This is why I wound down my bitcoin fund—I’m way too neurotic to be a money manager 😂 https://image.nostr.build/0559373d657da83f6e233d3c0afa3d7e94761442c0f663c145a9033eee61b70b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/951a1e2e01ffeec61b328372bace99a73f8306c399e61dda951a12885dc45245.jpg


They already look like pups, wolf pups 🙂


I would absolutely love that! Can you get me in touch?


Oh yes. https://image.nostr.build/c278e9fb90837815cfb9bd48adba80a1f8723bdaea80e7fa11f273315cc6b7f2.jpg


Buenos Aires is such a young, vibrant city. I see parents and kids everywhere. https://image.nostr.build/50d12f59dc1c682b05cc6533e62195b38b705f3acdc11cdea3193f82ccffd617.jpg https://image.nostr.build/047f90ed52c13425093b1bc8c0a9bca0eb3fe4d97c5b913e865a0d856c92ddef.jpg


Yep! Extar AR 556


My cousin firing his first gun 😤😄
Second amendment FTW https://image.nostr.build/4b386be5ac2258b4f43011941958124fc7a792cfb4f983fd98dec0371c23e59c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/03237ac8af6605f188fe81ffd8baee1236561e14e0131bd9c06153e82d16a084.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d6f955ac2e7d35057242f0b4e13498e4dbae5943841b9dfc18210a032ee9c90a.jpg


Thank you SC!


So anyways I says to the guy,
"I feel so bullish, I'm growing horns!" https://image.nostr.build/467207821cc921d13dfd93486532e7307ff0d71f560fb4bbb7a4c064c3fff6fe.jpg


tuur

Bitcoin analyst, founder adamantresearch.com. Board txbitcoinfoundation.com, advisor to Blockstream & Unchained. Festina Lente — make haste slowly.


Verified myself as tuur@nostrverified.fyi. Thx nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp


I love the drawing style 🤍


by   nostr:npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2

This new paper is a true declaration of war: the ECB claims that early #bitcoin adopters steal economic value from latecomers. I strongly believe authorities will use this luddite argument to enact harsh taxes or bans. Check 🧵 for why:

https://m.primal.net/Laim.png

Rather than praising bitcoin as a tech paradigm shift à la petroleum and the internet, the authors introduce the blatantly luddite argument that "early adopters" ... "increase their real wealth and consumption" ... "at the expense of [latecomers]".

https://m.primal.net/Lain.png

Then they go on to brazenly advocate for legislation ... "to prevent bitcoin prices from rising or to see bitcoin disappear altogether" in order to prevent "the division of society".

https://m.primal.net/Laio.png

The authors also model some projections, to illustrate the paltry amount of BTC that will remain available for latecomers. (Woe is me! Conspicuously left out is the reason that has driven 15 years of bitcoin adoption & development: it's simply better tech.)

https://m.primal.net/Laiq.png

 In all the years I've been monitoring the bitcoin space, this is by far the most aggressive paper to come from authorities. The gloves are off. It's clear that these central bank economists now see bitcoin as an existential threat, to be attacked with any means possible.

Many of us have warned that this was coming: bitcoin as a major political fault line both in national and international elections. Well here it is. It means that us HODLers must take action to insure that governments respect our basic right to hold property.

And no, this won't be a war between haves and have-nots. Rather this will be a historic clash between those who stand for the natural rights of the individual, and those who clutch at the failed ideologies of collectivism and central planning.

Here's the download link to the paper: "The distributional consequences of Bitcoin". (We need detailed rebuttals. Who's writing one?)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877


😂 I’m also just a man of flesh and blood


How so? 😄


I broke even in bitcoin terms


It’s hard to be bearish on Bitcoin right now, and eth/btc could have found some support


Just closed out my ETH/BTC short. It was mainly meant as a hedge in case of a big Bitcoin selloff, with the thought that ETH would crash harder. I probably broke even on the trade, having had to pay margin interest for about 6 months. https://image.nostr.build/bbd68f3d56b9727f4c3a1839e580b827bbb93425bd70578f239d796961d07c24.jpg


Antwerp: vignettes of stunning beauty, vignettes of active decay. The beauty wins, undoubtedly. https://image.nostr.build/b476dd9b95aab34085390c9093273df45827cf8cd3e8a17501afc2c90027e8cb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4943e5d5aedd46184fd51a394cafeb3f9476ab441c134d6948739b05665ec0ad.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b1d534abf8c473fc3da200b86d07a2e4f8c0db6e2ef00e06d39183add3d93f22.jpg https://image.nostr.build/161804865fdb334c4a51cfd624ef1e9ec66c83cc98d36318328f329010d37ba9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8c9998a15897c1be322544df06a65bec20eb2b52c7d474cc0c5f6d837452d37e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ab5dcb35fe309fcd5781c9747c8b6bee46facb6c103bc059e6aaaf34cd8c61e5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ceb9a0bb22bd32648ec75b165faafe6056b1b9ea01cb6f97c55d46961d054dc1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/36e4694d49724c1d5b2c8b78277a2f5eca3699dede76d5577e2851c3ccd55d73.jpg


Oh… 😊😊😊


Thank you! And thank you for yours! Seefhoek Vooruit 💪🦁


A few impressions of the _epic_ Bitcoin conference in Antwerp. https://image.nostr.build/28408ccd39668d7c22ed3f88e6cd1e37bee7825055e2d2dc6d7abcd50e9698f9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e9e27b51997982f5eae6541f199b55c209224edc5b0320f0c1a7df7f173201ae.jpg https://image.nostr.build/041d019c13c9db78f171b08fda623945eb96eb233a9add9b6e7cd216e15a6115.jpg https://image.nostr.build/09f80f22b776bfae0aee938be50771d3388e811b51f3b8b5f47759246f268bf4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/752d3969de14b1cb589c00df246d1d18af5c2c4e4281fe326452d50f68b96823.jpg


Fancy bookstore in medium size European city. The “Economics” section is wedged in between “diversity” and “ecology” and consists of 50% hardcore Marxist titles. NOT GOOD. Hopefully young folks are watching BitcoinTok instead. https://image.nostr.build/5f0d4b10890581e831517d4ab8dcb96e0e76f9d2a536b84db488f73dabdea693.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e18f3fc80a2e5a2b7f6d9f9a840f12be2e4b22af266768915c6a64817ce59e90.jpg


Thank you! My grandmother and mom were passionate about photography, I have a bit of the bug myself.


