gm, good people. ☕

TUIS FTW

"If the good people inside the system can't fix it, there's only one other option. We need separation of education and state. As Bitcoiners will appreciate, the solution is decentralized education." This is the way. View article →

2001 wants its irrational exuberance back.

gm, good people. ☕ Have a great weekend.

> As a special thank you to W.A.S.T.E. subscribers, Radiohead presents a free download of ‘Backdrifts - Live’ mixed by Ben Baptie, which was missing from the release of Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009, but can now be regarded as found

Neighborhood Halloween party. Fire pit. Smores. Bitcoin talk breaks out.

5–6 pieces of candy. Rekt.

Impressive product and my new go-to.

OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent

OpenCode - The open source coding agent.

"If legislation in place in the course of 2026, a pilot exercise could start in 2027 and the Eurosystem should be ready for a potential first issuance of the digital euro during 2029"

European Central Bank

Eurosystem moving to next phase of digital euro project

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price...

🎯 "80% of the people only need 20% of the features. Hide the rest from them and you’ll make them more productive and happy. That’s really all it takes."

Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney

80% of the people only need 20% of the features.

Nostr can't be censored. Bitcoin can't be debased. Lightning routes payments in milliseconds—faster than Venmo, cheaper than Visa. The hardest technical problems are solved. 17 years after the Bitcoin whitepaper, the foundation is proven. The protocols work. The products we build on them have to work just as well. Freedom tech that wins on merit, not martyrdom. Products that solve customer problems first, with self-sovereignty as the inevitable result. New essay on what that looks like in practice:

Frontier Tech GTM Advisory - Shawn Yeager

Sovereignty without sacrifice

Freedom tech loses when it demands sacrifice. Winning means building products that are better on every dimension—not just principles.

Thank you to Steven DeLorme, @franzap, @Marks, @notmandatory, @ODELL, @Matthew Ramsden, and @Derek Ross for feedback on early drafts.