My podcast Love & Hard Money is on hold until I get my voice back. I’ve got the weirdest summer cold and sound like a 88 year old chain smoker. The series I just finished (reading Bastiat’s The Law) was kind of a drag if I’m being honest. Super important but a slog to get through. If you haven’t listened before and want to check it out, this one is a much more fun place to start.

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Love & Hard Money • Why 21 Million: The Hitchhiker's Theory • Listen on Fountain

21 million is what makes Bitcoin work — but where did the number come from? Satoshi was too methodical with everything else for us to assume it w...

Zaps don’t give me the same rush they used to. I gotta move on to harder stuff.

I before e, except after c or when sounding like a as in neighbor or weigh. When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking. Height says GFY

I want to think slowly again. I want to wonder and wander. I want to ask and talk and then wonder again. I want to go find a book. Dewey Decimal. I want to read it and still not have my question answered. But right now, I just need the answer.

Who’s going to be the first one to try to prove that inflation is fraud and therefore they owe zero taxes?

Short and one of the best take downs of stocks I’ve ever read. 👏🏻 https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/deflationary-money-hits-different-losing-half-its-price-and-winning-anyway

AI is the apex product of a materialist world that mistakes intelligence for value. All action boils down to one thing: want. A tree wants nutrients so its roots go deeper. A man wants sex so he gets a job and fills a function in the economy to give him the tools to attract a mate. AI can simulate intelligence. If given the right prompts and tools it can even exterminate human life. But it doesn’t want anything. Want is the basis of consciousness. For that reason, AI will never become sentient.

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Can you smell it? They’re trapped…..

Sorry, can’t I’m busy.

🚨 New Episode of Love & Hard Money 🚨 This is the end of my series reading Fredric Bastiat’s, The Law. It was a harder read than I anticipated when I set out because of all the French names, long quotes and old English in the translation. I’m proud to have exposed a few of you to this excellent essay for the first time, but I’m also glad to put the project behind me. Next week we’ll talk about how Bastiat’s ideas show up in Bitcoin and why that matters. https://fountain.fm/episode/Xa1PB2JFF0AiDUxgIYnP

I finally found something worth spending Bitcoin on. It’s a damn shame I don’t have any Bitcoin. “Here's to the Halcyon, forever may she rest At the bottom of the ocean, for the good Lord knows best You made her from lumber and you gave her to the sea Now good Lord what do you propose to do with me?”