Bitcoin Dad

Of course there aren't going to be studies on how to handle a global pandemic given the last one was the Spanish Flu a century ago. Expert consensus is going to have to take the place of trial data when there is none.

2024-05-31 16:12:48

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If I were a (benevolent) dictator: Abolish income tax, institute federal sales tax and property tax, institute a UBI that would cover up to the "poverty line" counteracting the regressive nature of the sales tax. Then I would start slashing government programs and increase the UBI to cover it (eg no more WIC or food stamps because you have a UBI). Maybe one day be able to slowly dial down the UBI as the economy rights itself from the last century of government-directed allocation of capital.

2024-05-09 00:54:43

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I really appreciate your podcast and it's very obvious that you have a killer grasp on economic theory. As someone who was on the front lines in the hospital taking care of patients with COVID, I find it hard to see such a disconnect with the reality that I experienced for a good year and a half.

2024-05-08 23:08:32

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Why are we still getting butt hurt over COVID? Libtards aren't even pushing COVID narratives anymore. If you don't want to believe that COVID was a legitimate disease that caused significant morbidity and mortality, that's up to you. But maybe we should focus on what's important, like overthrowing the authoritarian financial system. I really disagree with prominent Bitcoiners using their platform to spew nonsense on topics on which they are less than experts. Go make an alt-account to promote bullshit.

2024-05-01 21:02:56

Operation clown world has commenced. A government who is running a deficit somehow has the money to buy back bonds.
This is all pre-election shenanigans. The shit will not hit the fan until after 11/5/24.
https://image.nostr.build/12bd293b04a6649a8fa1e8ebb203b8d811d2be3ee6c148381418f56e32110e00.jpg

2024-04-30 17:40:36

Re: recent events surrounding Samourai wallet.
Government: #Bitcoin is property and subject to capital gains taxes.
Also Government: you may not obfuscate your #Bitcoin transactions because that is money laundering.
So which is it, fuckface, property or money?

2024-04-27 17:50:34

M2 supply starting to trend up again despite interest rates being high. I think this is what @npub1a2c…w83a means when discussing fiscal dominance. I'd expect inflation to continue to hover if not trend up.
Buy #Bitcoin
https://image.nostr.build/9cda7031ef1a5e4bfbd65df6944ba8ea8cfdfada376fbf82742408d0ddc3d08a.jpg

2024-04-26 16:09:07

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I don't know, man. I'm pretty pessimistic about our ability to win this war. It seems like we haven't had any major wins since 9/11 and the patriot act. I've started to resign myself to the fact that I'll likely have to vote with my feet one day.
But until then, let's fight the good fight.

2024-04-12 21:19:32

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How bout that bid-to-cover?

2024-04-10 15:57:51

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To me it comes off very Boomer and is a turn off

2024-04-10 11:53:50

I used to listen to NPR on my morning drives for unbiased headline news, but now I can't stand them and this essay is exactly why.
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

2024-04-10 02:54:00

Can someone explain to me why @npub1qny…95gx posts like a boomer with all caps and punctuation? Did I miss something a while back on this?

2024-04-03 19:42:18

Listening to @npub1s5y…6q7z and Jim Crider talk about their wives' interest in Bitcoin hits home so hard 😂: "I trust you and I love you, babe, but it's just not my cup of tea" (paraphrasing).
https://fountain.fm/episode/BwyU298DOFT4Y9XHguc7

2024-04-02 00:40:26

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Yea Marty's being dishonest in posting this out of context.

2024-03-13 23:25:54

The speculative attack commences. First MSTR, now Coinbase:
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/03/13/first-mover-americas-coinbase-plans-1b-bond-sale/

2024-03-10 03:04:53

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I'm so worried about a drone warfare dystopia

2024-03-06 22:02:43

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It's a feature, not a bug.

2024-03-01 20:25:03

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Outed yourself as a non-southerner!
Just put a little twang on it and it'll make sense.

2024-02-27 15:27:20

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He should buy Bitcoin with the surplus!

2024-02-24 21:39:28

Can we get a @npub1trr…hdpu vs Warren debate? I want to see Alex rip her a new one as she comes out as a closet authoritarian.

