Thanks again for having me on Brandon. Honor to be on this mission with people like you.

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The Bitcoin Business Podcast • Why Decentralized Commerce Is the Next Bitcoin Frontier • Listen on Fountain

Online shopping has become a nightmare of drop-shipped trash, censorship, and endless scrolling through sponsored junk. In this episode, Brandon Ka...

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“It is sort of backward to say that it has become too expensive to live in Los Angeles. Los Angeles made itself illegal.”

Are we underestimating who is poor?

Michael Green has caused a bit of a dust-up with a piece that was picked up by the Free Press, and which he followed up on at his substack newsletter.

Just gonna start randomly posting products and brands that I’d pay in Bitcoin for if they accepted it #paywithbitcoin

“Roll your face on the keyboard and make an app” 😂😂

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Soapbox Sessions • Mo Users Mo Problems • Listen on Fountain

Plus: Heather’s hill to die on is that Nostr needs to accommodate social media teams with better tools. Derek’s predictions for Nostr growth ...

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GM PV Demographics are destiny: we need more Gen Z Bitcoiners and Nostriches or else we end up with a demographic problem not dissimilar to Japan. Our cultural vitality is not age-agnostic.

“Describe the problem you’re trying to solve”

GM 💜🤙🏼 Staying on the orange pills with IRL Square merchants. Took a few tries but think I got the local coffee spot to pull the trigger. Consistency is key.

AI responds to the questions you ask. Not the questions you should have asked.

“…there are now (broadly speaking) two successor coalitions with utterly irreconcilable visions: The Custodians Global corporations, Wall Street, Big Tech C-suites, the national-security establishment, most of the Ivy League Universities, the legacy media, and the permanent bureaucracy from Washington to Brussels all want to preserve as much as possible of the post-WWII world. They double down by restricting freedom of speech and actions and punishing those who do not comply with the consensus. The Populists Their project is to manage the future through hard power and national industrial policy. They are willing to burn sacred promises, including NATO commitments, Big Tech’s censorship monopoly, and replace the USD hegemony with bitcoin and crypto, and whatever else it takes to build a world in which America remains a sovereign nation.”

The Hyper-Structure of War and Interstitial Conflicts

We think that Ukraine is a specific war in a specific geographic location. But the real war is inside America and what we see internationally is ju...

Sober analysis. I’d add: Nostr doesn’t have to ONLY be a backup/ripcord option. Paid subs for valuable content and/or services can exist here too. Heck, ads (sans deceptive design patterns) can even exist here too in certain contexts.

Trust Revolution • S02E14 Why Ads Keep Winning • Watch on Fountain

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RIP Frank Gehry Although your projects were barely profitable to work on and your visions strained relationships… the world became more beautiful and interesting through these journeys. I’m grateful you were here.