allen
I identify as a layer 2

cosigning the shit out of this. the most coherent thing to confuse the shit out of people still trapped in a “left vs right” framework would be for Bernie to also endrose it and implicitly ally with Trump, given he (seemingly alone on the national stage) represents what the Democrats used to be when they had actual beliefs.
finger in the air guesstimate puts 70% of elected reps and 90% of dems in the same “party” that you may as well just call “the regime”, never mind “neocon”.
they don’t have “politics” in the sense you might find intellectually stimulating to debate besides their own power and wealth. Bernie actually does (even if you think some of it is a bit nuts) and Trump is arguably even more entertaining: he is pure chaos exposing these fault lines.
I have no idea where I was going with this ramble besides wanting to land on: Trump endorsing Bitcoin was inevitable. embrace it and shame any dems with a moral compass to one-up him and support it even harder. then sit back and enjoy the collapse of the GAE 👍
#note1msn…6ang

2024-06-06 11:19:56

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- short riot, long bitcoin
- insanely, hilariously risky hedge
- spot-on analysis of why public miners are horrific investments
- (probably unintentionally) massively bullish on future of mining re: decentralization and censorship resistance
- trade as a whole closes the loop on a beautiful speculative attack
…
- 99% of bitcoin twitter seems to have seen “public miners are stupid, we are short” and lost their minds because they can’t read or think.

2024-06-06 11:16:51

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what they *actually said* is incredibly bullish for bitcoin but most bitcoiners appear to have reading comprehension difficulties so they think it’s bearish, stupid, or both.

2024-06-06 11:11:47

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I strongly recommend just reading (shock! horror!) the short report. it’s the most bullish thing I’ve seen in a long time:
https://www.kerrisdalecap.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RIOT-Kerrisdale.pdf

2024-06-06 11:00:22

this kerrisdale (hedge fund) thing is honestly the best litmus test I think I’ve ever seen in this space 😂

2024-06-03 08:56:24

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the antizap: for when a note is so bad I get your sats.

2024-06-02 23:53:30

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good thing I didn’t do that then?

2024-06-02 10:35:40

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combination of the godawful WBD and a flurry of private conversations people have felt compelled to relate in its wake.

2024-06-02 10:21:45

whether you believe the “spook” memes or not, Saylor is so clearly using his influence to pull up the ladder behind him it baffles me he still has any simps left.
and fml it’s clear he doesn’t even understand wtf what he’s talking about whenever he tries to put forward the most palatable version of this take he can come up with.
stripped of “spacetime laser energy” trimmings, his actual take is: “ossify now, scale with custodians, number go up if you’re already in.”
that’s not an entirely unreasonable position, but it needs to be identified more clearly, weighed up mindfully of his technical illiteracy around consensus and forks, and argued against more forcefully in light of these realisations.

2024-05-31 17:42:20

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okay but how do you know how much hasn’t been identified?

2024-05-27 18:12:30

the saddest part of all this is that anybody cares what saylor thinks in the first place 🤦‍♀️

2024-05-26 21:30:04

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it’s not artificial intelligence, it’s natural stupidity

2024-05-24 11:03:43

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vitalik?

2024-05-16 12:11:52

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zactly

2024-05-13 22:22:53

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the establishment is scared of my truths!

2024-05-04 11:39:45

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stay humble, stack kids.

2024-05-03 23:25:18

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or just whenever you try to post a light mode screenshot your app quits and deletes itself. that way people really learn their lesson.

2024-05-03 20:26:21

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YOU’RE A SUBSET OF PI

2024-05-03 20:25:19

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it’s like pi.
few.

2024-05-03 20:23:33

mrs allen: "how much is bitcoin now?"
me: "60 or so, I think. I try not to know the answer to that to the extent I can avoid finding it out, though."
mrs allen: "you know that doesn't make you as interesting as you think it does, right?"

2024-05-03 10:57:29

wtfhappenedin1871
https://cdn.mises.org/principles_of_economics.pdf

2024-04-30 13:42:33

mrs allen: “proofreading is for pussies. hit send and let’s go!”

2024-04-27 10:52:48

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even this is too optimistic. “is an MSB” is not a meaningful relation. this is about threats to state power, not philosophy and linguistics. what matters is what actions will get you thrown in a box, not the arguments you make while they are throwing you.

2024-04-27 10:50:23

mfers out here pretending the US Government is rational, fair, and will do what it said it will do 😂

2024-04-27 10:28:18

anybody giving ACINQ any shit whatsoever can kindly go fuck themselves 👍
#note1dvh…v4ph

2024-04-27 10:23:59

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put “money laundering” in google ngram and let the psyop sink in.

