2023-04-19T17:51:03Z https://yabu.me Ape https://yabu.me/npub1za40u97wjfqgrjh32m2g4nee0fs4q253y6fclvnaysxhunc9xjtqgyhr4n https://i.imgur.com/jgvAzMW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jgvAzMW.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw2xwxjlec6edwfnvz0w8xsn43se22nxvylxl9650uhjhy3ekjm8gzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvc754fq <br/><br/>Meet Mr Unexpected, a bitcoin satire about money printing<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq9m2lctuayjqs890z4k53t8nj7np2q4fzf5n37e86fqd0e8s2dykqyg8wumn8ghj7mn09eehgu3wvdez7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyq2qh2rmjejgt4grjqday0crs8qtdj002xmm3wfylvdd3se79pxfx353lxd" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…3lxd</a></span> </div> This is Mr Unexpected.<br/><br/>Mr Unexpected works for the government in a land called Unexpected Land.<br/><br/>Mr Unexpected is always surprised.<br/><br/>This is because Mr Unexpected never expects many things which are perfectly obvious to normal people. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/a89dd362f41948342db5295e56f0eb10d60819b6f0d8427f4c786d9330903c31.png"> <br/><br/>For instance, Mr. Unexpected expected that printing trillions of pounds during the pandemic would prevent people from becoming poorer.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect that printing trillions of pounds during the pandemic would reduce the value of all the pounds that already existed — and so make everyone much, much poorer. <br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/d360d5b0529022b47803ef944a05e90d30ed742d886dcc6639446bfd1c600183.png"> <br/><br/>This surprised Mr Unexpected, but Mr Unexpected is surprised by many things that are extremely unsurprising.<br/><br/>For instance, Mr. Unexpected expected that borrowing lots of money to pay people not to work would make Unexpected Land a nicer, kinder place.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/35b7cf5480f0b76fdd113bf04665f7e63044cd37f1ed0d377662c8182c6ce092.png"> <br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect that borrowing lots of money to pay people not to work would cause the country to be massively in debt — while also reducing the number of people able to repay that debt.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected also didn’t expect that this would require him to get the country into even deeper debt to repay the existing debt he couldn’t pay back in the first place.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected expected that if the country was a nicer, kinder place, no one would really worry about the debt at all.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/26a88ceff4fc1d73ce916429f0a33bbc8f7eb4ee57c217d5c749dd3968a269bf.png"> <br/>Mr. Unexpected also did not expect that the few remaining people he hadn’t paid not to work would become very, very angry when he asked them to give him the money they earned from doing all the work he had paid the other people not to do.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected expected that those people would instead be very happy that he had made the country a nicer, kinder place.<br/><br/>Silly Mr Unexpected!<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/2fe8b90d06f024435194ded76ce8ad9161bda3d099eb42f224daf6e9fa106a2f.png"> <br/><br/>Mr Unexpected thought he could cheer the people up by printing money so everyone could afford a house.<br/><br/>Mr Unexpected didn’t expect that this simply made houses much more expensive so the only people who could now afford a house were the people who already had one.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/6301e7fa09f4e8410e963a865452e86779cf28f1f159bc43c22dabf9e9372245.png"> <br/>One sunny day, Mr. Unexpected unexpectedly felt like going for a walk to think about why so many unexpected things kept happening.<br/><br/>He walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked.<br/><br/>Unexpectedly, he found himself in a new land far away from where he had started — which surprised Mr. Unexpected, as he didn’t know that walking for days could have that effect. <br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/01d6ad15f91ca782c53ba880fa49615d47bc4fd21c66eb1c4b079ffd631df7e3.png"> <br/><br/>But Mr. Unexpected did expect a magical wizard to suddenly appear in front of him. You see, the thing about Mr. Unexpected is that he often expects things which are completely unlikely to happen.<br/><br/>For instance, one time he expected that saying the words “the economy will grow” would magically make it happen.<br/><br/>Of course, it didn’t. But that doesn’t stop Mr. Unexpected from expecting the impossible.<br/><br/>However, in this instance, the magical thing that Mr. Unexpected expected did happen — and a wizard appeared.<br/><br/>“Ah, Mr. Unexpected, I’ve been expecting you,” said the wizard.<br/><br/>“Where am I?” asked Mr. Unexpected.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/f0833500a390c8bd7013b3c8f3bb9b563e4043338b4515b2f730a7ed6696eb78.png"> <br/>“You have reached Expected Land,” replied the wizard.<br/><br/>“In this land, people don’t expect the government to create money out of thin air.<br/><br/>In this land, people expect that money has a fixed, expected supply.<br/><br/>In this land, people don’t expect the government to give them money. In fact, they expect to be responsible for their own money.<br/><br/>In this land, people don’t expect the government to take more money from them every year. In fact, they expect to keep more of their own money — because they worked hard for it.”<br/><br/>“Pffft” scoffed Mr Unexpected “I expect this land is a dreadful place to live. I expect everyone is poor and no one works because they can simply hoard their money instead of investing it. I expect there is also lots of crime as the government can’t simply print money to give to poor and old people, I expect that…”<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/553fc57c173f92b07ebd90683448a63ea3b22c744b4c2d05a14a76a8dfa77b05.png"> <br/><br/>“Not at all” interrupted the Wizard.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected hadn’t expected the wizard to interrupt him. He usually expected people to listen to his pronouncements as if they were profound truths rather than baseless waffle.<br/><br/>“Come, I will show you what a land built on hard money and personal responsibility is actually like.”<br/><br/>Unexpectedly, Mr. Unexpected found Expected Land to be a place where everything worked and everyone was happy. Families and communities were strong because they needed to look after each other — and could preserve enough wealth to do so comfortably.