A zaccident.


We also visited historic Canterbury, even got to attend the vespers with an incredible choir in its famous cathedral 🙏🇬🇧⛪ https://image.nostr.build/c26e4cdd45be6ee7142772b8a77a8a3ef0f1d3e5cd65b57a86a70eb1cbb25352.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4089d2868ca06b9c125f070fa260d7b92910000b2da0eb824e8792ee32150acf.jpg https://image.nostr.build/66b62eeaa827e2da3c7fc44060ea066e38b6db31c2eb3a541b725037ed3743d5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5f2feb9dce71b2f4b064a81d90ba2bd6a13cac4dcfb9d6427ddc517e81d2fa23.jpg


Wonderful


That’s so cool 💪


if they lose your attention
they lose their power


I find it hard to judge. There’s so many people, strange cocktail of cultures. Eeriness. No concealed carry or even pepper spray allowed. Definitely feel a lot safer in Texas.


Hear hear!


Agreed, awesome historian


Arthur Hayes spitting truth: “But at the end of the day, if you're thinking about why now, why did BlackRock get in their ETF approval in six months and the Winkle Clowns couldn't get one in 10 years? Right? Live in New York. They're both billionaires, both very rich. Why weren't they given one and BlackRock was given one in six months? Well, at the end of the day, you want the same financial institutions to control the wealth that can ultimately be appropriated by the government at the flick of a switch. BlackRock is just another arm of the U.S. government, just the same as any other large Chinese asset managers in the arm of the Chinese government.”


Or rather… NOT GAY ENOUGH 😂


Paging nostr:npub1jfn4ghffz7uq7urllk6y4rle0yvz26800w4qfmn4dv0sr48rdz9qyzt047


It's fall 2024—the time has come to orangepill your heroes. The Zeitgeist has shifted and many are now ready to receive. By sending a kind bitcoin message to someone you admire, you're helping them be more effective in doing good. https://image.nostr.build/e9cd869352b7639a5261488f6010795770bd3ecd6339615b47392c7db0165e40.jpg


🧘♂ https://image.nostr.build/72a2d9f728882cb786776d577ac267ca2ed2a995f1bc9999cca2a05de744ed2c.jpg


😂 https://image.nostr.build/42514cb0755f8444a8948cd3bb1c9436a1945bd37b062611a57fba2cc15adadd.jpg


The first European to set foot on this island and settle a community was Willem Verhulst from Antwerp, doing so in 1624. https://image.nostr.build/8b8e0ff747082184c8007d7f779082b385750c87f00c87dea9c0659ad71aa7a4.jpg


I love America - and Texas 🤠 https://image.nostr.build/7df9ad61fe17060d95291ad0818ae3432348e09f9fb044365f1f9ea1bffe243f.jpg


😄 https://image.nostr.build/9a11415809dff54058be0a1899b7903bdd673596b7eb4877ea07d0a459fc2208.jpg


[𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎] 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐰𝐧
https://cdn.satellite.earth/2aae5ad3998900b4274d0ff079abd7b10e004e774fbee10f64d5f334a5cf4301.mov


from the movie finding money
https://v.nostr.build/KGnkg.mp4


Filmed in Austin, TX on 4/24/‘24


🎶 In the bright daylight
on a sprawling lawn,
A little squirrel digs
at the break of dawn.
With careful paws,
he hides his sats away,
"FurFunds," he calls them,
safe in their earthen tray. 🎶 https://video.nostr.build/0171514022fbddf95de2b273851358ff2f70b3349bd399c5a4513d981ed9c34e.mp4


It’s still early. We’re winning over many economists


Austrian School Revival — the meme wars are just getting started 😂 https://image.nostr.build/a9d1b2fedccb40e493bda1a17d98673f4ab8dc9840f5d008153e628e018bca6b.jpg


a week ago discovered nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl via nostr:npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2.

today switching to multisig.
https://m.primal.net/Htsy.png
https://m.primal.net/Httb.jpg


What’s next after a second passport? Making sure your wealth is transportable. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/2a85e1db7afe8a034f9851edeedaf51e23c672f5f7e0c5c8fa4463b578057732.jpg


my two sats #bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/HtUy.mov


Three fingers whiskey pleasures the drinkers
And moving does more than the same thing for me
Willy he tells me that doers and thinkers say movin' is a closest thing to being free
—Billy Joe Shavers


Oh wow… amazing lyrics indeed. I remember! Yeah his band mates have incredible voices too, crazy that they all lived but 30 mins from each other


I went to see Oliver Anthony here in Round Rock TX with my wife… Wonderful message and a voice like a bell. amazing performance, I’m so glad I went. https://image.nostr.build/97aadb2b78a7413db558f563aee30e1f5cb1f06d88d3d424d439430e9b4e2ef3.jpg https://video.nostr.build/21616b5550f0273436f994cc7629b1a5baa1bd7b80aa957d6344a6b0d7199553.mp4


Good points.


It’s still hard to believe sometimes that bitcoin is casually trading at these prices. https://image.nostr.build/3acf6fa3bae577ce63b395a98583dfe318bc1bf25b0c93ca68a09de6c03557a7.jpg


Let’s make war unaffordable again.

Study #bitcoin 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/38e820dfd659314531b613bd25a5406b7773204a7774bc1f8c989d60b72a006a.jpg


Amazing! I should have asked you about it in Riga 😄


I sympathize with your viewpoint. People who believe that libertarian principles are like the simple rules in a snake and ladders game indeed take on a sort of arrogance, which can lead them to justify manipulation of the use of force in the end. I’m with Van Dun that the most foundational “ought” that can be derived from an “is”, is that humans ought to be reasonable; and hence that reasonable argumentation is the bedrock of any peaceful, orderly, convivial society.


