Has anyone here thought about use cases for the Bitcoin ledger in agriculture?

"PoorThings manages to do for feminism what Barbie failed miserably at: to champion women, without patronizing the audience..." https://soirbleu.medium.com/the-cinematic-brilliance-of-yorgos-lanthimos-99600816f0ad

The government is starting to realize that Bitcoin is about to become a serious threat to them... They're about to get a lot more vicious:

@Botev Plovdiv FC Your integration with Stripe doesn't seem to be working. Just tried to order a jersey, but the payment won't go through. Would prefer to not spend BTC. Please fix.

AI is going to be the technology wave that crashes the VC industry. This is because: 1) AI profits will likely accrue to a few new or existing players. Most VCs will bet on the wrong player. 2) There will not be the same irrational exit liquidity as in previous cycles.

"What most of us refer to as “I” or our self is an activity. Usually this activity consists of a constellation of repetitive or circular thoughts that has become so solidified, that we are no longer conscious of it..." https://soirbleu.medium.com/you-are-an-activity-085ef81e8bfb

"If in order to become successful, you become a person that is not able to enjoy the fruits of your labor, then success may end up proving hollow and expensive..." Check out my new short read on Medium: https://soirbleu.medium.com/the-perils-of-hustle-porn-ba6befeba40f

More challenges for hodlers ahead. Stay humble and keep stacking

"RFK Jr. is extraordinary because he belongs to the endangered species of politicians who speak the truth or even dare to admit when they don’t have the answer to a question"

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

At yesterday’s Super Bowl, the American Values Super PAC aired a $7 million ad for an extraordinary presidential candidate: Robert F.

@npub1hq0k...f9mp

Please give me some likes to get the word out about #nostr

Notes and other stuff transmitted by relays

“Notes and other stuff transmitted by relays” or nostr is a new way of communicating.

The simple and elegant practice of "unburdening the thinker" can make the difference between overthinking a decision and acting from intuition, between painful friction in our day-to-day interactions and straightforward clarity... https://soirbleu.medium.com/unburdening-the-thinker-326a3848f575

Damn, @primal has gotten so good

A principle that stuck with me from my time at Google was a quote from co-founder Sergey Brin that “scarcity breeds clarity”, alluding to Google’s humble beginnings in a Menlo Park garage. Being confined to a small space and limited resources helped Brin and his co-founder Larry Page focus on the essential and thus build one of the most important products and businesses in history. Today, clarity is hard to come by, both in the products and news stories we are exposed to and in our day-to-day interactions with colleagues and friends. #Bitcoin proponents will claim that the current absence of clarity in our social, economic and political lives is largely due to… an absence of scarcity. When money is not scarce but abundant, even the worst business ideas (the class of WeWork, Peloton, Snapchat, 23andMe etc.) can garner a lot of initial attention and make their founders very wealthy before inevitably returning to a more sober valuation. An abundance of bad ideas and businesses, funded through the dilution of all our purchasing power results in frustration from those who are not participating in the pipe dreams. And this frustration eventually overflows into outright hostility and political radicalization as the resulting inflation makes most poorer. Only scarce money can return an economy back to clarity and sobriety. Scarce money, not subject to arbitrary government debasement, allows for unencumbered price discovery for economic goods. #Bitcoin is the only scarce money currently in existence. Maybe, just maybe, a #Bitcoin economy will end the myopia and blurriness of our current economic and social lives and will ensure that those who are playing crucial roles in our society (nurses, teachers, artists etc.) earn their fair share again. (If you enjoyed this short read, I would really appreciate a like on my substack page: https://soirbleu.substack.com/p/scarcity-breeds-clarity)

This is big. Fidelity are now allocating to the Bitcoin ETF for their All-In-One Conservative ETF

Dear nostr friends I’ve started writing here on a daily basis:

Beyond Self Help

Self-help teaches us tactics, contemplation deals with the part of us that won’t use them.

There will be #Bitcoin content but also a lot of quick 1 minute thought provoking pieces on #meditation, #contemplation and a plethora of other topics. Really appreciate any feedback/comments or even subs 🙂

This Zen koan is reaching you from 35,000 feet

This Zen koan is reaching you from 35,000 feet

My favorite Zen koan is one involving a professor and a Zen master:

Targeting 2% Theft

Targeting 2% theft

When I was in high school I was fascinated by economics.

Why my publication is called Soir Bleu

Why this publication is called Soir Bleu

Soir Bleu is Edward Hopper’s most ambitious painting and yet, according to The Whitney Museum’s chosen expert (Dr.

The paradoxical benefits of subtraction

The paradoxical benefits of subtraction

Our culture is all about addition.

A shocking number of people have used amphetamines at some point in their life to brute force something that they want while ignoring something that they may need