GM & HNY

The days are short but the sunrise is as stunning as ever.

GM

Bitcoin Is Where We Draw the Line In a time where hell has been unleashed on earth through the internet - porn, doom scrolling, black pills, psyops, fake news, AI slop, propaganda, and more - up shows Bitcoin to deliver on the prophecy of the early Internet pioneers: Leaderless, decentralized, censorship resistant, unstoppable. It anchors information to real world energy and effort, bridging the divide that saw digital offerings hoover up the value of physical efforts, and thereby turning our physical selves into data profiles whose purpose is to be harvested and exploited by algorithms meant to ensnare us through recommendation engine algorithms and fleece us through advertising we are psychologically unable to resist. Bitcoin severs these and more undesirable interdependencies. Entrepreneurs don’t need VCs who will contort their business for an exploitive exit. They need bitcoin, which will help them achieve their long term goals and reward entrepreneurs who don’t betray or exploit their clientele. Workers, or to put it more clearly, those who provide their time, energy and creativity to an enterprise they don’t own, don’t need 401ks and IRAs, which lock up their money until retirement. They need Bitcoin which gives them sovereignty over their wealth, to spend or save when they choose. Shareholders don’t need public markets to cash out. They need Bitcoin dividends to reward them with durable value for building durable value. Cities don’t need taxation to maintain local public infrastructure. They need Bitcoin to attract entrepreneurs, workers, companies and shareholders who want to build value locally and globally for the long term and to live in a thriving, hopeful and valuable community. Bitcoin will be the line in the sand drawn to say “this stops here”, whether it’s a physical boundary or a temporal one (“this stops now”). It ends the processes that fuel and feed corrupt bureaucrats, politicians, regulators , businessmen and all the parasites who add difficulty to the healthy functioning of the human race. It restores healthy functions that thrive when freedom reigns: Functions like genuine entrepreneurship; hard honest work in the service of real demands; well capitalized profitable companies; peaceful, largely crime free cities. When people and businesses can transact freely, their incentives align to create sustainable value and ever-improving quality of life through innovation that consumers value and frequent. When bureaucrats, lawmakers, politicians and regulators interfere with that free transacting, the incentives instead align with using regulation and law as a weapon against producers, outcompeting them by binding them in red tape instead of by offering a superior product at better prices. Bitcoin ends this. If justice is no longer the business of government (because it is distracted in unjustly rigging the market to benefit the businesses that help it get elected) people and businesses lose the incentive to act justly. But thanks to Bitcoin, no longer do you have to look around and shrug your shoulders saying “what can anyone do?” about the mounting problems civilization faces. Now you can do something yourself. You can draw a line around yourself, your family, your household, your business, your idea, your passion - your life. Yours again. Yours at last. To begin anew with all your hopes and desires restored. To pursue your real dreams, not some frivolous pursuit that marketers and celebrities have sold you. A dream where you love what you do, who you do it with, who you do it for, in common purpose with those who share or value your dream. Dream on dreamer. And make your dreams come true by making a choice that makes dreamers’ dreams come true - by taking the freedom to get obstructions and naysayers out of the way and taking on the responsibility and work to master your craft so that you can build that which you dream of.

This is where my seed phrase is. Come and get it.

Wow, "Wednesday" season 2 might just be Tim Burton's greatest work, and he's done a lot of great work. If you have Netflix I very highly recommend watching this.

Gonna try doing here what I used to do on Facebook back when it was a place to share fun stuff with friends - not politics, moralizing or other stuff that's ruined social media.

I’ve written an article published by George Washington University. It’s pretty short, so let me know what you think of it. Why the Unique, Multidisciplinary Nature of Bitcoin Requires Formal, Ongoing Study and Education https://competitionlab.gwu.edu/why-unique-multidisciplinary-nature-bitcoin-requires-formal-ongoing-study-and-education

This guy was so lucky start vlogging on NOSTR. View quoted note →

Nostr is a part of bitcoin. It’s the arbitrary data layer. You’ll see.

Bitcoin reignites hope for humanity.

Bitcoin: Not just a store of value, but a restorer of values.

What I think I love most about the bitcoin movement is how many people find purpose and meaning in finding their particular role within it. It's always something they care deeply about enough to forego everything else for. It's not everyone, of course, but even just seeing a few people, working with passion and integrity on what their calling is, is incredibly inspirational.

GM everyone.

To all the shitheads in Bitcoin, Thank You: Bitcoin is for everyone, so let’s not forget the shitheads; those who not only fail to appreciate its importance, but go out of their way to undermine it; Who not only fail to teach others, but try to mislead them; Who not only fail to appreciate the equality with which it treats all of us, but who try to claim special status for themselves; WIthout you, we might grow complacent, our lessons might become dulled, our own egos might become puffed. But thanks to you and your tireless (but tiresome) attacks, Bitcoin and bitcoiners remain strong, sharp, and ready to spring into action (even if that is steadfast inaction, which you would label as ossified and close-minded). You wear it well, that head of shit. Rarely do you engage through reason, truth, nuance, or wisdom, nor do you come around after some time admitting your errors. No, you take it on the chin over and over, foregoing friendship, respect, honesty, and many other genuine spiritual rewards, not to mention the high monetary price you often pay if you actually put your money where your mouth is (which few of you actually do). So thanks to you unsung heroes – the villains – of the bitcoin story and its history. We need you and bitcoin needs you, even though you’re shitheads. Keep doing what you do so well that so many of the rest of us simply will not bring ourselves to do, or even to thank you for.

How Bitcoin Fixes Money and, In Turn, Everything Else (in 250 words): Nature is driven by forces. And in nature, to obtain some resource, a being takes it, most often by force. In human society, when something is taken by force from nature, like extracting iron from the earth, it is called being industrious. But when something is taken by force from another human, it is called theft. Since both theft and industry are possible using force, industrious people must use significant energy to deter theft, directing it away from further industrious activities. If we could direct more energy to producing wealth rather than to defending it we would be richer and more productive, and there should be less incentive to steal. This would kick off a positive feedback loop of abundance creation making theft unprofitable in many more cases and further increasing abundance, but we must first close the loopholes that rewards theft. In the realm of money, bitcoin achieves this. Bitcoin cannot be taken by force. It cannot be created except for with force that makes it harder to take bitcoins by force. It cannot be counterfeited, clipped, debased or devalued. Modern money has many such loopholes. They incentivize many people to dedicate their lives towards getting that money through un-industrious efforts - they spend their time and energy on activities that do not create any real wealth, but rob those who do create it of their wealth. By closing these loopholes, Bitcoin fixes money, and in turn, so much more.

Bitcoin is a game without frontiers, a war without tears.

Twitter is down.

Plebishness is in the heart of the behodler. ❤️

It’s not only okay to tell the people you love that you love them, it’s encouraged. It makes you think about who you love (or don’t), and lets them know they’re loved. It makes you think about what love means to you.