Are you behind this? … 👀 👀 https://image.nostr.build/0d79a5c7d1d15cc8fa3b34e5239352697bba40fcefa115f4f09f5cf35608aacb.jpg


Yeah… no thanks https://image.nostr.build/f8036c4951268398a3dd1dfde28a132f3a12d6e780b278987e7c62d973466abf.jpg


How does “don’t aggress”, “don’t steal” and “respect private property” devolve into fascism?


Huh? I’m reading Mussolini’s autobiography, and he was all about the so called “greater good” at the cost of individualism.


I miss a discussion of durability in your article. Personally I love technology and progress, as long as universal principles of sound architecture and engineering aren’t violated. Modularity, you know.


Bitcoin’s “Quantitative Hardening” in the Belgian Financial Times 💪 https://image.nostr.build/7dea1f313d17f3f1f631fd73f9fbfef19c0cdc1e3934dd66cef0f762545d29f0.jpg


I’ve learned a lot from Peter Todd over the years. Here’s a discussion of his NOSTR critique: nostr:note1vlmx62re8z8amsemx2x5haqdv3arptqykhlngramzec73pql5gusqwqqfk


(US politics) Does anyone else also feel that the Drudge Report has taken a turn to the left? I’ve been reading it for 15 years or so and used to feel that it was sensational but quite neutral in the left-right spectrum. The last 2 years I notice a change, with a lot more negative news focused on Trump vs Biden for example. What do you guys think? New owners perhaps?


Ha! Germany would have been my second guess. I thought Moscow for a second but then the grass seemed to green 😄


Fiat is an acid; a poison that weakens living creatures, that dissolves age old healthy membranes, and that slowly burns away all that is good in the world.

Bitcoin is a base; a benign soap that cleanses our wounds; a purifying water that restores life in society’s rivers; a miracle potion that helps us remember songs of truth and virtue.


(With the help of ChatGPT)


A Real Rap on Real Estate

In the dance of wealth, where truth and lies entwine,
Houses once stood, symbols of our design.
But beneath the surface, a truth concealed,
Fiat’s erosion, their fate was sealed.

Deluded buyers, blinded by the lie,
Houses crumble as the years fly by.
In this tale of shifting wealth and gain,
We find reflections of our human bane.

So let us heed this cautionary verse,
As Bitcoin’s rise calls for a reverse.
For in its wake, a shift is seen,
To sound construction, long unseen.

Classical architecture, born anew,
Guiding hands, patient, steady, true.
No longer hasty, this time with care,
Building legacies beyond compare.

For in the ever-changing dance of fate,
Bitcoin restores, it does not abate.
It’s not just wealth, but values that await,
In stone we build, our legacy, innate.


But also with constant subsidies, which is why it became so popular


Bitcoin is demonetizing real estate. A lot of “invoosters” chomping at the bit to “buy the dip” in real estate are going to get burnt badly. It’s for the most part essentially a shitcoin, just one that’s slightly less shitty than the dollar.


The UK?


“I don’t judge buidlers” https://image.nostr.build/bf8556384fad835566b3af34ebe3fa5d76d2662ae832170c300404778ca840e7.jpg


Stations of the cross , ATX style https://image.nostr.build/84a276446bba7ee08e0cab6e1d24d2747743226231d4efc18d41172db6a8922e.jpg


Symmetry in nature, spotted in Austin today. (The pigeon on the right is about to disturb the pattern.) https://image.nostr.build/46032f1a9928305b138509bdcfa5e50477f1737f7b9551db8a63835d41ecb68e.jpg


Pretty damn good!


Building Culture - Austin Tunnell


Austin Tunnell


COIIIIIIIINBAAAAAAAASE *shakes fist*

https://image.nostr.build/498b1df05b787d386b71573e215c49d214395b7836095d3da8215c4e8b814440.jpg


We forgot to buy vinegar while traveling, and my wife remembered that meat can also be marinated with coffee grounds. We tried, and the skirt steak came out great!


The industry with most desirable goods of its era gets to deliver the power brokers of the world. That’s why we had oil barons, Wall Street titans, and now tech moguls. Most likely, the next generation of global power brokers will emerge from the #bitcoin ecosystem.


To claim you feel hesitant about #bitcoin because its price is volatile, is tantamount to saying that you are a conformist on the topic: "I have mixed feelings about bitcoin because others have mixed feelings about it". And that's okay of course.


Milei Smells Like Teen Spirit https://image.nostr.build/41cdb04d73ff1bdc4d8a87985044e9420703d1187d20cef121d5c1a0dd8ca2ca.jpg


I thought balls 😂


Awesome! Thanks for sharing that Jonathan


Bitcoin Beggars have the biggest… https://image.nostr.build/4baf981f983bbd6b7ed2ebb38359ab71f9f945ad5793de080a2f673a59b5ed18.jpg


Nice!


Be like Bono 💪
(Me too I started as an activist, even pursued a bachelor in African Studies at University) https://image.nostr.build/f6c09b127be513d79ca828f947e1d883070fdd206a587c2ef9ae6e23fb897fa1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c4b958b0ca8aff5504cf6c0a70716e43b3a6153f288273dc8381c2b5e25aadc8.jpg


The SEC 2FA blunder is an early example of how old world institutions who do not respect the cypherpunk toolbox will lose reputation, money, and eventually sociopolitical relevance, one loss event at a time.
No more double standards. In a bitcoin world, it's adapt or die. https://image.nostr.build/ef0733bfca19a46e0edcebb9dbaf0367a36b38c3f65563d14f2e92f997928c17.jpg


Just another day at the SEC https://image.nostr.build/8c1f44247207dd8034dcea2ab1ac37ff809271fa462f7e774bb39659501b7a4b.jpg


Happy New Year everyone! I’m incredibly grateful for the thrilling progress we’re making in advancing Truth in this World. The Bitcoin Moon waxes and the Lighthouse of Liberty casts its rays in the dark night, farther than ever before. I couldn’t be more excited for 2024. 🙏😊✌


I was joking 😄


Here’s the Tax ID: https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/4575336


Amazing, thank you so much!


