J.T. Woodhouse - Nostr Hypermedia

“Bitcoin is trustless. But bitcoining is nothing without trust.” This fantastic piece by @Moon hits different right about now.

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Bitcoiner Thought 03: Bitcoin is Trustless. Bitcoining is Nothing Without Trust.

Across self, family, friends, and community, bitcoining forces trust dynamics to the surface and forms a lived experience of reimagined and rebuilt...

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Just finished Four Thousand Weeks. I found it to be a liberating, refreshing take on productivity. https://www.oliverburkeman.com/fourthousandweeks #books

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Use Lightning, they said. It’ll work, they said.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Everything Is temporary and that is where the beauty comes from.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Gonna tell my grandkids this was when the strategic bitcoin reserve was created. I was not in the room where it happened, but they won’t know the difference. View quoted note →

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Disengaging from the political process has consequences. View quoted note →

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

From now on, the only reserve I believe in is Woodford.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

“Writing is a labour of love that has driven many better souls than ours to perdition.” - Del Amitri #quotes

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Folks, don’t give blood while strolling social media. I saw this in the wild and I can’t think of a worse combination. Life draining out of you and toxicity streaming in.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Sometimes I wonder if AGI is the Tower of Babel, and civilization has been trying to do this over and over again just to have God nuke it in the end. I mean, what if the dinosaurs were onto something?

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

The New Atlantis

We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It

Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

What is the point of the internet if you can’t share a link anymore? This is why we Nostr.

J.T. Woodhouse

Rowboats: There's a life after social media

You are what you engage with. With social media platforms in tumultuous times, it's time to search for a better way to relate to one another.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Shoutout to the Fed for pausing rate cuts. Doing nothing is the first step toward stable monetary policy. /s

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

I switched back to iPhone and holy shit, my friends want to talk to me again.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

It occurred to me just now that Ross Ulbricht had been in jail for the entire Trump era. He had no way of knowing that someone would get him out one day and it would be the guy hosting The Apprentice. Life is wild, man. And time is a thief.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

I don't think there's anything said in a podcast nowadays that wasn't said in My Dinner with Andre 40 years ago.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

TikTok creators blossoming into a rogue band of government dissidents is quite the story arc.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

Bitcoin is 16 today, and like other teenagers, it will test your patience.

J.T. Woodhouse 1 year ago

RIP Jimmy Carter. Carter proved it's never too late to add a new chapter to your story if you're still alive. He was much more influential as a diplomat after his presidency than during it.