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Tuur Demeester

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Bitcoin analyst, founder adamantresearch.com. Board txbitcoinfoundation.com, advisor to Blockstream & Unchained. Festina Lente — make haste slowly.

Public Key

npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2

NIP-05 Address

tuur@NostrVerified.com

NIP-57 Address

tuur@getalby.com

Profile Code

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2024-09-08 17:45:31

😄 https://image.nostr.build/9a11415809dff54058be0a1899b7903bdd673596b7eb4877ea07d0a459fc2208.jpg

2024-09-08 00:47:06

https://image.nostr.build/7b0019f45011a725a44e5dc4428800f7e5ed38c28f491d7f4519e11b71c183c6.jpg

2024-04-25 23:16:29

🎶 In the bright daylight
on a sprawling lawn,
A little squirrel digs
at the break of dawn.
With careful paws,
he hides his sats away,
"FurFunds," he calls them,
safe in their earthen tray. 🎶 https://video.nostr.build/0171514022fbddf95de2b273851358ff2f70b3349bd399c5a4513d981ed9c34e.mp4

2024-04-10 22:18:00

What’s next after a second passport? Making sure your wealth is transportable. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/2a85e1db7afe8a034f9851edeedaf51e23c672f5f7e0c5c8fa4463b578057732.jpg

2024-03-31 01:08:49

It’s still hard to believe sometimes that bitcoin is casually trading at these prices. https://image.nostr.build/3acf6fa3bae577ce63b395a98583dfe318bc1bf25b0c93ca68a09de6c03557a7.jpg

2024-03-26 01:36:45

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I sympathize with your viewpoint. People who believe that libertarian principles are like the simple rules in a snake and ladders game indeed take on a sort of arrogance, which can lead them to justify manipulation of the use of force in the end. I’m with Van Dun that the most foundational “ought” that can be derived from an “is”, is that humans ought to be reasonable; and hence that reasonable argumentation is the bedrock of any peaceful, orderly, convivial society.

2024-03-25 21:49:17

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Are you behind this? … 👀 👀 https://image.nostr.build/0d79a5c7d1d15cc8fa3b34e5239352697bba40fcefa115f4f09f5cf35608aacb.jpg

2024-03-24 21:25:55

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Yeah… no thanks https://image.nostr.build/f8036c4951268398a3dd1dfde28a132f3a12d6e780b278987e7c62d973466abf.jpg

2024-03-24 21:24:19

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How does “don’t aggress”, “don’t steal” and “respect private property” devolve into fascism?

2024-03-24 21:22:00

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Huh? I’m reading Mussolini’s autobiography, and he was all about the so called “greater good” at the cost of individualism.

2024-03-24 21:19:09

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I miss a discussion of durability in your article. Personally I love technology and progress, as long as universal principles of sound architecture and engineering aren’t violated. Modularity, you know.

2024-03-23 20:56:16

Bitcoin’s “Quantitative Hardening” in the Belgian Financial Times 💪 https://image.nostr.build/7dea1f313d17f3f1f631fd73f9fbfef19c0cdc1e3934dd66cef0f762545d29f0.jpg

2024-03-21 11:28:51

I’ve learned a lot from Peter Todd over the years. Here’s a discussion of his NOSTR critique: #note1vlm…qqfk

2024-03-20 13:47:04

(US politics) Does anyone else also feel that the Drudge Report has taken a turn to the left? I’ve been reading it for 15 years or so and used to feel that it was sensational but quite neutral in the left-right spectrum. The last 2 years I notice a change, with a lot more negative news focused on Trump vs Biden for example. What do you guys think? New owners perhaps?