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect there to be very little crime in Expected Land. He didn’t expect that people found it much more beneficial to simply provide value to society when they were rewarded in a hard asset that increased in value over time.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect business and technology to be more impressive in Expected Land. He didn’t expect that when people’s money held its value, they invested it carefully based solely on the merits of an investment — rather than in a blind panic to prevent their wealth from being eroded by unexpected money printing.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/fb2aaf006e1e540afe35dbf950ba6319cb8fae29452abb5c13c477ead1564d75.png"> <br/>“How is this possible?” asked Mr. Unexpected.<br/><br/>“It is not only possible,” replied the wizard, “it is to be expected!”<br/><br/>“Please, please, can you make my country an Expected Land as well?!” begged Mr. Unexpected.<br/><br/>“Certainly. If you like, I can wave my wand and put your land on a sound money standard, but…” then the wizard unexpectedly paused for a moment and slyly grinned to himself…<br/><br/>“I will also give you a Big Red Button that allows you to print money again — just in case you want to.”<br/><br/>“I don’t expect that I would ever want to press that!” Mr. Unexpected chuckled nervously.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/6a7d9f3bf10bfcae415bee5fd64b6ba7a76de158dd8ebb2edf2cfa8810780774.png"> <br/>As expected, everything gradually got better in Unexpected Land.<br/><br/>People were happier and worked harder as they were able to consistantly build their wealth.<br/><br/>Businesses and technology grew as this new wealth wasn’t wasted on unproductive uses.<br/><br/>Families stayed together and had more children as everyone could afford a nice home.<br/><br/>And everyone could afford a nice home because homes were simply places where you kept your children’s piggy bank and not the piggy bank itself.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/be723d952bf5110412b068679218399bfd4c168d4306910ff7abbaacc086d94c.png"> <br/>However, as to be expected every now and then, an unexpected disaster happened.<br/><br/>A very bad storm blew through Unexpected Land, damaging buildings and destroying many people’s homes.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/3d487fc2250143146813d1b5bb7c6e048c7e7d3032e83bf508bac8bf7e97264b.png"> <br/>Everybody begged Mr. Unexpected to press his Big Red Button and print money to help fix the damage and cover people’s losses. <br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected paused for a moment…<br/><br/>And then — well, I expect you can guess what happened next...<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/af83316fbf7bb36eb79e83a52a1633a3a4c6b2ef3b58acbeceb6c243a4b0841c.png"> </blockquote> 2025-05-27T11:00:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspgzag0wtxfpw4qwgph53lqwqupdkfaagm0w9eyna34kxr8c5yeyczyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvn3pqtc This is Mr Unexpected.<br/><br/>Mr Unexpected works for the government in a land called Unexpected Land.<br/><br/>Mr Unexpected is always surprised.<br/><br/>This is because Mr Unexpected never expects many things which are perfectly obvious to normal people. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/a89dd362f41948342db5295e56f0eb10d60819b6f0d8427f4c786d9330903c31.png"> <br/><br/>For instance, Mr. Unexpected expected that printing trillions of pounds during the pandemic would prevent people from becoming poorer.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect that printing trillions of pounds during the pandemic would reduce the value of all the pounds that already existed — and so make everyone much, much poorer. <br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/d360d5b0529022b47803ef944a05e90d30ed742d886dcc6639446bfd1c600183.png"> <br/><br/>This surprised Mr Unexpected, but Mr Unexpected is surprised by many things that are extremely unsurprising.<br/><br/>For instance, Mr. Unexpected expected that borrowing lots of money to pay people not to work would make Unexpected Land a nicer, kinder place.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/35b7cf5480f0b76fdd113bf04665f7e63044cd37f1ed0d377662c8182c6ce092.png"> <br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect that borrowing lots of money to pay people not to work would cause the country to be massively in debt — while also reducing the number of people able to repay that debt.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected also didn’t expect that this would require him to get the country into even deeper debt to repay the existing debt he couldn’t pay back in the first place.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected expected that if the country was a nicer, kinder place, no one would really worry about the debt at all.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/26a88ceff4fc1d73ce916429f0a33bbc8f7eb4ee57c217d5c749dd3968a269bf.png"> <br/>Mr. Unexpected also did not expect that the few remaining people he hadn’t paid not to work would become very, very angry when he asked them to give him the money they earned from doing all the work he had paid the other people not to do.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected expected that those people would instead be very happy that he had made the country a nicer, kinder place.<br/><br/>Silly Mr Unexpected!<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/2fe8b90d06f024435194ded76ce8ad9161bda3d099eb42f224daf6e9fa106a2f.png"> <br/><br/>Mr Unexpected thought he could cheer the people up by printing money so everyone could afford a house.<br/><br/>Mr Unexpected didn’t expect that this simply made houses much more expensive so the only people who could now afford a house were the people who already had one.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/6301e7fa09f4e8410e963a865452e86779cf28f1f159bc43c22dabf9e9372245.png"> <br/>One sunny day, Mr. Unexpected unexpectedly felt like going for a walk to think about why so many unexpected things kept happening.<br/><br/>He walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked.<br/><br/>Unexpectedly, he found himself in a new land far away from where he had started — which surprised Mr. Unexpected, as he didn’t know that walking for days could have that effect. <br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/01d6ad15f91ca782c53ba880fa49615d47bc4fd21c66eb1c4b079ffd631df7e3.png"> <br/><br/>But Mr. Unexpected did expect a magical wizard to suddenly appear in front of him. You see, the thing about Mr. Unexpected is that he often expects things which are completely unlikely to happen.