A few reflections from the recent 3 hour talk with Elon Musk and Donald Trump on Twitter/X.

Trump's main strength in my view is the energy sector. With a potent and competive energy sector, without unnecessary red tape regulations, electricity becomes cheaper to produce. The pricing of all goods, services and transports are heavily impacted by the cost of energy.

This is also a sector where Trump has no competition, except Vivek Ramaswamy who quit the presidential race. Both Kamala Harris and RFK jr both have a bad record on energy policy, related to beliefs in global warming doomsday scenarios.

Regarding Trump we have an 8 year historical record his support for the US energy sector, in opposition to the UN Agenda 21 policies that are fueled by irrational climate alarmism.

Overview:

2017. Trump pulls the US out of the Paris climate accord. He says that it is "designed to kill the US economy".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iI24uAdAYro

2020. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump opposed the anti-energy policies that the WEF have an obsessession with implementing. Trump referred to the climate alarmists as "prophets of doom".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0UiFRZ3t_KM

2021. On January 20, 2021, Biden signed the US back into the Paris climate accord. This was done on his first day in office, indicating that this was a high priority matter.

2023. Trump was critiquing Germany for closing its nuclear power plants and implementing harmful climate alarmism policies.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSr4tFkjcA

2024. February. Trump announces that he will not allow the creation of a CBDC.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oUjMK8d6omo

In light of the above, it is reasonable to assume that Trump takes energy policies seriously and is willing to sacrifice his own reputation in the media in order to secure American energy interests. Without energy there is no civilization.

My main disagreement with Trump is his positive outlook on the mRNA vaccine development.

First I would like to clarify that I think it is a terrible idea to inject mRNA spike proteins into the human body.

Yet, as far as I understand Trump's position, his general stance is embracing medical competition and production, in an assumed societal environment where individuals can access medical treatments under informed consent and under a climate of free speech.

His support for Hydroxychloroquine in 2020 demonstrated an openness for experimental approaches on a voluntary basis, in spite of the demonization and ridicule from the mainstream media.

I do support medical freedom and my starting point is that all kinds of medicine should be available for purchase, including experimental treatments. If someone is seriously ill I can't deny them the option to choose an experimental treatment provided that they are aware of and have access to data that can reveal the risks involved.

The key issue here is to have a societal climate where free speech is in full effect and individuals can find and share opinions, experience and research that highlights the potential risks of any particular medication or treatment. This failed catastrophically during Covid due to online censorship and demonization campaigns.

The failings during Covid were legion and in particular related to central planning. I will here highlight two out of many points of failure.

1. Governments purchasing millions of doses of experimental vaccines for taxpayer money.

This is not how a free market operates. In a free market individuals buy their own medications based on their own personal judgement and estimation of risks to their health.

This also requires a genuine free market where all medications are available to consumers so that potential working solutions can be tested and spread via word-of-mouth recommendation. Banning certain medications or treatments is not a free market policy.

2. Presidents and government officials pressuring the public to take experimental vaccines. Add the demonization of critics and those who do not consent to a particular treatment.

Justin Trudeau is one noteable example of presidents during Covid that abused their position to stigmatize critics and create a climate in favor of mandated experimental vaccines.

These political pressures in turn caused corporations to fall in line with the government pro-vaccine position over inflated fears, both of the virus and also fears of government fines against companies that would not cooperate with government policy.

We saw mandated vaccines as a result with devastating effects on individuals living under immense pressure to take a treatment that could harm them, or face losing their livelihoods.

I could write more in depth here on these Covid-related horrors of central planning but I will leave all the deeper details for now.

It is entirely possible to support experimental treatments while at the same time not agreeing with tyrannical central planning mandates and accompanying censorship.

Allowing for experimental medicines comes with both risks and possibilities. Having a free market, based on indivudual liberties and informed consent, is fundamental.

Hence the importance of free speech. Without proper information of risks and a genuine ability to reject a treatment, we have no basis to formulate consent.

#Talk #Trump #Elon #Musk #Energy #Climate #Vaccine


A few reflections from the recent 3 hour talk with Elon Musk and Donald Trump on Twitter/X.

Trump's main strength in my view is the energy sector. With a potent and competive energy sector, without unnecessary red tape regulations, electricity becomes cheaper to produce. The pricing of all goods, services and transports are heavily impacted by the cost of energy.

This is also a sector where Trump has no competition, except Vivek Ramaswamy who quit the presidential race. Both Kamala Harris and RFK jr both have a bad record on energy policy, related to beliefs in global warming doomsday scenarios.

Regarding Trump we have an 8 year historical record his support for the US energy sector, in opposition to the UN Agenda 21 policies that are fueled by irrational climate alarmism.

Overiew:

2017. Trump pulls the US out of the Paris climate accord. He says that it is "designed to kill the US economy".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iI24uAdAYro

2020. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump opposed the anti-energy policies that the WEF have an obsessession with implementing. Trump referred to the climate alarmists as "prophets of doom".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0UiFRZ3t_KM

2021. On January 20, 2021, Biden signed the US back into the Paris climate accord. This was done on his first day in office, indicating that this was a high priority matter.

2023. Trump was critiquing Germany for closing its nuclear power plants and implementing harmful climate alarmism policies.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSr4tFkjcA

2024. February. Trump announces that he will not allow the creation of a CBDC.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oUjMK8d6omo

In light of the above, it is reasonable to assume that Trump takes energy policies seriously and is willing to sacrifice his own reputation in the media in order to secure American energy interests. Without energy there is no civilization.

My main disagreement with Trump is his positive outlook on the mRNA vaccine development.

First I would like to clarify that I think it is a terrible idea to inject mRNA spike proteins into the human body.

Yet, as far as I understand Trump's position, his general stance is embracing medical competition and production, in an assumed societal environment where individuals can access medical treatments under informed consent and under a climate of free speech.

His support for Hydroxychloroquine in 2020 demonstrated an openness for experimental approaches on a voluntary basis, in spite of the demonization and ridicule from the mainstream media.

I do support medical freedom and my starting point is that all kinds of medicine should be available for purchase, including experimental treatments. If someone is seriously ill I can't deny them the option to choose an experimental treatment provided that they are aware of and have access to data that can reveal the risks involved.

The key issue here is to have a societal climate where free speech is in full effect and individuals can find and share opinions, experience and research that highlights the potential risks of any particular medication or treatment. This failed catastrophically during Covid due to online censorship and demonization campaigns.

The failings during Covid were legion and in particular related to central planning. I will here highlight two out of many points of failure.

1. Governments purchasing millions of doses of experimental vaccines for taxpayer money.

This is not how a free market operates. In a free market individuals buy their own medications based on their own personal judgement and estimation of risks to their health.

This also requires a genuine free market where all medications are available to consumers so that potential working solutions can be tested and spread via word-of-mouth recommendation. Banning certain medications or treatments is not a free market policy.

2. Presidents and government officials pressuring the public to take experimental vaccines. Add the demonization of critics and those who do not consent to a particular treatment.

Justin Trudeau is one noteable example of presidents during Covid that abused their position to stigmatize critics and create a climate in favor of mandated experimental vaccines.

These political pressures in turn caused corporations to fall in line with the government pro-vaccine position over inflated fears, both of the virus and also fears of government fines against companies that would not cooperate with government policy.

We saw mandated vaccines as a result with devastating effects on individuals living under immense pressure to take a treatment that could harm them, or face losing their livelihoods.

I could write more in depth here on these Covid-related horrors of central planning but I will leave all the deeper details for now.

It is entirely possible to support experimental treatments while at the same time not agreeing with tyrannical central planning mandates and accompanying censorship.

Allowing for experimental medicines comes with both risks and possibilities. Having a free market, based on indivudual liberties and informed consent, is fundamental.

Hence the importance of free speech. Without proper information of risks and a genuine ability to reject a treatment, we have no basis to formulate consent.

#Talk #Trump #Elon #Musk #Energy #Climate #Vaccine


I feel so protected by the EU.
They have our best interests at heart.

(If I ever say this with a straight face, I am no longer in power of my faculties)


Lol.

I guess they had a specific audience in mind.


Fair enough.

My view is that if breakdancing is added to a competition then at least there needs to be serious competitive rules by which the performance can be ranked. Without established rules there is no sport.


For painting, music, movies etc, we have genres and subgenres. Within each subgenre we compare competing expressions.

A genre or subgenre is, at the end of the day, defined by its audience, who determine the genre rules by voting with their wallets, attention and passion.

For example, within the fantasy comic book genre, every new book competes with the existing books that have set the standards.

Within classical music, a new composition is compared to existing compositions.

Within metal music, a new album is compared to other metal albums within the niche.

Within movies, a new sci-fi movie competes with existing sci-fi movies.

The same applies to art. A new abstract painting is compared with existing abstract paintings within its subcategory.

If a genre does not exist we create it.


Good distinction between competition and exhibition!

Considering how many impressive breakdancers that exist in the world, it is inconceivable that a mediocre breakdancer with a PhD in questionable social studies is awarded as the best female Australian breakdancer, and then inserted into the Olympics to signal some political point, just by pure happenstance.

They have turned everything into the realm of the political.

A staged exhibition based on some kind of idea of lecturing the public on how to *be* and *think* according to their measuring scale, without any regard for skilled breakdancers that are non-political and had no chance at demonstrating what they can accomplish with their talents and years of practice.


Good distinction between competition and exhibition!

Considering how many impressive breakdancers that exist in the world, it is inconceivable that a mediocre breakdancer with a PhD in questionable social studies is awarded as the best female Australian breakdancer, and then inserted into the Olympics to signal some political point, just by pure happenstance.

They have turned everything into the realm of the political.

A staged exhibition based on some kind of idea of lecturing the public on how to *be* and *think* according to their measuring scale, without any regard for skilled breakdancers that are non-political and had no chance at demonstrating what they can achieve.


The deeper problem with "free" government education.

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All government power rests on public perception. As a result we can predict that every government is keen on controlling education and media.

