Cohost of the I’d Rather Be Right podcast. #Bitcoin
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Last Notes npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/COPA-v-Wright-Judgment.pdf npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan The humility and ethics of Satoshi are obvious to all who read his writings. He was (or is) a humble person even though he was (or is) a genius. Some people think we are living in a terrible timeline. But this makes me think we are living in one of the better ones. https://m.primal.net/IIwx.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan https://apple.news/AI3mH2Q4nQPa-ZGG8NXeatQ https://m.primal.net/IHCd.jpg https://m.primal.net/IHCc.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan 🤣 (No, I can’t and won’t try to explain how the group chat got here.) https://m.primal.net/IFUg.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan https://m.primal.net/IFUV.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Bitcoin is a Rorschach test. You see what you want. https://m.primal.net/IDuc.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/25/legos-washington-artist-dulles-kennedy-center/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=acq-nat&utm_campaign=content_engage&utm_content=WAPO_DRX_CONTREM_COUSA_FB_SO_WTRF_CONTNPROMO_SITEV_30030DCPC_1PCD_XXXX_REGNONSUBSDCM_X1865_STDCX_AXXEN_FBIGOA_CPMR_CT_EN_PG_ACLINKS&fbclid=IwAR2RC4is6Nq861o1V45yq-imboNl-5Vv-R6bTAMcy5d7U3U4RtAipmwX5EY_aem_AQS6xJnfW4hFL6X6uYq09blu6Y8cUkQqhViKiVAxV4D6dl1_uFaSSciGeLOsexFIuQ7DhZ1YClW-QTfYxmU_v8Ma&utm_id=6564799303227&mibextid=QwDbR1 npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan @npub1mm0…nm32: do you work with Lego artists? Haha https://m.primal.net/IDdC.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I read the Ashlee Vance one. I enjoyed it. I haven’t gotten to the Walter Isaacson one yet. But that’s not at least 50 years old! I’m really trying to compile a list of great books that have survived the test of time and clearly aren’t being recommended because they are the new thing. I also worry we’re all engaged in group think, just reading the same best sellers. Bitcoiners read a lot but I worry we’re all reading the same thing creating a bubble. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan What’s the best fiction and the best nonfiction book you’ve read that’s at least 50 years old? 📚 (Not including the Bible not Quran. Those are pretty common answers.) #Bookstr npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan @npub1mm0…nm32 has made me think about the importance of patrons on the world. Here is another example but it wasn’t called that. #Bookstr https://m.primal.net/IBpj.jpg https://m.primal.net/IBpk.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Different areas of law & the unique properties of bitcoin. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Can you provide a link to the response? npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Everybody, it’s the change the name of your family group chat to “The ₿itcoin Chat" challenge. Let's see what kinda trouble we all get into. 😂 https://m.primal.net/IAdY.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Your npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Set up you lightning wallet! npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Texas isn’t the freedom and private property rights utopia many Bitcoiners think it is: https://ij.org/press-release/supreme-court-says-texas-ranchercan-sue-over-flooding/ npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan In the wake of Japan’s 🇯🇵 attack on Pearl Harbor. https://m.primal.net/HvMe.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I don’t trust anything that isn’t from a Dan on Nostr. Be a Dan. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan How does dan have both the absolute best and the absolute worst takes? npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan The Den of Dans is open & permission-less. The Council of Bens is elitist & exclusionary. Join the Den of Dans today! #note1m5g…j4tf npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan This is a petition to rename #NOSTR “Den of Dans”. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Let’s bring this #Dan bit to Xitter and see how long it takes before Dark Brandon becomes Dark BranDan. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Except CSW. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan We are all #Dan. (Except CSW.) npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan 🤣 https://m.primal.net/Hsgt.png https://m.primal.net/Hsgu.png npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Of all the worlds we could live in, it still amazes me we live in this one. This a world🌍 where not only was #Bitcoin discovered but Satoshi acted completely ethically during both its creation and release. It could have, and probably probabilistically should have, been very different. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I’ll wait then. Right now, I know they’ve got a plan that while messy & not as great as I (or, I suspect they, would like, will allow for recovery. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Is there any inheritance/estate planning mechanism with #Bitkey? Can you add more than one person’s fingerprint? It’d make a lot of sense for some folks I know but I hesitate to recommend it without a way for their family to recover their funds if they pass. Cc: @npub1sg6…f63m npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan It was fun! #note1ejd…x43h npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Currently, this is my favorite chart. $MSTR vs the Magnificent Seven & #BTC from the day MicroStrategy announced their first #bitcoin purchase until today. That’s the power of putting your company on a bitcoin standard & then intelligently using your access to the capital markets to buy more bitcoin. https://m.primal.net/HjCC.png npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan It’s official. You would have been better off buying $MSTR on the day they announced their first #bitcoin buy than buying $NVDA. And #bitcoin isn’t close to a cycle top yet. #Bitcoin > AI. https://m.primal.net/Hfwa.png npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan The real flippening is nigh. https://m.primal.net/HfSj.png npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan more context: https://m.primal.net/HebZ.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Politicians interfering with the free market is as old as our country. #bookstr https://m.primal.net/HebW.jpg https://m.primal.net/HebX.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Stack sats & read stacks of books. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan #bookstr https://m.primal.net/HeNq.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan From "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power" by Danile Yergin #bookstr https://m.primal.net/HeNS.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan https://amzn.to/3UQqXcJ npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan #Gerrymandering is as old as the country itself. I don’t know if that makes me feel better or worse. https://m.primal.net/HdiN.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Even worse, many end up in a russian prison. I'm pretty sure Putin sees Tucker as a useful idiot. (And Putin is likely correct.) I don't expect a hard hitting interview. (I'd love it if both Putin and I are wrong about Tucker but I don't think we are.) npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I think that was an entirely new law and not an enforcement of their competition laws. I'm really limiting this discussion to the EUs competition laws vs the USA competition laws. (If we open it up to all laws I think the USA is better). What I'm suggesting is that this is one of the few, perhaps only, areas of law where the EU laws result in better outcomes than USA laws. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan The EU competition laws are why apple was forced to ditch lightning for USB-C. It sounds like they will be forced to allow apps outside of the app store (definitely the EU). I just found out I can edit messages in a group chat that involves an adroid user which is why I posted this post. I don't know if that's a result of the EU but it wouldn't surprise me if it was. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan *Better than the USA npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan This is a deeply nerdy question but does anyone besides me think that the European Union's competition laws (antitrust for those of us in the United States) have been better for consumers and thus the world? (Note: It's possible hyperbitcoinization obviates the need for competition laws. But in the current fiat world, I think they are needed.) npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Yep, just a political football, even for Republicans: https://m.primal.net/HZEc.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I agree completely. https://m.primal.net/HZEF.png https://m.primal.net/HZEG.png https://m.primal.net/HZEH.jpg https://m.primal.net/HZEI.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan If you’re not a part of at least one group chat where all of the group chat members would be fired if a transcript of it was ever publicly released, I don’t even want to know you. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan More from my friend from law school. No, he doesn't spend his time on Bitcoin Twitter or Nostr or at Bitcoin conferences or meetups. And he lives in Amsterdam! What I'm trying to say is there are more of us than people realize. #note1xym…knw6 https://m.primal.net/HXLM.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan An unsolicited message from a good friend from law school: https://m.primal.net/HXLH.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Yeah, but he maintained it by keeping a clean balance sheet & keeping voting control with his class B shares that give him 10 votes vs the 1 vote per class A shares. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Some if them got seeded with some amount if cash so they have been buying. But my guess is the buying has been done via OTC desks or maybe Coinbase (as that's their custodian). But the real big flows will come post approval & launch. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan THE ONLY REASON @npub1qny…95gx SHOULD TEMPORARILY COME BACK TO X FKA TWITTER. https://m.primal.net/HXBL.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I've been wondering if a relay must grand access to clients to both read and write to the relay. Or could a relay exist that allowed certain users to read and write but only allowed other users to read. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan The problem with most Rubicons we cross is they aren't as easy to identify as a river. We think they're somewhere ahead of us when, in fact, they're somewhere far behind us. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan To honor the new year, I'm going to smash buy #bitcoin at midnight. Who's with me!?! npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan 1,089,599 And that's still way too. High. My guess is that was the all time high for solana in #bitcoin. #note18a9…62x6 npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan 🤷♂️ npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Solana is worth1,108,880 #bitcoin right now. No way this holds over the next decade. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Nope npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan The impending quantitative hardening makes me qualitatively hard. 🍆 #note1gnl…evlv npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan There’s no bigger betrayal than when an all iPhone group chat member becomes an android user. This feels deeply personal. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Does #bitcoin hit a new all time high (in USD) *before* the halving? npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan As I get older (& hopefully wiser?), the more I think about how *knowing* and *understanding* are two very different things. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan *kid npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Seems like that’s an issue with his parents. Charge the kick market rent and for his share of the groceries and things will sort themselves out quickly. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I’m $40,000 richer. Apparently. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan #note1kzf…hxe2 This to me is the biggest risk of ordinals. The JPEGs become child porn, & we find out later it’s a three letter agency who was doing it in purpose with the plan to attack node runners for trafficking in kiddie porn. I think this is a very low probability event but it’s non zero probability event too. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan “[Ordinals are] God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.” - Robin Williams https://m.primal.net/HTwt.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan There actually are though. You see some states pass laws that automatically raise or lower tax rates based on tax revenue target hits or misses. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan And it starts: https://m.primal.net/HTqu.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan This is what happens to the price of #bitcoin when your currency gets devalued by 50% overnight: https://m.primal.net/HTlb.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I know relay operators can allow only certain folks to join (I.e.: paid relays). Can a relay be set up so unless you pay or are confirmed you can view the relay but not post to it? npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan *must be npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan “The tree of #Bitcoin must refreshed from time to time with the blood of leveraged longs and leveraged shorts.” - Thomas Jefferson on #Bitcoin npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Ive been working on this and ultimately think that’s very high. But I price things in bitcoin. I wouldn’t pay 27,397 bitcoin for the operating company separate from the Bitcoin holdings (and whatever business flows out of the Bitcoin holdings & Saylor’s knowledge of bitcoin. I kinda treat that as an out of the money option if he starts a very successful Lightning business or something like that). npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan #note14xd…srqv @npub1qny…95gx really called it. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan That’s definitely possible too. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I don’t think it achieves what the government would want, I just see it as a potential accidental outcome from bad policy. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan What’s the likelihood we end up with separate lightning networks? Here’s how I see this happening. The government passes a law that requires all companies who operate lightning channels to 1) know who they connect to and 2) that who they connect to is a person or entity subject to the laws of the United States. As of right now, most lightning payments flow through one of these large companies. This means anyone who connects to the likes of Cashapp, Strike, or River will know that the government knows who they are and they can expect to be subpoenaed to find out who they are connected to. And suddenly we have a US regulated and surveilled lightning network and then another rest of the world lightning network. