Until election season is over, Twitter has reached rock-bottom to me.

I won’t say it’s unusable, since I am using it, but I have to navigate around its main thing to continue with the positive elements of the network effect that exists there.

And so many accounts are super biased on any given topic to a clearly irrational degree. I keep seeing things that seem like satire, but instead they are genuinely written to appeal to lower information people in a way that, from my perspective, is highly patronizing to them.

I find it so distasteful. The prior election year 2020 had a lot of polarizing elements obviously, but 2024 has more clearly conscious polarizing elements going on. Large influencer accounts whose motives are clear toward a broader audience with talking points geared toward child-level rhetoric and civic understanding. You can watch them as an observer speaking to their flock as though they were children.

Hal Finney:

It seemed so obvious to me: "Here we are faced with the problems of loss of privacy, creeping computerization, massive databases, more centralization - and [David] Chaum offers a completely different direction to go in, one which puts power into the hands of individuals rather than governments and corporations. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them."

Still one of my favorite quotes.

"Gold all time high, Silver all time high, Stock market all time high, House prices all time high, BTC over 60K, Fentanyl sales all time high…

Debt all time high

Where the f is the money coming from?" - Luis KC

😑🖨️

My 9 month old son looked me straight in the eyes today and said “dad, if the government never plans to pay the $35.4 trillion federal debt and keeps adding more, then the debt means nothing, right? But our entire monetary system is based on debt… so does that mean the fiat monetary system is based on nothing?”

What should I tell him?

The French have a different word for EVERYTHING.

GOOD MORNING. RISK FREE YIELD DOES NOT EXIST. STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS. 🫡

5k bits to whoever guesses what I’m making

Steve Martin, cutting his live comedy album in the mid 1970s, a heckler yelled out during it and this was Martin's instant response:

"I remember my first beer."

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you see this?

HODLing is a psychological battle with yourself. How much pain and scorn can you handle from the normie world? What is your pain tolerance for sustaining your HODLer conviction through big 50% or even 80% drawdowns?

Are you willing to think independently and ignore TradFi influencers who preach about being allocated to govt bonds or stock indexes or trying to be a property mogul?

If you do it correctly, you are richly rewarded for HODLing over time - both financially and mentally. If you do it poorly, you risk selling during the drawdowns or hard times.

Even $MSTR?? Shouldn’t Saylor know better?

When Coinbase ever gets hacked, this industry is going into an economic depression of its own:

- All the BTC held in the ETFs gone

- All of $MSTR BTC gone

- BTC held by Public companies gone

- BTC held by US Mining companies gone

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I feel like most people on Nostr are of the AOL dialup generation. The good ol days of AIM, MSN messenger, yahoo chat

That would put most of us at 30+ years old. How old are you?

33.

#asknostr #nostr

It’s a fine day for a fine pilsner beer.

3 decisions shape your life.

1. Who you marry

2. When you finally decide to prioritize your health

3. When you get into bitcoin