Jummah Mubarak

This would normally be good news, assuming that it would lower the tax rate and decrease the insanely bloated size of the US government, but of course that will not happen, as resources will go to funding other departments (war). But unironically this might help increase the median American IQ by 2 or 3 points, but we are still trending downwards. Nothing stops this train.

This game is a lot a harder than dark souls View article →

I'm just now learning that Hayek wrote a book about Psychology 👀 I had no idea... I've actually never read a Hayek book but I'm tempted to start with this one.

"A phase change is coming. Virtual communities are in their ascendancy, displacing conventional notions of nationhood. Geographic proximity is no longer as important as it once was. A lot of work remains. Technical cryptography still hasn’t solved all problems, the role of reputations (both positive and negative) needs further study, and the practical issues surrounding many of these areas have barely been explored. We will be the colonizers of cyberspace." -Timothy C. May, 1994

Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute

By Timothy C. May, December 1994

This is how you do it View quoted note →

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Example of what is meant by Hoppe's comment. People that do this are no different than animals. View quoted note →

"A member of the human race who is completely incapable of understanding the higher productivity of labor performed under a division of labor based on private property is not properly speaking a person... but falls instead in the same moral category as an animal..."

Really shows why we need nostr, and especially why we need nostr to stay as neutral as possible View quoted note →

Nostr devs are built different 😂 View quoted note →

My body is ready SAIF 23/11 View quoted note →

Alhamdulilah. The presentation went well. Had a lot of people come up to me and ask questions. And some of the questions were pretty good, but a lot of it was the usual "how do I buy the bitcoin???" I also gave away a bunch of copies of my book. And every single person I talked to asked for my LinkedIn 😂 "nah I'm not on linkedin but here's my npub" View quoted note →

"Jack Mallers you are in bed with mafia players. Charlie Kirk tried to exit the mafia. You can't exit the mafia once you're in bed with the mafia."

I don’t get how so many Bitcoin developers, people who have been here for years and are objectively brilliant, still can’t grasp this one obvious reality that’s been smacking them in the face the whole time. Bitcoin culture will always drift toward purity tests and so-called "narrow mindedness". Some might see this as a bug imported from fiat but it’s literally how the thing protects itself. If you want relevance in this space, you stick to the core principles (fixed supply, small blockspace, cypherpunk ethos, whatever) because the moment you wander off, everyone stops taking you seriously. You are already participating in purity tests whether you think you’re “above” them or not! And I get it. You want to seem open, inclusive, intellectually flexible, whatever makes your normie tech friends think you’re not part of some terrifyingly closed-minded cult. Heaven forbid anyone accuse you of conviction! But know this, every single time you drift from Bitcoin’s ideological spine, you will lose. You can react emotionally to this, but it’s literally what has happened, repeatedly and brutally. Look at the blocksize war. Look at every attempt to smuggle in shitcoin-adjacent “innovation.” It fails because Bitcoin only survives by being toxically hostile to garbage ideas. If you want to be part of Bitcoin’s future, you’re going to have to embrace the cult. Fucking deal with it.

Jummah Mubarak y'all