2024-02-18 22:39:17

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Yes, but have you tried the combo "x + x + x" ?

2024-02-09 18:32:20

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We are in the middle of the 4th turning. Every 4th turning, there is a rise in populism, whether it be fascism or socialism. Eventually we will come out of it and move toward a better world

2024-02-08 20:15:08

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Correlation does not equal causation. Even OpenVAERS says that as a disclaimer at the bottom of their page. A LOT of people got the vaccine. Anybody that died for any reason within a certain time frame after getting the vaccine could be reported as an adverse event.

2024-02-08 18:41:07

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Yes, I don't see what's wrong with my argument. People died from COVID during these surges. I literally saw it happen while taking care of them in the hospital as an internal medicine doctor.

2024-02-08 18:37:43

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Ok, but adverse event doesn't mean it was a death. And I'm not seeing a huge spike from 2020 to 2021 in young people in the CDC data. It seems overall mortality increased in just about every age group, which can be explained from COVID itself. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/451-500/db456-fig3.png

2024-02-08 17:55:51

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The delta surge was summer of 2021 and Omicron surge was January 2022. So not sure why you're saying it was the vaccine when people were still getting COVID and dying from it.

2024-02-08 17:50:39

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Can you provide a source for the death rates you are claiming? I'd like to see the numbers.

2024-02-05 23:02:42

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No mercy!

2024-02-02 15:53:32

#reddit #bitcoin sub has been completely taken over by ETF dick suckers. For the first time in a while, I'm afraid for bitcoin's future.
Someone show me the hope I need to continue believing.

2024-01-28 04:36:05

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Yea, I agree. The responses to that poll were scary.

2024-01-27 00:37:59

If I remember correctly how to do basic algebra, then Grayscale can give up 542k of its 633k Bitcoin holdings to the other ETFs before it loses money by having a 1.5% fee instead of a 0.25% fee.
They honestly made the right call from a business perspective.

2024-01-04 16:43:07

@npub1h8n…rpev 's ability to seamlessly transition from an impassioned diatribe against the fractional reserve system to a calm and collected exposition on the general concept of usury is both informative and entertaining.
https://fountain.fm/episode/8REbtTLamnGzEjdylGcy

2024-01-04 15:59:01

And #Bitcoin said unto those immersed in fiat: "All those who stand in my way shall perish. Repent and stack sats, or you shall face my immutable wrath."

2024-01-04 15:44:53

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Sir, this is Nostr

2024-01-01 20:51:32

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Definitely agree on everyone keeping their mouth shut on shit they don't understand

2023-12-26 15:52:34

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Nothing like dying prematurely to own big pharma

2023-12-26 00:39:01

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Damn, to fight cancer you just have to avoid sugar? Like, seriously, all you have to do is just deplete your body of all energy stores? Man why didn't anyone else think of that?

2023-12-25 23:18:15

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Lol try fighting cancer with natural medicine. RIP Steve Jobs.

2023-12-24 15:13:58

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Never underestimate the bounds of human stupidity

2023-12-22 00:47:32

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This is someone minting a shit ton of BRC 20 tokens.

2023-12-17 19:51:17

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Exactly. Humans are just biological pattern recognition machines. On a neurological connection basis, I'm sure the process of deduction is just a highly refined pattern recognition.

2023-12-15 01:19:41

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Lot of claims, not much data to back it up. I agree that there was a coordinated marketing campaign to get seed oils into our diet, but claiming that they are the primary cause of all health problems is just misleading. They even acknowledge correlation does not equal causation, but quickly move on and ignore this. Also, there's some internal conflict of data. They make the claim that we need less omega 6 and more omega 3 to preserve the historical "ratio". What about canola oil or flaxseed oil, which both have better ratios than olive oil?
Disclaimer: I try to avoid seed oils as much as possible, but I think it's an overgeneralization to 1. Lump all seed oils together and 2. To definitively promote them as the primary cause of all health issues that Americans face

2023-12-12 12:09:37

Question for the community:
Assuming you are storing your funds in a 3-of-5 multisig wallet and you don't plan on using/selling for another 10 years, what do you think should be your smallest UTXO size that you should keep? What size is not going to be completely decimated by fees when you actually try to spend them?

