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The world needs freedom, not regulation. #Bitcoin

Humans turning away from hunting and gathering to agriculture came with massive tradeoffs. There si nothing better than fresh vegetables, fruit, and a piece of meat.

Who would have guessed that PewDiePie will be introducing millions of people to DuckDuckGo and GrapheneOS. Yet here were go. Privacy is going mainstream! https://youtu.be/u_Lxkt50xOg?si=BoDtmIrPxcZatsdS

Sats are just fine.

I am curious how far we are from scammers using real-time voice cloning. Very scary.

Bitcoin would need to trade above $126,000 to clear its highest exchange-rate-adjusted record (set in Swedish krona) or $122,000 to beat the Czech koruna benchmark. At roughly $96k today, BTC is still about 24% below that peak.

Economics is the science of human action. We are not fully rational beings and proper economic theory recognizes that.

I find it interesting how the ancient philosophers were better equipped to understand economics than modern academics.

Economics is the science of human joy.

I've been really happy with Readwise Reader. It combines RSS feeds and read-it-later into a single reading experience. https://readwise.io/read

I'd still prefer a self-hosted or E2EE solution, but haven't found any that works reasonably well.

If imports > exports were called a surplus, the world would be quite different this year.

If only there was a hard asset that was not influenceable by tariffs and nonsensical global trade wars that was digitally available all around the world in an instant. Oh wait.

Unless forced, each trade is balanced.

That is, both parties profit since they exchange a thing they want less (be it money or goods) for a thing they want more (be it money or goods).

Since each trade is balanced, any sum of trades is also balanced. There are no trade imbalances between groups or countries.

She seems genuinely happy that she lost.

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The EU has frozen technological innovation (USB-C), and in a very predictable twist, ditched its privacy principles to demand cryptocurrency transactions to be KYC’ed (“Travel Rule,” what a misnomer).

But all of that probably pales in comparison to the fact that our economy is set to self-destruct due to heavy regulation and an energy crisis caused by the panic about the weather.

Happy 2025!

I am so sorry for him or her. Winning a large amount usually spells doom for the person.

The only way the government can be efficient at something is NOT to do that said thing.