Will a family's Bitcoin node be something to pass down? A full record of every single transaction that has occurred on the Blockchain. A trusted record book and a way to decide what economic ideology your family believes. Thinking through this idea... open to feedback.

This week’s Ag Tribes Report with guest Rob Sharkey This week we’re talking about the USDA’s inability to count, the price of eggs and illegal immigrant farm workers. Plus the bitcoin land price report and the worthy adversary!

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The Vance Crowe Podcast • ATR: USDA can't count, Eggs run wild and a look at immigrants with @sf28430 • Listen on Fountain

This week, host Vance Crowe and guest Rob Sharkey discuss the January WASDE report from USDA, where corn and soybean stocks were underreported, rai...

Geopolitics guy just stood up at this ag conference I’m speaking at: “carbon credits are starting to feel like crypto industry did in 2010” This is utter nonsense- 1. He had never heard of crypto in 2010 and the only part they seem like is fucking eth or ripple… all worthless shitcoins

New Vance Crowe Podcast with NNZP an engineer that has built manufacturing facilities and knows all about mining raw materials. Conversation around patents was surprising- for all he has invented he has never filed a patent:

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The Vance Crowe Podcast • VCP: NNZP on manufacturing, mining and what it will take to produce products in the US • Listen on Fountain

Host Vance Crowe is joined by NNZP is a proven manufacturing expert, engineer and an interesting character on X. They explore topics ranging from m...

Orange pilling ranchers today. We will hit a tipping point- I would guess we are 12-18 months. But they will come stampeding in.

The stackers of today will be the landowners of tomorrow.

GM! I think the ag world is in a unique position to start stacking sats. I recently realized that BTC will be excellent collateral for Ag lending allowing a farmer to diversify away from mortgaging their home/land and the Bank is incentivized to prefer it because it is more liquid than standard assets. Even with volatility, if you took a 2+ year time horizon on the BTC the bank would still prefer to have that diversification, because if hundreds of loans go bad, the land values themselves will tank.

The Ag Tribes Report (ATR) is a weekly podcast focused on the stories effecting the culture of agriculture. This week I interview a massive Canadian Canola farmer

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The Vance Crowe Podcast • ATR: Trudeau resigns, Land Prices Up, Cattle Vaccine Shortages with @kristjanhebert • Listen on Fountain

This week's Ag Tribes Report features Kristjan Hebert, a prominent Canadian grain farmer, zero-till advocate, and ag-tech entrepreneur from Saskatc...

My sense is that it is just full reserve banking but is there a good explanation somewhere?

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Question about lightning… In retail there is a practice of keeping a credit card on file because if you have to get out your credit card there is some percentage of repeat customers that won’t buy. Is there a way to keep a lightning address on file? Or like an authorized amount you can charge?

We need to find the Unenshittables it’s our only hope. View quoted note →

I have accepted an invitation to join the Board of Directors of FCS Financial, as an Appointed Director. FCS Financial is a member of the Farm Credit system which provides loans to farmers across most of Missouri. I am specifically an "outside director" tasked with asking tough questions and pushing the organization to be ready for a changing future. They invited me to interview after seeing me give a talk called "Surfing the Edge of Chaos" where I talked about Bitcoin and its potential to bring farmland prices back to their utility value. During the 3rd interview I was asked intense questions and I thought that my answers were so counter-cultural that I assumed I would get laughed out of the room, instead they offered me the board seat, a four year term and put me on the Risk Committee to talk about the future. I may well be the only Bitcoin maximalist in the entire farm credit banking system. This is a huge opportunity to bring farming into the Orange era. I hope people here on Nostr will help me make the most of this opportunity.

In my day work I record people telling their life stories so that future generations can know their family history. Most of my clients are farmers. They fly into St. Louis from all over the US and Canada to create an heirloom they can pass down. Seems like this fits so tightly with Bitcoin.

Legacy Interviews

Legacy Interviews

Give future generations the opportunity to know their family history. Pass on stories from your childhood, career, parenting and the wisdom you gai...

GM Waiting on a snowstorm here. I love the electricity in a culture when limited danger is imminent.

Carnivore and Paleo Diets are absolutely crushing the vegan fads of ole!

I worked at the World Bank back in 2010-2012. It was a depostic place where political hierarchy and games ruled everything. Due to extreme woke ideology on hiring, I was a very rare white American male hired there - and was in the group that planned the meetings for the sector directors, country directors and managing directors. Although "headed" by the US, and all of the lead economists being American- literally everywhere else was European run. I got to see cancel culture and the woke agenda 5 years before it came to corporate America. All of the organization was setup to run the way Europeans run their country and it is filled with European bureaucrats that only want to stay in their cushy job, just 1 block away from the White House. Why produce anything of value when you could just stand next to power? The people inside the World Bank, the frontline workers are the epitome of David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" they spend their days filling time with meetings and being pawns for a larger political game of budgets and org charts. They believe fully they are there to do good work, but many would do anything (and are involved in insidious political treachery) because if they were to loose their world bank job they would be sent back to their country, so their managers have enormous power over them. They were convinced that their business class trips to Zimbabwe, to distribute a loan for a hydroelectric damn that would never be built, was the very core of saving the world. You cannot imagine how big the organization was just to give away money... but that is because just like USAID most of their work isn't about aid it is about propaganda Also the full time employees get sweet perks, like they don't have to pay income tax on their earnings, neither US tax or their home country- so a position like a secretary is making massive amounts more than they would back home. So they would participate in maddeningly complicated byzantine processes because by staying in the circus they did very well financially. Because I was helping plan some of these meetings where the top of the organization met I got a chance to spend time with lead economists. I was so unbelievably naive then, I would ask very simple questions about "why don't we have each country use a gold reserve to prevent them from printing too much money" I would get laughed out of the conversation- literally, they would laugh and blow off the question- I didn't realize that my naivety was not in asking the question, it was in thinking they knew the answer... they didn't. The economy was a mystery to these people, they genuinely didn't understand how the printing of money impacted its value. I think this is my insight into places like the World Bank when you see people like Kristalina Georgieva they are not actually in charge- they are figure heads doing what they are told and they don't have the same questions that an outsider would. They get into these positions because they know how to fight inside of a bureaucracy not because they have strong feelings about monetary policy. The people above them, that is probably a different story, but the people we can see, those people are all just bureaucrats- but like the NBA all stars of bureaucrats. I was thinking on my run this morning that I saw a lot of crazy stuff when I was there, but never told anyone... because who would I tell?

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