Can one be an advocate for maintaining the strength and might of the U.S. dollar, as well as Bitcoin?
If Bitcoin is inevitable, so to is the obliteration of fiat currencies (at least in their current form) https://i.nostr.build/JEORh3oOROZdZTQv.jpg
Everyone and their mother is going to say they’re doing a bitcoin strategic reserve.
Be warned, many of them are grifters and bankrupt companies with absolutely no strategy, or capital, to even begin this journey. Quick pump and dump scheme.
About 5% are going to be super legit and follow the MSTR playbook + execution.
Stack sats and stay humble
Say what you will about the bluesky community or what have you.
But the UX and experience as social media is slick AF. Actually, it’s quite fun—the community finding as well. They’ve ballooned in users, including those more open, and less toxic, to Bitcoin! The experience absolutely, from a technical, design, and community aspect, beats X on every level.
Now, I think there’s no reason they couldn’t build on top of nostr. As they continue to get more decentralized, it’ll be interested to see how this all plays out in the land of post mega-corp, centralized social media.
#newdadlife day 3
Just got home from the hospital yesterday. Winnie loves her little sister, but hates her crying with a passion 😂
Lack of sleep since Thursday night reallyyyy starting to hit. But life is all pura vida #nostr 🤙🏻 https://i.nostr.build/fzkNtvwhZg6BeWsj.jpg
Fatherhood is a trip. Seeing your partner be a literal warrior and seeing your child literally emerge earth-side is an indescribable and beautiful thing.
There just aren’t words to describe what all this is. Love doesn’t sum up what I feel for my daughter. It feels inadequate, but that’s the best I can come up with. Unconditional, eternal love.
Today is my birthday and also just so happened to be the day we welcomed our firstborn into the world.
Two weeks early, must’ve been last night’s full moon.
This was the most magical and amazing day. That’s all for now, #nostr 🥹
Bitcoin strategic reserves for governments are cool and all.
But what will it do for the people? Those plans are more interesting to me as a progressive
And you’ll get more progressives onboard
Yup. Store of value and rainy day funds are great! Particularly in a state context, many states are debt free and with rainy day funds.
Dividends to citizens? Tax credits for working families? Infrastructure? Boost to healthcare, benefits systems?
All could greatly benefit from a bitcoin static reserve or mining strategy…
There needs to be specific “get verified” instructions in onboarding to nostr
Imaging a newb, a journalist, a media outlet, etc coming on and then everyone in the community is like “gotta get verified, I can help!”
Immediately they’re like huh? Just have instructions be in the welcome to the client, with steps to do it yourself or recs to a service to use.
Please note the date! Point being, he said this then and it’s interesting. I imagine he still feels this way.
Don’t imagine it’ll happen, still significant swamp in Trump’s cabinet/world to influence him…but interesting nonetheless.
Real question is, what do Don Jr and Vance feel? nostr:note1920cdqxwhccrnry477jkw4yxhytpm8qe7wx7qa3ch9aht57ygdlsmecykz
Matt Gaetz is a pretty gross and weird dude imo, plus the unwavering Trump support. Yeah…anyway! In the spirit of open-mindedness, it could also be a signal of moving away from corporate bullshit in the appointment. I mean I’m not really buying it but this article states the following for us to consider
https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-left-should-welcome-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general/
The charges were dropped…
But he was at the parties with them and had people pay on his behalf, while also boasting to members of Congress about his ED drugs he would take to “last all night” with them
Hey yo @Snowden if you’re out there, what do you think about Tulsi Gabbard heading up National Intelligence?
Wouldn’t she just like…dissolve it? Lol. I’d think she’d be against the very essence of a lot of what it does in the world.
Let’s be honest, this is the conversation we all want to hear 😂
“Listen, Joe. It was a bonafide coup. I mean, look at me, I’m in my prime! Watch I’ll do 100 pushups right now. Jamie help me move these chairs will ya.”
“Mr President that won’t be necessary, I’m curious to hear your thoughts on...”
“Cmon man I’m serious now! The people need to see this. I’m strong as an ox with Irish blood pumping through these veins. Heeeyahhh!!” https://i.nostr.build/snZZympkA61jv9cP.jpghttps://i.nostr.build/CsUzk77QssN7xcPz.jpg
I know for the most part the haters that say Bitcoin has no use-case and is worthless will be haters no matter what, until they’re not.
BUT I do think journalists and the Bitcoin community can do a better job of pushing and amplifying things that aren’t just ETF this, microstrategy that, Bitcoin strategic reserve, etc.
But talk about how there are NO MIDDLEMEN, it’s peer-to-peer use cases around the world fighting dictatorship, the tech and protocol. It’s so special.
