YOU GUYS I HAVE BAD NEWS TURNS OUT ALMOST HALF OF THE U.S. BITCOIN STRATEGIC RESERVE ACTUALLY BELONGS TO BITFINEX…

Last week I visited Uvita, Costa Rica to make a documentary about living on bitcoin.

At some point we discovered an interesting phenomenon… food tastes better when you pay with bitcoin.

Also anecdotal, but compared to El Salvador the merchants/locals seem to understand bitcoin at a deeper level.

Currently in the depths of the editing but stoked to share when it goes live.

I like the coin.

Sometimes, when I notice I have persistent trolls over months, I take a couple tries to reach out and talk to them.

I try to directly address their issues, and ask what their problem is, or who hurt them.

Like someone who is clearly a human but posts anti-Bitcoin stuff on my threads 193 times. Or who makes fun of my voice 65 times.

Thus far, it has almost never worked out. They just keep going until they burn out. Their views and comments tend to be near-zero anyway. It’s a mental illness issue. And I’m not equipped to handle it.

Kind of like how people throw poop in certain cities, there are people who digitally just parasitically can’t stop clutching to others negatively.

I invite them to do better, hope they recover, but I increasingly learn that dealing with them rationally doesn’t work and I’m not the right one to help with that sort of mental illness.

All outdoor furniture brought inside- check ✅

Power banks all full - check ✅

Non perishable food - check ✅

Plenty of Champagne, Wine and Tequila - check ✅

Hurry up and come at me Alfred…😜🥂

I just tried again after not looking into it for a while and I still can't find a company to recommend. Best lead I got was a paper company in the Netherlands called PaperWise where the website seemed to imply they'll print books on good paper if you contact them about it, but it wasn't really clear. I think maybe demand these days is just so much higher than the supply of good quality paper, there isn't even enough for books

Trying to find the perfect middle ground between handwriting and modern factory printing. I feel technology has all gone wrong at some point, maybe I can find out when books succumbed to it

Oddly fascinating. Maybe it is good you start there. Who knows, maybe that turns out to be more interesting a topic than doge coin 🤔

One of the first things I found in my research was a blog post about making ink from blueberries. Really stuck with me

🙂 was thinking the same

Heard saifedean say it on some podcast. Carl Sagan quote

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”

If I'm gonna publish books I feel like the first one has to be about how to print books so I'm still researching that