GM! I think the ag world is in a unique position to start stacking sats. I recently realized that BTC will be excellent collateral for Ag lending allowing a farmer to diversify away from mortgaging their home/land and the Bank is incentivized to prefer it because it is more liquid than standard assets. Even with volatility, if you took a 2+ year time horizon on the BTC the bank would still prefer to have that diversification, because if hundreds of loans go bad, the land values themselves will tank.

The Ag Tribes Report (ATR) is a weekly podcast focused on the stories effecting the culture of agriculture. This week I interview a massive Canadian Canola farmer

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My sense is that it is just full reserve banking but is there a good explanation somewhere?

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Question about lightning… In retail there is a practice of keeping a credit card on file because if you have to get out your credit card there is some percentage of repeat customers that won’t buy. Is there a way to keep a lightning address on file? Or like an authorized amount you can charge?

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I have accepted an invitation to join the Board of Directors of FCS Financial, as an Appointed Director. FCS Financial is a member of the Farm Credit system which provides loans to farmers across most of Missouri. I am specifically an "outside director" tasked with asking tough questions and pushing the organization to be ready for a changing future. They invited me to interview after seeing me give a talk called "Surfing the Edge of Chaos" where I talked about Bitcoin and its potential to bring farmland prices back to their utility value. During the 3rd interview I was asked intense questions and I thought that my answers were so counter-cultural that I assumed I would get laughed out of the room, instead they offered me the board seat, a four year term and put me on the Risk Committee to talk about the future. I may well be the only Bitcoin maximalist in the entire farm credit banking system. This is a huge opportunity to bring farming into the Orange era. I hope people here on Nostr will help me make the most of this opportunity.

In my day work I record people telling their life stories so that future generations can know their family history. Most of my clients are farmers. They fly into St. Louis from all over the US and Canada to create an heirloom they can pass down. Seems like this fits so tightly with Bitcoin.

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Give future generations the opportunity to know their family history. Pass on stories from your childhood, career, parenting and the wisdom you gai...

GM Waiting on a snowstorm here. I love the electricity in a culture when limited danger is imminent.

Carnivore and Paleo Diets are absolutely crushing the vegan fads of ole!

I worked at the World Bank back in 2010-2012. It was a depostic place where political hierarchy and games ruled everything. Due to extreme woke ideology on hiring, I was a very rare white American male hired there - and was in the group that planned the meetings for the sector directors, country directors and managing directors. Although "headed" by the US, and all of the lead economists being American- literally everywhere else was European run. I got to see cancel culture and the woke agenda 5 years before it came to corporate America. All of the organization was setup to run the way Europeans run their country and it is filled with European bureaucrats that only want to stay in their cushy job, just 1 block away from the White House. Why produce anything of value when you could just stand next to power? The people inside the World Bank, the frontline workers are the epitome of David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" they spend their days filling time with meetings and being pawns for a larger political game of budgets and org charts. They believe fully they are there to do good work, but many would do anything (and are involved in insidious political treachery) because if they were to loose their world bank job they would be sent back to their country, so their managers have enormous power over them. They were convinced that their business class trips to Zimbabwe, to distribute a loan for a hydroelectric damn that would never be built, was the very core of saving the world. You cannot imagine how big the organization was just to give away money... but that is because just like USAID most of their work isn't about aid it is about propaganda Also the full time employees get sweet perks, like they don't have to pay income tax on their earnings, neither US tax or their home country- so a position like a secretary is making massive amounts more than they would back home. So they would participate in maddeningly complicated byzantine processes because by staying in the circus they did very well financially. Because I was helping plan some of these meetings where the top of the organization met I got a chance to spend time with lead economists. I was so unbelievably naive then, I would ask very simple questions about "why don't we have each country use a gold reserve to prevent them from printing too much money" I would get laughed out of the conversation- literally, they would laugh and blow off the question- I didn't realize that my naivety was not in asking the question, it was in thinking they knew the answer... they didn't. The economy was a mystery to these people, they genuinely didn't understand how the printing of money impacted its value. I think this is my insight into places like the World Bank when you see people like Kristalina Georgieva they are not actually in charge- they are figure heads doing what they are told and they don't have the same questions that an outsider would. They get into these positions because they know how to fight inside of a bureaucracy not because they have strong feelings about monetary policy. The people above them, that is probably a different story, but the people we can see, those people are all just bureaucrats- but like the NBA all stars of bureaucrats. I was thinking on my run this morning that I saw a lot of crazy stuff when I was there, but never told anyone... because who would I tell?

Cold plunge and sauna is not a substitute for lifting and running.

Ok Nostr what are your predictions for 2025? I’ll go first: Drones attack happens on US soil. Multiple people killed. Satellite or orbital warfare becomes a recognized theater of war. (We will see countries blow things up from satellites) Bitcoin price rips above $300,000. G7 country announces national bitcoin mining project- BTC becomes publicly used as cross-border payment settlement. A dozen large eggs costs more than $7.00 for some period of time in several major metropolitan areas. USDA will relinquish some control on building local beef slaughter facilities, it will take 3+ years for the effects to be seen. Beef prices rise by 30% during 2025 FDA, FBI department of education have workforce reduced by 30% Diddy and Epstein files released; billions of dollars of star equity evaporates over night. The rise of conservative movie production houses. US deportations of illegal migrants causes the left to assert Federalist perspectives to thwart deportation efforts - states rights becomes mainstream democrat talking point Canada elects Pierre Poilievre, repeals gasoline carbon tax and makes deal for US trade. Mainstream news will distance itself from the concept of climate change. New threat will be given a name and elevated as the challenge of humanity. Africa will develop energy infrastructure, more than doubling capacity. Most will be purchased by bitcoin mining companies. Europe has several large scale terrorism experiences with Muslim migrants killing Europeans. Deportation becomes more popular. Bird flu gets a lot of hype. Doesn’t live up to COVID.

Bullshit comment censoring- Spotify protecting my listeners

Well gents we may just get a 100K Christmas this year!

What was the first time you realized you were in the flow state? I’ll go first: making an excel spreadsheet.

American Airlines just grounded all flights due to system wide failure.

Something anti-GMO activists never realized: Monsanto benefited tremendously from all the protests and rabble rousing. Every time their protests made a government bureaucrat or politician nervous, Monsanto would just say “if it will make everyone more comfortable we will add some more tests, paperwork and years of field trials… it will costs us $10M per year and we’re willing to add 3 more years… All they were doing was building a giant regulatory moat around them. Sure it cost $30M more but those rules applied to everyone. So all new entrants would have to pay $130M to get anything new through… So Monsanto could go to young snappy startups and say “we see you won’t be able to get through regulations- what if you sold your company/tech to us…” All the regulation forced mergers so that there were eventually only 6 seed companies and now only 4 and only one (corteva) is owned as a US company.