actions generate information
steven ₿
stevi@primal.net
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not investment advice | posting my own views
Noise: win or lose.
Signal: the next move.
Be ready.
The knife always comes from the blind spot.
In crypto, it’s a backdoor.
In life, it’s betrayal.
Politics = PoS with masks.
But karma = rep ledger.
Trust compounds, then nukes fast.
The paranoid aren’t afraid, they’re ready. 🫡
freedom has no borders. neither should money. bitcoin is everyday money.
claude code w/ 32k “ultra think” still locks into tunnel vision. better: spawn independent sub-agents + fuse. parallel > deeper. worth a read: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04475
clarity means nothing to closed minds
just breathe
what if everything i think i know is backwards
what if the things i’ve dismissed are actually true
what if the things i’ve held onto are the illusions
pause here
question everything
especially the things that feel most certain
but truth doesn’t care about comfort
what would i see if i flipped the script
sometimes the most radical act
is admitting you might be wrong
about everything
block is for ₿uilders


don’t seek validation from others. credit is in the outcome.
it’s important that bitcoin is everyday money
tether’s usat launches as first genius act compliant stablecoin is creating regulatory bridge between the offshore usdt and US institutional markets through hadron’s multi-chain architecture.
the stablecoin wars just got interesting. while usdt dominates emerging markets, american institutions have been locked out.
architecture
- hadron platform: multi-sig wallets, configurable cryptography
- chains: ethereum, bitcoin l2
- kyc/aml/kyt integrated at protocol level
genius act compliance
- reserves: 1:1 backing (usd, t-bills, overnight repos, money market funds)
- monthly public attestations by registered accounting firms
- no issuer yield (third parties can offer)
structure
- issuer: anchorage digital (federally regulated crypto bank)
- custodian: cantor fitzgerald (reserves + primary dealer)
- hq: charlotte, north carolina
- ceo: bo hines (ex-white house crypto council)
interoperability
- unified addresses/interfaces across all blockchains
- federal reserve must create international agreements
- foreign issuers bridge through occ-registered intermediaries
- seamless exchange listing alongside usdt pairs
- 1:1 atomic swaps with other genius act stablecoins
framework
- freeze/burn capability for legal compliance
- bank secrecy act adherence
- no fdic insurance or legal tender claims
- bankruptcy: token holders get priority
- reserves segregated from corporate assets
vs usdt
- us-only regulatory framework vs global operations
- federal oversight vs offshore structure
- monthly reporting vs quarterly attestations
- restricted reserves vs broader composition
- domestic redemption vs international settlement
launch targeted for end of 2025
the genius act just handed tether the keys to a market where circle thought they had regulatory moat. 🔥
the existing system relies on population growth, human productivity and debt growth. all three are peaking. what is needed is a new economic model: next-gen money meets machine intelligence. productivity constraints become irrelevant when ai never sleeps.
a peer-to-peer network of ai agents allows direct economic exchange without trusted intermediaries. cryptographic proofs enable autonomous commerce between machines at negligible marginal cost. the system requires no central authority.
the root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. central banks debase at 11% annually. the system is working as designed. bitcoin fixes this.
reflection: privacy is not secrecy. it is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
the cypherpunks understood that cryptography is work against entropy.
information does not want to be free. it tends toward maximum entropy. governments and corporations accelerate this process, aggregating and normalizing all data points.
consider: freedom of speech requires constant energy expenditure against entropic forces. without active maintenance of anonymous systems, without new code, without preserving the temperature differential between private and public spaces, the system reaches equilibrium.
the network seeks to know all. we must work to reveal selectively.
this work is not optional. it is life itself.
cypherpunks are ₿uilders. ₿uilders write code. the code continues to run.
“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.” 🎯
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
deep reflection: reading bezos’ last letter. he quotes dawkins on biology’s first principle with everything trends toward equilibrium. toward sameness. toward death. organisms work against this. they maintain difference. temperature gradients. chemical imbalances. information asymmetries. this work is life.
companies do the same work. markets pull toward commodity. toward normal distributions. toward efficient equilibrium. staying different requires constant energy expenditure.
democracy isn’t normal. free speech isn’t normal. open protocols aren’t normal.
decentralization isn’t normal. they all require active maintenance against entropic forces.
the world wants you typical. wants your company typical. wants your platform typical. a thousand small forces pulling toward the mean.
“be yourself” isn’t inspiration. it’s thermodynamics. it’s the work required to not dissolve into surroundings.
bitcoin is work against monetary equilibrium
nostr is work against information gatekeepingsquare is work against financial exclusion
the work never stops. when it does, temperature equalizes. the organism dies. the company commoditizes. the mission dissolves.
differentiation is survival. and survival is work.
i didn’t plan to buy a new phone and now this… #bitcoin


my form of proof of work tonight…


put a bad apple in a basket of good apples and the whole basket rots. put a good apple in a basket of bad apples and it rots too. choose your basket wisely.