Touché 😄


A call to crypto flippers

Whether or not there is another “alt season”, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your life’s energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/“invoosting”, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin front—we have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.

You see we’re approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that years’ long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.

I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse control—I struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.

But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.

I’m just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. I’m here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.

So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one you’ve been telling yourself you don’t need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.

We’re all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.

Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. You’ll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that you’d forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of “not having enough” head on, you’ll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and you’ll start to feel happier than you’ve ever been.

Help yourself, you’re worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that “meh…” or eye rolling part of you, that’s not all of you, that’s not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you can’t feel it, it doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there for you, but just that there’s clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.

So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!


Yes it is


Behold the generation
From hyperbitcoinization;
Born from zoomers
Here are the Bitty Boomers. https://image.nostr.build/befff11111af94cfb262d8a52130f63e52182a97fe36e3056337aad356c57cc4.jpg


Love it!


Hyperbitcoinization will lead to a new baby boom, I believe it. Just like after WWII, it’ll come from people celebrating the restoration of a future for themselves and for humanity.


Papier hier! 😂


Perhaps a reunification of NL & Flanders is not a bad idea. It used to be one country after all. Dreaming out loud: A Dutch speaking federated republic, with Swiss style direct democracy, New England style jury trials, Swedish style free speech, and Milei style tax minimalism, at the dawn of the Bitcoin Reformation.

Dutch world class entrepreneurship and Flanders’ rich intellectual tradition… could be a killer combo if brought together in the spirit of tolerance and libertarian small government. https://image.nostr.build/efb7de898b72d0162ee9c3b6ffd493e0284121db699f6f4a3c85f24f9bc97cbb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b42241ce2eb73779d1b556b52d3e4e2a9d3f48ce0321e9bc560b6557d25f1933.jpg


Fahrenheit, yes. Regular Amazon one


So last night, on a whim, I seasoned a frozen thick cut steak, then put it in our dehydrator at 160° until morning (8hrs). It came out perfect: juicy within, lightly roasted outside. I’ll do this now often, it’s an instant breakfast requiring only 1 minute prep. Works with frozen burgers and such too, but they come out a bit drier.


Pretty much everything Alex Jones said in his Tucker interview 😄


I love that! Dank om dit te delen :-)


“That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
—Tennyson


Holy shit that’s great - just printed the article


I haven’t heard it, but yeah surely interesting. I know one of the Epstein survivors personally so I’ve been following this for several years.
Martyr Made’s series on Jonestown was fantastic.


The latest in economic ingenuity from Canadistan https://image.nostr.build/b8cbb4e2fcf3f132b30f7adde805e461354a285668fd4980610548dd33e9e278.jpg


nostr:npub1jfn4ghffz7uq7urllk6y4rle0yvz26800w4qfmn4dv0sr48rdz9qyzt047 is a bitcoiner


My most listened to podcasts in 2023 https://image.nostr.build/42c8c4a7ec27c2fd765228539f07f761ab329ecf648465370553072755200b45.jpg


Probably pretty easy to deploy one on Nostr too


I followed it for a while and I’m pretty sure the responses are llm generated


This account is a bot that targets bitcoiners. It is highly responsive and its replies seem AI generated. More sophisticated than anything I’ve seen. Honeypot? https://image.nostr.build/e984c5ae7620e7e039b8ed2aeead13a891950ee3d8850e0a347f0a54614af5b3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cffa194cce1aec2d3ec3267bfda11df83f67dc55713fb1b924d26baa0b9eacdf.jpg https://image.nostr.build/07a0d1cd51e9693536b4af175dbcadc5a0816b0eb44cf664f1399edb98bfb97f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9b82de3accec0cc85e240c38bca79958e6ce9f48ef19639d9c3b35a35a47b0fb.jpg


Hayek dreaming of better money https://image.nostr.build/5e66c03b73031a33295dc8b50e222d948f9760d5112ef5d66cad405a3087df55.jpg


The latest speech from Milei. Powerful stuff. https://video.nostr.build/426f24d9b2667936a62ab50b1b1fc6c8c278b66db938b215f5c9dba68f68f324.mp4


Explaining bitcoin to a Wall Street investor feels like explaining the petroleum industry to Captain Ahab. https://image.nostr.build/25601be400d2a0da6e74ab3a37afd129e6f9adad92e52bb1b1515d80bb942168.jpg


Haha yes - that’s a little sculpture my parents bought for me when I was a 10yo kid and we were traveling through Poland.


Added a new little sculpture to my collection today. The seller called it “the nerd” (pictured on the left). The piece is dated 2002 by one C.Smith. I love that it was made in that year because it means the artist was clearly inspired by the news of the internet boom and bust. His little beau tie is adorable, and also the rest of his style fits the era really well: receding hairline and neck carpet, heavy set glasses and tucked in shirt 😊. The pencil to me symbolizes the transition from the paper-and-fax culture to the new all digital world. A little piece of history! https://image.nostr.build/f90f43bdc998e9c483a6da2dbfad7e918be3ce93dde9328a6ffac3d33b36c127.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2b291a493d50bfa7785846296299279c62815eae5207117ee35f99e67195464e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cb259bdb57530e06ab5adf1c7a065ac9be2c2a47e977b5650e23815005bd52fb.jpg


Who is a musical artist currently alive whose dynamism and creativity, in your opinion, most closely approaches that of David Bowie?


I nickname it “anxiety radio” - sometimes I feel like hearing what stories are floating around there


SMH at a discussion on public radio about Asian Americans and higher education, all trying so hard to avoid the word “IQ”… 🤐


I’ll be writing about that, long form. Nostr isn’t the right format.


Fulfilled *and* at peace


Fair point! I want to get to a place where I feel fulfilled at peace, whether I read the news or not.

I hope things don’t get as crazy as I describe them, but I want to be prepared for a scenario where they do.


The world is pretty crazy now. And that’s with inflation at just 20% in the West. What will it be like when inflation hits 50%, 80%, 150%?

That’s why I invest most of my time in building mental resiliency. I want my mind and body to be ready for a world where the crazy gets cranked up to eleven, combining the worst of the 1930s, 1940s, and the 1980s.