#School #Education #Liberty #Homeschool #Meme #Memes #Government #Schooling #Propaganda


Thoughts on the breakdancing spectacle at the 2024 Olympics.

https://image.nostr.build/11ad2366eb60fc86e200887652c8fafa5ffb0838761d09af6ebed3f8086ca720.jpg

By critiquing "ableness", an athlete or performer does no longer have to compete via skill.

At that point it becomes a competition about being politically aligned (correct) toward the establishment.

In other words: woke.

Rejecting the idea of objectively measurable performance and skill has been a theme in postmodernism for a century.

If our ideology involves rejecting "ableness" or the idea of agreed-upon achievement rankings, then skill becomes irrelevant and ideological correctness becomes the only "game" hierarchy.

At that point we are asked to compete in ideological purity, not achievement.

This being said, I am not against abstract art and competitions that involve some amount of subjective evaluations. Even abstract art is impacted by aesthetic considerations.

Within every art genre we compare the quality of competing contributions. We rank competing submissions based on creativity, skill, vision, beauty and artistic achievement. We want the most impressive contributions within a genre to rank over the less impressive contributions. In short: meritocracy. Or at least some approximation of it.

Meritocracy is delibarately deconstructed under the banner of postmodernism. While we can debate which of two abstract paintings is more impressive, and while our criteria for ranking an achievement can differ from person to person, we can only create *meaningful* genres of competition where we agree on the overall ranking criteria.

Every sport and competition requires vocalized and agreed-upon ranking criteria. If those ranking criteria involve ideological purity and not some acknowledged and demonstrable achievement then we have just made political correctness into a sport that trumps all other forms of achievement.

Let there be as many genres of competition as we can imagine, but let's not determine someone's achievement by their alignment to some ideological system. Peers compete against peers.

#Meritocracy #Postmodernism #Sport #Art #Achievement #Competition #Woke


Thoughts on the breakdancing spectacle at the 2024 Olympics.

https://image.nostr.build/11ad2366eb60fc86e200887652c8fafa5ffb0838761d09af6ebed3f8086ca720.jpg

By critiquing "ableness", an athlete or performer does no longer have to compete via skill.

At that point it becomes a competition about being politically aligned (correct) toward the establishment.

In other words: woke.

Rejecting the idea of objectively measurable performance and skill has been a theme in postmodernism for a century.

If our ideology involves rejecting "ableness" or the idea of agreed-upon achievement rankings, then skill becomes irrelevant and ideological correctness becomes the only "game" hierarchy.

At that point we are asked to compete in ideological purity, not achievement.

This being said, I am not against abstract art and competitions that involve some amount of subjective evaluations. Even abstract art is impacted by aesthetic considerations.

Within every art genre we compare the quality of competing contributions. We rank competing submissions based on creativity, skill, vision, beauty and artistic achievement. We want the most impressive contributions within a genre to rank over the less impressive contributions. In short: meritocracy. Or at least some approximation of it.

Meritocracy is delibarately deconstructed under the banner of postmodernism. While we can debate which of two abstract paintings is more impressive, and while our criteria for a ranking an achievement can differ from person to person, we can only create *meaningful* genres of competition where we agree on the overall ranking criteria.

Every sport and competition requires vocalized and agreed-upon ranking criteria. If those ranking criteria involve ideological purity and not some acknowledged and demonstrable achievement then we have just made political correctness into a sport that trumps all other forms of achievement.

Let there be as many genres of competition as we can imagine, but let's not determine someone's achievement by their alignment to some ideological system. Peers compete against peers.

#Meritocracy #Postmodernism #Sport #Art #Achievement #Competition #Woke


Thoughts on the breakdancing spectacle at the 2024 Olympics.

https://image.nostr.build/11ad2366eb60fc86e200887652c8fafa5ffb0838761d09af6ebed3f8086ca720.jpg

By critiquing "ableness", a performer does no longer have to compete via skill.

At that point it becomes a competition about being politically aligned (correct) toward the establishment.

In other words: woke.

Rejecting the idea of objectively measurable performance and skill has been a theme in postmodernism for a century.

If our ideology involves rejecting "ableness" or the idea of agreed-upon achievement rankings, then skill becomes irrelevant and ideological correctness becomes the only "game" hierarchy.

At that point we are asked to compete in ideological purity, not achievement.

This being said, I am not against abstract art and competitions that involve some amount of subjective evaluations. Even abstract art is impacted by aesthetic considerations.

Within every art genre we compare the quality of competing contributions. We rank competing submissions based on creativity, skill, vision, beauty and artistic achievement. We want the most impressive contributions within a genre to rank over the less impressive contributions. In short: meritocracy. Or at least some approximation of it.

Meritocracy is delibarately deconstructed under the banner of postmodernism. While we can debate which of two abstract paintings is more impressive, and while our criteria for a ranking an achievement can differ from person to person, we can only create *meaningful* genres of competition where we agree on the overall ranking criteria.

Every sport and competition requires vocalized and agreed-upon ranking criteria. If those ranking criteria involve ideological purity and not some acknowledged and demonstrable achievement then we have just made political correctness into a sport that trumps all other forms of achievement.

Let there be as many genres of competition as we can imagine, but let's not determine someone's achievement by their alignment to some ideological system. Peers compete against peers.

#Meritocracy #Postmodernism #Sport #Art #Achievement #Competition #Woke


I get the joke, but the underlying idea is braindead.

No rational person would believe that you must be chained to a single communications channel to be a producer.

Let's not make Nostr into a cult please.


While I would not reject the idea flat out, it seems a bit unlikely that a (global) flood managed to reach such height and submerge the pyramid for long enough to impact the rocks with sea erosion.

I'm not a geologist but I would assume it would take decades or centuries to cause rock erosion. And then the flood would just vanish somewhere I guess.

It doesn't really seem like a theory that I feel compelled to consider. I haven't looked at the video so perhaps I have missed some point or misunderstood the thesis.


There is a lot of censorship going on in the UK right now. Social Media companies are being forced to delete posts, deplatform accounts which are deemed to be spreading "misinformation" and "hate speech".

Of course the UK government is the self appointed Ministry of Truth.

If you are an Englishman, please advise your fellow citizens to join Nostr.
We should be using this platform to return people their voices, other than shitposting/cringeposting and being nerds.

Personally, I am in of the opinion that western governments have become too big and wield way too much influence for the level of competence they display. We need to get it through people's head that Bitcoin is how you defund these parasites with dictatorial aspirations.


This #freespeach
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1822315909077237760/vid/avc1/1280x720/SMGsV-WAkNu-tmZU.mp4


I am critical of Ordinals and Luke's ordi-disrespector patch was a step in the right direction.

Yet it has also been interesting to see how this has played out. Fees went up at the time of this year's 2024 halving, only to go down to normal levels some weeks after. Recently we had 4 sats/vb tx fees, quite low.

I am not against the fact that *some* non-tx data can be stored on the blockchain. The important aspect is that the amount of non-tx data per tx is low. If we want to store non-tx data we should do that via other methods than the bitcoin base layer.

One interesting part of this whole matter is the highlighting of the fact that we can't scale bitcoin to 8 billion people via the base layer. Scaling to meet the needs of 8bn humans requires L2-L3's, from Lighting to Liquid, Fedi and other competing free market solutions above the base layer.


😅🤣

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#FreeSpeech #Free #Speech #UK #Police #Keir #Starmer #Meme #Memes


😅🤣

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#FreeSpeech #Free #Speech #UK #Police #Keir #Starmer


«They must find it difficult… Those who have taken authority as the truth. Rather than truth as the authority.»
-G. Massey


// Wings

There was a throng of rejection
of opposition and adversity

against the oppressive Vision

where speech was evaporized
and society spiralled downward

like a program code
without error correction

like a civilization
without consent

like a world in flames
in need of reason

with unyielding
determination

was spread

the wings of liberty
for all

#Bitcoin #Nostr #Liberty #Poetry #FreeSpeech #Free #Speech


Have to love a good Adam Back + Allen Farrington combo.

https://image.nostr.build/3c887cfbbdb828433322d4e93fb8156a5c4d97bd179a9939d09edcb1513736a6.jpg

#UK #1984 #Tyranny #ThoughtPolice #Thought #Police #Orwell #Orwellian #Authoritarian


Have to love an Adam Back + Allen Farrington combo.

https://image.nostr.build/3c887cfbbdb828433322d4e93fb8156a5c4d97bd179a9939d09edcb1513736a6.jpg

#UK #1984 #Tyranny #ThoughtPolice #Thought #Police #Orwell #Orwellian #Authoritarian


Psychopaths crave power and socialism brings maximum power for central planning, taxation, moneyprinting and the vaccuming up of resources from the host population.


Of course, these signs would also be visible in a corporatist or fascist system.

The step between communism and fascism is basically the moment when Marxism fails economically (which it always does) and corporatism is inserted to provide a false charade of private property, while the government is still centrally planning society with a few more steps involved.


"A Marxist system is recognized by the fact that it spares the criminals and criminalizes political opponents."

// Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://image.nostr.build/97f91b34f4337675e22e0dc3267a161c8f6d83f11bc316b829159e218cb96df2.jpg

#Memes #Meme #Communism #Marxism #Solzhenitsyn #Aleksandr #Quote #Criminal


I don't trust anyone that advocates for covenants. They are corrupt and pose a threat to bitcoin with their naivety.


It’s not about shitcoins.

How do you know why OP_CAT was removed?

As an engineer, do you think it’s a good idea to enable powerful technology IN THE BASE CHAIN that has few known limits so essentially nobody knows how it could be abused?

Satoshi’s design philosophy was clearly to limit functionality to keep the system simple and safe. He made the system robust by deliberately removing codes that might increase the attack surface of the network.

It’s not appropriate to apply start up thinking - move fast and break things - to the core system protecting the world’s money and our hope for the future.

If you’re wrong, and it somehow disrupts the underlying incentives that underpin everything … how easy is it to undo it? We can’t, can we?

