I was honored to receive the following email announcement from BarclayHedge:

"Dear Jeff Ross,

Congratulations!

We are pleased to announce that Vailshire Capital Management LLC has been featured in BarclayHedge's Monthly performance rankings. Vailshire Partners, LP has ranked number 1 in the Multi-Strategy category for September 2024."

Amazingly, this is the fourth time so far in 2024 that Vailshire Partners LP hedge fund has achieved this award:

- March 2024: #1

- May 2024: #1

- July 2024: #1

- September 2024: #1

Shout-out to #Bitcoin for being the primary driver of this performance. ⚡

Just an encouraging message to share with your #tradfi and #macro friends... Not a solicitation to invest.

Back in Madeira!

I appreciate people across the political spectrum, and have friends in multiple worldview camps. Especially since they are often from different countries with different contexts. My friends do tend to cluster in certain areas due to our shared interests (i.e. I am freedom-oriented in general), but there are people who consider themselves to be anarcho-capitalists and others that consider themselves to be aware progressives, for whom I would invite them to my home and stay in our guest area.

But I have a visceral disgust toward people who I perceive to be playing a role or being consciously fake. I'm not against people playing an actual obvious caricature for satire of course. But in the modern era, there is a tremendous amount of audience capture, gaslighting, fake social media influence that is meant to come off as genuine, and influencers and politicians treating their audience as though they are literally retarded.

Once I perceive someone as fundamentally fake and consciously playing a false role that they pretend is real to their audience, they're done to me. This behavior has been on an enormous uptrend in the past few years, much to my provocation. It's an acceleration of cynicism. Those that do this are intelligent but cynical toward their audience, manipulating them either for personal gain or for their political purpose.

Be aware of this trend.

We don't have enough bitcoin content here.

We love to joke about being autistic bitcoiners, but this is a very real thing for some of us.

Being a bitcoiner who has never read the white paper is an example of this. I love learning, especially on my own, but the hardest way for me to learn is through a technical piece of writing. It doesn't matter how "easy" it is for *you* to understand. It's never easy when you're actually autistic.

And yet, I started to grasp bitcoin by early 2012, after a few months of using it. I tried reading the white paper a few times during those early months, but it didn't make sense. So I gave up and went back to using bitcoin, earning bitcoin, and talking about bitcoin. THAT made sense.

The white paper is a very important part of bitcoin history, worthy of celebrating. I have it hanging on my wall. Maybe one day I'll read it.

Probably not.

frens, its that time of the year …

“I joined nostr and only saw bitcoin content so i left”

Yeah well i joined bluesky and only saw commies and guys dressed as girls, so pick your poison I guess.

Yes, 0.3.6 makes that possible with a little configuration. 0.4.0 will make it even easier.

People often ask me "is it worth investing my time in nostr?"

IDK IS IT WORTH BREAKING YOUR FUCKING CHAINS AND FIGHTING FOR A BETTER INTERNET AND AGAINST THE SURVEILLANCE AND PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR THE SAKE OUR KIDS AND ALL GENERATIONS TO COME?

I’m a composer, photographer and fractal artist from Sweden and I am currently checking nostr out because I’m fed up with facebook.

#introductions

Where do you think we are?