Merry Christmas to all you crazy, wonderful Nostriches! 🎄
Is there any archive of the original Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast episodes (from 2013ish)?
The RSS feed only goes back to 2019: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/sjaeb-91e5b/Speaking-of-Bitcoin-%28formerly-Let%27s-Talk-Bitcoin%21%29-Podcast
Those early shows with Andreas, Stephanie and Adam were absolute gems. Would suck if they've just been scrubbed from the internet forever.
We won't get another bull market until Blue Collar Bitcoin returns
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Stunning!
Feels right to be dumping on the anniversary of BitConnect launching
Something I've recently realized is the extent to which Israel completely controls the US far beyond its middle-eastern foreign policy.
If Javier Millei had all the same positions he currently holds, only instead of being slavishly devoted to Israel he was critical, do you think the US govt would be creating a strategic peso reserve to bail out Argentina?
Of course not.
If María Corina Machado wasn't a pro-Israel fanatic who proclaims that "the struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel", would she be such a darling of the US establishment?
Not a chance.
You can believe anything about any other issue, but if you aren't full-throated in your support of a genocidal ethnostate in the middle-east you will find yourself arrested, deported, fired, cancelled, regime changed and just generally demonized.
Almsot everything the US govt does is first-and-foremost to aid Israel: there's the direct financial aid, there's the endless weapons, there's the intelligence support, there's vetoing every UN resolution against Israel, there's running diplomatic cover for Israel, there's firing Ivy league professors and expelling US students critical of Israel, there's criminalizing US firms boycotting Israel, there's criminalizing speech against Israel in states like Florida, there's all the financial aid to surrounding Arab states so they don't intervene on behalf of the Palestinians but instead assist Israel whilst keeping their population in check (these are just bribes to look the other way), there's bombing Iran on behalf of Israel, the entire terror wars...
It's endless and it's utterly sickening.
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When are you integrating Kimi K2 thinking? The only thing holding Maple back is how outdated the models are.
Two things stand out watching this 1981 episode of Phil Donahue:
1. The arguments for unschooling/home schooling are pretty unassailable.
2. Donahue was a master, and his popularity speaks to how we had more intellectual, more curious America. Ironically, I think the government schools have played a large role in why a show like this would not be feasible today.
My citadel
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy declared that Benjamin Netanyahu is the Winston Churchill of our time.
He said Netanyahu not only saved Israel but also saved America and the entire Western world.
Newsmax reaches millions of viewers through its cable channel, website, app, and publications.
https://blossom.primal.net/4d7bc227a6cbcb76a265e0a4c5cfe6b9879c61c962e5c2ac4f3e53648a167174.mp4
I agree. Winston Churchill was also a monster.
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Happy Birthday!
This is surprising to me. My experience with bitcoiners is that they tend be very generous, with the notable exception of MSTR and penny stock promoters.
With your ETH donations, were they all from wealthy holders or the Ethereum Foundation? That would speak less to the culture within Ethereum community itself and more to the fact that those with the biggest pre-mined bags feared the Tornado Cash trial would become an existential threat to Ethereum's existence.
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I can't speak for 2013 and am not an OG, but the culture around Bitcoin was far more exciting during the 2018-2019 period.
Instead of simping for politicians, obsessing over zombie treasury companies, and arguing about things like op_return that don't matter, the discussion was serious and engaging. Lightning was just getting started, the earliest coinjoin implementations were launching, soft forks were actively being worked on and debated, the podcasters weren't all promoting penny stocks... It was a better time, imo.
This isn't hipster to recognize. We can be be glad that bitcoin is still alive, but there's more to bitcoin than NGU.
There's many ways in which things are better: Nostr exists now, there's a lot more sustainable funding for open source developers, bitcoin has been massively de-risked and normalized as an investment, and we've all gotten richer...but we've lost a lot too.
Max always has a great, principled perspective.
https://fountain.fm/episode/BGphNLL3sek1jYt3L84D
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The change I'd make to this meme is the bald guy on the left saying "the truth is in the middle".
"Both sides are wrong" is often true. It is saying that both says are somehow correct that is morally weak, because you are being disingenous to avoid alienating anyone.
"Don't hate the player, hate the game" is one of those flippant things people say to absolve people of responsibility for the most blatantly unethical actions. It's a shitcoiner morality slogan.
It is possible at once to understand that we are living in a golden age of grift, and that systems have evolved to incentivize people to check their principles at the door for a buck. Still, everyone has agency and can choose not to sel their soul for a few bucks, a few clicks, a few likes.
It's important to find it within yourself to hate both the player AND the game.
Looking forward to watching!... and glad to see no flames in the thumbnail
A perhaps unpopular opinion that I firmly believe: MSTR has not even been net positive for bitcoin’s price. It’s been a negative on every front.
While I agree that current inequality is out-of-control, the solution to the inequality and injustice produced by govt central planning is not to institute more central planning?
Aside from the hubris of this, think of what it would take and mean to enforce these.
Number 1 is unenforcable without a draconian left of govt overreach. Even then, how do we determine what CEO's compensation? Often it is in stock and stock options, with the dollar amount being nominally low. And then how do you determine who consitutes a worker? Does it include part-time employees doing gig work? Will companies be forced to pay the nighttime janitor 1/30th of the CEOs "compensation"?
Number 3 perversely incentivizes either graduates to earn a low income so that they qualify for the jubilee. How about just ending state involvment in the student loan business altogether and allow sudent loan holders to declare bankruptcy?
Number 5 is just turning to govt into an even bigger grave robber...
