I have always had an unhealthy obsession with Lost.
In a hyperbitcoin world Michael Saylor will have to part with his Bitcoin. His strategy only works as long as fiat exists. As nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe states, if bitcoin doesn’t become a medium of exchange it fails.
I think this is the core point of nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
It’s not about going all maxi on Saylor, it’s simply stating economic reality.
https://youtu.be/jrDacPNWBGA?si=sPaPvkXQ8A24Hgi7
Baseball is poetry. What an amazing repeat of a historic moment.
“Baseball marks the time”
James Earl Jones
Giving myself a day off has become a challenge since i discovered the depth of bitcoin.
“There is no putting the genie back in the bottle. And now every government in the world gets to reform itself in light of that knowledge. This is why we're seeing CBDCs… CBDCs are a direct response to #Bitcoin “ - nostr:npub1kvgw6zj55uwvlz5rdqpjm5a5hqah4j3ggza3pfx4umh5k6j00yaqt6v0p2 on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8
https://v.nostr.build/pZS2cC86ObISbNqf.mp4 nostr:note1vpylcglhm80n3wjs6hkz6st8cd09jych5l37epcsfjkjr4zc95rq65wnrv
I’m in love with nostr:npub1kvgw6zj55uwvlz5rdqpjm5a5hqah4j3ggza3pfx4umh5k6j00yaqt6v0p2 mind.
She’s brilliant.
https://x.com/luckismadeff/status/1847300043943883227?s=46&t=SNs3cwvowySK5TqLOVkIhQ
When life imitates art.
https://x.com/anthonydicomo/status/1844160271486681097?s=46&t=SNs3cwvowySK5TqLOVkIhQ
I’m going to watch this 100 times.
In a hyperbitcoinized world what happens to gambling and sports? I think about this a lot.
Four years ago my father passed, we didn’t have a great relationship, the only thing that bonded us was the Mets. Whenever the Mets have a magical moment I think of dad.
Am I the only one who thinks nostr:npub1cj94enk44kn5mvrcma4sp7jnlsgnn4em7rk3dh3jt4fzyqs3m02s560efa looks like Billy Zabka?
It’s like Zabkas bizarro brother who learned to be a brilliant finance guy lol
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/10/02/bank-of-america-outage-zero-balances/75487223007/
I know a network that never goes down. Hmmm
nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 you should ask other prominent bitcoiners about the he blockchain trilema and why only Bitcoin will work.
Debating about going to El Salvador for a trip. Any recommendations?
I plan to treat everyone with respect. I do it not only for them, but for me and my energy. Be the world you want to see.
20 years ago today Oceanic flight 815 crashed on a mysterious island
I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.
The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)
Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)
That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.
Either:
1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.
OR
2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)
While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.
Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.
Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.
Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day. You make a difference with every word, thought and action.
Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.
Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.
Love this.
Based on this do you believe no credit system will happen in a bitcoin world if everyone is using bitcoin?
Wanted to post my thoughts on Whitney Webb, hopefully others out there feel the same.
For all of us our thoughts and opinions become shaped by our experiences, I don’t personally know Whitney’s experiences, but I do feel the black pill doomer nihilism approach is not for me.
I believe Whitney lives in a box, that box for her is that governments and powerful people can control everything. I think she fails to draw a line of where those powers end and the events of human history that force change. She has a hard time grasping the concept of emergent phenomena, maybe in Whitney’s mind the government can stop black holes from happening.
Bitcoin is one of these emergent phenomena’s and I respect the position she comes from, but I also contend that every time humans have been caged they find ways to free themselves, because it’s not in our nature to be caged. If Whitney believes this is all captured, I ask her to propose a rational solution otherwise it comes off as nihilism. The solution of everything needs to grow food and live off the grid is not good enough for 8 billion people. This isn’t the dark ages, we have complex modern technologies that make life way more bearable than it has ever been.
My final message to Whitney is as bad as you feel the world is today, relative to past this is the best time to have ever lived in human history and one-hundred years from now they will scoff at us like we do the 1800s. I hope she can come out of this box of nihilism and into some hope somewhere. Yes Bitcoiners are hope peddlers. A person needs hope to build something better.
“Let your hopes, not your hurts shape your future”
MLK