Mākereti Papakura in her study room: 
I’m so curious what kinds of primary sources people will be looking at from these times 100 years from now 😂
“The lifestyle of the dedicated ‘scholar’-collector who would buy 1 major painting per year, who would study, study, study, study, study until they found that moment, and then it would come and they would buy it, and they put it in their collection, and then they die with a 29-painting collection that's extraordinary—those people don't exist now.”
— Clifford Schorer
Think about this: The hand you were dealt in life was being born early enough to participate in the precise moment that #Bitcoin is getting off the ground.
This song is a great introduction to BAND-MAID:
Great new song that came out 6 hours ago:
It’s possible that the difficulty adjustment will always make it worthwhile for tons of people to mine
I think it’s helpful to think of that lone solar panel as being a vulnerable military or political target, and instead figuring out how to get miners in every jurisdiction.
Jack Dorsey: The big class of use case that selfishly I’m interested in — that I think this [Nostr] protocol will eventually help address — is: Block bought Tidal just over a year ago, and streaming has a bunch of issues that need to be rethought. But the specific use case that I’m thinking deeply about in intersection with this protocol is the musician side — the obvious one is around payment for artists: the current system is just criminal in the way the artists get paid and the way that they enter into contracts, and all their life’s work is taken from them without any sort of financial education to put them in a better position. But the collaboration side for artists — especially new artists — is just wild, and it’s a complete gap in the world. There are very little tools — there’s so many artists that collaborate over iMessage, and a lot of them over TikTok or Instagram DM — and that problem itself has I think a lot of intersection with what this protocol enables, because you do have this fluidness between a social layer and a money transmission layer, and eventually a commerce layer. And for a new artist to really get established, they need to have some sort of confidence that they’ll be able to be paid for their work, and they can leave whatever job that they’re currently in because they can see the horizon of not only getting listeners, but actually those listeners exchanging value for their for their value.
Adam Back: There’s actually enough unused hydro power that’s connected to the grid and ready to use that it could power the entire #Bitcoin network just out of the unused power. Of course there are lots more hydro resources globally both constructed and untapped, so even on the hydro side there’s a lot of upside. And of course, I think #Bitcoin is a great vehicle for providing the business fundamentals to fund building more power infrastructure, to drive economic growth for the future.
American HODL: Once you really understand the principles behind #Bitcoin and what a next-level computer science breakthrough it actually is and you start to really deeply get it at a fundamental level, you start to realize like, This is the biggest game-changing technology we’ve seen since the invention of the printing press — this is a really really big deal. And the same way the Internet reshapes society — #Bitcoin is going to reshape society in an even greater manner. And that’s the big idea: Get your hands on as much #Bitcoin as you possibly can, because we’re about to live through this transition.
Jeff Booth: Technology, innovation, a free market, requires a currency that allows for deflation. It requires it! Because every other path concentrates wealth and power! Is that fair? Every other path concentrates wealth and power manipulation! So today where we are in technology, it’s a requirement of any monetary policy that it allows for deflation. Otherwise you concentrate wealth and power. Now go to the next level: what is the most likely candidate to drive that change? The most likely candidate — look at already how fast #Bitcoin’s growing — is the candidate that is a forcing function from outside the system. It is a forcing function to that change! Will there be a whole bunch of stuff in the existing system that tries to protect it? Like Blockbuster adding candy aisles to their stores? Yes! Can it solve the problem? No! So I know what bet I’m gonna make!
I’d like to put a lot of my transcripts on here, but what would you recommend for binding my npub to it?
Thank you so much for sharing!
This is my favorite article on art, what the great artists are doing, and why it’s so important that great living artists are set free to do what they do best, through art patronage:
https://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/the-artist-as-healer-of-the-world
I’m not sure what I did but all of my stories on TikTok got muted 😅