Bitcoin is a digital bearer asset. Tokenisation offers 'exposure' to assets. Robinhood CEO: “I think [tokenization] will become the default way to get exposure to U.S. stocks outside the U.S.,” "The tokenization of real-world assets, from stocks to real estate, will spread to financial markets around the world" CNBC

*The midwit always wants a simple heuristic to solve complex problems and hence overcorrects when problems arise, creating a new set of problems* View quoted note →

Stay humble, stack tats Twin brothers from Coventry spent £40k on tattoos - BBC News

Twin brothers from Coventry spent £40k on tattoos

Dylan and Drew Wearing say they do not plan to stop adding the ink.

I note the irony of the extracting a quote from your note…… *Writers face a dilemma: do they write for people to read or for algorithms to process and shred into highlights? The paradox is that AI democratizes access to ideas while trivializing the experience of reading them.* View quoted note →

*the system isn’t designed to stop. It’s designed to extract, expand, and perpetuate* View quoted note →

*until we feel it in our bones that the cage is made of our own behavioral patterns, we’ll just swap one set of masters for another and call it progress* View quoted note →

A fascinating note. Thanks! *Groupthinkers are terrified of caloric expenditure, work, truth, and facing the actual culprits of things like the wage gap. Voluntary incompetence loathes determined hard working people because they are too terrified to admit there is an intelligence that comes with hard work and facing fear* View quoted note →

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Once-in-a-Lifetime Bird in Flight Eclipse Wins Bird Photographer of the Year \ stacker news ~Photography

Absolutely fantastic photo, but linking to the whole piece because there are some other pretty nifty shots. [2 comments]

*Every satoshi input and output can be traced through the ledger, allowing anyone to verify that the conservation law holds, no double-spend has occurred, and that every joule of work has crystallized into permanent structure…. measurement requires direct visibility of conservation at every step.* View quoted note →

TIL about John Searle’s Chinese room thought experiment.

*the laws multiply like weeds, not to protect you, but to bind you. We live not under the rule of law. We live under the rule of rulers* View quoted note →

*Nicolas Dufourcq, the head of France’s state investment bank Bpifrance, warned that Europe is becoming “doubly colonized” by Chinese industry and U.S. tech.* CNBC

*We never got rid of feudalism, it just got a rebranding* View quoted note →

*We’re here because we believe ideas should compete on merit, not on how well they serve the attention merchants* View quoted note →

*Most people have invested too much of their lives in the fiat based monetary and belief system to reject it for something so alien as a decentralised algorithm based protocol with no leader and no hierarchy. People want familiar power structures because they provide a sense of security and most peoples experience is that challenging established power structures is unrewarding and dangerous. With Bitcoin you are declaring war on the core of the power structure people live under, and most people who depend upon that power structure for their sense of wealth, security and purpose do not want to declare war on that.*

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What is it that people say they don’t like about Bitcoin? \ stacker news ~bitcoin_beginners

What is it that you/people say they don’t like about Bitcoin?—do you/they really dislike Bitcoin, or just the discomfort of letting go of the b...

*paper bitcoin is trading at a discount. anyone who ever used P2P platforms can confirm that* View quoted note →