timestandard
Time Standard

Ray Dalio has done an extraordinary job explaining how debt cycles unfold. I have learned a lot.
What I’m interested in is the deeper question: why do they exist at all?
Dalio generally begins at the income and credit layers, while the Time Standard begins with time and energy.
The thesis I'm exploring is that debt cycles emerge when financial systems begin making claims on future time faster than civilization can convert energy into real work.
Eventually, the physical world reconciles those claims.
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2026-02-26 02:51:31 UTC

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2026-02-25 23:03:28 UTC

Bitcoin: The Constant That Bends the World
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https://blossom.primal.net/92d8582b24279ed984e580b0451a8bbd3058c9017d38eaa4e66a323a84c8d13c.mp4

2026-02-13 19:00:21 UTC

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Well said

2026-02-12 17:23:47 UTC

A system that accounts for energy but not time is incomplete.

2026-02-04 16:20:48 UTC

What does a world on a Time Standard look like?
It looks like a world that stops running out of time.

2026-02-01 16:56:26 UTC

The Rational Trap
Under the existing system, no villain is required.
Each layer is "rational" locally:
🔹households want shelter
🔹banks want predictable cash flow
🔹pensions want safe yield
🔹governments want stability
But globally, the system consumes the very thing it needs to survive:
Uncommitted future time.
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2026-01-30 15:33:05 UTC

Time Standard preserves optionality by protecting the time you save.
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2026-01-30 04:58:12 UTC

The Architecture of Bitcoin, and Life.
Bitcoin behaves like a physical system, not a financial one.
Bitcoin's architecture maps perfectly to a gyroscope with built in inertia control.
As hashrate grows, cumulative Proof-of-Work (PoW) accumulates, increasing the system's angular momentum.
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Difficulty dynamically adjusts to maintain a stable precessional frequency—block time—despite changes in energy input.
As angular momentum increases, it becomes progressively harder for external forces such as speculation, leverage, or macro shocks to deflect the system's behavior, constraining disruption within a narrowing precessional cone.
Periodic halvings reduce the effective lever arm through which external torque is applied by cutting issuance driven sell pressure, catalyzing further narrowing of the volatility envelope.
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Inefficient hashrate sheds and is replaced by more efficient energy input, allowing total hashrate, and therefore angular momentum, to continue growing.
The result is a system that becomes more stable, more efficient, and more resistant to external disturbance over time.
This is why Bitcoin can be very noisy locally but has a clear global structure.
Without the difficulty adjustment, precessional frequency maps perfectly (1:1) to block interval.
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Bitcoin's behavior is often counterintuitive because it behaves exactly like a gyroscope, one of the most unintuitive physical systems!
So what is the incentive to fix precessional frequency (block time)?
I believe it has less to do with money and more to do with energy. By engineering a system that fixes block time, you maximize the system's ability to accumulate, store, and release energy without losing orientation.
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This is the architecture of life.

2026-01-28 16:06:39 UTC

Metabolism, not money, is the hallmark of life.
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We have always told the story of civilization backwards.
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Energy per capita is the physical form of prosperity.
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The current form of energy is uneven and brittle.
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Bitcoin is more than money; it is a system that binds energy, time, and coordination.
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When issuance is fixed, energy becomes the variable input.
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Hashrate is electricity.
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A load that obeys purchasing power, not politics.
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The emergent phenomenon of Optionality.
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Power laws punish linear intuition.
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Stranded energy becomes valuable.
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A planetary energy network, owned by no one.
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A deep pattern emerges.
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This cannot be uninvented.
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Find more information at https://www.timestandard.org/

2026-01-27 21:00:37 UTC

A civilization that exhausts its optionality doesn’t collapse from scarcity—it collapses from rigidity.

2026-01-27 06:26:12 UTC

Most systems measure time externally.
Bitcoin measures time internally.

2026-01-27 06:19:55 UTC

Bitcoin turns wealth from a noun into a verb.

