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If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?

What super powers seem under-explored in fiction?

The best super power would be one that is 'immune' to all other super powers. Something like in the book 'A Spell for Chameleon'

No mention of the debt ceiling. How are we taking back the Panama Canal without a war? $TRUMP? Seriously? Let’s see what else he has planned.

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Dream Chaser ⚡️🐆

What’s the first song you would play on this

Eyes of the World

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What do you think of these chandelier designs?

To me they look like papers floating/falling in the wind.

They kind of look like laundry hung out to dry.

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Chris Alaimo

Free Ross Day One

bitwickbeard 11mo ago 💬 1

If every politician kept their promises….🤔

We Bitcoiners face a brick wall in the mid to distant future if the primary use case stays as a store of value. Even if fees rise, UTXOs have to move for miners to earn enough to secure the network. Hopefully, Trump removes capital gains taxes on payments so we can use the network as Satoshi originally intended.

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What are your favorite sci-fi novels?

Not necessarily the classics you *think* you should say (we'll leave those for Twitter/X), but rather the ones you actually read and loved.

I liked both The Martian and Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Some realistic science in both books.

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One time I went snorkeling in the Red Sea at Sahl Hasheesh, but my phone was accidentally set to selfie mode, which I didn’t realize until later.

And so instead of taking dozens pictures of all the fish I was looking at, I took dozens of pictures of my own dumbass face.

bitwickbeard 1y ago

Baaahaaaa!

Happy Holidays 🎁. Testing Start9 NOSTR service. Anyone using this set up?

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Ask and you shall receive. The market speaks.

A lot of people wanted to be able to buy #BrokenMoney using money that isn't broken, and I've been coordinating with Saifedean for the past month in preparation for his bookstore launch to make that possible upon launch.

On https://thesaifhouse.com/ you can now buy my book Broken Money in hardcover, ebook, or audiobook (pre-order) with fiat, on-chain bitcoin, or bitcoin over Lightning. You get a 10% discount for paying in bitcoin.

The hardcover version on his site is also a unique edition. Rather than a laminate cover, this one has a cloth cover and dust jacket, manufactured via the same supply chain that his new book Principles of Economics is.

That’s great. Wish I hadn’t already bought it. Who is the reader for the audio version?

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The profits (which are about $5/book) from the first 1,000 copies of Broken Money are going to the HRF Bitcoin Development Fund.

I think I will put the profits from copies 2,000-5,000 into making a slick animated YouTube video about the history of money and banking and the emergence of Bitcoin (basically the 30-minute summary of Broken Money). Kind of like Dalio’s “How the Economic Machine Works” video.

A popular 500 page finance book can reach tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. But an equivalent video, while not as deep, has the potential to reach millions as a different part of the knowledge funnel.

Because, I dunno. Fuck profits I guess. The rest of my business covers profits; the book is for a different purpose.

Great book. The control of the ledger angle is a unique and fascinating perspective. Heard you say on ‘What Bitcoin Did’ that you have been to Bretton Woods. I live in NH and have stayed at the Mt. Washington Hotel a few times. It is beautiful there and for those who don’t know, the meeting room is preserved as it was with pictures if the attendees on the walls. Still find it strange that the baton passing of the reserve currency took place in my backyard.

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https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/twitter-elon-musk-modi-india-bbc/

Back in January, Twitter blocked content in India at Modi's request. More than just blocking links, certain tweets themselves were blocked:

In March, Twitter blocked a bunch of accounts in India, widening the censorship:

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punjab-amritpal-singh/

Guardian reported on it last week:

"Twitter agreed to block more than 120 accounts, including the Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh, the Canadian poet Rupi Kaur, several journalists and an Indian MP. Twitter also blocked the handle of the BBC’s Punjabi bureau."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/twitter-accused-of-censorship-in-india-as-it-blocks-modi-critics-elon-musk

In 2022, Musk said that Tesla looked into opening facilities in India but it as conditional on being able to sell and service cars in India (which makes sense). Given that it's an economically growing country of 1.4 billion people, it's a long-term important market to sell to. India might never be a profit center for Twitter, but it could certainly be a profit center for Tesla.

Yesterday, Elon Musk followed Modi on Twitter.

"Elon Musk has started to follow Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, on Twitter. The tech billionaire's action has generated a lot of discussion on social media, with many people guessing about what it might signal for the future of Tesla in India."

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/is-tesla-coming-to-india-elon-musk-sparks-speculation-after-following-prime-minister-narendra-modi-on-twitter-11681175668267.html

"Free speech absolutism" goes about as far as business interests do. Any centralized platform is corruptible, controllable.

Lyn, with these posts, are you implying that Musk may not be sincere in his claim to be improving the future of humanity? Could it be that he, just possibly, is driven solely by profit motive and is, in fact, a self-serving miserable bastard? Say it ain’t so?

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Dylan LeClair

I will be building this for NOSTR too. Give me a few weeks or so.

That’s great Dylan. Thanks for all your insightful analysis.

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After a lot of editing, I officially passed my book manuscript to my first editor, out of two editors it will go through.

Now I have to start working on a lot of charts so that I can insert them by the time the editors are done in a couple months.

That’s fantastic. I follow a lot of your macro analyses and subscribe to your newsletter as well. How the hell did you have time to write a book?

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-China and Brazil agree to skip the dollar and exchange their own currencies directly.

-China uses yuan to settle LNG imports from the UAE, from the French supermajor Total.

-Saudi Arabia joins the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a dialogue member.

-Saudi Aramco signs big refinery deals for construction in northern China.

It's been a pretty big few days for the anti-petrodollar crowd.

bitwickbeard 2y ago 💬 1

Seems like China and Brazil and Russia are jumping into the fire from the frying pan. With the strengthening of the yuan, wouldn’t that increase US inflation implying continued Fed tightening? The plot thickens.

Whether the SVB failure was caused by bond duration investment management or not, what the public will see is that the CEO exercised stock options ahead of the collapse and Peter Thiel advised his companies to remove their cash. The effect will be distrust in banks. Let’s get it over with already. Bitcoin solves this.

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The banking system as a whole is highly liquid.

Any individual bank out of the top ten, however, faces issues especially if it is industry specific.

Once again, I learned a lot from your TFTC podcast appearance. Thanks for the insights.

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Jeff Booth

Thanks Frank! Your post doesn’t show up in link.