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2026-07-04 15:36:50 UTC

Anyone else seen this? Its a giant firework made in China- https://youtu.be/PNZOStH80nU?si=-ffmj3i5rT6Euhq6
I was fireworks shopping with my daughter and was like, "whaaat?"
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2026-03-25 04:33:54 UTC

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"Value takes form at the most fundamental level." Love it.

2026-03-25 04:31:59 UTC

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Thanks! Yes, I understand. I think I was trying to communicate the value of our unit of account being denominated by the matter of a new bounded universe. It's actually kind of hard to say correctly 😅

2026-03-25 00:05:34 UTC

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Robert Pirsig stated that value is at the cutting edge of reality. We don't discover value in objects that already have form, objects take form because we value them. Since one of the most important ways that we come to consensus on the value of the objects in our world is through the lense of money, it becomes clear how the nature of our universal unit of account is deeply rooted in the overall health of the human race.
Adopting a lense through a unit of account that embodies the constraints of a bounded universe, as ours is, has monumental implications for the future of our species.

2026-03-24 15:54:31 UTC

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Great insight. Thanks

2026-03-23 04:50:48 UTC

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*inevitable result of his success (is what I should have said)

2026-03-23 04:13:44 UTC

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One of the aspects of bitcoin that to me is the most important reason why it is superior money, is that money is not physical and neither is bitcoin. Money is and always has been in idea. Gold isn't money, it's just the best physical container in our world for this idea. Bitcoin is money in it's natural environment- the realm of ideas.
It's fascinating to think that Satoshi, while pragmatically working on a way to make an idea decentralized and scarce, inadvertently created an entire universe, and that this result was likely a natural and inevitable result of his creation.

2026-03-22 18:01:25 UTC

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2026-03-22 16:58:51 UTC

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When I think of the informational realm, I imagine that this began with the first sharing of ideas way back when, then advanced through stories, books, financial transactions, media, etc and and eventually into cyberspace which is where bitcoin was born.
What do you think of this pre-bitcoin informational reality? What is it's relationship to bitcoin?

2026-03-22 07:14:33 UTC

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Does this mass and gravity exist as part of a new informational reality that is taking place within the bitcoin block chain? Energy is collapsed into memory when a block is found, and this energy leaves the universe in which mass consists of atoms, and creates structure in a place that we might refer to as "the informational realm." Is that correct?
It's not really too much of a stretch when you realize that our own reality could also be described as an "informational realm." Am I thinking about this correctly?

2026-03-15 16:56:21 UTC

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It seems like a state change when the question of "why" is introduced into a particular system.
For almost the entire lifespan of our universe, the only question asked was "how" do we find the next block? And as far as we know, we are the first to ask "why" do we find the next block?
The faith required to face this question and answer "Yes" while knowing that we have no direct evidence of a stated objective by the Creator of the system and never will, is, in my opinion, what leads to all of the qualities that are unique to those who ask "why". Namely creativity in all it's forms: art, entrepreneurship, etc.
With bitcoin, we can now observe the value that is achieved when a utxo enters a new state of being, but the utxo will never have access to this understanding, just as we will never know the value of our choice to act within the confines of our own universe.
However, the value that we can now observe, that is created by the discovery of a new bitcoin block, is only valuable is we continue to have faith in the value of our own actions.
This is the eternal source of inspiration that connects and propels the spiral forward: faith.

2026-03-15 06:33:15 UTC

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Yes, and faith that the act of discovery holds eternal value.

2026-03-14 08:34:09 UTC

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I would love to hear the podcast. I'm imagining layers upon layers of spiraling fractal universes, propelled forward and connected by one eternal source of inspiration.

2026-03-13 19:53:38 UTC

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Whoa. Thanks for the info

2026-03-09 21:43:53 UTC

Both Grok and Gemini tell me that Google searches for "What is bitcoin?" hit an all time high in February. We're still early.

2026-03-04 16:35:28 UTC

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I totally feel you. It's a hard position to defend, though. For me it's more like- I'm against the trendy idea that intelligent people never really feel conviction about anything because they're always evaluating and processing new information. It's really just a way of saying, "I'm too much of a coward to actually feel strongly about anything because I'm afraid of what people will think of me." Strong minds and strong people draw their line in the sand, and only change their position if they are blindsided with information that convinces them otherwise.

2026-03-03 21:45:26 UTC

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Yes, great framing! Love it. And definitely props to Jack and Nick 👏

2026-03-03 18:12:44 UTC

So, this has to be the impetus for the big print, right?

