//_You aren't depriving yourself <by staying humble and stacking sats> You are paying your future self.//_ View quoted note →

//_When individual trajectories converge toward a singular purpose <separation of money from state>, the inertia of oppression <apparently undefeatable fiat money> is overcome by the kinetic force of shared identity //_ View quoted note →

*Informed consent is the load-bearing pillar of the individual* View quoted note →

*Boundaries create the necessary tension for purpose to exist* View quoted note →

*Boundaries are the foundation of integrity* View quoted note →

It takes more than sight to have vision

*It's always the polished, silver tongued landlubbers like Obama that are great putting the masses to sleep on one hand while fleecing them on the other* View quoted note →

👀 *They are so driven to act on their ideas and try things outside of the Overton window that they see as necessary, and they are willing to take risks that put them right outside of society, in a position where they must totally rely on themselves and prove themselves in action.* View quoted note →

*Sound money needs both: a transparent base layer for verification and settlement (Bitcoin) and private transaction layers for daily commerce* View quoted note →

Nature > slop

Another good one: *Systems built upon the conservation of energy endure because they do not rely on the permission of the architect* View quoted note →

You win, Slab. *The recognition of this dilution acknowledges the physics of scarcity over the artifice of policy. Stability is found in architectures that respect the conservation of energy* View quoted note →

*Even when life improves for some, it costs exponentially more than it should relative to productivity gains* View quoted note →

*#Bitcoin’s legendary past profits were the reward for enduring the deadly pain; not just for understanding it early.* View quoted note →

Lovely note, Micael. *True “Opt Out” requires total secession, abandoning the rigged game of fiat currency rather than seeking strategies to perpetuate it from within.* View quoted note →

*At some point though everything will equalise to model compute. The currency that wins will be a form of tokenised model compute* View quoted note →

*"Unless a pick-up in nominal growth drives higher incomes and tax revenues – AI investment and/or productivity per se might not be enough – some countries might face tough consolidation challenges," HSBC analysts wrote last week. The consolidation needed would be large. With borrowing costs at current levels, HSBC estimates that the U.S. would need a fiscal adjustment of over 4% of GDP to stabilize its debt-to-GDP ratio, with 3% required by France, and 2% by the UK and Germany. Consolidations of such scale are rare. In major advanced economies since 1990, there have been only eight of over 4% of GDP during a 5-year period, with fifteen over 3% of GDP in that timeframe. Whether all this fiscal expansion ends in currency debasement, hyperinflation and crashing bond markets is a separate debate. But even if these doomsday scenarios fail to play out, it's fair to assume that bond markets will be under pressure moving forward.* Reuters