How I see it:

+ Devs are humans. Even the smartest among us are not omniscient and make mistakes (eg witness discount).

+ All code has bugs. Even if the code is technically bug free, it can still change the complex incentives that make the network work.

+ We don’t have a scaling problem yet. When we do have one in the future, we should allow the pain of it to motivate innovation on upper layers so that we can avoid any unnecessary changes to the base protocol.

+ We should only allow changes to the base protocol that safely fix an existential problem that we know cannot be fixed in any other way.

+ The Bitcoin network is for many, many future generations. We need to think long term and not rush out changes to the core protocol. A decade or two to consider options is a blink of an eye in the life of the network.


The current system does not vanish just because liberty advocates stop voting.

The establishment does not care if the liberty right votes or not. In fact, they would rather that the liberty contingent does not vote since rigging elections is harder the more votes they need to rig.

Separating money from the state and voting with our feet and capital is the primary method of pressuring jurisdictions to align with individual liberties and property rights.


That's your evaluation.

By saying that it is immoral to vote, you take the stance that your evaluation overrides the evaluation of others.

People will evaluate voting differently.


I wouldn't call voting immoral.
How about voting for a candidate like Milei?

Yes, we shouldn't be able to vote away other people's property rights or individual liberties but that is a problem of government power and overreach. Voting to reduce government power is never immoral.

The main problems are the monetary monopoly, central banks, moneyprinting and the large size of jurisdictions.

If jurisdictions are small enough and people can access hard money (bitcoin), the outcome of voting is largely irrelevant since people can vote with their feet and choose a better jurisdiction.

Proper competition brings about a game theory where jurisdictions have to attract capital and skills in exchange for high degrees of liberties. This is the endgame of bitcoin as the best store of value.


I wouldn't call voting immoral.
How about voting for a candidate like Milei?

Yes, we shouldn't be able to vote away other people's property rights or individual liberties but that is a problem of government power and overreach. Voting to reduce government power is never immoral.

The main problems are the monetary monopoly, central banks, moneyprinting and the large size of jurisdictions.

If jurisdictions are small enough and people can access hard money (bitcoin), the outcome of voting is largely irrelevant since people can vote with their feet and choose a better jurisdiction.

Proper competition brings about a game theory where jurisdictions have to attract capital and skills in exchange for high degrees of iberties. This is the endgame of bitcoin as the best store of value.


I wouldn't call voting immoral.
How about voting for a candidate like Milei?

Yes, we shouldn't be able to vote away other people's property rights or individual liberties but that is a problem of government power and overreach. Voting to reduce government power is never immoral.

The main problems are the monetary monopoly, central banks, moneyprinting and the large size of jurisdictions.

If jurisdictions are small enough and people can access hard money (bitcoin), the outcome of voting is largely irrelevant since people can vote with their feet and choose a better jurisdiction.

Proper competition brings about a game theory where jurisdictions have to attract capital and skills in return for liberties. This is the endgame of bitcoin as the best store of value.


Followed!

I wrote a couple of notes on John Locke and his perspective on property rights and self defense.

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Taxation is just slavery with extra steps.
The real modern fight for human rights, & progress toward greater peace & prosperity, is the fight against govt authority, monetary debasement, & forced funding.

#Bitcoin is our primary tool.
Our shield to prevent profitable govt aggression.

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I would define the deep state as the *persisting* state, the system of roots beneath the visible tree. When a new president or prime minister is inaugered, the root system does not change, it persists across elections.

As the deep state expands its powers, individual liberties are necessarily reduced. No single person have the depth of power that a deep state has and it is possible that no person controls it - it may run merely on the aggregate of self-preservation of the individuals it employs


I would define the deep state as the *persisting* state, the system of roots beneath the visible tree. When a new president or prime minister is inaugered, the root system does not change, it persists across elections.

As the deep state expands its powers, individual liberties are necessarily reduced. No single person have the depth of power as a deep state and it is possible that no person controls it - it may run merely on the aggregatw of self-preservation of the individuals it employs


Good post.

I grew up in Sweden in the 1980'ies and saw direct results of the failed politics from the late 1980'ies and onwards.

Whatever the future holds, we need a focus on hard money, individual rights, property rights and resistance to government central planning. The core of corruption started in our governments, central banks and the moneyprinting system.

The inflationary loop:

Politicians buy votes with promises funded by printed money. This causes an inflationary loop - voters will vote for the highest government spending, which also brings maximum inflation.

Going forward the pressure should be on critiquing the program code that steers society toward self-destruction.

Governments run on policies.
Policy is shaped by ideology.

I believe that the UN Agenda 21 that was signed 1992 by 179 nations in Rio de Janeiro is a root policy program that is running our governments via ideological beliefs.

The deep state is the main opponent to individual liberties.


This is new tech that I’m incredibly bullish on. For context, watch in conjunction with this video on bitcoin adoption in Peru.

https://youtu.be/4hWMHLF-OEg

Basically, the idea behind Fedi is to create a privacy respecting app and cloud platform managed within a local community.

The two apps launching now are bitcoin banking and chat.

Sign up is simple as nobody needs to manage private keys because this is done by a few trusted leaders in the community. Those leaders cannot see anyone’s data or transactions but they can restore your access to your full account if you lose your phone.

One of the biggest issues with bitcoin today is making sure nontechnical people don’t lose their keys. This solves that and creates a private cloud platform for all your data too.

Won’t be surprised if they reach a billion users faster than any other platform. The go-to-market strategy is 🤯. nostr:note16psww6zn6vf5svrscazmfv0c3mzp3kpd5yscu9h7jmcuesx0n4zq0t8q7s


British physicist Mike McCulloch has a profound point here.

https://image.nostr.build/cc97b2c59310eb8e9e057f5e67f0c9771607bdd3e2d32ed4d71fa76545501953.jpg

If his Quantised Inertia (QI) theory works out and can be utilized practically, the world will have access to unlimited energy without pollution.

Add that QI would power interstellar drives as well, allowing for practical expansion into space - a frontier that will create an unlimited number of jobs. Just at a time when AI will displace a large number of jobs.

QI theory gets rid of dark matter and explains previously mysterious anomalies that traditional physicists have tried to explain with inserting subjective amounts of dark matter here and there in order to make the observations match their theory.

As the QI theory will become increasingly tested within coming years via practical experiments in space, an interesting lithmus test is forming:

How will the "environmental" movement react to Quantised Inertia if QI can provide humanity with abundant, pollutionless energy?

The cat is out of the box and ideas whose time has come cannot be returned to obscurity.

If Quantised Inertia works out, this will be the nail in the coffin for the UN Agenda 21 project and the climate doomsday preachers.

Quantised Inertia was inspired by Mike's insights from Oceanography. He was aware that boats close to the shore are pushed toward the shore because of the longer waves hitting the boat from one side, while the waves on the beach-side are shut off by a horizon that caused them to become shorter.

The principle follows from there: in theory we should be able to harness energy from quantum horizons and the acceleration that causes such horizons.

Applied to galaxies, QI can explain why galaxies hold together without inserting dark matter.

The principle behind this, as I understand it from Mike's talks, is that the Unruh quantum waves that exist outside of a galaxy are at maximum length, while accelerated matter shortens Unruh waves.

At the center of a galaxy is a black hole that accelerates matter towards it. The distance from the center of the galaxy thereby predicts the length of the Unruh radiation waves.

Close to the center of the galaxy the Unruh waves are shorter, due to the higher acceleration and the horizon formed by acceleration. The Unruh waves then gradually increase in length with further distance from the center until they reach the edge of the galaxy where the acceleration is lowest.

Since the longer Unruh waves push against the shorter waves, the galaxy is kept together without the need to insert dark matter.

[Edit] My above paragraph is wrong and Mike provided a correction:

https://image.nostr.build/5c6a7894a783f3338b2e7e6686f501c56efe4bc3936db0be00d000fc66c81e00.jpg

The beauty of QI is that it is remarkably simple and can be tested practically, which can't be said about dark matter. Dark matter can be described as the establishment ethos - "believe this by decree and authority, not by proof of work".

QI can explain a variety of anomalies such as the orbits of binary stars where inserting dark matter doesn't even make sense.

We live in interesting times.

#QI #QuantisedInertia #MikeMcCulloch #McCulloch #Quantised #Inertia #Physics #Liberty #Science #DarkMatter #Dark #Matter #Energy #Environment #Environmentalism #Climate #ClimateAlarmism #Alarmism #ClimateScam #Agenda21 #Agenda2030


Mike issued a correction to my post:

https://image.nostr.build/5c6a7894a783f3338b2e7e6686f501c56efe4bc3936db0be00d000fc66c81e00.jpg


British physicist Mike McCulloch has a profound point here.

https://image.nostr.build/cc97b2c59310eb8e9e057f5e67f0c9771607bdd3e2d32ed4d71fa76545501953.jpg

If his Quantised Inertia (QI) theory works out and can be utilized practically, the world will have access to unlimited energy without pollution.

Add that QI would power interstellar drives as well, allowing for practical expansion into space - a frontier that will create an unlimited number of jobs. Just at a time when AI will displace a large number of jobs.

QI theory gets rid of dark matter and explains previously mysterious anomalies that traditional physicists have tried to explain with inserting subjective amounts of dark matter here and there in order to make the observations match their theory.

As the QI theory will become increasingly tested within coming years via practical experiments in space, an interesting lithmus test is forming:

How will the "environmental" movement react to Quantised Inertia if QI can provide humanity with abundant, pollutionless energy?

The cat is out of the box and ideas whose time has come cannot be returned to obscurity.

If Quantised Inertia works out, this will be the nail in the coffin for the UN Agenda 21 project and the climate doomsday preachers.

Quantised Inertia was inspired by Mike's insights from Oceanography. He was aware that boats close to the shore are pushed toward the shore because of the longer waves hitting the boat from one side, while the waves on the beach-side are shut off by a horizon that caused them to become shorter.

