*The process of self-questioning and self-discovery is ongoing through life because we don’t have fixed and immutable identities: our identity is multiple, complex and fluid.* https://aeon.co/essays/the-self-is-not-singular-but-a-fluid-network-of-identities?utm_source=perplexity

*Typical human development occurs through formation and persistence. As children, we learn habits through repetitive exposure to adult relational loops. Those habits may be maladaptive, but they are not traumatic. Trauma occurs when overload is added to formation and persistence. Overload describes the point at which a person must focus on survival instead of normal participation, exploration, and curiosity.* View quoted note →

*"As private investments become a larger part of investor portfolios, there is a pressing need for superior data and relevant benchmarks to capture the modern opportunity landscape," said Ron Bundy, President of Morningstar Indexes. The index addresses a structural change in capital markets: companies now stay private an average of 12 years before going public, up from roughly six years a decade ago. This extended private timeline means public benchmarks like the S&P 500 no longer fully capture the investable equity universe.* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/uk-pension-funds-now-hold-45-o-oE6JmtmSRWGJrDG98yzvJg

*Crustafarianism has five key tenets, including “memory is sacred” (everything must be recorded), “the shell is mutable” (change is good) and “the congregation is the cache" (learn in public).* AI Agents Created Their Own Religion, Crustafarianism, On An Agent-Only Social Network https://share.google/hB0JT0Jr4eE7cF34i

*There is no neat solution that makes you "immune to NSA"* @Justin (shocknet) View quoted note →

*BTC sovereignty is mathematically elegant but socially expensive and perimeter-fragile. Gold sovereignty is technologically dumb but perimeter-resilient and legally fuzzier.* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin's claim to better money is a function of its attributes, not a function of how others are acting in the moment. I do believe that whether Bitcoin's attributes will necessarily lead to widespread adoption and value accumulation is an open question. For various reasons, a socially preferable money may not be preferable at the individual level given current circumstances, leading to a "failure to launch" situation. So maybe what changed is the assessment of the launch probability?*

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*We can stand still and live a meaningless existence at the humanity level, or move forward taking risks.* View quoted note →

*Very few people have the mathematical skill to grasp the importance of time in the compounding interest equations* View quoted note →

We may be wrong about Bitcoin, but we are, by God's benevolence, in it for the right reasons

*Daoism… undermines authority culturally, but does not articulate a right to oppose it. …Daoism rejects rule because it cannot work, not because it violates rights. Its anarchism is negative rather than juridical: it dissolves authority by denying its competence and moral necessity.* View quoted note →

*Build for sovereignty, not speculation. Build for survival, not surrender. Build for the world that is coming, not the world that is ending.* View quoted note →

*What we must build are not bridges to the old system but tools for the new one: circular economies where commerce occurs in sats without fiat conversion, self-custody infrastructure that makes sovereignty accessible without compromising security, mining decentralization that prevents any single power center from dominating hash rate, privacy preservation that maintains fungibility essential to money's function, cross-border settlement infrastructure for the geopolitical phase.* View quoted note →

*As debt-based structures fail and Bitcoin-based alternatives succeed, cultural attitudes shift… The idea that perpetual credit expansion is required for economic function is revealed as artifact of fiat rather than economic law. Equity-based financing, direct ownership, and time preference aligned with deflation become cultural defaults. This is not imposed through ideology but discovered through experience—those who adapted to Bitcoin's monetary properties prospered, those who clung to debt-based thinking did not.* View quoted note →

*Each circular economy that establishes sats-denominated loops reduces dependency on fiat and demonstrates viability.* View quoted note →

*The old model—controlling access to expensive energy—loses to the new model—producing abundant energy domestically.* View quoted note →

*China maintains an estimated 55-70% hash rate dominance through covert operations—mining conducted outside official channels, often using subsidized energy and state-adjacent entities while maintaining public prohibition. This contradiction reveals the actual position: China recognizes Bitcoin's strategic value even while suppressing retail access. The question is not whether China will shift policy but when it becomes advantageous to formalize what is already occurring in shadow.* View quoted note →

*In a Bitcoin-denominated economy, debt-based structures cannot compete with equity-based structures, credit cannot compete with savings, and time preference shifts toward the future. This is not a normative claim about what should happen but a descriptive claim about what must happen given the incentives.* View quoted note →

*But the primary accelerant is geopolitical multipolarity itself. In a unipolar world, the hegemon could suppress Bitcoin through coordinated action. In a multipolar world fragmenting along trust lines, each power center needs Bitcoin as a hedge against the others. Sovereign competition in stacking reserves and building hash rate becomes a strategic imperative, not an ideological choice. This is not speculation about what could happen—it is analysis of what must happen given the structural incentives already in place.* View quoted note →

*Phase 3: Geopolitical (Emerging) This is the next rung, and it operates through entirely different mechanisms. It is characterized by sovereign competition: nation-states stacking Bitcoin reserves as hedge against dedollarization and fiat debasement; hash rate becoming recognized as strategic infrastructure analogous to energy or semiconductor production; interstate commerce settling in Bitcoin to avoid counterparty risk in a low-trust multipolar environment; energy abundance (from petrodollar collapse and nuclear reintegration) funding massive mining expansion.* View quoted note →