Get it bud. Of course no one knows for sure, but I feel like the choppiness is all macro stuff that just gives the big leveraged traders fuel to tank the price.
Bank failures could bring on imminent "BRRR", regulations could bring stablecoin capital to BTC as a safe haven, bears are going to get too greedy as they always fucking do; sorry, I'm a permabull and there's literally no scenario that makes me see anything but NGU.
I haven't consulted the TA (or the tea leaves or the chicken bones) but I feel like trying to time an entry below $18K is going to be fruitless.
Anything below $20K should be seen as a steal.
And no impersonators and no bots...real interactions with real people, mostly interested in real money. What's not to love?
I would say most of the rest of the album is better listening, but that lyric really does stand out to me: "...strivin' for a beginner's mind"
Zen & the Art of Living Deeply
Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind
Beginner’s Mind is a phrase from Japanese Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki’s book, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. He uses it to describe an approach to life that is empty of preconceptions and egotism, yet very mindful.
“In Japan we have the phrase shoshin (初心), which means “beginner’s mind.” The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind… This [means] an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.”
The idea of an empty mind in Asian cultures is different from Western conceptions, which signify that something is lacking. It is closer to our idea of being open-minded, providing a spacious awareness that allows the outer world to flow in freely through our senses.
https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/zen-the-art-of-living-deeply/
That's cool, I didn't know that. Loved Sufjan Stevens' song of the same name though so it feels like a familiar subject.
Something that Marx said, though I read it second-hand in Zizek, sticks with me day in and day out.
(paraphrasing) Capitalism could become a global subjectivity if it were to become self-critical. Once all subjective activity becomes capitalised, we can relate to each other through objective means.
I always took "self-critical" to mean restricted in some way, ie. not blindly driven by profit and contributing to humanity in some universal way. From a statist's position this could easily inferred to be the role of a government, but any meaningful restrictions that ever been placed on capital by the state have been easily reversed by capital's enormous political influence.
Maybe some trusting or naive people believe that some future form of state could break the streak of capital dominating labour through the state, but not me.
Maybe it's not completely objective, but I relate to people who live to further the success of the most ethical money yet devised, which may very well be turn out to be the element required to make the global economy self-critical.
Yeah, beyond the broader existential questions that is a very fundamentally important basis (keeping Bitcoin usable).
Cyberspace and digital communities seem very "real" now, and it's foreseeable that they become even more integral to our daily lives, but at the end of the day everything on the internet runs on technology and infrastructure, two things that are heavily dependent on capital, and therefore state power.
Bitcoin promotes the ethos of true property rights, sovereignty, and technological innovation, so it seems likely that some sort of alternative to current networking infrastructure could be devised, but that's getting way out into the realm of speculation and/or paranoia.
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I tried to reply to you on Twitter but it gave me an error, anyways better to reply here.
"We must ask ourselves if we are willing to give up our citizenship to ensure the continued use of #Bitcoin⚡️
We must also ask ourselves if we are willing to take the necessary steps to ensure that #Bitcoin can still serve as a form of money, asset, store of wealth, and exchanger of goods, even if every major power system attacks it simultaneously. 🧡"
It's a good question that vibes with me: where does our present moment lead that isn't pure hell. Nostrica as a union of global citizenry? Easy to imagine in part, but hard to imagine all the pitfalls and downsides. Very much worth discussing however.
Seems like ruling elites are getting mad about anything that offers commoners a leg up in an over-financialised world, where one party has an outsized advantage in that they control the issuance of currency.
Also not surprising that these same elites are cool with ETH/web3/scamcoins because they are just ushering people into the same trap
Looks damn good...eatin' well over dere!
P2P platforms explode: we all win.
Their only major downside right now is that there's not much liquidity. If there are no other fiat onramps, suddenly the spread doesn't seem so bad.
Napalm Death "You Suffer"
(The heavy metal riff that Guilfoyle uses for his Bitcoin mining operation on Silicon Valley)
Every post is, in its own way, asking for zaps, no?
Begging outright is gauche, sure, but everyone is thinking "if I write something clever, people are going to zap the shit out of my post!" when they post.
In fact, I'm thinking it right now...
one of my channels sent basically its whole capacity (1M) through me to your channel yesterday! Not surprising when I heard you could do 10K+ transactions in a day.
Nostr obviously has a lot of room to grow, and there has been some "jankiness" about the experience, but the overall quality of the interactions and the already present features make it a clear winner already.
Twitter in the meantime gets jankier by the day; the only place to get content is the "Following" tab, which for me now says "Welcome to Twitter" and prompts me to follow accounts as if I haven't been using it for years.
In any case, both platforms are moving in different directions, with very different momentum.
Yeah agree. There's no easy answers here. Arming citizens just makes gang wars that occasionally harm citizens into civil wars that regularly harm citizens.
I think Honduras is a relevant case study in a kind of reverse Bukele anti-authoritarian state with people needing a private militia just to survive. I don't know much about it, but I know it didn't turn out so hot.
Bitcoiners can choose their poison I guess: Authoritarian capitalist state, or anarchic free state, but you can't always have it the way you want it.
He just texted me to ask me to hold the keys to one of his multisig wallets. I'm about to go on a zapping rampage, trust me...
The guy literally pulled the CCP's #1 gaslighting technique (cry racism) to try and refute accusations of CCP interference. Authoritarians and projection, name a better duo, I dare you.
I see so little Bitcoin activity on Twitter now