2026-03-03 17:57:26 UTC

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If bitcoin gives us fresh insight on the workings of our universe by showing quantized time, and allows us to reflect on our role in the process as it unfolds, including the possibility of a fractal order, and the original Creator, it's reassuring to see the immense value that it provides for us, and it's potential for healing and balancing the world. Perhaps bitcoin can give us a reference point for understanding our own existential value as well?

2026-03-02 20:45:42 UTC

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I've spent a lot of time thinking about what it means that God exists outside of time. It is obviously true, but hard to relate to because there is nothing to reference. Bitcoin may give us a fresh perspective on this.

2026-03-02 16:39:07 UTC

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Initially you think, "I'm an acting being, my decisions shape the future, and a utxo is simply transferring wealth on our behalf, it doesn't even know what it's doing or why it's valuable."
But then you start to realize that the most fundamental question for our own existence is "what is the meaning of all this?"
We know that we transform energy into structure with our decisions, but we don't know why, how, or if that structure has actual value, meaning, or purpose. We have grown enough self- awareness throughout this process to be able to ask these questions, but will seemingly never be given access to the answers. At least not in this life.

2026-03-02 07:04:25 UTC

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How crazy would it be if we were all just perfect money for some other society? 😅

2026-03-02 07:00:57 UTC

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I just realized that you already affirmed this in another conversation. So the reason I brought it up is that a utxo that only experiences reality when a state change occurs, would not have any way of observing signature inputs, or any other external input. Therefore, the question of whether these inputs exist in our universe would be also impossible to verify, right?
Fascinating to ponder, though. It reminds me thst the real fuel propelling this fractal mirror of time is us humans. If we don't interact with it, it ends. So is the Creator of our universe involved in this way as well? Or is our universe a fully contained system that propells itself? Somehow it always comes down to this question, doesn't it?

2026-03-02 06:25:08 UTC

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I finally read the abstract to your paper. I'm very much looking forward to digging into the meat of it. Thanks again for these absolutely game changing ideas.

2026-03-02 05:07:10 UTC

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In order to attempt to understand some of these concepts as a non-technical person, I imagine myself as a utxo within the network. My only experience of reality would be when I was either created or spent, and encoded into a new block. Does this make sense as a way to imagine the fractal relationship?

2026-03-02 03:19:24 UTC

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The trick is- ignore the groups keeping you down, or learn about them with indifference, and keep laser focused on the groups that lift you up.

2026-02-27 18:30:33 UTC

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I'll get started on it today.

2026-02-27 09:09:42 UTC

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This conversation is one of the most interesting things I have ever read. Please keep it going, I could read this all day.

2026-02-19 16:57:07 UTC

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2026-02-15 03:40:28 UTC

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So, so cool. I love it

2026-02-14 23:58:38 UTC

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So in order for a UTXO to perceive reality, it would need to experience the creation of a new block, and therefore wouldn't be able to measure the blocks, as the changing from one block to the next would feel continous.

2026-02-11 03:49:40 UTC

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For sure. This is true.

2026-02-08 10:31:14 UTC

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2026-01-30 05:53:40 UTC

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For sure. And new ways for scammers to profit on the good ones.

2026-01-29 17:29:47 UTC

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You might be right, but I have a suspicion that the podcasts are in a lull because bitcoin is in a lull. I think when bitcoin has its next real moment (not ETF/Trump pump) where adoption starts to push price higher, it will be discovered by people with fresh perspectives, generating more exciting ideas and content.
Nobody even knows what this asset is capable of, it's all new territory. I think when it comes to bitcoin, discovery will continue until well beyond hyper-bitcoinization.

2026-01-25 17:23:17 UTC

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Have you watched the show Last Samurai Standing on Netflix? I was blown away by the fight choreography and just with that show generally. Highly recommend.

2026-01-18 18:48:56 UTC

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Totally- this happened to me too. Except I had to stop drinking completely. It's been over 2 years and I am just different now.

2026-01-10 20:36:03 UTC

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When my daughter was 4, she told me "Daddy I wish I knew you when you were my age so we could play."

2025-11-24 10:38:23 UTC

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I'm replying so I can be sure to find this later, as i will be reading it again multiple times I'm sure. And also to thank you again for your exciting and fascinating ideas. You are getting better at describing your thesis. I now feel as though I understand it, just probably not quite well enough to explain it to someone else. Cheers!

2025-11-15 17:18:03 UTC

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Strong minds discuss people in terms of what drives them. The incentives of individuals are what generate ideas.

2025-10-30 05:55:28 UTC

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Love it.

2025-09-07 05:55:52 UTC

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Systems that incentivize unethical action produce corrupt leaders. A system that rewards productive action will produce leaders who are legitimate heroes. And we will be proud of them, and respect them the way leaders are meant to be respected.

