You had me at “fake diversity job.”
Brilliant chat with nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna and nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z. I have been waiting for someone to weave psychology, spirituality, ethics, and bitcoin.
Very very very cool.
I will be ordering the book today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoxqSbwWx-c
nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z This was a tremendous discussion. Thank you nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna for walking us through your thesis. This is next on my reading list!
I forced my teenager daughter to listen, and now she’ll be using the basic thesis as a government project for school.
Work is interfering with my #Nostr time today 😫
Imagine if we somehow normalized Bitcoin as a fundraising tool for political campaigns, you’d see formal adoption balloon!
You should come attend a DCbitdevs event in 2024. A great group, probably a different focus. In addition to the dev talent, there’s a good group of bitcoiners who are deep in policy and everything DC related. You’d be a welcomed guest.
I’m spending twice as much time on #Nostr than I ever did on X. It is a lovey distraction.
Jim Bianco makes some interesting points, expressing concern that an ETF would expedite the fiat-ization of Bitcoin. Everything I see on the regulatory and now legislative side leads me to believe this is exactly why we’re seeing likely regulatory approval.
Most dogs leave you alone. Most healthy dogs greet you. Scared and injured dogs bite.
And the nasty little rub is that only otherwise law abiding citizens will get caught up in this. Kinda like gun laws in Chicago.
Rather than engage in violent combat, I would offer that “This Is Your Night” by Amber is also a juggernaut of 90s dance.
GM! Reporting for duty 🫡
Day 3 X free!
#nostrmaxi
This keeps Elizabeth Warren up at night……
So keep transacting!
Agreed, I think the Liquid model is starting to demonstrate its advantages. I am concerned about how the Beast in DC will react to the federated model if it gains traction. The mere whiff of anything “custodial” triggers instant bloodlust. The great team at Blockstream should start considering this possibility and how to address it.
I think people are coming around to the fundamental truth, Warren and those like her do in fact understand Bitcoin. It was easy to fall back on the hope that if she understood how empowering it was, she would change her mind. But here we see the ugly truth of it all - she and those like her hate Bitcoin because it is empowering. It offends their authoritarian impulses. Listening her pretend to care about safety and security - the modern justification for all transgressions of our basic liberties - is just vulgar. Fair to say many policies she supports have ruined or ended far more lives than any bitcoin transactions ever could.
Watching her and Dimon seemingly congratulate each other as one tried to outdo the other was emblematic of this.
Most Normies will watch this debate with disinterest. But what they’re watching is a representative of the worst parts of the system lash out against anything that threatens those worst parts. And those worst parts harm all of us, whether or not you own bitcoin.
Friendly reminder that laws have implications, and that laws need to be enforceable to be effective.
https://dergigi.com/2021/08/02/implications-of-outlawing-bitcoin/
There is great societal and political risk in trying to outlaw things otherwise peacefully owned by law abiding citizens. It creates a damaging chasm between citizenry and government. I fear our political class has forgotten this historical truth.
Did I hear someone ask about a fiat debasement hedge? Smart tradfi people are also starting to get it. 