At least your local, ethnic mafia never coerced you into taking gene therapy in order to work or travel.

Using equity and debt as money is a de-civilizing regression towards barter.

Fuck you if you lend money to governments by buying their bonds. You’re partially responsible for millions of murders. Drop bonds, not bombs.

We usually say that understanding Bitcoin is a one-way ticket, but that’s not entirely true. There are rare instances of people rage quitting. I see them as like the Hawking radiation of Bitcoin.

The internet of money, not the internet of digital assets.

Maybe don’t elect a central banker?

If someone said “custodial Lightning is the CBDC (I.e. surveillable, taxable, controllable)” what would you say to them?

Coinbase yield. Hmm I wonder if this has been tried before… https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-asset-management-launches-the-coinbase-bitcoin-yield-fund

Bitcoin or 1984. Nothing to lose.

The guy on the left always (visually) reminds me of Jordan Peterson. I wonder how many paid subscribers Jordan would have if he, after extensive meditation and self education, reached the final conclusions of “fix the money, fix the world” and “stay humble & stack sats”, then tried to sell subscriptions based on those.

The purpose of a system is what it does. The purpose of the gold market is rehypothecation.

I started with the foundation of “absolute scarcity now exists and isn’t going away”, then everything fell into place easily after that. View quoted note →

God help you if you think Bitcoin won’t eat government bonds.