Tim Hawkins singing the truth! 14 years ago.

“The IMF and World Bank were supposed to fix balance of payments issues, and help poor countries grow stronger and more sustainable. The evidence has been the direct opposite.” - @gladstein

In a world of financial abstractions, Special Drawing Rights (XDR) takes the cake. It was created to solve liquidity problems in 1969. In response the decolonization, I’m sure these systems seemed like and improvement…but wow. It really pushes the abstraction out there. The abandoning of the gold standard was inevitable.

$33T

Today I realized I have largely been a rent seeker. I added value throughout my years working but it was easy to stand out against a backdrop off low producing averages. Simply looking to transition into building the Bitcoin-standard economy provokes real ownership.

Hey frens…forewarned is forearmed

There are a lot of talented people working for the USG. For the last several decades the amount of $ the USG spends has attracted both talent and vultures. It is the biggest “bait ball” in nature. The market was largely captured and we wasted a lot of time, energy, and lives. I look forward to the possibility of Bitcoin changing the incentive structure. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

Faith is not knowing everything is going to turn out okay. It is being okay no matter how things turn out.

I haven’t deleted centralized and permissioned social media yet. However, I don’t look at it often. Just looked and it is such a dumpster fire. So much noise.

Thx @Rustypuppy! View quoted note →

I took this during a storm over the Atlantic Ocean. When a sufficient difference in electrical polarity builds, lightning occurs as a way to balance out the charge. There great distortions in the global, fiat, credit-as-money system. Money is a store of energy and there is a huge imbalance. The thunder head (storm) is growing. There is to much negative energy concentrated in the top of the system. In the early stage of lighting, an unseen leader channel branches out. Before it reaches the surface, at about 30 meters, a positive polarity rises to meet it. The arc we see happens right after this! ⚡️Bitcoin is rising from the surface to close the circuit. It will arc. It may have to arc thousands of times before all that energy is dissipated. I’m not a meteorologist nor economists. I could wrong. If you add my observations to 5 sats, you’d have 5 sats. I love to watch lightning unless I’m surfing. Zap someone who is helping the network and remember lightning:)

Encyclopedia Britannica

Lightning | Voltage, Causes, & Facts | Britannica

Lightning, the visible discharge of electricity that occurs when a region of a cloud acquires an excess electrical charge, either positive or negat...

“In the long run compounding the interest is undefeated versus empires period point blank.” - Peruvian Bull

Fun evening session.

“Technology is deflationary. Inflation is theft. Bitcoin is repricing everything.” - Jeff Booth Truth requires a response. Navigating life with a new understanding can be messy. It can seem like a bridge to far. I’m grateful for voices like @Jeff Booth who bring good signal in a world of noise.

The typos tho…if this is fixed one day, all of us will look back to the typos days on Nostr as an indicator of how early we adopted it