Here's a pretty cool hour long video on why the Netherlands is so awesome and overpowered. In it they mention ASML, a Dutch company which in 2017 became the only company in the world which can make the best most powerful chip-making machines. They have like 5 customers to whom they sell 300-million-dollar chip-making machines, and nobody else has the tech and knowhow to make the machines. They own the market.

Hypothetically, if one were to outlive all your family and die without need of care, there could be an estate worth of crypto that a dying person would have no particular target for. For a moment let us imagine such a person who has a published literary work. A blog and some books at least. They would like for at least some portion of their dying hodl stack to go to the person who pays the most attention to their life's work out of everyone in the next 50 years. You want 'em to puzzle over your life's output and ideally maybe future-timelocked encrypted private diaries, and whoever solves the puzzle gets the bitcoin. Like a sort of Ready Player One situation, with people competing to solve the puzzles, but just for some blogger loser who never got any followers but did luck into some bitcoin that might be worth even more 50 years later. Imagine also that you aren't actually any good at making puzzles let alone cryptography. Anyone wanna suggest things for a story about that? Or for instructions to an executor or whatever?

Massive public bitcoin mining company, Marathon: "Screw this Bitcoin Mining business! Toiling with processors doing hard proof-of-work every day. Mug's game innit? You know what we're gonna do with our money?.. We're gonna BUY BITCOIN instead!" They said, "Mining machines are a waste of money, underemployed capital innit?" Economic experts agreed: "Microstrategy proved there is no point owning a public company that isn't simply holding bitcoin, now Marathon prove there is no point in even mining bitcoin either." Said another even more important expert: "There is literally no better use for all shitty fiat money than buying bitcoin. Not software, not services, not even mining bitcoin!" A further expert, Mr Jump Beforeyougetpushed, said "Jump in the life-boat or drown in the liquidity that's coming!" as he climbed off the exit-ramp into safety. In the end the only expert that matters, your mum, commented, "It is the Bitcoin Event Horizon, no economic activity is more profitable than holding bitcoin so all economic activity stops, right now"

My new five minue animation released today is about fiat-money and inevitable collapse. #animation #vr #fiat #money

Why is it all Nostr people and Bitcoin people wear baseball caps all the time, even indoors? Does worrying about the bitcoin price make a person bald?

Hummm. If we set up a page on polymarket to allow betting on the question "will farage get milkshaked again this week" then people could make money by betting that he would and then doing it. Would be a shame if that happened. A decentralized international bounty for shaking a farage.