2026-01-27 02:30:02 UTC

In an increasingly volatile world, the Time Standard begins with a simple premise:
Time is the invariant we must organize around, not money. When we optimize for our most valuable asset—time—it becomes the constant that bends the rest of the world.
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2026-01-25 20:57:31 UTC

We have long labored under the delusion that civilization runs on pieces of paper.
In reality, money is merely a claim on energy and time, whereas metabolism is the energy and time in motion.
A civilization thrives only when it optimizes its metabolic efficiency, allowing it to move beyond base survival toward expanded carrying capacity.

2026-01-25 18:38:09 UTC

Bitcoin is like a piano; the instrument is universal, but the music you play with it is uniquely your own.

2026-01-14 15:55:29 UTC

Bitcoin makes savings not a claim on someone else's debt, but on everyone's progress.

2026-01-11 18:10:32 UTC

The Bitcoin network doesn't just tell time, it appears to manufacture it.
Most clocks are passive. They observe a rhythm. They report what already exists.
Bitcoin creates a temporal reality by requiring energy to advance it.
The chain is less like a record of history, and more like the factory floor where history is being made.

2026-01-10 23:05:05 UTC

Do we need Jobs?
@nprofile…w2ua joined me for a second time to help unpack the question on everyone's mind. This is not a new question, but it has never been more relevant. I tried to stay out of Jeff's way on this one and revisited a few thoughts at the end.
It is a consequential topic, and I'd love to know what you think!
https://youtu.be/gObY6n-EsZk?si=m2hrn8vzbF2lE9k1

2026-01-10 22:46:59 UTC

Bitcoin quietly optimizes human behavior around saved time.

2025-12-14 20:00:46 UTC

Nature implemented the difficulty adjustment before Satoshi did.
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Bitcoin behaves like a fixed thermodynamic chamber.
Avogadro’s law shows that nature allocates a constant number of energy events per geometric volume, and Bitcoin reflects this principle perfectly.
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The Bitcoin network enforces a constant time (block interval/temperature) and constant volume (block size/volume).
These two together define Bitcoin’s transaction throughput envelope.
This is Bitcoin’s “container.”
It does not grow with user demand.
Difficulty (pressure) adjusts so that the number of energy events (hashes) per volume remains invariant.
As the number of miners increases, the system expands the difficulty so the “pressure” stays constant.
In this graph, the steps represent the difficulty epochs applied to Avogadro's Law.
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A total energy accounting system requires 3 invariants:
🔹A constant rate of measurement (a clock).
🔹A mechanism that normalizes unequal energy inputs
🔹A way to convert energy expenditure into a single comparable unit.
Historically, we have never had all three because:
🔸Currencies inflate
🔸Commodity weights vary
🔸Requirements for external governance or calibration
🔸No system self-calibrates based on energy input
Bitcoin changes this.
Bitcoin behaves like a natural law, not a human standard.

2025-12-13 19:43:07 UTC

If you put information on a distorted map...
You get distorted information.
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2025-12-11 15:57:31 UTC

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@nprofile…l7ea is making some of the most digestible content I have seen! He is great at unpacking complexity, and makes a really important point in this video.
#nevent1q…6lt2

2025-12-11 15:51:12 UTC

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You're making a really important point here, and teaching comes naturally to you! Thanks for making your content so digestible—keep it up! 🔥

2025-12-11 15:33:57 UTC

Three steps to changing our perspective.
First, we view the world through our currency.
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Then we begin converting our currency to BTC.
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Eventually, we stop converting everything into an arbitrary piece of paper and denominate everything in BTC.
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2025-12-09 01:43:41 UTC

Without tying money to time and energy, you end up with a distorted economy divorced from physics, one that can “grow” on paper while actually consuming itself.

2025-12-09 01:42:20 UTC

Wealth is not pieces of paper.
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2025-12-07 18:33:32 UTC

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I love the feeling of new thoughts! Keep them coming. I look forward to exploring your channel. Looks like great content!

2025-12-06 19:46:09 UTC

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Jeff has incredible range, and it was a privilege to seek his perspective on a range of topics. I was hopeful that others would also find it valuable. I just sat down with him again and am still digesting his unique insights. Thanks for the valuable feedback!

