We have had no instance of getting beyond compute efficient frontier. I guess we will be stuck in 4 for a long while. View quoted note →

#Bitcoin culture often markets itself as “stateless money” built to undermine government control. Yet some adherents cheer for the same nation-state they claim to want to escape. It’s like demanding “exit freedom” while waving the flag — a kind of economic oxymoron.

Very well put. View quoted note →

Dan is a modern hero. View quoted note →

The only soothing aspect of life is that no one here gets out alive. View quoted note →

Very nice designs — unlike the usual stuff we say around here. View quoted note →

#Nostr seems more dead than ever.

#Palantir isn’t just selling software — it’s wiring government power directly into oceans of private data, quietly assembling the operating system of the modern surveillance state.

Morristown Minute

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The worst cold wallet I've tried. View quoted note →

He's surely got some wit flowing out. View quoted note →

They served the truth on polished silver, receipts stacked and steaming. The crowd poked it once, asked who sponsored the platter, then went back to dessert. It’s not rebellion — it’s appetite; sugar sells, facts don’t.

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Running a node feels like lighting a candle in the cathedral of sovereignty — your own rules, your own keys, your own quiet rebellion humming on a low-power box in the corner. You hold the keys; no banker breathes down your neck. You get paid in bitcoin, you spend in bitcoin, you obsess over the bloodstream of sats — make sure more flows in than leaks out. You watch mempools like weather radars. But here’s the twitch in the wire: you’re still drafting behind the miners. The real thunder lives in the hash rate — the brute-force hymn that turns electricity into finality. Without contributing hash, you’re a citizen, not a shield. The node verifies, the wallet signs, the merchant scans — but the miner carves the blocks into stone. Until you feed the furnace, you’re orbiting the sun, not fueling it.

Real talk. View quoted note →

The linked article argues that modern fiat systems rely on monetary elasticity — discretionary expansion of money and credit — to absorb crises, defer losses, and sustain the system, even at the cost of inflation and widening wealth concentration. Elastic money isn’t just the firefighter — it’s the arsonist with a pension. The same “flexibility” that rides in to rescue markets after every collapse is what pumped them full of helium in the first place: cheap credit, suppressed risk, leverage stacked on leverage, assets levitating while wages crawl. Then when gravity finally asserts itself, the architects of the boom print the antidote, socialize the losses, and call it stabilization. The cycle repeats: inflate, distort, concentrate wealth, panic, rescue — each bailout quietly seeding the next explosion. Elasticity doesn’t just save the game. It rigs the table, deals the cards, and owns the casino.

"Modern Money Only Works By Cheating": If You're Long Bitcoin (Or Not Long Bitcoin), Read This... | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

This is very insightful: As societies embraced fiat, the global pool of savings did not become defenceless. inflation arrived, but it was hedgeable. equities, property, credit, productive ownership. capital learned how to run. what didn’t reappear was another asset that hedged inflation without introducing credit risk. Gold has of course played that role for centuries. scarce, apolitical, jurisdictionless, created without leverage, owing nothing to anyone. an inflation hedge that was simultaneously riskless. when gold was demoted as a monetary standard, that role was tolerated, not replaced when gold was ransacked between the long years of 1980 and 2011. curious minds looked for an alternative. #Bitcoin emerged inside that gap. not as a rejection of fiat, and not as a tool for managing economic cycles, but as an attempt to recreate gold’s most elusive property in digital form. not merely scarcity, but scarcity without issuer risk. not just protection against dilution, but insulation from discretion. this is why bitcoin’s design is so severe. if the objective were simply to hedge inflation, the world already has dozens of ways to do that. the harder ambition is to build an asset that can sit beneath the monetary system as collateral rather than inside it.

"Modern Money Only Works By Cheating": If You're Long Bitcoin (Or Not Long Bitcoin), Read This... | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

For text messaging, Nostr-native clients like Keychat and WhiteNoise can make sense in high-censorship settings. They avoid centralized identifiers and can reduce some relay-side metadata exposure. However, they currently lack mature voice and video calling features, especially reliable group video calls. Projects like OxChat attempt to add calling via WebRTC-style connections, but that often reintroduces network-level metadata risks such as IP address exposure and traffic correlation. As a result, these implementations are not yet as privacy-hardened or thoroughly audited as Signal’s voice and video system, which includes specific mitigations to limit IP leakage and metadata exposure. View quoted note →

Taking sovereign tech advice from statists is hiring the prison architect as your escape coach.

I don’t take sovereign tech advice from statists. Period.