Anyway, good night.

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

JUST IN - 🇨🇭 Swiss National Bank Vice Chairman: #Bitcoin is a "very interesting concept."

After a lot of editing, I officially passed my book manuscript to my first editor, out of two editors it will go through.

Now I have to start working on a lot of charts so that I can insert them by the time the editors are done in a couple months.

The "thank you" fund reward has just been sent out to the following devs for their contributions in getting nostr to where it is today:

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richardbondi

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All of which received 5,000,000 sats. This list was chosen by me, #[13] , and most client and relay core devs.

Unbeknownst to fiatjaf, me and most of the core devs got together and decided to reward him 100,000,000 sats for creating nostr, without him none of us would be here!

tx: c1c952d8c0ccf1f7664792121530b594ec5116bef97bbafdff17e6f6730d72a4

All remaining funds will be put towards contributions to the nostr ecosystem, let's get hacking!