2025-10-24 03:19:56 UTC

The fiat system expands potential consumption while the underlying actual capacity stagnates or decays.

2025-10-24 03:19:25 UTC

Fuller warned that humanity had confused claims on wealth (property, money, credit) with actual wealth (energy, capability, technological progress).
Bitcoin exposes this same distortion.

2025-10-16 21:32:22 UTC

Fuller understood an individual would publish Bitcoin.
Why?
Because groups cannot think 💭
Corporations, institutions, and governments are all made of individuals who do the thinking.

2025-10-15 15:15:39 UTC

“Because debt is a constituent of traditional government, it will be increased to eventual absurdity.”
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-09-22 15:04:42 UTC

"Mankind literally lives inside the frame of measurement [fiat] that needs to be interrogated."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-09-03 04:20:31 UTC

"People have always believed that when they put their money in the bank, it stayed there. They had no idea it went out on loan within minutes after it came in."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-08-29 03:54:50 UTC

World Game is the antithesis of World War.
"Yesterday's preoccupation with major energy harnessing, primarily for the killing of humans by humans, now can be redirected to intelligent and responsible production of a total-humanity sustaining system."
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2025-08-23 23:50:06 UTC

"Political pressure was clearly causing the scientists to abandon truth."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-08-22 14:55:16 UTC

An essential theme in Buckminster Fuller's work is:
Liberation from inherited misconceptions—whether in maps, politics, race, or classrooms. Fuller frames education as the process of “decontaminating” thought from obsolete fixations so that humanity can adapt to reality rather than illusions.
The necessary pretext for finding clarity was a global and finite time-energy accounting system, aka the Bitcoin network.

2025-08-21 13:44:27 UTC

"I am not trying to imitate nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-08-04 07:01:17 UTC

You can’t spend money, wealth, or energy.
You can only spend time.
"The only thing that's expendable is what we do with our time-all the rest is cumulative."
—Buckminster Fuller
The more I think about it, I’ve come to realize Bucky was right.

2025-08-02 17:49:29 UTC

A few great minds sensed there was more to Buckminster Fuller’s work than meets the eye.
"I've always felt that those dymaxion gadgets—cars, houses, maps, etc.—were only incidental to what you really are interested in. Could you tell me what your work is?" —Dr. Jonas Salk
But they could not put their finger on it because they did not understand Bitcoin. Today, we have the necessary tools and technology (Bitcoin) to understand one of the greatest minds of the last century.

2025-08-01 18:28:09 UTC

Scaling Trust
https://blossom.primal.net/be31707e170e1d86e7b8ee613ae2261ad3be4c5cd232573f71fc7c93b0461611.mp4

2025-07-31 15:16:39 UTC

Study Bitcoin.
"We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-07-30 03:01:10 UTC

“Because debt is a constituent of traditional government, it will be increased to eventual absurdity.”
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-07-29 03:21:03 UTC

“Locking gold away in vaults is in just this way a destruction of a resource. Complicated rules of bookkeeping (not of physics) make it nearly impossible to get at it again. So gold grows scarce, and yet there are sensible uses for gold, the seventy-ninth element. Those bookkeeping customs intimidate us like natural laws. Yet we have only to change them (‘Forget the gold standard’).”
—Buckminster Fuller (Reworded)

2025-07-28 16:18:42 UTC

“A dollar bill in time to come will be recognized as a time-captured and saved unit of energy by man.”
—Buckminster Fuller, 1938

2025-07-28 14:18:18 UTC

“This metallic characteristic of money is no longer a primarily essential part of the internal U.S. dollar. Not only is the industrial worker of America willing to interpolate his work stint into a paper dollar-an intrinsically worthless medium-but actually prefers it to a metallic dollar.”
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-07-28 13:48:03 UTC

“In the course of early trading, a metallic money was developed as a concentrate medium of exchange and a belief grew up as to its potentially direct value, which in due course was improperly termed "credit." Money, metalically was relatively the safest medium of temporary value maintenance, being almost non-corrosive and non-substitutable due to its rarity.”
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-07-24 13:07:47 UTC

"Bits break up finite wholes into finite parts."
—Buckminster Fuller, 1975

2025-07-24 05:41:39 UTC

“We are in for the greatest revolution in history. If it's to pull the top down and it's bloody, all lose. If it is a design-science revolution to elevate the bottom and all others as well to unprecedented new heights, all will live to dare spontaneously to speak and live and love the truth, strange though it often may seem.”

