Where do my new followers come from if I am not actively posting? I get a few weekly. Is this indicative of more pro-social discovery mechanisms than on X?

Bitcoin is deterrence What you can do with it is largely emergent from the constraints indirectly imposed on others Hodling is deterrence

New bitcoin mining technique just dropped The real "bitcoin lightning" ⚡

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Faraday-caged drone triggers and directs lightning strikes

In a world first, Japanese researchers flew a lightning-proof drone in a thunderstorm, using it to induce and direct natural lightning strikes. The...

I used to be retarded I still am retarded But I used to be too

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What are the most interesting things bitcoiners have built or funded that are not bitcoin specific projects? e.g. David Bailey helping save America or Stacey Herbert helping transform El Salvador I am particularly interested in globally relevant things to the extent they exist rather than the hippy farmers market fake circular economies.

The truth about your bitcoin city/town circlejerks

Can someone explain to me the whole Nashville meme in bitcoin? Unlike Austin, the city is not at all a tech hub, so why is it such a draw?

Retardation is emergent and prolific under fiat No one is "running the show" top down

Everyone knows that the era before Satoshi was BS

Bitcoin separates MONEY from CONTRACT

Peter Thiel believes deeply in the State and Government He believes States can "fix things," if only his people are in control He doesn't understand Bitcoin. He doesn't understand or appreciate technology. He knows saying the phrase "I love freedom & technology" is popular.

BITCOIN IS NOT MONEY BITCOIN IS NOT PROPERTY BITCOIN IS NOT A COMMODITY, CURRENCY, SAVINGS, OR AN ASSET BITCOIN CONFERS NO RIGHTS Bitcoin is a software messaging protocol. MESSAGES. Bitcoin enables free speech and association without interdiction. Interfering with speech or association is not just unconstitutional, it is the foundation of tyranny anywhere, and enacted only by criminal, violent assault. It must also be understood of course that all taxation interferes with the natural rights of persons to freely associate. There are no "bitcoins", bitcoin cannot be "owned", and the notion of "title" to bitcoin is an abstraction under the reality that bitcoin will recognize and not reverse valid transactions signed under duress or downstream of criminal trespass. There is no such thing as "title" to "bitcoins" because it is fungible cash, you cannot correctly say "these coins" vs "those coins". This is not something to convince any authority of for there is no valid authority that may govern speech or association. Of course, people may be fooled into acting dead and impotent, like a trapped animal oblivious to the fact his cage was never locked. Every time someone talks about regulation and government, they are supporting the government, supporting its frame as a valid owner of all humans. This is the peak of high time preference behavior, a total moral capitulation and submission. And it is only possible first by promoting LIES about what bitcoin is, for if you state the truth, it is too obvious that all the regulatory ideas are invalid and unlawful. Bitcoin is software, it exists, it does not grant rights. If you burn a piece of wood and survive the night from the heat, it does not make warmth a right being given to you. You are USING the wood and it has certain behavior. It is anthropomorphization where the person being fictitiously constructed is none other than daddy government. But you are alone with the laws of physics, and other people trying to lie to you about the nature of the world. Bitcoin is first and foremost Freedom of Association tech. If you tell someone it's XYZ money thing, you guarantee someone else has set the mimetic framework / terrain. If you start with association, it may spur a person to consider association mechanisms and attack vectors.

Crickets. No one is trying to build the stuff that actually makes money on here, just social media apps. 🤦‍♂️

Nostr might be able to fix this. Some of you may recall, I posted a number of times my ideas around how relational contracting would enable distributed ridesharing and other markets without needing escrow.

