Logic question. The cofounder and current CEO of OpenAI sounds the alarm on AI, yet introduces Worldcoin as if that is a good thing? #asknostr
Thanks for the tip. Aaaah 
‚#Worldcoin co-founder Alex Blania’s recent refusal to disclose the token’s distribution model has raised some eyebrows, including that of John Deaton, who has expressed his dismay at his action.‘ 🤡🌎
https://www.newsbtc.com/altcoin/worldcoin-founders-token-distribution/
Amazing. It’s so good we just can’t tell you the secret recipe. Trust us. Love,
a16z 
Podcast Share, I just listened to a really good podcast on Blue Collar Bitcoin:
"BCB117_MAURICIO DI BARTOLOMEO: BlackRock ETF & The Next Phase of Bitcoin"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIdM5rpyV0s
This one had Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (co-founder & CSO of Ledn) and he really resonated with me especially this part about 'being your own bank' and the friction that happens with that approach.
Mauricio:
"If you were worried about your Bitcoin and your self-custody and you have a fear that your custodian May Fail or that your country might go Rogue you take your steps “become your own bank.”
But you know what's really difficult? Telling somebody that they have to become their own bank when they never have, almost impossible. It's like me all of a sudden. it's like me telling my daughter tomorrow “hey sweetie the cops are gone so I'm gonna need you to be you the police so start strapping or even if you don't have these self-defense things there's a pistol protect yourself” or or I went and told my wife “sorry honey the doctors are on strike so as of tomorrow we're all gonna have to start learning these things about how to be a doctor how to heal ourselves and I'm sorry like it's very difficult now.”
If you come from Venezuela where you've always had to be your own bank..."
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Replying to my own dumb post because I am bass-ackwards. I wanted Dan and Josh to see this post on a previous episode of yours. npub1a3hrd4wfawr578d5y5l0qgmh7lx8q6tumfq0h7eymmttt52veexqkcfg37
Dan, I missed you in Minneapolis, I have never been to a meetup and I laughed at your '70% cool and 30% weirdos' comment. The latter is low and the reason I still haven't gone Bitcoin public. (p.s. Humor is almost devoid in the Bitcoin Maxi space so thanks for the laughs, even if it is juvenile humor like "BlackCock", "69", and "Sharting.")
Podcast Share, I just listened to a really good podcast on Blue Collar Bitcoin:
"BCB117_MAURICIO DI BARTOLOMEO: BlackRock ETF & The Next Phase of Bitcoin"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIdM5rpyV0s
This one had Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (co-founder & CSO of Ledn) and he really resonated with me especially this part about 'being your own bank' and the friction that happens with that approach.
Mauricio:
"If you were worried about your Bitcoin and your self-custody and you have a fear that your custodian May Fail or that your country might go Rogue you take your steps “become your own bank.”
But you know what's really difficult? Telling somebody that they have to become their own bank when they never have, almost impossible. It's like me all of a sudden. it's like me telling my daughter tomorrow “hey sweetie the cops are gone so I'm gonna need you to be you the police so start strapping or even if you don't have these self-defense things there's a pistol protect yourself” or or I went and told my wife “sorry honey the doctors are on strike so as of tomorrow we're all gonna have to start learning these things about how to be a doctor how to heal ourselves and I'm sorry like it's very difficult now.”
If you come from Venezuela where you've always had to be your own bank..."
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It looks great, I know there are many people with an aversion to cilantro too. I love it, went through the 'tastes soapy' phase, but back to liking it. Personal preference. I just think cloves are the worst, but I love Chai so take this with a grain of salt or in your case, salt, pepper, cayenne, fennel, hibiscus, sumac....just kiddin' you. Looks great.
Love it all except for the cloves. Cloves would cause me to throw all of it right into the garbage.
Totally understand...I almost posted a similar video in the pontoon this weekend with the dog too.
I am trying to be on NOSTR more often, just started clicking 'follow' on the 'Follow Suggestions' on Iris. Then I noticed how many were 'OnlyFans' accounts and am manually unfollowing. I am not a prude, this is just not my demographic, married 31 years to someone I am a huge only fan of in that way. Wink. (I still chase her around the house, much to her dismay.)
Probably painfully obvious. NOSTR is incredible, there is one thing I wish was built into the UIs though, links to the NOSTR projects without having to bookmark or worse, text/email myself links?
