Gm 🌞 ☕️

I successfully avoided caffeine (no teas and coffee) all weekend.

And I can tell you it was rubbish.

Absolutely pants. Zero out of ten.

I would warmly recommend Peter schiff and Christine Lagarde try it.

Anyway. Mild headaches, flat mood and the desire to do very little.

I am an addict.

Is it worth trying to cut out caffeine completely? Do you get any benefits?

#Caffeinestr #Coffeestr #Teastr

So buffer account just means an extra account for robo sats trades?

Although it was predictable ahead of time that so many Palestinian civilians including children would die as a result of Israel’s response to the attack on Israel by Hamas, as the numbers continue to add up it is increasingly hard to watch.

Half of Gaza’s population is under the age of 18. There is not much more sad in this world than children, cut off from electricity and communication, violently dying from air strikes in darkness.

And sadly this happens in other places of the world too.

For much of human history, people were only aware of their own local area. Now we have awareness of large swaths of the world, and so we can keep track of tragedies in real time. We then desensitize ourselves out of necessity. Like, the sheer amount of negative information and unsolvable problems hit us through media, and in order to productively do something to add value to someone else, there is little choice other than compartmentalization it. An electrician can’t be caught up in the troubles of the world as he goes out each day and fixes things and building things, for example. In order to add order to his small part of the world, he can’t be fully caught up with its global chaos.

And then, I see these crazy protestors tearing down flyers about kidnapped Israelis, as though that activity could possibly be the best use of their time. People have a strong tendency to want to be part of something bigger and longer lasting than themselves, whether it is their religion, their community, their ideology, or their work. But some people chose such fruitless ways of doing it. Yes, you can and should advocate for not bombing children. No, you shouldn’t try to erase what happened to murdered or captured Israelis either. It is not rocket science.

The world is an increasingly polarized place, and my biggest concern is for those polarizations to be used to take rights away in a more broader context, or to wage war between larger opponents. Politicians will propagandize any small share of “crypto funding” to bad groups to justify more restrictions on those technologies and privacy in general. As countries go through sovereign debt crises, having some sort of enemy to point to helps their narrative for capital controls and keeping their citizens in currency and bonds as they are inflated away. I’ve studied the 1940s financial environment too much to be unaware of this.

Always look through to the bigger story, and ideally with a perspective of empathy toward many sides of any complex issue. Strive to be able to articulate your opponent’s view as well as they can, so that your counter argument can be most effective and surgical in its nature. And then, when there is nothing you can do about something globally, try instead to bring order and reason and improvement and kindness to whatever small portion of the world that you can.

You started incorrectly already in the first paragraph:

"as a result of Israel’s response to the attack on Israel by Hamas"

Its actually Hamas' response to the Israeli occupation, apartheid, expanding settlements and murder of children for nearly a century.

Are we told to have empathy for the evil German Nazis?

Why are we being told to now?

Decades of the weaponization of "anti-semitism" and now equating it with anti-zionism have allowed Israel to turn into something far worse than the German or even the Japanese Nazis.

The buffer account is always recommended since the bank can freeze your account at any time either because they find out or suspect you are trying to scape with crypto either somebody does a reversal. I learned this the hard way

Then it should be done on a buffer account and only finish the trade once you leave the buffer account to zero

*dies from cringe*

I don't know, every subscription model feels negative these days. It's like being held hostage to the provider's future services, where they can arbitrarily decide not to deliver them anymore for whatever reason they come up with.

You’re using a VPN? Oh, our systems triggered a security warning. You need to do more KYC, give us more data so we can unlock you and continue providing you the CONTRACTUALLY AGREED SERVICES. Forget about your right to hide your IP address. Why don’t you just surf the internet naked like all the other suckers out there? Don’t you get that we’re entitled to get all kinds of data from you, on top of the subscription fees we take from you upfront?

Assholes. Real assholes.

Self-host everything you can. Get an Umbrel server that makes self-hosting way more easier, if you can. And prefer P2P whenever possible to avoid those asshole-tactics.

Kinda wild to watch the people outraged at the death of innocent Jewish people, dismiss or even celebrate the death of innocent Palestinians.

And people outraged by the death of innocent Palestinians, celebrating the death of innocent Jewish people.

They don’t even know they are literally the same people.

Man who knew it was gonna be 10000 bitcoin for 2 pizzas all over again soon

Sold one coin today to put a down payment on my house

Yes I know Bitcoin will keep going up much faster than a house

But I saved it and waited 2 cycles so I can finally escape the pod I've lived in for 20 years

I've never owned a bbq or had a yard or a garage

Thank you Satoshi

Shit shit shit

Not sure, dont really care.

Just saw a note about 108 being a point where like a Billion in shorts liquidated

And away we go

Its expensive to wage war in a bitcoin economy. Today its free. The incentives to choose peaceful resolutions will be stronger.

Anyone believing governments won't be able to wage war because bitcoin is the world reserve asset are ridiculously naive. I remember years ago when bitcoiners were telling themselves that bitcoin was going to kill the banks and not a single bank has died as a result yet & in fact banks are scrambling to sell it & custody bitcoin for their clients. The way to reduce wars is to reduce governments.