2023-12-03 02:28:19

Old man yells at cloud
https://image.nostr.build/8ea543fc984f13edcd937d609971e0820521795c6f8455d1a35f0c6d5293ebcc.jpg

2023-11-29 17:59:00

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My question about #Ocean.xyz: how is it going to impact transaction fees if every miner is receiving a payout from the block reward? I personally would want to batch my UTXOs to some degree to avoid huge tx fees both now and in the future

2023-11-29 16:41:18

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I smell a lawsuit from Pixar and animators unions coming based on training the AI model on copyrighted material...

2023-11-28 16:43:12

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Thanks! Zeus is setup and you are my inaugural #zap from #getalby!

2023-11-28 15:52:51

Trying to transition from @npub1hcw…h9rq to #getalby but every time I #zap, my phone still pulls up WOS to make the payment. Can someone walk me through the steps to connect getalby to #amethyst?

2023-11-25 14:42:55

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I Kant help you there

2023-11-24 11:45:38

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I meant to search that NPUB, not post it. Yikes.
Anyways, was looking at the news that they are leaving the US and disabling the app in Google and Apple app store.

2023-11-24 11:43:38

@npub1hcw…h9rq

2023-11-21 19:29:42

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I mean, I get it. We're all on the same side when it comes to protecting our kids. As a doctor, I make value judgements on the risks and benefits of treatments everyday. I think you and I are just seeing the risk/benefit profile of vaccines differently.

2023-11-21 17:29:26

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I don't even know which side effect we are arguing about at this point. If we are arguing about autism and MMR vaccine then here's your observational data that argues against a correlation between them.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa021134
Why would anyone fund an RCT to prove causation when you can't even find correlation of harm?

2023-11-21 16:44:07

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If there's no good observational data that links these adjuvants with harms, then it doesn't make sense to explore it further with an RCT, which over the timeframe you're asking for, would be wildly expensive. Do you have a good prospective or retrospective cohort that links them to harms? I'd love to read it and debate its merits.

2023-11-21 13:36:22

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Dude, the burden of proof for obscure side effects is on you.

2023-11-21 13:34:19

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Yea you know he's way out of his lane if he thinks vaccines are injected directly into the bloodstream.

2023-11-21 12:17:42

@npub1h8n…rpev, I dare you to boost me or reply.
Where bitcoiners go wrong with modern health accusations (seed oils, vaccines, etc) is that they are trying to apply praxeology to a field that is not conducive to doing so. Praxeology makes sense in economics: you can deduce so much about the economy just by making a few simple assumptions about human action.
However, you can't make any assumptions in medicine based on the supposed mechanism of how a vaccine works. Unless you have god-like understanding of how ALL the molecules, proteins, genes are going to react to a medicine, food, vaccine , etc, then you have to rely on data in aggregate from studies to inform your thinking. Praxeologists want to believe because a vaccine has a miniscule heavy metal in it that in large amounts causes brain damage, that this must mean it is the cause of the increased rates of autism.
But the funny thing is that the same people then like to quote statistics to help their cause as well. There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Statistics can easily be molded to fit a narrative and it's been seen over and over again that people will quote correlative studies claiming causation. Are the rates of autism going up? Yes. Is there likely an environmental cause? Yes. But there have been so many more environmental factors happening in the last half century other than just vaccines: pesticides, pollution, PFAS, processed food additives, etc. All those things should be fought against. I'm on your side on that one. But at least vaccines have an intended benefit of preventing childhood illnesses like polio. So please send me your study that definitively links or at the least plausibly correlates vaccines and autism; I'd love to be educated.
Just don't send me the one that got this all started by Andrew Wakefield, who was found to have falsified his data to try and prove a correlation between MMR vaccines and autism.
I'm a bitcoiner through and through, but let's not conflate Bitcoin maximalism and pseudoscience.

