this is folklore. depleting glycogen stores from your muscles is called bonking. It can wind you up in an ER. What Will is overcoming with his diligence is insulin resistance.

The only weight loss thing that has ever worked for me is OMAD. In the past couple weeks I've been doing 10k daily walks with one meal a day (9oz steak) and I've already lost 8 lbs.

Turns out less calories in = less weight. shocking. you only have to deal with a slight feeling of hunger for 2-4 hours every day, but in the fiat food era this is unacceptable for most people.

Melt water pulse 1a was likely caused by a meteor strike to the massive North American ice sheet resulting in something like a 100’ foot rise in global sea levels.

The global flooding resulting from such a cataclysmic event likely would’ve created tsunami style floods much larger in places than the amplitude of the total sea level rise after the chaos.

Randall Carlson has a great presentation on JRE (#606) where he touches on a lot of the evidence around this cataclysm. It’s so interesting.

# I'm leaving Foundation and joining Cake Wallet

It's time for a new chapter in my journey building freedom tech, and I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be jumping in to help Vik run Cake as VP of Operations starting in September.

## Why Cake?

I've known Vik for many years in the space, and have been watching from the sidelines as he's worked hard to bring together an amazing team to build out a wallet that prioritizes ease-of-use and powerful privacy no matter what cryptocurrency people prefer. That all started with being the first Monero wallet on iOS, and has rapidly grown to being a cross-platform, multi-cryptocurrency wallet used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

The best part? Cake Wallet has been paving the way in the privacy space for many years, including the latest push to be the first mobile wallet to include Silent Payments for Bitcoin and MWEB for Litecoin. My vision for Cake is to carry this privacy-first vision even further, continuing to push the envelope and let users access powerful privacy features with an intuitive, beautiful user experience that makes privacy easy.

The first three objectives I have will be improving and expanding Silent Payments support (especially improving the sync experience!), building out an amazing (and privacy-preserving) Lightning experience, and fine-tuning and improving the existing Cake Wallet that you all know and love across the board.

I can't wait to step into this larger role, especially with friends that I've already gotten the chance to meet and get to know over the years. I'm also thrilled to be able to dedicate a bit more time to expanding access and ease-of-use for Monero, especially in the wake of the takedown of Samourai Wallet and the broad attacks against Bitcoin privacy.

Monero is a more important tool than ever, and Cake has been a key part of making Monero more useful over the years.

## Grateful for Foundation

I have nothing but amazing things to say about Foundation and the incredible people I've gotten to work with so closely over the past two years. We've gotten the chance to build the best Bitcoin hardware wallet out there in Passport, and turn Envoy from a simple companion app for Passport to a powerful standalone mobile wallet with the best coin control in the space.

I especially wanted to shout out Zach Herbert and @qna, as they have been close friends and allies, giving me the chance to get started in the space and grow into what became a much larger role than originally planned with Foundation. Zach has gone above and beyond to empower me over the past two years, and his tireless efforts to drive Foundation forward and ensure we ship the best possible products has been inspiring.

@qna is the reason I'm even in Bitcoin in the first place, and was the key voice of reason that helped me understand the how and why of privacy in Bitcoin, as well as the power (and necessity) of going no-KYC-only. We've built a great friendship over the past two years and I'm honored to be able to have learned so much from him.

This has to be the most bittersweet move of my life, but I'm thrilled with the new prospects at Cake and know that those taking over in my place at Foundation are going to bring a unique approach to help them take the next step forward as well.

Now let's get back to building 🫡

P.S. - Keep an eye out, Cake and Foundation will be working closely together in the near future 👀

I am critical of Ordinals and Luke's ordi-disrespector patch was a step in the right direction.

Yet it has also been interesting to see how this has played out. Fees went up at the time of this year's 2024 halving, only to go down to normal levels some weeks after. Recently we had 4 sats/vb tx fees, quite low.

I am not against the fact that *some* non-tx data can be stored on the blockchain. The important aspect is that the amount of non-tx data per tx is low. If we want to store non-tx data we should do that via other methods than the bitcoin base layer.

One interesting part of this whole matter is the highlighting of the fact that we can't scale bitcoin to 8 billion people via the base layer. Scaling to meet the needs of 8bn humans requires L2-L3's, from Lighting to Liquid, Fedi and other competing free market solutions above the base layer.

👀 source?

One thing financial analysts tend to discount, is how much fiscal deficits feed into nominal GDP growth. It's a recursive destruction of the denominator that masks the issue.

For example Argentina's deficit as a share of GDP historically hasn't been that big, but that's because their large deficit inflates the denominator and brings nominal GDP up at a fast rate. The deficit relative to the GDP from a year or two ago, was indeed a big ratio, but not the deficit relative to the GDP in the year it happens.

Similarly, some financial analysts looked at the 1940s USA and saw that the Fed's purchases of Treasuries to fund the war deficit weren't that big of a share of GDP in any given yea. But my counter was, nominal GDP increased massively, due to the huge deficits and monetary base expansions. After a few years, the amount of Treasuries the Fed had purchased relative to the GDP of three years ago... was huge.

🙄 bro. It’s sarcasm.

This guy is committed. I’m here for it 😂 nostr:note1yfvacx86zd8jc749jy6jn7ernqa28m0aac0l432ylnlrntst8s0shdj9pw

Mono-crop agriculture and the “plant-based” scam have destroyed soil quality, biodiversity and human health globally.

The fix for these issues is properly grazing ruminants on previously mono-cropped land. These animals restore soil biomes and as a downstream effect local biodiversity is also slowly restored.

Outcome: more healthy / species appropriate food raised for humans (and it becomes more affordable), soil and local biodiversity is restored, mass reduction in pesticides and herbicides being dumped into watersheds. Win win win.

We can ranch our way out of this globalist plant-based hellscape frens.

I put trans sexuality in the same category as schizophrenia.

Why do certain segments of society demand that trans sexual delusions be treated as “reality” while never accepting the delusions of schizophrenics?

Schizophrenics are medicated and given legitimate disability status (and even barred from voting by courts in extreme cases) whereas transsexuals are lauded as brave “heros” and weaponized politically.