which book should i read as i wait for my thrift books shipment to deliver?

- Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

- As I Lay Dying by Faulkner

This is gonna sound like a judgmental post, but whatever, here it goes.

Being at Oslo Freedom Forum, speaking with activists who have personally suffered horrible atrocities and discussing freedom tech tools we can build to help…it really puts the “sats vs bitcoins” fight in perspective.

No shade, just reflection of where to direct my energy in the future.

The *core* beef with populist leaders worldwide IMO, is that they are essentially uncouth, low class. Elites loved Obama because he spoke and joked like them, the practiced self-deprecation, the vocabulary he used, the refined tone. He was one of them.

Trump is openly boastful (very low class), has gaudy taste, eats McDonalds, doesn't use the words and tone that comforts the educated.

Imagine getting into debt for a worthless degree, making less money than the plumber or electrician and only having *status* to show for it. Even though you were duped, even though you are totally replaceable and live at the whims of your corporate overlords, at least you know the right protocols and pronouns to navigate elite discourse.

You have no material benefit, but at least you are *superior* so you've been told. You are *righteous* and *good*. You are not *racist* or *misogynistic* or *transphobic*. You get a pat on the back from the powerful.

Suddenly this person comes along who gives zero fucks about any of that, whose ascendance is counterfeiting your status payoff entirely. Even though you got screwed in a real and material way by the very elites you servilely aspire to join, you are in denial of this, and the meager status boost was keeping that denial at bay. But now this guy comes along, and you're faced with the pointlessness of your entire endeavor, the shallowness around which your entire identity was built.

Of course, they hate Trump and the other populists who are exposing them to the catastrophic self-betrayal.

open water bitcoin is the best

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Leafs are choke artists for like 70 years now I don't have much hope 😭🇨🇦

GM,

For some reason today my nostr feed is very christian, this is like Sunday school all over again

I believe #Bitcoin fundamentally changes this equation, re-monetizing careers of small craft again.

If my son loves milk and small entrepreneurship, a raw milk delivery business should and would be completely viable to raise a family and retire with dignity.

Becoming secure in your craft and path is more important than "getting rich", which I consider to be a fiat mentality now.

The hard part so far has been surviving the 5-10 year period of being aware, but not yet rich

Where you don’t have the validation that comes with wealth

Family and friends look at you like a crazed conspiracy theorist who’s leading his family down the wrong path

But you have to believe in yourself every fucking day even when you’re still poor

The lingering self-doubt drives you to work harder and eventually that hard work will lead to a better life

Bisq or Robosats? Which decentralized exchange you like more and why? Looking for opinions to try one of them. #bitcoin #grownostr #plebchain

Yes.

You know, for a generation everyone rags on constantly,

Millennials are really being handed a large bag of problems to handle.

When's the last time you FUD'd your own bags?

I think you should spend and use your Bitcoin in a peer to peer fashion.

Governments (in particular the US Gov) removed our ability to use a money backed by Gold. They converted our Money from Gold and Silver coins to Paper Certificates, then removed the backing of that paper.

Do not let them do this again with CGT, ETFs and custodial solutions.

Bitcoin can be used as Money today, and in order to ensure it can be used as Money tomorrow, you should use it.

I mean it as a response to your question: 'has gold failed as a monetary good?'

Gold worked up to a certain point of scale for payments, but it couldn't go beyond that. Sure, its price in fiat terms has risen over time - but if you held gold instead of Bitcoin, you missed out massively.

Maybe you're looking at it from the perspective that gold was a success for centuries - I can appreciate that.

But this also ties into the main point I'm making - if something comes along that's somewhat similar as store of value *and* is better for payments, that something will win.

I think it's fair to say that gold is a monetary asset, but not *currency*. Nor is any currency tied to gold today. As the basis for an international monetary system, gold had its brief day in the sun, but government corrupts everything it touches…