<br/><br/>For instance, one time he expected that saying the words “the economy will grow” would magically make it happen.<br/><br/>Of course, it didn’t. But that doesn’t stop Mr. Unexpected from expecting the impossible.<br/><br/>However, in this instance, the magical thing that Mr. Unexpected expected did happen — and a wizard appeared.<br/><br/>“Ah, Mr. Unexpected, I’ve been expecting you,” said the wizard.<br/><br/>“Where am I?” asked Mr. Unexpected.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/f0833500a390c8bd7013b3c8f3bb9b563e4043338b4515b2f730a7ed6696eb78.png"> <br/>“You have reached Expected Land,” replied the wizard.<br/><br/>“In this land, people don’t expect the government to create money out of thin air.<br/><br/>In this land, people expect that money has a fixed, expected supply.<br/><br/>In this land, people don’t expect the government to give them money. In fact, they expect to be responsible for their own money.<br/><br/>In this land, people don’t expect the government to take more money from them every year. In fact, they expect to keep more of their own money — because they worked hard for it.”<br/><br/>“Pffft” scoffed Mr Unexpected “I expect this land is a dreadful place to live. I expect everyone is poor and no one works because they can simply hoard their money instead of investing it. I expect there is also lots of crime as the government can’t simply print money to give to poor and old people, I expect that…”<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/553fc57c173f92b07ebd90683448a63ea3b22c744b4c2d05a14a76a8dfa77b05.png"> <br/><br/>“Not at all” interrupted the Wizard.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected hadn’t expected the wizard to interrupt him. He usually expected people to listen to his pronouncements as if they were profound truths rather than baseless waffle.<br/><br/>“Come, I will show you what a land built on hard money and personal responsibility is actually like.”<br/><br/>Unexpectedly, Mr. Unexpected found Expected Land to be a place where everything worked and everyone was happy. Families and communities were strong because they needed to look after each other — and could preserve enough wealth to do so comfortably.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect there to be very little crime in Expected Land. He didn’t expect that people found it much more beneficial to simply provide value to society when they were rewarded in a hard asset that increased in value over time.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect business and technology to be more impressive in Expected Land. He didn’t expect that when people’s money held its value, they invested it carefully based solely on the merits of an investment — rather than in a blind panic to prevent their wealth from being eroded by unexpected money printing.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/fb2aaf006e1e540afe35dbf950ba6319cb8fae29452abb5c13c477ead1564d75.png"> <br/>“How is this possible?” asked Mr. Unexpected.<br/><br/>“It is not only possible,” replied the wizard, “it is to be expected!”<br/><br/>“Please, please, can you make my country an Expected Land as well?!” begged Mr. Unexpected.<br/><br/>“Certainly. If you like, I can wave my wand and put your land on a sound money standard, but…” then the wizard unexpectedly paused for a moment and slyly grinned to himself…<br/><br/>“I will also give you a Big Red Button that allows you to print money again — just in case you want to.”<br/><br/>“I don’t expect that I would ever want to press that!” Mr. Unexpected chuckled nervously.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/6a7d9f3bf10bfcae415bee5fd64b6ba7a76de158dd8ebb2edf2cfa8810780774.png"> <br/>As expected, everything gradually got better in Unexpected Land.<br/><br/>People were happier and worked harder as they were able to consistantly build their wealth.<br/><br/>Businesses and technology grew as this new wealth wasn’t wasted on unproductive uses.<br/><br/>Families stayed together and had more children as everyone could afford a nice home.<br/><br/>And everyone could afford a nice home because homes were simply places where you kept your children’s piggy bank and not the piggy bank itself.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/be723d952bf5110412b068679218399bfd4c168d4306910ff7abbaacc086d94c.png"> <br/>However, as to be expected every now and then, an unexpected disaster happened.<br/><br/>A very bad storm blew through Unexpected Land, damaging buildings and destroying many people’s homes.<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/3d487fc2250143146813d1b5bb7c6e048c7e7d3032e83bf508bac8bf7e97264b.png"> <br/>Everybody begged Mr. Unexpected to press his Big Red Button and print money to help fix the damage and cover people’s losses. <br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected paused for a moment…<br/><br/>And then — well, I expect you can guess what happened next...<br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/af83316fbf7bb36eb79e83a52a1633a3a4c6b2ef3b58acbeceb6c243a4b0841c.png"> 2025-05-27T06:20:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqzf8cu0327mr0sa0nvv9tk6j5zljl6fmu348359aaqfjqh9wf96szyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fva98dfg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrz7s8sjndlfwj7cygzpw2mda6n3nd8c83rwavmgajdlt38agkggsa04p4d'>nevent1q…4p4d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Everybody begged Mr. Unexpected to press his Big Red Button and print money to help fix the damage and cover people’s losses. <br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected paused for a moment…<br/><br/>And then — well, I expect you can guess what happened next... <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/af83316fbf7bb36eb79e83a52a1633a3a4c6b2ef3b58acbeceb6c243a4b0841c.png"> 2025-05-27T06:06:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrz7s8sjndlfwj7cygzpw2mda6n3nd8c83rwavmgajdlt38agkggszyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvm593dq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp6h7waehclc4m764dgcrneyztjtv8ndspqd8mzwkc2lu0yeayu4qzmthxu'>nevent1q…thxu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>However, as to be expected every now and then, an unexpected disaster happened.<br/><br/>A very bad storm blew through Unexpected Land, damaging buildings and destroying many people’s homes. