Umbrel is shitcoin !

Since when can people bring cats on planes?

They're starting an ETH ETF together?

Wait... who are you talking about?

US spot etfs require a mature regulated futures market. we don’t yet have cme futures for any of those things so basically not possible for the next 3 yrs at least

Very impressed with the airpods max. sounds great, airpod-quality noise cancelling, very comfortable, especially for people with bigass monkey ears like me. Haven’t had a decent pair of headphones in 10 years so decided to splurge. pricey but worth it.

There’s a huge conversation going on in my notifications about this, so I thought I’d just make a post and let everyone weigh in.

Is spanking children effective/appropriate?

Am I the only one that has no idea wtf Saylor is talking about.

Doing mental gymnastics to justify flexible ethics

let me know if you have any questions / thoughts after listening to this rip!

we talked a lot about:

- importance of dev donations and how we thought about our program

- the good and bad of a bitcoin ETF and how we really need in-kind redemptions to make it better

- the evolving political landscape and how ETFs have changed the incentives for tradfi banks etc

- importance of nostr and ecash

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yes bitwise is launching an ethereum etf

i'm bitcoin first but not bitcoin only and if that's upsetting i'll take the heat. replies / dms open.

fwiw i think bitcoin and ethereum are completely different things. i know it can be super annoying when eth maxis are like "eth is even more sound than bitcoin!" but nobody takes that seriously. bitcoin is undeniably king as decentralized non-government money and that's not really up for debate

imo the question is around whether bitcoin wants to swallow the full range of public computing needs or leave room for the non core use cases (everything outside of sovereign money). i mean, stablecoins are undeniably a thing. non-custodial trading (uniswap) is also undeniably a thing.

i'm very happy that bitcoin hasn't morphed to make any of those things too easy on bitcoin. making stablecoins easier means making general token issuance easier. making non-custodial trading easier on bitcoin means more MEV risk on bitcoin. i'm happy that those experiments are playing out outside of bitcoin. maybe where i differ with many bitcoiners is that i am happy that those experiments are still happening.

anyways, happy to discuss this more. didn't want to seem like i'm hiding from this issue.

yes bitwise is launching an ethereum etf

i'm bitcoin first but not bitcoin only and if that's upsetting i'll take the heat. replies / dms open.

fwiw i think bitcoin and ethereum are completely different things. i know it can be super annoying when eth maxis are like "eth is even more sound than bitcoin!" but nobody takes that seriously. bitcoin is undeniably king as decentralized non-government money and that's not really up for debate

imo the question is around whether bitcoin wants to swallow the full range of public computing needs or leave room for the non core use cases (everything outside of sovereign money). i mean, stablecoins are undeniably a thing. non-custodial trading (uniswap) is also undeniably a thing.

i'm very happy that bitcoin hasn't morphed to make any of those things too easy on bitcoin. making stablecoins easier means making general token issuance easier. making non-custodial trading easier on bitcoin means more MEV risk on bitcoin. i'm happy that those experiments are playing out outside of bitcoin. maybe where i differ with many bitcoiners is that i am happy that those experiments are still happening.

anyways, happy to discuss this more. didn't want to seem like i'm hiding from this issue.

If you do not practice what you preach, you are a liar.

Anyway, goodnight.

Making small talk with normies is exhausting bro.

Like pulling teeth.

It used to come easier to me.

I guess I’m too far down the crazy bitcoin rabbit hole lol 😂