It is wild that somehow Dubai chocolate running $25 a bar is trending on Tiktok even as people talk about not being able to afford rent. I'm not saying you can afford rent for that $25 by any means, but like, it doesn't get much more black pilled than giving up to the point where you're instead spending it on a chocolate bar. Not surprised people with money are moving away -- I would NOT want to be here as a multimillionaire when the spark hits this tinderbox of people who feel they have nothing left to lose. The only real solace any of us have is how out of shape they are. But it turns out, weaponry can be a pretty great equalizer. And houses don't run fast. Luckily Bitcoin is immune, as long as they don't know which meat popsicle to beat a key out of...

Really thought I was gonna put this cut in and lift the stump portion up over the fence. Then gravity reminded me about the density of wood. Still just glad I got the saw started in the 20°F weather. Might have to see if I have some rope around because my kid's got my car and there's not much fuel left 🫤

An anthem for the fourth turning. Bitcoin is our phoenix, to save us from the lies, and artificial needs. Someone probably needs to go make sure Tim Steinfort's taken the orange pill. #tunestr #oi Discharger - From the Ashes

Given that minted coins aren't necessarily available (see:Satoshi's) I've got to side with Knut here. Perhaps what Bitcoin makes hard is its liquidity, with it being quite simple to go from inert and locked away at the bottom of the ocean to suddenly being sold in an instant on an exchange, so MEASURING what is stock and what is flow becomes a bit like counting the number of photons in a room. But simply being mined by a hodler doesn't make those coins have any more of an impact as part of the flow, or marketable supply, than they had before they were mined (when we just counted them as part of the potential 21 million). I think this is why we get so fascinated when James Check or @Lyn Alden trot out things like the MVRV Z-score, and other metrics that examine the frequency of coins moving. It's backward looking, but as flow only really exists as long as one is asking for a buyer, this seems almost impossible to avoid. It's not like eggs, brought to the market, when you can count the eggs at a market booth -- Bitcoin simply doesn't have that friction (nor that shelf life). There are other angles that could be looked at as well, such as the number of steps one would need to sign a transaction,but only the people involved in those multisig wallets usually know about what those inbuilt frictions are. Anyway, interesting debate, and I'm gladyou disagreed so I could hear it.

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Here's a thought: instead of colonizing planets like Mars, what if we used them as extra farming space for megafauna that we just don't have room for on Earth anymore? It'd take some terraforming and plant growth of course, but surely would be easier than making the land fit for human civilization. And meanwhile, we could get back to eating an appropriate diet, and reverse the 30-40,000 year trend of our shrinking brains and overthrow our plant overlords who domesticated us.

GM What do you see, the broken fence, or the free firewood? Gonna work on the latter today even as I notice how soon Christmas is with how little shopping I have done.