*Show me anywhere else besides Bitcoin where a quantum of entropy resolves into a conserved quantum of structure whose byproduct is a quantum of time* View quoted note →

*Nobody is prepared for the consequences of Bitcoin disproving the theory underlying centralized quantum computing* View quoted note →

This bad boy’s been chomping away for hours. #pow

😑 *The government is in a financial fix because the wheels of the economy are turning slowly. That’s been the case since the financial crash. But it doesn’t have to be. If better-off retirees demanded smaller, appropriate housing, the private sector would begin to provide it, home sales would increase and the economy turn at a faster lick. Otherwise the UK, like so many rich, ageing countries, will be stuck. If boomers cannot bring themselves to act collectively and patriotically for the greater good, as seems unlikely for many reasons, then it will be legitimate for the government to pursue their lottery winnings with higher property and pension taxes. Still, dear boomer, it was a good ride while it lasted.*

Opinion | Can a nation in crisis rely on the baby boomer generation to step up? I think the UK is about to find out — The Guardian

A raid on property wealth and pensions is being signalled by the Treasury, and it has sound reasons for doing just that, says Phillip Inman, the Gu...

“Its confession that neither its employment figures nor its wealth statistics are reliable enough to use follows a devastating inquiry by the Commons public administration committee whose chair described a grossly dysfunctional hierarchy where the chief statistician behaved like a “hybrid of a Medici prince and Blofeld” in a “boosterish chumocracy””

Opinion | Who decides when and where you work? The battle is raging in Whitehall, and the result may affect us all — The Guardian

The dispute over hybrid working at the Office for National Statistics is becoming a key test of worker power, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

*every other politician is on the same side* View quoted note →

*If BTC was a government project then they'll likely be the holders of Satoshi’s coins. Be a great replacement for their soft money while they have a large reserve in the new system* 👀 View quoted note →

“most normies, they don't care much, they're walking right into a digital prison and too busy watching tiktok to notice”

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When might we see the mass adoption? \ stacker news

Maybe not a full btc standard, but a situation where most things can easily be bought by paying in BTC, but locally and online. a decade, two decad...

👀 "The large operators have always had a way of telling the retail public one thing, but doing another" View quoted note →

The harder the money, the easier it is to do work that matters.

*independence doesn’t mean impunity* View quoted note →

*The Fed is one of the most powerful institutions in our economy— and one of the least accountable* View quoted note →

*Keynesian theory is designed to justify the fiat system over sound money* View quoted note →

*mob rule, where passion and emotion override reason, demagogues manipulate public sentiment, and instability ensues* View quoted note →

*Purchasing power always flows to where it is best treated* View quoted note →

*TradFi thinks they’re domesticating #Bitcoin with “clean coin” rails. In reality, every dollar of liquidity they pour in only hardens it into the global unit of account* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin doesn't need posturing and pouting influencers. It needs technical and creative experts to put in their time and effort* View quoted note →

*[Language] communicates ideas, while [Bitcoin] communicates value* View quoted note →

*#Bitcoin has "no intrinsic value" in exactly the same way language has no intrinsic value. The value of both is derived from the network it creates and what what is possible only with if that network exists.* View quoted note →

*The current economic ecosystem is dominated by companies that depend on surveillance* View quoted note →