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Bitcoin Tech Talk #503

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Don't spend your life optimizing for the wrong thing.

Don't feel bad for the suckers who bought treasury stocks at crazy mNAVs. They could have just bought Bitcoin and done much better. I used to say this about altcoins in previous cycles. I guess this is progress?

Treasury companies are Bitcoin substitutes, just with centralization, rent-seeking and leverage.

I honestly wouldn't mind some sort of pay-for-discovery thing here where the money ultimately goes to the users. Social media does not have to be free as in beer for everything.

There are so many things wrong with this picture, like the fact that this man is using Cardano foundation funds to take trips to LARP as some Amazonian tribal teen trying to get through a rite-of-passage. But the most offensive is that the man is just 38 years old and looks like this.

Ever since I stopped paying for X my engagements are down 90%. X is holding my audience hostage to extort me if I want to reach them. Such is the inevitable result of closed platforms.

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Bitcoin Tech Talk #502

Interesting Stuff

People would rather fast from food and water than fast from the internet.

The Enlightenment philosophy is a cancer that has still debasing the world.

I'm noticing a lot more clickbait over on X. The algorithm is changing too fast to keep up. Turning it off is the way out. Not just true of social media feeds.

Now that building things is so much easier with AI, the real bottleneck is maintenance capacity.

Time seems ripe for something like the Reform Party to start in the US.

Nietzsche and Marx are the two atheists who seem like they sprung out of nowhere, but in fact, they had their intellectual predecessors in the Enlightenment: Rousseau and Sade. The rotten fruit of their godless and extremely destructive philosophies are directly traceable to what seemed so rational and scientific. It turns out that when you throw morals out the window, you get evil (like mass murder) of all kinds.

Zero sum games are regimented, difficult and usually unfair, which is why not playing them is the right move.

A man has as many masters as he has vices. Therefore, the only truly free man is a moral one.

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Bitcoin Tech Talk #501

Interesting Stuff

You can change how grateful you are by paying attention to different things.

You know it's a bear market when there's so little engagement on all platforms.

Maybe technology is the vessel for many egregores.