crunchy tiramisu is underrated

Gold has already been demonetized... and cannot serve as a financial medium in a digital age. BTC will 2x in gold terms in the next 4 years to prove this point, 4x in the next 8 to attain stability, and 8x in the in the next 12 years to cement it, 16x in 16 years to upend it, and all bets are off that: it grows 32x in gold terms in 20 years and we all live on a Bitcoin Standard.

No amount of money printing will save Japan. Every business cycle should have forced a reset, and low interest rates should have encouraged business. Instead, it ended up protecting weak firms, redirecting capital to scarce assets, and exported it to earn better yields elsewhere. The Bank of Japan didn’t just stabilize the system, it anesthetized it. The economy forgot how to renew itself, wages stalled, and productivity along with it. Risk-taking brings little reward, so a whole generation grows up just expecting things to stay more of the same. People don't stop having children for cultural reasons, it's more often tied to economics. When the future feels flat, people stop building toward it. When you suppress volatility, you think you're eliminate downside but the truth is you actually wipe out all the upside.

What's the Bitcoin Standard case for Japan? Stop printing and let deep deflation revitalize the economy? Perhaps a more gradual transition the way El Salvador is doing? Genuinely curious - would love to get your opinions, or be pointed to a video if you've already talked about this @Peruvian Bull

When Muslims envision greater sovereignty through Bitcoin, what is the realistic hope here? Is it mere personal financial dignity, community resilience, or is it possible to prophesize something greater?

people don't want to follow someone who isn't too sure of themselves, but the world might be a little better off if we stopped pretending to be so sure of ourselves

Is Bitcoin your Unit of Account?

Do you ever look at companies doing something you've tried or have experience in and just want to yell at them because you know it's not going to work and you know why? I expect some of my advisors and investors may have felt this way about paths I've taken with the company before as well. It's just you also know that explaining it to the guys isn't actually going to help them understand it till they go through it themselves. Also you could have been wrong or they understand something you don't, but that really is not the case, 9 times out of ten. Business cycles... makes start listening better myself though.

Told my dad I’m starting the Hudhaifi madhab as a progressive salafi 🤣. He’s disappointed, but generally accepts my views as defensible and questionably valid. I love him a lot and enjoy our intellectual headbutts. He’s a gentle heart with a discreet smile and a kingly frown. Overall I feel he grew up with a portraying of faith and God from a colonial Christian lense as many in his generation did. Fear God, know Good vs Evil, and be rewarded or punished. He would deny this, in his own sweet way. My experience of Islam has been more an exercise in compassion, truth, integrity and workability though. He would claim that to be his own experience as well, and I would agree, but the “fear” drive is still there. Recently I recognized that we actually bring our politics into understanding of the faith as well. I hold a more socially liberal, economically conservative take - with strong Ibn Arabi vibes. My dad is more socially conservative, while economically liberal with evangelical old school tablighi vibes.

In Bitcoin Standard, @Saifedean Ammous explores how Keynes saw gold mining as a wasteful and unproductive activity. The irony is we ended up with a banking system hiring millions to mine debt currency. Blockchain and tokenization is just more of that, "efficiently" done. Gold innately did the job of managing liquidity and information asymmetry in markets that we now have several layers of FX, hedging, banks, swaps and central bank accounts do. Bitcoin as a unit of account, and savings technology will scale like Gold never could. "Information Markets" become laughable on a sound money standard as they cease to provide any of the littel value they currently do. They are seen for exactly what they are - gambling, just as interest on loans would be clearly seen as usury.

I don't trust all this passkey stuff yet, am I being irrational and close-minded? Why are they everywhere? I feel more secure with a myriad of gibberish passwords with the most secure ones just in my head outside of even my suuuper long lastpass / 1password pile

my investors say I’m too honest… makes me scared of what else they invested in lol

My neighbour’s kids are on Spring break and came knocking today selling Pokemon cards. I insisted on paying in Bitcoin. They asked what that was - I said it’s like game currency for the real world and they got it instantly! Showed them how to setup an account on Coinos. Bought their whole stack for 0.00040884 BTC. Then they went and bought Roblox gift cards on Cryptorefills. No parents or banks required. Sent them on the hunt for another 3. @Muslim Bitcoiner @npub1eaa6...q0lk we should have a Roblox corner at the mslmbtcsummit.com

By Digital Hijra, we mean the purposeful migration and reorientation of a Muslim away from extractive, corporate panopticon platforms and riba-fueled systems designed to capture attention and shape behavior, into self-hosted, user-owned infrastructure and habits that restore privacy and vicegerency, not as mere zuhd but as engaged praxis, tribe-making, and pattern-aware navigation in service of Allah (swt). View article →

I might need a Jewish partner to raise money with me on Heter Iska for Bitcoin cashflows.

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warm leads, coming through, not bots 🤖

Failed fast on this. The best way to fight doom scrolling is by doom posting lol. View quoted note →

Don’t want to talk to people? Write. Done writing? Talk to people. Record something or another in between.

Treasury consolidations in progress. Next up, real world business in Bitcoin terms.