Fragile people can't handle criticism. That's their tell.
Needless to say, if you're in Bitcoin, it's unbecoming to be fragile.
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Call me crazy, but I'd rather have explicit taxes than inflation. And if the whole tariff thing has taught us anything, it's that the inflation tax is way way way worse than any of these explicit taxes.
The nakamoto.com website is cursed.
Life tip: Don't take life tips from people that don't have admirable lives.
Bitcoin leads to low time preference and high agency.
I have a carnivore cookie recipe (mostly carnivore, just monkfruit sweetener and lily's chocolate) which most people can't eat more than a couple of. Funny how most people can down 10 normal cookies without even thinking about it.
That's the difference between spending Bitcoin and spending dollars.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #459
Bitcoin Tech Talk #459
Interesting Stuff
Crazy how quick LLMs replaced search. But that means that LLMs will get worse as they monetize it through ads of some kind.
We live in a world that focuses on cash flow rather than savings.
Optimizes for engagement, and you'll get content that is generally pessimistic.
Optimize for zaps, and you'll get content that's generally a lot more positive.
Bitcoin, not bank accounts.
Nostr, not social media.
First principles, not propaganda.
Honestly, it's way too hard to be pseudonymous and too easy to get doxxed. I suspect that had a large part to do with why Satoshi disappeared so early.
We're at the stage where people are trying to fix problems that they speculate may or may not happen 20 years in the future.
I can't think of a better argument for ossification.
Maybe mining will stay subsidized for a while by Bitcoin treasuries.
It's easy enough to identify scams. Hard to know when they'll fall.
Actions have consequences, but so do non-actions.
Holding has consequences.
Fiat money creates massive scale. But scale is a race to the bottom, which is why everything gets worse over time.
Death, Taxes, 21 million.
The hard things are good for you.
Like holding and waiting.
Courage will make you more money than knowledge or intellect.