People will be unimpressed by a Wall Street toy to make more gains in the long run. But money separate from the state that is truly yours? Low time preference that is the winner and only hope.
Especially as inflation and governments continue to do their thing…
I think they’re still the second largest holder of MSTR though.
They were just lazy and didn’t want to do the work, just ride the coattails. Hey, not a bad strategy! 😂
Strengthen U.S. dollar
Protect national security
Meeting with the Fed.
Lol. I KNOW why the U.S. government is interested in this realm. But to have the most overpaid nonprofit executive assisting them in this endeavor 🤮
Freedom money. Human rights. The fight is just beginning. #bitcoin https://i.nostr.build/WKLTqezhGbYNCzbE.jpghttps://i.nostr.build/HgrZglvm0GTi8mKf.jpg
Just corporate + govt surveillance v govt surveillance
Two sides of the same coin, both bad!
While I understand the benefit especially in third world countries that want to access currency benefit of USD, our end goals shouldn’t be to strengthen the U.S. dollar and imperial might, an IMF 2.0
This will not create a freer and more just world. Quite the opposite.
I believe this more than ever. I do think the cultural and American backlash to both Trump and his loyalist, spineless people coming into his cabinet, AND to the neo-con corporate bullshit Democratic Party of late Obama to present, will be massive.
I think Americans will be more united at the end of this. I hope that people take advantage of Bitcoin and financial freedom, because with financial freedom comes more mental clarity, less projecting your anger and frustration onto a political “savior.”
I think we have a bright future ahead, I really do. But between now and then, we must continue the fight against authoritarians (not just the ones you don’t like, but ALL authoritarians), and please, pay attention to this part
As bitcoiners, we must fight the enemy within which are the crypto lobbyists, entrepreneurs, VC’s, politicians, etc, that are willing to sell out on regulation, business, NGU, etc that paves the way for more government surveillance, less freedom, more U.S. imperial might (these traitors lobbying for stablecoins and govt surveillance to curry favor with the government like Nic Carter and Perianne Boring).
We are in this for humanity, to separate money from the state, and take back individual freedom for more power and authority to the people, not centralized forces. nostr:note15al4lcffzsxjqxdk80f5ukped30jksexhhks3h8e46gq0mamjyksv9pnzw
What if the first order of business of Elon’s Dept of Government Efficiency is to cut the Dept of Government Efficiency and Elon and Vivek’s positions https://i.nostr.build/RY2Odo6VYKiVlqRO.gif
Positives of this upcoming presidential cycle for me
Many Bitcoiners will see that Trump is a bullshit swamp monster and war hawk, far from their libertarian dreams, and likely to wield the federal government in anti-freedom ways as well.
Progressives are waking the fuck up again and rejecting the corporate, corrupt machine that is the Democratic Party. Maybe progressives will rise up and fight again
We’ll see
I think the Biden admin was also war hawkish
Never said it wasn’t. Most progressive I know vehemently resented the Biden admin on all this.
Objectively, Trumps tenure is likely to be worse, particularly on the Gaza front.
I never said I wanted it to be worse. I said I think it will be.
In terms of purchasing power, if Trump gets his was with mass deportation and tariffs, have fun with your purchasing power then.
I’m just reporting and making observations and predictions. I actually also posted on here that I genuinely hoped Trump will be less war hawkish.
You can be FOR wealth generation for everyday Americans and making that easier and AGAINST structural socialism for the rich that allows corporation and multi billionaires to reap the corrupt rewards of the fiat system.
Progressives can navigate this well if they wanted to.
Progressives can’t win in the U.S. as a political coalition until they stop the hypocrisy of being against wealth generation for Americans (whether directly or indirectly) but they themselves being hugely enriched via their stock portfolios, real estate, speaking fees, and book sales!
Kamala was a liberal.
Nah, we need to drop bs progressive takes and pick up economic and populist progressive takes that actual get back to fighting for Americans and against oligarchs and corrupt government
Last one. We know because he has ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS. Call it Trump derangement syndrome but fam this is who he is.
We need an alternative to this AND the corporate, MSM, deep state democrats. https://i.nostr.build/r71yLlGVqoIJBxmZ.jpg
Also I think democrats went crazy and people are pissed, not that “Joe Rogan right” are crazy. I just think they think Trump is someone he’s not.
Trump is not pro-worker, anti-censorship or anti-war
In the pockets of mega corp Covid/censorship regime AND military industrial complex. Trump ain’t listening to the libertarians and Bitcoiners…
I don’t say this with glee. I really hope to see some semblance of not awful appointments. Something to give a sign that things will be done differently, anti-war, pro-bitcoin (not pro stablecoin ie CBDC and shitcoin casinos), fighting against the gouls across the FED and IMF system. https://i.nostr.build/pBwgj15S5wQktkRG.jpg
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