The silk road is the best thing that ever happened to bitcoin. Wish it was still around, need some coke or adderall. Gotta make them dolla bills ya'll.

Gender pay gap narrative is misleading. If you look at the data superficially, women are paid 80 cents on the dollar compared to men. When you control for hours worked and hazard pay, then the gaps narrows to near zero.

My work life balance is shit right now, and it's in large part my own fault. The sense of obligation to work more because there's work that needs to be done is the trap I fall into. And it's only going to get worse until all the boomers die off or medicare goes bankrupt.

Trump is a narcistic megalomaniac who appeals primarily to chuds. Panders to bitcoin/crypto crowd for votes, but doesn't get it at all. RFK gets bitcoin, might even be considered a bitcoiner given how well versed he sounds. He's delusional about other things like wifi/cellphones and vaccines. He's the least bad from a foreign policy standpoint, but is a light socialist economically. Mamala is a joke that the left is stuck supporting because it would be an incredibly bad look to push a woman of color aside. Has no real opinions of her own, and probably has no idea what bitcoin even is. To my fellow Americans, which flavor of poison would you choose?

On my way to a leaner, more muscular body. Steady as she goes.

Is it possible for objectivity to exist if there is no God or religion?

Since it is impossible to know how much time you have left, remember to go into a ton of debt and leave that shit for your kids to figure out.

Ecash is the killer app for a bitcoin standard. Sure, there's custodial risk but the benefits for ease of use and small payments easily trumps the rugpull downside. Will see a cambrian explosion of innovation on the custodian key distribution side of things and Bitcoin will be the bedrock that the fertile soil rests on. Bullish.

I was raised in the Mormon/LDS church. Being raised in a religious tradition gives answers to many of our toughest questions like why am I here? what is my purpose? what am I supposed to do with my life? etc. Ever since I left the church early in my adulthood, I've lost something that religion provided for me, a feeling of certainty. I've never recovered. I feel lost most of the time. I find myself wandering around in the realm of ideas, and sometimes buying into this and that ideology at various times. After going through an initial euphoric phase of thinking I've found my new reason for being, I eventually rationalize myself out of it and start searching for something else. I don't think that religion's are true reflections of reality, but I do think they are beneficial to those who truly buy in. This is true of cults too, the more you buy in, the more it seems to benefit you from a mental/spiritual aspect, even if it means you are less well off from a financial or individualistic freedom perspective. Ultimately, I have no idea what is true anymore. I've even started to question history and science. Nothing seems real except for what's right in front of my face. I kinda wish that I had kept the faith of my upbringing. It would make life seem more simple. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed for me and I don't have any hope that I'll find another belief system that I could use to fill the hole in my life. I've entered the realm of absurdism and I've struggled to find a desire strong enough to make the struggle seem worth it. I have a wife, kids, good career, wealth, good health, etc. yet I find myself struggling to stay motivated to continue living the way I am. I want to just buy a motorcycle and ride away, wandering the highways for the remainder of my days.

Happy celebration of successful treason day!!!

The way I see future world of Bitcoin: Small minority of wealthy self sovereign Bitcoiner's. Cambrian explosion of fintech innovation with a variety of banking/trust models. Majority of world populace will use the most convenient services, most likely custodial, but they will utilize some version of ecash. Forward looking and ambitious world leaders will drive adoption in their countries, while the incumbent powers will be slower to adopt. Some may even try to completely stamp out adoption, but Bitcoin will eventually win due to the desire of the populace to use it. Weaker fiats will die as they are consumed by stronger currencies, mainly USD. USD will eventually be abandoned as the global currency and USTs as the global reserve asset and both will be replaced by Bitcoin. These will likely take a generation or more to play out, but this is the rough sketch of my vision of the future. Will be a chaotic ride, but I think we will pull through (barring nuclear war or some other apocalyptic catastrophe).

I introduce my younger brother to Bitcoin almost a decade ago. After a time, he went to work for Coinbase and has since become a major crypto bro. He still owns and appreciates bitcoin, but he sees the crypto space as the future. He even co-founded a recently released token project and is a giant whale of the shitcoin. My brother and I convinced my dad (a rich boomer) to buy some Bitcoin a few years ago, and my brother also got him to buy some ETH. Now my dad is starting to buy some of these new tokens even as the value has steadily dropped since the launch. I don't feel like I need to tell him to dump that shit since it's not a meaningful amount of money for him. I also feel like time will be the ultimate teacher as Bitcoin continues to rise in value and the shitcoin goes to nothing.

I used to follow a vegan diet, I have a soft spot for animals. But man, was it hard and in the end I realized that there's a reason meat tastes so good.