Let us cast off the old robes of cynicism and criticism that we wore with such flourish before bitcoiners.

Let us be heroic. For if bitcoin is what we say it is, we have no need for victimhood.

Let us be men of energy and action and enthusiasm and creators of a new world.

Yeah. Did it myself, with a little YouTube help. I now know the need for sharp knives.

How quick we are to sacrifice our pleasure, how slow to sacrifice our pain.

I processed my first chuck roll all by myself.

9 lbs ground beef

2x 3lb roasts

2lb Sierra Steak

2lb chuck eye steak

2lb Denver steak

1lb stew meat

#foodstr #meatstr #carnivore

Local Raw Milk + Local honey = Heaven

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Note: To the people in the back of the room who don't read, this is not an endorsement of MMT. I'd insert my Austrian bonafides here if I could.

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Many Bitcoiners bash MMT as "nonsense", and thus lose arguments with statists before they even start. It would serve them well to understand the framing within which MMT is meant to be used.

MMT strictly limits itself in scope to money derived from monopoly violence. It is actually axiomatic in MMT that all money is derived from the barrel of a gun. MMT generally and chartalism specifically, asserts that the money must be ESTABLISHED by a state via force, and in order to do so, it must have something to ENFORCE. Thus the primary purpose for taxation under MMT isn't funding gov't programs, but rather to give the gov't a means to force and enforce the use of its fiat. Taxes exist to force us to use their money. This seems to be true. MMT is exceedingly accurate and descriptive with regard to money emitted by power centers with monopoly on legal violence. However, there is no room or intellectual tools within the MMT toolkit to analyze or predict the effects of a money that emerges independent of violence and coercion.

This is why when Ron Paul asked Ben Bernanke if gold was money, Ben responded "no".

MMT is totally unequipped for discussions related to bitcoin. When trying to orange pill an MMTer, you must first deal with their primary axiom.

It isn't that they believe that money CAN'T emerge organically. It is that they acknowledge (correctly) that OUR money HASN'T emerged organically and cannot persist organically.

So when talking to them, don't insult their theory. Don't quote Rothbard or Mises; it's a waste of time and you are casting pearls before swine. Acknowledge that MMT is useful for money that exists via force, but that you are working to build a world where money no longer requires force to persist.

#homeschool

It's a cross I bear. #tunestr

Asymptotic #ossification MUST be the driving ethic or #Bitcoin can never be a universal money.

Bitcoin isn't a tech stock, it is a network protocol.

#unpopularopinion 0017:

Transaction malleability fix aside, segwit was a mistake. But it is a mistake we have to live with, so we might as well build LN .

Advocating asymptotic ossification as an axiom is NOT a misunderstanding of bitcoin.

"The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime." - Satoshi

Sorry, not sorry, Dans.

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Took a peek at bird app...

apparently it is 2017 still.

#unpopularopinion 0016:

The Constitutional Conventions of 1787 were a successful coup d'etat purposefully engineered to remove the constraints on government and centralize the power of the state.

#history #usgovernment

Happy Rex Manning Day, #nostr.

#empirerecords #rexmanningday #rexmanning

#unpopularopinion 0015:

Gold is remonetizing... temporarily.

#unpopularopinion 0014:

The Beach Boys > The Beatles

And it isn't even close.

Listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xedcSfMgQ8

Then Listen to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPN53PHDwe4

#tunestr

Just a reminder:

2 days until Rex Manning Day

GOOD MORNING ☀️ #NOSTR

Up before the sun.

BELIEF is not the same as CONVICTION.

BELIEF > CONVICTIN

Belief is a CHOICE to INTEND to act AS IF something were true, because you HOPE it is. Belief, thusly, requires conscious acknowledgment of one's related doubt.

Conviction is a state where one is certain (convinced) that something is true and so acts accordingly. Conviction, requires an absence of doubt and therefore is the antithesis of hope and belief.

I've known way more people convinced of their "ism" than those who consciously believed their "ism". Belief is always more powerful.

Faith can ONLY be expressed by those with belief and cannot be expressed by those with conviction. It is the the choice to act on the intentions derived from belief. No doubt? No belief. No faith.

BELIEF is intention to act, derived from HOPE, with conscious acceptance of uncertainty.

FAITH is the choice to act on belief's intent.

CONVICTION is a state of certainty, in spite of intent. Hope has no role in conviction.

I love the words "I believe".

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