2025-07-24 04:27:51 UTC

“From a future educational responsibility viewpoint, nothing is more challenging than the question of how we get the 99 percent to understand technology.”

2025-07-24 02:39:29 UTC

"Our present accounting system is at the roots of the energy problems of today."

2025-07-04 05:18:53 UTC

“People find it very comfortable to see the world, to experience reality, in square modules [dollars], and they find it disturbing—indeed threatening—for anyone to question squareness [dollars]. They do not like to hear that rectangularity [dollars] may not be innate; they do not want anyone to invalidate their scorecard of orthonormality [dollars].”

2025-07-03 13:09:33 UTC

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Nice find!

2025-06-06 15:06:11 UTC

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"If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking."
#time-energyaccountingsystem
—Buckminster Fuller
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2025-05-30 19:38:24 UTC

"If I had not in 1927 committed 'egocide,’ I would probably have yielded long ago to convention."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-05-23 19:39:10 UTC

"What we do today is exchange goods for our TIME. People work so many hours of their TIME, for so much capital exchange value of temporal units. They do this on an ever increasing good Faith [trust] basis."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-05-21 15:16:17 UTC

You cannot stop the truth.
"A truth [Bitcoin] once revealed cannot be repealed, and becomes so obvious, and its boundaries so abstract, that it is much more trespassed upon, by the world in general, than material possessions."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-05-21 00:30:35 UTC

"If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool [Bitcoin], the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-05-20 02:45:28 UTC

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Thanks for my first zap @nprofile…jymf 👊

2025-05-10 18:57:34 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood the halving schedule:
"In four halvings, you have eliminated 94 percent of irrelevant Universe. In seven halvings, you have removed 99.2 percent of irrelevant Universe."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-05-10 18:56:29 UTC

"Bits break up finite wholes into finite parts."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-05-07 15:23:21 UTC

The Bitcoin network is truth, mechanically interpreted.
"Truths must be mechanically interpreted wherever applicable."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-25 19:49:17 UTC

Some of you have found truth.
“Integrity of human beings is to spontaneously or courageously enact in order accordance with the truth once you find it. Not what the crowd is doing, not what the politics is doing.”
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-24 05:44:37 UTC

“In these critical times let us no longer make the mistake of identifying as fools those with whom we disagree.”
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-22 19:44:25 UTC

“You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense (sats).”
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-19 16:16:06 UTC

