*When algorithms decide what we see, when monetary policy decides what we can save, when platforms decide what we can say, are we really free? Or are we operating within an illusion of choice?* View quoted note →

*Each life spared by bitcoin is worth the kilowatts it takes to secure the bitcoin network* View quoted note →

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Is it only the devs, that need contribute to the Bitcoin open source? How else? \ stacker news

New year, same goal. I've seen invitations, calling devs to contribute to the Bitcoin open source. But what if you're not a dev, and you still want...

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*The EU’s landmark carbon border tax will come into force on January 1 despite fierce opposition from trading partners and warnings from European industry that it will increase costs and red tape. The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), which covers six sectors including steel, cement, aluminium and electricity, is intended to prevent EU companies that have to pay for their emissions being undercut by cheaper, more heavily polluting competition.*

*Hardware is ahead of software, but hardware reliability severely limits software iteration speed.* @DrJimFan x.com

*If Trump is long ag, expect tariffs* Silver will see more volatility, but the market is not in a bubble - Société Générale | Kitco News

Silver will see more volatility, but the market is not in a bubble - Société Générale

The Kitco News Team brings you the latest news, videos, analysis and opinions regarding Precious Metals, Crypto, Mining, World Markets and Global E...

*There's no good reason to have all the major apps work the same on that, it just makes nostr easier for the authorities to manipulate* View quoted note →

*Despite the three leavers, Stone Ridge got something very important, very right at firm inception: no HR. No HR is the gift that keeps on giving because the very best people are repelled by those addicted to comfort. When new folks arrive at Stone Ridge and realize we have no HR, a lens cap lifts off their consciousness. Surrounded by elite intellectual athletes, they immediately begin their training to be one, feeling compelled to do remarkable things, utterly untethered to what they previously thought possible. We teach them business physics, but also to feel bound by nothing. I would not dare limit their leaps even one inch with even one minute of an infantilizing HR training session.* View quoted note →

*Fiddling with a device in a meeting means you do not belong in that meeting. Meetings should be rare, riveting, and short.* View quoted note →

*Nothing produced limitlessly and for free can ever, eventually, have value. Fiat is always and everywhere a ponzi phenomenon with seigniorage the State’s irresistibly silent Madoff-like pitch. Bitcoin, its kryptonite, will never take the meeting* View quoted note →

*financial sophistication cannot substitute for industrial control. In energy markets, physics – not finance – sets the tuition entrepreneurs must pay* View quoted note →

*markets overpay for stories of the future and underpay for hidden treasures of the past* View quoted note →

Thanks for sharing! “Confirmation bias is the worst enemy of iteration. In a Bayesian system, it’s fatal. If you only accept the data that supports your hypothesis, you’re not updating – you’re entrenching. The people who learn fastest are the ones who are most willing to be wrong…with the humility to trade conviction for information, one update at a time.” View quoted note →

*The tragedy of the “banking the unbanked” narrative is that it accepts the moral legitimacy of banks as gatekeepers. It assumes exclusion is the problem, rather than the existence of the gate.* View quoted note →

Why software will save Nvidia from an AI bubble burst • The Register

Why software will save Nvidia from an AI bubble burst

: Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs

*Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.* Tolkien

You either disappear early enough to be a hero, or linger long enough to become a state asset.

*#Art ... #teaches faster than essays and travels where policy can’t* View quoted note →

*Better worlds aren’t #voted in. They’re #run in #parallel until people notice* View quoted note →

*Moderates argue inside broken systems. #Cypherpunks route around them* View quoted note →