Savings Brings Freedom
#vlog 11
https://blossom.primal.net/2e5d2a26df8ec06520815145997597c4f517439922a111976c31efa89b2cbc8e.mov
Stoke Your Dreams
#vlog 10
https://blossom.primal.net/23b0004c881aa35c0bbec8ce5dc72cc6a4ff8a4ae6b47a46dc19088bed24d8a8.mov
David is also a good person to ask an intro from (and an excellent reviewer). But please, Nostr devs, write something for the community!
I have been waiting for years for a Nostr dev to message me about writing a Nostr book for O'Reilly.
Please, someone ask for an intro! The animal on the cover would be obvious and everything.
We Are Changing The Incentives
#vlog 9
https://blossom.primal.net/e4f74bfd74528905459f037e873c34be15a6acc4420709426a57ab869190f5b1.mov
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #463
Wow.
I created a Facebook account just now to see what's available on marketplace. They somehow figured out my real name and birthday based on the email address (different one than the one I used back when I had an account many years ago) and when I tried to delete the account, it keeps saying that the password is wrong (despite it being fine for logging in). What sort of dystopian nightmare is this?
#vlog 8
Embrace the Grind
How Skill Acquisition is a lot like hodling.
https://blossom.primal.net/7ca44bf1f4d65b4363962d24c20bb976975b67b7f360636ec76b2ffaeea2ddb5.mov
Be Thankful For Hostility
#vlog about the Core vs. Knots war and how hostility makes you stronger.
https://blossom.primal.net/2fb843341ff6e2f201cd080039ba6a51534347e5da8e9320e78314674c20dba8.mov
Why You Should Cultivate Boredom
https://blossom.primal.net/0b86c97cf8947b2ab384234b454e315b15cd398c96cea048d3d541e4408bde83.mov
Pain Is Just Weakness Leaving The Body #vlog https://blossom.primal.net/cba5ce371ebd0737112f7bf76d805a95c230eb4ea6c87546b915c289ebb2b7d2.mov
Life Is More Than Money #vlog
https://blossom.primal.net/63d721d9bf444d1994540a84164f2b1aa09d3892a36e31fb3c755bd96d574052.mov
How Fiat Ruins Mining and Why Mining Decentralization is Inevitable
https://blossom.primal.net/2c143381c2e283d9fc6cc729f27525158609db5e7e1d10644f839a7f1c71dbb0.mov
CapCut. Started using it yesterday, and I was impressed enough to upgrade to the paid version after two videos.
I'm kinda amazed that you can edit videos almost the way you can edit text.
I've always seen coding and writing as similar in that the magic is in the editing and not the first draft. Turns out video is similar if you don't care about one long continuous take.
Fiat Follies: US doesn't enrich uranium.
https://blossom.primal.net/a4e8a31b0070ece0fb79b159330870e9fc9a188cb9ef9f6caf74782d555753c7.mov
Why I'm Vlogging on Nostr
https://blossom.primal.net/1be35762ef4cbb30d531014e902c76aecc9fe6bf9e533a1d17afb7e22f171ae6.mov
Transcript:
Good morning, Nostr. I wanted to start this vlog because I think there's a lot of important stuff on Nostr and incentives are much better. See, the current model on most social media platforms is to get you to click, add and view and look so that they can sell more advertising. That's not necessarily that bad, but the way it's evolved is that they want you to be addicted to their content more than they want you to be enriched or enlightened or get some insight out of these videos.
And that's what's led to doom scrolling at this point, where people look through content because their hindbrain sort of engages with it and doesn't actually get much out of it. The actual intellectual part doesn't get much out of it.
So that's what I think needs to be changing is better incentives and Nostr has that, because honestly, if this video find somebody that actually really appreciates or is enlightened by it or enriched by it, then they're going to zap me a lot more than somebody that's just viewing.
Cause really what happens on these social media platforms is that you're always catering to the marginal user. And marginal users in general are not very sophisticated or insightful.
Nostr is not for the marginal user. It's for people that are at the center and that's who I wanna be making videos for. That's I think the far more interesting thing. I heard a while back a tweet by my friend David Perrell.
I think he was saying something like ten years ago, best stuff on YouTube was people sharing something that was really interesting or at some interesting insight into some historical event or something like that.
And now the most popular videos are Mr Beast, it's just slop. It's just stuff that to get you to watch and not enrich your life in any way.
And I think what Nostr can do is put us back into that space of having videos, having content, having images and stuff which are more powerful than, than text by far that actually enriches you, that add something to your life.
So that's the hope, that's what I'm hoping that this whole platform becomes really, but also for a lot of these videos, these vlogs and so on.
Because if you zap, you can basically tell these people that are making these things, hey, good job. Go make more of it. So incentive alignment is a huge thing and , that's why this is important
Why I'm Vlogging on Nostr
https://blossom.primal.net/1be35762ef4cbb30d531014e902c76aecc9fe6bf9e533a1d17afb7e22f171ae6.mov
I'm thinking vlogging will be a good way to learn fast video editing. Thoughts?
First crossfit class in months, and man, it's always the cardio that gets you.
Don't be google.
The reason people are going to Vegas less is because of altcoins, FanDuel and inflation.
Call me crazy, but I'd rather have explicit taxes than inflation. And if the whole tariff thing has taught us anything, it's that the inflation tax is way way way worse than any of these explicit taxes.
5 oz pork rinds
2 eggs
1/3 cup of melted butter
3 tbsp collagen
1/2 cup of sugar substitute (monk fruit sweetener works well)
1/4 cup of lily's chocolate (sugar free)
Mix together, put into cookie shapes and bake for 12 minutes.
Crazy how quick LLMs replaced search. But that means that LLMs will get worse as they monetize it through ads of some kind.
It's easy enough to identify scams. Hard to know when they'll fall.
Actions have consequences, but so do non-actions.
Holding has consequences.
I'll believe Elon's turn towards Bitcoin when he puts his money where his mouth is.
This is why George Washington was often displayed as Cincinnatus, the general who went back to farming when he was ruler of Rome.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #455
Modern war is a giant rent-seeking operation.
I have doubts about world population figures. Regions within Nigeria have incentives to inflate their numbers so that they get more seats in government. It's also seen as bad to have population declines, so governments over-report their population. Particularly with respect to central banks, they want to over-report the population because they want their per-capita printing to not look as bad.
Maybe we're already down to 6.5B or so. I'm not sure how you can verify such a big number like 8B.
This man is Jared Bernstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
He does not understand the monetary system that he's advising on.