Who are you to say what anyone else chooses to accept as payment? 🧐
The truth about your bitcoin city/town circlejerks
Can someone explain to me the whole Nashville meme in bitcoin?
Unlike Austin, the city is not at all a tech hub, so why is it such a draw?
Definitely. I remember the first time I made something novel and someone gave me money for it. Almost surreal experience.
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Retardation is emergent and prolific under fiat
No one is "running the show" top down
Everyone knows that the era before Satoshi was BS
Bitcoin separates MONEY from CONTRACT
Peter Thiel believes deeply in the State and Government
He believes States can "fix things," if only his people are in control
He doesn't understand Bitcoin. He doesn't understand or appreciate technology.
He knows saying the phrase "I love freedom & technology" is popular.
Yes, this is an example of the transition to a bitcoin STANDARD OF VALUE.
People hold dollars because they have future dollar obligations and this is one way to shift it. It will not be 1% discount, but vastly more, for people could have the option to set the amount of bitcoin *at the time of sale/gain,* and there could be discounts of TENS OF PERCENTS.
...I still think about what you said to me as we parted ways when we met in the airport.
"[we will protect]
Freedom of Transaction
Freedom of Association
Freedom of Speech"
- Donald Trump
RESTORE THE LOCHNER ERA!!!
I'd say tied with Peter Thiel, but I think we all saw him sweating
nostr:npub1q3kyx6e22fg9npnmgrypu35mdkpsq9zzl3jnzty85l88404sytlstdg0vl just made it possible for PLEBS to invest in #Bitcoin and #Nostr companies 🔥
“Thunder Funder is the next iteration of Lightning Ventures… the government hates you; they don’t want you to invest in #Bitcoin startups… we need a way that EVERYONE can invest in early stage startups.” 
Total nonsense. Not at all needed and dumb for people with small stacks to invest in startups. This is fiat on bitcoin!
The communication and reputation layer for real world (two sided) market activity!! That's the thing everyone is missing. You should just get me to join the panel, lol.
My comments now that Taproot Assets has been released on mainnet.
The "purpose" of the humbling is for the retards to all shut up so people like me can get on with our work... Some people just need others to be humbled. There is no true freedom for me until I am free of the evil that surrounds me.
Thinking I might end up going to Nashville. 🤷♂️
nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m if there is anyone you think I should connect with you might be able to help intro me to re. the advanced energy & aerospace tech, would greatly appreciate it. Having call with V- this week.
Yes, and more than that, it is the layer upon which every two-sided-marketplace app (Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, UpWork, Alibaba, etc) can and will eventually be rebuilt, with reputation handled by a plurality of relays that take a rake of transactions for Sybil resistance.
I met Erik Prince and tried telling him about Nostr. Unfortunately, I need to improve my elevator pitch as he had to run. I should have started with censorship resistance features rather than architecture. He said it's the sort of thing his CTO would look at.
Woah, this is super bullish for Nostr. I haven't been on here much lately, but it seems the non-bitcoiner normies (who think they're edgy because hYperBorEan, or whatever niche) are coming. Idk how they got here, but they're here. Lfg 🚀
Oh, look, a collectivist. Thank you for confirming I was right to call you a statist cuck, fucking retard. Have fun staying poor, shitcoiner.
Ok, statist cuck
If you cannot live without THEIR words forming your ideas, it is laughable to think you will ever seize freedom without living on THEIR terms 🤡
How weak must you think bitcoin is to need the word "money" to draw strength? 🤦♂️
BITCOIN IS NOT MONEY
BITCOIN IS NOT PROPERTY
BITCOIN IS NOT A COMMODITY, CURRENCY, SAVINGS, OR AN ASSET
BITCOIN CONFERS NO RIGHTS
Bitcoin is a software messaging protocol. MESSAGES.
Bitcoin enables free speech and association without interdiction.
Interfering with speech or association is not just unconstitutional, it is the foundation of tyranny anywhere, and enacted only by criminal, violent assault.
It must also be understood of course that all taxation interferes with the natural rights of persons to freely associate.