The principle follows from there: in theory we should be able to harness energy from quantum horizons and the acceleration that causes such horizons.

Applied to galaxies, QI can explain why galaxies hold together without inserting dark matter.

The principle behind this, as I understand it from Mike's talks, is that the Unruh quantum waves that exist outside of a galaxy are at maximum length, while accelerated matter shortens Unruh waves.

At the center of a galaxy is a black hole that accelerates matter towards it. The distance from the center of the galaxy thereby predicts the length of the Unruh radiation waves.

Close to the center of the galaxy the Unruh waves are shorter, due to the higher acceleration and the horizon formed by acceleration. The Unruh waves then gradually increase in length with further distance from the center until they reach the edge of the galaxy where the acceleration is lowest.

[Edit] My above paragraph is wrong and Mike provided a correction:

https://image.nostr.build/5c6a7894a783f3338b2e7e6686f501c56efe4bc3936db0be00d000fc66c81e00.jpg

Since the longer Unruh waves push against the shorter waves, the galaxy is kept together without the need to insert dark matter.

The beauty of QI is that it is remarkably simple and can be tested practically, which can't be said about dark matter. Dark matter can be described as the establishment ethos - "believe this by decree and authority, not by proof of work".

QI can explain a variety of anomalies such as the orbits of binary stars where inserting dark matter doesn't even make sense.

We live in interesting times.

#QI #QuantisedInertia #MikeMcCulloch #McCulloch #Quantised #Inertia #Physics #Liberty #Science #DarkMatter #Dark #Matter #Energy #Environment #Environmentalism #Climate #ClimateAlarmism #Alarmism #ClimateScam #Agenda21 #Agenda2030


British physicist Mike McCulloch has a profound point here.

https://image.nostr.build/cc97b2c59310eb8e9e057f5e67f0c9771607bdd3e2d32ed4d71fa76545501953.jpg

If his Quantised Inertia (QI) theory works out and can be utilized practically, the world will have access to unlimited energy without pollution.

Add that QI would power interstellar drives as well, allowing for practical expansion into space - a frontier that will create an unlimited number of jobs. Just at a time when AI will displace a large number of jobs.

QI theory gets rid of dark matter and explains previously mysterious anomalies that traditional physicists have tried to explain with inserting subjective amounts of dark matter here and there in order to make the observations match their theory.

As the QI theory will become increasingly tested within coming years via practical experiments in space, an interesting lithmus test is forming:

How will the "environmental" movement react to Quantised Inertia if QI can provide humanity with abundant, pollutionless energy?

The cat is out of the box and ideas whose time has come cannot be returned to obscurity.

If Quantised Inertia works out, this will be the nail in the coffin for the UN Agenda 21 project and the climate doomsday preachers.

Quantised Inertia was inspired by Mike's insights from Oceanography. He was aware that boats close to the shore are pushed toward the shore because of the longer waves hitting the boat from one side, while the waves on the beach-side are shut off by a horizon that caused them to become shorter.

The principle follows from there: in theory we should be able to harness energy from quantum horizons and the acceleration that causes such horizons.

Applied to galaxies, QI can explain why galaxies hold together without inserting dark matter.

The principle behind this, as I understand it from Mike's talks, is that the Unruh quantum waves that exist outside of a galaxy are at maximum length, while accelerated matter shortens Unruh waves.

At the center of a galaxy is a black hole that accelerates matter towards it. The distance from the center of the galaxy thereby predicts the length of the Unruh radiation waves.

Close to the center of the galaxy the Unruh waves are shorter, due to the higher acceleration and the horizon formed by acceleration. The Unruh waves then gradually increase in length with further distance from the center until they reach the edge of the galaxy where the acceleration is lowest.

Since the longer Unruh waves push against the shorter waves, the galaxy is kept together without the need to insert dark matter.

The beauty of QI is that it is remarkably simple and can be tested practically, which can't be said about dark matter. Dark matter can be described as the establishment ethos - "believe this by decree and authority, not by proof of work".

QI can explain a variety of anomalies such as the orbits of binary stars where inserting dark matter doesn't even make sense.

We live in interesting times.

#QI #QuantisedInertia #MikeMcCulloch #McCulloch #Quantised #Inertia #Physics #Liberty #Science #DarkMatter #Dark #Matter #Energy #Environment #Environmentalism #Climate #ClimateAlarmism #Alarmism #ClimateScam #Agenda21 #Agenda2030


British physicist Mike McCulloch has a profound point here.

https://image.nostr.build/cc97b2c59310eb8e9e057f5e67f0c9771607bdd3e2d32ed4d71fa76545501953.jpg

If his Quantised Inertia (QI) theory works out and can be utilized practically, the world will have access to unlimited energy without pollution.

Add that QI would power interstellar drives as well, allowing for practical expansion into space - a frontier that will create an unlimited number of jobs. Just at a time when AI will displace a large number of jobs.

QI theory gets rid of dark matter and explains previously mysterious anomalies that traditional physicists have tried to explain with inserting subjective amounts of dark matter here and there in order to make the observations match their theory.

As the QI theory will become increasingly tested within coming years via practical experiments in space, an interesting lithmus test is forming:

How will the "environmental" movement react to Quantised Inertia if QI can provide humanity with abundant, pollutionless energy?

The cat is out of the box and ideas whose time has come cannot be returned to obscurity.

If Quantised Inertia works out, this will be the nail in the coffin for the UN Agenda 21 project and the climate doomsday preachers.

Quantised Inertia was inspired by Mike's insights from Oceanography. He was aware that boats close to the shore are pushed toward the shore because of the longer waves hitting the boat from one side, while the waves on the beach-side are shut off by a horizon that caused them to become shorter.

The principle follows from there: in theory we should be able to harness energy from quantum horizons and the acceleration that causes such horizons.

Applied to galaxies, QI can explain why galaxies hold together without inserting dark matter.

The principle behind this, as I understand it from Mike's talks, is that the Unruh quantum waves that exist outside of a galaxy are at maximum length, while accelerated matter shortens Unruh waves.

At the center of a galaxy is a black hole that accelerates matter towards it. The distance from the center of the galaxy thereby predicts the length of the Unruh radiation waves.

Close to the center of the galaxy the Unruh waves are shorter, due to the higher acceleration and the horizon formed by acceleration. The Unruh waves then gradually increase in length with further distance from the center until they reach the edge of the galaxy where the acceleration is lowest.

Since the longest Unruh waves push against the shorter waves, the galaxy is kept together without the need to insert dark matter.

The beauty of QI is that it is remarkably simple and can be tested practically, which can't be said about dark matter. Dark matter can be described as the establishment ethos - "believe this by decree and authority, not by proof of work".

QI can explain a variety of anomalies such as the orbits of binary stars where inserting dark matter doesn't even make sense.

We live in interesting times.

#QI #QuantisedInertia #MikeMcCulloch #McCulloch #Quantised #Inertia #Physics #Liberty #Science #DarkMatter #Dark #Matter #Energy #Environment #Environmentalism #Climate #ClimateAlarmism #Alarmism #ClimateScam #Agenda21 #Agenda2030


British physicist Mike McCulloch has a profound point here.

https://image.nostr.build/cc97b2c59310eb8e9e057f5e67f0c9771607bdd3e2d32ed4d71fa76545501953.jpg

If his Quantised Inertia (QI) theory works out and can be utilized practically, the world will have access to unlimited energy without pollution.

Add that QI would power interstellar drives as well, allowing for practical expansion into space - a frontier that will create an unlimited number of jobs. Just at a time when AI will displace a large number of jobs.

QI theory gets rid of dark matter and explains previously mysterious anomalies that traditional physicists have tried to explain with inserting subjective amounts of dark matter here and there in order to make the observations match their theory.

As the QI theory will become increasingly tested within coming years via practical experiments in space, an interesting lithmus test is forming:

How will the "environmental" movement react to Quantised Inertia if QI can provide humanity with abundant, pollutionless energy?

The cat is out of the box and ideas whose time has come cannot be returned to obscurity.

If Quantised Inertia works out, this will be the nail in the coffin for the UN Agenda 21 project and the climate doomsday preachers.

Quantized Inertia was inspired by Mike's insights from Oceanography. He was aware that boats close to the shore are pushed toward the shore because of the longer waves hitting the boat from one side, while the waves on the beach-side are shut off by a horizon that caused them to become shorter.

The principle follows from there: in theory we should be able to harness energy from quantum horizons and the acceleration that causes such horizons.

Applied to galaxies, QI can explain why galaxies hold together without inserting dark matter.

The principle behind this, as I understand it from Mike's talks, is that the Unruh quantum waves that exist outside of a galaxy are at maximum length, while accelerated matter shortens Unruh waves.

At the center of a galaxy is a black hole that accelerates matter towards it. The distance from the center of the galaxy thereby predicts the length of the Unruh radiation waves.

Close to the center of the galaxy the Unruh waves are shorter, due to the higher acceleration and the horizon formed by acceleration. The Unruh waves then gradually increase in length with further distance from the center until they reach the edge of the galaxy where the acceleration is lowest.

Since the longest Unruh waves push against the shorter waves, the galaxy is kept together without the need to insert dark matter.

The beauty of QI is that it is remarkably simple and can be tested practically, which can't be said about dark matter. Dark matter can be described as the establishment ethos - "believe this by decree and authority, not by proof of work".

QI can explain a variety of anomalies such as the orbits of binary stars where inserting dark matter doesn't even make sense.

We live in interesting times.

#QI #QuantisedInertia #MikeMcCulloch #McCulloch #Quantised #Inertia #Physics #Liberty #Science #DarkMatter #Dark #Matter #Energy #Environment #Environmentalism #Climate #ClimateAlarmism #Alarmism #ClimateScam #Agenda21 #Agenda2030


British physicist Mike McCulloch has a profound point here.

https://image.nostr.build/cc97b2c59310eb8e9e057f5e67f0c9771607bdd3e2d32ed4d71fa76545501953.jpg

If his Quantised Inertia (QI) theory works out and can be utilized practically, the world will have access to unlimited energy without pollution.

