The vulgarity of US domestic air travel never disappoints…

Only a matter of time before US airlines drop the facade of customer service and go full on military style jump seats.

Take a few minutes out of your week and listen to @Nik Bhatia . Nik is a great teacher. Learn some stuff.

It's great to be here now, as we're still early. But I also really want to know what the Bitcoin network and the ecosystem will look like 50, 60 years from now.

@Whitney Webb An impressive amount of intellectual horsepower went into this piece. I learn something every time I read Whitney's work.

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Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock's Plan To Own The Fractionalized World

In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock's Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be "ETF'd" and tokenized,...

I've developed a near manic need to rinse the top of any beverage can before I open it.

Concise always beats verbose. A brilliant little gem to kick off the weekend... "Their Sex Life" by A.R. Ammons One failure on Top of another

Today I retrieved some long-lost storage I had completely forgotten about and not seen for over 15 years. It's like opening a time capsule that was sealed even before the first ever Bitcoin transaction. It feels like Christmas! We have come a long way.

Finally a review of the Putin interview that avoids projection of one's own virtuous opinions about him and Carlson.

Thematic Markets | Marvin Barth | Substack

Differentiated, value-added insights into the themes driving the global political economy and markets. Click to read Thematic Markets, by Marvin Ba...

Caught up with some friends who work in cyber security. They're not Bitcoiners, but they have a good understanding of how the protocol functions. We had a long discussion about security, and how Bitcoin could be attacked from a purely technical perspective. One issue that took up a lot of discussion was the DNS seeds and hard-coded seed nodes, and whether those represented a vulnerability. We all went back and forth. I asked AI, and I thought the answer was quite reasonable.