Yep, her pseudonym fit these books is Robert Galbraith


JK Rowling is such a great writer… from her first Strike detective novel:

“He took the train out to Canning Town station. It was overlooked by Canary Wharf, whose sleek, futuristic buildings resembled a series of gleaming metal blocks on the horizon; their size, like that of the National debt, impossible to gauge from such a distance.”


It’s not enough, but it’s important.


Not the onion… 🇨🇦💩
Surreal story in 4 pictures https://image.nostr.build/0889dddeb4e9fa57ede9fee15504efd3103ee384051a669dad8083d1e782cdd2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/69d5128ac88f002a37e41ef6c354f624fc6d92990c5d0d69456c56e782f255e4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c0eb85a49a9cd9a1519ff052127f4674535c3394e82895fea837e530800a7626.jpg https://image.nostr.build/978c0aab36ff810b70e228c9640635c6d5f731cf79847d986d9fdff40a6019e7.jpg


In bitcoin, the miners and startups, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of pleb hodlers. Sovereign node running is an immune function that prevents that.

In politics, the government, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of productive citizens. Sovereign individuals owning firearms is an immune function that helps prevent that.


Interesting, Damus doesn’t seem to have that yet https://image.nostr.build/939ca9381241c711ebb697a5718061e24549b377ec1026527466fa4501aec803.jpg


How does one request deletion?


Bitcoin up 40% for the month. So much energy coiled up during the bear market. Weak hand selling exhausted, causing supply to dry up. https://image.nostr.build/8be4b2476d60687c444d0cfd16e73e810264e0b52cfc8489ea54740165629541.jpg


“What if we had a genuine initiation ritual for newly minted maxi’s… a passing rite that affirms your exit from the old, rotten fiat paradigm and your subsequent entry into satoshi’s judicious universe; a transformation symbolized by your face seemingly moving through a portal. I get excited just thinking about it!“ #circlebearding https://image.nostr.build/3e92c7ec335bde25094b6d04f5caf440446df4b6a3aeea02755caa03370ecf82.jpg


Brutal- and true


We all know this feel. https://image.nostr.build/0e560e9eafcd5b92c5e25b39fbc58b0e53e463f09026cb64d0d3a7277ec5b440.jpg


“Take this, dear heart! she said, and thrust a small crystal phial, glittering with the radiance of Eärendil’s star, into his hand. ‘In this phial,’ she said, ‘is caught the light of Eärendil’s star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places when all other lights go out.’” https://image.nostr.build/e444de4174ba24d73e249ee1996a7324664e8ca5f6e9aae2403eec37a56f1e47.jpg


Thanks for the tip!


The Ozric Tentacles just dropped a new album! It’s amazing, really trippy and energetic. The band was founded in 1983 by two brothers, one of them died in 1999. The father was a famous sculptor in the UK, friends with Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, etc. #PsychedelicRock
https://open.spotify.com/album/058fujhOImFn47bQgl1u4Y?si=QA8BHR-rS02tIbWuXvTm-Q https://image.nostr.build/6ffe54914b34aac0cb174204722da064cb9ace8216ac7a5bfa371d0d69145b2e.jpg


humility > “connections”


Doodle from 2020. The 5 BTC buys you 3 years now. https://image.nostr.build/fd190b84cb306f461e2f4579bf90c97ca810ddf72f7714231b4b5a2c5551d789.jpg


"People are just not accustomed to excellence. When you go to school, you're not given the criteria by which to judge between quality this or quality that. All they do is teach you just enough to be some kind of a slug in a factory to do your job, so you can take home a paycheck and consume some other stuff that somebody else makes. There's no emphasis in schools in the United States put on preparing people to live a life that has beautiful things in it. You know, things that might bring them aesthetic enrichment. That is not a major consideration."

— Frank Zappa


Verbatim, just now:

Wife: How are you doing Mr. Scrolly Mc Scroll Pants?

T: I’m going to log out of Twitter soon

Wife: Is it an anger factory full of angry people?

A: Yes!  😂


My dad fired his first bullets this week. Commanding a firearm has such an immediate effect on people, I think because it viscerally conveys to the handler how it really has the power to level the playing field. Proud of him! https://image.nostr.build/eef8a910bc2407fc3dff8f66dc295f58daf9777bd6e462471f57728c1992aaa6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6afac4e168047a88d79a78114604fc21dd06f1efcfc5654bb6d76d7442c07012.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5a46d64d81e7e751f7adce1aab7e9e68af8bc2f44082055888c7bc641f595942.jpg


Ha and just today I saw one in the wild https://image.nostr.build/9be711eb87c3350c9217a53e16a89423cec5386373efc07e09819fafc8d7aedc.jpg


You’re free to unfollow me! I assure you I’m not unhappy 😄


The unacknowledged fear of (ego)death causes people to do the stupidest, most destructive things. To create a truly peaceful society, we all must learn to accept our mortality and fallibility one way or another.


Communists and socialists can be really nice people, courageous too. Yet that doesn’t make their ideas any less dangerous.


Seen at Buc-ee’s, Bastrop TX https://image.nostr.build/856575d9377974c540df855d18b7ead83567d7ce62189a58704f245838496bad.jpg


New ATH for #Bitcoin in Argentina 🔥 https://image.nostr.build/ecaec09a29456a4f6bf2ace6652da749d0de0f30310be988e758c3a47e9c3fd6.jpg


I laughed incredibly hard like at least twice a week while scrolling/posting on X. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single thing that I laughed at. I have no core memories of any of those experiences. Something's wrong with that. It's like....I was there experiencing it....but it wasn't real. Like my brain didn't even process it. It was just another hit of the dopamine drip. I can say the same thing about swiping through Tik Tok videos...even the next day, I don't remember any of them. I think this is a big problem for society and especially kids today......😟


ETH/BTC hopium. I’m not smoking it, though a dead cat bounce is always possible of course. https://image.nostr.build/cfa47764cb8dac1b69e4b31e6c328e5729aa10d0abdce9f5c75cbba8fa2d6b8c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/06868eadf0d83e94e71c796f917ca467878051ec5e844580621eec99b0726511.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6656a189d84a8dbb307d62cf9fc8f8229c9b9b9559da2d61ab940215cbd35006.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d6fedf63384139211b599362166297e74c51c608219d2ed56ef8321fb9e12b08.jpg


Thanks MTC!