2023-11-20 17:53:11

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You can say you dropped 10lbs of fat based on those percentages (but depends on how accurate your measurement modality is). But you can't say it's 20lbs of (pure) muscle. Creatine would probably add about 10lbs of water weight in someone your size.

2023-11-18 14:02:08

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Are people just minting inscriptions in hopes of profit later? Or is there an actual marketplace going on right now? I'm just confused at how many fees people are burning on these things.

2023-11-18 12:28:26

Fees are spiking right now at 300 sats/byte. So much ordinal/inscription activity. My question is who is it that's minting all of these? And where is the market for them? The NFT craze last cycle (opensea) was pretty easy to view publicly, but other than the mempool fees being high, the inscription craze seems to be hidden from public view.
Mempool Master Moody @npub15n9…qru4 what are your thoughts?

2023-11-17 21:07:44

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Totally agree. Looking forward to WOS creating that feature.

2023-11-17 09:33:50

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I like the term "taking offense" rather than "offending someone" because I feel that the blame of an "offense" lies with the offendee. No one forces you to engage with someone saying content that you disagree with. Just ignore and walk away.
I'm sure there's something I'm missing here lol. Feel free to tear this argument apart.
I mean, don't offend someone for the sake of doing it (and being nice is always a winning strategy), but by God don't cut humor short because you're worried about offending someone.

2023-11-16 11:26:49

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If the fed is still tightening but global liquidity is going up, then that must mean other countries are starting to loosen. Any idea who?

2023-11-13 23:59:49

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It's high LDL levels over time that is going to cause atherosclerosis. Just because you don't have a high coronary calcium score now, doesn't mean you won't develop one over time with untreated high cholesterol.

2023-11-12 01:08:21

Putting kids to bed is the biggest mood killer.
Wife at 6pm: mouths to me over the dinner table: "I can't wait till tonight"
630-830: bath and bedtime for the kids
Wife at 9pm: "get off me"

2023-11-11 20:20:12

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It was a joke lol. I'm well aware of her book broken money. Sarcasm doesn't translate well on Nostr
🤣🤣🤣

2023-11-11 00:22:44

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Damn, you should write a book or something

2023-11-08 17:33:50

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*Almost every year* since 1970. We had a surplus for a few years under Clinton.

2023-11-02 23:12:18

US Treasury be like "Oh no the yield curve is uninverting, we are heading into a recession! Better issue short term treasuries instead of 10 year bills to re-invert that shit!"

2023-10-29 19:55:23

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Bitcoin has no value! But also we should ban/regulate/etc because some people value it!

2023-10-27 23:04:39

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Atorvastatin went generic in 2011. It's a few bucks for a month's prescription even without insurance.

2023-10-27 22:36:05

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Exercise, whole grains, legumes, olive oil, vegetables.

2023-10-27 21:39:13

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Careful citing peer-reviewed scientific literature among this group. If it doesn't fit their narrative to eat 3 helpings of red meat every day, it's probably BS government propaganda.
I hate how the ven diagram of Bitcoin and crazy is 2 almost perfectly overlapped circles.

2023-10-25 21:45:06

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Truth

2023-10-23 00:34:37

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Seeing eth go down makes me happier than seeing Bitcoin go up

2023-10-21 19:21:02

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But it would be the perfect cover!

2023-10-21 14:57:57

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Yea, Lawrence unfortunately has to cater to his investment clients and they're all gold bugs. Deep down he gets that Bitcoin is going to demonetize gold completely, but he has to play the part to make his clients happy.

2023-10-19 22:22:22

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Why so bearish?

2023-10-14 21:02:15

NPR picking and choosing who they apply the "greedy corporations cause inflation label" to. No mention of girl scouts acting like corporate scum raising their cookie prices. Oh wait, maybe it's not greed that causes inflation.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/14/1205699066/inflation-economy-girl-scout-cookies

2023-10-14 20:23:27

I'm still just blown away by @npub1a2c…w83a 's thesis of the inevitability of fiat currency once the telegraph allowed instant transactions without instant settlement. Lyn, was this an original idea? Or had some others before you discussed this aspect of technological determinism?