2024-03-17 14:13:05

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(With the help of ChatGPT)

2024-03-17 14:10:03

A Real Rap on Real Estate
In the dance of wealth, where truth and lies entwine,
Houses once stood, symbols of our design.
But beneath the surface, a truth concealed,
Fiat’s erosion, their fate was sealed.
Deluded buyers, blinded by the lie,
Houses crumble as the years fly by.
In this tale of shifting wealth and gain,
We find reflections of our human bane.
So let us heed this cautionary verse,
As Bitcoin’s rise calls for a reverse.
For in its wake, a shift is seen,
To sound construction, long unseen.
Classical architecture, born anew,
Guiding hands, patient, steady, true.
No longer hasty, this time with care,
Building legacies beyond compare.
For in the ever-changing dance of fate,
Bitcoin restores, it does not abate.
It’s not just wealth, but values that await,
In stone we build, our legacy, innate.

2024-03-17 13:24:50

Bitcoin is demonetizing real estate. A lot of “invoosters” chomping at the bit to “buy the dip” in real estate are going to get burnt badly. It’s for the most part essentially a shitcoin, just one that’s slightly less shitty than the dollar.

2024-03-10 00:29:15

Symmetry in nature, spotted in Austin today. (The pigeon on the right is about to disturb the pattern.) https://image.nostr.build/46032f1a9928305b138509bdcfa5e50477f1737f7b9551db8a63835d41ecb68e.jpg

2024-01-24 14:34:46

The industry with most desirable goods of its era gets to deliver the power brokers of the world. That’s why we had oil barons, Wall Street titans, and now tech moguls. Most likely, the next generation of global power brokers will emerge from the #bitcoin ecosystem.

2024-01-18 19:35:40

Milei Smells Like Teen Spirit https://image.nostr.build/41cdb04d73ff1bdc4d8a87985044e9420703d1187d20cef121d5c1a0dd8ca2ca.jpg

2024-01-10 15:10:29

The SEC 2FA blunder is an early example of how old world institutions who do not respect the cypherpunk toolbox will lose reputation, money, and eventually sociopolitical relevance, one loss event at a time.
No more double standards. In a bitcoin world, it's adapt or die. https://image.nostr.build/ef0733bfca19a46e0edcebb9dbaf0367a36b38c3f65563d14f2e92f997928c17.jpg

2024-01-01 04:53:08

Happy New Year everyone! I’m incredibly grateful for the thrilling progress we’re making in advancing Truth in this World. The Bitcoin Moon waxes and the Lighthouse of Liberty casts its rays in the dark night, farther than ever before. I couldn’t be more excited for 2024. 🙏😊✌️

2023-12-28 02:30:47

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I was joking 😄

2023-12-27 15:23:18

A call to crypto flippers
Whether or not there is another “alt season”, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your life’s energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/“invoosting”, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin front—we have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.
You see we’re approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that years’ long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.
I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse control—I struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.
But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.
I’m just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. I’m here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.
So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one you’ve been telling yourself you don’t need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.
We’re all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.
Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. You’ll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that you’d forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of “not having enough” head on, you’ll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and you’ll start to feel happier than you’ve ever been.
Help yourself, you’re worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that “meh…” or eye rolling part of you, that’s not all of you, that’s not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you can’t feel it, it doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there for you, but just that there’s clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.
So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!

2023-12-18 12:15:05

Behold the generation
From hyperbitcoinization;
Born from zoomers
Here are the Bitty Boomers. https://image.nostr.build/befff11111af94cfb262d8a52130f63e52182a97fe36e3056337aad356c57cc4.jpg

2023-12-18 11:34:55

Hyperbitcoinization will lead to a new baby boom, I believe it. Just like after WWII, it’ll come from people celebrating the restoration of a future for themselves and for humanity.

2023-12-13 10:31:16

Perhaps a reunification of NL & Flanders is not a bad idea. It used to be one country after all. Dreaming out loud: A Dutch speaking federated republic, with Swiss style direct democracy, New England style jury trials, Swedish style free speech, and Milei style tax minimalism, at the dawn of the Bitcoin Reformation.
Dutch world class entrepreneurship and Flanders’ rich intellectual tradition… could be a killer combo if brought together in the spirit of tolerance and libertarian small government. https://image.nostr.build/efb7de898b72d0162ee9c3b6ffd493e0284121db699f6f4a3c85f24f9bc97cbb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b42241ce2eb73779d1b556b52d3e4e2a9d3f48ce0321e9bc560b6557d25f1933.jpg

2023-12-11 21:48:10

So last night, on a whim, I seasoned a frozen thick cut steak, then put it in our dehydrator at 160° until morning (8hrs). It came out perfect: juicy within, lightly roasted outside. I’ll do this now often, it’s an instant breakfast requiring only 1 minute prep. Works with frozen burgers and such too, but they come out a bit drier.