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/3d487fc2250143146813d1b5bb7c6e048c7e7d3032e83bf508bac8bf7e97264b.png"> 2025-05-27T06:05:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp6h7waehclc4m764dgcrneyztjtv8ndspqd8mzwkc2lu0yeayu4qzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvs4f0ph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfswsmgxh5ev2pycgd8n4j3azkg490223p49unqe368hw3c3cxsuggguae8'>nevent1q…uae8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As expected, everything gradually got better in Unexpected Land.<br/><br/>People were happier and worked harder as they were able to consistantly build their wealth.<br/><br/>Businesses and technology grew as this new wealth wasn’t wasted on unproductive uses.<br/><br/>Families stayed together and had more children as everyone could afford a nice home.<br/><br/>And everyone could afford a nice home because homes were simply places where you kept your children’s piggy bank and not the piggy bank itself. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/be723d952bf5110412b068679218399bfd4c168d4306910ff7abbaacc086d94c.png"> 2025-05-27T06:05:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfswsmgxh5ev2pycgd8n4j3azkg490223p49unqe368hw3c3cxsugzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvxrk4x7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0nxf42v3jqhr36yf9mr70du6u7q79u9sk2z7d9fkxnc8yda40w4cppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hf7gvp'>nevent1q…7gvp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“How is this possible?” asked Mr. Unexpected.<br/><br/>“It is not only possible,” replied the wizard, “it is to be expected!”<br/><br/>“Please, please, can you make my country an Expected Land as well?!” begged Mr. Unexpected.<br/><br/>“Certainly. If you like, I can wave my wand and put your land on a sound money standard, but…” then the wizard unexpectedly paused for a moment and slyly grinned to himself…<br/><br/>“I will also give you a Big Red Button that allows you to print money again — just in case you want to.”<br/><br/>“I don’t expect that I would ever want to press that!” Mr. Unexpected chuckled nervously.<br/><br/>“Indeed, I don’t expect you would,” the wizard smirked knowingly, before waving his wand and magically transporting Mr. Unexpected back to his homeland. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/6a7d9f3bf10bfcae415bee5fd64b6ba7a76de158dd8ebb2edf2cfa8810780774.png"> 2025-05-27T06:04:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0nxf42v3jqhr36yf9mr70du6u7q79u9sk2z7d9fkxnc8yda40w4czyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvaafsju In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs94usykf3ycal0dmeuqne56305gcjw9zy4uq5evs3cwdwv79ldvdc802uxv'>nevent1q…2uxv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unexpectedly, Mr. Unexpected found Expected Land to be a place where everything worked and everyone was happy. Families and communities were strong because they needed to look after each other — and could preserve enough wealth to do so comfortably.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect there to be very little crime in Expected Land. He didn’t expect that people found it much more beneficial to simply provide value to society when they were rewarded in a hard asset that increased in value over time.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect business and technology to be more impressive in Expected Land. He didn’t expect that when people’s money held its value, they invested it carefully based solely on the merits of an investment — rather than in a blind panic to prevent their wealth from being eroded by unexpected money printing. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/fb2aaf006e1e540afe35dbf950ba6319cb8fae29452abb5c13c477ead1564d75.png"> 2025-05-27T06:03:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs94usykf3ycal0dmeuqne56305gcjw9zy4uq5evs3cwdwv79ldvdczyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvdvcwlg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyun5dgqzvshdw2reprvxv3a35g66wzzr932pypf22yhkfvvzgumg2xxfgd'>nevent1q…xfgd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“Not at all” interrupted the Wizard.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected hadn’t expected the wizard to interrupt him. He usually expected people to listen to his pronouncements as if they were profound truths rather than baseless waffle.<br/><br/>“Come, I will show you what a land built on hard money and personal responsibility is actually like.” 2025-05-27T06:03:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyun5dgqzvshdw2reprvxv3a35g66wzzr932pypf22yhkfvvzgumgzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv2valtm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfawqf4qsh5yg9ayspxrzymvrmvfezgee0snmyzh7m52pn43hng4g84dhx2'>nevent1q…dhx2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“You have reached Expected Land,” replied the wizard.<br/><br/>“In this land, people don’t expect the government to create money out of thin air.<br/><br/>In this land, people expect that money has a fixed, expected supply.<br/><br/>In this land, people don’t expect the government to give them money. In fact, they expect to be responsible for their own money.<br/><br/>In this land, people don’t expect the government to take more money from them every year. In fact, they expect to keep more of their own money — because they worked hard for it.”<br/><br/>“Pffft” scoffed Mr Unexpected “I expect this land is a dreadful place to live. I expect everyone is poor and no one works because they can simply hoard their money instead of investing it. I expect there is also lots of crime as the government can’t simply print money to give to poor and old people, I expect that…” <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/553fc57c173f92b07ebd90683448a63ea3b22c744b4c2d05a14a76a8dfa77b05.png"> 2025-05-27T06:02:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfawqf4qsh5yg9ayspxrzymvrmvfezgee0snmyzh7m52pn43hng4gzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv9n089h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdly4mvq5gnhs9ahx7gx7vtlca69e5mt0gs2d76uypd8vk5eh2a8gd9ejwm'>nevent1q…ejwm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But Mr. Unexpected did expect a magical wizard to suddenly appear in front of him. You see, the thing about Mr. Unexpected is that he often expects things which are completely unlikely to happen.<br/><br/>For instance, one time he expected that saying the words “the economy will grow” would magically make it happen.<br/><br/>Of course, it didn’t. But that doesn’t stop Mr. Unexpected from expecting the impossible.<br/><br/>However, in this instance, the magical thing that Mr. Unexpected expected did happen — and a wizard appeared.<br/><br/>“Ah, Mr. Unexpected, I’ve been expecting you,” said the wizard.<br/><br/>“Where am I?” asked Mr. Unexpected. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/f0833500a390c8bd7013b3c8f3bb9b563e4043338b4515b2f730a7ed6696eb78.png"> 2025-05-27T06:02:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdly4mvq5gnhs9ahx7gx7vtlca69e5mt0gs2d76uypd8vk5eh2a8gzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvrchn8g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx25vlz0sc0pexm4xxnjxst6mg72xkp2vrn36c0y957gwm5mzng0qsttuul'>nevent1q…tuul</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One sunny day, Mr. Unexpected unexpectedly felt like going for a walk to think about why so many unexpected things kept happening.<br/><br/>He walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked.<br/><br/>Unexpectedly, he found himself in a new land far away from where he had started — which surprised Mr. Unexpected, as he didn’t know that walking for days could have that effect. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/01d6ad15f91ca782c53ba880fa49615d47bc4fd21c66eb1c4b079ffd631df7e3.png"> 2025-05-27T06:01:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx25vlz0sc0pexm4xxnjxst6mg72xkp2vrn36c0y957gwm5mzng0qzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvj6s8mx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9kuct5u5etyt8ahn9shpwnepldyerzxhqh8w32tjpx46rzhvx4gq3m87m8'>nevent1q…87m8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mr Unexpected thought he could cheer the people up by printing money so everyone could afford a house.<br/><br/>Mr Unexpected didn’t expect that this simply made houses much more expensive so the only people who could now afford a house were the people who already had one. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/6301e7fa09f4e8410e963a865452e86779cf28f1f159bc43c22dabf9e9372245.png"> 2025-05-27T06:00:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9kuct5u5etyt8ahn9shpwnepldyerzxhqh8w32tjpx46rzhvx4gqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fve980mf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs87j459qnkrfttxenq297mzrslpnsdf9y22nvdf3xgy8zh5qk575c3jcga9'>nevent1q…cga9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected also did not expect that the few remaining people he hadn’t paid not to work would become very, very angry when he asked them to give him the money they earned from doing all the work he had paid the other people not to do.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected expected that those people would instead be very happy that he had made the country a nicer, kinder place.<br/><br/>Silly Mr Unexpected! <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/2fe8b90d06f024435194ded76ce8ad9161bda3d099eb42f224daf6e9fa106a2f.png"> 2025-05-27T06:00:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs87j459qnkrfttxenq297mzrslpnsdf9y22nvdf3xgy8zh5qk575czyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvx09mp5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyn25r2y7024e0r29k4jw7emp8d9p8nw9fufgxp9v0gx5eeezgpegpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcdj8dgr'>nevent1q…8dgr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect that borrowing lots of money to pay people not to work would cause the country to be massively in debt — while also reducing the number of people able to repay that debt.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected also didn’t expect that this would require him to get the country into even deeper debt to repay the existing debt he couldn’t pay back in the first place.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected expected that if the country was a nicer, kinder place, no one would really worry about the debt at all. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/26a88ceff4fc1d73ce916429f0a33bbc8f7eb4ee57c217d5c749dd3968a269bf.png"> 2025-05-27T05:59:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyn25r2y7024e0r29k4jw7emp8d9p8nw9fufgxp9v0gx5eeezgpegzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvzjs5us In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2l2l8n6gt6qcf87h6usq23h3c7zey6k5ws0e40k0wyns3j69x0xskh2llh'>nevent1q…2llh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This surprised Mr Unexpected, but Mr Unexpected is surprised by many things that are extremely unsurprising.<br/><br/>For instance, Mr. Unexpected expected that borrowing lots of money to pay people not to work would make Unexpected Land a nicer, kinder place. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/35b7cf5480f0b76fdd113bf04665f7e63044cd37f1ed0d377662c8182c6ce092.png"> 2025-05-27T05:59:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2l2l8n6gt6qcf87h6usq23h3c7zey6k5ws0e40k0wyns3j69x0xszyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvluk46z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9tputzdtmyven7cw2786zgcw3qk34d6m0urrmk969ff8nz9zaaqgw5535k'>nevent1q…535k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For instance, Mr. Unexpected expected that printing trillions of pounds during the pandemic would prevent people from becoming poorer.<br/><br/>Mr. Unexpected didn’t expect that printing trillions of pounds during the pandemic would reduce the value of all the pounds that already existed — and so make everyone much, much poorer. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/3f862fac24bd9b7b9c310bee40ecbc5e77371fea267a981f6a9086dc7f8fffbd.png"> 2025-05-27T05:58:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswtsmryu3y5jdc2ga35t0zdx5q6fln9mrk4jdeh2keufxsnygjh3szyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv544taf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2jwtmdavcftgn765qwxft4qwmmkkgfqd6jvy8nchqykttv44vqzqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfducyf33r'>nevent1q…f33r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>tbf 2 days isn&#39;t enough to get over any withdrawal symptoms. But as long as caffine isn&#39;t affecting your sleep or ability to focus, why give it up for puritancial reasons? 2025-05-27T05:56:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfjeck3pjhqjc5dl0cfgrs0lmv6xj445snl4g5uhr24f4ggtuj3sgzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvdug9w4 Since I&#39;ve been telling everyone on X that I&#39;ve moved to nostr, my X engagement has gone through the roof! 2024-08-28T08:40:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrq38uvjyw2w6pykqhm2pd6v9wyz3kc4d4fsuzcaj8fjge7ustceczyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvsw3kdp Saying the quiet part OUT LOUD!!!