2024-04-24 17:40:29

jfc crypto has absolutely broken people’s brains wrt what “capital allocation” actually is.
I don’t wanna “leak” a conversation fairly assumed to be confidential (although they aren’t on nostr so the risk is minimal) but fml it’s so bad out there guys 😢

2024-04-18 10:36:37

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this has been a very odd exchange

2024-04-13 20:05:33

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you should have said “hmm … interesting. I’ll have to think more about that.”

2024-04-13 16:31:49

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I’ve developed an oddly specific routine, all the more interesting for it being more or less accidental and organic. I post more on twitter, but it is almost exclusively shitposting, because the wider reach frankly just makes it funnier. but I spend considerably more time on nostr (while posting less) because the content is undeniably better. and when I do post here I tend to have a higher standard for myself, lean towards longer form, etc, as I see it more as contributing to discourse than just cracking jokes and trolling people. there’s no conclusion here (from me at least) but interesting to chew on …

2024-04-09 18:22:00

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glad you are enjoying it!

2024-04-09 17:11:41

our fireside chat with Austin Mitchell from Synota is now up on fountain!
https://www.fountain.fm/episode/0cOIcCp9gZhXocHXbNp7

2024-03-31 23:56:21

okay, I’ll bite.
wtf is “build on bitcoin”?

2024-03-30 17:52:52

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I know it’s fun to try to be a contrarian on absolutely everything mainstream but sometimes you gotta just respek 🤷‍♀️

2024-03-24 14:38:56

lmao when I first posted this it was being shadowbanned on youtube. now it’s *actually* banned on vimeo, so here’s a rumble link:
https://rumble.com/v4kl0dn-climate-the-movie-the-cold-truth-martin-durkin.html
#note1ccj…3aww

2024-03-24 09:47:06

new wrongthink just dropped 👀
of course, anybody scientifically and statistically literate who spent 1-2 hours looking into this knows it all already, but the production quality might serve to snipe some of your normie friends out the cult of misery, poverty, sickness, and death:
https://vimeo.com/924719370

2024-03-23 12:37:12

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haha true but I got it from @npub1jvz…6c2w

2024-03-02 13:12:55

🟧🟦🟪 DLCVM 🟪🟦🟧
Generalised, Unboundedly Scalable Computation on Bitcoin
https://dlcvm.tiiny.site/

2024-02-27 14:23:26

mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXovMVJp_Z4

2024-02-27 14:19:38

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from vaginal cramps?

2024-02-27 14:18:07

hey, I can be the answer
I'm ready to dance when the vamp up

2024-02-25 14:55:35

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yeah it’s crazy

2024-02-25 14:49:44

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this is a weird turn of events.
I’ve said publicly a few times that shitcoins are literally securities fraud, but at least I go out my way to caveat that with reassurance that I’m not angling for a state crackdown, I just think fraud is unethical.

2024-02-22 12:07:15

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I DONT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS BUT I LIKE YOUR ENTHUSIASM

2024-02-21 08:43:16

I really don't like the word "calmness." it's a lazy and ugly construction.
I prefer "calmth.”

2024-02-20 20:45:20

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hahaha that's excellent.

2024-02-19 22:42:30

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did you know that they put a lot of effort into the sound effects for Dune Part One?
here's 30 minutes on that. you're welcome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkf_rdROyWw

2024-02-19 22:41:21

"just watch this two minute long trailer for Dune Part Two” they said.
“it won't lead to rewatching Part One on Netflix, followed by tens of hours of YouTube explainers and the Dune wiki and ordering all the books on Amazon," they said.

2024-02-12 16:56:49

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T Swizzle for the wizzle

2024-02-12 16:56:19

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alcohol

2024-02-05 20:15:55

hmu if you are gonna be in Dubai for Bitcoin Oasis and wanna hang out and chat shit and/or you come to my talk and your mind is blown by my scandalous characterization of all the scams and bullshit confusing the tradfi noobs 😉

2024-01-31 15:56:46

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two weeks™

2024-01-19 14:46:24

mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmQkrvoF5Y0

2024-01-10 11:46:29

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yeah but then you decrypt it. duh.

2024-01-02 17:20:18

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I feel attacked

2024-01-02 15:30:08

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YES YOU DO YOU LOVE IT

2024-01-02 14:49:01

it's come to my attention that there are people out there who don't like La La Land …

2023-12-31 00:12:17

it’s new sheets night guys, you have no idea how excited I am for beddie byes 👀

2023-12-29 22:43:34

sometimes I forget how unbelievable the cast of Heat is. After the 10 most important characters, John Voigt, Tom Noonan, Hank Azaria, Jeremy Piven, Xander Berkeley, Danny Trejo, Wes Studi, Mykelti Williamson, Dennis Haysbert, William Fitchner, and Natalie Portman have about 8 1/2 seconds of screen time between them 🤯

2023-12-24 23:56:58

let a woman in your life
and your sabbatical is through.
in a line that never ends
come an army of her friends
come to jabber and to chatter and to tell her what the matter is with you.

