Stunned to learn the Polymarket CEO lives in America. New York of all places. What on earth is he thinking? You can't live in Ameria and allow people to bet freely with their money. That kind of freedom is illegal in America. So even though Polymarket claims not to support Americans, they've raided his house. Obviously. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-raids-polymarket-ceos-home-seizing-phone-electronics-ny-post-reports-2024-11-13/

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?