The SYSTEM survives on two things: exploitation (eg. slavery, debt, fiat) AND a sorting system (eg. racism, classicism, partisanship). Every social ill has these two components. Focus on the exploitation or the sorting system and you're missing the point. Break. The. System.

@npub1preu...eujk Much props and many thanks. Literally every Cheat Code presentation I watch is, in some respect, the best #bitcoin presentation I've ever seen. How is that possible?

For the uninitiated: know that the halving doesn't hit like DMT. It hits like an edible. Buckle up. #btc

In modern day politics a conservative politician is as much the opposite of a progressive one as a black bear is the opposite of a polar bear. They differ in one very visible characteristic. But both are still bears. Either one will eff you up if you forget that fact 🐻

Just got an email from my credit monitoring service that my SSN was found among one of the recent giant corporate data breaches ..... privacy and self-sovereignty are under constant attack..and these behemoth centralized surveillance machines are complicit

The uncomfortable reality is that time preference is inexorably linked to resource availability. The more resource-poor the individual, the more inclined that individual is to have high time preference. How does #bitcoin adoption overcome this headwind? Does it?

This just in: @garyleland puts on a hell of a conference. Great meeting you sir! Thanks for all your hard work. It's making a difference!

What are my odds of assembling a small group of strangers at #bitblockboom interested in getting steaks tonight? @BitBlockBoom @DudeChicken (Tagged you cause I have no followers lol)

It's beginning to seem axiomatic in nature that short term gratification/fitness must come at the expense of long term fitness (a la steroids, stimulants). This seems supported by the paradoxically toxic affect otherwise miraculous technologies are having on sustained human flourishing.

#bitblockboom?

Unpopular opinion: the unfairness of life IS the fairness of life. We're all buffeted about by the same waves. Your welfare is your hands.