Add that QI would power interstellar drives as well, allowing for practical expansion into space - a frontier that will create an unlimited number of jobs. Just at a time when AI will displace a large number of jobs.

QI theory gets rid of dark matter and explains previously mysterious anomalies that traditional physicists have tried to explain with inserting subjective amounts of dark matter here and there in order to make the observations match the data.

As the QI theory will become increasingly tested within coming years via practical experiments in space, an interesting lithmus test is forming:

How will the "environmental" movement react to Quantised Inertia if QI can provide humanity with abundant, pollutionless energy?

The cat is out of the box and ideas whose time has come cannot be returned to obscurity.

If Quantised Inertia works out, this will be the nail in the coffin for the UN Agenda 21 project and the climate doomsday preachers.

Quantized Inertia was inspired by Mike's insights from Oceanography. He was aware that boats close to the shore are pushed toward the shore because of the longer waves hitting the boat from one side, while the waves on the beach-side are shut off by a horizon that caused them to become shorter.

The principle follows from there: in theory we should be able to harness energy from quantum horizons and the acceleration that causes such horizons.

Applied to galaxies, QI can explain why galaxies hold together without inserting dark matter.

The principle behind this, as I understand it from Mike's talks, is that the Unruh quantum waves that exist outside of a galaxy are at maximum length, while accelerated matter shortens Unruh waves.

At the center of a galaxy is a black hole that accelerates matter towards it. The distance from the center of the galaxy thereby predicts the length of the Unruh radiation waves.

Close to the center of the galaxy the Unruh waves are shorter, due to the higher acceleration and the horizon formed by acceleration. The Unruh waves then gradually increase in length with further distance from the center until they reach the edge of the galaxy where the acceleration is lowest.

Since the longest Unruh waves push against the shorter waves, the galaxy is kept together without the need to insert dark matter.

The beauty of QI is that it is remarkably simple and can be tested practically, which can't be said about dark matter. Dark matter can be described as the establishment ethos - "believe this by decree and authority, not by proof of work".

QI can explain a variety of anomalies such as the orbits of binary stars where inserting dark matter doesn't even make sense.

We live in interesting times.

#QI #QuantisedInertia #MikeMcCulloch #McCulloch #Quantised #Inertia #Physics #Liberty #Science #DarkMatter #Dark #Matter #Energy #Environment #Environmentalism #Climate #ClimateAlarmism #Alarmism #ClimateScam #Agenda21 #Agenda2030


Right. It's never too late to protect one's savings against moneyprinting. If they are truly savings then hodling bitcoin for 5-10 years should be achievable and this will be sufficient to avoid the turmoil of the markets.


Right. It's never too late to protect one's savings against moneyprinting. If they are truly savings then hodling for 5-10 years should be achievable and this will be sufficient to avoid the turmoil of the markets.


My take is that it is usually not worth my time to consider claims that can't be tested.


Huge congrats to @obi and team on the launch of Fedi today. Couldn’t be more excited!

In a world where dictators use money and data as a weapon against free speech and individual frights and freedoms, and the surveillance state is emerging everywhere, this freedom and privacy protocol on top of Bitcoin is a critical path to bringing #Bitcoin to billions of people.

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If you weren't able to catch the livestream, you can watch the replay here: https://fedi.xyz
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#Memes #Meme #Homeschooling #School #Education #PublicSchooling #Public #Schooling #HomeSchool #Home #School

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Yuk. Communists destroying civilization under the false banner of climate emergency are the worst.


The printing press was such a powerful invention that it brought the Middle Ages to an end.

But as the Pope would have pointed out, it was also a polarizing and radicalizing machine that led directly to religious conflicts. The internet and social media play a similar role in our time.

Although the symbols and slogans have changed, the conflict is fundamentally between the same forces: Catholics fighting for a universal "church" and Protestants fighting for freedom of conscience.

The criticism is also the same on both sides: Catholics believe heresy can destroy society as they know it, while Protestants believe the "church" has become thoroughly corrupt, both theologically and administratively.

And they use the same tools: the free flow of radical information in a battle against the conservative inquisition.

I know which side of this timeless battle I stand on.

Do you? 🤔


Agreed. Just that the current "conservative inquisition" here is now an attempt by the deep state establishment to cement radical leftism as a central planning framework without competition.


Agreed. Just that the current conservative inquisition is now an attempt by the deep state establishmeny to cement radical leftism as a central planning framework without competition.


Another option is to have a big package but not being aroused during a jump..


New study confirms earlier findings that co2 does not drive temperature change. Credit: Camus (newstart_2024 / Twitter)

https://image.nostr.build/92be38c523e162cb9cade7bb76a9776e0890a2c62986fd29eae258f0553e7d1e.jpg

Article link:

https://slaynews.com/news/claims-carbon-emissions-cause-global-warming-false-study-finds/

Study links:

Koutsoyiannis, 2024:
https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2023.2287047

Koutsoyiannis, 2023:
https://www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/6/1/17

Koutsoyiannis et al, 2023:
https://www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/5/3/35

Koutsoyiannis et al, 2022:
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0835

Koutsoyiannis et al, 2020:
https://www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/2/4/83

#CO2 #Climate #GlobalWarming #ClimateAlarmism #Global #Warming #Greenhouse #ClimateScam #CarbonDioxide #Environment #ClimateChange #Change


Good one. 😅🤣


Yep, capitulation signals the bottom. This is the necessary prep work before the bull run can start. All excessive sell pressure must be exhausted before takeoff. Throw the ballast before rising.


Bitcoin is for individuals that are able to take a beating without stressing about it.💪


Thanks for the zaps, followed!

Yup, losing is part of the fun and winning tastes better after an array of complete losses.😄


Thanks man, I fought for my life! 😄


I started playing some online chess recently. As a terrible chess player I was slaughtered in game after game, expectedly! The harder the challenge the more the allure.

https://image.nostr.build/1ae8456bf74e07dabb99def3bf3a7be2c38cfb1c9cbf36257d68a03144ebe3d6.jpg

One of my few wins was interesting (image above). I played as the white side and at this point in the game I had lost both my rooks and the opponent had a stronger piece lineup.

My strategy was to advance my Pawn from D6 to D7 and then the plan was to move my Bishop from F1 to H3, combining an attack together with my Queen placed at A4, toward his King. I was ready to sacrifice a few more pieces if nessary.

The idea played out well, perhaps due to my opponent being at a similar level as myself. I threatened his King and managed to take out both of his two Rooks, after which I could decimate his pieces step by step, with a couple of losses on my side.

This was a game that I thought I was on the verge of losing and it was stimulating to execute a comeback.

I didn't see any chess discussions here on Nostr, so here's an absolute noob posting, hoping to see interesting chess content from more advanced players.

Cheers!

#Chess #Game #ChessGame #Board #Chessboard #Gaming #Gameplay #Online


Low fee rainy Sunday: best time to consolidate UTXOs and open channels like for the new nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm hub. https://image.nostr.build/1e299646df1ade3e15c1e04b8156183a73bb0ac551a3aa246e8d70ea731ec193.jpg


Hilarious voting results on Twitter/X.

https://image.nostr.build/f07f62a7b70033ee3db830a1dfe697e3f6fec54cfd40d905a6f7c0f328b21196.jpg

It is entirely possible that the platform attracts more of a centre-right audience or that the centre-right is more active.

Yet, the account of Brian Krassenstein has 844k followers and we may assume with some confidence that most of his followers are pro-democrat. If half of his followers had voted, Kamala might have won his poll.

I say *might* here because increased spread of the poll could also have brought more visibility to pro-Trump or pro-JFK jr votes.

This brings me to the formulation. Perhaps referring to Trump as a convicted felon is not the brilliant strategic move Brian thought it was. Maybe the formulation added a few extra thousand votes in favor of Trump. Why? Because the establishment in most Western countries have been against Trump for the past 8 years.

Yet another possibility is that Kamala Harris simply isn't very popular among people in general.

Anti-establishment has become attractive for a lot of people. This means climate *realism*, not climate alarmism, abandoning the UN Agenda 21 sustainability goals, reducing energy costs, energy taxes and costly regulations, avoiding WW3 escalations as well as furthering peace negotiations in Ukraine.

"The Establishment" has come to mean: net zero, ESG scores, DEI ideology, CBDCs, climate scare mongering, increased costs of energy and living expenses, moneyprinting via high degrees of government spending, abandonment of merit in favor of ideology, and so on, with carbon allowances and social credit scores on the establishment horizon.

While Trump is far from perfect, not every politician has stood up in Davos and told the World Economic Forum to get lost with their socialist de-industrialization and anti-energy policies, calling them "Prophets of Doom".

Trump at Davos in 2020:

https://youtu.be/0UiFRZ3t_KM

Going back to 2017, Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord. He said that it is designed to kill the US economy:

https://youtu.be/iI24uAdAYro

On January 20, 2021, Biden signed the US back into the Paris climate accord. This was done on his first day in office. Clearly a high priority issue even if perhaps mostly symbolic. It displayed allegiance to the UN Agenda 21.

2023. Trump critiquing Germany for its harmful climate alarmism policies:

https://youtu.be/sJSr4tFkjcA

2024, February:

"I will not allow the creation of a CBDC"

https://youtu.be/oUjMK8d6omo

It is possible that Trump became anti-establishment by pure chance, as his stance was to protect US energy sector and strengthen the American economy.

From there is was inescapable that Trump would end up in conflict with the UN Agenda 21 and its next milestone Agenda 2030. Probably without even knowing what they were.

His pro-energy stance was unacceptable to the Al Gore's of the world, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Rishi Sunak, Angela Merkel as well as the deep state in the Scandinavian countries, all of which have heartily embraced the UN Agenda 21 and its authoritarian de-industrialization plans.

Reliable and inexpendive energy runs the world and provides us with the benefits of civilization.

