Oh I don’t pay attention to the heatmap, I think that was the only option I could find for the 200-week
For anyone that doesn’t know (I didn’t until this year) the TradingView app is outstanding for watching the #Bitcoin price along with the 200-week moving average: 
My goal as an art collector or art patron is to be indistinguishable from someone in the 1900's or the 1800's or the 1300's, just with #Bitcoin as my unit of account and the Internet as my means of communication.
Thank you very much! These kinds of introductory talks are unique and very useful to share with others so somebody had to do it! And I don’t think it’s very helpful to hand someone the AI-generated version if they prefer to read it.
Yes! I think it’s also the longest single episode I’ve ever transcribed, but it was worth it 😂
Private study room of Horace Howard Furness: 
A lot of these sculpture casts (and many more) are still being made today:
One of the many study rooms of Gabriele D’Annunzio: 
Probably my #1 favorite example of private study rooms: Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm (The Brothers Grimm) 
Michael Saylor: The thing that Satoshi taught us is: You should do your part during some phase of the journey and then you should get out of the way. And I think Steve Jobs said something similar to that effect in a very famous speech one day, which is: Death is a natural part of life and it makes way for the next generation. And I think the goal is: you upgrade the world, right? You leave it a better place, but you get out of the way. And I think when that breaks down, bad things happen. I think nature cleanses itself. There’s a cycle of life.
Kyle Murphy: That’s one of the things that in the early days of nostr:npub1an84q6c03wml5lf0uwcqcr20ydwv0t0lvv0xktlcfs9seattef8sdhz6yg helps us stand out from something like Y Combinator, Techstars. There’s a lot of places you can go and get capital thrown at you and you get a badge—even that’s diminishing with Y Combinator doing 1,000-person cohorts now or whatever. Like, how unique does that feel? But if you’re a young startup in the #Bitcoin space, pre-seed, have never talked to VCs, don’t know how to talk to VCs, don’t know how to reach out, are still really even trying to just work through the ideas, build pitch decks—where are you going to go where somebody’s going to be at the office with you on Saturday morning at like two o’clock in the morning, working on your shit? I don’t know of anywhere else that’s going to do that other than Pleb Lab. Because the way we look at it is it’s like our success is built on their success, and it really isn’t a numbers game for us. This is not a thing where we’re just trying to get as rich as possible by getting you in, getting you out. We’re friends, man. This thing’s working because it’s a room filled with people that I actually care about that I want to see succeed. So I give it that energy every day. If we’re just going to talk about how much energy has been put into it, it’s the kind of energy where it’s like, Look, you’re a good friend of mine, man. I care about you. I want your company to succeed. And that’s what we do here. I come in every day and I just try to help my friends succeed.
Abubakar Nur Khalil: We’re quite fortunate in the time we’re in right now. If we’re having this conversation 5, maybe even 10 years ago, it would’ve been a huge, huge difference when it comes to the opportunities to have, especially for open source developers. A lot of them still do the work they do pro bono, but we’re seeing a lot more projects, even exchanges, get into the fora with regard to funding developers, which is incredible. nostr:npub1spralxq6jlw5rdy0249vqr5sh43rfrlx2wzv3rhjjqedw559w9psrs8s72 is also doing a lot of that—Brink, for example. So we’re seeing a lot of opportunities for developers that are trying to get into open source, which is at the heart of this entire ecosystem. A lot of the critical code that runs or powers the ecosystem is really open source, all the way from Bitcoin Core all the way to some of these other projects like LND as well. So it makes a lot of sense for them to go that route. And we’re at a point, like I said, where there are a lot of avenues for individuals to get funding, whether it’s short-term funding or even year-on grants, which organizations like Brink do. And the Human Rights Foundation, too, has done quite a lot in this regard as well, so that’s the route of going open source as well. Another thing is, developers have the opportunity to actually work in #Bitcoin companies. So this is analogous to what you would normally have with regards to regular tech companies where you just work there, get a salary, all that kind of stuff. Another model—which we’ll see whether it’s adopted or not, which is something that companies can be looking at, especially #Bitcoin companies—is when they hire these developers, they could give them some time out of the week to actually be working on some of these open source products. Again, like I said, a lot of it is open source and it makes a lot of sense for you to be throwing your great developers to actually work on some of these upstream projects like Bitcoin Core to ensure that the project is stable, all those tools and services you’re building on top of it are benefiting from this robustness and this resiliently built project. So allowing them not only to have jobs as conventional jobs in different companies or going the grant route—you could mix the two by giving back to the open source community while still having these developers get hired. So there are a couple of other gigs you could run from the freelance perspective for developers. So these are individuals that don’t necessarily want to have a job nor do they want to commit to a grant. So there are a lot of bug bounties, there are a lot of bounties in the space, which, like I said, this is just for those who don’t really want that commitment for either a 9-to-5 or grants. So there’s also that opportunity: a lot of grants, even in Bitcoin Core or a lot of other open source products where individuals come in, request a change, and then they put a bug bounty or they put a bounty against that for anyone who wants to make it. So yeah, those are some of the opportunities that come to mind. Another one obviously is mentorship roles as well. With more and more of these projects coming and onboarding individuals, you could actually come on board as a mentor as well if you’ve been an open source contributor for quite a while. So you can come on as a mentor and get paid to actually do that mentorship also. These are some of the quick examples I could think of with regards to opportunities for developers.
There are about 50 transcripts that I did for Stephan Livera that I’ve neglected to share insights from 😂
Josef Tětek: Fiat is going to decrease in value forever. That’s just the nature of fiat’s monetary policy. And we can also say that #Bitcoin is going to increase in value forever, especially in terms of fiat currencies. So the Nakamoto Gresham’s law then says that #Bitcoin drives out fiat as a store of value, and fiat, in turn, drives out #Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. Because if we still have some fiat to spend, we want to spend this first, and if you have access to #Bitcoin, we want to save in Bitcoin. And it doesn’t make sense to do it otherwise, if we have both of these types of monies. It just makes sense to spend fiat and HODL #Bitcoin. So that’s an economic explanation why HODLing #Bitcoin is very rational, and we don’t have to actually come up with any new insights—just use the insights we already have and accommodate it to this dynamic of state and non-state money.
Pierre Rochard: I did not understand #Bitcoin until long after I had held some for a while. I didn’t dig into, Okay, how does the UTXO set work, how do #Bitcoin inputs and outputs work? I just knew addresses and wallets, for a very long time. And that’s fine! There’s no reason to really dig into it, unless you’re like, Okay, this system, not only is it valuable to me because I have #Bitcoin, but it’s also valuable to me because I think that it’s the future. And that the sooner I learn this, the sooner I can start benefiting from it and living in the future. So it’s like, Okay, the Internet has just come out, and let’s say you’re a software developer. Do you want to learn web development now, or do you want to wait? Frankly, I would argue that, if I look back on when I first heard about software development, it was MySQL. MySQL was the database. And so, I could’ve learned SQL back then, but I was reading WIRED magazine and I was like, Oh, software development is gonna be obsolete because it’s all gonna get outsourced to India. And so I was like, Okay, I don’t need to learn SQL. Fast-forward 20 years, literally 20 years, everyone’s still using SQL. If I had learned SQL that would’ve been an excellent job skill to have from the Day Zero of having a job! It’s a great skill to have! So I think that there’s technologies that are Lindy, that are going to be around for a long time, that are going to be hugely valuable and powerful, and you might as well just learn them now, because you’re gonna have to learn them at some point, and the longer you put it off, the less you’re gonna benefit from it over your lifetime.