The first missiles to strike Iran were launched within hours of the first train to arrive in Iran from China on the newly built Xi'an to Tehran railway line, enabling direct trade and bypassing all US zones of influence.

Iran = oil. And they supply BRICS nations. Just saying.

Westerners seem to think they have some kind of a say in whether or not they will be involved in this war, but that ship sailed long ago.

How did you use energy to transform chaos into order today?

Cc @Max

Nostr is an unsupervised playground.

In the 2013 and 2017 cycles, major projects hyped themselves as "better than bitcoin" in some way, with a side dish of "blockchain but not bitcoin" from some of the more bone headed institutionals. In the 2021 cycle, pretending your project was "better than bitcoin" just made you look stupid and/or arrogant. The market moved on to yield, collectables, and memes. But I've noticed things have come full circle in the 2025 cycle. Where projects used to compete *against* bitcoin, they now compete *for* bitcoin. The focus is on integrating bitcoin with bridges, sidechains, etc, and "defi" seems to be showing the early signs of capitulating to "bitcoinfi". None of them are doing it properly yet, but my instinct tells me the 2029 cycle will bring some bitcoin level maturity to the crypto space, which will become primarily focused on bitcoin denominated revenue.

The ego wants to survive, but the soul wants to live.

Where are you on the semantic gradient?

Prompt: a hammer and sickle in the style of the Nike logo, with the slogan "don't do it"

We just flipped Brazil and Taiwan.

What was your original face before your parents were born?

Everyone else is just a slightly different version of you.