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🚨Introducing the 'Altcoin Confessions' Booth at BTC Prague 2025! Privately admit which shitcoins you held earlier. We forgive... but we never f...

Bitcoin is really not *that* different from shitcoins. It was just the first, and had an ethical release in the spirit of free and open source software and cypher punk culture. But the grift around it is similar to shitcoins. Because ultimately people see it as a way to get rich and so start to worship it in the same way heathens would worship the sun as the perceived source of their sustenance and well being. All this meming--the confession booths and golden calves and the rest of it--are just people desperate, greedy, and afraid, hoping to keep the "buzz" alive in an effort to placate the orange "god" and make the number go up again or at least stop it going down due to his "anger". People want to feel like they can do something to make the green candles manifest. It's the same thing the NFTs and meme coiners are doing. Trying to stoke some intangible buzz/vibe "fire" to manifest the green candle. At least with the shitcoiners many of them know it's just a game. So many in Bitcoin actually believe their own bullshit. What is this nonsense going to fix? When humans are so totally depraved, how much is a distributed ledger with a fixed and transparent issuance really going to help? A little, maybe. And maybe people who adopt early deserve to get a little rich. But you have to have clear eyes and full hearts about the fact that all this could be meaningless. It really could go to zero. It's not a deity to be feared/worshiped. It's mostly bullshit. I mean, maybe there is something serious here. I think there is. But the depraved and wicked creature that is man will find an infinite number of ways to corrupt and ruin it. Good money is a good start. But we need a whole lot more building on top of that solid monetary foundation. And it's going to be a painful transition, I think. We need more self sacrifice, less self aggrandization. May the conference circuit disappear off the face of the earth for all eternity. And more than anything may we get back to the Bible in the west and put our hopes in Christ alone.

Chess is fundamentally a language with its own grammar and vocabulary, and each game is a conversation. Conversely, each conversation is also a game of chess. We always seek to collaborate (trade) on terms favorable to ourselves (or at least not unfavorable). When cooporation doesn't work, we use threats. Sometimes we threaten in secret and sometimes overtly. Sometimes our goals are well known to our interlocutor, but sometimes our calculation is so deep as to be leaning on the unconscious mind, and be unknown even to ourselves. There are reoccurring motifs and patterns to human interaction, and those who can recognize these, correctly evaluate the "position", and calculate or else recall the "correct" way forward, will have an advantage, and indeed go on to dominate in their chosen field. That chess is a language explains why learning it from early childhood is essential to become a master. That language is a game of chess explains the frustration of those who don't understand this when interacting with those who do. #chesster #chess

Chess is proof of work

Curtis Yarvin in the Nikkei. What a timeline.

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｢米国はやがて君主制に｣　テック右派の教祖ヤービン氏 - 日本経済新聞

民主主義を否定する「暗黒啓蒙」と呼ばれる国家論を書き連ねていたブロガーの思想が、テクノロジー界の有...

Nothing more addictive than online chess

Thinking of going all in on Nostr

The Nikkei, a Japanese language business newspaper, is apparently a propaganda arm of the US Democrat party. How bizzare. All of these pro Kamala articles are from today's digital edition, but I noticed similar stories daily. Why is a Japanese language newspaper parroting US Democrat party propaganda for an audience who can't even vote in the US? Is the answer that Japanese media is part of the "Cathedral" described by Curtis Yarvin? If so the phenomena of the Cathedral is even more strange and powerful than anybody thinks.

So basically @fiatjaf is a regular guy trying to make an honest living who wants law and order in Brazil? And that makes him a right wing fascist? I Guess that makes me a right wing fascist too then🤷

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