1 person speaking the truth is worth 10,000 speaking lies, which is also why I am so humbled to be with so many high integrity people here.

Because, we already have the numbers!

Merry Christmas and wishing you the very best of 2024.

It’s going to be an interesting one!

#Bitcoin

#Nostr

Theo Katzman is going to be headlining the music festival at Bitcoin Atlantis.

Small world story is that while he was writing his new album (touring now) we did a video call about how Bitcoin changes the world. (And 2 songs on new album are about it).

Incredible musician and I look forward to introducing him to those who don’t know him.

Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira is shaping up to be a pretty epic event.

www.bitcoinatlantis.com/#tickets

Ps - L3 tickets include the music festival.

#FreeRoss

The government and/or the central bank can't bail-out or ‚save‘ anyone. It is you and your hard-earned and heavily taxed income that they freely distribute to failed and over-leveraged companies.

I would just like to emphasise this once again because we will see a great many bail-outs in the coming months in which the government will play the hero and claim that it has saved the economy.

All over 2008 yet again, kicking the can down the road, until the can is so broken that kicking it is no longer possible.

Wait was that seriously the extent of the cheapness we’re getting from Binance? That would be pretty bullshit

What music are you into?

i really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really dislike accounting...

...which is ironic because it's literally all that Bitcoin does.

Where were YOU when the #Bitcoin White Paper was published? 🤔

Although it was predictable ahead of time that so many Palestinian civilians including children would die as a result of Israel’s response to the attack on Israel by Hamas, as the numbers continue to add up it is increasingly hard to watch.

Half of Gaza’s population is under the age of 18. There is not much more sad in this world than children, cut off from electricity and communication, violently dying from air strikes in darkness.

And sadly this happens in other places of the world too.

For much of human history, people were only aware of their own local area. Now we have awareness of large swaths of the world, and so we can keep track of tragedies in real time. We then desensitize ourselves out of necessity. Like, the sheer amount of negative information and unsolvable problems hit us through media, and in order to productively do something to add value to someone else, there is little choice other than compartmentalization it. An electrician can’t be caught up in the troubles of the world as he goes out each day and fixes things and building things, for example. In order to add order to his small part of the world, he can’t be fully caught up with its global chaos.

And then, I see these crazy protestors tearing down flyers about kidnapped Israelis, as though that activity could possibly be the best use of their time. People have a strong tendency to want to be part of something bigger and longer lasting than themselves, whether it is their religion, their community, their ideology, or their work. But some people chose such fruitless ways of doing it. Yes, you can and should advocate for not bombing children. No, you shouldn’t try to erase what happened to murdered or captured Israelis either. It is not rocket science.

The world is an increasingly polarized place, and my biggest concern is for those polarizations to be used to take rights away in a more broader context, or to wage war between larger opponents. Politicians will propagandize any small share of “crypto funding” to bad groups to justify more restrictions on those technologies and privacy in general. As countries go through sovereign debt crises, having some sort of enemy to point to helps their narrative for capital controls and keeping their citizens in currency and bonds as they are inflated away. I’ve studied the 1940s financial environment too much to be unaware of this.

Always look through to the bigger story, and ideally with a perspective of empathy toward many sides of any complex issue. Strive to be able to articulate your opponent’s view as well as they can, so that your counter argument can be most effective and surgical in its nature. And then, when there is nothing you can do about something globally, try instead to bring order and reason and improvement and kindness to whatever small portion of the world that you can.

something i’ve started saying to myself more and more on a daily basis:

“do less, better”