Being pro-energy has become  anti-establishment.

Addendum.

I removed a reference to clean energy. No energy as of yet is 100% clean and climate activists often misuse the term "clean" to demonize traditional energy sources that are necessary at ths point in civilization, while they simultaneously pretend that wind and solar power as well as lithium batteries have no adverse effects.

If the practical applications of Quantized Inertia (QI, british physicist Mike McCulloch) works out we might be able to develop a fully clean energy source as well as an efficient interstellar drive. That could be 20-75 years ahead in time and until then we will need to utilize the available energy to pursue advancement of lives and liberties.

#Trump #Agenda21 #Agenda2030 #Establishment #Energy #CBDC #ClimateAlarmism #Climate #Alarmism


Hilarious voting results on Twitter/X.

https://image.nostr.build/f07f62a7b70033ee3db830a1dfe697e3f6fec54cfd40d905a6f7c0f328b21196.jpg

It is entirely possible that the platform attracts more of a centre-right audience or that the centre-right is more active.

Yet, the account of Brian Krassenstein has 844k followers and we may assume with some confidence that most of his followers are pro-democrat. If half of his followers had voted, Kamala might have won his poll.

I say *might* here because increased spread of the poll could also have brought more visibility to pro-Trump or pro-JFK jr votes.

This brings me to the formulation. Perhaps referring to Trump as a convicted felon is not the brilliant strategic move Brian thought it was. Maybe the formulation added a few extra thousand votes in favor of Trump. Why? Because the establishment in most Western countries have been against Trump for the past 8 years.

Yet another possibility is that Kamala Harris simply isn't very popular among people in general.

Anti-establishment has become attractive for a lot of people. This means climate *realism*, not climate alarmism, abandoning the UN Agenda 21 sustainability goals, reducing energy costs, energy taxes and costly regulations, avoiding WW3 escalations as well as furthering peace negotiations in Ukraine.

"The Establishment" has come to mean: net zero, ESG scores, DEI ideology, CBDCs, climate scare mongering, increased costs of energy and living expenses, moneyprinting via high degrees of government spending, abandonment of merit in favor of ideology, and so on, with carbon allowances and social credit scores on the establishment horizon.

While Trump is far from perfect, not every politician has stood up in Davos and told the World Economic Forum to get lost with their socialist de-industrialization and anti-energy policies, calling them "Prophets of Doom".

Trump at Davos in 2020:

https://youtu.be/0UiFRZ3t_KM

Going back to 2017, Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord. He said that it is designed to kill the US economy:

https://youtu.be/iI24uAdAYro

On January 20, 2021, Biden signed the US back into the Paris climate accord. This was done on his first day in office. Clearly a high priority issue even if perhaps mostly symbolic. It displayed allegiance to the UN Agenda 21.

2023. Trump critiquing Germany for its harmful climate alarmism policies:

https://youtu.be/sJSr4tFkjcA

2024, February:

"I will not allow the creation of a CBDC"

https://youtu.be/oUjMK8d6omo

It is possible that Trump became anti-establishment by pure chance, as his stance was to protect US energy sector and strengthen the American economy.

From there is was inescapable that Trump would end up in conflict with the UN Agenda 21 and its next milestone Agenda 2030. Probably without even knowing what they were.

His pro-energy stance was unacceptable to the Al Gore's of the world, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Rishi Sunak, Angela Merkel as well as the deep state in the Scandinavian countries, all of which have heartily embraced the UN Agenda 21 and its authoritarian de-industrialization plans.

Reliable and inexpendive energy runs the world and provides us with the benefits of civilization.

Being pro-energy has become  anti-establishment.

Addendum.

I removed a reference to clean energy. No energy as of yet is 100% clean and climate activists often misuse the term "clean" to demonize traditional energy sources that are necessary at ths point in civilization, while they simultaneously pretend that wind and solar power as well as lithium batteries have no adverse effects.

If the practical applications of Quantized Inertia (QI, british physicist Mike McCulloch) works out we might be able to develop a fully clean energy source as well as an efficient interstellar drive. That could be 20-75 years ahead in time and until then we will need the avsilable energy to pursue advancement of lives and liberties.

#Trump #Agenda21 #Agenda2030 #Establishment #Energy #CBDC #ClimateAlarmism #Climate #Alarmism


Also another thought.

If the US bought 1M bitcoin and the price appreciated to $20M per coin, that would be a strategic reserve worth $20 trillion. If there is a way to combat the national deficit, it's bitcoin.


It would be interesting to hear Vivek's stance on the UN Agenda 21.


Art tutorial for promo renders, part 1.

https://image.nostr.build/c4b843c6a665dba431b1f290647d630764d86efd77db9e8dde112f0d4fb79578.jpg

Eye-catching promos are essential when it comes to demonstrating the merits of a product.  Showcasing how a 3D figure can be used for art concepts helps the viewer to conjure up their imagination and be inspired to create art.

Another dimension of promo art is informing the consumer about the product and visualizing what they can do with it.

In the example above I placed this female character in a Conan type of setting and adjusted her pose to a casual, reclined position, gripping the throne with her left hand. The underwear that I applied to her did not fit the character properly, due to it being from a different generation. This is a common issue.

I fixed the underwear problem in GIMP by first using the Free Select Tool to cut out a copy of the underwear to a separate layer. Then I used the Warp Transform Tool to nudge the pixels where I wanted them. Finally I trimmed the selection and used both the clone tool and a general paintover to fix the areas that needed a rework.

Lastly I wanted to improve the lighting. I decided to light up the area to the left around the incense burner to increase the contrast and bring some life to the scene.

I started by using the Free Select Tool (GIMP) to meticulously select the area I wanted to impact. After the selection was done I proceeded to brighten the area and applying a slight bloom effect.

In the last stage I like to use ON1 Effects for the final postwork since I'm not fully familiar with GIMP as of date. But any application where you can increase contrast, improve/change saturation, balance the levels sliders and apply a circular edge toning/darkening are useful. Nothing beyond the basics is necessary. Of course, never use tools that change the product you are demonstrating.

With applications like FilterForge you can design your own postwork process by connecting and micromanaging nodes where you can plug in user sliders. It may just render a bit slow at higher resolutions so that's an inherent limitation.

Thanks for reading. If you are a GIMP user feel free to comment with tips that you use in your postwork process. While I enjoy using other tools as well it is great to promote free and open source software like GIMP.

#GIMP #Promo #PromoArt #Render #Postwork #Daz #Studio #DazStudio #Genesis #Character #3D #Product #Art #Commission #ArtCommission #daz3d #3dart #noai


Art tutorial for promo renders, part 1.

https://image.nostr.build/c4b843c6a665dba431b1f290647d630764d86efd77db9e8dde112f0d4fb79578.jpg

Eye-catching promos are essential when it comes to demonstrating the merits of a product.  Showcasing how a 3D figure can be used for art concepts helps the viewer to conjure up their imagination and be inspired to create art.

Another dimension of promo art is informing the consumer about the product and visualizing what they can do with it.

In the example above I placed this female character in a Conan type of setting and adjusted her pose to a casual, reclined position, gripping the throne with her left hand. The underwear that I applied to her did not fit the character properly, due to it being from a different generation. This is a common issue.

I fixed the underwear problem in GIMP by first using the Free Select Tool to cut out a copy of the underwear to a separate layer. Then I used the Warp Transform Tool to nudge the pixels where I wanted them. Finally I trimmed the selection and used both the clone tool and a general paintover to fix the areas that needed a rework.

Lastly I wanted to improve the lighting. I decided to light up the area to the left around the incense burner to increase the contrast and bring some life to the scene.

I started by using the Free Select Tool (GIMP) to meticulously select the area I wanted to impact. After the selection was done I proceeded to brighten the area and applying a slight bloom effect.

In the last stage I like to use ON1 Effects for the final postwork since I'm not fully familiar with GIMP as of date. But any application where you can increase contrast, improve/change saturation, balance the levels sliders and apply a circular edge toning/darkening are useful. Nothing beyond the basics is necessary. Of course, never use tools that change the product you are demonstrating.

With applications like FilterForge you can design your own postwork process by connecting and micromanaging nodes where you can plug in user sliders. It may just render a bit slow at higher resolutions so that's an inherent limitation.

Thanks for reading. If you are a GIMP user feel free to comment with tips that you use in your postwork process. While I enjoy using other tools as well it is great to promote free and open source software like GIMP.

#GIMP #Promo #PromoArt #Render #Postwork #Daz #Studio #DazStudio #Genesis #Character #3D #Product #Art #Commission #ArtCommission


Art tutorial for promo renders, part 1.

https://image.nostr.build/c4b843c6a665dba431b1f290647d630764d86efd77db9e8dde112f0d4fb79578.jpg

Eye-catching promos are essential when it comes to demonstrating the merits of a product.  Showcasing how a 3D figure can be used for art concepts helps the viewer to conjure up their imagination and be inspired to create art.

Another dimension of promo art is informing the consumer about the product and visualizing what they can do with it.

In the example above I placed this female character in a Conan type of setting and adjusted her pose to a casual, reclined position, gripping the throne with her left hand. The underwear that I applied to her did not fit the character properly, due to it being from a different generation. This is a common issue.

I fixed the underwear problem in GIMP by first using the Free Select Tool to cut out a copy of the underwear to a separate layer. Then I used the Warp Transform Tool to nudge the pixels where I wanted them. Lastly I trimmed the selection and used both the clone tool and a general paintover to fix the areas that needed a rework.

Lastly I wanted to improve the lighting. I decided to light up the area to the left around the incense burner to increase the contrast and bring some life to the scene.

I started by using the Free Select Tool to meticulously select the area I wanted to impact. After the selection was done I proceeded to brighten the area and applying a slight bloom effect.

In the last stage I like to use ON1 Effects for the final postwork since I'm not fully familiar with GIMP as of date. But any application where you can increase contrast, improve/change saturation, balance the levels sliders and apply a circular edge toning/darkening are useful. Nothing beyond the basics is necessary. Of course, never use tools that change the product you are demonstrating.