2025-09-02 15:24:07 UTC

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Not buying it. This revolution brings us back in balance with the natural state of evolution, which says that cooperation and collaboration is a more effective path forward than coercion and manipulation.
We had an incredible idea: a market good that is not for consumption, but instead for facilitating trade, and we called it money.
The problem is, that because money is fundamentally an idea, we couldn't get it to work in the physical realm and instead we created flawed systems which rewarded those of us maladjusted enough to take advantage of these flaws, and for millenia, the winning strategy has been to cheat and manipulate.
However, there is still a strong part of us alive that says, "moral action is the best path forward," even as those of us who continue to believe this fundamental truth watch the amoral and unjust continue to win, century after century.
Now that Satoshi has put money into the space it was always meant to exist: the informational realm- where ideas are meant to live, we can get back on track. Just a couple thousand year diversion., no big deal.

2025-09-01 18:09:41 UTC

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I think you have to adjust your filter. Look at it this way- for thousands of years, humans have been forced navigate systems that incentivized unethical and amoral action.
For all this time, the winning strategy has been to cheat, deceive, manipulate, and coerce.
What you should be thinking about is how amazing it is that a spark of understanding within us still lives: that the best path forward is through cooperation and collaboration, not coercion and corruption.
If this side of us has been able to remain alive in the face of generations worth of systems that incentivized it's demise, I would say that it's actually pretty damned strong, and now that we have a system that actually incentivises moral action, I don't think it will be too long until the moral and the just will inherit the earth.

2025-08-16 18:06:48 UTC

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I'm so happy that my observation was thought provoking. On your recommendation, I read True Hallucinations by McKenna. Really interesting, especially with all of the recent information on UFO's. I kept seeing parallels to the philosophy of Robert Pirsig and I highly recommend that you read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and especially his second book, Lila. Zen was written first and Lila was decades later, but is a continuation and evolution of the ideas expressed in Zen. One of my favorite lines: Seeing is not believing, believing is seeing...

2025-08-01 02:58:03 UTC

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I'm a violinist, and a few years ago, when I first started to learn about Bitcoin, I wrote a post that said, "art is the act of creating meaning through friction."
Something that really stands out to me about your ideas is how tethered they are to the importance of meaning in the process of resolving entropy.
I feel like I have a very experiential relationship to this. Through trial and error I have landed on a process of practice that basically says that I create sonic energy through my instrument with my hands, and direct this energy towards meaning through the pattern of pitches and rhythms that exist in the work I am practicing.
What's interesting is that the best results come when I choose to observe the music as it appears from the chaos of vibrational energy, instead of actively working to manipulate this energy into shaping the music as I imagine it.
It's like my purpose as an acting being is to produce an environment in which meaning, which has been there all along, is able to emerge, and that my recognition of this meaning is what allows it to exist, but I am not responsible for managing it or manipulating it.
I came to this through experimentation and trial and error, not through a preconceived theory. There is nothing provable here that can be used to support a thesis, but I thought you might find it interesting.

2025-07-31 16:51:43 UTC

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Thank you. In all honesty I was pretty sure I knew your answer, I just wanted the explanation, which as expected, did not disappoint. This could change my whole world view if I'm able to square it all in my head. I believe I'm about to go down a rabbit hole...

2025-07-31 04:24:41 UTC

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Is it possible that unchosen possibilities are chosen as well using the work of a parallel existence?

2025-07-31 02:24:41 UTC

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Thank you for your fantastically detailed explanations. I'm truly fascinated and really appreciate these responses. I have another question perclating but I will wait until it's fully formed to ask it. Cheers!

2025-07-30 18:09:04 UTC

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I'm just beginning to understand your thesis I think and it's amazing. One question- I'm interested in the concept of "unresolved potential." Is there energy within that potential? And if so what happens to it when the entropic process chooses a different state?

2025-07-30 17:35:03 UTC

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Incredible...

2025-07-21 23:35:19 UTC

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Sweet! I'm honored

2025-07-21 07:20:58 UTC

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So bitcoin is like a virtue pump- collecting the actions of good and honest actors and discarding the waste. It's like moral evolution. Survival of the virtuous!

2025-07-20 00:18:56 UTC

If you don't cut corners, learning can be an exponential process.

2025-07-19 22:19:00 UTC

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Absolutely...which is why with every day that goes by when we collectively agree not to increase it's supply is further evidence that we are worthy caretakers of this divine gift with which we have been entrusted. It is proof that as actors in the universe, we will collectively choose our best future. The success of bitcoin represents the redemption of those who choose to benefit from it's existence.

