I thought for a really long time that there had to be some man out there who could make sense of my dreams and visions and craft something from them

puts the 'baroque' in 'broke' tbh

do not underestimate the memetic value of a Bitcoin Central (Decentralized) Bank.

if Bitcoin has become big enough to be a real bank, then it should have real banking services. stop being a bunch of über libertarian, wannabe cypherpunk, hippie schmucks, please.

additionally, the most common problem with developers is and has always been the belief that tinkering with a thing that isn't broke is going to fix a broken world with a broken monetary system and a broken economy. what problems are you solving by nitpicking a system to the point of fracture, frustrated by redundant discussions about prices and culture, without addressing the notion that more must be built on top of that to compete with banks? other projects have attempted to address the idea of "layers" but fail, in part, because they're mimicking the same economic mindset of the status quo while shilling blockchain as the solution to everything. ok, well, where is the Bitcoin Supply Chain and Bitcoin Escrow and other Bitcoin services that effectively reorient industries toward transacting in Bitcoin? I've said this numerous times, but until Bitcoin is truly depegged from fiat, there is no accurate appraisal of its value against it. the Bitcoin Standard is unlikely to exist without being pegged to something that fiat no longer represents, and that is gold. yes, as a technology in and of itself, it holds an immense value, but this has yet to manifest in peoples' minds because we are quite sentimental about the value of things, and most humans would rather a new currency have a tangible value. the Bitcoin community has long been staunch, yet chaotic, about Bitcoin being the new gold, but it is essentially an accounting system – the technology is not exactly valuable in the same way that gold is valuable – and it's doing two things at the same time. what I think many people within the community are actually complaining about is the bygone days of unfettered hype, where pragmatism took a back seat to these very fluid, abstract dreams of Bitcoin becoming a global currency without tangibility and without further intrusion as an entity in the international banking arena. and yet it is. the question is how entrepreneurship can help scale Bitcoin beyond being viewed as essentially a technology trade stock. I, for example, want to see actual, physical Bitcoin Banks because I do not believe that all things good must remain in the mind – architecture is symbolic for a reason, but also practical and useful for the furtherance of an idea. the OG farts of Bitcoin, obviously hate this idea, and seem to fear retribution for daring to be so bold as to push for a Bitcoin Bank in every state and in every country, even if as a monument to an idea. meetup groups are great. community events are great. but it all smells of ponzi when it's run by the same people whose faces we have seen a million times, like Michael Saylor, saying the same shit a thousand different ways. decentralization doesn't mean intangibility, it just means that if I build a Bitcoin Bank and you don't – probably because you don't see a use for it – and it's wildly successful because people actually *like* being able to go to a physical building where they can offload some of the responsibility of Bitcoin ownership to a trusted entity, then that's on you. personally, I think the elderly would appreciate all of the services that banks offer being offered by a trusted Bitcoin-only institution, but then we are in the territory of economics, contracts, and finance that overlaps with the current real world, where certain services are still necessary as a middle ground for insurance against the numerous failure points of human transaction. remember: the service can be offered without the biases of banks, and removing that one barrier for entry is meaningful in and of itself. we aren't going to win against banks by dreaming of the day they don't exist; we win against the banks when we compete against them directly and disarming them of their weapons with a complete financial system that siphons business from them. people do not trust P2P when it comes to things like real estate for a reason. humans very much like the notion of safety, which isn't an indication of weakness, but rather the nature of collective accountability, which the banks have traditionally taken the role of providing, albeit, badly. imo, if you bail out at this stage because you're too afraid of the consequences of war, then you were never equipped for the war in the first place. Bitcoin might have originated in the underground but if we don't start building out into the real world, it will end up in the gutter. no religion, for example, would have survived without cathedrals, churches, temples, monasteries, and synagogues. we need functional monuments and we need them now. the difference between an idol and an edifice is its use case.

the problem with the Bitcoin community is and has always been that it refuses to really engage in discussions about geopolitics – the state of Gaza and the warmongering of Israel, for example – even though a warning about it was literally emblazoned on the Genesis block. does anyone ever ask how Bitcoin and this particular issue are directly related? grow some balls.

GM 🌞

if it makes the man feel better, assuming that he is cognizant of his own sinful nature, what he has done is not beyond God's ability to heal and repair – nothing is, though some sins may only be judged and punished in the afterlife – and the promise of the resurrection is healing from all of the undeserved and unfettered punishments of the self-righteous, who view the offenses of honesty and truth as punishable by a certain kind of death, if not death itself. let the consequences of sin weigh on the soul of the sinner who refuses God's grace, until the day that they finally accept it, and begin to understand what it means to be free from the true consequence of sin, which is the death of the soul, and the subsequent despair that leads one's soul to eternal damnation.

a rich man getting richer in spite of the damage he's caused to others is of no consequence to those who have decided to walk in accordance with their faith in Christ, because even Jesus suffered for bearing witness to the truth, and so proved the point through his suffering. let that man gloat. love covers a multitude of sins.

forgiveness means that there's really no need for apologies, no need for recompense, and though we may continue on our separate ways – the offense being a miscommunication about which way to go in the first place – the amends will be made by God and God alone.

the economics of scarcity is a very different thing than the economics of infinite supply.

Papa Leo

honestly, I just find it kinda sad that famous people can't just say things and have to lie through their teeth about almost everything for the sake of maintaining a public image. literally, the boards of their own companies put the kibosh on telling the truth even if it relieves the person of a sense of internalized guilt and shame, which would probably be best in the long run because lying makes people erratic and prone to addictive behaviors. it's almost like honest confrontation is a luxury they'll never have, despite all the wealth. imo, this is why they all seem to end up vapid and soulless in the end.

it appears that the Russians have some sort of blackmail on Dusty Balls.

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apply pressure

the consolidation of everything central bankers do in the course of their operations will come down to automation with a human in the loop, but the job has to be acknowledged as a counterpoint to the central banks or else they win by default. think of Bitcoin as collapsing and streamlining that system so that the banks eventually convert to the Bitcoin Standard, which would actually just be an upgrade to their own system, which is leveraged by middlemen through choke points and those choke points leveraged into economic warfare on the individual. node running is like being a central banker, except you're probably doing it with no pants on while eating pizza and also doing a bad job at bringing in more clients.

imo the real theory of privacy v transparency of Bitcoin is not black-and-white and all-or-nothing, it's that there should be maximum transparency by institutions, companies, governments, and major holders, and maximum privacy for individuals. also, what's gonna happen when the AI can run nodes?

it's time to force all the top holders – and I mean all the useless hodler-hoarders who are now slinging shit like ETFs – to sell. period. make them operate in the fiat economy if they won't contribute meaningfully and tangibly, not just with propaganda and hype, to the Bitcoin economy. require charters for all holdings above, idk, 10k Bitcoin per institution or company. you can just determine which institutions can buy Bitcoin and how many they can buy and hold. central bankers do it all the time in the name of their war machine. you can do it for the sake of humanity.