A friend called me yesterday:
"Hey, I'm a completely different person" (I could hear it in his voice)
"...I am now a bitcoin person. I appreciate you telling me crypto was all BS years ago because it helped give me the conviction to go with my gut."
Men must be toxic to evil
Delta, Dirac
npub1c8nl...qsah
Background in bleeding edge aerospace and weapons... beyond what startups touch. Disgust with mediocrity worship brought me to bitcoin, but I realized the world has no cogsec to stop the mediocrity worship philosophy and that things go much deeper than just fiat for the true roots of slop. @DeltaClimbs on twitter.
I like mountain biking and 1-arm-chinups
"Imagine a special passport issued by the League of Sovereign Individuals, identifying the holder as a person under the protection of the league."
- The Sovereign Individual, page 320
How many years are we from AnchorWatch becoming the first such league? ๐ค๐
From The Sovereign Individual I am learning that in the early years of the printing press, from 1518 to 1525, Luther's works were a third of all German language books sold.
So there is nothing odd about most of Nostr being discussion centered on Bitcoin.
Spending KYC bitcoin with KYC merchants isn't using bitcoin
Receiving bitcoin payments via PoS auto-convert isn't using bitcoin
Buying nonKYC coconut for $5 of bitcoin isn't using bitcoin
Zapping people isn't using bitcoin
Only store OV, standard OV, and measure OV are uses.
Obviously, saving is using
But do not be a LARPing faggot
Also point out that sendin/receiving bitcoin does not necessarily mean you are really "using bitcoin"
If you've been around a minute, you know who the guy in the middle is.
I think there is a real opportunity here, and one that might be able to resist being co-opted by shitcoiners because it can be paralleled with real technological growth and economic development into which the fervor toward seeking short term gains can be productively directed. Trump is delivering the "crypto" dream of policy, not the bitcoin one.
cc: @jack @I)ruid @Tuur Demeestr @jack mallers
Understand there is no path to go forward that doesn't involve materials and manufacturing advancements, which are inherently dual use between industry and war. There is no Singaporization without militarization. This is fundamental physical reality and it will be used in an attempt to cleave bitcoiner interest away from Argentina and weaken it as a Schelling point.
Why do you think the Argentines are interested in meeting me? Certainly not because of any bitcoin matters, and what would you tell them? "Buy bitcoin?" Lol. I have a path to helping them become a real economic player, a real economic node, and pulling in other entrepreneurs who are sick of the nonsense of Silicon Valley Cantillionaires, yet still feel compelled to build the foundations of civilization's technology -- that is what I offer to Argentina.
[Redacting a bit for Nostr] ...it's all anchored in the fact that I have and can deliver The Goods. You cannot. Doesn't matter how many orders of magnitude more bitcoin you may have than me. Trump was high time preference tactics. Time to get strategic.
(I know there was the shitcoin thing that happened with Milei. Unless someone shows me evidence otherwise, I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and consider the President an unwitting victim to social engineering, just as has happened with various celebrities. Presidents are extremely busy people, just think about how Trump talked about "playing with your coins" -- you can't assume they have taken the time to really pay attention the way Bukele has.)


Twitter is the ultimate censorship platform
On my business account with same number of followers I get 10x the engagement
My tweets are suppressed on main because I don't have a 1-dimensional feel good, inane commentary
Elon is the world's greatest censor, using AI to impede human freedom while LARPing as pro America
Good evening


If you call yourself a bitcoiner, you need to read this to understand how fiat actually manifests in the economy.
Make no mistake: if you lie about this and pretend that *non-direct government spending* from pension funds, including VC, are private market capitalism, you are an enemy of liberty, you are an enemy of America, and you are an enemy of life itself, regardless of whether you cosplay as a Republican.

Kumar Thangudu
The Stealth Nationalization of America: How 5,000+ Public Pension
[There comes a time when every economy needs an Accountant.]TLDR: The Hidden Government Takeover and How Venture Capitalists, Private Equity, and H...
Sometimes I will read Beautyon's tweets even though he has me blocked, and I will think that I should be working on the critical product for adoption that everyone else is neglecting... but then I remember there is nary a serious bitcoiner to be found in most parts.
But the military is serious, and through building weapons, I can carry the torch of the dying culture of engineering and technology advancement, a culture bitcoin will restore to its full grandeur, but totally foreign to the fiat-world bitcoiner of the present era. Pity.
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" โก


New Atlas
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?