Most companies raise money to fund the growth of the useful thing they do for society.

(Micro)Strategy still does a useful thing at its core, but the vast majority of it is now a money making exercise for its shareholders. I think this is the problem I have with it. It doesn’t do anything useful.

That is, unless you consider it a giant publicity drive for Bitcoin. But if that is true, then why is Bitcoin not doing more?

Adam Back, who I respect immensely, had a public bet that Bitcoin would reach $100K by the halving. He lost and Bitcoin didn’t reach that target until over 6 months later. It is still hanging around this value 10 months on.

This despite ETFs, MicroStrategy and the huge swell of wealth funds and strategic reserves being built around Bitcoin.

What’s going on? We all know that Bitcoin should be significantly higher by now, even without any of the adoption currently under way.

Bitcoin will still do its thing, but I’m not sure the publicity is making any difference.

To quote a famous meme, “Change my mind”

Yeah I learned it as "vendoring". Extremely common in C applications (exactly what I do most of the time)

> why do you even need a library

Audits, eyeballs, security, correctness, tests, iterations. People around here be rolling there own database column encryption...

I have no intentions of rewriting libsecp256k1, mbedtls AES and ChaCha etc.

idk, try to start waking up at 4:00 am

Only difference is it's only 9 here.

I dunno man, it happens sometimes. Just gotta stare at the ceiling and contemplate life.

I say as I lie on the ground, staring at the ceiling, contemplating life. No fucking joke 😂

I mean these emojis every time I post them, because I find peace and love every day on Nostr.

Good night ✌️🧡

I’m pretty analog about it. I’m good at collecting and filtering info; it’s one of my strengths among many other weaknesses. I focus on like a dozen specialists. An AI expert. An energy expert. A South American expert, etc. I keep track of what they say. And then I have various software tools like YCharts, FASTGraphs, to map out quantitative deals. The St Louis Fed “FRED” site is also great.

I just remembered a scene from like 18 years ago when our company opened an office in my country.

There was a senior dev from US assigned to teach us the shit at that time.

We were in an open space, around our desks. And there was some sort of crisis. We were trying to release a fix.

And my colleague was testing this fix and asked the senior guy: "can you give me a piece of advise".

He turned his head his way and stone cold said:

Don't eat yellow snow.

I thought I'll die.

Oh I totally agree with that, but this is the first time anyone has been in a position of power who seems to actually have some real strategic understanding of how to cripple the worst parts of the organization. What is crazier is that he is backed by Elon & Trump who have both been attacked by the FBI, & he clearly terrifies a number of major politicians. This really does seem like a potentially monumental shift in US politics.

Confirmations have gone about as good as we could hope.

Will be interesting to see how things go from here.