If you want to watch something unlike anything you've ever seen before, watch prediction market Manifold's live dating show featuring Aella. Let me know how far in you make it lol

Soon I'll visit the US for the first time in 5 years

First commercial and US lunar landing in 50 years just happened. "Its existential [...] it’s over for govt control of space." -Pippa Malmgren

Let's all say what we think

"It's not just grungy punks, drug dealers & people who want to skirt the system at these events. It's genuine professionals looking at #Bitcoin in a genuine way to adopt it into their professions." -Bitcoin Alive co-organizer Chris Pavlesic ( @Lungdoge ) on Beyond The Price ep. 20 Listen on @Fountain:

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Beyond The Price • Bitcoin is Alive in Australia (Chris Pavlesic, Bitcoin Alive Conference) • Listen on Fountain

Bitcoin Alive is on March 23 in Sydney! Use discount code BEYONDTHEPRICE for 10% off tickets.Chris Pavlesic is a co-organizer of Bitcoin Alive, fou...

Always get nervous before recording an interview

Nice that I can follow as many people as I please on Nostr without worrying about it de-boosting my posts due to a bad following:follower ratio like on Twitter

Is there a tool that can automatically post on other platforms like Twitter when you post on Nostr? Maybe with a little tag that says "originally posted on Nostr", could be good exposure

Like murmuring into the void

Holy shit, TJ Miller was at @PUBKEY and did a dramatic reading of the original HODLING post

Super short snow season in Japan this year. Hope that's not indicative of years to come 🏂

Seeing these Sora videos makes me think that within a few years (at most) we'll see a blockbuster movie made entirely with Al, no actors, almost no crew. It'll be infinitely customizable for different countries - want Asian actors for an Eastern audience? Boom. Want it all in your local language? Boom. Want to tone down (or up lol) the graphic content? Boom. Not only will all film-related jobs be far less in demand, we'll lose the shared experience that movies/TV shows have been up until now. We have our own news, our own social feeds, our own echo chambers, but at least we were still watching the same movies. No longer.

A few years ago I was translating something by a wealthy Japanese art collector, and one thing he said stuck in my mind. He said he thinks it's better for an artist to grow up in a small city or town rather than a big city like Tokyo because in a big city, you're surrounded by people at the top of the game and it's easy to feel like you'll never achieve what they have, whereas in a small city the competition is less in your face. I think social media or the internet at large has the same problem, we all have access to the most popular entertainers, most engaging writers, the biggest podcasters, etc., so it's easy to get discouraged if you're trying to follow in their footsteps. Worsened by the fact that it seems much more within reach because of the accessibility, but secretly isn't. Kinda wish I could just do my thing, even if it sucks, without knowing about all the people doing it better than me.

"The death of Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, robs the disparate Russian opposition of its most prominent leader as Putin prepares for an election which will keep the former KGB spy in power until at least 2030." https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/

I'm just not cut out for social media

"This is a revolution. This isn't about Bitcoin adoption, this is about changing the future course of humanity. Bitcoin adoption is a means to an end, but it is not the end. The end is not that the price of bitcoin is higher and Bitcoin companies are behemoths... This is the first time in human history that we've had this opportunity to not change who wields power but change our very relationship with power." - @John Dennehy of @My First Bitcoin BTP19: Bitcoin in the Classroom (John & Adam, Mi Primer Bitcoin) Listen on Fountain:

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Beyond The Price • Bitcoin in the Classroom (John & Adam, Mi Primer Bitcoin) • Listen on Fountain

Mi Primer Bitcoin (My First Bitcoin) is a bitcoin educational non-profit that started in El Salvador but is quickly spreading throughout the world ...

Listen elsewhere: https://pod.link/1706025076/episode/9b24d56160c19ffe11bd049efab273dd Find everything on Substack:

Bitcoin in the Classroom (John & Adam, Mi Primer Bitcoin)

Mi Primer Bitcoin (My First Bitcoin) is a bitcoin educational non-profit that started in El Salvador but is quickly spreading throughout the world ...

"This is a revolution. This isn't about Bitcoin adoption, this is about changing the future course of humanity. Bitcoin adoption is a means to an end, but it is not the end. The end is not that the price of bitcoin is higher and Bitcoin companies are behemoths... This is the first time in human history that we've had this opportunity to not change who wields power but change our very relationship with power." - @John Dennehy of @My First Bitcoin BTP19: Bitcoin in the Classroom (John & Adam, Mi Primer Bitcoin) Listen on Fountain:

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Beyond The Price • Bitcoin in the Classroom (John & Adam, Mi Primer Bitcoin) • Listen on Fountain

Mi Primer Bitcoin (My First Bitcoin) is a bitcoin educational non-profit that started in El Salvador but is quickly spreading throughout the world ...

Listen elsewhere: https://pod.link/1706025076/episode/9b24d56160c19ffe11bd049efab273dd Find everything on Substack:

Bitcoin in the Classroom (John & Adam, Mi Primer Bitcoin)

Mi Primer Bitcoin (My First Bitcoin) is a bitcoin educational non-profit that started in El Salvador but is quickly spreading throughout the world ...

Great conversation with @John Dennehy and Adam Nili of @My First Bitcoin yesterday. Goal is to edit and upload on Beyond The Price today. What they've achieved in El Salvador is incredible and I can't wait to see the curriculum start to hit East Asia as well. Right now the only Asian node in their network is Hong Kong, but I know it's being translated into Japanese so hopefully we'll see communities start to pop up around here.

My First Bitcoin

My First Bitcoin - Bitcoin Education for Everyone

A Free Society Starts With Individuals Who Have AgencyIndependent. Bitcoin Education is How We Make it a Reality

Where's the best place for #Nostr usage metrics?

Watched the movie Upgraded last night. It was alright, basically a Devil Wears Prada remake with a slightly different plot. More and more of those it seems - Love Wedding Repeat as an updated Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridgerton as an updated Pride & Prejudice...even Star Wars Episode VII was basically a remake of Ep IV. I hear studios are taking fewer risks these days, but I wonder if these are actually pitched this way or if it's a little more coincidental?