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Stories that Equip

“He who oppresses the poor reproaches his maker, but he who honors him has mercy on the needy.” 14:31

nostr:npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn is chair of the economics department at Ole Miss. We can only hope that policy makers take Dr. Hendrickson’s words to heart. nostr:note1985q867ue8emtsf3kuyy8l0xple0h9q35p3y4nayzz9c8th0wx8qufdsl8

The most succinct and articulate global macro rationale for Bitcoin I’ve heard. Sharing on LinkedIn. Thank you.

“A man who begins to give aid heartily is better than he who only promises and leads another to hope.” 13:13

“There are those who wound with a sword as they speak, But the tongues of the wise heal.” 12:31

Replying to Avatar jack mallers

my opinions don’t change if i learn what happened in some random convo. Bitcoin doesn’t care.

we need a healthy open source Bitcoin community. period. no matter what. Bitcoin won’t succeed without one. even if we want to ossify, Bitcoin Core 26.0 won’t last us centuries to come. open source projects need open source devs and an open source community.

we should focus on no strings attached funding for devs. the community has worked tirelessly to set this up with things like OpenSats, Brink, HRF, Chaincode, etc. to enable that effortlessly for us and the devs.

we as Bitcoiners should want devs to build whatever they think is best. engineers are the artists of the digital world. the smartest most forward thinkers in the room. we want to enable them. they aren’t ever a threat, don’t mistaken them for one. why? because the only way Bitcoin can change is if we, the network, run their code. let them create. we the network, the people, decide what gets adopted.

if someone builds something terrible, we won’t run it. that’s happened many times before. see Segwit2x, BitcoinCash, etc.

often times engineers strike moments of brilliance in Bitcoin. a very famous example is Segwit and how we got Lightning. nobody thought Segwit was possible technically. was never clear if or when we’d ever get Lightning. a few open source engineers named Luke and Eric found a brilliant solution. we adopted it. we now have Lightning being enabled by Coinbase. let engineers create art. fund and support them.

wanna ossify Bitcoin? run Core 26 forever and never update. no problem. don’t wanna fund devs? no problem. we don’t need to agree on these things. however, if you want the entire network to agree with you, you need to go out and advocate for consensus around your vision. that’s just how bitcoin works. the network moves as one, not from a meeting or self elected group.

bitcoin is a distributed network. it progresses through distributed consensus. the network will act in its own best interest, not based on anything else. fund the best engineers to protect and advance the one chance we have at reinventing money for humanity. adopt what we want, reject what we don’t. if there’s anything we need to work on every cycle with new entrants is public discourse and how to arrive at consensus as a distributed network.

also, everyone should breathe. it’s all love and gonna be ok. Bitcoin was designed to not care and last through anything 🙂

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Made my first donation to OpenSats from my Strike a few days ago. More to come. 🫡

Bitcoin Atlantis sounds amazing. I’m not a developer but I really want to encourage all those working to preserve and strengthen Bitcoin: you’re actually restoring hope for millions (soon billions) of us. I just gave to nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f for the first time. What can you do? nostr:note16u3lyvl8c6z8ufggc3u0gser6u22yax5vvwpcwaqtcg8kmrx3k8srureda

How devaluation starts:

April 18 will be the 25th anniversary of the current Swiss constitution’s adoption. With that ratification, the #franc became fully fiat.

Yesterday, 58.2% of Swiss voted to add a 13th monthly federal pension payment, while a second initiative to raise the retirement age and begin tying it to life expectancy failed, garnering only 25.3% of votes.

Unless the #Swiss either raise taxes or cut other spending, the supply of franc will have to rise. Budgets must always balance: if not in nominal terms, then in real terms.

On the week, that’s a net +30,056 BTC. At a very rough average price of $55,000 that’s $1.65B. If the average market cap for the week was $1.1T, the week’s inflows were ~0.15%. It’s not clear to me that we’ve started to see meaningful ETF inflows yet. I think the pump M-W was mainly supply: LT hodlers staying disciplined.

This is great stuff. Thank you!

Trading on technical indicators with equities can make sense but it shouldn’t translate readily to BTC. The key BTC theses should produce HODLers, not traders. I know from conversations that the 3-day, 25% run M-Th prompted trading responses.

Yeah, I screwed up and somehow didn’t reply to the thread but created a new note. Anyway it was your repost of Trey Walsh’s note. FWIW, I think Trey makes an important point about being consistent. My counter went to threat asymmetry: while Wall Street has NGU and ETF concentration as attack vectors, Warren and Trudeau have bank accounts and prisons.

We’re all on team orange. 👊🏻