I have a new essay up at Reason on why Trump is not the Bitcoin president He’s the stablecoin president Bitcoin separates money from state, but stablecoins expand and strengthen state power

Reason.com

Donald Trump is not the bitcoin president

He’s the stablecoin president, seeking to expand the monetary power and borrowing capacity of the U.S. government.

I opened Blue Sky. It was worse than I expected. Sad times.

Found an excited @TFTC fan in the jungle 🐘

I appreciate the sci-fi nature of this building

“Bitcoin is a tool for resilience that no bombs can destroy” -Fadi Elsalameen with the 🔥 quote

Music post This album, released just a few days ago, is proof that rock and roll is not dead Give it a listen, you won’t regret it P.S. The live show isn’t bad either 😉

The scale of nation-state level shitcoining is already surpassing any reasonable expectation

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Need to get so fired up you can run through a brick wall? Watch this section of maybe my favorite Andreas talk “Money as a System-of-Control” and the four properties of money

Something something nostr…

"Bring down the government They don't, they don't speak for us" And the crowd goes nuts For many years it didn't really look like Radiohead was interested in playing a lot of their old songs live anymore, and then in the 2018 tour they hit all the fans with the absolute best stuff using all the modern lighting and it was just incredible The 2006 Bonnaroo show was probably my favorite concert of all time (out of many hundreds) -- everyone should see Radiohead live at least once Hoping they go on another tour again soon!

There is a surprisingly large YouTube genre of Internet personalities “reacting” to great songs and albums that they have ostensibly never heard before Easily one of my favorite internet rabbit holes

No - but really neat to see the BBC covering this! View quoted note →

Milky Way with the Tetons in the lower right Captured last night on an iPhone 15 w/ 10 second exposure, a short hike away from the magical Blue Heron Lounge in WY The galaxy stretched completely across the night sky and was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen When you look at something like that, it’s hard not to feel insignificant But keep on, we do!

Crazy to see this play out

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Is this winning?

Yep View quoted note →

In Bloomberg today 👀