You could have chosen Mr Dickhead instead which people won't forget either but doesn't make it a good choice. You can do better!

For such a creative person it's a shame that this is the choice he made. It's still early he can change it.

I see no relevance Peter. Also I will be listening to the show despite the name, I was one of the first WBD listeners, started with the Charlie Lee episode (it might have been the one previous to it). Anyway best of luck on the new series 👍

Been living in OR for 19 years and still don't really know anything about Lewis & Clarke. Many times I've thought to change that and read up on them & the Oregon Trail but never have. Seems like a good time to start.

Can't believe the name. 🤦‍♂️

But do you think it's the government's job to do it, or the parents?

Exactly my thoughts too. On the other hand some parents are neglectful and let their kids waste their childhoods on phones so this could benefit a lot of them but ultimately this is not the job of government.

Meh. America is getting worse as the years go by & it's on course to get even worse. I wouldn't be too proud of it if I were you it's definitely seen much better times.

I prefer the look of the Ten 31. A bitcoin hat shouldn't be aligned with one nation's flag.

The all caps thing really does need to end though.

" The world where everyone is saved by Bitcoin and no one suffers the consequences of the century of central banking can’t exist."

This is a perfect example of what I mean. This story has been told over & over for years, you are just repeating it without truly questioning whether it is even feasible. It's a dream that the hodler convinces himself but it cannot happen without adoption.

My point is that bitcoiners might be living in a dream. They certainly believed & definitely hoped to see the banks be replaced by bitcoin & it's my suspicion that bitcoin will not be the widely used MoE that some think it will. It already failed that in El Salvador. There are stories/narratives that bitcoiners hold on to such as "gradually, then suddenly" and "we are so early" to encourage holders to keep their convictions but after seven years I am beginning to question the validity of it all because without further adoption it dies. I will add that I hope I my concerns are unwarrented on this which is why I asked Jeff for his thoughts.

Yes I appreciatethatt & even though the dollar is less infaltionary I did the same. My btc is a lot more valueable to me than the dollars I bought it with. However we are a tiny minority & bitcoin isn't growing. I first bought in 2017 & I don't know a single person who has bought any apart from times in a parabolic move in a bull run & then they stopped & not bought since. For sure bitcoin is more widely known & there's more people holding it since then but the growth is tiny, nothting like the growth spurt of the 1990’s internet the maxi's would have us believe was going to happen.

I am educated in this, been in it over seven years & done a lot of learning. Just because you believe in something doesn't mean it will happen & bitcoin cannot succeed without more adoption, that is a fundamental fact & we haven't been getting new adoption so to keep saying "we are early" is just denying that fact. Everybody knows about bitcoin, it is over $1 trillion marketcap but it hss stalled in user growth. You can sit there and tell people to educate themselves but some educated people are beginning to ask if we might have peaked & it's a very reasonable question. It's the same influencers on the conference circuit, on the podcasts etc telling us the same things we heard 5, 6, 7 years ago. If we don't hit $100k (expectations are far higher prices) this bull run what will the reasons be?

I think bitcoin being a widely used medium of exchange is a dream, just as the idea that bitcoin would replace banks was a dream that I heard repeatedly when I first got into bitcoin.

My concernns are more near term. If adoption doesn't grow then a circular economy will never happen, it didn't happen in El Salvador and the people were certainly given the opportunity. The store of value has to incentivise new users to buy & hold & that just isn't happening, people are not coming in despite what many maxi's will have us believe. The arguments for being early are over, we are past being early everyone knows about bitcoin it's even on the stock market. I wonder whether we might have reached the end in terms of mass adoption.

Thank you Jeff 🙏

Jeff, I have genuine concerns that I hope you can answer. I first bought bitcoin in 2017 & wonder how many years can we be "early" as this is something that bitcoiners have been saying for years. Back in 2020 I remember talk of bitcoin adoption being equal to the rate of internet adoption in 1995. I have heard "gradually, then suddenly" since I first got into bitcoin. Blackrock has bitcoin now.. You can hold bitcoin ETF's in your IRA. Bitcoin is legal tender in El Salvador but even the president said adoption there has failed. At what point do we consider that bitcoin adoption might have peaked & that even $100k bitcoin could be years away? Would love hear your thoughts.

Women's league, both teams are in the same division. He forgot to mention that bit

Ah, the women's league and both teams are in the same division. That's a bit different from the men's teams, by a lot.