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan @npub1sg6…f63m: what if the hardware key didn’t need to be near the same mobile key whose funds it was signing for but could be near another trusted person’s social key so it could be used as a second signer? (Using similar tech as the social recovery.) I’m thinking two trusted friend/family members exchange hardware keys and, if I’m reading this right, neither can do anything to each other’s funds unilaterally. They can just co-sign for a payment, a change to the mobile limits, or a mobile key recovery. The only area of concern I see is authorizing changes to trusted contacts (I assume that’s not unilateral, and it must first requested by the mobile key) and security settings (which I assume is the same).m I’m thinking this reduces geographic risk and even attack risk. (If my hardware key sits across the country, good luck getting more than the set limit.) https://image.nostr.build/0a97c1ff39f3479d89bbbd39c75eeebf65c8766068d711a00f7b3849636a6180.jpg https://image.nostr.build/47bc016ea476fa2f7b85de829384c3bd81cfe6b7b9c376ea0c01265dd8be6d78.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan https://bitkey.build/content/files/2023/11/Bitkey-Recovery-Features.pdf npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Ahh. Found it. https://bitkey.world/en-US https://m.primal.net/HSwg.png npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I really don’t understand how the recovery works. Also, isn’t losing *both* the phone and hardware wallet and being able to recover the funds at odds with the later point that it can’t authorize recovery without either the phone or hardware wallet? https://image.nostr.build/3207fe10faa8adba522e2f8a0835463a49c27521c2a0a33561b778f9337040c6.jpg #note14zf…td8v npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan When you make a new bestie who hates #Bitcoin as much as you do. “Big banks and big government: we’re both here for the little guy.” https://image.nostr.build/c039ff1ca92e40e4511bff5fa63d02c226e751288a34e0a3338263029a5a2f53.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan #note1grd…gckk On rice, the story of Japanese rice is the story of fiat globalism gone crazy. So, in Japan, rice is a staple but according to the government growing and consuming its own rice is also a matter of national security and Japanese pride and heritage. So the Japanese instituted a bunch of large tariffs on imports (at one point they fully banned imports) and banned exports. But Japan was part of the WTO and this was a clear violation of the WTO. They negotiated that they would buy a quota of foreign rice but they don’t use it. They stick it in warehouses to rot. At one point, the price of rice started skyrocketing effectively harming poorer nations like the Philippines. So some negotiations took place and they got Japan to agree to release its surplus stock in its warehouses and the price started to come back down. As far as I’m aware, this is still an ongoing practice. But admittedly, I haven’t kept up with it. So it may no longer be the case they do this. No surprise that global central planning doesn’t work and often causes insane outcomes. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan #note1s78…63jk I was just talking to my dad and I mentioned the price action and how it’s a bit nauseating fast now. And he said to me “You said something to me awhile back I thought was really smart. You said ‘#Bitcoin is going to do what Bitcoin is going to do.’ So just relax and ignore it.” npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I propose the #fightster hashtag. Because #Nostr is for everyone, even for people who relish a good online fight. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Anyone else feel nauseous, distracted, and anxious from the cortisol and serotonin increase from the recent price action? This is a weird thing to voice but I’m finding it unpleasant because as I’ve gotten older, my version of happiness is closer to contentment and equanimity. So I deleted the Bitcoin price widget from my Home Screen. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan #note1d65…30ef We really don’t. We need humility. This cycle is likely going to be painful for a lot of nocoiners. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan My personal goal this cycle is to really internalize the “stay humble” part of “stay humble, stacks sats” this cycle. No dancing on graves for me. Cc: @npub1qny…95gx npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan The government is always going to have a lot of power, even in a Bitcoin standard. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan I’m waiting for the day this happens but it’s instead of a $500-$1k move it’s a $100k move. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Hahaha. Yeah, that’s be amazing. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Holy shit. In the time it took me to pee and wash my hands. https://image.nostr.build/c89dffb1f53818ed8599506cfa843c4f8dff6028f7fd94fb8705399baf11f5c0.jpg npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Ehh. It’s worked decently well for us *most* of the time. But we are smart to have states too. Regardless though, Churchill said it best “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” And it should be noted, that as long as we don’t lose democracy/representative government, Bitcoin will make it *much* better. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan If Jack has never met you in person, he won’t be contacting you at all. npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Handle what!?! npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Why are you trying to convince me? I’m not Jack! npub1emycpzamqz7fc04tfshj862ypf02wafqrdj6rprzh3mssr3euvmqzs5axc Nathan Does he know this?