“The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad. The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Gm

Gold vs fiat / Gold vs Bitcoin

Dome by architect Arturo Prins, in the time when Argentina was still on a gold standard. 📍Paraná 1596, corner with Montevideo, Buenos Aires, 1909.

This is16% of the current Bitcoin market cap. You’re not bullish enough. ∞/21M

Will Suriname 🇸🇷 be the next Bitcoin nation after El Salvador 🇸🇻?

Help me out of my ignorance: where is data on Nostr stored? Is it on relays individually and if those go down the content goes down?

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The censoring of 𝕏 in Brazil 🇧🇷 is the continuation of an ongoing process to erode freedom of speech online, and this is accelerating in emerging economies and the “developed world” alike. Is there a way to fight back, and how? My latest article:

Modern Memory Holes

When governments lose control of the narrative, free speech is the real fugitive.

Fiat counter, much needed in a cash-based society like Argentina. Still prefer it this way vs purely digital payments

“It is incredible that at the very least 60-70 countries have tried the Marxist route, and some for 80 years, like the USSR (...). It is a religion. It is the religion of non-existence. The religion that there seems to be substance, there seems to be nature... A grave error. There is nothing. It is nothingness that reigns. And within this, well, if we manage to steal and kill enough, maybe something will appear.” — Antonio Escohotado

Kind of annoying that every time I try to time the market (as in, just selling a very tiny position to stables to buy back more sats later) I get too emotional whenever Bitcoin starts to rip and want to buy back less sats. DCA > Timing the market

What fiat printing does to medals

Bitcoin / Fiat

Canadian mining company First First First Quantum will invest $3.5 billion to build the Taca Taca copper project in Salta, Argentina 🇦🇷 Direct result of the RIGI scheme started by the Milei government to give a 30+ year tax benefit framework for investments of $200M+. ¡VLLC!

Sunday ravioles 🫶

ESG bs completely obliterated: “You know what scares me about you? You’re serious.”

Entraña is definitely one of my favorite cuts in Argentina 🇦🇷 (skirt steak 🥩)

📍 Abra de los Vascos, Tornquist, Sierra de la Ventana, Buenos Aires

📍El Chaltén, Santa Cruz, Argentina 🇦🇷