In Bloomberg today 👀

The promised land

Superb essay on stablecoins, well worth reading

A simple guide to stablecoins

The GENIUS act and what it means for the future of the dollar

Extremely interesting and important stuff on financial privacy from SEC commissioner Hester Pierce in her latest speech

Some quick thoughts on what a Bitcoin PAC might want to do in DC. Some more realistic than others. Some ideas that need work. Some just fun: -de minimus tax exemption. honestly should mirror BSA threshold of $10k but $2,500 would be a good start -bulletproof legal protections for open source devs especially ones building privacy tools. Cannot be a country that goes after the blacksmith for what others do with the knife -ability to use self-custodial BTC as collateral -phase out “crypto czar” and “working group on digital asset markets” and any other federal institution or process that seeks to conflate shitcoins with bitcoin -tax incentives for home mining and for nat gas facilities or landfills etc that eat methane with mining -Manhattan Project-level collaborative effort to identify all wasted/curtailed electricity in USA and deploy miners to those locations -incentivize bitcoin education for high schools -a bitaxe in every high school compsci/techEd department -a Bitcoin museum in DC -educational congressional testimonies from global Bitcoin users: activists, remitters, refugees, off grid miners, etc -Jan 3 national Satoshi holiday of some kind -Congressional Bitcoin Committee -end to the bitlicense -all formal bodies that do American democracy promotion abroad, to integrate bitcoin -enable foreign countries that owe America (or IMF/World Bank) debt to pay back in BTC, not just USD

The investigative journalists focusing on state corruption who helped bring down the *previous regime*, have now been chased out of the country, by Bukele View quoted note →

This is what’s left of Chasiv Yar, a Ukrainian city completely obliterated by the Russian military

Not Orwellian at all 😅

GM ☀️ Wake up early, long run through the forest, paddle out, sweaty, to the middle of the water to enjoy a cool refreshing energizing dunk Summer lake house experiences always hit

Stacking sats and adopting Bitcoin is arguably a much more effective way to not just protest but obsolete the IMF and World Bank Bonus: no tear gas! View quoted note →

I appreciate that introducing Bitcoin at the end of my book about the predatory nature of the IMF and World Bank will turn off some normies But if I didn’t include that last chapter, I’m leaving out the **most important** part People today trapped in structural adjustment, unlike in the 1980s, finally have a way out ✌️ View quoted note →

Just rolled double sixes 5 times in 8 rolls in backgammon… AI says the odds of that happening are: 1,175,463 to 1 We live in a world of black swans

“And so we go on with our lives We know the truth but prefer lies Lies are simple Simple is bliss Why go against tradition when we can Admit defeat Live in decline Be the victim of our own design The status quo Built on suspect Why would anyone stick out their neck?” -NOFX And it’s true Which makes Bitcoin all the more remarkable Thank you Satoshi!

What happens first, $1M BTC or GRRM book 6?

Love this from @Skyler The United States would be a much better place running on Bitcoin than the dollar

One of the greatest tweets of all time Client up 25x since then Gold up just 2.5x 😂