With applications like FilterForge you can design your own postwork process by connecting and micromanaging nodes where you can plug in user sliders. It may just render a bit slow at higher resolutions so that's an inherent limitation.

Thanks for reading. If you are a GIMP user feel free to comment with tips that you use in your postwork process. While I enjoy using other tools as well it is great to promote free and open source software like GIMP.

#GIMP #Promo #PromoArt #Render #Postwork #Daz #Studio #DazStudio #Genesis #Character #3D #Product #Art #Commission #ArtCommission


Art tutorial for promo renders, part 1.

https://image.nostr.build/c4b843c6a665dba431b1f290647d630764d86efd77db9e8dde112f0d4fb79578.jpg

Eye-catching promos are essential when it comes to demonstrating the merits of a product.  Showcasing how a 3D figure can be used for art concepts helps the viewer to conjure up their imagination and be inspired to create art.

Another dimension of promo art is informing the consumer about the product and visualizing what they can do with it.

In the example above I placed this female character in a Conan type of setting and adjusted her pose to a casual, reclined position, gripping the throne with her left hand. The underwear that I applied to her did not fit the character properly, due to it being from a different generation. This is a common issue.

I fixed the underwear problem in GIMP by first using the Free Select Tool to cut out a copy of the underwear to a separate layer. Then I used the Warp Transform Tool to nudge the pixels where I wanted them. Lastly I trimmed the selection and used both the clone tool and a general paintover to fix the areas that needed a rework.

Finally I needed to improve the lighting. I decided to light up the area to the left around the incense burner to increase the contrast and bring some life to the image.

I started by using the Free Select Tool to meticulously select the area I wanted to impact. After the selection was done I proceeded to brighten the area and applying a slight bloom effect.

In the last stage I like to use ON1 Effects for the final postwork since I'm not fully familiar with GIMP as of date. But any application where you can increase contrast, improve/change saturation, balance the levels sliders and apply a circular edge toning/darkening are useful. Nothing beyond the basics is necessary. Of course, never use tools that change the product you are demonstrating.

With applications like FilterForge you can design your own postwork process by connecting and micromanaging nodes where you can plug in user sliders. It may just render a bit slow at higher resolutions so that's an inherent limitation.

Thanks for reading. If you are a GIMP user feel free to comment with tips that you use in your postwork process. While I enjoy using other tools as well it is great to promote free and open source software like GIMP.

#GIMP #Promo #PromoArt #Render #Postwork #Daz #Studio #DazStudio #Genesis #Character #3D #Product #Art #Commission #ArtCommission


Heh, it was a learning experience.😄

I think my friend had just assembled a list of jokes that he thought were good and he didn't claim authorship for all of them.

But as the jokes were presented, there was an assumption that he was the author of the whole list.

We have to go by what we see and as a result we will draw different conclusions based on our information.


A bit strange that the teacher assumed that you hadn't authored it yourself.

A short anecdote.

I remember back in the late 1980'ies, I used to connect with BBS's and had online chats with friends. One guy used to write jokes and share with me and I would also share him the jokes I had written.

Then one day in class, another friend of mine who was also into BBS's, shared a list of jokes from our mutual online friend, and he read them out loud.

When I heard that one of my jokes was included, I mentioned that I wrote it (I didn't expect people to find it that funny).

The hilarious backlash was that some angry person started saying that I was trying to steal the credit for a joke that I myself had written some weeks before.

The moral of the story is that information is local. What people hear first will often impact their perception.


A bit strange that the teacher assumed that you hadn't authored it yourself.

A short anecdote.

I remember back in the late 1980'ies, I used to connect with BBS's and had online chat with friends. One guy used to write jokes and share with me and I would also share him the jokes I had written.

Then one day in class, another friend of mine who was also into BBS's, shared a list of jokes from our mutual online friend, and he read them out loud.

When I heard that one of my jokes was included, I mentioned that I wrote it (I didn't expect people to find it that funny).

The hilarious backlash was that some angry person started saying that I was trying to steal the credit for a joke that I myself had written some weeks before.

The moral of the story is that information is local. What people hear first will often impact their perception.


Just chatting with family about this. Women need to stand up for themselves here too. I believe if women protested and walked out of the Olympics, they would find allies with most of the men and this crap would be over the next day. Hopefully tools like nostr can help connect like minded women to realize they’re not alone. nostr:note1dpjcsqj8k5743uqgpsdycjuv4x0xfsgfc69hmc0w7pcpyjp6qncqmtq2g5


💯

Freedom is about defending individual liberties and private property rights.

These are the foundational principles that build a world of sovereign individuals pursuing their own paths without harming the liberties of others.

The foundational principles of liberty hearken back to 1690 and John Locke; every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

Further reading on John Locke:

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💯

Freedom is about defending individual liberties and private property rights.

These are the foundational principles that build a world of sovereign individuals pursuing their own paths without harming the liberties of others.

The foundational principles of liberty hearken back to 1690 and John Locke; every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

Further reading on John Locke:

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💯

Currently we are at 400 ppm CO2 outdoors.

If CO2 drop 250 ppm, down to 150 ppm, plants and animals die.

If CO2 increase 250 ppm, to 650 ppm, tree and plant growth increase resulting in greater ogyxen production.

Climate alarmism stems from the UN Agenda 21, signed by 179 nations in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It is a core ideology of the deep state.


Unpopular opinion, amongst some bitcoiners, but I’m really sick of it.
The virtue signaling of some bitcoiners to the “climate change” scam club is silly and useless.
https://m.primal.net/JlUv.jpg


First off, I reject your false projection.

Secondly, hate speech laws are tools designed to help the government jail people based on opinion. Historically they are called blasphemy laws.

That is *not* compatible with liberty ideals. Hate speech laws is a sign that we live in a 1984 society.

What hate speech laws do is to create a broad category of *illegal speech* into which a government can insert anything that runs contrary to its ideological dogma.

If you don't want blasphemy laws then we better abolish blasphemy laws before your opinions are defined as blasphemy by the government.


"The mob" is regular people saying no to men beating up women in violent sports. The CBDC side (Kamala & co) is losing votes over their lack of ethics.

We "the mob" keep critiquing corruption, central banks, CBDCs, the UN Agenda 21 and so on. Business as usual.


Exactly 22 years ago, nostr:npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw published the Hashcash whitepaper describing the proof-of-work consensus mechanism, the heart and soul of the #Bitcoin network.

What a legend 🧡🫡 https://image.nostr.build/e40fb4c741a53c85fd3345f6077976af7de6365b79b8c410784e6557e0273ee7.jpg


The musculature is radically different between men and women. That is not trivial.

Female-only sports is necessary and will not go away. Women cannot compete physically with men.

Gender is not an understanding.
We are either born XY or XX.

However, we might need a "cyborg" or "body modification" category in the distant future.


The musculature is radically different between men and women. That is not trivial.

Female-only sports is necessary and will npt go away. Women cannot compete physically with men.

Gender is not an understanding.
We are either born XY or XX.

However, we might need a "cyborg" or "body modification" category in the distant future.


That's naive, Vitor.

Gender based sports is the primary filtering for body-structure. The male musculature is very different than female musculature.

Adding a mixed category can make sense in some sports but not in all.


Shared content ≠ emotional state.
People share for visibility.


Money printing starts ramping up before U.S. elections, leading to growth in M2 money supply.

Against this macro backdrop and the reduced issuance of #Bitcoin (Halving), #Bitcoin begins its true bull cycle after the miners' capitulation is over.

We are right on track. 🚀 https://image.nostr.build/8d952797a1afad4eead3268622e74b340bf4907b56920178cec78fbdc407cb28.jpg


Looks like the real driver for #Bitcoin moon mission is not the Halving but U.S. Presidential elections and the fiat chaos that comes with them. https://image.nostr.build/70b313dae52a90db2d0ec9e5980abb20131056028d51a7a05990d5a5ce644ed1.jpg


Hilarious voting results on Twitter/X.

https://image.nostr.build/f07f62a7b70033ee3db830a1dfe697e3f6fec54cfd40d905a6f7c0f328b21196.jpg

It is entirely possible that the platform attracts more of a centre-right audience or that the centre-right is more active.

Yet, the account of Brian Krassenstein has 844k followers and we may assume with some confidence that most of his followers are pro-democrat. If half of his followers had voted, Kamala might have won his poll.

I say *might* here because increased spread of the poll could also have brought more visibility to pro-Trump or pro-JFK jr votes.

This brings me to the formulation. Perhaps referring to Trump as a convicted felon is not the brilliant strategic move Brian thought it was. Maybe the formulation added a few extra thousand votes in favor of Trump. Why? Because the establishment in most Western countries have been against Trump for the past 8 years.

Yet another possibility is that Kamala Harris simply isn't very popular among people in general.

Anti-establishment has become attractive for a lot of people. This means climate *realism*, not climate alarmism, abandoning the UN Agenda 21 sustainability goals, reducing energy costs, energy taxes and costly regulations, avoiding WW3 escalations as well as furthering peace negotiations in Ukraine.

"The Establishment" has come to mean: net zero, ESG scores, DEI ideology, CBDCs, climate scare mongering, increased costs of energy and living expenses, moneyprinting via high degrees of government spending, abandonment of merit in favor of ideology, and so on, with carbon allowances and social credit scores on the establishment horizon.

While Trump is far from perfect, not every politician has stood up in Davos and told the World Economic Forum to get lost with their socialist de-industrialization and anti-energy policies, calling them "Prophets of Doom".

Trump at Davos in 2020:

https://youtu.be/0UiFRZ3t_KM

Going back to 2017, Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord. He said that it is designed to kill the US economy:

https://youtu.be/iI24uAdAYro

On January 20, 2021, Biden signed the US back into the Paris climate accord. This was done on his first day in office. Clearly a high priority issue even if perhaps mostly symbolic. It displayed allegiance to the UN Agenda 21.