Make invasion of lands less profitable by encouraging bitcoin adoption instead.


I’m flying by the seat of my pants here, but it’s what I believe is true. High time preference / opportunism manifests in all kinds of ways.


Ethereum whales don’t have Diamond Hands… they have Sweaty Hands.

Wondering when they should best offload their bags in order to
- pay for the lawsuits brought on by people they duped
- pay the variable mortgage on that massively overvalued property
- pay for their ex who divorced them

Etc, etc. Ultra. Sweaty. Hands.
(I’m still short ETH/BTC)


Wow - can’t wait to get my hands on some 😂 https://image.nostr.build/a8a66ca132c0c0690186e0e18c6ccd1be7893bd6d0e85f4bec1861a7587a1554.png


No Ethereum, this doesn’t mean “it’s still so early”.

You’ve had a go at it, I get it that you really wanted to try. It made a bunch of your early founders bitcoin rich.

Now it’s time to pack your stuff and go home. https://image.nostr.build/094f0ac5a80faf1e938f4eb1538e2942e3c4a232a4516b1d090391b5d562638e.png


The 2015-‘17 block size war in a nutshell.

Big blockers want to increase capacity regardless of security and centralization concerns.

(Cartoon is from New Yorker Magazine, 1920s) https://image.nostr.build/175d2ba4872c17701181eced1055e7bf901fc8b855e877b8765cab52c5c1945e.jpg


I’m not endorsing the Israel government


Not just that, the format/context also doesn’t lend itself to particular types of thought sharing


Grateful for your responses to my post from last night. I’m learning a few things:
- Israel-Palestine is super complex and understandably a sensitive topic
- Social media is not a good platform for me to share short burst ideas about complicated matters like this

Two things I would like to clarify:
- I wasn’t trying to justify Israeli government policy or military actions.
- I have a lot of empathy for suffering on the Muslim side of this conflict, too.


Be direct please, I don’t appreciate passive aggression


The situation that the Jewish people are in, including some bitcoiners that I respect, has been on my mind lately.

No doubt I’ll comment on it more, but for now I wanted to offer my deep sympathy in the form of sharing an anthem I grew up with, “The Flemish Lion”. Both in this song and in the recent personal updates I see determination and fierce courage in the face of gruesome brutality. I keep re-reading in particular verse IV.

Here goes the translation:

The Flemish Lion

They shall not tame him, the proud Flemish Lion,
Even if they threaten his freedom with chains and shouts.
They shall not tame him, as long as a Fleming lives,
As long as the Lion can claw, as long as he has teeth.

Chorus:
They shall not tame him,
as long as a Fleming lives,
As long as the Lion can claw,
as long as he has teeth.

II
Time devours cities, no thrones remain standing:
The armies may fall, but a people shall never perish.
The enemy marches to the battlefield, surrounded by mortal danger.
We laugh at his fury, the Flemish Lion is there!

III
He has been fighting for a thousand years for freedom, land, and God;
And still, his strength remains in all its youthful delight.
When they think him powerless and provoke him with a kick,
Then he rises threateningly and frightful before them.

IV
Woe to the thoughtless one, false and full of betrayal,
Who comes to caress the Flemish Lion and treacherously strikes him.
Not a single movement of his escapes their watchful eye:
And if he feels wounded, he shows his might and roars.

V
The signal for revenge has been given, he is tired of their provocation;
With fire in his eyes, with anger, he springs at the enemy.
He tears, destroys, crushes, covered in blood and muck,
And triumphantly grins at the enemy's quivering corpse. https://image.nostr.build/a29cdb29859496847a4a2a0ead8ff778adad53b281199827999d237b8153cb54.png


ETH/BTC https://image.nostr.build/d66690c447b04651fad076c8ff858a8f63bac395c2e4a38fd734add1979522ff.jpg


The importance of the Right to Bear Arms has mainly to do with how strong of a deterrent they are.

The vast majority of defensive gun usages end without any bullets fired, even less so assailants getting injured. Of the 1-3 million defensive gun usages per year, 79% take place on the defender’s own property, and in less than 20% of the cases, a gun is actually fired.

Once the bully sees the stakes are not in his favor, he prefers non-violence. As illustrated by this Ronnie Coleman clip: https://video.nostr.build/7a01d9b99bbcae08b257bd4d5bf347cd04fbb3dfd8332c6131e27828fef60945.mov


It’s hard.


The challenge with people who hate living in reality is that they are usually keen on forcing me to live inside of their fantasy. “Crazy” and “tolerant” don’t rhyme. https://image.nostr.build/9e03244e7a8cc0c65360676b152ccc34540041342e98cef0b2880d8a7260d5dd.jpg


*strong*


Imo all addiction stems from avoiding feeling your feelings, because you believe you’re not strong enough to handle them.

A cold plunge forces you to feel your feelings and thereby reminds you how string you really are. https://image.nostr.build/d5384fcb5746bbe53e853fcf07c64a4564469db71d2d445181235090f19570e7.jpg


M for Mayhem? ETH/BTC https://image.nostr.build/01b400baf0241edaea186488efbabc026abc868c667357d68bcc05ce8251c20c.jpg


Stockholm Syndrome is real. https://image.nostr.build/2633ba07a73c95ee040a4f1ca8cfbb3b95fe8843f27c0d56c247f7c294e57f8f.jpg


Bitcoin Amsterdam was wonderful, I’m so glad I came. https://image.nostr.build/28cf45812e356fc4864cb619a47df27a689dd2d85f58da7590ae6d7ef6f51056.jpg https://image.nostr.build/af0657e12aa7f8178f9c68f99baadcb400508040e326cc8f7ebd0f4f201350df.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ca007806f50a76f8e9259df18df03f250afcc011f1aaccb8cdea2618f0a96f99.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2d8c4da0bb15f99f54a0386689112408adf681b264ca88b575d0c5726613ed0d.jpg


“We’re switching to proof-of-stake” https://video.nostr.build/2fba9c57dd5899e00be859d0083c63b4ff9b42defa0d70cb6d406973a4563cf5.mov


Awkwardly appropriate: my Airbnb landlord here in Amsterdam lost a painfully large amount of money investing in shitcoins, is not attending the bitcoin conference. “It’s over for crypto… maybe not for bitcoin… but I’m done…” he said with a grimace.


