Flying home today with a helicopter full of workers at the end of a long overtime shift. Flew over some lakes full of boaters having a good time. Told the guy riding in the front seat, “Just think, most people down there wish they had a bit more money and most up here wish they had a bit more free time”. Takes intention to choose to be happy in what ever state you’re in.

Team Bip110 has a much stronger bot game. Good indication of what side has well funded benefactors.

I hope the bitcoin exchange rate goes to $100k this weekend just for the social experiment of seeing how the conversations change on nostr. Then next week it can crash again.

I’m looking forward to the August Bip 110 reckoning. No more arguing about what might happen. Rather, we can talk about what is actually happening. There will be winners and losers and one side will get to say “see, I told you so” while the other side will be mad that nostr doesn’t have a delete button 🚁😂

Cash flow is the antidote to volatility. Wake up, show up on time, sober, with a good attitude, provide goods and services. You’ll be just fine.

At this point, I’d prefer we just give the $58k gang something to celebrate. 🚁😎

Does it seem plausible that a system that prints money could come up with 1 billion dollars a year to suppress the adoption of bitcoin? If they wanted to buy off content creators to reduce the confidence in the code review process, support harmful BIPs, create quantum FUD, start malicious forks, and all manner of things, how many could they get at an average cost of $175k a year? Well, let’s do the math…. $1b / $175k = 5,714 paid influencers a year. There aren’t that many well known voices in bitcoin you say, and nobody would sell out for $175k a year. Ok, let’s say you just need 75 highly influential voices in the bitcoin community to disrupt adoption. How much does each one get offered? $1B / 75 people = $13.3 million a year to each of them. Could you find people to say what you want for that kind of money? Is this happening? I’d have no way to know for sure, but it seems foolish to not assume the financial system would not try. Look at the amounts of wasteful money DOGE found before they were told to stop. Remember, these people were going to throw $2B at Stacey Abram’s dormant NGO just to keep her on the team. Spending $1B to keep the fiat system defended against bitcoin seems reasonable. What’s the point? Don’t trust, verify. When you see people campaigning to change bitcoin, especially those who seem to make it their full time job, be skeptical. Many OGs made bad decisions and no longer have much bitcoin, they’re easy targets for influence peddlers. People who just show up with large audiences are questionable. The calm voices are much more likely to have the right incentives. The loud voices might be the ones worried about loosing their funding if they can’t move the needle. Stay calm, stack sats on private keys you control, seek truth, change your mind slowly. 🚁😎