'The problem here is that people want "Bitcoiner" to be some kind of all-encompassing personal identity, and it's just not, and it never was.' '... by trying to stretch Bitcoin into a "thick" identity, people wind up just adopting a basket of MAGA-adjacent "Qanon Shaman" beliefs systems to spackle in the gaps of "how do I live?"' View quoted note →

It always amazes me how an insignificantly small number of bitcoiners who don't mine or contribute in any materially meaningful way still think they are the main characters. They tend to see bitcoin as some sort of prophetic cause, the apotheosis of which is that the bankers will be vanquished and the food will be fixed and everyone gets a puppy and half a cow. You guys realize this is just a LARP right? It's a richly fleshed-out fantasy world built on crusty libertarian/ancap/agorist/Austrian ideas that never penetrate into real life. I think that's important to realize, because some of you are making life decisions around what is effectively a game of pretend. You're moving to literal dangerous places of the world. You're sinking irresponsible amounts of personal capital and credit into a computer science experiment that may not shake out.

Bitcoin doesnt make people better. It actually turns them into little, petty gremlins who fight with each other when the price goes down.

Stop listening to content creators about bitcoin. They were wrong about 2025. Every single one of them were stroking your dick, telling you what a fucking genius you were, and now all of them are ret-conning that shit. There is no reason to spend your time listening to story tellers, unless you want to be told a story. Unless you like buying the horseshit wellness and lending products they shill.

GM, you poors. Try not to make direct eye contact with the people you convinced to buy bitcoin in the last four months. You're not crazy. You're committed to the LARP.

@7fqx the reason that it's important to know the bitcoin price because you can use it to know when the devs are cranky and about to do some ratchet shit to each other.

One thing you have to understand about software engineers is that, like in most things talent-related, most of them exist at the top of the bell cirve, which is to say they are average. And the top of the talent bell curve shifts heavily left on the value scale. Most average developers can't even write Hello World without Google or AI. Most of them don't have an active github account. Most of them don't know how to write a unit test. The curve drops steeply in either direction, and from the small, steep bands to the right of the crest is where you see the great software happen. Like in sports or beauty or music, people's attention and money accrete around a very small circle of right-curve individuals. So don't just assume all developers are the same. Or do assume that, and you'll make a dogshit (which is to say average) manager in a software org.

Everyone is being so mean to each other staahhhhp it you're acaring the children

What a beautiful day. I feel at peace with everything. What did I miss here on the Nostr?

"I can confidently say Javier Milei’s policies bear no resemblance to what an Austrian economist would do" Its almost like these ideas run into a brick wall of reality and their only purpose is to animate useful idiots. View quoted note →

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