No Ben the year is 2025. You couldn't supply any current data on the amount of mining in China today so you showcased a small subset of data from 22-23 and purported that the data was empirical on a nation where it is impossible do so. You are the height of intellectual dishonesty aka a fucking moron.
No Ben only a moron would try to imply a country can ban #bitcoin.
You are willing to bet your life that zero mining took place in China 2022-2023? I will take the other side of that bet. Seems highly illogical. No one has real data on China and you know this. Unless you are a moron?
No no Ben this is your story of truth. In collaboration with the CCP renowned for their willingness to share accurate data with the western world. Do tell us more Ben.
Is you key point here that people draw imaginary graphs to support their predetermined hypothesis?
Are we as a human civilisation ever going to sit down and collectively address the fact that we lived through a quasi-pandemic and our govts virtually cosplayed their way through it as if it was the actual end of times?
It's almost as if we aren't a truth seeking species anymore, merely a comfort seeking one.
What is missing post Covid is trust. The fallout is representative govt as a system is dead in the water. The West moves to cryptographically secured direct participatory democracies or we go into a modern dark age filled with civil wars across the globe.
Try telling that to almost every western country right now. Almost without exception they all believe that if that just intervene a little bit harder everything will turn around.
The west is utterly consumed by so much mind rot right now. I'm convinced that there is a huge mental hangover from COVID that no one can see.
Hey it was important! None of us were in a great place at that time although buying felt criminally cheap 😂
Honestly though what half decent self respecting capital allocator is falling for this shit. Surely they corruptly see it as a pump and dump on retail and just don't care.
Sigh. We live in an upside down world.
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Nothing beats diving into your own heritage. What a fantastic project! 👍🏻
Totally agree. I feel blessed to have lived before the internet. I was there every step of the way to witness its birth and development. It's such a benefit to have that history up my sleeve.
Isn't our logical next step to launch small satellites once Starship gets the cost to LEO down sufficiently. Laser networking in LEO?
Great point. Everyone at some point thought they could see through or past #bitcoin. You can only fail if your ego is governed by pride and you refuse to bring an open mind to the table. Then, well, then you get fucking punished severely by a loss of purchasing power. It is a phenomenon aligned to the laws of nature. Don't Darwinian yourself.
Love this! We need more hardware experimentation in the space 👏👌
I only just started following you and I value your no nonsense approach. Just make it what you want and disregard the rest. Just my two cents.
Me? I'm a complete nobody.
It goes into the concept of the 'attachment village' and I think it aligns well with some of your intuitive feelings. It's an excellent parenting resource and works through some good tactics for parenting in the digital age too.
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Just out of curiosity have you worked in govt and had first hand experience with their strategic objectives?
Do you have a business model or a plan or are you just riffing and hoping for the best? Other than nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgcwaehxw309ac8yetdd96k6tnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqs87rv0 and nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qgmzvsy we need to find more white knights to elevate teams on the bleeding edge. Anyone swapping time for money that would rather put 100% effort into this space or bitcoin should be able to find runway.
What was his bet again?
Free societies survive on the level of integrity in the dissent. Not dissent for dissents sake along a party politic but rather dissent thought through and given in good faith.
Gotcha. 👍🏻
I'm mildly terrified that as a species we have already lost the capacity to discern truth from fiction.
Ideas like #bitcoin thrive because they resonate on a raw emotional level whereby we can sense a closer bond to the truth.
It's not about NGU it's about being tethered to a truth that cannot be subverted.
All of humanity with eventually dance with open arms to Bitcoin. The alternative is pure hell.
Respect is hard won. It's not about confidence. If you can demonstrate competency and capability then your confidence will be validated. If you exude confidence that cannot be verified or supported then no - you get nothing.
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We’re getting close.
Smoother. Faster. Simpler.
And most importantly... freedom is back on the menu.
Limited Beta is live. Even in the land of the free. 🇺🇸
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Have you taken appropriate steps to protect yourself jurisdictionally? The fight for unhosted wallets will be long and vicious. Do your defensive work now.
Ah yes nothing beats 'real talk' with an intellectual giant. Best I go read more about how evil the US was in WW2. 👍🏻
Had a realization yesterday that I’m still trying to flesh out but wanted to put a few words out there so it doesn’t get lost in my ADHD brain.
I come from a dysfunctional family and have spent a good chunk of my adult years working through childhood stuff and attempting to break the generational cycles of addiction and dysfunction in both sides of my family. Through that experience it made me realize that self-sufficiency (or sovereignty if you will) is a form of control. This control is deeply rooted in fear of shame and abandonment. It’s an attempt to minimize uncertainty and avoid my own uncomfortable feelings about the past and present.
Shame and emotional abandonment are how dysfunctional families control children. This leads you to eventually see your parents as authority figures who cannot be trusted. I just realized bitcoiners have a similar relationship with governments and institutions. We have learned they cannot be trusted and in a way have been abandoned by our institutional parental authority figures. Our reaction to that abandonment has been to take self-sufficiency/sovereignty to the extreme and intellectualize the hell out of it. Intellectualization is another form of control to avoid feelings (which is literally what I’m doing right now). We use big, complex ideas to explain the pain but to not actually feel the emotions associated with it.
To be clear, I don’t think this is inherently a bad thing. Self-sufficiency is a rational response to an irrational world. We hide behind our intellectualized morals because it gives us a sense of security. But if we’re truly honest with ourselves, our motivation for self-sufficiency is deeply rooted in fear and shame.
Bitcoin creates a path to healing the sick, dysfunctional system we were raised in but it requires a heavy dose of looking at the mirror, warts and all. If we’re not honest with ourselves and have zero awareness about this, we’re doomed to repeat the cycle we were born out of. We must take active steps to create lasting change.
This is just an observation I’ve noticed in myself and the tip of the iceberg. Maybe I’m projecting all of this onto the world. I’ve heard nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtjw3k8zcmp8pervct409shwdtwx45rxmp4xseryerdx3ehy7f4v3axvet9xsmrjdnxw9jnsuekw9nh2ertwvmkg6n5veen7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqgq6lcx8fc7h0p8t4ya9u0a92jnwavqe9rgjwwdw3wjgxfuxsz8rd5mths8c be pretty open about his childhood and personal story but I’d also love to hear other bitcoiners stories (publicly or privately). Feel free to reach out if you come across this and would like to discuss further. I’ll leave with this quote for now:
“Adult Children rarely stop to think that self-sufficiency is covering up a fear of rejection which they think could come if they ask for help. Meanwhile, to ask for help and get it might mean that someone would get to know them, and that is too risky. In such cases, self-sufficient power is really a mechanism to ensure isolation and aloneness.”
Fucking nailed it brother. Well said 👏👏👏