In which case, feel free to chase me down on Friday. I should be around, doing a session with Nolan, too, aside from the Nakamoto stage sovereignty panel.


“Oh, you think rain is your ally. But you merely adopted the rain; I was born in it, moulded by it.” 😉🇧🇪


Would be great - I’m also doing a meetup on Thursday night


Driving through Houston on my way to Amsterdam. Stoked to see old friends and make new ones. I should be at the conference tomorrow! https://image.nostr.build/d874777cc124bcfdcf2b207a34d651341b90d8eda6134fc87be94e1e5975cdd3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a62ad845283de6ef2018179e808726e0998e31120c1f53827ced4f570eae563c.jpg


Thrilled to launch The Bitcoin Frontier Podcast!

In Episode 01, nostr:npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2 and I discussed the global #bitcoin fever as it appears to approach a pivotal moment.

Go listen to the first episode and subscribe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnSGR_hq8aU https://image.nostr.build/c94abcc47d7f44000935429326d51e8d40a0adaa1775bcfa3e96d2dd5ba5eda0.jpg


Yeah the media is very politically colored and people don’t realize it because it’s all around them and the ideology is also taught in the schools.


Dank — tot een volgende keer! 💪


I learned a lesson about the effects of a mainstream media diet… My parents are from Belgium and read the newspaper every day. They had NEVER heard of Joe Rogan and didn’t recognize his picture either 😄


Re: Israel-Hamas — I find myself tempted to write emotional tweets with simple proposed solutions. I think it’s mainly my brain trying to deal with feeling helpless.


Zeker weten! See you there 🙌


Voor Vlamingen (okay ook Nederlanders😉) die volgende week in Amsterdam zijn: ik organiseer een informele hangout op donderdagavond. Wees welkom!

https://meetu.ps/e/MywWb/Btg3N/i


Some countries have low daily volatility and high tail risk, such as Germany, Chile and Taiwan.

Other countries have high daily volatility and high tail risk, such as Myanmar.

Yet other countries have high daily volatility and low(er) tail risk, such as the United States.

Low volatility and low tail risk? Switzerland comes to mind.


Do not underestimate the scarcity of #Bitcoin
https://youtube.com/shorts/2K7abiz-QTg


Curious about the context of this quote. That’s Sartre, right?


That’s assuming lightning will be the only second layer stack around…


Let’s be honest:

On the bitcoin standard, there’s no guarantee that a custodian won’t fail spectacularly every few years.

And on the fiat standard, there’s no guarantee that the system won’t burn to the ground every few decades.


Who is the Chinese emigrant equivalent of Ayn Rand? Is there anyone who qualifies in terms of free market ideas?


Never too young to learn about socialism 😄 https://video.nostr.build/e3c80ebedd6b08c6f491adff7a8e0b623583d974ec5f17b10aca698d8963d728.mov


The Economist today.
Headlines like these used to be unthinkable. Impossible.
Now here we are.
Bitcoin did this, we did this. https://image.nostr.build/eaa68b33587b11547d02925387fcb3981ef3834dd005d449055e2924cf008a79.jpg https://image.nostr.build/01afae4f31a7cc3f6c640014ea331602e0465a3dfa5550e2a169784f8419b21d.jpg


I was last week, road trip


The Land Run Monument in Oklahoma City is super impressive. All the more so since it was inaugurated as recently as 2006. Fascinating piece of history, too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rush_of_1889 https://image.nostr.build/44e61e5bc97434b560548e5105f7ef95ba7c6464d6d5bbaeff7d8cb199e3772f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3fce6cac1df203a19be5586189210f7f7385f7e29464e09dce67ba0313956b55.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5802c0f724b57a772774ffd9b8f9f274aa5dfb82acb87d5451ee247643507c39.jpg https://image.nostr.build/30790a9ac32f89e41c8f0d790f2b9bf3794e63e704a79d3788e03caf88bf9aad.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1ea93da752796d5005ac14a1939dc43963a8989a1a870d8717a69bbaddeb4c97.jpg


Restaurant “Chez Fiat” https://image.nostr.build/a98a373071b5dd85423e0df803d690909cccbc6fc7cea891cd3ecf30d61c3450.jpg


Study the history of toll roads in Great Britain 💪


Ah! Thank you


It sure is. In which case they are not educated (or dishonest) about the historical track record of entrepreneurs building the roads (e.g. the UK) and railroad infrastructure with nothing but private funds until the government swooped in to monopolize the business.


The tucker - milei interview from 2 weeks ago on X


Like how feeding grain to pigs makes them fat and immobile, the fiat faucet leads to morbid obesity in governments. Via the fiat mechanism they leech energy from their host (the productive class) until it eventually succumbs.

Bitcoin is life saving medicine because it thwarts fiat parasitism, thereby pushing out of control government gigantism into remission until it shrinks back to the equivalent of a survivable cancerous growth.


My wife has been a libertarian from before we ever met. We just watched the Milei interview together. She was very moved to see someone who is running for President of Argentina articulate these important ideas so clearly (as if explaining it to a child) and sincerely.
She especially appreciated the part where he explained how the Social Justice ideology violates equality before the law — which highlights the irony that in order to achieve its faux social equality it destroys actual judicial equality.


Very close to this https://image.nostr.build/448719f367872d335b6b2480237e4cb0eb3c8ad26f8149510f2d1934437f4197.jpg


Haha I also spotted this in the supermarket today https://image.nostr.build/9343722e6848091cf276dc1bc13d0d0e94902d480aa348be3ebdf96af2c29a3a.jpg


Statists and central planners take for granted that 99% of the internet is privately funded, yet cannot fathom how highway ands railroad networks could ever function without government largesse.


