news/items/1054931/r/halalmoney?commentId=1055423
“Trump is a reflection of both sides. He's a result not a cause. He's the dam not the flood. I don't fear him in the slightest. I fear the hatred and disillusionment that created his rise. Half of the people are fed up with the system (as they see it) and the other half want it back as it was. It's not going back, but the new right hasn't won either.”
https://stacker.news/items/1054931/r/halalmoney?commentId=1055423
Trey, how can one go into politics when it seems inevitable that eventually your shoulder will be tapped to do the unconscionable to either keep your place in the game or to move forward?
Bitcoin sharpens the mind which in turn beautifies the writing.
“nothing can be fixed from within a system that operates on manipulation of money”
The USD is the biggest mind virus in town. So, btc/usd is important for now. We just need a better mind virus.
Nice one, David. I think this encapsulates what I like most about nostr.
“we don't want it to scale. we don't want to have a global. we want to have our communities and a transitory blur between them that lets people if they sit too far on the edge and might want to be in another, move to it.”
Maybe scale is the drug we need not chase. Interesting.
“Nostr architecture could form the basis of many little worlds that don't connect to form a big world but still makes Nostr a useful contribution to the web.”
America tests AI powered fighter jet drones https://share.google/mGEBJcw4tpFawSONv
As a back up plan to the world moving away from the US dollar.
As a solution to the Triffin dilemma.
Justin Shocknet over on Stacker News asserts that the NSA created Bitcoin.
‘KARMA IS THE ULTIMATE DEFLATIONARY CURRENCY—NO ONE PRINTS IT, NO ONE ESCAPES IT, AND ITS LEDGER IS COSMIC’
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"...current AI does not genuinely “think”. Instead, it relies on logical shortcuts, known as heuristics, that sacrifice precision for speed. This means that, despite speaking like a person, it cannot reason, feel, care, or desire anything. It does not work in the same way as a human mind."
The surprising job AI won’t replace any time soon | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/ai-jobs-computer-scientists-b2780238.html
“…Bitcoin is the only asset whose legitimacy increases as central coordination fails.
Not because it replaces yield or growth but because it replaces the need to believe in someone at the top.”