Bugonia is another Lanthimos masterpiece
The Conscious Contrarian
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The Conscious Contrarian challenges conventional wisdom to uncover new, more attuned principles and perspectives for navigating the future.
Does anyone voluntarily use Microsoft 365 over Google Workspace?
Anyone in #London interested in going to the Real Bedford game on Saturday? CC @Peter McCormack
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 @jack wdyt?


Controversial opinion: “Custodial”and “non-custodial” wallet is really bad wording
@Club Orange 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!


Bitcoin Magazine
FUTURE Raises CHF 28 Million To Build Bitcoin Treasury
Switzerland-based FUTURE raised CHF 28 million to expand as Europe’s leading institutional Bitcoin treasury platform, backed by investors Fulgur ...
@PresidioBitcoin Jam is quickly becoming one of my favourite Bitcoin pods. Thank you @Max @David King 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?