The profits (which are about $5/book) from the first 1,000 copies of Broken Money are going to the HRF Bitcoin Development Fund.

I think I will put the profits from copies 2,000-5,000 into making a slick animated YouTube video about the history of money and banking and the emergence of Bitcoin (basically the 30-minute summary of Broken Money). Kind of like Dalio’s “How the Economic Machine Works” video.

A popular 500 page finance book can reach tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. But an equivalent video, while not as deep, has the potential to reach millions as a different part of the knowledge funnel.

Because, I dunno. Fuck profits I guess. The rest of my business covers profits; the book is for a different purpose.

oops, there we go

yes, many shares and options

Blackrock is the 2nd-largest shareholder in 4 out of the 5 biggest Bitcoin miners by market capitalization. It owns:

RIOT: 10,749,369 shares (6.14%)

MARA: 10,938,032 shares (6.44%)

CIFR: 2,200,654 shares (0.88%),

WULF: 4,831,312 shares (2.28%)

for a total value of over $411.54 million, equal to just 0.35% of Blackrock's $117.6 billion in AUM.

The firm's #Bitcoin accumulation exposure is just beginning.

get yours before the institutions & nation states

doubling down on #Bitcoin

30,000 #bitcoin are taken into cold storage the last 7 days! Something is happening.👀

Remember when Kevin O Leary told us all that we didn’t know what we were doing?

Then he went all in on FTX and found himself as someone else’s unsecured creditor lol 😂

Sure bro. We were the ones who didn’t know what we were doing lol 😂

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Good feedback and critique in both these reply threads

I’m really liking the distinct Nostr experience vs the Twitter experience. Occasionally I cross-post something on both, but my decision in recent weeks to treat them differently has been very rewarding.

Years ago, I used to post on certain forums. But as someone with a big Twitter following now, I am more self-conscious of what I post there these past few years. It’s like, I feel quite a responsibility before I send something out to 600k followers, rather than being able to treat it rather carefree like I would treat a forum in the old days. Of course, once in a while I get provoked by something or I share something random and funny for no reason, but not usually.

Since the community on Nostr is still smallish, it kind of rekindles that more carefree feeling of just posting, talking. And I post less about economics, which is my main Twitter silo.

And because I want open protocols like Nostr to succeed, I deliberately want to be here, posting. So it is a win-win; I try to add value but also it scratches an itch for me that hasn’t been scratched in a while.

Maybe if/when Nostr becomes large, it will recreate that sense of filtering that I have on Twitter. But I would still consider that a success, because it means Nostr succeeded and I at least got to experience a smaller social environment for another period of time.

Back in Egypt, no longer burnt out. It’s like magic how that works.

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing.

26,000 #bitcoin are taken off Gemini in the last 30 days. That’s 25% of their BTC. Something is happening there. Are BlackRock sweeping up their coins?

GM

I unironically believe bitcoin is designed to pump forever.

scarce, fixed, amount of bitcoin

the record of which cannot be changed

infinite humans

the math seems pretty straight forward

ya'll gonna hate on the foam again but I get a coffee like this every day and it has a little ₿ on it and sometimes a smiley face and I can pay in sats and I LOVE IT

people telling me leaving #Bitcoin twitter is missing opportunity

just betrays their understanding of #Nostr & what’s to come.

here is only opportunity

I feel lucky as hell that I can work on freedom tech full time. Wouldn’t be here without y’all sharing the same vision of a better future where individuals are in control of their data online. There is so much more cool tech to build. Imagine if every phone was also a relay. This is the direction that damus is moving in. So many possibilities are unlocked after this. Thanks everyone who has ever zapped damus, it keeps us moving forward 🙏

Me: can’t sleep, gonna go on YouTube and watch videos about the worlds deadliest spiders.

*30 mins later*

Me: now I really can’t sleep