I was too young to understand what was going on at the time, but to hear him put the senator who “created the internet” in his place is fucking gold.

As a value investor, I find Charlie Munger's recent WSJ-published arguments to ban bitcoin/crypto and thank the leader of the Chinese Communist Party to be embarrassing and sad.

I'm currently writing a research note to 10,000 retail and institutional subscribers on why it's dumb.

Munger has a history of arguing that someone should be able to "steelman" their opposing view if they are going to have an opinion on something, which means being able to articulate an opponent's viewpoint more convincingly than even they can. Recently on CNBC, Munger was quoted on his historical claim and then asked by the anchor to steelman bitcoin/crypto after his WSJ op-ed, and he was unable to and didn't even try to.

He doesn't know anything about Segwit, Taproot, block size limits, whether a base layer should be Turing complete or not, anything about power dynamics between nodes, developers, and miners, etc. Absolutely no clue, and no attempt at a clue.

Such a bad viewpoint doesn't only reflect his old age, but also reflects his inherent ethics at a structural level from inception as a banker. It undermines his entire legacy.

Even on the history of money and its problems in developing countries, Munger would be schooled in a Twitter Spaces by any random above-average bitcoin twitter anonymous account.

It's sad to see.

Someone should inscribe a JPEG of an empty mempool in the blockchain, since that’s about as rare an image as you could possibly find now.

How are your doggos doing?

Thank you very much 🙏🙏🫂

In my opinion the future is p2p advertising. You pay on lightning to send a note. Basically you give value for the otherones valuable attention. Not through facebook, google or anything. Purely lightning to lightning! 🤙

In what sense? 😁

I just got a zap and a spam?

Good morning and pura vida my fellow Nostriches. May your day be filled with Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays. ⚡

pv 🌞

Same

do you have zaps set up on this account? It doesn't seem to work

I prefer my spam to be a lightning payment on nostr! 🤙

Maple syrup update day 5 🍁🥞

We did it! I think…

Sap harvest was low, didn’t get as warm today as prior days. Sent a finishing boil tonight. Went to 219F but with a relatively small amount had to swirl the syrup to get a reading I believed. Pulled it unfiltered and saw a lot of sentiment. Put a coffee filter in a sieve and filtered which got it really clear, but tore the filter trying to push it along so didn’t end up perfect. Yield was better than expected, ~ 12 oz. Might be a combo of me low balling the initial sap numbers (wasn’t measuring, just estimating) and/or not boiling enough.

Tastes amazing, looks like syrup, little cloudy, pretty good for the first time. Looking forward to collecting a bunch more sap and trying again with a better filter, maybe even a refractometer?

Howdy #bitcoin peeps! Great to be here! 🤠⚡️

Indeed