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Ben
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Consulting Actuary, Class of ‘20

Carnivore’s check your freezer regularly. It might just save you some heart ache and tears. Been a busy 24 hours but I am so grateful I get to enjoy the last of my local beef.

And as necessity is the mother of invention not pictured are the three half sheet pans of stew meat that for the first time I roasted in the oven.

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Nice work. The regular improvements you keep making are really proof of that focus. Keep it going!

The primary and possibly only purpose for a digital currency like bitcoin is to pay node operators in the native currency for securing the network through verification of transactions on the blockchain. There is no intrinsic value.

There are two methods of payment: transaction fees, paid by the current holders of the digital currency and system rewards of new units or coins being issued.

When the code was written the transaction fees were initially zero and the system reward was coded to be a decreasing amount over a fixed interval of time: resulting in a fixed supply. All to encourage node participants, usage of the network and value creation.

As the first invention of its time the design decision could have resulted in any fixed supply as the 21 Million is the result of starting the block reward at 50 bitcoin along with a fixed length of 210,000 blocks before decreasing the reward by half.

It could have been any fixed supply but 21 Million definitely has a good vibe.

Had Satoshi started with 100 we could have had the answer to the ultimate question of life in 42 Million.

When does one bone-in ribeye equal two pocket steaks?

When it is the biggest spinalis top I have seen.

Older or younger brother matters.

My younger brother orange pilled me thru Dollar Cost Averaging.

Back in 2020 this was with Swan. For me the factoid was the idea that sats per dollar will decrease forever.

If you are the older brother the I would send him memes to constantly show what he is missing out on interlaced with key book recommendations or YouTube videos.

I did this with my two step brothers who are same age and younger. Jeff Booth Price of Tomorrow was the unlock for them. We now have a text thread regularly talking about bitcoin and are closer now than ever before.

Brothers need persistence and the reinforcement that it comes from a place of wanting shared success.

Yes.

I tried as a multi pronged apprentice to plantar fasciitis. After about 2 months of pain I finally had enough. Combined acupuncture with podiatrist wrap; hot cold therapy, massage with cupping, and continued stretching from the two prior months.

Recovery after two sessions over two weeks. Kept the treatment for the foot going for another 6 months with sessions every three weeks.

The acupuncturist is key. Mine took a vacation to go back home and the substitute was left chart notes and then I explained what we were working on. It was about the five month mark. Same general locations as far as I could tell but a completely different experience.

This year when she took holiday I skipped. Local recommendations of specific experience will help make sure you have success out of the gate.

Best way that I have found to change this mindset is do a daily DCA of $10. Watching the sats go from 2000 per $1 to under 1000 per $1 really helped lock in the deflationary mindset.

Replying to Avatar Jeff Booth

I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.

The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)

Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)

That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.

Either:

1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.

OR

2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)

While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.

Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.

Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.

Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day. You make a difference with every word, thought and action.

Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.

Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.

I read a “free market economy” as both the exchange of goods, and the free speech of #Nostr as you can’t have exchange without communication.

5 January 2025

Assuming that it is the first guess of a date, and is it 100k to the closest but not after?

Your friend can apply for the TSA pre-check program to receive a Known Traveller Number. Before pre-check was created you could request a KTN if you had a common name that was on the watch list. That no longer seems to be an option. TSA will finger print you for pre-check but the KTN will clarify that your friend is not the Jan 6th rioter.

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https://x.com/timmlatimer/status/1681304496234991620?s=46&t=Pawxoz0wWNruAaoHvBIu0A

I really enjoyed Tim Urban’s approach with the audiobook for “What’s our problem?”

He published a companion pdf with all the diagrams.

https://waitbutwhy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Whats-Our-Problem-Audiobook-Visuals-Companion.pdf

Then during the audio book he would give a basic description which for most situations was sufficient. But then others I was able to pause and look at the diagram before moving on in the book.

Just a thought.