When you are investing in altcoins, then BTC is the benchmark. When you are investing in ZEC, then XMR is the benchmark. So from an investment perspective, for ZEC to be worthwhile, it has to beat both BTC and XMR. I'm curious how that will develop over the coming years.

CBDCs are great. They'll sell the normies on the product category. Selling them a better product in the same category afterwards will be easy. "Hey, you want that, but without transaction fees, arbitrary account freezing, and full privacy?"

Are we going to separate money and state with the state being able to watch every transaction?

1 billion Euro is not that much. Soon we'll all be Euro millionaires. Few.

"Ultimately, the enemy is not a Russian or an American or any other person. The enemy lies in an ideology, a way of thinking, in a certain metaphysical force or spirit. The real problem, the actual enemy, is situated in a worldview that reduces the entire world and existence to a material phenomenon, in which human beings are no more than biological machines, biochemical processes devoid of Spirit or Soul. In such a context, biological survival and the pursuit of absolute dominance without any ethical or moral limits easily become the ultimate goal." From this interesting read:

The historical background of the war in Ukraine.

Dear friends, it's 8 AM and I’m sitting in my car, parked in a small lot on a beautiful castle estate in Zutphen, a Dutch village near the German...

"Totalitarianism has not disappeared, but it will not reemerge from Russia, the United States, or any other nation. Instead, it is returning via globalist institutions. These institutions exhibit the foundational traits of totalitarianism: a fanatical utopian-ideological drive to create a new technocratic and rationalist society." From this interesting read:

The courage for Truth in Putin's Russia.

A few weeks ago, I published an article about NATO's role in the war in Ukraine.

Life hack: If somebody insults you on social media, just imagine you are talking to a bot. Which is not unlikely.

"I used to say, the one thing that could ruin my monetary debasement thesis was a responsible federal government." - Lawrence Lepard 🤣

If you cannot call a dick a dick, you don't have free speech.

The current Bluesky vs. Nostr debate reminds me of the classic essay „Worse Is Better“. A simpler protocol with adoption and adaptability (Nostr) will win over a „better“, more complex solution (Bluesky). One of the reasons why JavaScript won over Lisp.

Worse Is Better

#nostr