Decentralize the hash rate. Read Shakespeare.

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Okay so I was wrong about the ravens today

It’s a great day for the Ravens to win a football game

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This is my politics

Remember, in all of human history there has never been more opportunity for more people than there is right now.

I started @npub13c0u...tzdl because I believe bitcoin, by fixing money and re-establishing healthy incentives, can help restore an environment where this thrives 👇 “The imagination creates the future. The poet 'places himself where the future becomes present,' says Whitman. He sets his writing desk in the 'womb of the shadows.' Gifts - given or received - stand witness to meaning beyond the known, and gift exchange is therefore a transcendent commerce, the economy of re-creation, conversion, or renaissance. It brings us worlds we have not seen before... The imagination can create the future only if its products are brought over into the real... when we refuse what has been offered to the empty heart, when possible futures are given and not acted upon, then the imagination recedes. And without the imagination we can do no more than spin the future out of the logic of the present; we will never be led into new life because we can work only from the known... The artist completes the act of imagination by accepting the gift and laboring to give it to the real (at which point the distinction between 'imaginary' and 'real' dissolves). The college of imagination which conducts the discourse of art is not confined by time. Just as material gifts establish and maintain the collective in social life, so the gifts of imagination, as long as they are treated as such, will contribute toward those collectives we call culture and tradition. This commerce is is one of the few ways by which the dead may inform the living and the living preserve the spiritual treasures of the past." -the inimitable and exceedingly wise Lewis Hyde

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Gm gm Anybody in DC for the BTC in DC conference today?

If you want to reset and transform your relationship with movies, watching the top 10 every year is a good place to start.

Had 6 hearings today, but came home to my wife, my children, and a fresh @Oshi (推し) delivery. Grateful.

There’s a character in DeLillo’s Libra that describes the Kennedy assassination as “an aberration in the heartland of the real.” I can’t stop thinking about that sentence.

The cathartic magic of lifting weights is that it makes the weight outside of the gym easier to carry. More important than ever.

Hard to overstate just how much legacy social media and “the algorithm” have contributed to our current cultural climate and accelerated basically every increasingly endemic negative thing. It’s a metastasizing cancer.

Much to my dismay, I’ve had some friends and some family respond to Charlie Kirk’s death by suggesting the country is somehow better off without him. And to those on the internet saying similar things: No. This country was built upon a set of ideas and ideals. These comprise "America." With no shared principles to bind us together we are not a nation. We are merely a divided, atomized group of individuals. Our bedrock principles make us a nation. And one of those principles, inscribed and imbued into every founding document and flowing like a river through two centuries of jurisprudence, is freedom of speech. The belief that open debate in a marketplace of ideas is healthy, generative, and cleansing. That it's table stakes for any credible conception of citizenry. This unequivocally means and requires the airing of ideas you may disagree with, that you may even detest. Recall and internalize that actual hate speech, with only narrow exceptions, is protected by the First Amendment. Recall National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie; Brandenburg v. Ohio; Texas v. Johnson; Tinker v. Des Moines; Snyder v. Phelps, etc. The marketplace of ideas is much richer when opposing and diverse views are effectively (and nonviolently) articulated. The richer the marketplace of ideas, the healthier the society. This is a fundamentally American ideal. If you believe someone deserves violence or death for their speech or their expressed political views, that is a fundamentally un-American belief. The American thing to do, if you disagree with Charlie Kirk's speech or views is to compete with it, meet it and challenge it with speech and ideas of your own. Nonviolently. If we, as a country, accept the implied proposition that we are not strong enough or intellectually equipped enough to coexist with words and ideas that we don't personally like in the public square, then we are absolutely cooked. The speech at issue in the Brandenburg case was absolutely abhorrent. The worst of the worst. Nazis marching in the Skokie, IL case. Detestable. But those ideas, hateful as they were and are, have not prevailed in the marketplace. Better ideas did. The danger is in chilling or suppressing opposing views. When ideas are manipulated like the money supply, when they don't get a public airing, when they're curated top-down, when their case to the public is dictated and not argued, this is what sows division, discontent, and violence. There is no need to preface condolences with qualifying preambles about his ideas. No man should be killed for his ideas. Full stop.

Always a Gm with Eliot

“I’ve worn many coats Just to brave the wild, I’ve been a thousand men I’ve been a single child” -Joe Pug, “Look Out Desdamona,” one of the most under-appreciated and under-the-radar songwriters making music right now.

David Foster Wallace has a line about cliches: “Clichés are clichés for a reason, but the reason is not that they are trite; it’s that they are true. What makes them trite is that we forget their truth.” I think about this with respect to bitcoin all the time. So many of the things that have become memes (laser eyes/laser focus, more podcasts, forever Laura, the price you deserve, 6.15, etc)… are mostly all true in deep, fundamental ways that are easy to forget, overlook, or even mock. Laser eyes/laser focus means the world will distract you, the new shiny objects will beckon, the temptation that YOU, special you, can outsmart the rest will be strong, and the best thing you can do is stay laser-focused on what you know is sound. More podcasts means the knowledge network (s/o to Sal Pineda for the term) must decentralize, grow, and expand. Because it’s both offense and defense. Forever Laura means as long as there’s a debased and endlessly debaseable money to flee from and a money that can’t be debased to flee to, the latter will go up. Just like we do with regular non-Bitcoin cliches like “be kind” or “one day at a time”), we forget the truth that underlies the memes. And that’s what makes them trite, or the subject of contempt, or something to mock or not take seriously. It’s exceedingly hard to stay focused. To stay conscious and aware. And it will only get harder.

Shill me more Nostr-native wares. I’ve been throughly @Oshi (推し) -pilled.