<br/><br/>Why for privacy to protected bitcoin is the only game in town. <a href="https://medium.com/@bitcoinorbust/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-a8154eac9d96">https://medium.com/@bitcoinorbust/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-a8154eac9d96</a> 2024-08-28T08:38:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8wtg5rexwakmw9jfwuc45enrjlpx5sctv6ww29q7a66n88j8dcsgzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvyf9g3x Latest article: &#34;Why <br/>@harari_yuval<br/> is a better Bitcoiner than you&#34;, inspired by his controversial comments about #bitcoin to the <br/>@BIS_org. Featuring a guest appearance from Francis Fukuyama<br/><br/><a href="https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/why-yuval-noah-harari-is-a-better-bitcoiner-than-you-a835427c7c7c">https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/why-yuval-noah-harari-is-a-better-bitcoiner-than-you-a835427c7c7c</a> 2024-05-14T12:12:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx44qglx7vh2engendvy750ecytfc4lnqlc4fj3sku6k0ru3unxhczyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv6wu2wg My latest piece on that GB News <br/>@Jennifer_Arcuri interview, where I argue that Bitcoin now faces attack from both the establishment and the anti establishment. <br/><br/>&#34;The Barbarians at the Bitcoin Gates are a Bigger Threat than Blackrock&#34; <a href="https://link.medium.com/kiQWrpOlpJb">https://link.medium.com/kiQWrpOlpJb</a> 2024-05-07T15:28:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq2y74s3229937luzchy6g2q37hefvqrxwavyxvamu77mw8kzrfzczyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvgrqyeh Final article on Drivechains &#34;Yes I made love to alt coins, but I did for us and was thinking about Bitcoin the whole time&#34;.<br/><br/>I finally give my verdict on the proposed scaling solution by talking about French adultery and bad Woody Allen movies.<br/><br/><a href="https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-292c502ea8e4">https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-292c502ea8e4</a> 2024-03-27T09:55:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsglqpnnzgkg3kdsv6r0qjfe78k8r37l2e623grc72825csxmv98agzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvlpfswl Part 4 of my series of articles on drivechain and bitcoin scaling. Here things get poetic and apocalyptic. Can Drivechain solve the problem of human nature?<br/><br/><a href="https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-7f373d441273">https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-7f373d441273</a> 2024-03-20T12:57:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw7khe87gfv5qsc55yenef38hfyww6z3w4aen0e25dva9a0pqvztqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv63uk96 Have been delving into the whole bitcoin #taprootwizards Ordinal/BRC-20/Stamps saga, and after much scholarly research can summarise their position as; Spam, SPam, SPAm, SPAM! Lovely SPAM!! WONDERFUL SPAM!!! SPAM! SPAM!! SPAM!!! SPAM!!!! SPAM SPA-A-A-A-A-AM SPAM SPA-A-A-A-A-AM SPAM! LOVELY SPAM! Lovely spam! LOVELY sPaM! Lovely SPAM! LOVELY SPAM! Spam SPAM SPAM SPAM! <img src="https://m.primal.net/HcWc.png"> 2024-02-13T15:24:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9wff8kjzv7kcpp9dnkpczhv70dsujxd2vu2z7kmk98555yxc8qpqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvahrag3 Can&#39;t wait (literally) to see this #bitcoin play 😋<br/> <img src="https://image.nostr.build/c26c2a219e2bee147e6cdb42e95da8f90305fe3d0d23b4f97eee3e85967fc0c1.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&amp;dim=992x1553&amp;blurhash=%5E7EfTWG7MM%3Aumpo%7B01w%7CrxspxuO9%7EUI%3Ao%7BW-M%7Bw%7D9b%252RkaLtQSw%24%25M%7CxtWVaexaE3t7ofjtV%5DRk%251jun%24WBkBoyIpWUS4t7s%3AaMxZbIoJV%40bGf*&amp;x=99c0e060a87ee4761f226f26f31c798d9d4db778c3035962935454e936c796a8"> 2024-01-18T13:31:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxzuat85yf47hz39s9rt3a34gtyh7zcutkc8mjvdt4nr6a5h8keyszyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv65mkms Part three of my drivechain article, where I still don&#39;t talk about drivechain but I do compare proof of work with the bench press.<br/><br/>Bitcoin: What the hell is a drivechain?! Will it ruin my stack? And how do I make it just go away? <a href="https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-edb9edbc4991">https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-edb9edbc4991</a> 2023-11-29T10:32:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvxdk70fg7u6027e30ww369lahzmcynqnv0cj3qdk4ktkh29md3cgzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvakur22 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw5qqvsrz0vvqku7p3y2mnmuuh5ynxnja203nvmzgy3fhyntcjmpqryzr5j'>nevent1q…zr5j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thanks for your kind words, you can judge the health of a space by its ability find humour in itself. Also I&#39;m just distracting people until I can understand how drivechain works (or doesn&#39;t) 😅 2023-11-13T19:37:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqad9htd6mn25ltwkqpcmc87fkfa8jtfxz4xegnrdhs7nzcg8u08qzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv2pyp0a Part 2 of my satirical Bitcoin drivechain series where I fail to explain what a drivechain is, but I hopefully set the context for why drivechain is by exploring the debate between liberal and conservatives and by making fun of everyone.<br/><br/><br/>Bitcoin: What the hell is a drivechain?! Will it ruin my stack? And how do I make it just go away? <a href="https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-0db1f96183f0">https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-0db1f96183f0</a> 2023-11-13T17:23:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswg7gavquwap6v653e8jp9nlmarkdmv0qy5yh7xhx58yn37f86d0gzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvk5mrt4 Part 1 of 4 of my #bitcoin essay where I make fun of everyone.<br/>&#34;What the hell is a Drivechain?! Will it ruin my stack? And how do I make it just go away?&#34;<br/>Come for the Drivechain talk, stay for the jokes about Vitalik <a href="https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-05e7b0dbfa91">https://medium.com/@alexmoss_23426/bitcoin-what-the-hell-is-a-drivechain-will-it-ruin-my-stack-and-how-do-i-make-it-just-go-away-05e7b0dbfa91</a> 2023-11-06T16:26:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgz0dj34kz4vycy3zt2lhp3r3d4p3098ndule3qr8vns7amksz7sszyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvuz08se Gonzo Nostrich!<br/><br/> <img src="https://cdn.nostr.build/i/19148392063905e3667e834280ac65e0d00d5677aee48e1d8215fe656864126d.jpg"> 2023-09-03T18:41:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfcmclmer7t7epzdlsuwxrv2tnnsqyslcd4ltml63h7u4546s324gzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvg3m089 Latest article, a gonzo journalism peice about attending a #bitcoin event in London.