You’re either a #Bitcoin  maximalist or you’re not.

You can’t be in between.

Calling yourself a “quasi-maxi” just means you don’t get it.

True, but it's still not objective. You would be moving 100mph according to some objects, 1000000mph according to other objects.

Cornzilla vs. King Corn

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I’m using old pallets and 2x4s for firewood!!.. I was going to pay for them to get picked up, and then snapped 💡

If you have a fireplace burn it if you got it 🔥

Any sort of racist shit is insta block for me. Aint got time for that shit.

Progressives vs Conservativs is the ultimate tension.

Politically speaking, if we set aside the extremists on each side, the middle ground debate between well-informed people is often a battle between the following:

Progressives want to move society forward, but often in too centralized and artificial manner. At their best, they want to help the disenfranchised among us and focus on what they see as the bigger picture. At their worst, they get into eugenics and central control and underestimate the efficiency of market forces.

Conservatives often want to hold society where it is, even when resisting new change that could be good. At their best, they support responsibility and virtue and hard work, while at their worst, they harm new ideas or minorities that deviate from their local culture, and hold back good new ideas.

And how we interpret these forces changes over time. Sometimes science is at the forefront, and sometimes politics/culture is. Copernicus and Galileo were scientific progressives, and were punished for it despite being right. But then Marx and Woodrow Wilson were political progressives, and had success despite later being wrong in many ways. And then ironically, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were both considered progressive US presidents, but in many ways they couldn't be more different. Conservatives today have more respect for the former than the latter.

Both fundamental forces, progress and conservatism, are necessary. We need to move forward, but with awareness of our past. Cautiously progressive, and virtuously conservative. Humble in our presumed ability to control the world, but empathetic in our outreach to groups that don't necessarily fit within the existing culture. Something akin to Libertarianism fits the bill, but with more widespread support. When Libertarianism fails to catch on in any of 200 or so countries, its lack of success needs to be examined. Why isn't Libertarianism popular?

Some of this I argue is due to technology. The existing tech of fast transactions but slow settlements gives power to central banks and governments. Technology dictates politics.

For example, prior to the invention of the printing press, it wasn't possible to have a democratic republic over a large landmass. That required fast information transfer and widespread literacy. Ancient people were not "ignorant" to have their prior social structures; they outright lacked the technology to even attempt our current norms. And today, can we imagine if new technology makes our existing norms irrelevant? What if capital flows as freely as information flows? Does that change politics? I think so.

In the modern era, central planners have a technological edge. It's easy for them to consolidate the banks and central banks, since everything is reliant on credit-based transfers. The invention of bitcoin and fast non-credit transfer starts to mess with that, but it takes time with liquidity and network effects.

I expect the next few decades to change substantially. But as they do, I consider progressivism vs conservatism to be a useful framework to keep in mind. Openness to change vs preservation of what works well now. In all technological environments, era after era, this is ultimately the key social debate. As monetary technology stalled in recent decades, politics took center stage. As monetary technology advances over the next couple of decades, I expect that technology to start impacting and framing conversations more and more, as it starts setting the clear path.

Is DuckDuckGo down? 🤔

They promised us flying cars, but we got the greatest money ever invented instead.

I guess we made out better than expected!

#bitcoin

If “green energy” (including w/ storage as needed) costs more than hydrocarbons and doesn’t win in the marketplace, then maybe it is more environmentally impactful than you think, with energy-intensive and materially-intensive supply chains.

Likewise, if fake meat costs more than real meat, then maybe it too is more environmentally impactful then you think, with energy-intensive and materially-intensive supply chains.

GM, #grownostr 💜

“I used to have a bumper sticker that said ‘death to the intolerant.’ I had to take it off because nobody had a sense of irony about it.” — John Perry Barlow

𝙸'𝚖 𝚊𝚗 𝙸𝚃 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕. 𝙸𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐... 😁

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Just how many people did SBF bribe?

The whole case looks so open and shut, yet there's a completely different narrative in the mainstream.

Given that Nostr data is all public, is it likely that a data collection and/or data analytics company will mine it? It is certainly possible that a Nostr client could do this in the future, perhaps by running an indexing or caching service to organize the data and sell it to advertising agencies. In my opinion, this is likely to happen eventually. Thoughts?