Elimination of lithium battery fire risk and 600+ mile range per charge? Hyundai has come a long, long way since their buy one get one free deals back in the day.

"Hyundai aims to begin full-scale production of all-solid-state batteries in January 2025 and equip EVs with them by 2025, with mass production following in 2030."

Nuclear power and production of cancer fighting agents? Pretty fucking cool.

"China National Nuclear Corporation’s (CNNC) first-ever commercial reactor for the production of isotopes has officially opened. Called the Qinshan Nuclear Power Base plant, it has already produced its first batch of Lutetium-177 (Lu-177) medical isotopes.

The plant opened for business on December 26 and uses online irradiation to produce isotopes like Lutetium-177. At the heart of the facility is a kind of heavy-water reactor known for its high neutron flux.

This reactor, it is reported, can be continuously refueled without being shut down and operate stably for long periods. It offers high efficiency, large output, high specific activity, continuous production, and a stable supply of isotopes for mass production.

The inauguration of this new reactor comes after months of development and upgrade of the facility. It can now produce a variety of short-lived medical isotopes, including Strontium-89 (Sr-89) and Yttrium-90 (Y-90), on a large scale."

“The concept that I've realized over time is the most important thing for me to do is to see a picture of where I want to go, see a picture of what I want to do in the world and then figure out how to work backwards from that and to make sure every single detail of working backwards from that I'm proud of, something that I love to do, I love the work, not just the end product, not just the end picture, but every step along the way. And in that sense also be able to explore the world. And I found this great quote by William Gibson. Anyone know who William Gibson is, just by a show of hands. Unfortunately too few. So William Gibson is a science fiction author and he coined the term cyberspace, he coined the term cyberpunk in a novel called Neuromancer and he has this great quote which I think really captures everything that we're trying to do in this world as entrepreneurs, as founders, as builders of companies and products and ideas in that "The future has already arrived, it's just not evenly distributed yet." Which is an amazing thing to think about. And this is exactly how we run our companies as well. We get before the company and say an idea can change the course of the company, can happen anywhere in the company. The future is already in all of your heads and your work, everything that you have to do in your life is to distribute it, it's to make sure that other people can see it, it's sharing it with other people so that it resonates in a way that speaks to them and then they want to build it as well..."

- Jack Dorsey, May 13, 2013 at Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Recalling a quote that Jack Dorsey said at a conference on October 27, 2023 that "Bitcoin and Satoshi in 2009 was a combination of my childhood and my curiosity and everything that I aspired to be and everything I loved" sets the stage for Bitcoin's founding story.

Jack's childhood curiosities and loves are pretty public.

1. He loved his parents. He talks about them incessantly

2. He loved maps, plots, and directions. He explains this during every interview about himself. And his parents have said the same.

3. He loved music, especially the 90s era music.

4. He loved coding/tech and cyberpunk novels.

5. He loved pseudonyms and Japan.

Hence if we look at some of Bitcoin's most famous story lines, we will see Jack.

Jack's parents

1. First Bitcoin transaction was on Jack's mom's birthday (1/11)

2. Last mined block by Satoshi (per Patoshi pattern) was on Jack's dad's birthday (5/3/10)

3. Block 5353 mined by Satoshi (per Patoshi pattern) was awarded to a bruteforced bitcoin wallet that starts with 4dby (for dad's birthday). His dad was born 5/3/53.

Maps

1. Satoshi wrote directions to Jack's Dorsey's apartment on the day of the first bitcoin transaction to Hal through a series of bruteforced bitcoin addresses (which you can read about in my past tweets) followed by Jack making tweets about what the best way to give directions to his apartment was.

2. A novel (Hacktivist) written in 2013 by Jack's best friend (Alyssa Milano) about Jack living a double life under a famous pseudonym ends with Jack having hidden a message in the first few letters of different words.

Music

1. Satoshi's birthday is purportedly April 5 (per the date Satoshi set on P2P Foundation). That's the date Kurt Cobain died and Jack has tweeted out that he drew a sketch of Cobain right before he died.

2. The Satoshi shirt that Jack wears is a Nirvana (Kurt Cobain) shirt.

Jack

1. Satoshi joined the bitcointalk forum on Jack's birthday

2. Square IPO'd on Jack's birthday

3. Jack released his TBD whitepaper on his own birthday

4. The pre-release bitcoin software code from Nov 2008 appears to have a hidden message in it in case anyone tried to steal authorship of it. The genesis wallet's public key resolves to a bitcoin address with the word "feed" in the middle, which if this is accurate, would've been a backdoor way for the author to prove the inventor of the Twitter Feed was behind it if it became necessary to do so.

Square

1. Satoshi's first post on P2P Foundation was on February 11

2. February 11 is Japan's National Foundation Day

3. Jack attributes February 11 being the day Square was founded

Cyberpunk

There are numerous references in Bitcoin's founding story to the novels Cryptonomicon (by Neal Stephenson) and Neuromancer (by William Gibson), two of Jack's favorite authors.

1. The bitcoin whitepaper was released on Stephenson's birthday

2. The hidden newspaper headline in the bitcoin genesis block is a reference to Cryptonomicon's opening about dying banks printing money on old newspapers

3. The code that's broken in Cryptonomicon is the Japanese Yamamoto

4. Satoshi's first address he used to transact with was bruteforced with the words (homeftp), which in Cryptonomicon, the Cryptonomicon cryptography bible is at home on an FTP server in San Francisco

5. The 8-day gap between the genesis block and the first transaction is a Neuromancer reference to the 8-day wait to start the mission

6. The 50 bitcoin block award is a reference to the main character in Neuromancer starting off with 50 New Yen

7. The character that holds "the secret password" in Neuromancer is named 3Jane. The genesis block is dated 3Jan.

8. Both books involve Japan and Japanese characters.