The overwhelming majority of great technologies were invented in the West / West-allied nations. Steam Engine: England Internal Combustion Engine: France Basic Oxygen Steelmaking: Austria EAF Steelmaking: Scotland Bessemer Steelmaking: England Carbon Fiber: America Integrated Circuits: America Jet Engine: England/Germany Silicon Carbide Fibers: Japan Airplane: America Container Ship: America Modern LEDs: Japan Fucking food itself (Haber-Bosch): Germany Cement: England Fracking: America Nuclear Energy: America CNC Machining: America Pick-and-place: Japan Drones: America Bitcoin: America MOSFET (underpins internet): America The Internet: America Fiber Optics: India LASER: America 3D Printing: America Vulcanized Rubber: America MIMO: America GaN devices: Japan OLEDs: America GPUs: America Cellphone-to-sat coms: America Cloud Compute: America/England Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: America Nanocrystalline Alumina Fibers: America Shall I go on? Never invested in a commodity. None of them. Never will. "Omg you're missing out" Maybe. You're missing out on being in the room where the great leaps forward in human civilization take place and being a multi-trillionaire. Keep your tyrannical wastelands.

So, uhh, TIL, it's not the pricey charity dinner entrance, but the auction that gets you. 😬🥲 Looking forward to our conversation @jack, thanks for sharing some of your time! 🤙

El Salvador will own (Schelling point) frontiers of medicine. @npub1xctp...gd44, Stacy, Jack Kruse, et al convincing me: America may need to take L here. Beyond affordably detoxifying seed oils, El Salvador could lead energy infrastructure tech. Here's why: There has been a recent series of shifts in materials and manufacturing capabilities that have not yet been implemented at scale anywhere in the world and El Salvador is well positioned to be the first mover. Supercritical CO2 instead of steam coupled with certain turbomachinery capabilities that will lower capex by more than an order of magnitude will not just unbound the growth potential for El Salvador and the rest of central America, it will lay the foundations for a new era of nuclear fission, as the generator side capex is a key component of costs. Nations around the world have been under the thumb of external tyranny suppressing energy development for too long. And, @jack this will matter to you: ESCAPING ENERGY POVERTY is the only way to scale optionality and make freedom truly meaningful to every human -- bitcoin alone is not enough. It is easy to imagine a world fully bitcoinized, fully nuclearized, and now we have a first few steps to take. It is time to begin the fixing of everything, and I have a play: there is of course a HUGE opportunity cost to doing anything in the world at the moment, which is why I have a strategy that leverages the US military industrial complex, and demands for physical sovereignty that are becoming an increasingly imminent concern for many regions in the world, to greatly lessen that burden. Yes, bitcoin mining too, but there is so much more that is possible. El Salvador has 1 megawatt-hr/capita/yr. This is what poverty means. The US is at 11. This is in fact also poverty if one considers what could have been. Singapore at the end of 1995 was ~6.15, so, @nayibbukele, @JuicefBukele, to be El Salvador's version of the next Singapore, whatever that may be, more energy is needed. I was thinking 2.1 at first as a target, but let's be more ambitious: if @americanhodl8 was able to meme thousands of people into reaching 6.15 bitcoin, I think Central America can reach 6.15 MWh/capita. Current Numbers: Nicaragua 0.7 Honduras 0.8 El Salvador 1.0 Ecuador 1.5 Costa Rica 2.1 Panama 2.2 It is time for energy sovereignty. It is time to ignite the engines of wealth and prosperity across the world. It is time to trounce the affinity scammer fiat-anointed professional managerial anti-technologist technologist-LARPer, this broader class of shitcoiners who now wish to ingratiate themselves and their parasitic ways into the world through insincerely claiming that they too aspire to see these things. It is time to wage a mimetic holy war, a purely mimetic war, to re-establish the foundational human values of liberty and that of striving for optimization of the world around us, which shall only proceed most expediently after fiat dies, but there is too much to do, and there is another factor at play -- it is time to accelerate the mimetic momentum of life itself, which is functionally the objective of bitcoin. The mimetic war of bitcoin itself was won the day it was unleashed upon the world (or arguably upon the initial formation of life), and the bitcoin "want" to ultimately flow to those whose memes and ideals promote human flourishing. For adaptation to take hold, a stimulus must resonate, and it is only through hitting supersonic criticality that gases continue accelerating through a de Laval nozzle. Now that this is all within reach, a new calculus emerges in the realization that some resonant frequencies have been found, and with a few well-placed impulses, we may live to witness the beginning, an Age of Light. All that is needed is the sincere desire to see it take place. - sent from amidst the volcanos of El Salvador