I can't keep up and the NOSTR FAQ/Resources sites change so fast.
Examples:
Best current places for NOSTR Blogs (I want to move from lame Google) e.g. Habla ?
NOSTR Podcasts, music, marketplace\classifieds?
What killer apps, outside of Damus/Iris/Snort am I missing that people are using? (e.g. NOSTR Fountain app is one I really like)
Finally Swarmstr/ #asknostr ? (i.e. I am doing this wrong, with this post I should have gone to some - unknown to me - Swarmstr link to ask specific questions like this?)
Negativity. Failure. Sells. Someone told me if the cure for cancer was found it wouldn't even be on the front page. But look at the failures, of treatments, patients, lawsuits, malpractice verses the millions saved by amazing doctors, nurses, and science. Thanks for being positive but I positively like you negative too.
January 24th, 1848. That is when the California Gold Rush started. Bitcoin is the modern day Digital Gold and the Great Worldwide Bitcoin Rush hasn't even started with a one percent adoption as of today.
Bitcoin Fever. When will your loved ones catch it?
"I have a fever, and the only cure is more Bitcoin." Can someone change this from cowbell to Bitcoin? https://youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s
This resonates with me because it reminds me of one of my favorite videos ever. What people don't realize is Bitcoin is the boulder and the people Bitcoin is trying to help, the people it was setup for, are the ones dissing it. Bitcoin Maxis have been restrained but there may come a time where all hell will break lose and the Bitcoin Boulder gains momentum and destroys the inertia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg2dqFCU67Q
Ah...follow the dollar, the opposite of Satoshi. Satoshi was a noble genius, selfless, legacy versus a wanna be, selfish, human turd.
Exactly, it reminds me of this gem.
This is as disgusting as it is ridiculous.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1680920921463201792/pu/vid/1280x720/V3eaZ94h09YMZQrR.mp4?tag=12
Slick Carter defended this, enough said on that SC (Sh*tcoin Capitalist).
I am a super fan. POW
Bitcoin: "The Puppet Named Yellow"
Name: Yellow
Twitter: @ICOffenderII
NOSTR: npub1nw5vdz8sj89y3h3tp7dunx8rhsm2qzfpf8ujq9m8mfvjsjth0uwqs9n2gn
Height: 2' 5" (yeah..yeah...not in 99% of the world metric)
Weight: 18 Ounces
Sex: Unknown
Nationality: Greek
From Day one on Bitcoin Twitter, I realized how unfunny most of it is/was. Sure throwing out memes and funny quips and retorts can be funny. But not too many funny people stand out, Carla Bitcoin cracks me up and her original content is incredible. However, one day I happened upon a Publord and Anders "Toxic Bitcoin Happy Hour", I was listening, then I heard a voice.
That voice, at first I thought it was an Asian guy with terrible English. I strained to hear what the Hell he was saying. A language I would find out later, was essentially Yellow's own language as he purposely cuts, chops, and butchers words. This time, it sounded like he was mumbling and clearly pissed off. I was just waiting for the reaction of the Hosts.
Their reaction? They just laughed him off, "Oh Yellow...there you go again."
...that sent me into, who or what is this 'Yellow.' I clicked on the little icon as he was speaking again.
After a little research, the tears started to come as I struggled to breathe. I had found what I was looking for in the seriously unfunny Bitcoin Community of Maxi-Take-Themselves-Too-Damn-Satoshi-Serious, the funny? It's Yellow.
Sure Yellow is an anonymous puppet, you can buy all sorts of merchandise, he can be super caustic. One of my early posts I read from his was how he wanted people to torment Shitcoiners but to include him in the posts if things got heated. I followed some of them, classic trolling. Of the time I happened to be accidentally on a podcast for Altcoins thanks to Yellow and my not paying attention. I listened to what Yellow was telling them. He was mumbling something completely off topic about 'bubs' (Boobs). More tears.
Let's face it, some of our favorite, much beloved, Bitcoiners are completely full of themselves, for some, on stage with a microphone can be ridiculous. Yellow grounds us all, including himself. He's first to disparage himself with emotive posts of anger, tears, and laughter.
Which leads me to a list of my favorite top Yellow videos, some of these are masterpieces, most or all of which, you will not understand unless you are Bitcoiner toxic, maxi, or not. Yellow, like Satoshi, like the design of Bitcoin, doesn't care about any financial metric or social demographic box you check. (Or even if you are human - meaning AI will pick Bitcoin to do micropayments as it needs to use them as it helps augment the reality of working along side pretty stupid humans who can't physically or mentally work 7x24X365, no matter our self importance and Hustle Porn addiction.)