<br/><br/>&#34;Most nights, usually around 2 to 3 am, Max Kaiser wakes up in the dark, in a state of profound panic... terrified that one day, the financial system might not collapse&#34;<br/><br/>Notes from the underground <a href="https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/notes-from-the-underground?utm_medium=web">https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/notes-from-the-underground?utm_medium=web</a> 2023-08-23T23:39:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvafgr2lu98z35tetv4slc9d8elj2ff528xetrn6mqefswdn6faeqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fveh9kgf <br/>&#34;The Monarchy is both everything and nothing, our most famous institution, but has no real power. We are in awe with it, yet we think it is silly. It exists in a quantum state, both a wave of national mood and singular particle of unjustifiable decadence, depending on how we observe it. It is Schrodinger’s monarchy, both dead and alive.<br/><br/>The monarchy is dead, long live the monarchy!&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the">https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the</a> 2023-05-06T20:56:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswm4z0f8km4p2z5alasjf048ndhwfdwq7pf8atv4sm4l87a7545cqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvq98qn8 &#34;For a man, his self-worth is largely determined by his resilience to attempted destruction. As a result, men will often seek out other men who can act as benevolent agents of nature’s severity.&#34; Latest on the Dominic Raab bullying saga.<br/><br/><a href="https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-raab">https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-raab</a> 2023-04-30T23:33:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgzndkqn7x7mm7f2yg686ut9kn0h0mustsp8yjk070l0h2eelr9sszyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvqvt9x8 &#34;Unlike the revisions made to Dahl or Fleming, there is a special incredulity to the doctoring of Jeeves and Wooster. Like the spraying of a graffiti hammer and sickle on a garden gnome.&#34; <br/><br/>Latest article on Prejudice Against the Past<br/><a href="https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/the-present-mans-burden">https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/the-present-mans-burden</a> 2023-04-23T07:32:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspynalm4m25qfzv3l9dpk4srvrmp4dll240wuxh3dcs7q4gcwzrygzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvvrcdat Quick thread on the key importance of Proof-of-work, the most (wilfully) misunderstood aspect of Bitcoin. This came from me trying to explain the concept to my colleages.<br/><br/>People criticise Bitcoin for not being “real” and having no tangible, intrinsic value. This is understandable as digital things are not “things” but information, symbols. And Bitcoin is digital.<br/><br/>However, people also criticise Bitcoin for using a lot of energy which they consider wasteful for what they perceive as an intangible piece of digital information. Sure, use energy for washing machines and Christmas lights, because these are real and can’t operate without energy. But why use the energy of a small country just to make numbers on a screen which you can do for free?<br/><br/>They don’t realise that this energy usage is the key element that makes Bitcoin more than digital information, and an actual tangible entity.<br/><br/>Let’s step back. <br/><br/>You have a bar of gold. You wants another one. However, you can’t just make new matter out of nothing. This would require an enormous amount of energy (fusing atoms together). A key attribute of physical objects is that their existence is tied to the laws of physics. Only God could make more with no energy.<br/><br/>Digital information however has no such constraints. You have 10 bars of digital gold. You can easily make many more without energy by adding another number next to it. Like 10^9 bars of gold. Now you have 10 billion bars of gold. This is why digital items are worthless.<br/><br/>However, we exist more and more in the digital word, it is becoming our place of business, leisure, social interaction, yet it has no laws of physics, we are all gods in this world, making it like a Mount Olympus Lord of the Flies situation.<br/><br/>This is a problem.<br/><br/>Up until now we have solved this problem by creating demigods, who control the local laws of physics for their realm. E.g. Amazon tells you how much your purchase is (you can’t change the number), or your online bank controls the numbers showing the $s in your account. <br/><br/>These are still only bits of digital information, but the demigods of the internet are the only ones who make new units, like a real god for gold bars. However, these demigods aren’t gods, they are people pretending to be. They are centralised, confined to their own universes, corruptible, and liable to make mistakes.<br/><br/>So how do we solve the problem of adding the laws of physics to digital information, so that the digital world has continuity with the real physical world? This is where energy comes in.<br/><br/>By tethering energy to the production and transfer of Bitcoin, it is imbuing it with real world properties that only an entity who is able to harness a greater amount of energy could override.<br/><br/>This makes digital information physically bound. A seminal innovation in science and technology.<br/><br/>Another criticism is that the proof-of-work algorithm uses energy for pointless, random number guessing puzzles, and not something useful like folding proteins. This also misunderstands the nature of proof-of-work. It is necessary that the energy usage is random, that is, there is no way to game or cheat the finding of the random number used to verify the blockchain.<br/><br/>If there was some logic that could solve the puzzle more easily, it would require less energy (or even almost none at all), thus undermining the tethering between the physical world and the digital information in question. It would be information not energy that verifies the information, which is what we have now.<br/><br/>But it also goes deeper. <br/><br/>What is randomness? Randomness is data that contains no information, no pattern. You can write out a random number, but it has no meaning or utility. It is a meaningless abstraction. <br/><br/>Random numbers calculated with real energy is thus a “real abstraction”. <br/><br/>They contain elements of the physical world (energy usage) with that of the digital world (abstract symbols) and thus only they can bridge the physical and digital worlds, unlike &#34;meaningful abstractions&#34; which contain information and so can be derived with logic over energy which would break the tethering. Only randomn abstractions can maintain the tethering of energy to information.