I once read this guide from the 1930’s on how to pick out a puppy.

You place the dog gently on its back and then hold it there lightly but firmly.

If it makes no effort to flip itself over it’s a chill/lazy dog who will have a mellow personality.

If it struggles to roll over for a bit and then acquiesces and relaxes this is a dog who will take instruction well and is very trainable.

If it won’t stop fighting you and keeps trying to roll over the whole time this is a high strung dog who will remain high strung. Will be hard to train and needs to be put to work in an active way.

According to ChatGPT this was known as the supine restraint test and it was rooted in dominance theory which is currently debunked.

But I’ve always found it useful as a metaphor.

Are you the dog who fights for a little bit and then gives up? Are you the dog who doesn’t fight? Or are you the dog who will keep fighting until you finally get what you want?

BTC isla needs its own wallet.

All kids to me. But suppose he must be, thank you

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Me and my boomer dad are on the same page though, share a glass of wine, put the world to rights. 🫡🙌

I learned that lesson the hard way. Taking things at face value cost me years of opportunity. I'm definitely adopting 'verify, don't trust' as my new baseline. Thanks for the comment.

I used to harbor a deep, structural prejudice against Bitcoin.

It was a mix of arrogance and the subtle conditioning of the state apparatus. I thought I was financially literate—I even arrogantly cited JK Galbraith’s A Short History of Financial Euphoria to dismiss Bitcoin as nothing more than a digital tulip mania.

But I owed it to myself to challenge my own bias. I couldn't ignore the fact that minds far sharper than mine possessed a conviction I lacked. That curiosity led me down the rabbit hole—from X to Reddit, and eventually, to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndv9kxjm3wdahxcqg5waehxw309ahx7um5wfekzarkvyhxuet5qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncdhu7e3 .

Lyn writes like an apostle of economic truth. I picked up Broken Money, and it only took a few chapters to dismantle my entire worldview. I realized my understanding of money was fundamentally flawed. I saw how Bitcoin’s scarcity, portability, fungibility, and divisibility render it the apex predator of value storage—a role gold can no longer fulfill in a digital age.

That was the red pill. I dove back into the signal—initially through Bankless, but eventually finding my home in nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcp2amhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33wv6hjufkwaskgamj0pjx2drvdpn8xdfkvahrvdrgwaa826rwvesnvu3ed44rgdekwg6hxdrgdd6ku7n80fchyuekwymh5qpqs5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqjx5gu2 's Bitcoin Mastermind.

The quarterly roundtables with Preston, nostr:nprofile1qy0hwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twd4shs6tdv9kxjum5wvhx7mnvd9hx2qgvwaehxw309a38yc3wd9hsqgypghst3pwjamjlsnxclc2vmtvz7g33sde3ge5wm7knuz9nhmfwwvt69pq8 , nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtjw3k8zcmp8pervct409shwdtwx45rxmp4xseryerdx3ehy7f4v3axvet9xsmrjdnxw9jnsuekw9nh2ertwvmkg6n5veen7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqgq6lcx8fc7h0p8t4ya9u0a92jnwavqe9rgjwwdw3wjgxfuxsz8rd5mths8c , and especially nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj76mwdaehgu3wdejh2arjd9hx2tnrdakszymhwden5te0d45hxumtv4ujuvp59eekjqpqk7vkcxp7qdkly7qzj3dcpw7u3v9lt9cmvcs6s6ln26wrxggh7p7sjlnx5t , were a revelation.

Jeff’s chart of the S&P 500 denominated in Gold shattered my perception of "growth." It was a moment of absolute clarity: what we call "gains" are often just an optical illusion of currency debasement. High asset prices are merely the receipts for fiat printing.

It made me realize that without the constant injection of liquidity, the so-called "corporate growth" curve might just be a flatline. It begs the question: what would the stock market actually look like if we were still on a true Gold Standard?

They say everyone buys Bitcoin at the price they deserve. My entry price is simply the tuition fee for the time it took me to wake up.

I spent years wandering the DeFi wilderness, speculating on ETH and researching altcoins like Kleros, reading Vitalik yet shamefully ignoring the pristine collateral staring me in the face.

But better late than never. I am here now.

I am fascinated by the ethos of open-source and freedom. I wouldn't be who I am without the selfless sharing of others in this space. I hope to pay that debt forward—contributing my own signal to the noise to help build a better world.

Hello, Nostr. ⚡

#Bitcoin #Macro #Introduction #Plebs #Nostr #Grownstr

Rather a Soundcloud Competitor

Will you disavow fascism?

Will YOU disavow communism?

Fun fact about Mike Brock.

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I began the conversation in good faith, but it soon became obvious he didn’t know much about bitcoin.

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It quickly became a circular firing squad. Mike was shook. It was one of the most brutal beat downs I’d ever seen (wish it had been recorded).

He had only planned to stay for 20 mins and ended up staying for 3 hours in an attempt to convince the room that he actually was very smart/knowledgeable. Nobody bought it. He even called Brad after to complain about being brought to the room in the first place.

Never saw an ego get crushed that bad in real time before or since.

read philosophy, study the universe, experience love, and die

In the last days I heard about tokenization to a level that is driving me crazy.

-Tokenization of blueberries

-Tokenization of wine

-Tokenization of BIODIVERSITY ?!

-Tokenization of Real State

-Tokenization of stocks

-Tokenization of livestock

The people talking about this believe in the blockchain narrative for some reason. And that a token on a blockchain is somehow trustworthy and transparent. Nothing if further from the true.

So I asked:

-Who is in charge of the token?

-Where’s the trust deposited?

-Why should I trust you?

-How can I know those tokens are backed and really represent what you say? Who audit you?

-Why would I buy those tokens instead of just buying bitcoin?

(The only reason is if you don’t understand bitcoin)

After all of this I asked again.

WHY DO YOU NEED A TOKEN IF ALL YOU WANT IS CREDIT/FINANCING?

In some cases, JUST IN SOME, the end goal is good, specially if they are creating value while producing something that is demanded.

In some cases they say they want to lower the barriers of getting exposure to some business or asset.

But they don’t need a token!!!

They need money. And in order to get money you need a proven way of producing value or at least a good way of selling the idea that you have the capacity of producing value. But again, you don’t need a token, you need MONEY.

I don't know the future. Hopefully we will develop more mature moral standards. The abolition of slavery (various forms of it) goes back to ancient times. Alcidamas of Asia Minor already said in the 4th century BC, that God had made no man a slave. This was, of course, not the standard and in many cases the decisions and reforms throughout the time were reversed. I think nobody was ever forced to hold slaves. These were conscious decisions.