We live in a time when there is no money for general healthcare (a bloated inflationary system), no money for education (ditto), no money for retirement (ditto), no money to promote entrepreneurialism, et al, ad nauseum.

And yet there’s ready money to build Large Hadron colliders, and the next gen of the same, and Webb and Hubble telescopes. Projects which generate no revenue. And doubtless money to fund countless other scientific projects not tied to a verifiable income stream.

This tells me - at the point I’ve reached in my life - that these advanced, expensive “humanitarian” projects being funded are ones that move forward Defense projects already underway.

Not the school-children Neil Degrasse Tyson bullshit no country has actual money for.

Which I’d therefore offer means:

DARPA is far, far more advanced than any of us have any idea. They’re fucking around and finding out far beyond University quantum physics.

Just a shower thought….

The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.

Bitcoin’s scarcity is rooted in the fact that there are scarce items in the digital realm: rare numbers.

Some of the rarest numbers are prime numbers.

Primes become incredibly scarce after 100 billion, so much so that there continues to be a global mathematical search underway for the latest prime number.

— The Little Bitcoin Book, p. 32

I know all us “hardcore” bitcoiners are “too cool” for price predictions, but fuck it…

What’s the highest price #Bitcoin hits in the year 2024?

75%

Without cheating, can you guess what % of nostr users has an LN address set up?

What movie to watch? 👻

(doesn't have to be spooky)

it is preferable to die on your feet than live on your knees.

- Emiliano Zapata.

What are your thoughts on Primal?

Nine years ago today we temporarily lost a legend.

I hope he looks back & laughs at all the Bitcoin memes when he awakens from his cryogenic slumber.

Thank you Hal! 🧡

Last year it was worth paying up for quarterbacks, but this year, I'm almost always willing to wait. The price of the top two tiers is higher than ever, and there are many cheap ones with upside.

I just spent 1.5 hours trying to get an hp deskjet printer to print 1 page, AMA

What are you reading right now?