“If the American people ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency… the banks and corporations will grow around them and deprive the people of all property until their children are conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… the issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” - Thomas Jefferson

Got it. I guess just not relevant to my area.

Not to be a doomer, but wouldn’t the only logical explanation to do this be that you know radio is going to be the only way to communicate soon?

I mean…. Otherwise… isn’t radio dead as a media outlet right now?

The near-miracle that #Bitcoin represents is property that can be defended without violence or even the threat of violence, given it is infinitely costly to attack.

Ownership rights to property can exist only as long as other people agree to respect them OR as long as the owner can forcefully exclude those who do not agree.

#dogstr got bows for wife’s galentines yesterday

I get 10x more traction on #nostr than Twitter.

I get 0-1 likes on Twitter (no blue check + bad tweets)

I get 0-10 🤙 on #nostr AND the occasional zap (no blue check + bad tweets)

* this note is doin numbers #meme *

Under the dominant regime of political economy, price signals are not being allowed to communicate the compression of accurate information about economic reality.

Arguably the most important feature of functioning money is to provide global signal to guide necessarily local economic decision making.

This signal can be traced to money’s most important enablement - capital - and deduced the likely consequences of this overwhelming interference on capital formation, as well as how this reflexively loops back to cause even more problems for money itself.

Bitcoin is inherently peaceful technology incalculably easier to defend than attack.

Knowledge and competence only flow up, and ignorance and incompetence only flow down. Global ignorance and incompetence will lead to local ignorance and incompetence, while local knowledge and competence might lead to global knowledge and competence.

- The Farrington-Meyers Law of Institutional Dynamics

Ex. #bitcoin beach leading to country wide adoption (grassroots)

Knowledge and competence are only ever local.

“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government. That is, we can’t take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something they can’t stop.” - Friedrich Hayek

Not enough people understand that you can simple speak prices into existence

“The fiat era created a dramatic historical anomaly. For the first time in recorded history, the cost of creating new money literally was zero. This has had profound effects on political economy. While money can always buy power, power could now buy money, and without economic calculation. There is no coat too great to seizing power, and next to no incentive not to give it a shot, because any costs can be paid back later, and then some.”

Essentially my response in my normie chat 😅 have we considered that both sides are bad? Included a pic of the crusades 😬

“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” - Doc Brown on #nostr

Donuts make me go nuts

This was the worst thing about Citi

Trudeau is taking a much safer route for the longevity of his career compared to Hitler or Stalin. Much safer to convince your population to kill themselves rather than kill them yourself. This is what government healthcare looks like. #healthstr

Life is a #meme

Yep lol. Good luck passing the ferret test when a bad flu comes around 🫡