Nostr posts should include block time in addition to local time.

Relatedly, I’m starting to worry that Bitcoiners are reading too many of the same books & we could easily become a self referential echo chamber. What books do y’all think Bitcoiners should read that’s about a subject that seems far away from Bitcoin and/or Money and why should Bitcoiners read it? View quoted note →

When you have autism, maybe you shouldn’t be the one to make decisions that rely on accurately predicting human behavior. 🤷‍♂️ View quoted note →

Oh, Oh, Ophelia You've been on my mind girl since the flood

Envelopes full of corruptly acquired dollars inside a US Senate jacket feels a little on the nose. Whoever is writing this timeline is a getting lazy.

North Carolina sent the company I work for a thirteen (13) *cent* notice. It will cost me more to mail it than what NC gets. It cost NC taxpayers more to try to claim this than they will receive. Should I pay it w/ 13 pennies or a quarter & demand change?

Some good stuff here and there’s a good chance this stuff get passed in some form. Notice the one I highlighted. That’s a *big* one. I know @jack & @jack mallers would like to see that passed.

Prepare for the upcoming fight and operation chokepoint 3.0. View quoted note →

I found this on St. Louis Fed’s website. It’s an article accepted for further publication. I also posted a link to it on X/Twitter. Cc: @Lyn Alden, @preston, @James Lavish

Publications & Blogs | St. Louis Fed

St. Louis Fed publications and blogs cover topics including the economy, financial institutions and community development.

This is strong evidence that @Lyn Alden‘s thesis that the difference in the speed of settlement between commodity money and credit money was gold’s downfall as money is correct. It’s been a long time since I’ve read McCulloch v. Maryland. Certainly it was before Bitcoin was even invented. I’m going to have to reread it. https://hls.harvard.edu/today/mcculloch-v-maryland-two-centuries-later/

The proposed treasury regs for reporting on digital asset sales for tax purposes have dropped. Comments will be due in about 60 days. First, despite what some people are claiming, the proposed regs go out of the way to try to limit who is considered a broker to just people or entities or groups that are in a position to know the identity of their customer. So miners, for instance, would not be considered a broker. Also, they use the definition of person for tax purposes to further limit the term broker in that way. So an open source software project would likely no qualify either. They are requesting comments on that and also on how to address privacy concerns. I’m slowly making my way through the document so you don’t have to but I wanted to look at this bit immediately. Cc: @preston, @Lyn Alden, whoever is interested. Document 👇

@preston: I loved your chat with Stig. Can y’all do that again, maybe once a year or so?

🍞 & 🎪 & the destruction of money bringing the end of an empire. There really isn’t a more fitting location for the fight.

The Independent

UFC boss in talks to stage Musk vs Zuckerberg at Roman Colosseum

Dana White suggested he spoke to Gennaro Sangiuliano about a potential cage fight between the tech titans

@jack mallers: on strike, when I enter a friend’s username to send them bitcoin, they don’t show up. Any idea what’s going on?

I have a weird passion for studying magic, not because I want to be able to do it, but it’s an easy way to study con artists and the like. It’s a con, everybody knows it’s a con, and you can actually figure out how the tricks are done if you care to spend the time on it. But it’s quite useful spotting real life cons in normal life.

Working from home

This is often because they don’t see you as you are but what you used to be. (A dumb/drunk/high/uneducated (in the best sense of education) [kid, college student, young man], etc.]). It’s really hard, if not impossible, to change that preconception. To the extent it’s changeable, it’s a hell of a lot easier to change that perception if you disappear from their lives for a significant amount of years before you recommend. This is because the frog in the boiling pot is a real phenomenon you must fight. And the people you are closest to are usually people you see often. View quoted note →