<br/> 2023-04-18T16:24:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg2pp6v9fj2zttmy92vcrm76xqrewhgudwmmz8auvwjudtq2wnwqqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvy56u9h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs057u2w4pllzngevjt2clzxcwuangq2z8gm7epqgx3xxe8ff486ws8qxems'>nevent1q…xems</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/YD_DoKo5Dg8">https://youtu.be/YD_DoKo5Dg8</a> 2023-04-16T11:59:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst5curh50ng57wt2jn09sagx2yh8ragy900z4lmhfugetgujfs7qqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv6fv7jq Every shitcorner <br/><br/> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/gWIgq0s.jpg"> 2023-04-15T20:35:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfxv56klymagt9pxtrw54t8d45t6lgccd7x9us8e4mp3h5uvprssczyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvxmswkw Asked Midjourney AI to create a poster for a #zapathon <br/><br/> <img src="https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_3c8bcbe36b2316718718048bf6f6d0f6865d7c26d9623e30726e2eab136cc994.webp"> 2023-04-15T08:55:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgnv8em5kj25tn5jgzqa6r29z9va3e4luqw90v3fynf5jw3hmk79szyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvu3jy74 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrrh89m9k6s8u3jgcv9kdyfpamfu064lvg0mtd2wyxttjd0uy3argqklx4r'>nevent1q…lx4r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Or napping in the bath (but wear a snorkel just in case) 2023-04-15T08:54:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstrhh0gl62clepthg6ruw90zen4rfzxxc02x7yn3p8s3sdskxpwpszyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvakpzu6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9p7sczdvmqsshzzrq2qw8qr3c84zgctdjah57kkmafewf2xe0adqlxdx2q'>nevent1q…dx2q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m ambivalent about Elon. Except Tesla&#39;s are very good, and space ex does work, and PayPal &#34;did&#34; work. Yes there is a lot of BS there, but most good ideas fail. Even with a great idea you often have to a BSers and marketer to realise it. People said the same about Brunel and Edison. 2023-04-14T20:09:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsydtevzq8p3cgymgptqdtztq5qz8z82h7zr0x97c8wkdskhjaefqqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvxntk2q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs29dkacdfgxpg0rujsr8ycmpexdu32syx5lke58ae5fjltlxp49ggyupra3'>nevent1q…pra3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Toothpaste 2023-04-14T19:04:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvkqdszrexgcjyyjgxmpvmrkk3xf7pae4h583z05ylcw5ychd05hgzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv8pf2rp Latest short thoughts #elonmusk Vs the #bbc<br/><br/><a href="https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/citizen-musk">https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/citizen-musk</a> 2023-04-14T18:04:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9v0lnnqu5ly9k5kd4xhn9jw55j0teeh04f4y4ezk5cyqp97xlqfgzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fve44akf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswx5f4gv8kkwm0z0aljzezdvu0mjd04yeal7whdy69w53hxeh4sug4vwtaq'>nevent1q…wtaq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Good luck! 2023-04-13T22:16:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstnlcv4aksa69kajzvxvg7jy2r8nmj7d38ytzut3an0pep5mrl78szyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvdxuaqc Latest epic poem about the #NHS. If you like Coleridge, Dante, Edgar Allan Poe, and criticism of socialist healthcare, this is for you.<br/><br/>A jaded story about a healthcare system run on faded glory.<br/><br/><a href="https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/saving-the-nhs">https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/saving-the-nhs</a> 2023-04-13T15:22:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx9wyxel4ej6gvlrczcyv7hcthd09uqus434wp6n7qsnkk0qlz6cgzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fv5el3s6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrmjd7kzd4uqxk24aetj9t5wcnm85j8h4nhaquwkxxlryeww03grqdutjr4'>nevent1q…tjr4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That is really stupid art? 2023-04-13T12:55:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrmjd7kzd4uqxk24aetj9t5wcnm85j8h4nhaquwkxxlryeww03grqzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvg47s8n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstfqx3f0aud0qt63t9864dgvn2vctq086uxytmwq3m7ta80nuc77ctndera'>nevent1q…dera</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Both 2023-04-13T12:54:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswq9kmcxaaje3zzc93xykpgzy7xqdmlj460pzarmu76zw4dzraghczyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvuhq06d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd8ns0mjyj4utkc3mgp7wgf28ym2gnu5yk8ks5vr06jtrzaek2lhqtcjaar'>nevent1q…jaar</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Niacin, ZMA, D, hylauronic acid, 2023-04-13T09:50:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2qyawkfftxwmwqp9vlkau8uv733k23xzvy5akrlkgrpfzrzql98qzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvhtkwyu Is it counterproductive to down your vitamins with a glass of scotch?<br/><br/> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/xsvDVxF.jpg"> 2023-04-12T21:49:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9g5re79jzg6m5fc0yyzyakkvf5j2g40k3wd922xmlpl3cxk9m5vgzyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvazdznf Embrace the #woke! #roalddahl rewritten to fully adhere to modern literary regulations.<br/><br/><a href="https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/the-rotsome-roald-dahl?r=1edfm8&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/the-rotsome-roald-dahl?r=1edfm8&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web</a> 2023-04-12T21:40:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvz9scqyyspasqcd4u3jq84ywddfzcu43hf55stv3uvlrx37g9t3czyqtk4lshe6fypqw279tdfzk089axz5p2jynf8raj05jq6lj0q56fvpku5f6 So which is it then? Just a few troubled banks plagued by idiosyncratic issues. Or, like when your grandfather finds that odd lump that is probably nothing, is it the start of a systemic catastrophe? #finance #financialcrisis #bitcoin <a href="https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/trust-me-im-an-economist">https://shakespeareanape.substack.com/p/trust-me-im-an-economist</a> 2023-04-12T20:30:50Z