Well since taxes don't actually fund government spending, not much qualifies.
Given how information can spread, any attempt to influence another person, any exchange of information becomes sort of political.
My premise is that there is something psychological that makes bitcoin very difficult for people to understand, even if they seem like the sort of person who should get it. Rather than trying to get more people directly, bitcoiners can think about the values they have, and how that relates to the world can look like, and start building that world today even if people don't know they are moving toward decentralization.
For instance, if I can get various nations that have stronger anti-communist positions to have conventional weapons that secure their sovereignty, it is similar to an individual having firearms rather than calling the police. Given the massive swings in different regions, left or right, there are various places not necessarily to change people who cannot be changed, but to strengthen and align with those that are forming environments conducive to bitcoin by protecting property rights.
It is within right wing nations that the drive for individual sovereignty then can propagate.
Bitcoiners should actually become powerful, influencing political organizations and industrial production at a global scale. The fact that the Samurai devs are still in prison shows how weak bitcoiners are. The fact that no bitcoiner had control of a public company worth a billion or so in 2020 until Saylor came along shows the extent to which OG bitcoiners are not really doing much.
Instead of asking the world to adopt bitcoin and waiting for them, bitcoiners should just take the world. Every political influencer is usually controlled by capital, as is every industrialist, but bitcoin enables operating with an irreverence toward existing power structures that is magnetic in any field. The world is changing so quickly now, and so much wealth is being generated, an import export perspective means bitcoin grows purely on "exports" regardless of new adopters.
My premise is the "total crypto-anarchy" utopianism, which is always full of lots of hand waving, is not so much about true ideals, but an excuses for inaction in various domains.
Hi Max, you reveal in the brief excerpt I quote below you do not believe your own premise by the very fact you published this article thinking others might read it. So will you ask, why are you lying to yourself about the nature of reality? Clearly, you recognize the distinction between individual and collective is not binary. It is clear that the reactionary approach to counter collectivism is failing because there is a weak theory as to the nature of the transition, which is quite different from having whisps of a vision for a long term equilibrium.
Until you are ready to overcome the fact that the utopia you envision will not spontaneously emerge from a handful of people using software, you will not maximally contribute to advancing toward various intermediary steps. I am taking a different approach, working toward bringing autonomy in a hierarchical way, starting with the weapons systems that can help weaker nations regain greater sovereignty. This can percolate downward more easily than it is to simply hit tipping points preaching to the choir here.
You think politics doesn't work because you only see the "rules" and "forms" of politics you were told exist. I am making my own way, and building the weapons, not asking for policy changes, but providing tools to shape the nature of things to come.
"First, stop waiting for mass approval. Deprogram yourself from collectivist thought and hoping the masses will wake up. Do not waste time trying to fix politics, win over majorities, or receive mainstream validation. You are on your own for now."
The normies are talking about tax revolt now and you're bearish?
Hahaha, just seeing this now 5 days later with how rarely I'm here
Rigging something up DIY was how I started. Didn't think about making it a business for another 9 months
I suspect part of the transition to this may require a doctrinal shift around force posture that pivots more toward allowing allies to unilaterally impose cost rather than the US becoming entangled in a strategy of denial. I am thinking about the weapons that align with this transition at the nation state level, which then will lead to trickle down decentralization over time.
I suspect it may be impossible for it to be grassrooted bottom up with communes: El Salvador, Prospera, Solano, etc, which of course are not taken seriously in their own right, for cities will not effectively defy states, nor are they currently able to defend their territory against a centralized hegemon, so no one will truly defect even if they signal conditional interest.
It will likely be many decades of international decoupling at the conventional layer, with a shift toward cost imposition as a stable deterrent, which will help the world realize the strategy of denial against tyranny fails in securing liberty.
Dating apps need to be made on NOSTR. Needs to be used for all types of social apps. Why has no one done this yet? Zaps enable fixing spam problems in dating apps without extreme algo filters.
This is why I am going to Eastern Europe to see about selling missiles and not Germany. I would be aiding criminal tyranny otherwise. Weapons must ultimately serve in the defense of private property rather than enabling aggression or tyranny.
We're still on the "bitcoiners never do anything other than bitcoin itself" timeline in case you are still under any delusions as to that matter
It really is sad the level of passivity. Just sitting around and waiting for the dust to settle, as if you will wake up tomorrow with the new world built and ready to go for you
When 500+ merchants in a major city offer a 5% discount for payments in bitcoin, you will have something worth cheering over.
Until then, kindly STFU
Looking at the quality of discourse on the right, by people retarded enough to think shitcoins are real, it makes it obvious that the only way things get better politically is if heritage bitcoiners get into politics, and win.