Buckminster Fuller didn't just foresee the evolution of the Bitcoin network; he understood economists would not see it coming and suggested it would spread "bit-by-bit."
First, why would specialists like economists miss it?
"Economists traditionally try to maximize what you have, but the idea that you could go from wire to wireless or from visible structuring to invisible alloy structuring did not occur to them at all. It was outside their point of view—beyond their range of vision."
We also tend to dismiss things we cannot see:
"99% of all evolutionary trends are invisible."
Therefore, it was not part of their mental models:
"No economic accounting books list metaphysical assets."
Then, Fuller suggests Bitcoin literacy will be emergent, one person at a time, rather than top down:
"'Bit-by-bit,' its ramifications in those groups will reach the group surfaces, whence contacts are made with other groups. Suddenly as the picture puzzle races to completeness of countenance, these group representatives, discovering, as man continually must, 'that it is a small world after all', will find, even though it be in the guise of jest, that 4D [Bitcoin] is a subject of common progressive, harmonic, and creative interest to them all."
The Gradual Spread of New Ideas "Bit-by-bit":
Fuller explains that new concepts take time to penetrate different groups in society.
Initially, only a few individuals or specialized groups may understand or discuss an idea, but over time, its influence spreads as more people encounter it.
Cross-Group Interaction Leads to Awareness:
As these smaller groups reach a point where they interact with other groups, knowledge and interest in the idea expand.
These "group surfaces" represent the point at which ideas cross into mainstream conversations.
The Puzzle Metaphor: Sudden Realization:
Fuller compares the spread of ideas to a puzzle coming together—at first, individual pieces may seem disconnected, but as more pieces fall into place, the bigger picture emerges.
When enough people and groups have engaged with the idea, its importance and interconnectedness become impossible to ignore.
The "Small World" Effect:
The phrase "it is a small world after all" suggests that, despite perceived differences, people across various fields and backgrounds will eventually recognize their shared interest in the concept.
Even if introduced as a joke or casual discussion ("in the guise of jest"), the idea of Bitcoin Network will resonate universally once its benefits become evident.
The Bitcoin Network as a Unifying and Progressive Concept:
Fuller envisions the Bitcoin Network as a harmonizing, creative force that benefits different groups in various ways.
Once people from various disciplines realize the common ground they share, they will collectively advance the idea.
Memeing it into Reality:
Even casual conversations or jokes can serve as entry points for serious discussions about revolutionary concepts like the Bitcoin Network.
The phrase "guise of jest" means that an idea—such as Bitcoin—might initially be discussed or introduced in a lighthearted, humorous, or seemingly unserious way, but underneath that presentation lies a profound and serious truth.
Fuller suggests that people might first encounter Bitcoin as a joke, a casual remark, or something unconventional that seems amusing, but as they engage with it, they will recognize its more profound significance.
This reflects how groundbreaking ideas often begin as radical, even laughable concepts, before they gain serious acceptance once their full implications become clear.
In Summary:
New ideas spread gradually but eventually reach a tipping point where they become universally acknowledged.
Cross-group interactions accelerate awareness, making once-isolated concepts mainstream and widely discussed.
Like a puzzle coming together, people will eventually see the bigger picture and recognize the idea’s value.
Fuller understood that truth and efficiency ultimately prevail once people connect the dots across different domains.

2025-04-13 02:45:57 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood housing prices were propped up:
"Realistically exploring, we find that only two percent of the U.S. population own their own homes outright, which therefore places the essential custody of this 'home’ inventoried accessory and arterial system tonnage within the control of corporation trusts or government. Though holding ultimate title foreclosure powers, the government to date has laboriously supported rather than challenged the corporate and trust prerogative over this tonnage, in order to avoid the political disturbances threatened by realistic inspection of the deflated functional value to which this junk tonnage is collateral throughout the vast ‘‘securities’’ structure of the country."

2025-04-12 19:48:16 UTC

Buckminster Fuller's grandson has excellent advise for approaching his body of work:
"For those of you reading Bucky for the first time, I offer a few specific tips for your journey through his universe. You may find, with the pulsation from the macro to the micro, from the comprehensive to the incisive, that your mind is stretched and turned in a way that is, at first, disorienting.
Think of it instead as a re-orientation—a real orientation that can at first be dizzying. Give yourself a lot of time. His books are thinking tools, catalysts for “shape-shifting,” for leaping far beyond the “box” of normal habitual thought processes. Perhaps a dose-a-day will be your pace, to thoroughly examine and digest the ideas as they come—paying attention to the changes in your own awareness …daily, weekly, even monthly.
Be encouraged: like learning a new language or a new computer program, I trust the current brain researchers would confirm that reading Bucky is just the kind of endeavor that can help us build brain cells and their interconnections."
Sound familiar?
Yes, Bucky's work will take you through everything from the physics to philosophy of the proverbial Bitcoin rabbit hole.

2025-04-09 14:33:54 UTC

Buckminster Fuller warned us exactly 50 years ago.
“Nothing to stop the US Treasury from issuing 2050 notes, but for how far into the future can [they] keep selling USA promissory notes?”
He often said he was thinking 50 years ahead, and that puts us at, well, 2025.
Here we are.