There are no "bitcoins", bitcoin cannot be "owned", and the notion of "title" to bitcoin is an abstraction under the reality that bitcoin will recognize and not reverse valid transactions signed under duress or downstream of criminal trespass. There is no such thing as "title" to "bitcoins" because it is fungible cash, you cannot correctly say "these coins" vs "those coins".
This is not something to convince any authority of for there is no valid authority that may govern speech or association. Of course, people may be fooled into acting dead and impotent, like a trapped animal oblivious to the fact his cage was never locked.
Every time someone talks about regulation and government, they are supporting the government, supporting its frame as a valid owner of all humans. This is the peak of high time preference behavior, a total moral capitulation and submission. And it is only possible first by promoting LIES about what bitcoin is, for if you state the truth, it is too obvious that all the regulatory ideas are invalid and unlawful.
Bitcoin is software, it exists, it does not grant rights. If you burn a piece of wood and survive the night from the heat, it does not make warmth a right being given to you. You are USING the wood and it has certain behavior. It is anthropomorphization where the person being fictitiously constructed is none other than daddy government. But you are alone with the laws of physics, and other people trying to lie to you about the nature of the world.
Bitcoin is first and foremost Freedom of Association tech.
If you tell someone it's XYZ money thing, you guarantee someone else has set the mimetic framework / terrain.
If you start with association, it may spur a person to consider association mechanisms and attack vectors.
Crickets. No one is trying to build the stuff that actually makes money on here, just social media apps. 🤦♂️
Nostr might be able to fix this.
Some of you may recall, I posted a number of times my ideas around how relational contracting would enable distributed ridesharing and other markets without needing escrow.
The overwhelming majority of great technologies were invented in the West / West-allied nations.
Steam Engine: England
Internal Combustion Engine: France
Basic Oxygen Steelmaking: Austria
EAF Steelmaking: Scotland
Bessemer Steelmaking: England
Carbon Fiber: America
Integrated Circuits: America
Jet Engine: England/Germany
Silicon Carbide Fibers: Japan
Airplane: America
Container Ship: America
Modern LEDs: Japan
Fucking food itself (Haber-Bosch): Germany
Cement: England
Fracking: America
Nuclear Energy: America
CNC Machining: America
Pick-and-place: Japan
Drones: America
Bitcoin: America
MOSFET (underpins internet): America
The Internet: America
Fiber Optics: India
LASER: America
3D Printing: America
Vulcanized Rubber: America
MIMO: America
GaN devices: Japan
OLEDs: America
GPUs: America
Cellphone-to-sat coms: America
Cloud Compute: America/England
Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: America
Nanocrystalline Alumina Fibers: America
Shall I go on?
Never invested in a commodity.
None of them.
Never will.
"Omg you're missing out"
Maybe.
You're missing out on being in the room where the great leaps forward in human civilization take place and being a multi-trillionaire.
Keep your tyrannical wastelands.
How a new class of geothermal turbine that uses sCO2, which can be utilized anywhere on the planet simply drilling into hot rock, in conjunction with low cost directed energy drilling methods could make geothermal the best "nuclear" energy source, without the impediments around nuclear energy developing nations face to the greatest degree.
That it will bring so much energy growth to both developing and developed countries, it will reduce the global price of oil and the global conflict of the petrodollar by disincentivizing war, regardless of how quickly bitcoin defunds it.
That due to on grid energy project development inefficiencies and corruption in Western countries, developing countries could initially take the global lead in this transition, especially as behind the meter markets, including bitcoin mining and AI datacenters continue to grow.
That the company working on this also has the capability to greatly improve natural gas turbogen efficiency, reliability, and upfront cost, including operating on sour (corrosive) natural gas that goes almost entirely unutilized.
At some point, I will need to broach the subject that these technologies are coupled to the military industrial complex and where I fit into all of this on the materials & manufacturing side. I will bring something up that may seem a bit bizarre, but true, which is that until it is demonetized, advanced weapons systems will be made: better that some of those profits go into bitcoin. We'll see how that goes. I'd say it's still better that the US retains upperhand over CCP, etc, but don't need to go into that.
Finally, I will bring up how more than just the things themselves, it is how they are achieved that matters. That I am trying to put together a fully bitcoiner LP base as this could mark a turning point of bitcoin beginning to fix things in a big way at the level of atoms, with orders of magnitude greater efficiency than the fiat world. And that if bitcoiners do not take ownership of this arc, it will be inevitably consumed by the shitcoiners who are diversifying their mimetic territory through faux industrialism (e.g. A16Z, et al "American Dynamism").
