Toward an Anthropological Theory of Money with Natalie Smolenski (WiM394) youtu.be/JqGBkN52eVU?si… via @YouTube

Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton "It's the happy man who does the useless things; the sick man isn't strong enough to be idle. It's exactly such careless and causeless actions that the madman could never understand...he generally sees too much cause in everything."

Great reading list from Jeff Booth incase you haven't run across it #Bookstr https://www.jeffbooth.ca/books

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat archive.org/details/econom…

If you're KYCing your customers for Bitcoin (or anything else), fines for losing kyc info is a basic bitch cost of doing business. Make loosing KYC info the norm. Make nonkyc the standard!!!

"The world you live in is slowly shrinking. there's a tiny group of men who are buying it and stripping it naked and selling you what they extract. They are raping your world and selling you what they take. I mean they sell you the water you drink, the air you breathe and you line up for it like sheep. They will kill your brother and steal your child and pollute everything you love. Without Bitcoin you'll never noticed because your so hypnotized by a world that doesn't exist. What a waist of my fucking time. Do you have any idea what's happening in the world you live in? Do you think a photo on your screen has anything to do with that word?" #Yellowstone #Bitcoin #Plebchain #selling #optout #nostr

Mike Murdock was always asking his viewers to donate $1,000 each, specifically to put it on their credit cards: "If your having credit card problems sow a $ 1000 seed on your credit card and wait for relief from your problem” "As you use your faith, God is going to wipeout your credit card debts." “Some of you are in debt and don’t have a thousand dollars to give. God wants you, by faith, to put the $1000 on your credit card.” Soft money has always creates shit humans. Shit humans always seek out soft brained humans. Televangelist were a huge American cultural phenomenon back in the day.

If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool. Mr. T

AI が Nostr で翻訳する際のニュアンスの重要性を捉えることができれば、それは光るでしょう! ノストラシア以降、ここの翻訳は改善されるでしょうか？

Spring "The Nostr Browser" is amazing. It's awesome to be able to use so many existing and new Nostr apps in one place and on mobile. If you have not yet tried it, I highly recommend it! APK: https://github.com/nostrband/nostr-universe/releases/download/v0.7.0/spring-nostr-browser-v0.7.0.apk or Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nostr.universe #Nostr #Spring #plebchain #apps

Feel like technology/humans should have already reached the point of harnessing energy to a level that we have such an excess of energy abundance that reality of daily life fundamentally shifts.

There is no reason any "Bitcoin company" does enhanced KYC. The absolute minimum may be "required" in their perspective to "run a business". Strike had that thing where you hold up a piece of paper with your info and take a selfie with it. Ok why don't they print one hard copy and delete the original electronic version? All wearhouses have fire surpression sprinklers...so when the G comes to collect have a "fire". I never bought into swan cause (well of you are a thinking person you know why). The one thing I will say about swan is they are basically no different than a chat GPT based app that pretends there an AI company. Swan's only product is a podcast. Anyway, the issue I have with them is they came in with massive facial recognition from day one. Turn on your video camera and film your entire head.... HD level shit, the kind of thing advanced retina scan software can exploit even after the fact. P2P is the way, but the fact is your not buying significant non kyc corn P2P without a hookup with a miner... If you're a KYC Bitcoin company, you need to be doing the absolute minimum and have a plan to destroy all of that at a moments notice... Banks launder all the time and pay tiney fines...of your KYCing your customers for Bitcoin, fines for loosing kyc info for you're customers is a basic bitch cost of doing business. Make loosing KYC info the norm. Make nonkyc the standard!!! #bitcoin #plebchain #gfy #KYV

So on a Bitcoin standard all us OG's gonna wear our balance? ;) Tony Cross: "Had a shower thought about money thanks to an observation in @LynAldenContact’s excellent book. When shells were money they were proudly displayed on necklaces or sewn into clothing. Why wear your money? Because the money is pretty? Sure, but more importantly, those shells literally represent favors done for others. Many of these societies shared essential goods in common, but not these luxuries. To wear a heavy necklace of shells is to tout one’s social credit score, to say “hey I have done a lot for y’all.” One is paid interest, so to speak, on one’s shells in the recognition that one is a giver. And when you give someone else some shells, you are giving them some social credit while diminishing your own. That’s actually the currency, that respect and gratitude and recognition that you command with wealth. We think of money in a forward-looking way: it’s power. But money has been worn, equally, because money literally was virtue in some societies, it was seen in a backward-looking way, the mark of someone who does the dishes, takes on a dangerous job, etc., someone who racked up many favors. Our money is so divorced from virtue that to have a lot of it says almost nothing. It could mean you got lucky, served in congress, had insider info, exploited slave labor, etc. or built something cool and appreciated by millions (though perhaps you merely found the way to profit, rather than actually doing the grunt work.) To flaunt wealth now is to flaunt power and connections, not goodness. And… not that we can restore this connection in our global economy, but that’s another way in which our money is broken. Wealth, in some settings, used to be simply and uncontroversial a good thing, because money itself was a record of goodness."

Verifying…

[Government]...must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

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Dojo Sovereignty Confirmed 85% of Whirlpool Userbase

Vast Majority of Whirlpool users aren't using Samourai's public node.

Good to see 85% of all mixes in whirlpool using their own nodes (if true)... On the other hand as long as you are using your own, it's excellent!

A line of economic related demotivational posters with a Bitcoin edge would be enjoyable.

Despair, Inc.

Demotivators® - The World’s Best Demotivational Posters

Demotivators® - The World’s Best Demotivational Posters

"One way to secure power is to progressively narrow the field of possibility to 2 or 3 terrible outcomes and then demand that people choose between them. Whenever someone pulls any version of the "trolley problem" on you, they're demonstrating that they can't be trusted." N.Smolenski

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/are-central-banks-losing-control The two best.