@Jeff Booth As a small company that saves in BTC and serves large enterprise with SAAS: Payment (as opposed to receipts) in BTC is currently not of interest to large enterprise. Yes, there are benefits (cutting out middle men) - but these are negligible vs costs of internal administration. Do you have views about enabling the enterprise circular economy e.g Pick'npay or Steak 'n Shake accepting BTC then passing on to small suppliers ? It seems if 'hacked' it would massively accelerate adoption amongst margin sensitve suppliers. It requires pump-priming a double-sided network vs incumbents - but how?

Compare 'loving your neighbour' & trading with bitcoin: Both are Peer2Peer Both are voluntary Both parties gain Both are permission-less Neither require a third party Community is the network effect Both are contagious - do more !

Just thought I would leave these here If #fiat is a problem degenerate leadership and distractions from problems perpetuates the sad state of affairs

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KYC is a permissioning system! This is why KYC/AML must ultimately fail (ie be eradicated) for BTC to serve the unbanked. KYC / AML is an evil in exactly the same way that freedom of speech isn't ! However KYC cannot prevent p2p transactions (they remain permissionless given decentralisation) With this in mind - name something / anything more useless than a private blockchain. I'll wait!

One of the amazing things about bitcoin is that : Once a mid-wit like me has worked out that #BTC makes for a better world, that same midwit understands more than all of Wall Street about money. The beauty of this is that as Wall Street works ever harder to collect ever less meaningful paper we acquire for an under-appreciated, ever strengthening, ever more widely accepted call on all future goods and services. By implication simply understanding what money is makes the world a better place. Skate to where the puck is headed in 2025 Stack sats (ohhh and try to be ever so humble - yup its getting harder ) h/t @ODELL

Thoughts on FIRE ❤️‍🔥 Financial Independence Retire Early Reads to me like a recipe for wasted dissatisfaction. Retire = Withdraw, Retreat, Quit & coast To really live involves an ongoing effort, find meaning, to strive & to realise goals. Better: Find, Intend, Realise, Enjoy If you can do this, you can enjoy a sovereign success free from unwanted externalities

@ODELL GM 2025 Sometimes I worry that BTC & Nostr & freedom technology adoption is slow. I believe Thought Go Up is THE best freedom enabling technology but has the slowest adoption rate in history. TGU is hard work and a result of diligence and an open mind. Wishing you and your readership TGU in 2025, since: where thoughts fear to tread - bitcoiners dare to follow

I think I may hove found the techological muse that inspired the latter day thinking of @Lyn Alden ...

Interesting take on Bitcoin and MSTR from a giant of business education

If you, like me, have struggled to grasp @Jeff Booth s "You can't measure (or change) a system from within a system" - you should watch this. A beautiful understandable illustration of the concept using Galileo as an example

When a country, company or individual backs itself with #BTC reserves ... It does so because it sees a better reserve or It is also always a capitulation to admit that it cannot manage a money supply the way BTC can Either way it is inevitable Perhaps the US and major players will be one of the last to do this (which is fine) TLDR; get to the front of the queue.

You know what it feels like to blow up a balloon, not as easy as breathing. It starts hard but gets easier and then a bit tougher before it finally bursts. Then it's as easy as breathing. #Hodl bitcoin like you practice breathing. The surprise will be good.

As #BTC prices close in on ATH I remind myself of a few things: The price may "look" high, but in a few years it will be seen to have been low. I can change the present, not the past - so stack for the future. He who laughs last, laughs longest. Happy hodling

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#Fiat

Free Speech and Free Listening are different. Taking offence is a decision At the core of human rights is sovereignty over the body. If I exercise my vocal cords - it may annoy you (it probably will ;) - but you may move away (or ask for my silence) What I may not do is impose hearing on you, any more than I should impose silence on you. To bind you in any way - with the exception of defensive action is coercion or violence (of your sovereignty) So I can ignore your words or avoid them - unless you are violating me. In which case I may and should resist. EXACTLY THE SAME applies to someone you move to violence against me. They may ignore you (and should), and maybe I can ignore them. If they act violently they have no excuse ("Doing My Duty" was the rejected Nuremberg defence and didn't apply at My Lai either) What is unacceptable is for me to bind them (unless to resist their violence) Thus punishing free-speech is violence as much as unwarranted incarceration or physical abuse is a violation. Key message - People offer offence - to take it or not is your choice - own it ! To intend offence (taken or not) is offensive - and some will. If you can rise above it you are the better person.

First Post - No idea but as a baby figured out how to walk !  Stage 2 - Probably many hours later : Set profile name (somehow) currently grayed out (astral / linux) Stage 3 Nip-05  + LUD-06 whatever they are Do say Hi  If I am only talking to myself please don't ! :)