Strategy: If someone asks you about bitcoin once, give them a copy of The Bitcoin Handbook from #[1]​ . If they persist, give them The Bitcoin Standard from #[2]​ . It’s a great pairing.

Black’s turn. Who’s winning?

Not your seeds, not your bitcoin.

Bitcoin Maximalism is the recognition of a deterministic outcome. The hardest money possible has made contact with soft money, and it can not be easily seized or censored. Bitcoin won long ago and there's nothing you can do about it now.

It started out as just a (raw) milkman, but this guy has scoured the Texas Hill Country for the best real food around, delivered to my door. So close to never going to a grocery store again.

Ammo prices have come down significantly this in the past 6 months, with way more availability. Load up! Love Midway USA for online orders.

Enough conversations this week to feel a miniscript boom incoming.

Homeschoolers and other cool parents check out “From Homer to Satoshi: An Introduction to the Western Canon”. My sister-in-law has homeschooled for 6 years and built this fantastic resource. https://emeralize.app/course/purchase_detail/7/

Chess is unbelievably brutal. Nepo had the championship slip through his fingers at least twice. Ding played incredibly with a short clock. This showed me how unreal Magnus really is, having won with so little drama for a decade.

Jesse Peltan emerged victorious in a close debate last night at the Bitcoin Commons. Steve Barbour did convince many to learn to coal, but not enough. We’ll be back this summer with a new resolution, and with #[0]​ moderating to shut down Consensus hecklers.

Give me Zaps (liberty),or give me Twitter (death).

The first Nakamoto Forum Debate is less than a week out. Join us at the Bitcoin Commons and in Austin, Tx to see Steve Barbour and Jesse Peltan debate the resolution: Hydrocarbons are the most sustainable source of energy to mine bitcoin. Knowing this crowd, you may think Steve has this in the bag. You also may not be familiar with Jesse who is one of the most persuasive bitcoin miners I’ve ever met. This is going to be fun. RSVP now!

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Nakamoto Forum Debate Series

A bitcoin mining energy debate about hydrocarbons vs wind/solar with Steve Barbour & Jesse Peltan. Moderated by Tuur Demeester

Getting a “!!” rated move on Chess.com is the new heroin. Or Harvard degree.

I’d continue using Nostr and current clients even if not a single new feature was added. Similar to how I felt with Twitter after 2010 or 2011. Feels like scaling + not screwing it up from here.

Texas lamb. The fam ate too much before I could capture. We’ve been eating lots of lamb the last 3 months, and we’re all experts on the Middle East now.

Trump should go to jail for not freeing Ross.

One of the more interesting things to watch out for regarding CBDCs is whether they have larger premines than Ethereum. I bet it will be close!

The most strategic economic consideration of all states and the US more broadly is increasing the amount of coal, natural gas, and oil, mined and drilled and burned.