2025-04-05 06:37:24 UTC

I saw that a technology which produced total economic success for humanity could eliminate the fundamental causes of war.
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-05 06:26:26 UTC

The do-more-with-less invention initiative does not derive from political debate, bureaucratic licensing, or private economic patronage. The license comes only from the blue sky of the inventor’s (Satoshi’s) intellect.
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-05 06:18:51 UTC

The present wealth accounting is unrealistic. Our obsolete economic account is registering only swiftly multiplying national deficits.
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-04-05 06:07:08 UTC

We are in for a world of economic accounting revision of first magnitude. We will switch from a negative (fiat) to a positive (bitcoin) world economic accounting.
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-02-26 15:57:09 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood that people would feel threatened if anyone questioned how they see the world.
"People find it very comfortable to see the world, to experience reality, in square modules, and they find it disturbing—indeed threatening—for anyone to question squareness. They do not like to hear that rectangularity may not be innate; they do not want anyone to invalidate their scorecard of orthonormality."
—Buckminster Fuller

2025-02-25 15:19:49 UTC

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"The computer will show that 70 percent of all jobs in America and probably an equivalently high percentage of the jobs in other Western private-enterprise countries are preoccupied with work that is not producing any wealth or life support—inspectors of inspectors, re-underwriters of insurance re-insurers, [zombie company] promoters, spies and counterspies, military personnel, gunmakers, etc."
—Buckminster Fuller
#nevent1q…ak8f

2025-02-24 06:04:17 UTC

Is this the biggest misallocation of resources no one is talking about?
"You shouldn't be in business."
@nprofile…mwnq
https://m.primal.net/PJDF.mp4

2025-02-22 20:18:05 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood that centralizing or decentralizing is the wrong question. The right question is, how decentralized is decentralized enough?
"I have listened with great interest to discussions regarding decentralization and centralization, and I have thought that the question of whether it is valid to decentralize or centralize is unanswerable because it deals with one one-way sign in two-way traffic. It is a static question in a dynamic universe."
Gold is static; Bitcoin is dynamic.

2025-02-21 16:14:44 UTC

When Buckminster Fuller was asked by a 12 year old boy, How would you suggest solving international problems without violence? He answered:
"I always try to solve problems by some artifact, some tool or invention that makes what people are doing obsolete so that it makes this particular kind of problem no longer relevant.
My answer would be to develop a world energy grid, an electric grid where everybody is on the same grid. All of a sudden, there would be no problems anymore, no international troubles.
Our new economic basis wouldn't be gold or dollars; it would be kilowatt hours."

2025-02-20 16:17:24 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood that people how feel threatened if anyone questions the way they see the world.
"People find it very comfortable to see the world, to experience reality, in square modules, and they find it disturbing—indeed threatening —for anyone to question squareness. They do not like to hear that rectangularity may not be innate; they do not want anyone to invalidate their scorecard of orthonormality."

2025-02-20 06:44:42 UTC

"The only thing that's expendable is what we do with our time. Everything else is cumulative."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mhjz :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJIJR6V1Wn8

2025-02-20 06:20:25 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood you cannot own physical property.
"Physical "ownership" is antientropic—ergo, eventually unsustainable."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mhjz :
https://youtu.be/1PkMFIa7rmQ?t=984

2025-02-19 21:52:45 UTC

We are not used to thinking of reality as submitting to a "finite accounting system," but Buckminster Fuller was convinced it does.
Fuller would philosophize:
"You cannot have a fraction of an energy event."
"Nature does not use Pi."
He understood the importance of having an accounting system that mapped to reality.
Without a true accounting system, we would be lost and misguided.
I can't help but look around and see that he was right.