We need American Hodl (nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzenhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7mnsw43rzun5d3ckxcfcwgmxzatev9mn2m34dqekcdf5xgexgmf5wde8jdty0fnx2ef5xcunven3v5u8xdn3va6kg6mnxajx5arxwvlkyun0v9jxxctnws7hgun4v5dpfm4n) to be Vance's VP in 2028.
There is no need to cajole, lobby, and ask politicians to do favors for bitcoiners and hope that the world does not destabilize in a way that causes mass violence targeted at bitcoiners, it can just be done directly. Why did we need to wait until some guy with a shitty software company started buying bitcoin? Why couldn't a bitcoiner start a billion dollar public company?
This is the moment. Everyone is talking about the economy. Only bitcoiners can provide answers. Only bitcoiners can provide a compelling narrative to counter the rise of Momdami types. The Republicans have no problem with fiat-communism, so they are losing.
Stop orangepilling politicians, it doesn't work. We need 1st decade bitcoiners running for office.
Found out the real reason I can't get un-shadowbanned on Twitter
Elon Musk basically runs a mob cancel culture algo
I'm in El Salvador next week. Speaking at both Bitcoin Histórico and Adopting Bitcoin!
Come say hi and let's chat about energy
Two sided marketplaces that are centralized must be decentralized with NOSTR for people to have freedom of association again.
It is insane that anyone tolerates these forced interactions rather than granularly, parametrically, game theoretically trading with individuals.
Results are in: freedom is winning, bigly
This exceeds the most optimistic expectations they had going into the election
Anyone have thoughts on Riga, Latvia?
I know the Baltics Honeybadger is held there, but don't know much else as an American.
Is there reason to be bullish on the country? Reasons to be concerned?
Who do you think has a higher IQ? Person A, who says:
“Bitcoin fixes everything.”
Or person B who says:
“Life, as Schrödinger observed in the early 20th century can be seen as the emergence of self-replicating negentropy maximization machines, and if we combine this with noting the cybernetic principle states that the purpose of a machine is it does, we now have perfectly described the purpose of life. Further, upon reflecting on the ever outward spiraling set of energy inputs into all consumed goods & services, we find human economic decisions are based on localized information amidst opportunity costs as to the negentropy maximizing action, of course, setting a global objective value function within which the appearance of subjective preference is a mere stochastic process to escape local maxima, and then by Landauer's principle we must note that destruction of information, as is this with a money that is not a fixed numerical partition, is entropic, which is minimized with the energy minimal fixed money Schelling point, bitcoin's proof of work being such an absolute minimum being trivial, indicates that all economic desires are delivered most expediently by the market on a bitcoin standard after all fiat money has vanished.”
Anyone here use Threema? More secure than Signal?
This is an Australian wagyu ribeye
The price was $36/lb
A "Lassen's" grocery store in same town had 8 oz choice ribeyes for $28 each
If you post Whole Foods or similar meat prices as your "inflation index" as a bitcoiner, you are a deeply unserious person and YOU ARE MY ENEMY
Good evening
My secret?
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Great, now are YOU ready to actually build this rather than having a LARPer nostr btc rain dance ritual?
YOU NEED TO ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS. Heard from Junseth first and he's God damn right.
Don't do the retarded circlejerk thing, build a real business rather than setting yourself up for failure and wasting your time when you could actually build something useful.
It will only pick up with real BUSINESSES behind it that spend money on marketing. Also, it requires LOCAL network effect (e.g. physical tasks market, software gigs are global networks). It will not pick-up from 1 person pure software side projects.
nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpxdmhxue69uhkuamr9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshkz7tkdfkx26tvd4urqctvxa4ryur3wsergut9vsch5dmp8pese6nj96 when will you fund this? If you want me to manage allocation into a handful of startups and help corral some teams of people unsure of what to work on, I'm happy to help. I think this is critical bottleneck to adoption.
No one will care about NOSTR
Until the gig economy is on NOSTR
Was talking to a guy who thinks he's a thinker
Said that bitcoin is not for him, not in an anti-bitcoin way, just contrived vibes based thing
Just found out he was trying to bum money off a friend of mine for travel expenses
Yikes -- looks like he should have bought bitcoin!
My pan tweet went viral on Twitter.
With 2 million views, that's 100x more than all the people on Nostr.
Nostr needs economic, two-sided-marketplace apps to gain traction imho.
A friend called me yesterday:
"Hey, I'm a completely different person" (I could hear it in his voice)
"...I am now a bitcoin person. I appreciate you telling me crypto was all BS years ago because it helped give me the conviction to go with my gut."