2023-12-18 12:48:09

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this might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

2023-12-18 12:45:39

randomly just remembered I once had a hilarious irl convo with Breedlove and Jordan Bush about how Satan was the original shitcoiner.
good times.

2023-12-14 20:24:16

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that dude was smart.

2023-12-14 20:23:43

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look mom I made it I’m in a Zeus video on nostr!

2023-12-13 16:33:10

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not lately

2023-12-12 15:30:22

all dance music, however good, is just a noble attempt to live up to Every Time We Touch by Cascada.
fight me.

2023-12-12 15:29:35

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the case is even stronger than this. it’s not just that they get paid first, it’s that their pay is guaranteed. if everybody were truly sharing risks and rewards, then the company making a loss would have to be clawed back from workers too and they’d effectively have a negative salary.

2023-12-11 18:13:39

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thinking your life is basically fine and you are happy is one of the worst symptoms of the fiat disease.

2023-12-11 18:09:53

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twitter is for shitposting. nostr is for discussion.

2023-12-10 18:50:40

mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3qr-HWmek

2023-12-07 18:50:13

mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ifyS6KqK4

2023-12-07 18:44:32

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absolutely not. no spoilers. you get what you get.

2023-12-07 18:05:25

holy crapadoodles, I just realised nostr obviously doesn’t suppress the reach of “off-platform” posts.
get ready to be spammed to death with my highly questionable and eclectic music taste 😃🥳

2023-12-06 14:42:25

#note1z37…z535
this note is gonna form the basis of my Dubai talk so would appreciate feedback if you have any - the more detailed the better and can DM if you prefer.

2023-12-03 15:48:25

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probably both are fine but “bullshitted” is ugly and “bullshat” is funny.

2023-12-03 15:47:45

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I think I just learned it on my own tbh. always been super interested in philosophy of language.

2023-12-02 17:51:16

#note10w7…xkz6
possibly my most important ever note.
#grammar #bullshit

2023-12-02 17:50:28

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I think you’re confused because you would never use “shit”/“shat” transitively. you shit *at* people, you don’t shit them (I sincerely hope). a more obviously transitive verb might be “punch” as opposed to “talk”. so you “talk to me” or “talked to me” but you “punch me” or “punched me”. bullshit is like punch: you bullshit people, you don’t bullshit at them, so if it happened in the past, you punched them or bullshat them.
the final confusing quirk is that in my subtitle the past participle is being used as an adjective, but that doesn’t change the conjugation.

2023-12-02 17:05:47

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I don’t think so because you say “you’re bullshitting me” not “you’re bullshitting at me”, implying it’s a transitive verb with the target of the bullshit as the object of the clause. then you just have to conjugate as a past participle and “bullshat” is both funny and arguably correct given “shit/shat”.

2023-12-02 16:53:02

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ACK

2023-12-02 16:51:13

just got the green light from organisers of bitcoin oasis conference in Dubai to give a talk to a predominantly tradfi audience titled:
Web 3.14159
or, How To Avoid Being Scammed And Bullshat
if that doesn’t make you wanna get a ticket right now then I guess you just hate fun, wisdom, and justice 🤷‍♀️

2023-12-02 15:36:33

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ZAP ME IN THE NUTS BRO, I CAN TAKE IT!

2023-12-02 15:36:02

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noted 📝

2023-12-02 15:27:41

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“see ay ess aych yoo ay ee why jay zero bee too tee ell …”

2023-12-02 15:26:15

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bitcoin audible wen?

2023-12-02 15:26:06

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couldn’t have put it better myself

2023-12-01 22:01:23

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big smarts

2023-12-01 19:14:59

#note1csj…kgm7
running Primal on iOS 😎

2023-11-25 10:53:31

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what about if somebody gives you silver bullets for free?
CORNER CASE MOTHAF*CKAAAAA WATCHA GONNA DO NOW?!?!?

2023-11-21 11:07:52

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ofc, I’m not a barbarian

2023-11-20 11:08:47

does Alan Walker ever *not* throw off bangers?
(apologies in advance if this isn’t your thing. I’m well aware it’s garbage. “banger” has a technical definition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4VkOgF7Ms

2023-11-19 17:47:06

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is the dog stacking too?

2023-11-19 17:46:31

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reasonable, but depends on the illness, the timing, the combinations, and the dosage.

2023-11-19 17:34:41

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time has already revealed the truth. the question is whether people are curious and brave enough to look.

2023-11-17 11:57:09

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CunninLynguists for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK9EmWZNPpo

2023-11-16 18:57:32

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again - “your data” - um … what does that even mean?

2023-11-16 16:14:05

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don’t say I didn’t warn you:
https://twitter.com/TaprootWizards/status/1725163116059627761