2023. Trump critiquing Germany for its harmful climate alarmism policies:

https://youtu.be/sJSr4tFkjcA

2024, February:

"I will not allow the creation of a CBDC"

https://youtu.be/oUjMK8d6omo

It is possible that Trump became anti-establishment by pure chance, as his stance was to protect US energy sector and strengthen the American economy.

From there is was inescapable that Trump would end up in conflict with the UN Agenda 21 and its next milestone Agenda 2030. Probably without even knowing what they were.

His pro-energy stance was unacceptable to the Al Gore's of the world, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Rishi Sunak, Angela Merkel as well as the deep state in the Scandinavian countries, all of which have heartily embraced the UN Agenda 21 and its authoritarian de-industrialization plans.

Clean, cheap and reliable energy runs the world and provides us with the benefits of civilization.

Being pro-energy has become  anti-establishment.

[Edit] Fixed typo.

#Trump #Agenda21 #Agenda2030 #Establishment #Energy #CBDC


Hilarious voting results on Twitter/X.

https://image.nostr.build/f07f62a7b70033ee3db830a1dfe697e3f6fec54cfd40d905a6f7c0f328b21196.jpg

It is entirely possible that the platform attracts more of a centre-right audience or that the centre-right is more active.

Yet, the account of Brian Krassenstein has 844k followers and we may assume with some confidence that most of his followers are pro-democrat. If half of his followers had voted, Kamala might have won his poll.

I say *might* here because increased spread of the poll could also have brought more visibility to pro-Trump or pro-JFK jr votes.

This brings me to the formulation. Perhaps referring to Trump as a convicted felon is not the brilliant strategic move Brian thought it was. Maybe the formulation added a few extra thousand votes in favor of Trump. Why? Because the establishment in most Western countries have been against Trump for the past 8 years.

Yet another possibility is that Kamala Harris simply isn't very popular among people in general.

Anti-establishment has become attractive for a lot of people. This means climate *realism*, not climate alarmism, abandoning the UN Agenda 21 sustainability goals, reducing energy costs, energy taxes and costly regulations, avoiding WW3 escalations as well as furthering peace negotiations in Ukraine.

"The Establishment" has come to mean: net zero, ESG scores, DEI ideology, CBDCs, climate scare mongering, increased costs of energy and living expenses, moneyprinting via high degrees of government spending, abandonment of merit in favor of ideology, and so on, with carbon allowances and social credit scores on the establishment horizon.

While Trump is far from perfect, not every polititician has stood up in Davos and told the World Economic Forum to get lost with their socialist de-industrialization and anti-energy policies, calling them "Prophets of Doom".

Trump at Davos in 2020:

https://youtu.be/0UiFRZ3t_KM

Going back to 2017, Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord. He said that it is designed to kill the US economy:

https://youtu.be/iI24uAdAYro

On January 20, 2021, Biden signed the US back into the Paris climate accord. This was done on his first day in office. Clearly a high priority issue even if perhaps mostly symbolic. It displayed allegiance to the UN Agenda 21.

2023. Trump critiquing Germany for its harmful climate alarmism policies:

https://youtu.be/sJSr4tFkjcA

2024, February:

"I will not allow the creation of a CBDC"

https://youtu.be/oUjMK8d6omo

It is possible that Trump became anti-establishment by pure chance, as his stance was to protect US energy sector and strengthen the American economy.

From there is was inescapable that Trump would end up in conflict with the UN Agenda 21 and its next milestone Agenda 2030. Probably without even knowing what they were.

His pro-energy stance was unacceptable to the Al Gore's of the world, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Rishi Sunak, Angela Merkel as well as the deep state in the Scandinavian countries, all of which have heartily embraced the UN Agenda 21 and its authoritarian de-industrialization plans.

Clean, cheap and reliable energy runs the world and provides us with the benefits of civilization.

Being pro-energy has become  anti-establishment.

#Trump #Agenda21 #Agenda2030 #Establishment #Energy #CBDC


Bad for the US government, good for the market to absorb cheaper coins.


Absolutely.

Yet in my humble opinion, signature aggregation seems to be far more complex than to just keep small amounts on L2 - L3's where they can be spent easily.

Using competitive banking services is fine in my view as long as we don't store large amounts there and as long as nobody can expand the total supply.

It seems we assume that everyone wants to store $10 on L1 when other options for that are better.


As several responses demonstrate, these considerations can be long and complex.

One simple answer is that not everyone will have enough savings to compete with the fees on L1. The bandwidth for a secure and decentralized store of value is limited and cannot be otherwise.

In a good case scenario we might achieve 7000 tx's per block. That's a million tx per day (7000 x 144) and 368 million tx per year.

For a population of 8 billion people, the above estimated bandwidth could be compared with a 21 year waiting time per transaction (if it was a queue system, which it is not). Since it's a fee system, some deposit amounts will just not be meaningful on L1 in relation to the competitive fees.

A more plausible figure is 4500 tx per block, equalling 648k tx per day and 236,682,000 tx per year. This gives a bandwidth of 33 years waiting time per tx if it was a queue system. (Again, which it is not)

Even if the bandwidth on L1 was significantly improved, not every person out of 8 billion would be able to compete with the fees. Some people can afford to use L1 hundreds, or thousands of times so the above calculations are merely hints that highlight the issue.

The solution *must* involve L2 - L3's.

It can't be 100% solved on L1 and this is not even related to Bitcoin but would apply to any L1 blockchain. L1 fees will outprice some people - this is inevitable.

Personally I'm happy to use Lightning and Liquid for amounts below $100. A free market competition on L2 - L3's combined with self interest (tx fee income for relaying) will keep the options secure enough.

As the L2 - L3 development continues there will be more options and greater security.

The potentially offensive part of this subject is that realism (A is A) is often misconstrued as non-inclusiveness. Reality is what it is and no other decentralized competitor to bitcoin can solve the problem for L1 bandwidth either. L1 has its benefits and drawbacks.


View from Earth if planets from our Solar System were as close as the Moon https://video.nostr.build/deca77ee46c8ba411b63deb3807cb69adaa6e6517282138e6825b59994297a4c.mp4


BREAKING: El Salvador Proposes #Bitcoin for Trade with Russia

“We (Russia) have difficulties with calculations because the official currency in El Salvador is the US dollar. As an alternative, El Salvador offers to use #Bitcoin in trade operations.”

https://www.techopedia.com/news/el-salvador-proposes-bitcoin-for-trade-with-russia


Innovations on upper layers are welcome but changes to the core L1 protocol should be a last resort, to solve some existential problem that cannot be solved in any other way.

We don’t have a scaling problem yet. We probably will in the future, but we don’t have one now. We don’t need to rush out solutions ahead of time. We should just do R&D and deploy candidate proposals elsewhere to other working systems to gain experience with them.

When we do face a scaling problem, we should allow the pain of it to motivate solutions on upper layers before we entertain changes to the core protocol. Necessity is always the mother of invention and the pain of the actual problem may motivate solutions we didn’t consider before.

We also need to keep in mind that L1 transactions are not for buying coffee. L1 is for safeguarding the world’s money. We can’t continue to mess it up (eg. witness discount). Future generations are counting on us.


Yeah. Dedicated communists have a poor track record with private property rights.


Democrats recently re-introduced the idea of a 30% discriminatory tax on #Bitcoin mining in the U.S. which would kill the industry.

Pro #Bitcoin Kamala Harris is a big fat lie.

https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/06/13/bidens-proposed-nonsensical-30-tax-would-kill-bitcoin-mining-in-the-us/


Interesting times.

For every positive bitcoin announcement one may expect that there has been a study period in advance combined with silent stacking. Only when participants are ready for a price increase will they announce bitcoin adoption plans. (This tells us nothing of near term price movements, but gives us some insight into what has been going on in the background)


Game theory in action:

- Trump says the USA should prevent China from dominating BTC

- Hong Kong official announces exploring holding BTC reserves

- Russia announces BTC payments (presumably to acquire BTC by selling oil) https://image.nostr.build/7e7a655aa9cd76472adca9d280f95449ef65f40564d6885bda2610628a94273d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e9ef063ba8209d03558e574bebe0a18024b59a511ac777bf415dd7669051ae9b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0e106f3b6aebbe1ee20ab3d978e033d7dd45ff5c19ee1676a6869918a2e10498.jpg


"And when nostr:nprofile1qqsgfhhxuemwtwm8kjk5uppv7uxtmp5pz4wm2dv59lxx5pfnsk98ysqpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue04p0w0e can come back to this country to the ticker-tape parade he deserves, THEN we'll know we live in a free country."

–Ticked-off Tucker Carlson

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Sure, they are free to waste their votes and benefit the Kamala Harris side. I just don't get it personally.


Yes, I hope no Bitcoiner thought that RFK jr's policy promises were doable. It's understandable that the person siting on the bench watching the game and have no chance of winning the game will come up with the idea: I could outbid the real players who have a chance of winning so that I seem like the better option, in spite that I can't fulfill the promises.


Good points Hans.

RFK jr once said that he is "the acolyte of Al Gore". (There's a video clip, easy to find)  And this is not an overstatement.

RFK jr has aligned strongly with the UN Agenda 21, while Trump - against the odds - signed the US *off* from the Paris climate accord 7 years ago, which incidentally, probably caused much ot the deep state attacks on him. The attacks have been relentless after that, basically 24/7. Biden signed the US back on to the Paris climate accord on his first day in office. It was a big deal for the deep state.

Then Trump stood up at the WEF in Davos and spoke out against the socialist climate alarmism policies and condemned them completely. How many other presidents have openly defied the global deep state like this.

In regards to RFK jr, I still have issues with his statement that he wanted to jail critics of the climate agenda. I don't know if he still have this opinion or if he still consider himself an acolyte of Al Gore, I hope he has grown and changed his mind, yet my trust for him is limited. And in relation to the 2nd amendment and gun rights, RFK is scary. On energy he is a disaster.