Reminds me of all the economists asking about where you can spend Bitcoin.
Silence Retreats
I'm very curious about these as I'm curious what a week of not being able to talk will be like. I'm told that there are some that are Christian based, with monks that guide your silence. I don't want to do any that are not Christian, because I take my faith very seriously.
Anyone try these? Would you recommend them?
Also mislabeled as $1.01 billion instead if trillion
Gold Wars: https://amzn.to/3KFCrsL
"Napoleon was convinced his system of sound money could defeat the vaporous credit creation of the British."
Did you know Napoleon was trying to establish a sound money alternative to Great Britain's sometimes-convertible pound? Part of why Great Britain wanted to defeat Napoleon was to keep its world reserve currency status.
Maybe the wrong guys won at Waterloo.
Don't concede the frame to your opponents. They want you to argue that Bitcoin is better for emissions, because then your attack surface gets much larger, even if you win that particular battle.
Hold the line much further forward and argue that Bitcoin is better money than the wasteful, unjust, and decivilizing force of fiat money.
Be patient. They'll want to know when we get another ATH
Very few people understand money. Nocoiners, altcoiners, conservatives, progressives, old or young.
If you're trying to orange pill your friends or family, start there.
My approximation of the before and after on the NY Times picture, adjusting the black point so it's consistent with where all the data starts.
People getting excited about a daily $1k candle. We'll have $10k candles before this is over.
Bitcoin Maximalists have a high Buxton index.
#Bitcoin Tech Talk #339
https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-339
Excerpt below:
Hoax of the Century - A long read on how information warfare is used by the US intelligence agencies against their own citizens. The article is deeply disturbing in that it essentially argues that the politicians have to abide by what the intelligence agencies want as a result of the power they have manipulating the public. Propaganda is insanely effective and it’s now a weapon used to perpetuate the power of those wielding it. I don’t think the author thought too much about how this intelligence agency industrial complex grew from fiat money, but this is one of the scarier outcomes.
Algorithmic Masters - This article asks some very important questions about categories and the power of being able to distinguish. As the article argues, traditional categorization was known to the people being categorized, which meant that they could counter it to some degree. The new age of algorithmic categorization by machine often means that we are blind to these categories that we are being put in. The predictability of the category is very valuable and can be used for control. As there’s good evidence that we don’t understand these algorithms, this is something we really need to pay attention to.
Preaching to the Remnant - An amazing read on the desire to reach the masses, which happens so much in democracy especially. As the article argues, if you’re interested in popularity, you have to aim at the masses, which often has a very low denominator, indeed. But aim at the Remnant, and you can focus instead on telling the truth. That prophetic voice lives in the Bitcoin Maximalist crowd and it is this tension between serving the Remnant vs serving the crowd which is the main conflict in our community.
I just heard about book trailers. These are short videos to promote a book like a movie trailer.
What do you think Bitcoin fam? Should I make one for my upcoming book about how fiat ruins everything?
Echo chambers are only bad if they echo lies.
I want #[0] to buy Twitter from Elon when hyperbitcoinization hits.
Bitcoiners!
Easter is a holy day for Christians because it reminds us of our redemption from sin. Redemption is a word from monetary matters, where debt is repaid for regaining property.
Sadly, in a fiat world, this is very hard to understand because all the money is fake, credit and money have been mingled together and few people understand what property really entails.
But the significance of redemption is that our debts are repaid. And that's no small thing, especially if you labor under it. The burden of debt is much more serious under sound money, but ironically, it's much more pervasive and debasing under fiat money. That's what happens when you try to make debt go away without paying the price, without redemption. That's essentially what fiat money is.
Christianity has a model of redemption that can teach us about what real value and real property are.
Someone give me recommendations for steak restaurants in Taipei
Elon is Littlefinger