Men must be toxic to evil
You are saying retarded nonsense. Your brain is on fiat. Learn some chemistry instead of regurgitating things you don't understand. Do you really agree?
Do you understand that the way bitcoin works is punishing retards economically for failing to humble themselves? Fiat was made so arrogant retards could stay rich. Bitcoin fixes that.
"Imagine a special passport issued by the League of Sovereign Individuals, identifying the holder as a person under the protection of the league."
- The Sovereign Individual, page 320
How many years are we from AnchorWatch becoming the first such league? 🤔👀
I hear you, but isn't nuking the entire Gaza strip to remove the barbaric inhumanity therein a bit extreme?
From The Sovereign Individual I am learning that in the early years of the printing press, from 1518 to 1525, Luther's works were a third of all German language books sold.
So there is nothing odd about most of Nostr being discussion centered on Bitcoin.
Spending KYC bitcoin with KYC merchants isn't using bitcoin
Receiving bitcoin payments via PoS auto-convert isn't using bitcoin
Buying nonKYC coconut for $5 of bitcoin isn't using bitcoin
Zapping people isn't using bitcoin
Only store OV, standard OV, and measure OV are uses.
Obviously, saving is using
But do not be a LARPing faggot
Also point out that sendin/receiving bitcoin does not necessarily mean you are really "using bitcoin"
This new Coinbase ad for the U.K. is fucking amazing.
We need more like this.
https://blossom.primal.net/1d35d41280a682adca56fd7eb1d12efba0a184ba2446f4272e78e34d3060f31c.mov
They have been crushing it on the ads lately.
It's too bad no ethical bitcoin company was able to step up and do this first.
If you've been around a minute, you know who the guy in the middle is.
I think there is a real opportunity here, and one that might be able to resist being co-opted by shitcoiners because it can be paralleled with real technological growth and economic development into which the fervor toward seeking short term gains can be productively directed. Trump is delivering the "crypto" dream of policy, not the bitcoin one.
cc: nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpxdmhxue69uhkuamr9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshkz7tkdfkx26tvd4urqctvxa4ryur3wsergut9vsch5dmp8pese6nj96 nostr:nprofile1qqsgwe49fmu6zu9nsc9uvm7k2k4myj6lmf6a04llxch5g3p0hh450wgpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7q22waehxw309a58gars9uhk7mrsds6ry6rgva5k2mm9vc6kydr5v3k82drwd3hk7mtxw9hn27tj0fjh2vmvdum8w6e5w9ckwatz09mrwat2xdckgtn0de5k7mskw6u5d nostr:nprofile1qqsglcljg053zgvpsyrcwh23hjj08l84gdph42t329gweqpkxkynn3gpq4mhxue69uqscamnwvaz7tmzwf3zu6t0la458l nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpxdmhxue69uhkuamr9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshkz7tkdfkx26tvd4urqctvxa4ryur3wsergut9vsch5dmp8pese6nj96 mallers
Understand there is no path to go forward that doesn't involve materials and manufacturing advancements, which are inherently dual use between industry and war. There is no Singaporization without militarization. This is fundamental physical reality and it will be used in an attempt to cleave bitcoiner interest away from Argentina and weaken it as a Schelling point.
Why do you think the Argentines are interested in meeting me? Certainly not because of any bitcoin matters, and what would you tell them? "Buy bitcoin?" Lol. I have a path to helping them become a real economic player, a real economic node, and pulling in other entrepreneurs who are sick of the nonsense of Silicon Valley Cantillionaires, yet still feel compelled to build the foundations of civilization's technology -- that is what I offer to Argentina.
[Redacting a bit for Nostr] ...it's all anchored in the fact that I have and can deliver The Goods. You cannot. Doesn't matter how many orders of magnitude more bitcoin you may have than me. Trump was high time preference tactics. Time to get strategic.
(I know there was the shitcoin thing that happened with Milei. Unless someone shows me evidence otherwise, I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and consider the President an unwitting victim to social engineering, just as has happened with various celebrities. Presidents are extremely busy people, just think about how Trump talked about "playing with your coins" -- you can't assume they have taken the time to really pay attention the way Bukele has.)
Ok, bring me a 20 oz ribeye steak, medium rare, in 30 minutes. I will pay you 300k sats if you can pull it off.
Nostr should be used for two sided marketplaces if it is to ever catch on as social media. I wonder how many more years of going sideways it will be until people realize I was right two years ago when I was saying it.
No, it was great, too many saunas are weak and underpowered. 200+ for sure maybe with cooling cap too
Good evening
