GM, virtue is its own reward.

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.

The best skincare product:

Sunlight.

The best gut biome supplement:

Fasting.

The best fat loss tool:

Walking.

The best way to create happiness:

Presence.

We’ve known these things to be the case for hundreds of thousands of years;

Nothing will ever compare to them…

Anyone here do meditation?

What kind?

REJECT VICTIMHOOD

First principles thinking is hard and takes time. It's real work.

Visual substitutes and proxies of information are easy and take little to no time. It's fake work. It's meaningless trust in authority.

Bitcoin is the former, fiat is the latter.

Over the long term decentralized will always beat centralized because centralized has a finite lifespan.

The way things are shaping up, I think the story arc for this next cycle or two will be:

-A lot of altcoin VC money flows back into the Bitcoin ecosystem, builds a bunch of bubbles in startups based on too-early tech and broad speculation, and gets washed out when that tech takes longer than expected to mature. Additionally, a lot of the capital will get pulled toward speculation/trading of tokens on top of Bitcoin and blow up from that direction as well.

-Then after it washes out, there will indeed be some good mature utility-focused tech that emerges out of it that makes Bitcoin's layered stack better and more user-friendly. Bitcoin, both as sound money and to some extent as an immutable truth layer, emerges stronger.