About as credible as Solana saying they're going to stop pushing memecoins.
The real news is destined to be here on Nostr and not on these outdated legacy systems.
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What Bitcoin taught me in 2025:
Stop relying on price models and be more low time preference.
With great power comes great responsibilty... unless you have the money printer.
Gross fraudulent behavior is unfortunately incentivized by the fiat system we have.
The theft of our resources is bad enough, but what's worse is that all these rent-seekers ultimately end up destroying their souls.
If you're tempted to whine about the current price, don't.
Complain enough times and you'll start to believe something's wrong.
Then you'll start listening to the haters.
Then you'll start to doubt.
Then you'll sell.
Holding is supposed to be hard. And even little slip ups can lead to failure.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #481
You don't need to fix the world. You'd probably screw up if you could, not because you're so incompetent, but because nobody has that level of knowledge and skill.
Moderns have spurned family, community and God. The only thing they cling to is life, which is severely debased as a result of their spurning.
There's no place in the rent-seeking apparatus for young men, which is why they'll inevitably become people who add value.
Bad times make for strong men, indeed.
ETFs Bitcoinize the stock market, but it also financializes Bitcoiners.
Research and ideas used to require a lot more effort. But with the internet, search engines and now AI, these have gotten ridiculously easy to generate.
The difference now is execution, which requires prudence, courage and temperance. Virtue, now, is more important than ever.
Most fiat institutions will die with a whimper. The one that ends with a bang is the one funding everything.
Nihilism is hopelessness and cowardice.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #480
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #480
Culture is downstream of elite behavior. And elite behavior is downstream of incentives. And incentives are downstream of money.
It always comes back to the money.
The truly evil things are always going to be hidden. It's a sign of humanity and conscience for organizations to not just be committed to showing the truth, but even documenting and recording events and not just destroying them.
Not partying exactly (played a lot of sports and was pretty involved in my Christian fellowship), but I wasn't disciplined in most other areas of my life. I was obsessed with math but treated other subjects as an annoyance, which understandably upset those professors and TAs. I did have a lot of fun, though.
For a large part of high school and college, my dream was to become a math professor. I loved math, particularly discrete math, like combinatorics, probability and graph theory. There's something about solving, or even understanding a problem that you noodle over for days, usually at the end of many hours of frustration. There's something about developing intuition for certain concepts, seeing patterns that was really attractive.
But I didn't go. I've told myself in the past that it was because I didn't want to and that the life of a professor seemed too grueling and lonely, but if I'm honest, it's because my grades weren't good enough. I goofed off too much in college and coasted through a too many classes.
But looking back, it was a blessing to not have that option. Academia in general and grad school in particular suck. It's a difficult life of moving to where the jobs are, of debasing yourself to fit the mold of the powers that be, full of egos, red tape and politics. And the type of people that graduate PhD programs come out a particular way. You can see it in their eyes. It's like they've lost a bit of their soul.
Academia, like most fiat institutions has that effect on people. It's driven by a zero-sum game of status, where demand remains high despite the economic prospects getting worse and worse.
I bring this up because apparently, the Brown shooter was a grad student. And like many grad students, the system broke him. It's a reminder that as much as it would be nice to have a chance at high status professions like the ones offered in grad school, there's a lot of risk as well, particularly to your soul.
Back in 2019, I got to teach a graduate class at the University of Texas on Bitcoin. I hold no graduate degrees, so the only reason I got to do this was because a couple of the professors there recognized that I was an expert. Sometimes the road less traveled still takes you to where you wanted to go.
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Why I Won't Be Investing In Bitcoin Treasury Stocks
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I'm guessing you have a gimbal and a tripod at the very least. Probably a good mic setup, too.
I'm finding that content > audio > video. It's tempting to go buy gear, but in the end, it's about the content first.
I'm not at your level of production value. Working on it, though.