Saylor was right not to fund devs.
"If I wanted to destroy bitcoin, I would just fund infinite developers who are very talented and tell them to make it better."
Thankfully, Knots’ rejection of the Op_Return increase is a “healthy response” to Core v30’s overreach.
https://blossom.primal.net/f2c9448fe97372c58d620173d29d4ced1fa042714bfbd160b9fd900b920fbe2a.mov
This is the inverse of reality. The far larger threat to bitcoin is inadequate developer interest, talent and funding. If I were a spook I would try to make bitcoin development as thankless and miserable an experience as possible, wait for a critical bug to be introduced due to inadequate review and exploit it to destroy confidence in the network and asset.
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While I agree that “everything is good for bitcoin” is mostly true, I don’t think it pertains just to attacks that don’t kill or meaningfully cripple bitcoin.
Shitcoins are the prime example here. They aren’t able to outcompete bitcoin in the marketplace, but they have been wildly successful at poisoning public sentiment. People see the grifting and associate it with bitcoin…they aren’t particularly discerning with their hatred.
Even otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people, like Cory Doctorow, can’t seem to disentangle bitcoin from “crypto”. It’s all just a VC and tech bro con.
This reputational damage has proven to be fairly durable, which I think is why we haven’t seen much retail interest in bitcoin this cycle (even though the we’ve 6x’d since the 2022 lows).
Anecdotally, I have many casual friends, who were previously at least open to bitcoin and are now ideologically opposed to it.
To give an example: a couple days ago I was having my annual fantasy football draft zoom with 11 guys I went to high school with, and the topic of bitcoin came up. One of the guys is a professional videographer. He was talking about having just been hired to film Eric Trump at the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong a week ago, and apparently had been re-hired to do another shoot during Eric’s travels in Japan.
The body language and derisive comments from guys on the call, not towards Trump but rather bitcoin itself, made me think that there is literally no price bitcoin can go to where these guys will ever purchase any. They will only hate it more as it grows.
I can’t say how exactly it will manifest, but this will hurt bitcoin at some point. It certainly won’t kill it, but there are going to be political backlashes in a lot of countries where politicians tap into this animosity.
I know npub1n3sjlzmhpu8rl56umtptc4lua6zkretq2p82yhytnmlcuq639vlqd0te5l and others have done great work showing how bitcoin is widely owned by people across the political spectrum. What I would be curious to see, though, is how prevalent extremely negative sentiment towards bitcoin is amongst the population, how rigid those beliefs are, and where those people lie politically.
This is very fiat, but are there any Nostrich Fantasy Football leagues going this year?
If not, I'm keen to make one. I'm thinking 250k sats buy-in.
Evening vibe code 🧩
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I'm really not a fan of MSTR getting these kinds of passive flows.
Within bitcoin we rightly view yield with a mixture of suspicion and contempt, often saying things like "you are the yield".
MSTR stock has a perpetual gravity that pushes the stock price back to the value of their bitcoin treasury. The way Saylor generates his "BTC yield" is from indiscriminate buyers who pile in at multiples to MSTR's underlying bitcoin holdings. They are the ones being harvested.
Having retail investors passively and indiscriminately buying this thing every month makes them easy to harvest. Being charitable, MSTR is a strategic trading vehicle and shouldn't be treated as something you just allocate to the same way you DCA bitcoin.
We have to remember, he’s saying this to a man who referred to Abu Dhabi as Aboo Daboo four times after having spent a week there.
I like how, when a zap fails to send on Primal, it gives you a notification with the option "No"
GM
Two dudes in 2003, unaware they were making a legendary song https://video.nostr.build/592681370fcb5ea09d35f18c6114a62eb73487167365ac967fb638b4eb5a25d5.mp4
Dumb question, but how are you embedding this video in your nostr post?
Why not have cameras inside all the homes to curb domestic violence?
I'm seeing a lot of posts mourning the death of David Lynch. It's made me want to learn what it is about his work that folks here clearly love so much.
As someone who has never seen anything by David Lynch, where should I start?
I increasingly worry that the block size wars were a Pyrrhic victory. It conditioned an unhealthy reactivity and knee-jerk opposition to all proposed protocol changes, regardless of merit.
In any case, happy Genesis Day.
Iyah has incredible talent! I really hope this doesn't turn out to be another 'Rich Men North of Richmond'. Her voice is much needed in our crazy world.
Ross Stevens just dropped his latest investor letter. As always, beautifully written and an absolute must-read.
https://www.nydig.com/research/stone-ridge-2024-investor-letter
The NZD is like one of those shitcoins that doesn't even make the first page of Coinmarketcap.
I get that he is the lesser of the evils, but the idea that Trump was this principled man of the people who had a vision to save the republic, and would have if it weren't for that meddling senate, is simply false.
I think this is the Saylor-effect on Bitcoin culture. It's not so much that any of the people who were preaching self-sovereignty in 2020 have changed their tune, it's just that bitcoin has gone more mainstream and those with the largest microphone now don't care about freedom tech.
For some reason YT decided to feed this up to me today 😂
Mike is one of those guys who is ideologically such a Statist that bitcoin's success is both a repudiation of everything he believes, and deeply threatening to the "reasonable, centrist, adult-in-the-room" soft authoritarianism he yearns to see enacted across the world.
Mike is the man for whom the "Have Fun Staying Poor" meme was invented. He is poor in the sense that really matters: intellectually bereft and morally bankrupt... And I can only hope bitcoin's continued rise will make him reputationally destitute as well.
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You can't convince me this is healthy
