Incredible. Jagger is 82 F-n YO!! We would all be so lucky to still be decent at our craft eight decades in. I saw the Stones live at their "farewell tour" in 1989....
London Tower + Hampton Court Palace - learning about Henry the 8th (1530-1560s) living large, killing wives, wow....
Not suprised about his monetary policy: consistent debasement of silver/gold
Soft War AIUI:
Those (countries) with coin and hash can force others to do stuff: Buy peace. Control trade. Buy warriors (drones/humans). Transact with whomever you want. Afford high fee rate situations.
Projecting power is built into nature and early human societies. Often to avoid mutual destruction.
With new war: cyber, drone, chemical... it is harder to "project" to others that they shouldn't f-with you. A massive stack of coin + hash could become the new "flex" warning others off.
Is the world likely to converge on a neutral sound money? It has happened before and it seems to be heading this way again.
Gold or Bitcoin?
Bitcoin as both a bearer asset + a digital network seems well positioned to win.
(1) Paper BTC with yield vs (2) stacking BTC + working:
✅Save your time/energy/talent/work in BTC for your future self. Incentivizes u to work to avoid force selling. Productive. Scarcity + reliable SOV: win-win : purchasing power goes up and you're productive
VS
✅ Get yield now on a paper promise. feels very fiat: you don't have to work, your money does the work. This is bullshit.
Come-on-man
Schnorr vs Shor's
✅Schnorr Signatures
A classical digital signature scheme invented by Claus Schnorr in 1989.
What it is: A cryptographic method to prove ownership of a private key without revealing it
Used for: Signing transactions (notably Bitcoin's Taproot upgrade uses Schnorr signatures)
Security basis: Relies on the hardness of the Discrete Logarithm Problem (like ECDSA, but more efficient)
Classical/Quantum: Runs on normal computers; vulnerable to quantum attacks
✅Shor's Algorithm
A quantum computing algorithm invented by Peter Shor in 1994.
What it is: A mathematical procedure that runs on a quantum computer
Used for: Efficiently solving integer factorization and discrete logarithm problems
Security impact: Breaks RSA, ECDSA, and Schnorr signatures by deriving private keys from public keys
Classical/Quantum: Requires a sufficiently powerful quantum computer to execute