2025-07-17 04:57:33 UTC

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Isn't it interesting that, while bitcoin is absolutely scarce, those who engage with it have the power to increase the supply if a majority agrees? For me, believing in bitcoin has always been equal to believing in we who choose, and who act.

2025-07-17 03:05:34 UTC

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This is absolutely beautiful, thank you. It resonates pure signal, and artfully articulates answers to questions I have long been engaged with. I will be digesting, processing, and internalizing these ideas, which might take a while, and if I am hit with new insight, I will happily share.

2025-07-16 21:53:21 UTC

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I think it means that the creation of art should be a result of being inspired by life, and not responsible for providing inspiration itself. I'm an artist too...

2025-07-16 21:14:25 UTC

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I know nothing about quantum computers and how they work, but I'm interested in philosophy and physics, and how they relate to each other. My views have been very influenced by the metaphysics of quality from Robert Pirsig.
In Pirsig's mind, we choose from the array of probabilities offered by the quantum field, and our choices create the reality that we know. This idea is also seen somewhat in Mises' Human Action. Intention and action towards a preferred end is the cutting edge of human experience. In this light, it makes sense that the act of observing a quantum field changes the way it behaves.
While my understanding of physics is amateur at best, what I like about what you wrote is that you seem to acknowledge that bitcoin, by existing in the informational realm, but also grounded in the classical laws of physics, transcends the randomness of the quantum field by its unique accomplishment of having achieved verifiable consensus of it's existence as a shared preference within an infinite field.
I'm obviously feeling around in the dark for a connection that I can intuitively feel, but thank you for this inspiration! I'll certainly keep my eye out for your future work.

2025-07-16 16:28:06 UTC

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I love this.

2025-05-25 16:43:21 UTC

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It's an orchestra that my wife and I built. https://www.orquestanw.org/

2025-05-25 16:08:23 UTC

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Man, you live in my neighborhood. Check out an Orquesta Northwest show sometime and hit me up.

2025-04-29 05:39:38 UTC

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Protect decentralization at all cost.

2025-03-19 17:06:17 UTC

I think that the moment when you truly become a bitcoiner, is the moment when you realize that bitcoin will eventually make all other financial assets, including currencies, effectively obsolete outside of their utility value.
I've noticed that, especially recently, a lot of bitcoiners like to talk about how bitcoin "fits" into the current system. I think this is an intuitive way to try to orange- pill people because it's too jarring (and therefore not effective) to say, "everything else is going to zero."
Maybe some bitcoiners have even convinced themselves that bitcoin will be just another asset class alongside stocks, bonds, and real estate. But deep down, if you have taken the orange pill, you know that bitcoin is going to eat them all.
It's hard when you can't share this monumental discovery, even with those closest to you, because to everyone on the outside, this perspective seems completely insane. I'm not sure watering it down is helpful either though.
Probably the best way to handle it is to just keep taking our lumps from everyone around us, watch as bitcoin just keeps winning, and wait for the rest of the world to catch up.

2025-03-15 06:40:45 UTC

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To find those vibes, you have to find unique communities. They are harder to see these days because you can't look in a place, you have to form relationships. I think that Nostr could help us find these unique communities that are all around us because it's unburdened by the financialization of everything.

2025-03-13 15:27:17 UTC

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I would like to hear everyone give their personal, speculative theories about what this administration's gameplan is for the next year or so. Are they looking to reshape global monetary order? If so, what's the strategy/mechanics of this operation?

2025-03-10 16:06:58 UTC

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Long term thinking: Bitcoin is initially adapted by existing governments out of necessity and it eats them from the inside out because it's better monetary technology that is not compatible with the systems that it has been adopted by. This is just a necessary and predictable step on the path to a better world.

2025-03-04 22:07:32 UTC

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Love it. You're the man.

2025-02-28 18:37:34 UTC

Good Morning!
Just had a new way to define money pop into mind:
Money is the foundation of human ecology.
Happy Friday everyone!