2023-12-02 12:37:58

“That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
—Tennyson

2023-12-01 13:49:33

The latest in economic ingenuity from Canadistan https://image.nostr.build/b8cbb4e2fcf3f132b30f7adde805e461354a285668fd4980610548dd33e9e278.jpg

2023-12-01 13:38:32

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@npub1jfn…t047 is a bitcoiner

2023-12-01 13:32:05

My most listened to podcasts in 2023 https://image.nostr.build/42c8c4a7ec27c2fd765228539f07f761ab329ecf648465370553072755200b45.jpg

2023-11-28 15:46:31

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I followed it for a while and I’m pretty sure the responses are llm generated

2023-11-28 15:35:30

This account is a bot that targets bitcoiners. It is highly responsive and its replies seem AI generated. More sophisticated than anything I’ve seen. Honeypot? https://image.nostr.build/e984c5ae7620e7e039b8ed2aeead13a891950ee3d8850e0a347f0a54614af5b3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cffa194cce1aec2d3ec3267bfda11df83f67dc55713fb1b924d26baa0b9eacdf.jpg https://image.nostr.build/07a0d1cd51e9693536b4af175dbcadc5a0816b0eb44cf664f1399edb98bfb97f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9b82de3accec0cc85e240c38bca79958e6ce9f48ef19639d9c3b35a35a47b0fb.jpg

2023-11-23 02:30:07

Added a new little sculpture to my collection today. The seller called it “the nerd” (pictured on the left). The piece is dated 2002 by one C.Smith. I love that it was made in that year because it means the artist was clearly inspired by the news of the internet boom and bust. His little beau tie is adorable, and also the rest of his style fits the era really well: receding hairline and neck carpet, heavy set glasses and tucked in shirt 😊. The pencil to me symbolizes the transition from the paper-and-fax culture to the new all digital world. A little piece of history! https://image.nostr.build/f90f43bdc998e9c483a6da2dbfad7e918be3ce93dde9328a6ffac3d33b36c127.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2b291a493d50bfa7785846296299279c62815eae5207117ee35f99e67195464e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cb259bdb57530e06ab5adf1c7a065ac9be2c2a47e977b5650e23815005bd52fb.jpg

2023-11-23 00:57:44

Who is a musical artist currently alive whose dynamism and creativity, in your opinion, most closely approaches that of David Bowie?

2023-11-17 19:28:23

SMH at a discussion on public radio about Asian Americans and higher education, all trying so hard to avoid the word “IQ”… 🤐

2023-11-17 14:42:31

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Fair point! I want to get to a place where I feel fulfilled at peace, whether I read the news or not.
I hope things don’t get as crazy as I describe them, but I want to be prepared for a scenario where they do.

2023-11-17 14:19:55

The world is pretty crazy now. And that’s with inflation at just 20% in the West. What will it be like when inflation hits 50%, 80%, 150%?
That’s why I invest most of my time in building mental resiliency. I want my mind and body to be ready for a world where the crazy gets cranked up to eleven, combining the worst of the 1930s, 1940s, and the 1980s.

