"The average person has one boob and one testicle."
Richard W Hamming
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#bitcoin #nostr
Block reward is #Bitcoin's security budget.
Satoshi's coins is #Bitcoin's hacking budget.


As scientists age, the problem isn’t that their minds slow down, it’s that they’ve invested decades in a particular framework, and accepting genuinely new ideas would mean discarding that investment. So they don’t. They dismiss new approaches, often without realizing they’re doing it, because the new ideas don’t fit the worldview their careers were built on.
This is why we must wait for #Bitcoin to be adopted, suddenly, be the inheritors of science and reason.
Right now most of the wealth in our global economy is stored in advice held by people in this category, boomers, who struggle with new ideas not because they can’t learn, but because accepting them would invalidate the framework their careers were built on.
Read the dead guys.
They have no incentive to fool you.
Don't listen to the ruthless. They will pretend to explain everything, but they will tell you to give up your time and energy for them.
Security costs money.
Law is meaningless without the force to maintain.
You can appeal to moralism all you want, but that simply is not the world we live in. It never was.
#bitcoin


Energy, Narrative, and the Question of Manufactured Scarcity
The people who tell us to use less energy to save the planet are, in practice, destroying supply and demand to reshape populations. Their narrative is suppressed behind the one they feed us through available media. Dystopian alarmism, calibrated to manufacture consent for restriction. This is ideology, much like all power in the world has been propagated over centuries. It is not new. The mechanism is not new.
The people who tell you that energy should become more individually abundant, and that the media narrative is alarmist bs, are producing a better world for humans in their environment. Energy abundance is the single greatest driver of poverty reduction, health, and individual autonomy in recorded history. This is not opinion. This is observable. Cheap energy built the modern world, and restricting it does not save it. It restructures who gets to participate in it.
The distinction matters: the first group operates from ideology dressed as science. The second group operates from epistemology. Critical thinking grounded in established axioms and direct observation of change. But here is where honesty demands precision. Every framework, including energy-abundance optimism, rests on assumptions that can calcify into dogma. The moment you call your own position axiomatic while dismissing the opposition as purely ideological, you risk performing the same closure you set out to critique. Genuine critical thinking holds its own frame open to falsification. That is what separates epistemology from belief.
The real question underneath all of this is whether scarcity is natural or manufactured, and who benefits from each framing. There is a documented gap between what IPCC working group reports actually say and how those findings get translated into public discourse. That gap is not accidental. It serves specific interests. But acknowledging manufactured narrative does not mean all concern is manufactured. Resource constraints, externalities, geopolitical energy dependence. These are real variables, not alarmism. You can be radically pro-abundance and still hold that transition pathways involve trade-offs. The sharpest version of this thesis does both.
More people are moving toward the abundance position, and the trajectory favours it. Globally, energy demand is rising. Most governments are pursuing more supply, not less. The political landscape is messier than two clean camps, but the direction is legible. The prevailing group is not prevailing because it won an argument. It is prevailing because reality is expensive to deny indefinitely.
When Artemis fails, will you then see that as proof nobody ever went to the moon in the first place?
#ArtemisII
Please define AGI


It's not likely that Trump didn't know Iran would disrupt oil production, extremely improbable. I would say it's part of a plan.
North American shale, both oil and gas, have underperformed expectations for decades. Could the plan to attack Iran be in line with sabotaging EU-Russian relations and sabotaging Nordstream?
It's not likely that Trump didn't know Iran would disrupt oil production, extremely improbable. I would say it's part of a plan.
North American shale, both oil and gas, have underperformed expectations for decades. Could the plan to attack Iran be in line with sabotaging EU-Russian relations and sabotaging Nordstream?
You can't hate what you don't understand.
The point of this life is to learn to let go of Earthbound concepts, mainly of the other and of guilt. This lesson is simple and universal, but extremely difficult to integrate.
I've read all of the greats and more, they all taught the same lesson, but they all recognized the difficulty of the path itself.
Knowledge ≠ consciousness
But it helps.
Lies are more difficult to maintain in abundance of information.
You want money that your enemies are using to keep you from controlling them.
#Bitcoin
You want money that can't be controlled.
By your enemies.
#Bitcoin
This is a must read. Even though I don't believe in evolution theory until it's proven, it puts into perspective how our perception operates selectively and not objectively.


I haven't updated my book list of recommendations for a while because of fucking reasons.
Here are some of the titles that I enjoyed reading the past few months, I hope you pick up some. And better, ask me about them after you do.
Tantra, the supreme understanding - Osho
Will to power - Nietzsche
Discourses of - Epictetus
Bitcoin is for everyone - Natalie Brunell
The book of wisdom - Osho
The end of your world - Adyashanti
The gulag archipelago - Solzhenitsyn
The holographic universe - Michael Talbot
Transactional analysis in psychotherapy - Eric Berne
The untethered soul - Michael singer
The surrender experiment - Michael singer
The presence process - Michael Brown
The book of innocence - Paul Selig
The deep sleep hypnosis - Sandra love
Even the body says no - Gabor Mate
Nonviolent communication - Marshall Rosenberg
Experiments in truth - Ram Dass
Be love now - Ram Dass
The big print - Lawrence Lepard
The burn our society - Byung-Chul Han
Morphic resonance - Rupert Sheldrake
The storm before the storm - Mike Duncan
Silicon - Frederico Faggin
Phenomenology of spirit - Hegel
The simulation hypothesis - Rizwan Virk
The teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
The quantum universe - Brian cox and Jeff Forshaw
The art of dreaming - Carlos Castaneda
Quanta and forks - Sean Carroll
Remote viewing secrets - Joseph McNoneagle
Psychic literacy - Ingo Swann
Leave it be - Alan Watts
The case against reality - Donald Hoffman
The art of receiving and giving - Martin and Dalzen
Analytical idealism in a nutshell - Bernardo Kastrup
Yo weirdos.
Today I read this book by Judy Shelton. She's a Bitcoiner. Great book, I recommend it.

