#4 housing is a result of malinvestnment caused by government intervention. More government intervention, as you put here, isn’t the answer. The answer is to remove government intervention from the mortgage market. 1. The Fed needs to sell off its ~$2T in MBS. 2. Fannie, Freddie, and (especially) Ginnie need to be fully privatized, without any explicit or implicit government guarantee. They collectively own another ~$10T in MBS. View quoted note →

View quoted note →

My 80IQ take is that tether on LN sounds like vaporware fugazzi grift. No matter what technology you throw at fiat tokens, the map can never be the territory. But idk, catch the game last night?

View quoted note →

Nostr

Good thing my mother must’ve had Tylenol while I was in utero, otherwise I wouldn’t have found Bitcoin as early as I did.

It is February 1st, 2023. I am signing my first Nostr note. I feel censorship, for the last time. View quoted note →

View quoted note →

Keith is wildly under-appreciated. Incredible, encyclopedic mind. Consistent, strong libertarian values. Sharp, quick, and incisive. A strong force for good.

View quoted note →

The FCC can’t fire this npub or censor this note.

Bitcoin and Nostr are still the best communities on Earth, but they could be so much better without all the people who believe in both magic and totalitarianism. They go hand in hand. Yea death is scary, but knuckle up and use your brain.

The Twitter Files revealed that the Biden White House would email Twitter trust and safety, “requesting” specific tweets and accounts to take down. The left buried their heads in the sand, pretended like the Twitter Files never happened, and moved on. Nostr fixes this. View quoted note →