2023-11-13 11:14:26

Not the onion… 🇨🇦💩
Surreal story in 4 pictures https://image.nostr.build/0889dddeb4e9fa57ede9fee15504efd3103ee384051a669dad8083d1e782cdd2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/69d5128ac88f002a37e41ef6c354f624fc6d92990c5d0d69456c56e782f255e4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c0eb85a49a9cd9a1519ff052127f4674535c3394e82895fea837e530800a7626.jpg https://image.nostr.build/978c0aab36ff810b70e228c9640635c6d5f731cf79847d986d9fdff40a6019e7.jpg

2023-11-13 11:02:57

In bitcoin, the miners and startups, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of pleb hodlers. Sovereign node running is an immune function that prevents that.
In politics, the government, if sufficiently short term motivated, can be tempted to fork the system at the detriment of productive citizens. Sovereign individuals owning firearms is an immune function that helps prevent that.

2023-11-13 08:10:36

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Interesting, Damus doesn’t seem to have that yet https://image.nostr.build/939ca9381241c711ebb697a5718061e24549b377ec1026527466fa4501aec803.jpg

2023-11-13 07:40:53

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How does one request deletion?

2023-11-12 15:09:10

Bitcoin up 40% for the month. So much energy coiled up during the bear market. Weak hand selling exhausted, causing supply to dry up. https://image.nostr.build/8be4b2476d60687c444d0cfd16e73e810264e0b52cfc8489ea54740165629541.jpg

2023-11-10 04:40:41

“What if we had a genuine initiation ritual for newly minted maxi’s… a passing rite that affirms your exit from the old, rotten fiat paradigm and your subsequent entry into satoshi’s judicious universe; a transformation symbolized by your face seemingly moving through a portal. I get excited just thinking about it!“ #circlebearding https://image.nostr.build/3e92c7ec335bde25094b6d04f5caf440446df4b6a3aeea02755caa03370ecf82.jpg

2023-11-01 20:14:03

My dad fired his first bullets this week. Commanding a firearm has such an immediate effect on people, I think because it viscerally conveys to the handler how it really has the power to level the playing field. Proud of him! https://image.nostr.build/eef8a910bc2407fc3dff8f66dc295f58daf9777bd6e462471f57728c1992aaa6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6afac4e168047a88d79a78114604fc21dd06f1efcfc5654bb6d76d7442c07012.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5a46d64d81e7e751f7adce1aab7e9e68af8bc2f44082055888c7bc641f595942.jpg

2023-10-28 16:35:50

The unacknowledged fear of (ego)death causes people to do the stupidest, most destructive things. To create a truly peaceful society, we all must learn to accept our mortality and fallibility one way or another.

2023-10-27 12:55:24

Communists and socialists can be really nice people, courageous too. Yet that doesn’t make their ideas any less dangerous.

2023-10-22 21:13:16

ETH/BTC hopium. I’m not smoking it, though a dead cat bounce is always possible of course. https://image.nostr.build/cfa47764cb8dac1b69e4b31e6c328e5729aa10d0abdce9f5c75cbba8fa2d6b8c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/06868eadf0d83e94e71c796f917ca467878051ec5e844580621eec99b0726511.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6656a189d84a8dbb307d62cf9fc8f8229c9b9b9559da2d61ab940215cbd35006.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d6fedf63384139211b599362166297e74c51c608219d2ed56ef8321fb9e12b08.jpg

2023-10-20 10:48:24

Ethereum whales don’t have Diamond Hands… they have Sweaty Hands.
Wondering when they should best offload their bags in order to
- pay for the lawsuits brought on by people they duped
- pay the variable mortgage on that massively overvalued property
- pay for their ex who divorced them
Etc, etc. Ultra. Sweaty. Hands.
(I’m still short ETH/BTC)

2023-10-20 10:26:19

Wow - can’t wait to get my hands on some 😂 https://image.nostr.build/a8a66ca132c0c0690186e0e18c6ccd1be7893bd6d0e85f4bec1861a7587a1554.png

2023-10-19 20:38:47

No Ethereum, this doesn’t mean “it’s still so early”.
You’ve had a go at it, I get it that you really wanted to try. It made a bunch of your early founders bitcoin rich.
Now it’s time to pack your stuff and go home. https://image.nostr.build/094f0ac5a80faf1e938f4eb1538e2942e3c4a232a4516b1d090391b5d562638e.png

