People tend to ignore bear markets and then buy high-volume tops. It is sad but that is what happens.

I’m going to emphasize “study bitcoin” to people this cycle. Not tell them to buy it. Not tell them to have fun staying poor. Just point out that it’s still here, yes it’s important, and yes you should take the time to understand it.

The main reason people don’t buy #bitcoin is because they don’t understand that money printing cause inflation and that inflation is time theft, and that time theft is slow murder.

I SAID YES!! 🧡

There is no other answer when your soulmate asks you to marry him.

A match made on #Bitcoin Twitter ⚡️

If you had to choose 5 books to help someone understand Bitcoin and why it is important, what would they be?

This is Joe! He doesn't believe in Bitcoin!Explain him #Bitcoin in 1 sentence!

#asknostr

What are your favorite hardware wallets, among the latest generation of them?

And are there any that you really don’t like?

#bitcoin #zap #btc ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Bravo!

I hope kindle version will be available soon as ordering from US to Bulgaria is absolute pain.

Talking to Dave Portnoy about Barstool, money, and #Bitcoin tomorrow morning for the Money Matters Podcast

What else do y’all wanna hear us talk about?

hey nostr

any non US folks open to chatting with me and some of the strike team in a user research study we’re doing?

we are looking to launch our global on-ramps soon and we wanna learn more about how strike can be the best bitcoin experience and learn more about the financial needs of different parts of the world

I spoke at a big bitcoin-adjacent company this week and one of the best questions was from someone who asked what the downsides of bitcoin adoption might be.

I always do appreciate these steelman questions, the skeptical questions, the ones where we challenge ourselves. Only when we can answer those types of questions do we understand the concept that we are promoting.

So the classic example is that in modern economic literature, "deflation is bad". This, however, is only the case in a highly indebted system. Normally, deflation is good. Money appreciates, technology improves, and goods and services get cheaper over time as they should. Price of Tomorrow covers this well. My book touches on this too, etc. The "deflation is bad" meme is still alive in modern economic discourse and thus is worth countering, but I think in the bitcoin spectrum of communities, people get that deflation is fine and good.

My answer to the question was in two parts.

The first part was technological determinism. In other words, if we were to re-run humanity multiple times, there are certain rare accidents that might not replicate, and other commonalities that probably would. Much like steam engines, internal combustion engines, electricity, and nuclear power, I think a decentralized network of money is something we would eventually come across. In our case, Bitcoin came into existence as soon as the bandwidth and encryption tech allowed it to. In other universes or simulations it might look a bit different (e.g. might not be 21 million or ten minute block times exactly), but I think decentralized real-time settlement would become apparent as readily as electricity does, for any civilization that reaches this point. So ethics aside, it just is what it is. It exists, and thus we must deal with it.

The second part was that in my view, transparency and individual empowerment is rarely a bad thing. Half of the world is autocratic. And half of the world (not quite the same half) deals with massive structural inflation. A decentralized spreadsheet that allows individuals to store and send value can't possibly be a bad thing, unless humanity itself is totally corrupted. I then went into more detail with examples about historical war financing, and all sorts of tangible stuff. In other words, a whole chapter full of stuff. I've addressed this in some articles to.

In your view, if you had to steelman the argument as best as you could, what are the scenarios where bitcoin is *BAD* for humanity rather than good for it, on net?

The WorldCoin scam is onboarding one person every 8 seconds. At that rate it will take 1880 years to get everyone on earth into the slave grid.

Why then do “Bitcoiners” think they can beat snd outflank WC by providing

✅ Concierge services

✅ Onboarding

✅ Education

To Bitcoin companies? If onboarding people to BTC requires a Concierge or Education or a manager for onboarding, how long do you think it will take critical mass to be reached?

Bitcoiners have a fundamental problem; understanding the scale of the Fiat Currency problem.

It would be nice to read a single idea describing how the install rate for Bitcoiners can exceed the WC rate before they flood the market with Phantasm spheres, which are no doubt being by mass manufactured as you read this.

eggs and fish are fine for vast majority of carnivores.

Though there is Mikhaila Peterson's "lion diet" which i think does exclude even those.

Something I've realised about carnivore diet is that some of the benefits come from actually being more strict about it e.g. cutting out zero-sugar/calorie flavoured soft drinks, coffee and other bits and pieces that end up in the diet.

It's more difficult but I'm giving it a go nowadays rather than 'looser' attempts in the past.

Still struggle with sticking to it while travelling or in social situations though.