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 no but seriously the technical roadmap should basically be to make saylor's fiat cuckoldry obsolete. 
 I guess I didn’t shout loud enough about why the ETFs are terrible 🤷‍♀️ 
 and that is your right, comrade 
 fund a dev and piss off Saylor today! 
 are the gaps just supposed to mean a break? if so, how long? 
 nooooooooooice 
 the saddest part is that this happens because Norway has been culturally colonised. these are not “Norwegian” thoughts, they are beamed in from the leftist regime. 
 Norway hasn’t colonised America, so no. 
 aside from the server stealing all your money this is pretty sweet 
 I’m just riffing on super’s hilarious hackathon presentation 
 no|where
now|here 
 dude 
 *he stood around while a bitcoiner paid it 
 I’m sure you could feed an LLM everything @HODL has ever said or tweeted, upload the result, and it would be almost by definition superior. 
 He sometimes says good stuff that nostr:nprofile1qqsgym5l39dcr26p53fzy69jf8ng6qk2s9sgmm6k9fynem34... 
 rarely, although it has been known to happen … 
 ASK ME LITERALLY ANYTHING EXCEPT THINGS I DON’T WANT TO ANSWER

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 yes 
 Saylor is a fiat retard and you need to stop simping him. like right now. or like yesterday.

I may or may not choose to elaborate on this, but rn I’m both angry and busy, #sorrynotsorry. 
 🌶️ 
 it’s an incredibly fiat mindset. to have real capital so financialized that you can only ever interact with securities, think that is deploying capital, and ultimately mistake capital for money. 
 it actually occurred to me that Saif should host a debate 
 Dumb story time. This is really stupid and I might regret posting it on nostr where it can’t be... 
 okay but what did you get for breakfast? 
 I still don’t own a kazoo 
 read everything by Scott. amazing mind. sadly just passed away too. 
 GM.

Someone posted or talked about a finance paper relating volatility to growth/growing technol... 
 never heard of it but would read it fo sho! 
 Sun is up.

Bitcoin is running. 
 big if true 
 just got my first dishwasher. AMA. 
 little receptacle, but open to new ideas! 
 haven’t named her yet, but really I should have, smh. and she’s a Bosch, so I guess should be German name? 
 so far just the one. what’s the bullish case for stacking? parallel washing? 
 yes but my marriage has just instaneously and tremendously improved. 
 how do you know I didn’t borrow against bitcoin to finance it? cheeky little speculative attack … one might even call it … money laundering … 
 Helga von Schnitzelhauzen it is!
https://m.primal.net/JTIn.png 
 came with the flat. didn’t buy, just “got” 🤷‍♀️ 
 no, it’s German 
 📣 first time dabbling in long form on nostr with highlighter!

in which I forensically analyse the history of the shitcoin industrial complex, pinpoint unscrupulous financiers as the primary culprits, and trace the narrative evolution to try to predict what scams and bullshit will likely come next. enjoy! 😘

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 gonna learn this on the piano 
 (once I get a piano) 
 I just rode my 10 year old rusty beach cruiser 3 miles going straight into 30 mph winds coming of... 
 I have no idea what a “beach cruiser” is but I can tell from the vibe here that this is good news all round and I’m happy for you. 
 cosigning the shit out of this. the most coherent thing to confuse the shit out of people still trapped in a “left vs right” framework would be for Bernie to also endrose it and implicitly ally with Trump, given he (seemingly alone on the national stage) represents what the Democrats used to be when they had actual beliefs.

finger in the air guesstimate puts 70% of elected reps and 90% of dems in the same “party” that you may as well just call “the regime”, never mind “neocon”.

they don’t have “politics” in the sense you might find intellectually stimulating to debate besides their own power and wealth. Bernie actually does (even if you think some of it is a bit nuts) and Trump is arguably even more entertaining: he is pure chaos exposing these fault lines.

I have no idea where I was going with this ramble besides wanting to land on: Trump endorsing Bitcoin was inevitable. embrace it and shame any dems with a moral compass to one-up him and support it even harder. then sit back and enjoy the collapse of the GAE 👍

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 all true, but nonetheless an intriguing and surely positive development that now the good guys can do the buying … 
 “there are almost infinite numbers”

- @PABLOF7z 

😂😂😂 
 brb figuring out how to define “almost” in terms of technically rigorous epsilon-delta algebra 
 Giacomo is a poopy face constructivist. mic drop. the end. 
 smoothness suggests a continuum whereas you can have infinitely divisible rational dust too 🤷‍♀️ 
 First time in Prague for next few days. Please reply with your favorite activities and places! 
 favorite activity is definitely hanging out with allen 👍 
 Serious question: Should I bring up this incident on stage at BTC Prague next week? I'll be moder... 
 YES 
 can someone debrief me here? nostr:note12spvphkr03lljmpxc4ydlvqtwch5xk00j07e8qqdmurrd754yyvq49vymg 
 - short riot, long bitcoin
- insanely, hilariously risky hedge
- spot-on analysis of why public miners are horrific investments
- (probably unintentionally) massively bullish on future of mining re: decentralization and censorship resistance
- trade as a whole closes the loop on a beautiful speculative attack

…

- 99% of bitcoin twitter seems to have seen “public miners are stupid, we are short” and lost their minds because they can’t read or think. 
 this kerrisdale (hedge fund) thing is honestly the best litmus test I think I’ve ever seen in this space 😂 
 I strongly recommend just reading (shock! horror!) the short report. it’s the most bullish thing I’ve seen in a long time:

https://www.kerrisdalecap.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RIOT-Kerrisdale.pdf 
 nah probably not 
 what they *actually said* is incredibly bullish for bitcoin but most bitcoiners appear to have reading comprehension difficulties so they think it’s bearish, stupid, or both. 
 If a zap is like a "super" upvote, we also need "super" downvotes. 
 the antizap: for when a note is so bad I get your sats. 
 whether you believe the “spook” memes or not, Saylor is so clearly using his influence to pull up the ladder behind him it baffles me he still has any simps left.

and fml it’s clear he doesn’t even understand wtf what he’s talking about whenever he tries to put forward the most palatable version of this take he can come up with.

stripped of “spacetime laser energy” trimmings, his actual take is: “ossify now, scale with custodians, number go up if you’re already in.”

that’s not an entirely unreasonable position, but it needs to be identified more clearly, weighed up mindfully of his technical illiteracy around consensus and forks, and argued against more forcefully in light of these realisations. 
 combination of the godawful WBD and a flurry of private conversations people have felt compelled to relate in its wake. 
 good thing I didn’t do that then? 
 okay but how do you know how much hasn’t been identified? 
 the saddest part of all this is that anybody cares what saylor thinks in the first place  🤦‍♀️ 
 “ChaGPT, write a1000-word article about…”

“ChatGPT, give me the key points of this artic... 
 it’s not artificial intelligence, it’s natural stupidity 
 I love my family and bitcoin and America in that order. 

I don’t give one shit about anything ... 
 😢