The red/blue button dilemma that was trending on X recently shows that you can secure the Bitcoin network with just nodes, no mining required.

If you've ever wondered why the #Claude usage limit reset always feels ~4 hours away: the clock starts when you start using it. Go hard right away, hit the limit early, spend most of the window waiting. Using it continuously for small, trivial questions might actually be a better strategy than just waiting around to get a big task started.

A woman told me recently that she's "priced out of Bitcoin" and hence she "invests" in XRP. That's what's happening outside of our small bubble. People do not worry about jpgs in blocks, rather about absolutely irrelevant nonsense (like that someone can "just turn off Bitcoin").

Anybody else feels like this using AI agents right now?

The problem of spam is so much worse on networks like Solana and Ethereum than on Bitcoin. Low fees and the account-based model lead to scam token airdrops, address poisoning, dusting attacks, and more. On Bitcoin, transaction history stays clean (especially if avoiding address reuse), hence an individual sees much less spam.

Who would have guessed that PewDiePie will be introducing millions of people to DuckDuckGo and GrapheneOS. Yet here were go. Privacy is going mainstream!

Sats are just fine.

I am curious how far we are from scammers using real-time voice cloning. Very scary.

Bitcoin would need to trade above $126,000 to clear its highest exchange-rate-adjusted record (set in Swedish krona) or $122,000 to beat the Czech koruna benchmark. At roughly $96k today, BTC is still about 24% below that peak.

Economics is the science of human action. We are not fully rational beings and proper economic theory recognizes that. I find it interesting how the ancient philosophers were better equipped to understand economics than modern academics. Economics is the science of human joy.

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I'd still prefer a self-hosted or E2EE solution, but haven't found any that works reasonably well.

If imports > exports were called a surplus, the world would be quite different this year.

If only there was a hard asset that was not influenceable by tariffs and nonsensical global trade wars that was digitally available all around the world in an instant. Oh wait.

Unless forced, each trade is balanced. That is, both parties profit since they exchange a thing they want less (be it money or goods) for a thing they want more (be it money or goods). Since each trade is balanced, any sum of trades is also balanced. There are no trade imbalances between groups or countries.

She seems genuinely happy that she lost. View quoted note →

Jack Dorsey spoke in Oslo on the importance of open source not only for social media but also AI.