Pillars of Creation

#jwst #pillarsOfCreation #webb

Image Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Published: 11/30/22

🇦🇺When I left Australia to move to Mexico in 2022 EVERY one of my friends said:

🛑Mexico is so dangerous bro

🛑You're dead

🛑You better buy a gun

🇨🇦This message is from one of my Canadian friends.👇

📢The Western world has been brainwashed into thinking Latam is a place you don't want to go to.

In reality, it has:

☀️🏖️The best weather.

🥩The best food.

❌No taxes.

✅The LOWEST cost of living

Ignore the propaganda, go where you're treated best.

#Bitcoin is audited by thousands of people every 10 mins on average.

The banks are never audited.

A few thoughts on the run this morning:

1) We don't need blackrock.

2) Allow me to ramble and make no sense for a second:

I don't pretend to understand the "VC" world, but in many cases, if not all, the payout is on the sale of the venture to a bigger entity. Many of the #bitcoin startups are learning on the fly how to monetize a product built on top of FOSS.

This isn't a new problem, of course. Monetization and the need to pay our builders to ensure we recruit the best and brightest minds to the bitcoin ecosystem isn't easy.

Most of the builders are here because they believe in the mission, not a desire to make more fiat. Despite this, we need to continue to recruit the world's best.

Builders should consider, if they plan to sell, to pay out investors...who is the buyer?

For instance, if apple or microsoft wanted to get in the game, they could buy the entire mutiny team and product line, perhaps they could buy coinkite, etc.

I became worried about who the builders will sell to? Is it a team of people who care about the mission of bitcoin?

Its hard to blame people for taking the money when it would secure their family for generations.

***I only single out mutiny and coinkite b/c they are two of the teams/companys I am happy are in the space and building.***

Let us not lose site of the goal: open, permisionless, censorship resistant, decentralized money not issued by the state (or central authority who can debase the currency or use money as a system of control and surveillance).

3) Technologists sometimes view tech as "good" or "bad" based on how many features they can pack into a product. But it is okay for money to be boring. Sometimes, the end product doesn't reflect the mission or goal of the development team.

4) Thanks to all of the people who are building on bitcoin. I am in your debt.

building a modern city is honestly not such a bad idea:

- roads designed for self-driving vehicles would make transportation extremely inexpensive

- modern construction techniques result in much higher energy efficiency

- solar and storage could make energy production practically free

- underground internet / utilities are more reliable

- larger emphasis on green spaces

- permaculture and vertical farming can produce much more food per hectare

- city could be designed to better harvest rainfall and keep it on the land

Can anyone steel man a case for the US government owning ~$13T of mortgage backed securities? Because I can’t.

So excited for this book! I’m a low vision reader - any plans for an audio version? 💜

This is truly a must read book. nostr:note12q0gunzwvht025v8345yk50k2ylwcvtyc76zhhrf7n4ydlmjdersdker2w

The podcast won't happen since Rodolfo isn't exactly my biggest fan 😆

Some high level tips:

1. Have a good range of UTXO sizes to suit all spending of your *expected* spending habits (whirlpool is perfect for achieving this at the same time as improving your privacy)

2. Have a lightning node running on some proper hardware (forget raspberry pis)

3. Ensure your LN node has more than one channel open to a few reliable peers

4. Ensure the channel sizes are appropriate for your *expected* spending habits

ramaswamy is indian

Not sure if this is just basic racism or extra racist.

The debate is depressing. The situation feels hopeless.

Bitcoin Beach, El Salvador.

some of the best waves in the world.

The ticket will be Trump/Ramaswamy.

Blackrock is that you?

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