It is important for the future of humanity that AI is not aligned with Sam Altman… …or the OpenAI board who out Altman’d Altman.

I think the general tech public would be amazed how little even typical board decision making would stand up to public scrutiny. It’s pretty bad out there.

Worrying about, working on, and legislating stablecoins is such an utter waste of everyone’s time.

Baseline government CPU excludes taxes, energy, and food. It is close to useless. As is often the case, a few Texans did the work to get you a much more accurate number. https://chapwoodindex.com/

Is Ladar Levinson on Nostr? Maybe @Snowden would know?

It may not be a mantra, but I hear Horace Greeley’s “Go west, young man”. Sure there are Comanches, droughts, and general mayhem waiting for you, but there is a decided advantage to getting there early. Pay me in #bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Payments: 'Someone-Is-Going-Next' Logic

Why every business will decide to receive bitcoin payments. Someone-is-going-next logic. If not you, then who.

In my world, the overlap between concern for overpopulation, climate change, sound money, and AI alignment is 100% overlapping. This group has a 90% overlap with war enthusiasts as well. I can attempt to persuade on each topic one by one, or if I can orange pill them, the others magically swing as well. This is how bitcoin fixes everything.

This may be the last cycle where a typical middle to upper middle class American or Western European can accumulate an entire bitcoin with savings.

@ODELL gave his all. Subscribed to all the paid tip sheets, fantasy camps, and definitely never has problems logging in and setting his lineup. Blessed to win this pillow fight and crawl out of the depths of the bottom of the SatsBowl.

Bitstein is a national treasure.

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On October 31, 2008, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto appeared on the Cryptography mailing list to share his vision for “#Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer ...

High signal: Skipped or dropped out of college to work. Low signal: Graduated a 4 year University. Red flag: Degree from an Ivy institution. It was already becoming clear that college was low signal when I graduated in 2006. By 2011 when I was hiring lots of software engineers, designers, and product managers I’d completely ignore college status. Now I’m convinced it’s a net negative.

This seriously rules. View quoted note →

Our biggest obstacle in DC is pretended to be a Native American for decades to steal valor and advance her career. They’re not sending their best.

Trust the science.

I don’t mean to brag, but I knew Craig wasn’t Satoshi long before this retarded loser Christen came out and said so. Also, remember everyone in this drama is a known con artist. They may be mad at each other, it may be more scheming, but I’m no longer watching.

Alex gave me a pedicab ride home from Bit Block Boom. He took bitcoin as payment. He’s also fucking wild and has a podcast. So we did an episode. View quoted note →

One of my favorite things about bitcoin is it replaces “shouldn’t” with “can’t” and “should” with “can”. After 12 years thinking about it every day I’m still amused.

View quoted note → It’s been a minute since Stephan and I had a public conversation. To me, the idea that merchants, independent businesses, and contractors in the US and other parts of the world are going to take 10,20,30,100 percent inflation lying down is nonsense. These people are going to stack sats, and you’re going to have to pay them in bitcoin.

Misplaced this several months ago in an office move. Feelin’ good.