My figure is like an hourglass.

With all the sand in the middle.

Why are we human-kind so fat these days?

Wrong answers only.

Is this against the rules of #coffeechain? Asking for a friend.

Voting is probably rigged, and my voice is meaningless on the national level.

But I'll reluctantly vote Trump, for Ross Ulbricht's chance at freedom. He needs to come home.

This chart is kind of shocking actually. A society completely flipped the mechanism for how it deals with people who are problematic for themselves and others.

I only block blatantly obscene and pornogrphic accounts that try to interact with me. I believe it is good to let everyone have a voice.

I don't have thousands of followers harrasing me though. So maybe I'll change my mind at some point.

101 on how gold was confiscated:

You had to turn it in for dollars by a deadline prior to dollar devaluation, and there were massive prison consequences for not turning it in, but little resources in terms of investigating who didn’t turn it in. That would be expensive. So it was fear based. Focusing on illegality and tail risks on edge cases more than enforcement on average.

Institutions had to comply immediately, since it’s all visible. So the government broke liquidity in the domestic gold market, which was enough for their purposes. Gold became a hard-to-trade illegal relic for those that held it.

If a small family hodled some extra bars for 40 years until it became legal again, they did okay.

But can the government track bitcoin in the 2020s better or worse than gold in 1930s for enforcement purposes? That’s the right question.

And don’t just think of confiscation. Think of 70% selective taxes and things like that. Far more within the current rule of law. That’s the sophisticated approach. Don’t take it. Selectively tax it by a lot.

Those are the politics to push against from a bitcoin perspective.

I refuse to read fiction while I am busy writing.

Other peoples ideas easily cross pollinate with your own.

I am doing something I believe is novel by publishing the story as I am writing it. It sort of forces me to stick to the narrative rigidly. I do edits though.

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Curious as to what nostr incentives you see? Right now it lives off the kindness of strangers ...

Breakfast for bulls. Have a great one. GM

What’s the best life advice you got or can give? Let’s compile a list:

#asknostr

Africa is in a dangerous position. Yes they have a high birthrate. But its only in certain countries. And it's dropping for the dame reason it dropped here. Education, stable infrastructure and good sanitation.

But as a continent its over reliant on the rest of the world both east and west for imports, especially in the agricultural and medical fields.

When we go, they will go first. The proverbial canary in the coal mine...

Over half of the world’s economies, accounting for two-thirds of the global population, now have fertility rates below the replacement fertility level of 2.1 children per woman.

Good morning.

But AI will make it better 😅

Why not with stonks? It’s manipulation at its finest.

Nah it supposed to look like this.