2023-10-18 20:18:19

The 2015-‘17 block size war in a nutshell.
Big blockers want to increase capacity regardless of security and centralization concerns.
(Cartoon is from New Yorker Magazine, 1920s) https://image.nostr.build/175d2ba4872c17701181eced1055e7bf901fc8b855e877b8765cab52c5c1945e.jpg

2023-10-18 13:26:10

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Not just that, the format/context also doesn’t lend itself to particular types of thought sharing

2023-10-18 13:19:04

Grateful for your responses to my post from last night. I’m learning a few things:
- Israel-Palestine is super complex and understandably a sensitive topic
- Social media is not a good platform for me to share short burst ideas about complicated matters like this
Two things I would like to clarify:
- I wasn’t trying to justify Israeli government policy or military actions.
- I have a lot of empathy for suffering on the Muslim side of this conflict, too.

2023-10-18 04:59:30

The situation that the Jewish people are in, including some bitcoiners that I respect, has been on my mind lately.
No doubt I’ll comment on it more, but for now I wanted to offer my deep sympathy in the form of sharing an anthem I grew up with, “The Flemish Lion”. Both in this song and in the recent personal updates I see determination and fierce courage in the face of gruesome brutality. I keep re-reading in particular verse IV.
Here goes the translation:
The Flemish Lion
They shall not tame him, the proud Flemish Lion,
Even if they threaten his freedom with chains and shouts.
They shall not tame him, as long as a Fleming lives,
As long as the Lion can claw, as long as he has teeth.
Chorus:
They shall not tame him,
as long as a Fleming lives,
As long as the Lion can claw,
as long as he has teeth.
II
Time devours cities, no thrones remain standing:
The armies may fall, but a people shall never perish.
The enemy marches to the battlefield, surrounded by mortal danger.
We laugh at his fury, the Flemish Lion is there!
III
He has been fighting for a thousand years for freedom, land, and God;
And still, his strength remains in all its youthful delight.
When they think him powerless and provoke him with a kick,
Then he rises threateningly and frightful before them.
IV
Woe to the thoughtless one, false and full of betrayal,
Who comes to caress the Flemish Lion and treacherously strikes him.
Not a single movement of his escapes their watchful eye:
And if he feels wounded, he shows his might and roars.
V
The signal for revenge has been given, he is tired of their provocation;
With fire in his eyes, with anger, he springs at the enemy.
He tears, destroys, crushes, covered in blood and muck,
And triumphantly grins at the enemy's quivering corpse. https://image.nostr.build/a29cdb29859496847a4a2a0ead8ff778adad53b281199827999d237b8153cb54.png

2023-10-14 07:34:12

Bitcoin Amsterdam was wonderful, I’m so glad I came. https://image.nostr.build/28cf45812e356fc4864cb619a47df27a689dd2d85f58da7590ae6d7ef6f51056.jpg https://image.nostr.build/af0657e12aa7f8178f9c68f99baadcb400508040e326cc8f7ebd0f4f201350df.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ca007806f50a76f8e9259df18df03f250afcc011f1aaccb8cdea2618f0a96f99.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2d8c4da0bb15f99f54a0386689112408adf681b264ca88b575d0c5726613ed0d.jpg

2023-10-12 15:54:05

Awkwardly appropriate: my Airbnb landlord here in Amsterdam lost a painfully large amount of money investing in shitcoins, is not attending the bitcoin conference. “It’s over for crypto… maybe not for bitcoin… but I’m done…” he said with a grimace.

2023-10-11 21:36:40

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In which case, feel free to chase me down on Friday. I should be around, doing a session with Nolan, too, aside from the Nakamoto stage sovereignty panel.

2023-10-11 19:12:09

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Would be great - I’m also doing a meetup on Thursday night

2023-10-11 18:43:02

Driving through Houston on my way to Amsterdam. Stoked to see old friends and make new ones. I should be at the conference tomorrow! https://image.nostr.build/d874777cc124bcfdcf2b207a34d651341b90d8eda6134fc87be94e1e5975cdd3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a62ad845283de6ef2018179e808726e0998e31120c1f53827ced4f570eae563c.jpg

2023-10-08 17:43:34

Re: Israel-Hamas — I find myself tempted to write emotional tweets with simple proposed solutions. I think it’s mainly my brain trying to deal with feeling helpless.