2023-09-28 17:33:00

@npub1s5y…6q7z gettin' based and unhinged on THE Bitcoin Podcast with @npub1cj8…rz4u.
https://youtu.be/zlHO2o-7Xg4?si=7d7T_A9O945KpW0n

2023-09-28 15:42:24

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ChatGPT would like to respond:
"It's like you've discovered the perfect recipe for life's refresh
button! The US offers productivity and focus, Egypt brings warmth and
social connection, and the annual cycle keeps your life in harmony. Keep
living this inspiring tale of two homes!"
Thank God it's still acting like a basic facebook user, complete with a fall sweater and starbucks pumpkin spice.

2023-09-27 00:35:31

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Definitely done sous vide. Looks amazing.

2023-09-26 17:29:04

Pretty sure Bitcoin fixes this, but I'm sure the statist approach will be some new law that paradoxically makes things worse.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1201257895/credit-card-fees-visa-mastercard-retailers

2023-09-24 20:24:23

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I'm not too worried about KYC. You can always create forward privacy with conjoins and lightning. If the gov starts coming after bitcoiners just for having bought coins, we've probably got bigger problems on our hands and it might be time to switch jurisdictions regardless of your view on Bitcoin.

2023-09-10 14:45:38

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Just the prospect of volatile price inflation disincentivizes businesses from investing (either in capital or labor) because it's hard to know what your variable costs will be in the future. Relative price stability allows more accurate economic calculation.

2023-09-06 11:49:43

@npub10vl…sp42 you might appreciate this:
https://image.nostr.build/8630063c611db8ea414a6ee087175a13d2baff089aa069f422ee6bfa253cbf0e.jpg

2023-09-04 01:28:20

Damnit @npub1a2c…w83a, it was better to be ignorant about how immoral the fiat system is. After reading Broken Money, I'm just angry AF.

2023-09-01 21:27:39

The last sentence of Part 2 from "Broken Money" by @npub1a2c…w83a:
"The only way to fix this speed gap in the long run would be to develop a way for a widely accepted, scarce, monetary beater asset itself to also be able to settle over long distances at the speed of light."
Well, WTF kind of money would that be? I guess I'll keep reading to find out...

2023-09-01 18:53:16

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You do realize that medical malpractice is due to human error while most gun deaths are intentional acts of violence?
Another case of "When libertarianism goes wrong"

2023-08-30 15:23:12

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/30/1196640997/a-sesame-allergy-law-has-made-it-harder-to-avoid-the-seed-heres-why
Be big government.
Pass regulations to protect 0.4% of population with sesame allergy.
Unintended consequences of incentivizing bakers to add sesame to all their products to comply with labeling laws.
Sesame allergic people can't safely eat breads anymore.
Wonder why this keeps happening.

2023-08-29 23:31:19

My #Nostr feed is kind of a circle jerk of #bitcoiners boosting each other

2023-08-29 00:10:50

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Understand...

2023-08-28 10:05:53

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We're all libertarian until it's advantageous not to be so...
If a place forces you to pay in a way you don't want to, then don't do business with them. Forcing your preferences on them is the antithesis of being a bitcoiner.

2023-08-25 11:06:41

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@npub1a2c…w83a wrote a few notes that could have been full-length novellas; @npub1qny…95gx ranted 4 times a day against Twitter; and #primal was recently dropped as a new mobile client for #nostr.
And a lot people mentioned something called #bitcoin

2023-08-23 23:20:37

If you're going to attempt a coup, don't chicken out and go half way or this happens:
https://apnews.com/article/russia-wagner-prigozhin-jet-crash-a7859e4e57f2efa2547dfbe5bdbaa1b2

2023-08-23 17:00:23

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Boom. Ordered. Can't wait to read it. First gotta finish reading Harry Potter for the 3rd time though

2023-08-22 21:15:47

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If you're not a public bitcoin figure, people don't really follow you and don't care much about what you have to say. Your only chance for engagement is if someone you follow replies back to your witty comment on their note.
Honestly, this is why I'm still on Reddit. The pseudoanonymity levels the playing ground on conversation.