I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s happening in the strait after learning Iran is demanding bitcoin as payment to let ships pass. Even if the story is half true, (which is entirely possible, hard to tell in moments like this) the implications are being severely under appreciated. We will soon be , or perhaps already are, living in a world where an individual opinion of bitcoin no longer matters. In case the analogy isn’t clear; You (yes, you) are the oil tanker. Iran is the business selling a product or service you need to buy. You think bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme? You think it uses too much energy? You think it won’t survive quantum computing?Those opinions are now irrelevant if you need to get a tanker through the strait. You need to pay in bitcoin , otherwise you can find another way to get your oil through. This situation in the strait is a microcosm of what the world would look like under a Bitcoin standard. It doesn’t matter what you think. If someone has something you want, and they want Bitcoin as payment, then you may not have a say in the matter. In the words of Satoshi, it might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. That “just in case” window is closing quickly. Gradually, then suddenly.

Iran is accepting bitcoin as money …but I thought bitcoin was a scam, used too much energy, was quantum vulnerable, and was just a modern day tulip or beanie baby? Did those guys not think about that??? /s

The latest Quantum FUD research slop has an ethereum foundation member as one of its authors You can’t make this shit up

The analogy stuck in my head lately Being a bitcoiner is like being Linus waiting for the great pumpkin Always waiting on the next big world shaking event that will send bitcoins price to the moon, instead of just appreciating the festivities happening around you And when it never comes, you just wait for next year

I bought my own facts drive Once I figure out how to plug it into vscode, I will be able to vibe code so much fucking slop without the artificial limits of credits holding me back Nothing can stop me now

OSE — Open Source Everything

Primal 3.0 A whole new world

The only thing worse than a journalist is a sports journalist/sports radio host Grown men who sit on their ass for a living talking about how they expect athletes to perform better , throw faster, hit harder , and be better leaders Makes me genuinely disgusted

Trying to spend one hour a day at night doing something with Ai This week I’ve been taking Anthropic’s free courses on working with Claude. They each come with a LinkedIn badge I can put in my profile (don’t judge me, I was late to Bitcoin and still have to work) Last night and today I’ve been designing a resume website for myself to make my resume just ever so slightly more visually appealing and entertaining I’ve added a section where I can display the iPhone app I am also building when it makes its way to the App Store I’ve gotten comfortable using Claude in VScode now which opens up a whole new world of possibility Keep in mind two weeks ago I’d never written a line of code in my life This has been a fun and rewarding experience

I have become a vibe coding expert . Kinda . I’ve built an entire iPhone app for basic data entry and cataloging entirely on local storage in about 4 hours of work It’s probably the most barebones simplest thing one could even conceive of building. And I’m sure seasoned developers would laugh at the accomplishment I feel with the simplicity of what the app can do for what it’s designed for. I’m sure they could tell me a million better ways to do it and things that would make it more usable and fun. But I don’t care. Because here is the truth. I built a working , usable application that solves for a specific problem in my real life. Something I will use , and something I want to share with my friends and family who I know would benefit from using it. In a few weeks at most, I will have a published application, fully functional with plenty of cool features , live on the Apple App Store (that’s the goal, anyway). One week ago, I had never written a line of usable code in my life. I had never pushed a single commit to GitHbub. EVER. Now with AI, I can do things that were never possible to me before. The progress I made in a week is far beyond anything I could have expected. the rate at which I’m learning , picking up new strategies , and evolving a mental framework for building is accelerating at a crazy rapid pace. At this rate, the only limit is my imagination. If I can dream if, I can build it. Onwards.

Really enjoying vibe coding with Claude code so far. I went from knowing basically zero about mobile app development to almost being ready to deploy my first application in just about one week I’m already looking on the horizon for my next idea I want to tackle. Trying to think big picture is tough . Trying to come up with something people will pay for and use is even harder I wish I could justify $200 for the max level subscription but I simply can’t find a way to square the circle and make the case where that money is well spent right now In theory I could develop a business, some software, an app, or SOMETHING that would just need to make $200+ a month to cover the cost of developing it, maybe another $100 for hosting and database needs Feels like I have a sports car I’m building from scratch but not the gasoline it needs to run For now I think I’ll stick to small, manageable, tangible value add ideas that I just can go out and solve without any implications Just to flex the muscle of building , iterating, practicing good product management principles , getting it out in the world, and learning as much as I can along the way It will also have a second order effect of creating a nice little portfolio of examples of how I used AI to build things that will look nice on my resume . In a professional world that will be consumed by AI , having something tangible that I did outside of work on my resume should be a non negotiable. Whatever it may be. I really don’t really know what I’m doing All I know for certain right now is you can just do things. And that is my new personal mantra.

The male urge to dump a crazy amount of money on hardware and Anthropic credits just to see whatever the fuck I can do with it

OpenClaw diary entry; Open claw has been an interesting experience so far. I’ve been using @clawi.ai for a fast plug and play experience since I don’t have the resources or the know how to set up a self hosted one myself. It still needs a lot of trouble shooting but so far I think I’ve gotten into a good rhythm and can work with it well. I’ve been using it to help me draft a bitcoin related business model I’ve been ruminating on for months. It’s helped me actually put pen to paper and flesh out some specifics. So much so that now I’m spending more time questioning if the idea itself is good enough to achieve the mission I’ve identified than planning on how to use OpenClaw to support the operation. To be honest, I feel that I’m hitting a wall running in circles writing the same strategy documents over and over again. I’ll need to actually just build something and get it out in the market to see if it’s any good. I don’t know how much OpenClaw can help once the door is open and I have a product people for which might pay . With Kimi launching a beta of a built in bot this weekend, and OpenAi’s deal with Steinberger, I’m anticipating the “plug and play” element to get a lot better in coming months. That excites me, because it will be that much easier to use.

Open claw has been fun. I got greedy wanted to maximize the output while minimizing token usage. Last night I had a fully operational Trello integration going. My bot could add tickets, reclassify them, move tickets around, take on tasks based on content within tickets I had written, add comments , come up with new ideas. The whole nine yards. A nice way to work based on my personality. Then I downgraded the operational model to see if he could still add and move tickets around without using that many tokens. That switch basically made my agent braindead , and he forgot he even had API access to the board we made. Can’t do anything now. Back to square one I guess. Trouble shooting is fun.

The permanent underclass meme is very real So is bitcoin But something deep in my gut tells me that owning bitcoin will now save you from being in the permanent underclass