2023-10-08 13:58:28

Voor Vlamingen (okay ook Nederlanders😉) die volgende week in Amsterdam zijn: ik organiseer een informele hangout op donderdagavond. Wees welkom!
https://meetu.ps/e/MywWb/Btg3N/i

2023-10-07 13:39:20

Some countries have low daily volatility and high tail risk, such as Germany, Chile and Taiwan.
Other countries have high daily volatility and high tail risk, such as Myanmar.
Yet other countries have high daily volatility and low(er) tail risk, such as the United States.
Low volatility and low tail risk? Switzerland comes to mind.

2023-10-02 13:12:02

Let’s be honest:
On the bitcoin standard, there’s no guarantee that a custodian won’t fail spectacularly every few years.
And on the fiat standard, there’s no guarantee that the system won’t burn to the ground every few decades.

2023-09-29 21:19:25

The Economist today.
Headlines like these used to be unthinkable. Impossible.
Now here we are.
Bitcoin did this, we did this. https://image.nostr.build/eaa68b33587b11547d02925387fcb3981ef3834dd005d449055e2924cf008a79.jpg https://image.nostr.build/01afae4f31a7cc3f6c640014ea331602e0465a3dfa5550e2a169784f8419b21d.jpg

2023-09-28 18:13:29

The Land Run Monument in Oklahoma City is super impressive. All the more so since it was inaugurated as recently as 2006. Fascinating piece of history, too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rush_of_1889 https://image.nostr.build/44e61e5bc97434b560548e5105f7ef95ba7c6464d6d5bbaeff7d8cb199e3772f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3fce6cac1df203a19be5586189210f7f7385f7e29464e09dce67ba0313956b55.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5802c0f724b57a772774ffd9b8f9f274aa5dfb82acb87d5451ee247643507c39.jpg https://image.nostr.build/30790a9ac32f89e41c8f0d790f2b9bf3794e63e704a79d3788e03caf88bf9aad.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1ea93da752796d5005ac14a1939dc43963a8989a1a870d8717a69bbaddeb4c97.jpg

2023-09-26 03:31:04

Like how feeding grain to pigs makes them fat and immobile, the fiat faucet leads to morbid obesity in governments. Via the fiat mechanism they leech energy from their host (the productive class) until it eventually succumbs.
Bitcoin is life saving medicine because it thwarts fiat parasitism, thereby pushing out of control government gigantism into remission until it shrinks back to the equivalent of a survivable cancerous growth.

2023-09-26 03:06:13

My wife has been a libertarian from before we ever met. We just watched the Milei interview together. She was very moved to see someone who is running for President of Argentina articulate these important ideas so clearly (as if explaining it to a child) and sincerely.
She especially appreciated the part where he explained how the Social Justice ideology violates equality before the law — which highlights the irony that in order to achieve its faux social equality it destroys actual judicial equality.

2023-09-23 04:10:40

Guess where I was today ☺️
#structuralmasonry https://image.nostr.build/a3e8bb9e3bacd371f8910c8fb35f14c3a612877501dd2541bd0f596a83ab4fea.jpg

2023-09-21 15:21:21

As obsessively we listen to music and watch movies today, before 1930 people read poetry and read novels.
Seeking to learn what was in people’s hearts and heads in times’ past, on my last Belgium trip I bought more poetry bundles and writings by and about novelists.

