Shit on?

I’m not shitting on Trump, I’m pointing out the people who think that he is bad for bitcoin and will lead to a CBDC and all this mess are being ridiculous. Maybe you misunderstood what my post was trying to get across.

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You might just be seeing people being consumed with the election and migrating back toward X for news.

In other words, focus on the real that is right in front of us.

Here’s the thing about the bitcoin-Trump-govt-takeover doomers…

First, Trump doesn’t care about bitcoin or crypto that much. The argument always seems to be some big conspiracy to make a CBDC and use the bitcoin rocket to expand their reach and dominate all the KYC paper bitcoin and trap everyone in it, etc etc.

But it’s only us who put bitcoin at the center of our “plans.” They are “playing with it” because it’s this tiny side project that has been making money. Thats it. Trump is interested because there are voters he can appeal to. There is SO much honesty in the “and whatever else you are playing with” comment. He doesn’t care about any of this, and neither do the overwhelming majority of them.

It’s a bunch of opportunists that see growing numbers and so they buy an exchange, they try to dominate this and that market, etc. it’s nothing new.

Look at the stupid shitcoins they keep issuing. You think these are brilliantly laid plans? They could barely sell anything of their latest scam.

And of course when considering the exploiters of the old system, they will have more capital to dominate the new, but this doesn’t change in any way the fundamental incentive shift that occurs within the Bitcoin model.

Fiat has a corruption loophole, Bitcoin plugs that loophole.

Quit declaring failure before things even get off the ground. And quit framing Bitcoin’s importance through OUR lens instead of theirs. They don’t have that.

This is where “stay humble” shows up in practice, imo. We aren’t the most important thing in their world. We are winning and just need to put our head down and build solutions to TODAY’s problems, not throw our hands up in surrender or put all our concern in some elaborate, long term “probably going to happen” master plan.

Thats just my 2 sats

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I think we are talking about different time frames. We are definitely starting into the aggressive bull territory. I didn’t say we were in a bubble.

Relax and enjoy it. We are entering the absurdly volatile times and they don’t last very long, and they get reeeally nuts if I learned anything from the last 4 of them.

This one will be wild, no doubt. You should be a little scared, but it’s also fun. It’s like we’re getting to the top of the roller coaster climb and the *real* ride is about the start. Both excitement and fear are perfectly rational… buckle up 😂

Exactly

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This thing is going to go to 100K before we really even kick this cycle off, imo

Sigh, first sentence should say *impossible*

In other words, the distribution of information is explicitly a limitation of reality, and we don’t live in a fairy tale. Its most often the people themselves who don’t want to hear it and don’t share it that prevents other from knowing.

In other other words, what you describe is literally axiomatic and unavoidable. There’s no alternative option.

The issue is simply that isn’t literally

Importable for it not to have been. And trust me it wasn’t for lack of Bitcoiners trying. We did everything we could, spending an excruciating amount of time trying to explain it and tell people about it when it was worth nothing but we saw the potential it had to solve an absolutely massive problem!

Sorry if the response came off a little direct, but most of the time when people bring that up they like to scream and complain about “unfairness,” when many many more people did know about it for a very long time, they just ridiculed everyone who used it and called it stupid.

When you tell someone about it, they call you an idiot, then years later it’s worth a lot more, and they call it unfair and say you’ve received unjust return… it can often make one want to punch said person in the face. 🤣

The act of savings is a net gain for the economy. Holding bitcoin isn’t taking anything from anyone, quite the opposite, it’s putting real resources into the economy and not taking anything back out.

As far as what bitcoiner do with it, they do everything one would do with money. Because it’s just better money. I live on a bitcoin standard. I get paid in it, I pay people in it, I save it, I spend it. It’s money.

They do not even slightly. Printing fist is a systemic and permanent imbalance in the game rules. Being early in bitcoin was not only hard af, and not only did almost nobody have the foresight and conviction to hold since then, but it’s no more an advantage than the person who buys Apple when it’s still a massive risk and just an idea. There’s nothing remotely unfair about it and it cannot be made more fair.

It’s the difference between someone who starts a board game and gets pints, before others even come to play the game, while fiat is simply that some people can issue themselves as many points as they like, whenever they like, and buy or own anything they want in the game.

If you think those two things are even remotely the same, you’ve made a very serious error in judgement, imo.

I haven’t seen Sicario, but I would suggest that the common thread needs to be the character motivation, or the motivation of both needs to be established early unless the entire intent is to shock and punish the audience’s idea of a “happy ending” in war (or whatever the theme is). And importantly I think you have to warn your audience toward the beginning that this world

Includes the horror of unexpected and disappointing truths. If we don’t frame the theme or world with that, it can be jarring in a way that’s not enjoyable, but simply angering.

It’s a fine line to walk to buck norms and not jar the audience out of the story. I’m super eager to read what you’ve got though. Boldness very often leads to encoring stuff regardless.

I’ll give one example though of normative trends that were changed that I think was underappreciated. And that’s World War Z.

