Each generation works with different tools.
It’s easier for each generation to reproduce what the last generation did. True genius is making something new that people don’t understand they need yet.
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In the north, squirrel pelts were used as currency.
Another example of PoW, hunting down squirrels isn’t easy…
His-story is just a story from the mainstreams view.
It’s important to study history but also remember to not take it at face value.
It’s unfortunate that the most stupid things go viral on social media.
The amount of hassle to start accepting payments for a business with the current infrastructures is insane!
The more advanced humans become, the more incremental the advancements in technology become.
This makes the adoption of better technologies harder since people don’t see a big reason.
The adoption of a new technology actually has very little to do with the technology being better.
It’s more about people UNDERSTANDING that it actually is better. That can be achieved by showing enough people that it actually is better.
Moving stablecoins on bitcoin and lightning through Taro is the biggest evolution happening right now!
Sound money makes the world more sound.
Money is not everything, but it’s said to be the root of all evil.
Stockmarket valuations haven’t had anything to do with reality in a long time.
All fiat currencies are slowly dying.
It’s ironic that people with the most money got rich by staying as far from “money” as possible.
When will people care enough about the government stealing their purchasing power to actually do something about it?
Paying 10$/month to have someone store digital copies of your seed phrase is dumb!
If you wan’t to trust a third party, pay 10$ to a bank and store a physical seed in a safety deposit box…
An AI model has to be built deep inside an operating system to be as helpful as possible.
That also makes it very dangerous.
AI is the biggest cyberthreat ever.
The only cure against it is to keep our most valuable data away from very efficient general-purpose computers that also run AI models.
The early internet was full of scams, and the internet is still full of scams.
Cybersecurity really needs to be improved.
Humans are inherently selfish and deceitful. That’s why we can’t trust humans to control the money.
When people loose trust in currencies, banks and governments, they’ll choose to trust something with as little human dependency as possible.
It’s crazy how so many young left-wing activists are against bitcoin.
It’s not the elites money, it’s the peoples money. If only the activism was directed better…
Fiat currencies are a form of control.
Good examples would be the capital restrictions on China, Argentina, Nigeria…