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jimmysong 2 hours ago
The market for treasuries is degrading gradually. The suddenly is inevitable.
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Centralized identity became a thing because it was so hard to establish identity back in the day. Cryptography makes denectralized identity possible again.
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jimmysong 2 days ago
Software has always been and continues to be the biggest security vulnerability in almost every modern thing.
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jimmysong 3 days ago
Status drives almost all social dynamics. And make no mistake there are status hierarchies in Bitcoin.
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jimmysong 4 days ago
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jimmysong 1 week ago
Fiat money, preventing creative destruction since 1913
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jimmysong 1 week ago
The more you understand savings, the harder you look for quality over the long term. This is how civilization builds.
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jimmysong 1 week ago
Everything that needs your attention can be seen as time debt.
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jimmysong 1 week ago
Better to let your enies die in obscurity than to pay them.mind when they lose.
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jimmysong 1 week ago
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jimmysong 1 week ago
Debt is a form of slavery. And by that metric just about everyone is a slave.
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jimmysong 2 weeks ago
Predictions on the price of eCash fork coins?
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jimmysong 2 weeks ago
Maybe we should start calling layer 2s that depend on lightning layer 3s.
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jimmysong 2 weeks ago
You almost always pay with time what you don't pay with money.
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jimmysong 2 weeks ago
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jimmysong 2 weeks ago
Bitcoin jobs are more volatile than Bitcoin.