Graham Elwood seems to be taking a big role in the Orange Pill Podcast, and I'm happy to see that. He's doing an excellent job, imo. For the record, and I have misgivings even saying this, but as I've followed Graham for several years, he's a recent Bitcoiner and a long-time surfer, so it's amazing that he made the move to El Salvador! I think he'll be happy there, and I hope he is! A couple years ago he publicly had a heartbreaking 'break' w/ Jimmy Dore when he said on livestream that he was absolutely in favor of mandatory vaccinations in the US. I quit following him after that, and so did Jimmy. Jimmy has extensively reached out to discuss an apology. Graham has never offered one. So...just for those who enjoy what Graham has to offer on the Orange Pill Podcast, I feel that's important backstory...and I'll leave it at that. Graham is not a dishonest person or a scammer, imo. But until he can admit his issues with endorsing forced vaccinations, I can appreciate him, but can't endorse him.

For an FYI going into this Bull Market: When people claim they are all about Bitcoin... But no legitimate, experienced and accepted Bitcoiner knows who they are... It's perfectly accepatble and expected that you put them on Probation!

The new plant in Japan is "the most significant TSMC international investment to open in many years"... The new TSMC plant in the town of Kikuyo, for which the government pledged over 40% of the costs...is just the first. With "strong" Japanese government support, TSMC this month announced a second facility, to make more advanced chips, and is reportedly eyeing a third and even a fourth. [...] TSMC is building a factory in the U.S. state of Arizona and plans another in Germany, its first in Europe.

Article Expired - The Japan Times

Just listen. Chadette. View quoted note →

We can’t all afford escorts!!!??? View quoted note →

I really wanted to list some items on plebian.market…but as I was introducing a friend to it they just simply admitted “that’s not spelled correctly”. Don’t argue, make it simple enough for no-coiners.

As an iPad user, Damus is waaaay better than Primal. As someone who wants to sent zaps, I keep trying to figure out how to do so on Primal. The learning curve for this shit is ridiculous. And I grew up in a time where Newsgroups were a thing and jpegs took 2 minutes to slowly download. We are SO early.

JULIAN IS NOT A FOOTNOTE! View quoted note →

Moar Cloud Cult: "Someone tell the Devil we don't need no Hell, We're all pretty good at beating up ourselves."

Personally, I absolutely LOVE watching @Britishhodl23 [redacted-not-on-Nostr]. So fabulous! He's that guy who discovered Bitcoin and instantly knows SO much more than the rest of us do about Bitcoin. And will hard-core school us about it. ...and yes I KNOW so, so many of you have seen this before, but this is kinda new for me....so let me have my moment to eat popcorn and smile!

Posting music is a thankless bit of egoism, but talking today with some Gen Z'ers who loved all sorts of stuff I loved at their age, I had to ask them if they'd ever heard Jane's Addiction's "Three Days". They hadn't. Maybe soon they will. Here it is if YOU have never heard it.

Ugh...ok for the thing of saying a thing if it's a thing: Evidently Bill & Ex Foundation are dumping a LOT of minor holdings. GIF for source:

"In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger. … “We believe we’re just halfway there in the ETF revolution…Everything is going to be ETF’d…We believe this is just the beginning. ETFs are step one in the technological revolution in the financial markets. Step two is going to be the tokenization of every financial asset.”"

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Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock's Plan To Own The Fractionalized World

In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock's Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be "ETF'd" and tokenized,...

I’m ‘bout to get salty but explain to me like I’m NOT SOMEONE WHO RUNS TWO DIFFERENT NODES AND A NUMBER OF MINERS why I cannot fucking figure out how to get zaps on Nostr on iPad. I reluctantly ditched Damus because Zaps were borked, and went with Alby for Damus (I think) but then Zaps were definitely being sent but I never received. I got Primal. I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure out why (w/ a Bitcoin @ address) people are zapping me and again I don’t know where they go. I clearly need to link my node to an Alby or Primal @-account but can’t find any info how. This should be front and center on either of their websites. (again, salty, excuse me) What SPECIFICALLY is the obstacle course everyone else has figured out but I can’t find anywhere online that I have to make through Primal and linked evidently thru Alby, pointed at my node, into Primal (which is worse than Damus imo, but whatever). I just want to post on Nostr (on iPad) and receive Zaps. Also, I fucking appreciate you all! Thx in advance!

This. Senators, members of Congress, called Gary in to testify & justify - over fucking Twitter. There’s nothing wrong w/ that, because that’s how we evidently want our world to operate. But if so, it must be Decentralized. Personally, I’d PREFER that important Gov’t communications happened over open-source, cryptographically signed media. That’s not a pipe-dream, it could be enacted tomorrow. We have the tech, we have the need…we just don’t have the desire. View quoted note →

Asian markets now either know more than we do about an ETF, or are being coaxed into getting rekt. My sats are in cold storage. So pass the popcorn.