Special Deciphering Key:
Computers/Machines in these two parts represent Bitcoin
Part 1:
"Computers are incredibly fast, incredibly accurate, and dumb. People are incredibly slow, incredibly inaccurate, and smart."
- Anonymous
Part 2:
A Short Story
The Man. The Dog. The Machine
The dog is there to keep people away from the machine. The man is there to feed the dog.
THE END
Bitcoin Post: "Block the Blockers on X"
I have relapsed after 3.5 months and started posting again on X. I tried to be NOSTR only but I am so torn because NOSTR shouldn't and doesn't want to be about Bitcoin only. I get it. But I want a feed of Bitcoin only somewhere. I am trying to not stoop as low as Blue Check.
In the meantime, I have a new strategy after being blocked by people. Make sure you block them too. They don't deserve to see anything you are writing. Probably adds value. I carry them like badges. My top three who have blocked me.
1) Craig Wright - blocked me immediately, after I simply posted to any judge or jury. Just as if it were his resume, instead of court, we know Satoshi coded Bitcoin in C++. Ask him to explain his code or ask him to code in specific parts of Bitcoin. No big deal if he wrote it.
2) Spencer Schiff - blocked me after I asked how his dad could have offspring who understands Bitcoin enough to buy some.
3) Greg Foss - this one still stings. I was super supportive of Greg, early on when he first appeared on "Hard Money." I challenged him once though and got blocked.
On his then constant promotion of El Salvador. Bitcoin has no boundaries, imaginary man made lines drawn on maps, it's for all. My specific challenge was, without any emotional context, was El Salvador's GDP is less than our lowest US state by GDP.
Annual GDP:
Vermont: $37 Billion with a population of 650,000 people
El Salvador: $29 Billion with a population of 6,300,000 people
No offense intended to Vermont or El Salvador or FOSS....but he blocked me. Really? (Petty to do the same, man, I know. A million of we shrimps out there have just as much, or more, influence as one giant blow hard Orange Whale.
How many digits do the Blockclocks go out to now? I want Blockclock version 2.0
Jumping to conclusions, stating things as if they are facts is not staying in your lane.
The other day I was out walking around Lake Harriet and seldom tune in to X Spaces (unless it is Yellow's DSB, that is so out there). Anyway, I tuned in and heard some breaking news about something at the US/Canadian Border and some Bitcoiner insisted he knew it was a Muslim and it was a terrorist attack as he drives a truck through that area all the time.
Facts so far:
- Names
- Drove a Bentley
- On their way to a KISS concert
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rainbow-bridge-police-identify-couple-161116362.html
Seriously pisses me off when people veer out of their lanes, throw gas on the hate, and explode in a fireball with no remorse, retraction, or apology. We all are a 'work in progress' don't act like a Proof-of-stake altcoin.
Dear Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I love your food and cooking your food. I know I left out a ton of you (see below), but this is what I love to cook and eat and know. (Learning constantly.) I just wanted to put this out there because I am about to cook Thanksgiving Dinner, the entire spread, for my family.
Compared to preparing your food, I can do this with my eyes closed it is so easy. SUPER EASY.
Thanks for your 1000s of years of expertise.
Post your favorite recipes or dishes, please put in the nationality. I would love to learn Cambodian, Laos, Hmong but don't know where to start.
How many of you remember Thanksgiving Day, 1997? I do, specifically, the FDA approved IDEC-C2B8 in lymphoma. America knows it as Rituximab and Europe Mabthera.
That drug has saved and extended thousands of lives in lymphoma. The first ever Moncoclonal Antibody every approved for cancer, Anti-C2B8.
I am grateful for the experts. The doctors, especially Dr. Ron Levy, it took 20 long years to get Rituxan developed. There are so many doctors who spend their entire careers trying to help get drugs from bench to bedside to save loved one's lives.
I remember the earliest days of Clinical Trials on IDEC-C2B8, I remember being in contact with some of the first recipients and their families.
One of which was TAVYBLUE whose husband was a brave soul to try it. He died. It still haunts me. How? They hadn't figured out yet to always give a massive IV of Benadryl with every Rituxan infusion which is standard today and he died.
To all of you out there on the Internet, who are Dr. Google, who think you know better, check yourselves.
You are one blood test away from getting your proverbial ass handed to you or for one of your family members. You get smarter, fast. It rocks you to your Physical, Mental, Spiritual, and Financial core.
Same to all of you who think you are smarter than anyone in any profession. Stay humble. Be thankful. Happy Thanksgiving America and peace to all those on Mother Earth.
Study Bitcoin.
"The Suitcase: Space Travel -vs- Living in Space"
Space Travel sounds cool
Living in harmony on the moon or Mars? Yeah, we haven't even figured out how to do that on Mother Earth. Literally since we figured out fire, gravity, the wheel.
