The Conscious Contrarian

Bugonia is another Lanthimos masterpiece

Does anyone voluntarily use Microsoft 365 over Google Workspace?

Anyone in #London interested in going to the Real Bedford game on Saturday? CC nostr:nprofile1qqs2auxkkgfgylem580xrztp8ek5sf83s86k0vfq2feuz6y4lkhskgcpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mq357ul7

Reading Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” about the Black Thursday and the ensuing Great Depression. Two striking observations about the gold standard at the time: 1) The massive bubble and eventual bist actually happened on a gold standard, in other words Bitcoiners’ assumption that hard money will simply fix everything may be too optimistic. Chat GPT’s thoughts on the reasons below 2) Despite 1), gold of course massively outperformed during the crash, resulting in FDR’s executive order to abolish private gold ownership. In that scenario Bitcoin ownership would arguably be far more difficult to abolish. Overall, it’s a very good read with a lot of echoes with today. Curious about any more thoughts and insights!

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This may be an excellent time to buy Square stock. The stock seems poised to catch up with the other big Tech titles once it breaks out of that channel. Especially now that we have that Bitcoin backwind with a real opportunity to disintermediate Visa/Mastercard in the long term. CC nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzvmhwden5te0demkxtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0v9uhv6nvv45kcmtcxpskcdm2xfc8zapjx3ck2ep30gmkzwrn03jjx3 wdyt?

Controversial opinion: “Custodial”and “non-custodial” wallet is really bad wording

nostr:nprofile1qqsxvns8pl39uakaema9fy5uphjzajkssyqfx5r7yn0yvgs828xm02spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgy936vc Thinking about signing up. Can I get a glimpse of groups in London before I do? I think the lack of insight in general might be a barrier to signing up for people.

Switzerland just got its first #Bitcoin treasury company: Very interesting market due to the very low interest rates! https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/future-raises-chf-28-million

nostr:nprofile1qqsvrzpjh8khtfrg0gxdhf052kvsqj7p88sx8wr8u8622lsp82w96ns6s3skh Jam is quickly becoming one of my favourite Bitcoin pods. Thank you nostr:nprofile1qyshwumn8ghj76mdvvkkummnw3ezuctdd96kuer9wfmkzar9wghxxmmdqy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn9v9ekjene9ejx2qpq8lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsu33ec2 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqg7waehxw309anx2etywvhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7ur0wp6kcctjqqstwz8h8yh43pqxyykr3qh8kw7qmxcg6chet7shp5yezflvufmsuhs8c55a2 and Steve Lee!

Been playing with running my own Lightning node. Question: Will this ever be worth doing for the average person, or even more sophisticated users of Bitcoin? It seems the superior setup is just to hold BTC in self-custody and then just hold whatever you want to spend (and can afford to lose) in the most trusted custodial Lightning wallet. What am I missing?