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 <<Volatility brings traders, traders bring liquidity, liquidity unlocks institutions, institutions unlock sovereigns. At a certain scale, money is redefined. But it starts with volatility.>> woonomic,  
 <<Bitcoin… is a piece of the future invading the present.>>

Don’t Worry About Bitcoin 
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note1mut942rva07lqqh0llqca7lw07etuvf2dfhnanjr7tzer2yzsc4qdewfwx 
 <<Bitcoin isn’t just a currency; it’s a tool for personal sovereignty and freedom. Its potential to alter financial systems can lead to significant societal shifts>>

nostr:note1ka8hmj7ngqvqcas54ujqszkw9cgt05uw2g6vrq4yyu9ujr494lgqm4hztw 
 <<Going through the chasm to completion is almost always the hardest part>>
nostr:note18tfhws7q92rwd5chmdxmd74nq00cmeaghgthdxf8kwrjdgzsmveqmqee4w 
 "When we don’t fully understand how ions behave at the water’s surface, we can’t make accurate models for climate science. And in a world where understanding climate is crucial, having an accurate model is everything."
 
https://www.earth.com/news/new-discovery-water-molecules-will-force-chemistry-textbooks-to-be-rewritten/ 
 ‘#Bitcoin is a tool to reclaim our time

#nostr is a tool to reclaim our attention’


nostr:note1wc3yx4aqqn3724lfgjq2huzgjncqq4n02ymdcgcu7pfc0gxxtqcqs7rrqp 
 <<In 2023, computer experts predicted that a zeta-class machine built using current supercomputer technologies would require the equivalent energy to the output of 21 nuclear power plants>>

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/japan-to-start-building-1st-zeta-class-supercomputer-in-2025-1000-times-more-powerful-than-todays-fastest-machines 
 <<Constraints can be liberating. By restricting your choices along one dimension, you can create more freedom along a dimension that’s more important to you>>

https://carlbmenger.substack.com/p/optionality 
 <<Most people are trapped in the fiat hamster wheel because their spending inevitably rises in lockstep with their income>> 
 <<Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit>> 
 <<The writing style shows all great inventors and innovators have one thing in common: They have a crystal clear vision of what they want, and how to get there.>>
nostr:note1vjt0k8x4c6dcvud24ql36hth5r08zldclat65ql8l9pn4e9zkg9sda0ruu 
 <<Bitcoin rewards greed. It transforms a human weakness into human prosperity.>>

nostr:note1mpr8fue3aafh0l0jttn9zuwx53kvwsqw9x7ps32048txp6qs9uvqwtaltl 
 <<In many ways large and small bitcoin is about renegotiating your place in the world.>>
nostr:note1pm2tgkdt3t6v84ztwdllal49cflad2dhrgsh8gj36p7zw4lup6yqn0dqgs 
 Logan - thanks for this. Looking forward to learning more from you!

‘Bitcoin, as sound money, can allow adopters to sort of buy back their time, clearing space to pursue more abstract things like self-actualization, fulfillment, etc. 

The more I think about Infinite Jest the more I want to figure out a way to merge negative freedom bitcoin culture with an under-discussed, under-explored positive freedom bitcoin culture. If we’ve died a kind of cultural/spiritual death as the result of things like addictive social media, endemic entertainment, mainstream media, etc., my hope is we can have a revival, a renaissance, and a Cambrian explosion of art and culture through the advancement of technologies  like #bitcoin and #nostr.’

nostr:note1pwhdvt5wd9ydssa5m20vwm0a2vv0khw3lku9t0yqxjwlv2fqnfts6thtwu 
 It would be nice to have polls which work across nostr clients 
 Ya’ll want Nostr Lyn to write a sci fi novel in whatever spare time she has, or get back to fin... 
 comparing a sample set of your fiction and non-fiction writing may help you make a good decision  
 ‘You cannot own a satoshi (sat). You can only own a utxo, who's value is measured in sats. Just like you cannot own a "kilogram" but you can own something which weights a kilogram.’

#bitcoin

nostr:note1frtxtqsngf53hh84nttk0rxy7fwzq0a2l5pz6z45p74l4wsh2jhs7nu4dx 
 testing, testing, 1, 2, 3

#introductions 
 thanks! 
 I want to learn from people who are working to improve the state of humanity. I see a lot of potential in projects like bitcoin and nostr - decentralised, challenging the established ways and, perhaps most importantly, willing to work hard to make good things happen!

#introductions  
 thanks for the welcome!

in over my skies as usual!

I’ve changed my lightning wallet.  
 apparently, you need to follow lots of people and respond with good comments. otherwise, the lack of interaction will likely drive you away

#introductions 
 it seems like a long term investment but probably a good hedge against a possible future where pseudonymous accounts will be banned/heavily restricted on platform based social media - in contrast to nostr which is a protocol.