I woke up this morning from a dream in which I noticed I had re-sprouted a full head of hair. In fact, my hairline was actually too low, like encroaching on the eyebrows. What does it mean.? Will zap all interpretations.

I just bought some bitcoin.

Something is going to break as the physical economy becomes hyper-localized and borders regulated while the virtual economy becomes borderless and impossible to control. Anything that ships to your house will either come from the US or being taxed heavily. But what you download won’t be subject to that tariff (unless we surveil you heavily) because there’s no customs at a border. Likewise, tariffs plus immigration restrictions means you can’t outsource production to cheaper labor markets and you can’t import the labor either. But… you can pay someone for their labor while they remain overseas, by streaming them sats. So something will give. Either we’ll get draconian surveillance and control of the digital domain or accelerated virtualization as we can achieve efficiencies there from free trade and cheap labor that are not available in the physical domain.

I can’t quite tear myself away from X, but I also can’t get that @Jeff Booth voice out of my head.

Now that they’re out of power (in the US), I wonder if it misinformation experts: (a) realize the value of free expression and the dangers of censorship, or (b) continue to push for aggressive censorship, but assuming they’ll seize power again soon. I’m thinking it’s (b).

Happy day.

It’s not about eliminating trust. It’s about bootstrapping integrity. View quoted note →

Will write another post about this that’s NOSTR-specific. Why and where this makes sense to do. Subsidies for solar and why we don’t want them. Etc. In the meantime, this is a thread from that other site with nice pictures.

X (formerly Twitter)

Troy Cross (@thetrocro) on X

1/n A new wat to stack sats... without spending a dime.

Love you, @Gigi View quoted note →

Try to hammer this out of existence, John Kerry. Explain how winning an election will stop it. The fever that needs to be broken is the fantasy of elite power over the collective mind. And tech like this, not an election, is what will do it. View quoted note →

Great privilege to be one of the final guests on What Bitcoin Did and share the results of our survey at The Nakamoto Project. https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/who-owns-bitcoin

They waited a couple days. View quoted note →

Our study can be downloaded at nakamotoproject.org.