Happy 4th, nostriches 🇺🇸⚡️

Cozy schizoposting notes and other stuff into the ether on a Saturday afternoon while ‘social media’ collapses

Wow, this letter is a must read for any #bitcoin historian Written by one of the most senior politicians pushing to create the Federal Reserve in 1913, Robert Owen. In it he argues in favor of the Central Bank, and answers objections from one of the most powerful private bankers at the time, Joseph Talbert. It gives some great insight into the reasons and rhetoric of the Pro-Fed movement at its creation. 🧵

clouds.fyi ☁️

Casual Saturday reading

This is wild

Having memes stolen hits different on nostr when there are actual sats at stake 😂

Twitter users be like

Elon nuking twitter’s infinite scroll could cause the single biggest reduction in aggregate screen time the world has ever seen..

Got a big day of scraping ahead. Hope that’s cool with everyone

You can get away with breaking things in the name of experimentation as a startup. When you’re Twitter, and people hav more than a decade habituated to a particular experience, I’m not so sure

#Bitcoin builders would be well served by remembering why bitcoin found such early, strong product market fit with poker players (and for other illicit uses). Talk to many of these people today, and they’ll say “I didn’t understand #bitcoin at the time…I didn’t know what I was holding” And yet, they ‘adopted’ it, because it solved a big problem for them. It was a painkiller. Bitcoin has come a long way since. Surely there are many more cohorts who have big problems to solve - that can be solved with the world’s only an open, permissionless monetary network, which settles instantly and finally. We don’t need to educate such people about the value of #bitcoin, other than to the extent it helps them solve these problems. In fact, anything else is a distraction.

Evergreen #bitcoin product idea: build things that use sats to help people do what they already want to do

Hey anyone else feel like reading 1500 posts just because?

The Sopranos talk Bitcoin…