Thinking about Bitcoin and World reserve currency. If any world government or power to claim world reserve status, how could that government ever be trusted to not abuse that status. Do they back there currency with precious metals or even Bitcoin. Can you trust them to not print more currency than they really have. Wasn’t that the problem when the US took us off the gold standard. Was there more currency sloshing around in the world then there was gold to cover it. Even if we backed this world reserve currency with Bitcoin, can we trust the government to not print more Fiat then there is Bitcoin to cover it. Why not just proclaim Bitcoin is the world reserve currency. You can’t print money to buy it. You have to earn it by mining it, or trading some natural resource or service to get it. That’s what a fair for all World currency would look like.

Wall Street just does not get it, when it comes to Bitcoin. They think it’s another vehicle for them to build a stack of cash by trading it. Bitcoin does not need Wall Street. Wall Street will find out their stash of cash might make pretty good toilet paper.

Even Tho I really feel like The US would be powerless to stop the peoples adoption of Bitcoin, just like China is unable to stop it’s people from continuing to adopt Bitcoin; I don’t know if anybody else feels the way I do. Rather than voting for a political candidate, I vote against a party that is negative on Bitcoin. I’ll start with voting for Trump. Then against every other candidate in a party that is negative to adoption of Bitcoin.

Would the government telling us that we cannot Self Custody our Bitcoin, the same as telling us we cannot keep Gold Coins in our own safe at home. We could even take it farther to say why would they let us keep US cash in our wallet or a safe at home. How about Baseball card, or Art for that matter. All commodities, aren’t they.

Watched Jenifer Lopez in “Atlas” yesterday. Pretty cool take on AI dangers and benefits.

Far Side - Always loved this guy!

Who is HRF. Is that a smart way to contribute to bitcoin development?

Satoshi gave the gift of Bitcoin to the world, and then disappeared. May the anonymity, and the mystery of Satoshi’s existence remain in our minds and souls for eternity.

I’m almost all the way out of Twitter (X). I do admit I still peek every now and then. I don’t expect that will last much longer.

Posing a question here? How do the builders, developers, clients, relays, etc. who do all of this work to make Nostr better get compensated for their efforts? I get how Zaps will incentivize creators, and that’s a good thing. But what about the developers, putting in their time to make this work. I don’t think a PBS style, let’s go on the air and beg for funds is viable. But what if with Zaps going into funds to support these developers; A small Zap is initiated with; Each new signup. Each post. Each response to a post. Each follow. Each relay hookup. And then to keep those Zap amounts small enough that it does not discourage persons from joining in; Creators would share a small percentage of Zaps sent their way in some automated way, to go to these funds. There should also be a way that the amounts flowing into these funds is completely public, and viewable by all participants in the system. Distribution of those funds to the people doing the work could be automated in some way, and also made public for all to view. If you really want this to work, go ZAP. Volunteers are great, but they need to make a living also.

Me at Waste Management Phoenix Open on Wednesday. Ickkkkk!