I just finished reading The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. The most notable passage for me had to do with early nation-state adoption likely correlated not to democracy but to dictatorships that can move quickly and aren't incentivized to maintain the status quo of the global order. In the U.S., we merely have oligarchies, so actual domestic adoption may be slower.

I setup my Alby Hub last week. Had all sorts of technical issues in part to my own ineptitude and in part to my underpowered hardware. I called in this week to a community onboarding session, and ended up being the fucking tech support.

How is it that Pluto TV now has some of the best shows on streaming?

Grok doesn’t know what the purple ostrich logo is for. I have no fucking clue what this image is about but that’s not the bigger story. View quoted note →

Are Bitcoin Conference side events posted on Meetup or somewhere? If so, when do they start posting?

It is fictional only because, ironically, Monopoly money hadn’t debased since the game’s invention. Imagine starting each game not only with today’s dollars, but today’s asset values as well. And every time you land on a property you pay rent, even if no player owns it. View quoted note →

Anyone have a Medium subscription to find out “what’s coming” that is supposedly bigger than AI? [read in a cynical tone] Forget AGI. Forget Agents. You have No Idea What is Coming

Medium

Forget AGI. Forget Agents. You have No Idea What is Coming

You are so unprepared. So woefully unprepared.

I don’t. They don’t. But that just makes me more humble. View quoted note →

Livestream of MIT Bitcoin Expo April 5-6 2025 https://www.youtube.com/live/TqxDr_SjAgg?si=e_nUwPyYtW1pbxBG

Well that took no time. View quoted note →

Nostr provides many of the same benefits as travel. I’ve purchased art, supplies, music, and signed editions of books both across continents and in person thanks to the ease at which Nostr makes transactions over a social web. I don’t miss the algorithms that limited my exposure to curated content or a limited social bubble. View quoted note →

Less than 1M people understand Bitcoin enough to actually cold storage? Mass adoption is going to be a mess when most new users just leave their bags in custody. Bad passwords… confiscation… insolvent exchanges… custody hacks…

Fountain

The Robin Seyr Podcast • Why Most Americans HODL Bitcoin Wrong (5 Years to Fix It!) • Listen on Fountain

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If hell or high water, one stays humble and stacks sats regularly, what is the value proposition for attending Bitcoin conferences? #asknostr #bitcoin

What’s the Nostr video calling web app that is like Google Meet? #asknostr