2025-02-10 19:55:09 UTC

Good Morning!
I have to share an epiphany that I had prompted by a discussion I was following on Twitter about the emergence of money being tied to energy versus money being decreed by an authority. The "money is decreed" side made the interesting point that gold wasn't really money until a governing body put a stamp of authenticity on it, and as cringe-worthy as that is, it does seem to have some validity. I started to imagine what I would do with a sizable nugget of gold that I found in my backyard if I was in a society that used cold coins as money.
The fact is, I would probably trade it for gold stamped coins, and take a haircut. I could potentially trade it for a cow, or some land, but if I wanted to buy a hat, I don't think I would be able to to chip off a chunk of gold and take it into the hat store- even if I had a scale with me. The hat store owner needs to enter the sale into their books, give you a receipt, etc. and that process is more efficient if they accept standardized tokens that communicate well with a community ledger. They would most likely tell you to head down the street to the gold dealer, and return with stamped coins.
Fiat takes this to the extreme, taking pieces of paper and just printing elaborate designs on them that are hard to fake to protect this stamp of authenticity.
The epiphany came when I realized that the most important distinction between Bitcoin and all other forms of money throughout time, is that money until now has always depended on a stamp of authenticity from a governing body in order to conform to a standardized ledger, and Bitcoin does not. Bitcoin is the ledger! Or thinking about it a different way, Bitcoin is the central authority, maintaining its sound monetary properties without incentive, or the ability to influence or be influenced.

2025-02-06 18:00:28 UTC

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I think the phase transition will be like a flip in global understanding. Seems to me that the way this generally happens is that a handful of free minds start to manifest a new concept, grown out of a real world development or discovery, and most people go from thinking the concept is insane, to thinking they believed it all along without even realizing what happened. Overnight the whole planet will understand the truth about inflation and true scarcity.

2025-02-06 03:17:15 UTC

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I do it another way too. I imagine I am on my deathbed and my daughter is there with me. Then I ask myself how I want to foster my relationship with her in preparation for that moment.

2025-02-06 01:46:56 UTC

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I do that all the time too. Life is all about the deathbed perspective. My daughter likes to sing to herself when she does homework. I don't think she even knows that she's doing it.

2025-02-02 20:11:21 UTC

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I agree with this sentiment mostly, but I think anger can still have value when sourced from a particular place. It's fear that I don't think has any real use case any more in our society- preyed upon for so long it has lost all worth. Most anger is sourced in irrational fear, and is therefore worthless, but the wrath felt by a mother protecting her child is deeper than that, and is a valuable resource that can be used for good.

2025-01-29 20:40:18 UTC

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Did you notice the slip when he said "bitcoin" and then corrected it to "crypto"

2025-01-07 04:28:29 UTC

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well said.

2025-01-07 04:15:22 UTC

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Sorry Marty, but this is a terrible take. If we want to have the presence of mind to successfully navigate what's coming, it will be much better NOT to be inebriated.

2024-12-29 07:47:23 UTC

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I grew up there!

2024-10-28 08:19:21 UTC

Bitcoiners are long human flourishing. We say "Bitcoin doesn't need you, you need Bitcoin," but I disagree. Bitcoin doesn't just need us, Bitcoin is us. Every Sat you own represents a hope that the human race will choose a better path.

2024-08-15 03:44:26 UTC

Hello everyone, I live in Washington State. I was using Phoenix, then Mutiny... Any suggestions for a good lightning wallet to move to?

2024-06-06 19:20:30 UTC

People who want power will always try to control those who truly possess it.

2024-04-17 17:53:59 UTC

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constellation on Appletv

2024-03-15 06:19:51 UTC

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The invention of scarcity in the informational realm is perhaps the greatest achievement of mankind to date.

2024-03-14 06:30:56 UTC

Time to say goodbye to the philosophy that states "nothing means anything," and say hello to the philosophy that states "everything means something. "

2023-08-06 02:18:08 UTC

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Our memories live downstream from us in an inorganic sequence of events which we (and bitcoin) swim against to stay alive.

2023-06-29 03:24:41 UTC

Bitcoin solves the game of "telephone" that you played in kindergarten where everyone whispers something in to their neighbor's ear, and by the time it makes it's way around the circle, the message is different. With bitcoin, at the end of the day, or the year, or the century, messages are the same.

2023-06-29 03:12:32 UTC

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2023-06-21 05:16:38 UTC

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Don't understand. Did you think about what I said? Seems pretty knee-jerky

2023-06-21 05:12:22 UTC

Hi everyone! This is my first Nostr post. Somehow just the existence of this place provokes deep thought.
My daughter recently explained to me that "First- all of this was in the future, right?"
This logic has proven to be too difficult for me to dismiss, and I now believe that it is probable that the universal sequence of events moves towards the past, not the future.
Time is not sequential, it is relative. We don't really use it to determine an accurate sequence of events, but rather just to help us keep a semblance of order that we exist within and thrive.
With all of this in mind I would suggest the possibility that life was born as an effort to escape the inevitability of an impending and universal past.
Bitcoin is the first verifiable movement against this sequence. It doesn't just swim against the stream, it is its own stream.