Bitcoin unifies various languages as it pertains to exchanging value, but it does not attempt to reach heaven. Thesis: Gold - good for savings (value over time), poor for exchange (value over space - divisibility, fungibility, portability) Low time preference cultures > high time preference ones (Democracy - the god that failed us). Antithesis: Paper: Finishes golds promise, abstracting ownership through a central ledger made gold more saleable over space and time, but with centralization and a big honey pot, rugs are pulled. The tower toward heaven destroyed, because the trust should have never been placed. History, and the boom bust cycles, both short and long term debt cycles, is littered with examples as to why this trust should have never been placed. But consent can be manufactured. Synthesis: We find ourselves hurtling towards a digital financial system, one which embellishes that unwarranted trust to the most extreme sense (Social credit system with “private” CBDCs).. where centralized authorities decree the total supply, who can and can not access it.. it’s the ultimate means of control.. Or Bitcoin, its symmetric opposite; finite and uncensorable. It’s clear to all those participating which one is more likely to win. We either win this battle or dishonor and violate the social contract to such an extent that few can comprehend. I’m all in, I’ve found my Tribe, we’re starting to build amazing products and services, and life is good.. But I can’t help but notice the weird bed fellows we find ourselves surrounded by. When I was in ES for Plan B recently, I couldn’t notice that all the “OG” bitcoiners were pro Tether, saying they’re going to bootstrap the lightning network, and enable us to send $ over lightning without KYC… Then Tether released their BrainOS - a literal transhumanist brain chip… but don’t worry, it’s open source! I then realized Max Keiser is an investor and big proponent, even though he dunks on fiat and other CBDCs.. Then I found out Brock Pierce and his connection to Tether.. Then that Tether is moving their HQ to ES… Then that Stark was dating Aaron Swartz when he was going through those issues… And my “paranoid” mind can’t help but connect all these dots and “coincidences” in a “conspiratorial” fashion.. but everything is pointing to Mark’s Bitcoin Dollar thesis being the most accurate warning in neon… It’s good to be aware of all the good possible, but this post is a reminder to you all, don’t loose sight of the goal: Uncensorable savings and transactions, fuck the social credit system, whether it’s “private”, public or some quasi in between. If “we” fail, our children our doomed. “We” can’t fail, “we” must succeed. Find your Tribe, don’t fall for psyops, build, we can’t just wait it out and hedge both ways.

It’s ironic that convenient options always turn out to be the most costly and inconvenient in the long term. Finding your Truth, and acting on it honorably is a narrow and more lonely path, full of suffrage, wisdom and joy. Thank God there is help and good people along the way.

GM! Time to work so not all of them come true 😂

How the state and cypherpunks must feel when us plebs and NPCs start learning how cryptography works.

Successfully made my first FROSTR post: note1z6p7fyfhc8rnlt73jzzx8a99qh9dh9cyxjdt5e6l868ax6nnuw0srhef5r

“Extremely unsafe & violently untested” 😂 Let’s play ball.

I’m learning FROST & Rust, my goal is to make at least one meaningful contribution to FROSTR by mid year.

Did you know there’s 21 key parts when learning Rust?

The Rust Programming Language - The Rust Programming Language

Bitcoin Beach is Bright Orange

A great way to finish the day, reading ‘The Bushido Of Bitcoin’ by @Alekandar Svetski while sitting on Bitcoin Beach ES 🇸🇻

GM - Few 🧡

This. Autonomy > “retirement”. Bitcoin helps you afford time. View quoted note →

I yearn for the second realm, and look forward to contributing more to it in 2025

GM

Alright, a friend recommended: The Second Realm: Book on Strategy By: Smuggler and XYZ The opening paragraph about licensing is hilarious: This book is covered by a BipCot NoGovernment License. Re-use and modification is permitted to anyone EXCEPT for governments and the bludgies thereof. Further Use Permission: Please feel free to use, re-use, distribute, copy, re-print, take credit for, steal, broadcast, mock, hate, quote, misquote, or modify this book in any way you see fit. Sell it, make copies and hand it out at concerts, make t-shirts, print it on flying disks, or do anything else because intellectual property is a State based haven of the weak, the stupid, and those lacking confidence in their own ability.

GM, it’s nearly ES time. Super excited to go see some good Bitcoiners again!

I get annoyed when high time preference people ask stupid questions, because they haven’t done the PoW to even have a meaningful conversation. Only recently, did I realize, that for many Bitcoiners before me, for various topics (energy, philosophy, economics beyond the basics), I am that annoying n00b, who won’t comprehend what they’re saying, because their terminology, concepts & axioms are largely foreign. I need to remind myself to be more patient with new people, family & friends, not only was that once me, but it relatively true now, and it will be so again. Yet to not chase further Truth, is to reject gods gift of life. I am the perma-n00b, always will be.

Between this and plebeian markets, it’s great to see NOSTR and Bitcoin continue to build controversial marketplaces without needing or asking for permission. View quoted note →