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Trey Walsh
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gm pv welcome to my nostr crib | here since block 768753 All in on freedom tech and Bitcoin, supporting humanity’s global struggle for freedom in the 21st century. Creating the world I wish to see for my children. Plant-based + sober advocate. Other stuff: insufferable Boston sports fan, indie music (mostly), New Englander, hiking enthusiast, lover of the 🌞 & 🌊 Director of Finance and Administration myfirstbitcoin.org

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Another weekend spent thrifting

Running #nostr

Running #bitcoin

Life is good 🤙🏻

I need to know if and when #[0]​ has seen the most recent love is blind. #teammarshall all the way

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

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Replying to Avatar jack

Whatever’s going on here, I dig it 🤙🏻

It really is and I quote a bit and link #[2]​‘s article in it. He is one of my favorite voices in the space right now 🙏🏻

My article is coming along! I’ve really been enjoying exploring bitcoin’s cultural/social layer, and can never get away from my love of sociology.

From the article--"Bitcoin is for everyone, and its loudest champions and voices with large audiences should keep this in mind if they profess themselves to be "bitcoin maximalists," "freedom maximalists," seeking a bitcoin standard, seeking mainstream adoption, etc. I encourage these folks, many of whom I respect and value the things I have learned from them, although I may disagree on a range of other things–what do you value more? Bitcoin education and its increased adoption to create a better world, or your audience capture bent towards “lifestyle maximalism,” and promoting things that could hinder bitcoin’s widespread and mainstream adoption? Bitcoin is for everyone, so we all must be aware of the diversity of perspectives and identities out there.”

Who wants a #coffeechain paid for with #bitcoin and shared on #nostr!

Thanks for the 🤌🏻 updates #[3]

Is there an #otherstuff hashtag yet? Seeing your post #[1]​ gave me the idea…

#otherstuff —I’m not really into golf, but when the Master’s is on it makes me really want to get into golf!

Does bitcoin follow the non-aggression principle?

Replying to Avatar Jameson Lopp

Airbnb was so great it’s first couple of years

When I see a good take from you lot on nostr