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Never been more bullish in home-schooling
Why?
The tools available to families for education have never been better
Not only can you deep dive on any subject a child might want
But the amount of time required to learn the same content is smaller
The big deal though: all this learning can be done at the feet of a child’s primary caregiver (their parent)
This statement is now very questionable:
1) kid goes to school = fine
2) kid doesn’t go to school = struggles
How will we find out? Time…
Work backwards: what does the optimal 25 year old look like?
Let’s see
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New ATH set this week?
Feels like it
Freedom itself needs to be worked for
No one is just given it
The more tools that help us get there the better
I am guilty of still using X
I like the idea of using it to broadcast content on
But I don’t socialise on X at all
That’s much better on Nostr, a true capital allocation for the future
I like talking with early internet pioneers
Building on TCP/IP eg
History rhyms
Iteration > iteration > iteration
Fascinating to watch
Always appreciate the insights Jeff!
For sure had situations in which I posted something that I realised had a simple typo and it would have been much better if there was an edit option
The flip side: people are more accountable to what they post. You can be wrong. But you can’t hide it. I think I like this given my experience thus far
Bitcoin the positive incentive vortex
Try new things
Build opportunities you see
Make the network stronger for us all
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That would be a big surprise to me
Never say never though
No better place than long BTC
Fafo?
Totally agree it’s about letting them roam
The word "Bitcoin" was a banned ad-word until very recently
Mental
Bitcoin has crossed into six figures, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at Google search trends.
Searches for “Bitcoin” are now back at bear market levels, comparable to December 2022, when BTC was trading around $16,000. Today, with Bitcoin at $103,000, search interest remains eerily quiet.
What does this mean? The current rally is not being fueled by a wave of public FOMO. It’s being driven by institutions, public companies, sovereign wealth funds, and nation-states quietly acquiring positions.
The next wave of retail FOMO will eventually come. But by the time “Bitcoin” is trending again, the price will likely be much higher.
Dismantling Stoicism: A Hard Truth for Smart People
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Why Bitcoin's Volatility Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Why does Bitcoin's fiat price fluctuate so much? Unlike fiat currencies that are manipulated by central banks behind closed doors, Bitcoin is the first monetary system that reflects the raw, unfiltered reality of global human action. I break down how money printing distorts price signals, why Bitcoin is a more honest yardstick for value, and how this volatility is actually proof that Bitcoin is working as intended.
"Bitcoin is the first time that all humanity has access to true property rights. This is a seriously big deal. You can potentially own—if you do it correctly—a percentage of a network, and you can be guaranteed to own that same percentage if you self-custody and hold correctly over time...
Bitcoin forces you to ask the question: why do I own what I own? And there's a lot of legacy wealth sitting out there that people are starting to slowly look at, and they go, why do I own this stuff?"
Jake Woodhouse / Ep.50 / 32:52
This Is Why No One Can Hack Bitcoin...(yet?)
Can Bitcoin be hacked? I explore why Bitcoin’s design, built on proof of work, decentralized consensus, and decades of cryptographic research, makes it almost impossible to hack. I break down the Byzantine Generals Problem, how Bitcoin solved it, and why digital scarcity is such a profound innovation.
Bitcoin vs XRP vs CBDC's: Freedom or Digital Slavery?
James Randy made a TED Talk about it.
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi_homeopathy_quackery_and_fraud
Interesting to get a series of opinions
I’ve personally felt the benefits of homeopathy on myself
So very beneficial in my opinion
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it
The next question: what to do about it?
Many answers of course, but the most powerful I’ve found is learn to defend better
Bitcoin a big part of this. But equally, passports, no fiat employment contract, very little debt where possible
Depends how far you go
Privacy. In particular digital. Not something I am as good as I would like yet
Absolutely it is an individual choice
But one far easier to make if one’s money problems are solved
Personally, I think they’re still driving the 4 year cycle vibe
Lots out there feel that might have changed
Lots also adhere to the power law theory of diminishing returns
Time will tell…
I give you a new version of the Bitcoin node client:
"Bitcoin Deis".
If you're unhappy with Bitcoin Core policy changes, you can now run Bitcoin Deis/Knots.
Bitcon Deis is not complicated - it's a clone of Bitcoin Core version 28.1 ( a version before significant shenanigannary took place), and I made some changes to the graphics and text.
You never actually need to follow the latest versions of Core to stay in consensus.
Bitcoin Deis is only available currently with Parmanode.
Repo here:
https://github.com/ArmanTheParman/deis
Sounds interesting
Keen to learn more about how this would work at scale
This was a pleasant surprise when we checked in
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About the only thing that was a positive sadly
Heating broken. Roof blinds broken. Rubbish. Garden overgrown. WiFi not working. Missing pillows… actually classic example of what in fiat is “luxury” but in reality is far from
We haven’t had a single straight forward experience with Airbnb in a long time
Anyways, Gladiator is epic, especially as all kids asleep
“What we do in life, echoes in eternity”