The frequency of global human rights organizations and civil liberties groups reaching out to me to learn how they can incorporate Bitcoin into their operations is reaching all-time high levels

It is very exciting

We can and will equip our allies around the world with one of the most important tools for advancing human freedom

Bitcoin makes any resistance movement a much stronger force to be reckoned with 🚀

This — the Boston in me — has pronounced it this way from the start

That’s because I also say nawtradawmus (Nostradamus) 🤷‍♂️

I love working with people in bitcoin. Every day is a joy.

This was Miami to Melbourne, about as far and difficult as possible.

I’ve found a workout immediately when you land + grounding works extremely well

still can’t believe cash app got cashapp in the npub

Balaji’s idea is fundamentally statist. The Network State.

He wants the collective to organise and wield political power.

Nostr has no interest in that, it seeks to unshackle itself from that world and provide a haven away from fiat and politics.

His thesis is kind of being disproved here.

Is it easier to reach El Salvador from Miami or Las Vegas?

VC copycat garbage

WE are the people of the network state ⚡

Serious question:

You think balaji is shitting his pants about nostr?

He’s invested so much money in decentralized social and it’s right here on nostr yet he’s nowhere to be found

You secretly think he saw nostr and all the energy and what it achieves (without a token) and thought ohh fuck and is acting like he doesn’t notice it yet?

You show up in my notifications, you get ⚡zapped⚡

Does anyone have some LN vs Nostr numbers? I have a feeling Nostr is now the biggest LN active use in transaction count.

Global Liquidity and #Bitcoin.

Who is still here from before Christmas?

We still have macro headwinds this year, but does it really matter if you are buying bitcoin for $23k today, even if it goes a little lower? We are in bottom range.

This is the accumulation zone.

😅

Got another dedicated server for the damus purple relay :) this should be the fastest paid relay once it's up

US public debt to rise by 5.2 Billion every day in the coming decade…

% of debt to GDP in excess of 100% and not sure how it comes back down at these rates.

Chart from ZH and BoA.

As a value investor, I find Charlie Munger's recent WSJ-published arguments to ban bitcoin/crypto and thank the leader of the Chinese Communist Party to be embarrassing and sad.

I'm currently writing a research note to 10,000 retail and institutional subscribers on why it's dumb.

Munger has a history of arguing that someone should be able to "steelman" their opposing view if they are going to have an opinion on something, which means being able to articulate an opponent's viewpoint more convincingly than even they can. Recently on CNBC, Munger was quoted on his historical claim and then asked by the anchor to steelman bitcoin/crypto after his WSJ op-ed, and he was unable to and didn't even try to.

He doesn't know anything about Segwit, Taproot, block size limits, whether a base layer should be Turing complete or not, anything about power dynamics between nodes, developers, and miners, etc. Absolutely no clue, and no attempt at a clue.

Such a bad viewpoint doesn't only reflect his old age, but also reflects his inherent ethics at a structural level from inception as a banker. It undermines his entire legacy.

Even on the history of money and its problems in developing countries, Munger would be schooled in a Twitter Spaces by any random above-average bitcoin twitter anonymous account.

It's sad to see.

Sats are better than dimes

Like this dollar? 😉

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Yes this is true as we settle your tips in dollars atm

Strike has a $0.01 minimum invoice I think

Cool, hopefully I’ve put it in correctly. I get an error if I try to zap myself but it’s probably because you can’t do that.

LFG 💪

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