Do it. Defy the universe with kindness. See what it says. #philosophy

I don't have a particularly strong position on the OP_RETURN, Core vs Knots thing but I'm not a fan at all of top-down anything. The free-market should be bottom-up and voluntaryist by nature. Every interaction in a real free market has to voluntary. This means options. Freedom of choice basically. I think this form of thinking (censoring choices) is a slippery slope. In other words, why not just let the nodes that want to save that info, save that info and then provide services on top of that? And others who don't, leave them alone? Are you really telling me you need to censor a 1/3 of Bitcoin for your better alternative to work? And I know Peter Todd is not advocating for this here, he's just saying "how easy it would be". What am I missing here? #bitcoin #discussion #asknostr #opreturn

Real money is (or should be) virtue. #bitcoin

I find it incredible how people so willingly accept Government contracts. In practice everybody that accepts or is part of a government contract, especially if that government/State is not a direct democracy and the people didn't vote for that specific contract, it's in effect the most common and widespread form of legalized stealing. I will never understand how people accept this. Some benefit immensely by being close to the State, while others are oppressed and persecuted with everything. Don't you think something has to be changed?

If Trump manages to get a relatively substantial Bitcoin reserve before China, the game changes completely and forever. Because China has the production and skills. That's clear. But they don't have the capital or the financial/ownership/politics structure (i.e the reigns of capitalism?). And a move to the most pristine form of capital would truly bring a breath of fresh air to the US in that aspect. If the US has a better financial position, while simultaneously improving their manufacturing position (taking a bit back from China), then the world will be in a better position for the longer term. Because we need a freedom culture in the world too. We need freedom philosophy. We need philosophy and the US is probably one of the few places in the world where people still have the balls to say the truth. That's the most valuable thing in the world in my view. #politics #philosophy #geopolitics

The real problem of the EU is it tries to apply high-productivity, high-tech, Nordic like regulation to countries that still use donkeys to produce goods. It'll never work #politics #europe #eu

More than half of the people have no idea that they're wrong. In the sense that states/governments have bought them and what they call work or reality is not work neither real. #bitcoin

Bonds and real estate as an investment are the same thing. It's an elite and fake "asset", with a fake monetary premium, chosen solely by the elites at the absolute top, governments and the very wealthy to be the store of value. They choose bonds and real estate to be the collateral, not us. They did. The difference with Bitcoin is that the plebs chose it at the bottom and the elites also chose at the top. Nobody at the bottom chooses bonds and real estate as a store of value. #finance #economics

Connection with nature will help show the way.

Where will gold climb to? Just look at this incredible climb. And this is in a high interest rate scenario. When they start printing gold can only keep rising. This might be all part of a plan. A plan by the US government to artificially prop gold, revalue their balance sheet gold price at an all time high and then... if they're really smart, buy Bitcoin. People like Luke Gromen have talked about how this gold rush was kind of artificial (for different reasons). Could gold go up to 5k or 10k? #economics #politics #bitcoin

The world is heading for a crisis that many governments deserve. Not the people, just the governments. Governments have grown used to believing that free money is possible. It worked, almost like a miracle, and for an incredible amount of time. But that world is ending. The US formula of fiat exporting has ended. There's no more free money. The era of free money has ended. #bitcoin

When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose

The reality is we can live with very little. The reality is we don't need much. Once we realize this, it can become a super power. If we have nothing to lose, then we're free. #philosophy

Intel, a company that powers 2 billion computers globally, 75% of the global total of computers, has a stock that underperforms REIT stocks. And we're supposed to think the stock market reflects real productivity or the market, or any concrete value of any sort? #economics #stock

I was just in a 2h conversation with a guy that hasn't studied monetary history, Bitcoin, gold standard, the current financial system, Austrian economics, etc, etc the whole thing. And it's incredible. People are trying to find all the imaginable excuses within the system to somehow solve the problem. Stuff like we need much more growth, AI growth will solve the debt problem, "we can outgrow the debt away", more consumption, more demand, more manufacturing, more technology, more AI, faster computers, more energy, etc, etc, etc. No Bitcoin, just more growth. And I'm like, on the opposite, what we need is time. Time to read, learn, think. Cheaper houses, less debt, smaller mortgages, smaller monthly payments. More free time. People are addicted to the system. And I'm talking about good people, people with good intentions. A lot of people don't see the alternative. Don't understand what they've lost without hard/sound money. #bitcoin #conversations

A small snippet of Freddie Mercury's genius that not a lot of people know.

Always smart and deep Bitcoin discussions on CornyChat. I always learn a lot with these guys. From deep Bitcoin technical stuff to deep financial/macro stuff. It's very valuable. It's like a way to get up to date without actually having to watch any news, while simultaneously being able to ask questions. Great stuff, thank you guys :) @bevo @🐢 @:P @Nice and Kind Vic And all the gang! #bitcoin

To everything, there is a season, turn turn turn. A time to plant, a time to reap. We gotta turn once in a while. #music

Elon becoming a full on Bitcoiner would indeed be the best thing for the world. And if one thinks about it, it might just be the only middle ground in this whole thing. @🐢 #bitcoin #politics #usa