Broke: "China banned Bitcoin" Woke: Let's look at China's ten-year debt yield curve Bespoke: Xi's China is unable to foster an indigenous intellectual tradition, because that would require speaking truth to power, so it has to resort to a weird mix of broken contradictory threads from the past, Spartan ethics, and strands of Strauss, Marx, and Schmitt - leading to a spiritual void and a China defined in negative space and more clear on what it is against than what it is for.

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Socialism with Socratic Characteristics | China Books Review

In attempting to justify Communist Party rule, Chinese academics have turned to an unlikely intellectual ally — classical Greek philosophy.

""I do not write to earn a living or to build a reputation. I write to battle enemies. "Who are they? Every outdated traditional notion, every irrational system that stands in the way of social progress and human development, and every instance of cruelty in the face of love. These are my great enemies." - Ba Jin/巴金

Ba Jin: From Rebellion to Endurance

The Kate Sharpley Library exists to preserve and promote anarchist history.

Watching @jack talk about Twitter and telling people it's better to post on Nostr gives some Oppenheimer vibes

Hanging out at the BTrust Dev Day. @jack emphasized the importance of scaled decentralization, sure roots behind supporting Bitcoin and Nostr.

Who is going to be in Nairobi for @Africa Bitcoin Conference? Ping me, I'll be coming in earlier!

hands up if you learned your economics through Neopets

"Grandpa how did you build the family fortune?" "Well it's a funny story Timmy. I once posted a photo of deez nuts on this network called Nostr, and a bunch of nyms including jimmytroll69 sent me these things called zap-"

I now can never unsee Lightning Network

People find bullish factors in Bitcoin's price but I always look at how many people and importantly who attends BitDevs as a proxy for how bullish I should feel

I just listed the "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin" copies I have left on @Shopstr Markets. Really jazzed to try it out - great work @calva⚡️ - it was easy to get a listing up. If you're in San Salvador or perhaps Berlin in the next three days (November 20th - November 23rd) - we can make it happen. https://shopstr.store/listing/2655a540fd0c3c12b4a529a36371320cda13a295668e827dfc3eef9d04455b00

The vibe I get from El Salvador is that Nostr is on the cutting edge. People know about Bitcoin - but quite a few didn't know what Nostr was.

BitDevs, but in the middle of discussing statechains and channel factories, we take a pause and discuss whether Carl Schmitt was actually a "liberal" from a Straussian point of view, and what it means to write esoterically in the first place

The @Satsconf bookstore looks stacked. Honored to have Would Mao Hold Bitcoin with many dedicated and talented Bitcoin writers such as @gladstein, @jimmysong, @allen, @Andrew M. Bailey, @Aaron van Wirdum and more :)

The champion of free speech in action.

I don't think much of anything is more bullish for Bitcoin than the fact that the leaders of the world's largest two economies are likely not to be there based on their merit alone. Trump the inheritor, Harris the Vice President who has never won an election or primary outside of California, and Xi the child of a senior officer who helped him skip the Gaokao.

Many foundational books of the American and English canon of the 20th century were composed by writers who fought in wars and brought it back in fantasy as a warning. C.S Lewis and Tolkien fought in World War 1. Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War while Hemingway reported on it, William Golding ("Lord of the Flies") served in the Royal Navy during World War 2, and Vonnegut was a prisoner of war in Dresden which he described in Slaughterhouse-Five. #bookstr

I identify with the China of Ba Jin (巴金), the China of Lao She (老舍), the China of Fu Lei (傅雷), writers who paid with love or their lives for the words they thought mattered. I don't know who killed that China: Was it Mao's 1984 or Deng's Brave New World? Or perhaps I am grasping at ghosts as they all once did. I don't know if I have the fraction of courage they had, even though some consider them to have compromised for most of their lives. I also don't find much solace in the "Western" Internet and the Chinese Internet, which both seem filled with shallow consumerism, short video prompts, and are partly engineered to favor state power and surveillance. I know there are communities of people in both the "West" and China that choose learning over conformity, insight over performance - but it's hard to find that. Perhaps, one day, a Nostr with enough usage and bridging between communities can bring that feeling again. 读书人手无缚鸡之力，却天生傲骨，敢以死明志

I wrote an article about how political interest in Bitcoin is a new phase in its growth as we watch Bitcoin grow before our eyes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/10/30/countries-and-politicians-worldwide-are-now-running-to-support-bitcoin/ CC: @Maya Parbhoe

I wrote about the rise of Bitcoin-only community and event hubs around the world - a ton of places well-worth visiting including @PUBKEY and @CYPHERMUNK HOUSE | LONDON. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/10/23/the-rise-of-bitcoin-only-community-and-event-hubs-around-the-world/

I'm writing a story on Bitcoin-only community hubs - offline spots where it's cool to hang out with fellow plebs and where there are Bitcoin events, goods for sale in Bitcoin etc.. So far, I'm writing descriptions of @PUBKEY, @CYPHERMUNK HOUSE | LONDON, Bitcoin Park in Nashville, and Funk Coffee Bar in Vancouver. Am I missing any? Comment below if so.