YELLOW HUMOR
These are in no particular order, we all know and love Michael Saylor, even when he sits on a chair that looks like a throne in a room, with mere peasants surrounding him, hanging on his every word. A room that has more books than my local library with a ship so detailed it is worth more than my house. Above all, Michael is THE Bitcoin "Popeye the Saylor Man." Instead of eating Spinach, Bitcoin is his superpower (look at those laser eyes), backed by "cyber hornets...energy...MIT...thermodynamics..."
1) Michael Saylor
In one particular podcast, Michael was explaining how movies, music, books, maps, GPS, all collapsed into the digital realm via Apple and the iPhone. Of course, he wrote a book on the subject, 11 years ago, and it is only in it's 40,627th edition on Amazon:
The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything 40627th Edition
But now Michael is working on a Masterpiece, a composer of digital bits to bytes to words compared to Beethoven and notes. His legacy, it's Bitcoin. "Bitcoin for Dummies." "Bitcoin for Smarties." Bitcoin for everyone in between. Unlike the cell phone changing the world, he is now explaining how Bitcoin will change the monetary world and TradFi better look out as it is set to go to the same fate as entire industries prior to the cell phone. With Bitcoin, "You are the Bank."
Further vision of his, for free, visit Saylor.org if you want to know more on Bitcoin. Paraphrased Saylor: "Instead of reaching 20 students in some stuffy classroom, paying out of pocket, I would rather teach a million students around the world for free."
Bitcoin the Digital Property/Gold/Commodity and most important "Bitcoin the Protocol. HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, VOIP now we have MOIP/BOIP (Money or Bitcoin over IP) and it will,live on our phones now and transmit around the world at the speed of light for a 'nickel.'
Yellow:
"nckl"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR2wIceNei8
and
"Saylor Got Stack"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkHNvAXnejU
"Wow so Rude"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqvF3ItfuB8
2) "To the Sea..."
This one starts with Greg Foss (I am not a fan) this one hit me as well, he simply just tunes out what Foss is saying and puts things into perspective. Yellow understands, so many out there will never equal Satoshi's impact, nor does Bitcoin care how many podcasters, podcasts, books, sound bites, tweets, or Technical Analysis charts are out there. Satoshi even got so frustrated to even post out essentially one of my favorite t-shirts. Satoshi said this almost verbatim, 13 years ago before pulling a Houdini:
Bitcoin is that enormous. The Bitcoin Rabbit Hole doesn't give it justice. Bitcoin is really the largest Orange (is the new Black) Hole - think TON 618.
Yellow:
"realization"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL0xF-ng5H8
3) Some of the Technical Analysis on Bitcoin can be so ridiculous, especially when people are analyzing Bitcoin price over time. Green and Red candles, moving past the whatever daily average, Bart Simpson...it's just silly. I spent 35 years working in BI and I don't think there was one of the million reports or graphs I generated were worth a damn. Now with Bitcoin, it is such a beast, how can you possibly measure something our world has never seen before especially when about 1% understand it enough to be somewhat coherent even if they are not proficient? So, then I see how Yellow did this one, it is a personal favorite:
Yellow:
"Yellow's mspaint Bitcoin TA" (Turn up Max volume)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qvyj21jJ_Q
4) I am getting too wordy, here is his latest, incredible. Cat on the operating table being asked questions.
Yellow:
Cat on table getting more and more pissed off talking Bitcoin/BlackRock.
everything is "macro" now
https://twitter.com/ICOffenderII/status/1672313288791564486?s=20
5) How bitcoiners fight when times are not so good.
"Bitcoiners when Bitcoin isn't pumping"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKjIBrbKkZQ
"I am a puppet, not a FURRY, Goddaaamnit!" - Yellow
Disclaimer: This is embarrassingly incomplete, most of this is just from my happenstance online indirect interaction with Yellow. Yellow deserves respect and is my nomination for funniest Bitcoiner in the world. (Please post links/snippets to Yellow Gems and I will add them to this post.)
@Bitcoinapolis55 or npub1mp77smkmq77zwp3d8ke2let567cype0m3lhwx7v97gu2fans40qsn7vzdd