The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

— Lao Tzu

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GM Nostr friends.

Question for you all: what's the general consensus about Kagi search engine? I've heard it mentioned before in various places, but I am going to give it a try for a few weeks and see what I think about it.

had a real shitty day today. plz send memes

had a real shitty day today. plz send memes

#PiracyisBack

if the early bird gets the worm, then why do all the good things come to those who wait?

New Nostr ad just dropped.

Growth rarely starts with better tactics.

It starts with clarity.

Fun fact about Mike Brock.

nostr:nprofile1qqspfrgnv6j7geetzvs6muqry9mclp4zxudyhklfjyel9r0sk0fjlggprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qngdep once asked him to come over to clubhouse and explain the work he was doing at TBD. He jumped into the room and

I began the conversation in good faith, but it soon became obvious he didn’t know much about bitcoin.

nostr:nprofile1qqsttvnpjka059akcl97qyqt9yvwc0z7z6xwfaqrxl08dag89l8sffcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qy8hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddaks28zqh2 and nostr:nprofile1qqs9n5ytwcgntrktgu7x8n2peh9z4jnn6xgnurq9xf259k59zzm4y2spp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6un9d3shjtnhd3m8xtnnwpskxeg3n6xsx started tearing him to shreds about his lack of technical knowledge and social justice policies. He kind of stammered incoherent Silicon Valley shitcoiner platitudes in retort and the room turned on him.

It quickly became a circular firing squad. Mike was shook. It was one of the most brutal beat downs I’d ever seen (wish it had been recorded).

He had only planned to stay for 20 mins and ended up staying for 3 hours in an attempt to convince the room that he actually was very smart/knowledgeable. Nobody bought it. He even called Brad after to complain about being brought to the room in the first place.

Never saw an ego get crushed that bad in real time before or since.

Price tags don’t work reliably with digital content. And “expecting” is different than “demanding.”

Stay humble and stack sats took a major hit this last year. The 4 year CAGR is a measly 10.4%, below the rate of fiat money debasement. Barely any returns, barely any merchant adoption for MoE. What reason is there now for a potential precoiner to make the switch to a Bitcoin standard? Stay humble and stack: Nvidia, Palantir, or Tron gave better returns over the last 4 years.

Every single person in the developed world has heard of Bitcoin, yet it STILL only makes up ~0.17% of total global wealth. I’m tempted to even go so far as to say that the bear market of 2022 never ended. I don’t see a legion of new enthusiastic faces like I did in 2020, it’s still mostly the same people from that era and before.

We probably still underestimate how much damage ICOs then FTX, Celsius, Terra, and Blockfi caused for adoption. A double whammy for normies. I saw a story on Nostr the other day that a Square merchant wouldn’t turn on Bitcoin payments because they didn’t want anything to do with “crypto scams.” Potential precoiners are now probably more interested in stocks and real estate than Bitcoin. Even if they’re just trying to prudently outrun fiat inflation, Bitcoin failed at that the last 4 years. I know, 4 years is a bit of cherry picking, 5 year CAGR is 39% and 10 year is 73%. So yea, lower your time preference, fine.

Something big needs to change for adoption to start up again. NGU has failed as a driving force for adoption recently, which leaves freedom, libertarianism, computer science, etc…which, frankly, only an extremely small percentage of people care about enough to make the switch, most of them probably already switched. I don’t know what the catalyst(s) will be for adoption to pick up again or even if there will be one soon. Without at least one, the next few years will be a slog through the mud.

16% cagr top to top would mean bitcoin doesn’t hit 400k until 2033.

8 years.

I would still be here personally, would you?

There is no year zero. We went from 1BC to 1AD because zero wasn't a number until much later. But ISO 8601, the date format we use for web apps, does have a zero year, so 3BC maps to the year -0002.

GN.