2023-09-16 18:54:34

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Thanks SN - I started following you on Spotify https://image.nostr.build/feea56d0995328f6f4938f7ad5e9442774894a1f0127c409e65548ef7dc04aaf.jpg

2023-09-13 20:48:36

I’ve had this song on repeat all day… love it so much ✌️
JJ Grey & Mofro - “Every Minute” (2015)
https://open.spotify.com/track/4sIC8rHh2UIV6lmDJZRBZY?si=BPk3n6QFRS6fn5cG1wln2g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A7dLGoIIyQ4dlFw5KHz4Xw8
I tried so hard to be the person
Everybody thought I was
I pushed myself and everyone
Almost over the edge
This mirrored light that sends back
Everything that you send out
The grace you give, given back
Loving every minute you live
Feels so good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living
So good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living
The evil deeds that we do
Screaming from the headline
Can't stop to read, or to watch
'Cause I ain't got the patience or time
To live a life of despair
To live by another man's word
It's always been in your hands
To live the life you want while you're here
Feels so good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living
So good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living
I don't care, what you say to me
Everywhere beauty is all I see
And it don't make a damn
'Cause there ain't nothing to take from me
I'm loving every minute
I'm loving every minute I'm free
So good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute of living
It's so good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute I'm living
Good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute I'm living
Good to be warm - in the sun
Loving every minute I'm living
Loving every minute
Loving every minute I'm free

2023-09-13 08:02:32

Now we know why Jacob of Israel had 12 sons 😄 #note1k66…zu0k

2023-09-10 12:28:18

Everyone in Belgium is talking about labor shortages. Is this a universal phenomenon?
I suspect that what’s really happening is inflation:
=> Higher input costs for biz + higher cost of living
=> biz can’t offer wages that make economic sense for workers.

2023-09-08 10:26:36

Heuristic:
In a bookstore for new books you’ll find the stories people want to believe — in a used bookstore you’ll find the stories people want to forget.

2023-09-06 13:28:04

Le plat pays qui est le mien 🎶
West-Flanders in the summer is a slice of heaven… I’m so blessed to get to spend time here every now and then. https://image.nostr.build/19ecd8d9836f07fdcff68b2c50de835da6bbca208bfd652321effa67bbdf4413.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c4bc98dce5f60f7bc1028da9acbaf22094440d750c19daa71443d3112e897211.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0b2640641355f19e6f48634315b36a54e9252a362387720b4a253efe2e74b046.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f2c3de62f1638354437fa1d1b86cf80cc0247e5cc5127b08ff2fb71435aaf395.jpg https://image.nostr.build/524de657950d1383238f72ff7c4d1ef02168c53a684ab820675b5fa6afd2c53c.jpg

2023-09-03 03:59:42

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This one was real fun!

2023-08-31 02:12:45

2 weeks later and he’s playing huge venues, spreading the good word on Joe Rogan 💪 #note1eh2…2xvk

2023-08-28 23:17:46

Austin TX, 8/27/23
“Lord, we got folks in the street
ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare” https://cdn.nostr.build/i/ab5133abe586d42de1c7653d00177e1bdfe12a25179054ff18d5e9a17526a9d2.jpg

2023-08-20 00:04:03

Overheard election prediction: “Orange Man will go independent, team up with RFK and run on an Orange Coin ticket. They’ll tackle Inflation and the Deep State in one fell swoop.”

2023-08-14 02:05:43

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Yepp - wants to abolish Argentine central bank

2023-08-14 01:45:44

Milei is crushing it in Argentina’s primaries. I’ve never in my life seen a strong libertarian candidate get results like this. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/0e4ad25473bd253093c070626218ee246a068cea1c5eaedc7854f9ccd2b7ff0d.png

2023-08-12 13:28:17

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Yeah, there was a period in 2010-11 where I was really into permaculture. I remember reading a lot about it and watching all kinds of videos. I also visited a permaculture kind of a farm in Ecuador once. And I was, yeah, just making distant plans of implementing some of these principles myself. In the last few years, I've lost a little bit of interest in it. Not in the fundamental principles, but more because I eat more of a carnivore diet, and so the kind of changes that you have to make to a landscape to allow for ruminants to graze and stuff, they aren't so drastic compared to, you know, if you want to grow crops in a permaculture kind of way. But I still love the idea of, like, there are ideas around forests and forestry and yeah, actually seeing your post makes me curious to rethink some of these ideas and see how they apply to Texas. So thanks for the reminder. (Transcribed from speech with ChatGPT’s whisper)

