I sometimes wonder how I would react if tested in a severe way. It's good to think about this tricky stuff before disasters strike. *Build your theology of suffering before you need it, so that when the inevitable comes, you’re not scrambling for meaning but resting in a God you already know and trust.* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin does not assume time; Bitcoin computes time. It produces a discrete, thermodynamically anchored ordering of events that behaves analogously to physical time: irreversible, energy-bounded, and globally consistent. This makes Bitcoin the only system that provides an observable model of quantized time.* View quoted note →

*Those that haven't yet learned about private keys rely on platforms to verify the identities that they do not own* View quoted note →

*Once the rest of the world sees that the only way to escape terminal fiat debasement is to accumulate hard, verifiable collateral behind their own currencies, nations will have no choice but to follow America’s lead or get left behind in the biggest monetary reset in history.* View quoted note →

*there is no "new economic paradigm" this is always just a revamp of the propaganda campaign from global communists and third-way socialist democrats, to persuade people to accept becoming non-deciding slaves* View quoted note →

*Imagine losing what you have, and suddenly it feels precious again.* View quoted note →

*Healthy conversation requires being able to examine claims, even uncomfortable ones, without everyone treating it like a test of your morality* View quoted note →

Melting ice cube reserve

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Strategy Announces Establishment of $1.44 Billion USD Reserve \ stacker news

Strategy today announced that it has established a USD Reserve of $1.44 billion to support the payment of dividends on its preferred stock and inte...

If money pivots from losing to holding its value, then the monetary premium of non-money will fall.

*Debt steers people toward what benefits the lenders* View quoted note →

Researchers estimate that a 21-centimeter-thick layer could meaningfully reduce radiation exposure on Mars. However, experts caution that substantial engineering challenges remain, including maintaining fungal growth in microgravity and developing containment systems.Despite decades of research, scientists have yet to definitively prove radiosynthesis. No one has demonstrated carbon fixation dependent on ionizing radiation or identified a complete energy-harvesting pathway. "Actual radiosynthesis, however, remains to be shown," notes a team led by Stanford University engineer Nils Averesch https://www.perplexity.ai/page/chernobyl-fungus-shows-promise-6cKxxCkQQVumMFWZS1t1Dw

*Over time, the creator optimizes for retention: more hopium, less doubt. If they suddenly became fully objective, their audience would either leave or revolt. That's the prison* View quoted note →

*[Bitcoin's] monetary schedule is still clean, but sovereign, censorship-resistant usage is under attack on multiple fronts* View quoted note →

*....the rule by which potential becomes actual ... entropy becomes structure ... time emerges “from nothing”* View quoted note →

*If the universe evolves through discrete quanta of time, then “simultaneity” collapses conceptually: states cannot coexist “at once” if the universe only updates in discrete increments unless they occur at the same Planck Block of Time. Without a defined temporal substrate, the claim that quantum computers manipulate “many states at once” is not physics but an interpretative convenience. It’s equivalent to treating a prediction domain as a physical storage medium. This is the fractional-reserve ontology: unredeemed probability is treated as physically real capacity.* View quoted note →

*Tech is the pipes, but the culture is the pull.* View quoted note →

*So interesting to see China lean into gold, while the US leans increasingly into bitcoin* View quoted note →

*Speeches are UX. Switches are root access. The system invests in speeches so you stare at the wallpaper instead of the wiring.* View quoted note →

*Power = knowledge × credible alternatives* View quoted note →