*If you want to increase adoption by pandering to politicians, you’ll never be free* View quoted note →

*make sure your soul gains more than your hands* View quoted note →

*a reminder that life, too, will end, urging us to make the most of it and light up the forest floor to the very end* View quoted note →

*all economic activity is an outgrowth of ethics* View quoted note →

*One side owns assets, leverages credit, and rides the wave of monetary expansion. The other works harder each year just to stand still* View quoted note →

*Predictable suffering feels safer than uncertain liberation, because pain we know becomes part of our identity* View quoted note →

*Most people would rather live in a cage they’ve learned to decorate than step into the wild* View quoted note →

Zaha Hadid’s futuristic Yidan Center takes shape in Shenzhen

New Atlas

Extraordinary rippled building looks like it belongs in a sci-fi movie

You could be forgiven for thinking that this extraordinary building was dreamed up as some sort of alien megastructure for a sci-fi movie. However,...

*without transparency, every algorithm — analog or digital — stops being democratic* View quoted note →

*It's possible to care about Nostr more than Bitcoin* View quoted note →

*The builders here aren’t chasing capital, they’re architecting autonomy* View quoted note →

*why lavish meticulous care on our possessions while treating our bodies with casual indifference?* View quoted note →

*So, the answer to get >1 mNav is to develop a cult following and a reputation as the country's best investor. Got it!*

Stacker News

Buffett's Lesson to the Bitcoin Treasury Companies (WSJ, Krystal Hur) \ stacker news ~econ

Here's a company that sustainably manages to trade above its book value, in dire contrast to the upstart fad bitcoin treasury companies where their...

*the quality of our consciousness is like a reflection back at us that determines the real value of our lives* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin's base case: Managed cyclicality, net up over multi-year windows, less upside convexity than "maximalists" hope, more containment than cypherpunks want. So Bitcoin is the sanctioned pressure valve. That design likely lets many holders win in fiat terms while the system keeps Medium-of-Exchange at scale off the table and diverts attention from privacy rails. It's not emancipation; it's containment with upside.* View quoted note →

*Datacarrier "policy" liberalization (OP_RETURN & standardness) - Higher legal and operational risk for full nodes (content relay/storage), more mempool congestion; sovereign hobbyist nodes face higher cost/ liability calculus* View quoted note →

*Why the development process is the preferred perimeter to attack: - Cheaper than legislation: Defaults and "safety" framing do the enforcement work. - Plausible deniability: "We're just improving performance". - Asymmetric impact: hits sovereign users hardest; institutional wrappers unaffected.* View quoted note →

*You don't have to "hack" Bitcoin's consensus rules to influence how the network behaves. You can steer what gets relayed, mined, or socially accepted by quietly shaping the development process — who gets funded, who reviews changes, which features become defaults, how releases are timed, and how communication is framed* View quoted note →