EVERY PERSON...

EVERY COMPANY...

EVERY GOVERNMENT...

...HAS ONE GOAL: ACCUMULATE AS MUCH BITCOIN AS POSSIBLE.

FORTUNATELY FOR US MOST DO NOT REALIZE THAT YET.

1 person speaking the truth is worth 10,000 speaking lies, which is also why I am so humbled to be with so many high integrity people here.

Because, we already have the numbers!

Merry Christmas and wishing you the very best of 2024.

It’s going to be an interesting one!

#Bitcoin

#Nostr

I wonder how long before AI can generate high quality movies. “Make me a live action movie about the legend of zelda”. I wouldn’t be surprised if this happens in the next decade or two.

#ThomasSowell

How to deal with smart people that don't know about Bitcoin

It can be intimidating to talk to someone that's smart that spouts nonsense about Bitcoin. Arguing with them is going to be difficult because they likely have flawed economic thinking that is at the core of their beliefs.

If you're arguing with a socialist, for example, they're likely to have some form of class struggle or oppressor/oppressed paradigms that guide all their thinking. If you're arguing with a mainstream economist, they're likely to view centralized monetary control as a good thing. If you're arguing with a gold bug, they're likely to deny the value of digital things.

It's a pretty heavy lift to argue with these people, because, most likely, they haven't studied Bitcoin in any depth. But if you want engagement, start with their assumptions about the current system. Do they know how it works? Do they understand that all money comes from loans? Do they get that inflation destroys savings and that it's a stealth taxation? At the very least, this should get them on a field that's a little more neutral and fact based. But it's also possible that they may understand all these things and still be against Bitcoin. What then?

You can move from there to whether freedom, particularly property rights are a good thing. Even the most ardent socialists don't like having property taken away from them. And really, this is a moral issue that's very intuitive. Usually, you can make headway that property rights, especially over savings is a good thing.

Finally, you can move to Bitcoin. Do they understand that it's decentralized? That it's digital and that digital things can have value? This is where you need to avoid the stupid economics of the mainstream, who like talking about velocity and unemployment and so on. Those are all irrelevant to the fact that Bitcoin is good money.

For us to win, the current regime must fall.

I know it's all the rage these days in US politics, but I don't really care what someone's race, gender, orientation, or identity is.

I just care whether they are based or not. Like what expertise or other skillset they have, or how much I can reason with them.

In other words, as someone famous once said he would like to see, I judge people based on the content of their character.

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Also Thomas Jefferson, later in the same letter:

"...nothing is necessary but a general panic, produced either by failures, invasion or any other cause, and the whole visionary fabric vanishes into air and shews that paper is poverty, that it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself."

Paper is poverty, only the ghost of money.

“Everyone gets #bitcoin at the price they deserve” is one of my least favorite “bitcoiner” quotes.

No, not everyone will get #bitcoin at the price they deserve. My hope is that the global south, activists, folks under authoritarian regimes, those cut off from the banking system, those in hyperinflationary economies, in abusive relationships where finances are owned and control by the patriarchal figurehead, those banished from their homes for coming out as a part of the lgbtqia community…that these folks be given education and resources to #learnbitcoin and create a better future for themselves with this ultra-sound freedom money.

Those saying the above mentioned quote are in a privileged and selfish position and appear to care more about stacking and hoarding bitcoin for their gated and exclusive citadels than about global bitcoin adoption for the masses who need it.

War leaves no victors, only survivors scarred by its relentless impact on humanity and the world.

You are correct, they are added for quick reference and to keep study uniform.

The direct context following verses 21-47. Here Christ goes beyond the letter of the law to the heart of the law. Here He lays out the law, and goes even further to tell us that we missed what goes back to (in my opinion) Gen 4: 6-7.

There, before the law, God says sin is crouching at your door due to the anger. In Matthew, Jesus goes beyond the law of Thou Shall Not Murder, to do not be angry with your brother.

In laying out both the law and heart of the law, Christ finishes with being perfect as God is perfect.

To me this ties is how we all fall short and are sinners before a Holy God.

Modern cruise ships are basically floating towns.

Saying you hate Trump shouldn't imply you like Biden.

I hate them both.

I hate them all.

Except Ron Paul