Our cities are in decline, people can’t have universal healthcare, University education is pay to play, Pensions were scrapped for 401ks, Social Security is on the ropes, 100k children have gone missing in the US, Europe is in full meltdown… …but theres always money in the Hadron banana stand.

Gizmodo

Physicists Turned Lead Into Gold—for a Fraction of a Second

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating near-misses.

🛢️ 🛢️ 🛢️ Oil continues to languish in kilosats, despite improved trade landscape. WTI Crude floating about the $61ksat level this morning. $61,288 sats per barrel atm. 🛢️ 🛢️ 🛢️

I believe we all have this nameless, endless Want in our Being. We identify it differently, and at different times in different ways. But the Want is always there. It feeds Me, feeds on Me. Accepting, recognizing and managing this Want is what builds character. Feeding this unidentifiable Want is our life-path. A necessity. Allowing it to feed on Me is a mis-judgement. It’s quite the conundrum, just trying to Be Me. My 2-sats this evening, apropos of the spam-wars.

Spammers are at it again.

Bitcoin has successfully scaled. Cycles are done, as we knew them. Plebs will be replaced by Retail. Institutions will accumulate, but unemotionally (b/c they handle other peoples money). Deep State/Mike Benz’ “The Blob” will assail anyone who has access to Bitcoin code from all angles, not to stop Bitcoin, but to shape it in their own image. Those who have loved Bitcoin for most of their lives need to kneel and make a parting grace. Bitcoin is venturing out on its own. You need to accept that its not Yours anymore.

OG Bitcoiners will always be selling now, into $100k. Class of 2017 will always be selling soon, into $500k. Class of 2020 will always be selling later, into $1million. Wall Street (or its like) will always be buying, always. We all bought and will sell Bitcoin at the price we deserve! But we’ll always leave a smaller bag for our heirs. And they, a smaller bag still. Ad terminum. [Except the corporations who live indefinitely and leverage their Bitcoin bags and therefore might accrete non-degenerating wealth and will be fighting far beyond our mortal lives to accumulate the Bitcoin we mortal beings will continually sell to them.] Hope is funny that way. Fleeting, even in the best of times. But it has always has been. Even with Bitcoin. Nostrovia!

🛢️ 🛢️ 🛢️ Oil plummets further, below the 59ksat level. WTI Crude Oil is at 58,888 sats per barrel on this fine Friday. Enjoy your weekend Pleb! 🛢️ 🛢️ 🛢️

Signothermal Spectralwallet photography of Max Keiser’s “OG” Pre-History bags shows they’ve been massively depleted at the sub-$100k stratum. Osiris is the only limit now for Bitcoin.

The first tiny steps toward Oil priced in sats. Hyper-Bitcoinization has begun. “Emarat, a state-owned oil company in the UAE boasting a market value of nearly $14 billion, has begun accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as fuel payments. The cooperation with Crypto.com, announced on May 8, 2025, stands to benefit both the digital currency adoption in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the energy sector. Ten Emarat service stations, which already have the Crypto.com payment infrastructure installed, will be the first to implement it. This attempts to make it possible for consumers to use supported digital assets to pay for gas and convenience shop purchases. In addition, this pilot program intends to spread throughout Emarat’s more than 155 service stations in the United Arab Emirates, contingent on regulatory permission and consumer feedback.”

BanklessTimes

Emarat $14B Oil Empire Now Accepts Bitcoin and Other Crypto for Gas Payments | BanklessTimes

Emarat accepts Bitcoin and crypto for gas in the UAE, partnering with Crypto.com to launch the region’s first crypto-powered fuel stations.

If you’re not running a node, have your girlfriend/wife message me. She left her earrings on my night stand….

🛢️ 🛢️ 🛢️ Crude Oil rebounds sharply today on rumors of declining production - following record highs in 2024. WTI Crude at 63,188 sats per barrel. 🛢️ 🛢️ 🛢️

Evidently China has sold a shitload (pun intended) of yuan, to the tune of something like $680billion worth. Which is being correlated with the huge upward move in Gold today. Which would explain the air-pocket under Bitcoin. Also, here’s a no-coiner kitten. Appreciate you.

Apple app store fees were just tariffs. You pay to have access to their markets. How do Democrats not see their own cognitive disconnect?

I would’ve appreciated the uber-cringe of this as an Andrew Lloyd Webber piece…but that would only prevent me from wanting to pay good money to see this:

And all governance is incentivized to perpetuate itself…not even out of self-incentives, but simply because for them, it is the way it’s always been done. View quoted note →

DISCLAIMER: I wrote the following years ago in a newb-inspired heady fervor of Bitcoin. Came across it tonight and was going to delete it, but because we are Nostr, here it is, warts and all: “Bitcoiners often talk about Self Sovereignty, but we rarely acknowledge what that means at its core. Traditionally, only someone with enough wealth to be independent from the NEED for income - only that person could be said to be Self Sovereign. (Let’s eschew the voluntary “drop-outs” of general society for the sake of argument here). Self-Sovereignty has, throughout recorded history, been a state of living - and a resulting mind-frame - for people who’ve achieved financial independence beyond the need for a “job” or income. But far, far more important to focus on here is how that person is independent of the myriad influences of what I’ll simply call the Working Man’s Marketplace. The Working Man’s Marketplace is the life-long propaganda working people swim in whereby they are told their worth lies only in producing income, having a job, and affording better and better things. Yes, you know….so where am I going with this… To be Self Sovereign is to become free of this ubiquitous culture that underpins servitude. You get this, this is important, and there’s a lot that could be said about it, but my point here is this: Bitcoiners represent a tiny fulcrum of History where a sizable mass of “plebian” Humanity has achieved THE MINDSET of Self-Sovereignty, regardless of whether they possess the MEANS of it. The American Revolution is most certainly the last point in history that contemporary Bitcoin culture could be compared to…and I’m hard-pressed to think of any other one beyond that. Bitcoin is the New America. But more important, WE are the Revolutionary forces which will shape the World in its light. We know now that very, very few Continental Americans wanted a Revolution against the oppressive authority…yet those very few were confident and intransigent. They didn’t suffer fools gladly.”

Within the next 1-2 months we will know for certain if/that the cycles are broken. Not just diminished, or extended, but irrelevant. Either way, we will be happy, and free. OGs will sell, regardless. Incoming plebs will stack regardless. Podcasts will pimp cycle-theory regardless. Or monetize why broken cycles are Bullish. Everything about Bitcoin will change in the next couple months. All our models will be revised & confirmed, or discarded. We will exhale stale air into a refreshing new world.

The single word “theorist” was Edward Bernays’ inspired bullshit that completely undermined the legitimate Sciences.

I’m honestly not into price-action right now. And I’m not into fighting about core. I just want to take a few months off and be Me.

@chowcollection is a tireless font of new music from Japan/Asia. And hashtag a pleb. Please follow. It’s genuinely heartening to have Bitcoin-non-Bitcoin inspirations coming in right now, imo. (Don’t judge by this one retweet.) View quoted note →