It appears on the surface like a regular “end of the world” type movie, but the escalation when you really look at it is reversed.

Usually a big budget disaster movie starts with 1 bad guy, then they fight a dozen bad guys that are more powerful and have their first “limited encounter” with the big dog, and then it ends with the “beam of light into the sky billions of random bad guys and the hugest mega boss man” fight.

WWZ actually reversed this:

• Act 1 has the literal “global zombie hordes” and huge scale attack.

• Act 2 brings it a little more local and it’s about a single city and then a single base and operation.

• Act 3 is in a building with just a few dozen zombies with a potential resolution in the middle of them.

• Then the climax is literally the main character and a single zombie.

But at each point the stakes are raised for the survival of mankind. And the final, single zombie is the ultimate test to the theory the protagonist develops during his investigation.

As someone who loves film/story and have considered myself a filmmaker, I had a particular appreciation for that movie for how they raised the stakes and intensity specifically by scaling DOWN the fight, but changing what each conflict meant. I think it was all the more powerful because of it.

The constant need for big budget films and most fantasy-adventure narratives to scale up every battle, I think is a crutch that actually weakens its effect more often than not.

lol except that it isn’t and purely depends on perspective. One side would say it’s the corrupt billionaires because they are the ones corrupting the govt. the other side would say that the problem with the govt is that it is ALWAYS corrupted, so having it big and powerful is just creating incentives to *create* corrupt billionaires.

In the market people actually have to appeal to voluntary customers. In govt they get stolen funds and contracts from the money printers.

In other words they cannot be separated from each other. It’s a virtuous (or malicious?) feedback loop.

I just spent 20 minutes with my 2 year old boy, pushing a plastic dump truck back and forth across the floor, and he was having an amount of fun that should borderline be illegal. 🤣🤣

That was all, just pushing a dump truck. After 20 minutes he got up and ran off. I thought he was done… returned 30 seconds later with his trash truck too 🤣

I also didn’t say that “a bitcoin standard would humble any company trying to do something at scale.”

That is not the statement when one says “fiat unnaturally benefits companies who grow off of constantly devaluing debts.”

It doesn’t mean scale isn’t naturally more economical. It is in most cases to a certain size and with agility being the opposing pressure. But fiat **subsidizes** bigness and causes bloat and waste across the board.

I’m not just saying that “everything will be small and big isn’t possible,” I’m saying the explicitly those things that aren’t sustainable but survive because they are huge and get subsidized debt and fake prices, THOSE corporations can’t sustain themselves. There is no way to know exactly which ones they are either, it’s just an educated guess. There is no control in this experiment and can’t be.

lol I’m not reading all that 🤣

It spikes real bad for short periods every so often. Not out of the question but I don’t specifically remember it.

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#Bitcoin

They are having to build their entire own index to fix it. Sucks because if we could just fix the podcast 2.0 index this wouldn't be an issue. Causing a ton of unnecessary work

I don't know of a good way except to call them out publicly and label them what they are.

Also important to build strong communities that refuse to accept that shit and then outlast the fools who get swindled by them.

There is no short term solution that doesn't feel like hacking at the branches, imo. But long term I think consistency of message, calling them out, and showing and reminding everyone of the outcome over and over is the only decent option on the table.

Ah, but what if you regularly GM in the afternoon to throw them off? nostr:note1vtu2la46tk029fq7m64rla5r60mltgulmwcsdnd0acgvl2mtyu3sm07s88

Yeah it super blows that they have a damn shitcoin network behind it. Ignorance is bliss 🤣

Would love to have this for a secure mobile device

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Once or twice at least 🤣

How is it that after all this time people still dont understand that owning #Bitcoin doesn’t mean control over the network?

It will take time to unlearn the fiat frame. Thinking that only *certain* people should own #Bitcoin or it’s in trouble is the opposite of why it exists.

nostr:npub1gnwpctdec0aa00hfy4lvadftu08ccs9677mr73h9ddv2zvw8fu9smmerrq had a good point though that with remote login they could delete the logs as soon as I got it turned back on maybe? 🤔

“Privacy is treated like a luxury, but it’s a necessity.”

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#Bitcoin privacy with a hell of a panel… https://v.nostr.build/eCghasSGYrFDczDh.mp4

I’ll investigate again when I get back, sessions was saying he was getting the same thing until Albyhub, but it’s connecting with the same tool. Seems like it’s likely something weird with whatever service that’s running it rather than LND connect specifically.

Nice! I haven’t tried moshi yet

You stole the spirit of the post I was going to make when I did this for the first time in Lugano 😆

Been using Alby Go in the same way and it’s so fucking dope

Finally got my Coinkite shirt 😆🫡

Eh not regular joe, but close. I would say this is the UI for the prosumer computer guy. I can’t still see a lot of areas where someone will feel confused or overwhelmed. It’s hard AF to make the complexity of all of these tools intuitive and simple. But they’ve made an incredible step in the right direction and showed how good it can be if designed right.

The hardest thing about being successful isn't obtaining wealth, it's keeping it.

— something i heard once that stuck with me