The "free market" explained:

I have been using Old Bay for electrolytes.

Fuck these people

Crypto anarchy isn’t about chaos. It’s about removing permission from progress.

🇸🇻 El Salvador is set to host one of Latin America’s tallest skyscrapers: Tether Tower.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has confirmed plans for a 70-story global headquarters in San Salvador, which will also house other digital asset and tech companies.

I just had my first proper business call in Spanish...and it went pretty well! We understood each other, we communicated! 🥳

My favorite female artist / voices

1) Sade

2) Selena

3) Whitney Houston

4) Raveena

5) Amy Whitehouse

Yes,

Key differences:

TLM: 1500 years unchanged, the priest faces god (towards christ turned away from the attendance), the singing is Gregorian chants, and the mass is done in latin.

New Mass: introduced in 1970, the priest faces the attendance, the singing is done in whatever the location culture prefers, and the mass is done in whatever local language is.

Traditional Latin Mass is the way.

IYKYK

Here’s what NPR didn’t share from the interviews I did with them (four in total) for the most recent episode of Planet Money:

•That while it’s awkward for most Bitcoin enthusiasts to have the political class here now, it’s better that they are here so that we can have conversations about Bitcoin out in the open with them, instead of conversations on the topic happening behind closed doors.

•That it’s a good thing that the U.S. government is no longer antagonistic toward Bitcoin, because there are activists and others living under authoritarian regimes globally who rely on bitcoin as a money of last resort, and if the U.S. is openly hostile to it, it gives more leverage to the leaders of those authoritarian regimes.

•That Bitcoin is the separation of money and state, but that doesn’t mean the state won’t have something to say about it. And that, again, it’s better that Bitcoin enthusiasts and industry leaders are at the table to have those conversations with politicians.

•(I believe I also told the reporter about the work Gridless is doing in Africa, which is incentivizing the growth of renewable energy, and that Bitcoin shouldn’t be a bipartisan issue and that some Democrats like Ro Khanna see the benefits of it, but I’m not totally sure of that.)

In total, I spoke with the reporter who interviewed me for somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes and they clipped two lines from what I said so to fit them into the narrative they wanted to craft.

While I get that this is how journalism works - that all reporters have a bias - I wanted to weigh in to let you all know that what I shared was manipulated to fit an agenda.

I used to defend NPR’s public funding, as I thought the organization served a public good, but I no longer feel that way.

If they refuse to tell the whole Bitcoin story, they no longer have my support.

Story time…

I asked Senator Dick Durban if he still thought Bitcoin was “gambling” (referencing a July 2022 letter to Fidelity he co-authored with Senator Warren).

Bitcoin was $20k at the time…

He proceeded to ramble about “crypto ATM scams,” said we need to “clean up our act,” and said bitcoin could “implode tomorrow.”

He also brought up FTX, which is funny because DICK TOOK MONEY FROM SBF…

Generally, he made clear that he thinks Bitcoin is absolutely terrible.

I asked in my question good faith to give him an opportunity to show he’s changed… to show he’s not just a parrot for Warren’s talking points… but he immediately got hostile and visibly angry that we dared to advocate for Bitcoin.

I, and others, tried to respectfully explain where he was mistaken and conflating things done by bad actors that have nothing to do with *Bitcoin*.

But Dick couldn’t be bothered with facts or logic. He shut us down and he refused to talk about Bitcoin further.

Senator Durbin clearly has zero interest in having an honest discussion about Bitcoin, but luckily he is 80 years old.

We can hardly expect an octogenarian politician to grok Bitcoin. But the sad part is, people pay attention to what this guy says… His, and Warren’s, anti-Bitcoin stance drives their supporters away from Bitcoin, and their supporters NEED Bitcoin, even if they don’t know it yet.

What dinosaurs like Dick don’t understand is Bitcoin doesn’t need their permission.

GM

The land of the free.

The defenders of free speech!

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GM, happy Friday! 🫡

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