Relax and enjoy it. We are entering the absurdly volatile times and they don’t last very long, and they get reeeally nuts if I learned anything from the last 4 of them.

This one will be wild, no doubt. You should be a little scared, but it’s also fun. It’s like we’re getting to the top of the roller coaster climb and the *real* ride is about the start. Both excitement and fear are perfectly rational… buckle up 😂

Just fyi

During face melting bull runs, there are still 20-30% pull backs

No being scared pls

People don’t understand that the $5,- donation per bitaxe and the open source development around mining will snowball the following:

- few bitaxes, how fun

- 1 block a month solo mined, people start to understand the lottery principle

- 1 block a week (couple million solo miners)

Meanwhile, radical bitcoiners buy a freaking new machine from ASML and start to dump cheap ASIC chips on the market. Everyone starts to build on the developed open source stacks and you can get mass produced “miners” super cheap for every dimension and purpose. We will heat/use excess electricity and join the lottery while decentralizing the network. Meanwhile companies with excess/cheap electricity/need for heat will run their own “pool” instance ensuring freedom of transaction is preserved. Open source mining should develop faster than its closed source competitors, but it starts at the ASIC level. And that start is expensive. nostr:note125nmcu5869h5vrjjk6s3y0hdtcj0afr64n837q3klxdyud3re3fssatngm

gm

In fiction, the point of view from how we see the story can often color how we perceive the ethics of characters. And of course, that lesson can apply in real life as well.

If you ask most people if Neo and Trinity in the Matrix are heroes or anti-heroes, for example, they’ll probably say heroes. There is nothing particularly dark or edgy about them other than kind of a general “cool” factor. They’re pretty chill and well-meaning people in their downtime, we care about their relationship, they help their friends, they have rather pure motivations, etc.

But in the Matrix, agents can teleport themselves into any unplugged person. Which means that when Neo or Trinity attack a place, they pretty much have to slaughter everyone. Leaving survivors means that agents can teleport in. Innocent guards and stuff just get wiped out by the dozens. The stakes of humanity being enslaved by the machines are so high, that the characters don’t even really debate the ethics of this; they just accept it.

Like literally the opening scene is Trinity killing police, and the audience is like “wow cool” instead of “so, is that the antagonist?” The famous lobby scene consists of Neo and Trinity wiping out tons of guards that are just doing their job of guarding a skyscraper. In the sequel, Trinity sends a motorcycle bomb into a power station, and then murders the remaining guards as they attack her. We all basically like Trinity, and yet there are platoons of widows and orphans out there from all the guards she killed. There aren’t really even any scenes of her reflecting on that, like finding it emotionally difficult in any way to do those things or feeling in any way haunted by it.

If the Matrix story was shown from like, a detective’s point of view, these characters are terrorists and would either seem like outright villains (if you don’t know their motivation) or anti-heroes if you do (ends justify the means; mass-murder is okay and not even worth feeling bad about if it saves billions).

So, how the movie *frames* things for us makes a big difference. We closely follow Neo and Trinity so much that we’re like, “of course they’re the heroes”. The same thing happens in real life with political commentators and things like that; a cultural narrative can frame something as wholly good or wholly bad when often it’s actually kind of complex.

Therefore, it’s a useful practice whether in analyzing fiction or real life, to always ask how you could invert the framing for something.

GM

Today is the 35th anniversary of the 'fall' of the Berlin Wall, a wonderful symbol of the absolute failure of the left.

35 years later we still do not know anyone who ran to East Berlin that night.

This should be called the Trump Embarrassment Gap.

Forgot to add the pic 😁 (waking up still I guess)

Good morning to all freedom fighters.

#Bitcoin

GM to everyone except CA vermin.

"This entire case is a grave miscarriage of justice, and another stepping stone in the US Government's war on financial privacy."

Imagine being Germany selling 50,000 BTC in the bear market and then seeing Trump creates a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve boosting Bitcoin going beyond $1M.👀

GOOD MORNING NOSTR.

LIVE FREE. 🫡

GM.

Contemplating on the shitter in the morning that I can't shitpost for shit 🤔

BREAKING: Record inflows of $1.4 BILLION into US #Bitcoin ETFs today and $25.5 BILLION inflows since inception. 🤯

#GM

time to get up and post notes and write codes