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Bitcoin & freedom maximalist. Ex-creative at Bloomberg & Samsung. Fix the money, fix the world.
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Bitcoin is hope. Everything else is cope.

Stacking sats is protest without noise. No outrage required. Just opt out, peacefully. #Bitcoin

This is what a housing crisis looks like.

Sometimes I listen to 20 minutes of a VC Tech Bro podcast just to wonder what I would be like if I had that much irrational certainty (and ketamine.)

God wasted a perfectly good asshole when He put teeth in her mouth.

“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

Wild rent-seeker appears!

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

“Collapse is just a series of ordinary days in between extraordinary bullshit, most of it happening to someone else. That’s all it is.” indi.ca/i-lived-thro...

Pope is dead. Virginia Giuffre committed suicide. Gwyneth Paltrow is eating cheese and carbs again. The apocalypse is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

You know who said it best? Leonard Cohen. He meditated all those years often for 12 hours at a time. In an interview, he said his storyline just wore itself out. He got so bored with his dramatic storyline. He said: "The less there was of me, the happier I got."~Pema Chödrön

"American houses did not magically become 6x more valuable. American money became 6x less valuable."

there is no plan(et) b.

Bitcoin just passed Google. With a market cap of $1.87 trillion, Bitcoin is now the 5th most valuable asset in the world, ahead of Alphabet and closing in on NVIDIA. Not bad for a 16-year-old piece of open-source software with no CEO, no HQ, and no marketing team.

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

60% of the world lives on $1 a day. Currency debasement is a crime against humanity. H/t Alex Gladstein

Bitcoin fixes this. (Or at least, protects you from this.)

Bitcoin is the Marshmallow Test for adults

What if you could buy prime Manhattan real estate 100 years ago?

“So what if it takes a few million gallons of water and untold amounts of greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere each year?” @nitishpahwa.com Yet another journalist talking about climate change & Bitcoin who doesn’t understand how important methane capture is for mitigating climate change.

Is this the real life or is this just fantasy?

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good

Bitcoin ≠ cryptocurrency Crypto is a ponzi casino. Bitcoin is a revolution. If the Biden administration could have even admitted that, young men may have considered listening.

According to Jung, metaphor affects the person on three levels: the mental level on which we interpret meaning, the imaginative level, where the actual transforming power resides, and the emotional level connected to the feelings embodied in the metaphor. ~Ralph Earle

Bitcoin is nonpartisan. But in today’s hyper-political climate, it’s often framed as a right-wing movement. Let’s cut through the noise and explore why Bitcoin is for everyone—including progressives. 🧵👇

Here are some nice mushrooms

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. - E. O. Wilson #biodiversity #fungi #5thkingdom

Jung observed that everyone has a pathological secret, something so scary, so shameful, so humiliating, that one will protect it at nearly any cost. As long as such secrets remain buried, they will continue to percolate their invisible toxins into world of conscious life.~James Hollis

In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.

"The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.” One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives only for self while the other acts to redeem society." ~Joseph Campbell

Fiat: Only elites can print money. Cryptocurrency: Anyone can print money. Bitcoin: No one can print money.

Ferguson’s Law states that any great power that spends more on debt service than on defense risks ceasing to be a great power. Now ask yourself: Does Bitcoin fix this?

Or you could just study #Bitcoin.

“Bankers are looting the world. You're not in the middle of a recession; you're in the middle of a robbery.”

It was, in fact, the blurst of times.