Things start to go haywire in a society when the things that are a joke are taken seriously and the things that should be taken seriously become a joke.
John Balkam
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The people who make and enforce the laws are violent criminals.
The people who make the money are thieves.
It is no wonder we have a world run by violent criminals and thieves. Opt out.
Some people are just afraid and anxious all the time. It won't ever matter how beneficial a new thing like Bitcoin or AI could be. These folks will always find a way to project their insecurities out onto the new tech.
To the kayfaber goes the spoils
Hellish war in the Middle East
Hellish war in Eastern Europe
Hellish war about to expand to the rest of Europe
But it's AI that's going to destroy humanity
Make it make sense
All Bitcoin Demand Matters
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This was fun. Last night at @PUBKEY DC
https://www.youtube.com/live/g1Bqgrtt_2k?si=HKiqP7qKOcckQ2AE
Introducing a new show from @Sovreign hosted by yours truly.
The Freedom Tech Frontier
Stablecoins are stable in that they pen you in to a digital prison like a farm animal.
I watched Finding Satoshi today and it was a really moving documentary.
The conclusion that Hal Finney and Len Sassaman likely collaborated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin seems very plausible to me given the evidence presented.
Even more significant to me though was the takeaway about these two men as human beings.
They were brilliant and competent, but they were also kind, thoughtful, humble, and principled. They were good teammates, friends, partners, and in Hal's case, a good father.
All of our lives, we are shown example after example in society that these kinds of men are not valuable. That, in fact, power, cunning, and ruthlessness are the only ways for individuals to make an impact in the world. Might makes right and the strong can do what they want, while the weak suffer what they must.
Bitcoin's origin story is a repudiation of that worldview. It shatters that framework.
Look at how much positive impact Bitcoin has already had on the world. And imagine how much positive impact is yet to come.
If Hal and Len were the creators of Bitcoin, it demonstrates to the world that kind, humble, hardworking, collaborative, and loving individuals are powerful. In fact, they may demonstrate that a dedicated network of those types of individuals are the most powerful force in the world.
We Are All Satoshi. We can be peaceful, loving, and humble (enough) people, and we can also be a force of nature that even powerful tyrants bend to.
Thank you Satoshi. We'll carry the flame from here.
Will quantum computers do anything useful? Or are they solely being created to try and break Bitcoin?
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I'm itching to zap right now. Tell me about something you're looking forward to the rest of this year.
Dollars are only used by pedophiles, sex traffickers, and drug traffickers.

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Bitcoin in self-custody is the No Kings protest that has real teeth.
I had an American raised grass fed NY strip for dinner and a swear to you it was medicine
The clownish former Prime Minister of the UK comparing Satoahi to Charizard and Pikachu is a major bottom signal
Time is not a river. Time is a heartbeat.
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Saylor said something on the MSTR earnings call that was hilarious and that sounded like something Yogi Berra would say:
"It's a good thing we have time, otherwise everything would happen all at once."
Epstein really was Pandora's Box.
Everyone in "elite" circles. And I mean EVERYONE was exposed. Government. Finance. Banking. Technology. Business. Hollywood.
They are all criminals. Clintons. Trumps. Musk. Thiel. Hoffman. Dimon. Etc. Republicans and Democrats. They're going to try and build AI dystopia to cover it all up, but it's too late.
They are FUCKED.
Hell yeah
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