2023-08-12 04:02:41

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I used to own it! Lost it in one of my many moves…

2023-08-11 01:07:09

First new release in years to actually give me goosebumps. The lyrics cut to the bone…
Oliver Anthony, “Rich Men North Of Richmond” https://nostr.build/av/48c9206d99cfbb8345a2083699f6950793c4ae0dfbbfa329d5382769fcd626d4.mov

2023-08-07 21:32:25

Social media interactions are surrogates for real connection. They’re not “bad”, it’s just they suck up your attention and thereby crowd out the time you’d otherwise spent talking to people on the phone or in real life.
One habit I started is that I’ll often respond to people who text me with a recorded voice message. Voice > text. Another is just to unplug from social media. I may soon delete Nostr from my phone.

2023-08-07 19:35:02

Someone reading a book outdoors, hadn’t seen that in a while. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/c9b7bec786d28e88c2e74d8d55b2cab944986c3b331804aab48c6e23e768c189.jpg

2023-08-05 14:22:45

Thanks everyone for all the love following the WBD pod I did.
Below is my naive “before” photo I sent to my family (just before ingesting the ibogaine), one photo from my room during the trip, and one from just after “waking up” in the airport, where I was glowing—feeling like a million bucks. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/a35e1031fb0af357f18ece2bc7d83b29569ee67e74c725850b128a7d14b0c474.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/d1faf17f42fd8d4d342168732514903d0dbdf1b83d2943987e1ebabb573c48d4.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/bfbc178d8bf11e84ce129ee1e0fe56f3a98ec6b307533390a6f9e6ffd5d5abfc.jpg

2023-07-28 06:55:48

Listening to music from my birth year, that would be playing when my parents were expecting. Quite the trip. The Cold War era was a tough time. // I’ve come to believe a lot of memories are stored in the body, every in infancy. These imprints can flare up later in life. Hence “the issue is in the tissue” and “the body keeps the score” //

2023-07-17 21:57:28

Really appreciating Ram Dass lately. Audio version of “Becoming Nobody” is my pick of the week. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/7540683f3d8f720e5cd76509a3a7ca32ffb401a23e1402adeb3004b529fc618e.jpg

2023-07-16 18:21:34

Classical Music: who are your favorite composers?

2023-07-16 12:51:09

Welcome to the era of censorship (reminds of the 1940s). Survey results for millennials, n=1,500. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/60d1b29396e093bd9a8e9e1206c04ead204eef0f617249b04671ef2f060bd499.jpg

2023-07-15 18:46:02

Life as a carnivore is so simple. No more decision fatigue in the grocery store, restaurant, or shopping street.

2023-07-10 14:24:18

Just did 45 mins 🧊🛀 in 59°F. Some shivers towards the end, that’s my cue to get out. It’s my path to meditation, so far the most effective method to slow down my system.

2023-07-06 23:16:46

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Thanks… 👀

2023-07-06 23:15:19

Jens Ducrée: “Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin -- The Profile of a 1-in-a-Billion Genius” (Paper from last year l just found out about. Looks very well researched)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10257

2023-07-06 22:42:51

What’s your take on the theory that Len Sassaman could have been Satoshi? https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10

2023-07-06 19:26:01

Enlightening, punchy read: “The Lazy Mysticism of Alan Watts”
https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/the-lazy-mysticism-of-alan-watts

2023-07-05 11:51:59

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Ability to regulate emotions is a big one. If a person has a propensity to get fits of anger, or to become suddenly cold/unempathetic, or other emotions that seem disproportional to the situation… those point at trauma.
Another is addictions: drugs and alcohol of course, but also more subtle addictions like food, work, even working out. It’s tricky because you don’t want to pathologize every person, or dismiss uncomfortable truths because the messenger has a different lifestyle than yours. But yeah I try to at least consider these factors.