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Gavin Green
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
The new Umbrel Home is running. I moved over from my old Raspiberry Pi as I was running out of storage. The migration assistance is amazing. It probably took 2 clicks and 2hrs later the Home had taken over. @Umbrel ☂️ rocks. The Pi was great, now it’s moved onto a new life as a stand for my daughter’s Disney princess. image
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
Just got this bad boy set up and hashing 👌. Thanks #bitaxe and #solosatoshi. image
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
Instead of creating new laws, can we not just look to the existing one that’s causing a problem and remove it. At the very least it can be amended. This obsession with increases bureaucracy is ridiculous.
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
Great experience being able to buy weekly groceries and more at a major retailer in South Africa. Well done Pick ‘n Pay View quoted note →
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
Bank rant - to increase the monthly payment limit on my account I need to have the full amount already in the account. So I have to put money into an account that I am not able to take it out of., then ask permission to send it. Why? How does this help me?
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
Interesting takeaway from this - individuals are unpredictable, but in a large group / organism / network they can be predictable. Is this is where stereotypes come in? A 1-1 encounter has endless possibilities, but in a big group stereotypes take over.
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
"When I wrote The Mobile Wave, (2012) the observation was that software networks are dematerializing everything you could hold in your hand. You went from taking photos on a Canon camera and storing them in a shoebox to Facebook and Instagram and the iPhone. It wasn't worth 10 times as much, it was worth 1000 times as much. The world's going to change. These networks [are] going to..destroy 15,000 other companies competing with them because nobody in the history of the world could ever upgrade or ship a product for no variable cost to the entire planet for a nickel. And yet, that's what Google does. That's what Facebook does. That's what Apple does. And that's the part of Amazon that works well. The conclusion was to buy Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. I wrote the book. Nobody read it. I took $50 million of my own money..and converted [it] into $500 million. It made me conclude [that] if you want to make money in the tech era, you find the dominant digital network, the one that's worth 100 billion, that's crushed everybody. If you buy too soon, you might miss it. You might hit Blackberry, MySpace, or Yahoo. But after it’s $100 billion, the market has decided. Apple is the winner, Google's the winner, Facebook's the winner, Amazon's the winner. I know it's pretty obvious. Amazon was the winner in 2013 when it was trading at 300 bucks. It was funny! Everybody on Wall Street said what is this stupid company, they don't make any money. We don't buy into it. But you could have bought it. You could buy all those things, and you would have got a 10x - 20x gain on it. You just wait until the 99% of the world that disagrees, that’s cynical, skeptical, and ignorant, ..as it gradually dawns on them that Google is an Information Network. Facebook is a social network, Apple is mobile network, Amazon is retail network. It made me very successful as a personal investor, but my company didn't invest in it. 2020 came and I swore to myself that if I ever saw this again, I wasn't going to write a book, I was going to buy as much of that thing as I could personally, as much of that thing as I could corporately, and then I was just going to tweet about it." —Michael Saylor
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
And that’s what the kids said about their parents, who came home from WWII. Boring. Well, they had just come back from hell. And they went on to become known as the Greatest Generation. If Bitcoin is boring, that because it’s being compared to this fiat disaster, aka hell. I’m looking forward to be called the Greatest Generation 2.0 View quoted note →
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
Why does iOS not recognize Damus or Primal as apps that you can share content to? image
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GavinGreen 1 year ago
I don’t understand why Georgia, USA runs the power lines above ground. The sheer cost of maintaining the trees alongside the power lines, combined with the risk of trees damaging the lines n storms, just makes no sense. Why not run them underground? Cities in third world countries can do it. And it certainly is an eyesore. image