*Bitcoin's non-capture story rests on client plurality + rough consensus + time* View quoted note →

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The World’s $111 Trillion in Government Debt, in One Giant Chart \ stacker news ~charts_and_numbers

While global public debt is lower than pandemic highs in real terms, it remains stubbornly elevated at $111 trillion. This graphic shows world debt...

*Intelligence can only get you so far. A little curiosity can help get you the perspective you need* View quoted note →

*We optimize for comfort and call it success. We mistake the absence of pain for the presence of wholeness.* View quoted note →

👀 *the dollar network went from being valued at 3.46x (346%) of all the gold in the world in 1960, to only 0.76x (76%) 65 years later, which is a 78% decrease in value relative to the rising global population and global gold supply* View quoted note →

*We have replaced the glory of doing with the illusion of appearing* View quoted note →

Faint signs of a rainbow, but no rain

*save in bitcoin and self custody so the banks can’t play the same games with bitcoin as they do with metals* View quoted note →

*the proliferation of AI slop may contribute directly to a cultural shift: elevating poetic, paradoxical thinking and diminishing patience for the sterile recursion of logical argument, as more people seek insight and meaning in artful complexity rather than mechanistic clarity* Perplexity

*The biggest nightmare for government is for people of uncommon ancestry to make common cause. Because if that happened, they’d have no choice but to respond to the people rather than their oligarch clients. They bring in foreigners who have no business being here precisely to destabilize and divide IMO.* View quoted note →

*The world doesn’t reward effort — it rewards who controls resources longer than others*

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Salary Addiction – The Modern Disease in the Real Resource Game \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Salary Addiction – The Modern Disease in the Real Resource Game Most people don’t realize they are addicted to their monthly salary. At the end...

*The poor measure by monthly income. The rich measure by purchasing power over time*

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Salary Addiction – The Modern Disease in the Real Resource Game \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Salary Addiction – The Modern Disease in the Real Resource Game Most people don’t realize they are addicted to their monthly salary. At the end...

*Operating businesses building Bitcoin reserves over five to 10 year horizons matter more than leveraged vehicles designed to extract value from capital markets. One model builds resilience. The other amplifies systemic risk* View quoted note →

* if the conditions present themselves such that only Bitcoiners have real-world resources, then your Bitcoin is only worth what you can physically defend. The state is just a Citadel at scale*

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Is "taxation of Bitcoin at gunpoint" something worth worrying about? \ stacker news ~bitcoin_beginners

So under the premise that the word hyperbitcoinizes. And Bitcoin is the world currency in 2050. Big if, but lets go with it. Know, a few of us have...

*The state is a tool for people with resources to coordinate beyond their own personal compounds and mire have-nots in process.*

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Is "taxation of Bitcoin at gunpoint" something worth worrying about? \ stacker news ~bitcoin_beginners

So under the premise that the word hyperbitcoinizes. And Bitcoin is the world currency in 2050. Big if, but lets go with it. Know, a few of us have...

*Real friends do not feed your ego. They guard your soul. They care about your aim more than your reach* View quoted note →

*50yr mortgages …are proof the system would rather extend your leash than allow prices or rates to reset properly* View quoted note →

*authentic relationships are complex and not binary* View quoted note →

*Boomers may be a generation that can't let go now, but some of the same characteristics may come to define Gen X, millennials, and even Gen Z. (Yes, friends, someday you too will be old.) What that means is that younger people could stand to be a little more understanding of their older counterparts — and take away some lessons from it, too. The same goes for boomers, eh — that work-life balance thing the kids enjoy these days is actually pretty great.* Generation Can't Let Go: Baby Boomers Still Working, Not Selling Homes - Business Insider

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Boomers are clinging to their jobs, homes, and halls of power. Millennials and Gen Z are left in the dust.

As boomers cling to power, America's become a gerontocracy — in business, housing, and the workforce. Here's what it means for millennials and Ge...

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