2025-02-19 16:07:58 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood we had to design our way out of cyclical violence.
"Elimination of war can only be realized through a design and invention revolution."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…uq9q :
https://m.primal.net/PDBv.mp4

2025-02-19 16:01:52 UTC

Without a Lever, one cannot experience the feeling of Leverage.
Without Bitcoin, one cannot experience the feeling of Ephemeralization.
@nprofile…uq9q :
https://m.primal.net/PDBc.mp4

2025-02-19 15:52:41 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood our intimate relationship with the environment.
"Life continually alters the environment, and the altered environment in turn alters the potentials, realities, and challenges of life."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq :
https://m.primal.net/PDAw.mp4

2025-02-19 15:47:45 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood the need to avoid counterparty risk.
"It is prudent not to go to another man's island without your own boat."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq words of wisdom:
https://m.primal.net/PDAe.mp4

2025-02-19 15:39:44 UTC

Buckminster Fuller understood that it takes our minds more than one experience to understand the significance of an idea.
"It takes literally four experiences for [the] mind to discover that there is an interrelationship significance going on here that was not to be evidenced in one experience by itself."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq here:
https://m.primal.net/PDAB.mp4

2025-02-18 18:29:42 UTC

The Bitcoin network is an open and permissionless protocol with an insatiable appetite and buying capability.
"You can't have mass production without mass distribution. You can't have mass distribution without mass consumption. You can't have mass consumption without mass buying capability. We need a broad spectrum of those who could participate."
—Buckminster Fuller
@nprofile…mwnq
https://m.primal.net/PBsI.mp4

2025-02-18 04:58:14 UTC

Bucky and Satoshi both understood the existing system increasingly relied on trust, and that it could be taken advantage of:
"As time is saved by progress, and time is in everything, all material products of industry must necessarily become lighter and lighter. It is worthy of note that this will be definitely reflected in the mirror of economic progress, the stock market, provided the time savings progress is balanced by the increase in good faith, and may be taken advantage of by those who intelligently acquaint themselves of this fact."
—Bucky

2025-02-17 01:12:54 UTC

Satoshi has the fingerprints of a Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist.
"Designing the new [time-energy] accounting system is the task of the Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist." —Bucky

2025-02-14 01:19:58 UTC

Cuts from a conversation with @nprofile…mwnq with thoughtful insights about:
Building on those who came before us
Passive vs active resistance
Protocol or Principle
Working for 8 billion people
Maps and perspective
Free markets, technology, and deflation
Networks
Energy infrastructure
A new hurdle rate
Education
Full conversation coming soon...
https://m.primal.net/OevF.mp4

2025-02-14 01:15:03 UTC

Excerpts from a conversation with @nprofile…uq9q
packed with insights about:
Buckminster Fuller
Digital Real Estate
Housing
Architecture
Bitcoin
Technology
Full conversation coming soon...
https://m.primal.net/Oeuo.mp4

2025-02-14 00:31:44 UTC

"Elimination of war can only be realized through a design and invention revolution."
-R. Buckminster Fuller

2025-02-14 00:31:21 UTC

Bucky often referred to himself as a "trimtab"—a small rudder that can change the course of a large ship with a small amount of force. It was his analogy for how any single person can start to make a big difference. Satoshi put this into practice.

2025-02-14 00:30:40 UTC

Bucky understood there is a gestation rate for ideas and inventions.
“Even after ‘discovery,’ inventions often remain popularly unrecognized and unemployed for long periods.”
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:30:13 UTC

Satoshi understood Comprehensive Anticipatory design science.
"Designing the new accounting system is the task of the Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist."
—R. Buckminster Fuller

2025-02-14 00:29:47 UTC

Bucky understood we had a solution; it just wasn't widely understood yet. That is beginning to change.
"Lack of knowledge of the solution's existence often leaves humanity confounded when it need not be."
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:29:05 UTC

Bucky understood tools are amoral:
"The military also buys soap and water, but
that doesn’t mean soap and water must be boycotted
by those who hate war. They also buy pencils, and
it’s perfectly clear to me that a man could use a
pencil as a dagger or he could write a prescription to
save a child’s life. So how tools are used is not the
responsibility of the inventor."
—Bucky

2025-02-14 00:28:34 UTC

Bucky understood how a system designed for failure will drive people to altcoin casinos:
"The deep-seated proclivity of humans to gamble their monies is founded on the working assumption of human consciousness that individuals are inherently programmed for failure and that only cultivated luck can divert the individual from his negative plight."
—Bucky