A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.
Bitcoin is the greatest informational asymmetry of our time—monetary, political, and philosophical.
there is no longer any denying it; we are finally on the verge of the bitcoin end game—and no one is ready for what is about to come.
the natural process of ecological replacement highlights two mechanisms at work in replacing a complex system, that dominates the landscape and seems too big to change. succession relies in part on incremental change, the slow, steady replacement of that which does not serve ecological flourishing with new communities. but it also relies on disturbance, on disruption of the status quo in order to let new species emerge and flower. but some massive disturbances are destructive, and recovery from them may not be possible.
but i do know that the fixed supply and mining difficulty are constant, whereas tariffs and the behavior of U.S. markets relative to the rest of the world are highly variable
anyways, stack as hard as you possibly can
please pay me in bitcoin
creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty
AGI polarizes the future of humanity: the Übermensch—augmented, elevated in body, beauty, will, and mastery; the Untermensch—numbed by slop, devoured by desire.
the fiat world order is unraveling because current governments, unable to print real value, resort to extracting human energy—through inflation, taxation—to sustain a system detached from physical law.
bitcoin exposes this entropy: it obeys the first law of thermodynamics, where value must be earned through real energy expenditure, not conjured—marking the end of the illusion and the return to cosmic equilibrium.
the global need for a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash will grow exponentially. yesterday only accelerated this.
we’ll rebuild the library of alexandria
decentralized and distributed
“life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. and you can change it, you can influence it... once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
— Steve Jobs
the intrinsic beauty lies in its role as a medium of exchange guiding us toward a more prosperous and certain future
“the desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”
beautiful morning
he fasted while rome burned. he outlived it.
“We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.”
— Eric Hughes, 1993