Prior to Starlink, in 2016/17 I built this in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Took me about 5 months to figure out. A cheap solar panel, a couple car batteries in a tool box, and microwave about 200 yds to receivers in n the house. Tried fiber lines etc…and always had power issues. Linked up to a cell tower about 19 miles away, and got ~15 mbps down. Never any downtime in 5 years. Then Starlink showed up and I plugged it in, kinda sorta pointed a dish up, and had 140 mbps down in like 3 minutes. Still amazed several years later.

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Not engaging, or caring, about politics locally or otherwise is not stoic. It’s NPCism. It doesn’t take billions to be a live action player.

Casually marketing ketamine IV’s (not to mention ayahuasca) to the general public is insane.

Vibe today.

Highly recommend.

Please treat @HODL like you always have as he recovers from the assault I put on him. Doctors believe he may have permanent loss of running the football effectively. Don’t stare at the wounds, that would be rude.

A new crying meme is born courtesy of the Austin American Statesman.

I seriously suggest people stop Doordashing and Uber eating if you live in a reasonably safe area. Inviting the (in many cases) barely not homeless to case your neighborhood and house is a bad trade off.

GM. If you’ve been getting 10% raises (or returns) every year since 2020, you’re substantially poorer today than you used to be.

For the next few months I will refrain from Texas posting as I publicly shame these bitcoin dorks each week. The McCaffrey bros can’t be stopped. View quoted note →

Dead simple point-of-sale now live on @Zaprite . Pick your favorite wallet, connect a fiat app like CashApp or Venmo (or don’t) and accept bitcoin for in person sales.

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Introducing Point-of-Sale on Zaprite - Zaprite

Accept bitcoin onchain and lightning payments in-person, side-by-side with card payments, with Zaprite’s Point of Sale app.

GM new nostriches. You may be wondering what this place is all about: what a zap is, how to store your npub etc… I’m here to help. What you do is: 1. Post about Texas and how big it is. 2. People will like you and tell you the rest. View quoted note →

The anatomy of how we get lower rates, AKA what goes on in Jackson Hole.

Most valuable fund in the world, worth their 2 & 20… Buy Bitcoin, hold for 12 years (3 cycles). No trading, no early disbursements, no leverage. Shocked it doesn’t exist.

I have the utmost respect for the team behind Mutiny, and know this is a gut wrenching decision. Mutiny has been an extremely ambitious, weird, and inventive product. I have no doubt we'll see hugely successful wallets in the future filled with the DNA left behind by the Mutiny team. A great legacy. View quoted note →

Morgan Stanley sales rep at the 9:30 AM tee time this morning: MS: No no no. We learned in blockchain for business school that you Hodl here. Client: … MS: it means you never sell. Client: … MS: some drunk guy in 2013 said so

There are many conventional wisdoms that I disagree with, but the one that has helped me the most is the willingness to die on hundreds of hills to this point in my life.

If you live in Austin, or several other cities in the US, you haven’t experienced sub 10% inflation since before 2017. https://chapwoodindex.com

Downloaded the Coinbase app for testing the other day. This is not a serious place to custody millions of bitcoin.