All the psychos out there? All you need is one nutjob on Mars, who decides to shoot a hole in the impenetrable man man dome.
Any of you outside the US trust everyone in the United States like we don't trust you if you haven't heard of our border wall(s) prototyped after a sieve. Would we only allow certain people/countries on Mars? What documentation or biometrics would be needed to make sure a human was fit to live on Mars? Everyone would have to fight Mark Zuckerberg or Elon?
Contrary to popular notions you may have about the United States. We have nothing wrong here at all, you never hear how we shoot each other, can't feed our hungry, can't end homelessness, or save the ones we love. Or how we have plenty of money to kill people we hate with our wars.
Would we screw up the climate on Mars and have to spend trillions as the 100K different projects to do so on Earth are mismanaged with many of the solutions being worse for the environment? (e.g. Lithium and still saying no to Nuclear Energy?)
Many humans are inherently evil, would there be prisons on Mars or would we just ship them all back to the cesspool known as Earth? (Think "Planet of the Apes" with the Statue of Liberty buried halway in sand.)
Would we need as many plumbers or would we have some cool new way to poop thanks to "The Boring Company"?
What about refuse? Would we make sure all packaging is not just compostable but edible too?
What about our leaders? They would lead all of us as one planet and we would all agree and get along? Would there be election fraud on Mars or Mr. Pillow?
Would Amazon Prime be able to deliver the stuff we really don't need super fast? Would everything be free?
Would we be smarter on Mars? Would we be able to provide a universal Health Care, grow the right crops, be sustainable. Or is it the suitcase analogy my dad taught me about relationships?
Dad to me at 16: "If you are in a relationship, and things are not going well, don't just pack up your suitcase and leave. When you get to the next destination or relationship, you open up that suitcase and all the old problems are still in there."
Ready to go live on Mars or the Moon with me? Let's get the hell out of here, Mother Earth is a real bitch.
This Headline on Munger:
Reminds me of this Old School Meme:
Craig Wright hired a private intelligence firm to spy on hodlonaut, in an attempt to spin an appeal case narrative that he was part of a large, organized cabal devoted to destroying Wright's reputation. Because that's a perfectly normal thing to do.
https://twitter.com/hodlonaut/status/1726286758713737538
Sing and pass along, this guys is irrelevant, his worst fear is real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxaG1q0DW74
I am torn on here, I am not on any social media, can't stand it all but have a throw away account on Xitter only because I like posting about Bitcoin. Here is fantastic but there are some heavy hitters on here techies and Snowden who rightfully hope NOSTR isn't all Bitcoin. Is there a way I can post all about Bitcoin but tag it so not everyone has to see it?
Maybe we need to dig into his VC? So glad you never went that route or supported passing around a retinal scanning orb? There is a fine line between genius and insanity like love and tragedy. I hope he is okay, mentally. https://www.yahoo.com/news/openai-board-fires-sam-altman-204222444.html
Damn, we men have it so easy and are by in large such GD babies/wimps.
Rip me apart on this as it is old in the Bitcoin timeline (23 days ago.) I am confused on who owns what as far as Bitcoin goes.
With this article:
- Block.one (aka B1) a "blockchain company and not Dorsey's Square/Block" and it is has more Bitcoin than MicroStrategy and I have never heard of it.
- Grayscale Trust has over 600K Bitcoin as they are trying to convert from a futures to Spot BTC ETF?
- MtGox? They have a zillion 'missing' so how could they say they have any Bitcoin?
- Wrapped BTC tied to turd ETCH isn't even Bitcoin
Just when I think I am grasping things Bitcoin I see an article like this. 
With Bitcoin, there is no 'He Said/She Said', no 1-800 number, no one to sue. You are the bank.
So in this case, who is telling the truth? She lost her entire 'life savings' and Wells says it doesn't exist? She does a bunch of TikTok videos?
Bitcoin doesn't care, no drama, you 'lose your life savings with Bitcoin' then thank you for your donation. Fingers point only at you.
So tired of the banks getting the headlines as they 'make' money (aka profit) off their 'customers.'
https://www.the-sun.com/money/9602480/wells-fargo-account-closed-no-warning-lost-savings/
Ten Years Later. Check this one out from April 2013 asking how long it will be until a BlackRock gets and ETF and JP Morgan shorts it.
Is Mark Wiedman still at BlackRock? Here he is back in October 2017:
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/10/05/blackrock-exec-no-point-in-bitcoin-etf/
Maybe when BlackRock's Philipp Hildebrand said bitcoin was a "sign of exuberance" back in December 2017 he was actually being prescient for this December? https://x.com/technology/status/938438080091996162?s=20
Banking on Banks is Bad Business https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-biggest-bank-forced-trade-024201961.html