Eureka Springs, AK
#OliverAnthony https://image.nostr.build/5e7767edcfb7b76b532d6aec091243ee2f1af6dff79793262f1b9c9fbe7439d0.jpg


He goes on:

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.
You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.

https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html


“Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards.” — Bill Watterson (of Calvin and Hobbes fame)


Oklahoma City, at this property in particular. https://www.paradeofhomesok.com/builders/building-culture-design-build-llc Really amazing to see a newly built home where the walls are solid brick. Marriage of Utility, Durability, and Beauty.


Close! It’s his pupil, Austin Tunnell, who runs Building Culture out of OK City


Guess where I was today ☺
#structuralmasonry https://image.nostr.build/a3e8bb9e3bacd371f8910c8fb35f14c3a612877501dd2541bd0f596a83ab4fea.jpg


"The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." -Thucydides


If there’s an app that would allow me to easily publish on both I’d be happy to do it. I’m currently on Twitter hiatus, not posting anything there.


As obsessively we listen to music and watch movies today, before 1930 people read poetry and read novels.

Seeking to learn what was in people’s hearts and heads in times’ past, on my last Belgium trip I bought more poetry bundles and writings by and about novelists.


Self Sovereign Identity: There Is No Free Lunch?

It seems that any kind of self sovereign identity (SSI) verification mechanism must involve effort on the part of the user— because the lower the effort required, the easier it is to game. This effort—inherent friction—will be a challenge to adoption.

SSI’s necessary verification effort can be compensated for by making it worthwhile for the user; by making the SSI, once acquired, powerful and multifunctional. However, that in turn makes identity theft more profitable.

Unless I’m missing something, there seems to be no escape here.

Social recovery is often mentioned as a way to harden SSI. But if not done in the meatspace this can be subject to man-in-the-middle attacks. And eventually, as people’s bodies get more integrated with digital hardware (a la neuralink), the advantage of meatspace verification will diminish.

I’m not saying Self Sovereign Identity isn’t a worthy goal to pursue, just trying to identify what fundamental challenges we will be facing as this technology is rolled out.

Thoughts?


New Communist Food Delivery Service Just Delivers You Empty Containers Then Shoots You

Mr. Castro said he was inspired to start "Red Apron" after hearing so many Americans praise the incredible riches of Communist Cuba. "It fills me with joy to hear Americans want to experience a little slice of Communist life," he said as he loaded his pistol. "We here at Red Apron allow everyone to get a taste of what total equality is really like. You pay for the basic subscription, you starve, and go to the Gulag. Do you want a premium subscription? Starvation and gulag. Let's go spread some equality, boys!" https://image.nostr.build/ee4beab656fb78edb7a9437603e0c5a2db267b39fbcdee9a6f6dee6934ddd6cf.jpg


Did I say that? Sounds like I could have 😄


“The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.”
—Ludwig von Mises


Toon from the fourties https://image.nostr.build/6a1ba09c336574a9642a3707e9e3b7b312713a19609f07978ca177e81a636994.jpg


Am halfway the first episode - intrigued!


Thanks SN - I started following you on Spotify https://image.nostr.build/feea56d0995328f6f4938f7ad5e9442774894a1f0127c409e65548ef7dc04aaf.jpg


Aw! 😊


Wonderful! Thanks for sharing that Branden. Helps me place him and better appreciate


I had to do a double take finding it it came out in 2015, really felt like a classic from the early nineties to me. Also the lyrics really hit home…

I’ll check out their other stuff soon!


I’ve had this song on repeat all day… love it so much ✌

JJ Grey & Mofro - “Every Minute” (2015)

https://open.spotify.com/track/4sIC8rHh2UIV6lmDJZRBZY?si=BPk3n6QFRS6fn5cG1wln2g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A7dLGoIIyQ4dlFw5KHz4Xw8

I tried so hard to be the person
Everybody thought I was
I pushed myself and everyone
Almost over the edge
This mirrored light that sends back
Everything that you send out
The grace you give, given back
Loving every minute you live

Feels so good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living
So good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living

The evil deeds that we do
Screaming from the headline
Can't stop to read, or to watch
'Cause I ain't got the patience or time
To live a life of despair
To live by another man's word
It's always been in your hands
To live the life you want while you're here

Feels so good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living
So good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living

I don't care, what you say to me
Everywhere beauty is all I see
And it don't make a damn
'Cause there ain't nothing to take from me
I'm loving every minute
I'm loving every minute I'm free

So good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living
It's so good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute I'm living
Good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute I'm living
Good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute I'm living

Loving every minute
Loving every minute I'm free


LOL 😂


Now we know why Jacob of Israel had 12 sons 😄 nostr:note1k66r29gg932drd6pu2cmtun08jt3nu7zz0srz7flq2gndqshumuqg4zu0k


Me too! My experience was mixed.


The entrance to the school I went to for kindergarten and elementary. Built in 1930, it still had nuns volunteering when I went there. https://image.nostr.build/7147e2e98bb810309e15cbe847c8779b4199a836d86b6ebcbef2f11031fa87ff.jpg


Talking to a friend entrepreneur, it really does appear to be a shortage of skilled labor. Or: a glut of unskilled people in working age. In other words, the service economy is starting to crumble, with needs shifting to the primary industries of fuel, food, basic living requirements.


Everyone in Belgium is talking about labor shortages. Is this a universal phenomenon?
I suspect that what’s really happening is inflation:
=> Higher input costs for biz + higher cost of living
=> biz can’t offer wages that make economic sense for workers.


Heuristic:
In a bookstore for new books you’ll find the stories people want to believe — in a used bookstore you’ll find the stories people want to forget.


Memento mori


Any ice bathers on Nostr? I’m curious about people’s experience with longer plunges. I did 30 minutes in 50 degrees (10C) a few days ago and found it to be deeply meditative. Took me a small hour to warm up after.


One interesting part of nostr right now is that the “twitter block” feature does not exist.

Will it ever be possible to selectively block people on nostr from viewing your feed or respond to your posts?