I watched the HBO ‘Money Electric’ documentary. Yes, it was entertaining. However, compared to documentaries like ‘Human B’ and ‘Mysterium Satoshi’ (arte), which each attempt to approach an essence of Bitcoin in an individual way, it is very superficial.

It seems to me that the real intention of the filmmaker was to document the nation-state adoption of Bitcoin over the course of the past 3-4 years. Hence the many shots with Samson Mow and Prince Philip.

As there hasn't been much news about nation-state adoption since El Salvador, the film footage that was recorded probably didn't provide that much after all.

So a new (old) story had to be found: ‘Who is Satoshi?’

Bitcoin is so endlessly interesting, its technology is a marvel, its social layer is so diverse and full of enthusiastic individuals who want to change the world for the better. And all the filmmaker can think of is 'Who the fuck is Satoshi!?!'

Tell me you don't understand Bitcoin without telling me you don't understand Bitcoin - by pseudo-investigatively pursuing this question and clumsily confronting your Satoshi candidate, yes, Peter Todd, with your supposed revelations using thin arguments.

Had the author of the documentary used his time-consuming research to really dive deeper into the essence of Bitcoin, had he tried to understand what gift Satoshi gave the world, then he would have treated the character Satoshi and his creation Bitcoin with more reverence and focused the documentary more profoundly.

If you haven't seen the documentary yet, save yourself some time and watch “Human B” or “Mystery Satoshi” again. Or simply read a good book like the “Genesis Book” by Aaron van Wirdum. After reading this deep dive into the prehistory of Bitcoin, it becomes clear that there are many relevant facts on the path to the creation of Bitcoin - but the question of who Satoshi ultimately is is not one of them.

The crucial thing is that Satoshi did what was necessary after he launched a new, decentralized, global, inflation-resistant and censorship-resistant money - he kept his pseudonymity and ultimately disappeared.

Much more interesting is the question of where I got the documentary without an HBO account. LOL.

The idea is that the real argument against socialism is not economic, but in fact biological.

It’s a disease, like a cancer. It’s dysgenic. It feeds on life and then when it runs out, it feeds on itself.

It’s a vortex into a void.

There’s just something in that idea, that transcends the economic argument

A story that illustrates why I will never orange pill anyone ever again.

2015- Attempt to orange pill friend multiple times. No dice. Totally uninterested.

2019- He asks me if now is a good time to get into bitcoin. “It’s always a good time”. I set him up with a HW wallet and tell him DCA and chill.

2019- Friend calls me a few months later, he wants to put the down payment money for his house into bitcoin, but he’s nervous. I say no worries I will backstop your investment. What’re friends for?! I want you to succeed. He now has a no risk investment. Financed by me.

2020: Friend is doing well. Has been stacking hard and has 2 coins. A great stack for his income.

2021: He starts watching cringey YouTube videos about shitcoin trading. Gets into a private telegram, trades his 2 bitcoin into 4 and then gets rug pulled and loses everything.

2021: He’s near suicidal, very dark times. He doesn’t tell me anything because he knows I warned him about trading and thinks I’ll be disappointed in him. Finally he tells me. I help him get a personal loan so he can take advantage of the remainder of the bull run. He sells at 55k and manages to break even. He’s not up but he’s got his house money back.

2023: We’re out drinking with some other friends from high school. He expresses some jealousy towards me in a semi awkward fashion. “Every time I see this dude (me) I think about bitcoin.”

2024: I meet up with him so the kids can play at the park. Vibe is off. Lots of insecurity and tension. They’re going on a trip to San Diego and I ask if they might go to the zoo while there. “I can’t afford that. That’s for rich people like you”. Odd interaction, but I shake it off.

2024: A few weeks later he gets drunk and hits on my wife via text messages. She shows me immediately and I confront him. He’s like “sorry bro I was drunk I didn’t mean it”. I tell him off and make clear this is the last time we will ever speak.

No good deed goes unpunished. I could not have been nicer to this dude and more helpful along the way and he is fully consumed by envy towards me.

Unfortunate.

The city that Hobbes’ Leviathan reigns over is empty of all people except for two figures—two beaked mask plague doctors.

The Sovereign can only reign over a city, of which is empty, except for death. They are false constructs that are truly the prisons of modernity.

This is the paradigm of rule in the post-liberal global order. The city’s are full of only the dead and can only provide a form of life that is empty. Vacuous mobs of thoughtless creatures who were once men, but can no longer even state which they are, because truth rules nothing, only the authority of the sovereign is truth here.

The slogan that hangs from the gates of today’s society is the same one that fundamentally destroyed the possibility of law: “work will make you free.”

It is the horrifying realization that only ‘work’, meaningless, thoughtless labor, abated the early death pressed by the state that reserves the right to destroy one when they are no longer of use.

Turn from the Door of Law and return from the countryside from which you came anon. There is no life here, only a vacant waiting for death.

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

I’ll be speaking at several Bitcoin conferences this year attempting to explain my book Cryptosovereignty and how that fits into my larger metaphysical approach to bitcoin.

What topics would you like me to dive deeper into, or you think could provide value in a way that is unique and different from most other presentations you see?

#Bitcoin is a way to bring mutual benefits to people labelled "helpless" in the fiat system through the Cantillon Effect, while containing the bandits and "stupid" people. The latter two still benefit by playing by the rules whether or not they like it...

Thx to Ijoma Mangold for presenting the "orange pill" for the interested German public at Dussmann in Berlin together with Wolfram Eilenberger last night. It was a pleasure to listen to you & it's a pleasure to read! I hope it'll be made available for an international audience, soon.

Sats are still discounted -64.95% from all-time high

Talk is cheap.

Unless you're talking to a lawyer or therapist.

I used it at first but when the alpha the private key wouldn’t log back in. I think it may have been a formatting issue when I cut and paste it.

The bird app is constant retarded takes, and then here is all nice and level headed.

I like it here.