Awkwardly appropriate: my Airbnb landlord here in Amsterdam lost a painfully large amount of money investing in shitcoins, is not attending the bitcoin conference. “It’s over for crypto… maybe not for bitcoin… but I’m done…” he said with a grimace.
In which case, feel free to chase me down on Friday. I should be around, doing a session with Nolan, too, aside from the Nakamoto stage sovereignty panel.
“Oh, you think rain is your ally. But you merely adopted the rain; I was born in it, moulded by it.” 😉🇧🇪
Would be great - I’m also doing a meetup on Thursday night
Driving through Houston on my way to Amsterdam. Stoked to see old friends and make new ones. I should be at the conference tomorrow! 
Yeah the media is very politically colored and people don’t realize it because it’s all around them and the ideology is also taught in the schools.
Dank — tot een volgende keer! 💪
I learned a lesson about the effects of a mainstream media diet… My parents are from Belgium and read the newspaper every day. They had NEVER heard of Joe Rogan and didn’t recognize his picture either 😄
Re: Israel-Hamas — I find myself tempted to write emotional tweets with simple proposed solutions. I think it’s mainly my brain trying to deal with feeling helpless.
Zeker weten! See you there 🙌
Voor Vlamingen (okay ook Nederlanders😉) die volgende week in Amsterdam zijn: ik organiseer een informele hangout op donderdagavond. Wees welkom!
Some countries have low daily volatility and high tail risk, such as Germany, Chile and Taiwan.
Other countries have high daily volatility and high tail risk, such as Myanmar.
Yet other countries have high daily volatility and low(er) tail risk, such as the United States.
Low volatility and low tail risk? Switzerland comes to mind.
Curious about the context of this quote. That’s Sartre, right?
That’s assuming lightning will be the only second layer stack around…
Let’s be honest:
On the bitcoin standard, there’s no guarantee that a custodian won’t fail spectacularly every few years.
And on the fiat standard, there’s no guarantee that the system won’t burn to the ground every few decades.
Who is the Chinese emigrant equivalent of Ayn Rand? Is there anyone who qualifies in terms of free market ideas?
Never too young to learn about socialism 😄 https://video.nostr.build/e3c80ebedd6b08c6f491adff7a8e0b623583d974ec5f17b10aca698d8963d728.mov
The Economist today.
Headlines like these used to be unthinkable. Impossible.
Now here we are.
Bitcoin did this, we did this. 