Ultimately, I hope Jack will be interested in continuing the conversation.
So, uhh, TIL, it's not the pricey charity dinner entrance, but the auction that gets you. 😬🥲
Looking forward to our conversation nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m, thanks for sharing some of your time! 🤙
Very gay. Teslas are peak fiat because they represent clinging to the delusion that the fiat world is a-ok via a simulacrum of great technology through faux-ambition, a cope that shitcoiner Elon Cuck gladly provides.
El Salvador will own (Schelling point) frontiers of medicine. nostr:npub1xctpfc54sqpryxy7sz5yg8xk8t3ych58xuqjh24kzgnqvacxgnyq5qgd44, Stacy, Jack Kruse, et al convincing me: America may need to take L here.
Beyond affordably detoxifying seed oils, El Salvador could lead energy infrastructure tech. Here's why:
There has been a recent series of shifts in materials and manufacturing capabilities that have not yet been implemented at scale anywhere in the world and El Salvador is well positioned to be the first mover.
Supercritical CO2 instead of steam coupled with certain turbomachinery capabilities that will lower capex by more than an order of magnitude will not just unbound the growth potential for El Salvador and the rest of central America, it will lay the foundations for a new era of nuclear fission, as the generator side capex is a key component of costs.
Nations around the world have been under the thumb of external tyranny suppressing energy development for too long. And, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m this will matter to you: ESCAPING ENERGY POVERTY is the only way to scale optionality and make freedom truly meaningful to every human -- bitcoin alone is not enough. It is easy to imagine a world fully bitcoinized, fully nuclearized, and now we have a first few steps to take.
It is time to begin the fixing of everything, and I have a play: there is of course a HUGE opportunity cost to doing anything in the world at the moment, which is why I have a strategy that leverages the US military industrial complex, and demands for physical sovereignty that are becoming an increasingly imminent concern for many regions in the world, to greatly lessen that burden. Yes, bitcoin mining too, but there is so much more that is possible.
El Salvador has 1 megawatt-hr/capita/yr. This is what poverty means. The US is at 11. This is in fact also poverty if one considers what could have been. Singapore at the end of 1995 was ~6.15, so, @nayibbukele, @JuicefBukele, to be El Salvador's version of the next Singapore, whatever that may be, more energy is needed. I was thinking 2.1 at first as a target, but let's be more ambitious: if @americanhodl8 was able to meme thousands of people into reaching 6.15 bitcoin, I think Central America can reach 6.15 MWh/capita.
Current Numbers:
Nicaragua 0.7
Honduras 0.8
El Salvador 1.0
Ecuador 1.5
Costa Rica 2.1
Panama 2.2
It is time for energy sovereignty. It is time to ignite the engines of wealth and prosperity across the world. It is time to trounce the affinity scammer fiat-anointed professional managerial anti-technologist technologist-LARPer, this broader class of shitcoiners who now wish to ingratiate themselves and their parasitic ways into the world through insincerely claiming that they too aspire to see these things.
It is time to wage a mimetic holy war, a purely mimetic war, to re-establish the foundational human values of liberty and that of striving for optimization of the world around us, which shall only proceed most expediently after fiat dies, but there is too much to do, and there is another factor at play -- it is time to accelerate the mimetic momentum of life itself, which is functionally the objective of bitcoin.
The mimetic war of bitcoin itself was won the day it was unleashed upon the world (or arguably upon the initial formation of life), and the bitcoin "want" to ultimately flow to those whose memes and ideals promote human flourishing.
For adaptation to take hold, a stimulus must resonate, and it is only through hitting supersonic criticality that gases continue accelerating through a de Laval nozzle. Now that this is all within reach, a new calculus emerges in the realization that some resonant frequencies have been found, and with a few well-placed impulses, we may live to witness the beginning, an Age of Light. All that is needed is the sincere desire to see it take place.
- sent from amidst the volcanos of El Salvador
Zero chance of that. Bitcoin is an American invention and Americans probably own at least half of the bitcoin.