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Last Notes npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Lol https://youtu.be/rPt9hAC24MI?si=mzjlTW7kDm1OBMfO npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ You can already link your Strike, and any other wallet to Nostr. Two clicks. Too hard for the general population? I think the problem with the general population lies elsewhere? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Arn’t we closer than a few years? These movements start at the grass roots…with Nostr, could you just start with a couple of hashtags, city, neighborhood, needaride. And a couple of people covering that neighborhood. Respond and pay via zap. Peer to peer. Before you know it, someone will add some basic functionality on a couple of servers, off you go. #Nostr and #Bitcoin are revolutionary, a market place for everything. Not long from now. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Whoohoo. She‘s so happy about that. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ And there are about 18,000 #Bitcoin nodes… npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Agree. Plus, these are manipulated trickle down price increases of goods and services resulting from inflating the money supply earlier. Plus, what is often ignored is, it also eats up productivity increases resulting from innovation. Which is commonly assumed to be 6% per year … which should result in trickle down price decreases of the same amount. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Money has to be all three to be immutable: MoE, UoA and SoV. It’s clearly also the design intent: a peer to peer electronic cash system. The reason Saylor and the establishment want to corner #Bitcoin into “property” is to move it into the tax and regulated realm. To make it track and traceable. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ IMHO we can’t vote ourselves out of this, a couple of thoughts by other people: H.L. Mencken explains why democracy is doomed in 10 points: 1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty." 2. Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink: "Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness." 3. Democracies are plutocracies; they're run by the aristocracy of money. But the plutocracy "lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal." 4. The plutocrats lack "an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security." He submits. He can be bullied and broken. 5. Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them "pedagogues." These are not genuine thinkers; they’re "men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs." This describes most journalists. 6. Democracy is anti-excellence. Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon...but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority. Democracy says "the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest." 7. Mencken explains how this era demands we repress our greatness: "A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye." 8. Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: "There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it." 9. Mencken: "The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom." To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect... 10. Mencken believed democracy will cancel itself out: "Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack." -a tweet from @oldbooksguy npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Would the supply and demand equation change if everyone runs a solo miner (I’m talking multiple millions of people)? Also, re attacks, we somehow lost momentum on nodes, 18,000 and decreasing…not enough. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Make it easier for Nostr to be a market place…go. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Yes #Bitcoin will rise forever. I’m even more optimistic. IMHO this version of the Power Law uses the USD as a proxy for adoption. As the value of the dollar inflates at an increasing rate AND Bitcoin adoption accelerates, the USD/Bitcoin exchange rate will accelerate and detach from the above equation. A more accurate representation of the Power Law would be Bitcoin in terms of goods and services, or another direct representation of adoption. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ What needs so much development? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Yes, ala George Orwell‘s Animal Farm or Shakespeare‘s MacBeth. People are a bitch :) Luckily-#Bitcoin cuts off large scale corruption at its feet. The initial increase in purchasing power caters to greed, but the more it’s being adopted as MoE and SoV, the more there are consequences for corrupt decisions. It turns toward altruism whether people like it or not. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Are the fiat world ETFs the only thing currently going on in terms of #Bitcoin adoption? Is this a problem? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Unfortunately Lummis is controlled opposition. Please remember, her bill KYCs all your Bitcoin, tracks and traces every transaction over $200 and moved Bitcoin into the tax realm. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Since #Bitcoin is a separate and parallel money, the more THEY help us keep it separate, the better. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ And run a solo miner. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Bitcoin has zero inflation. Fixed supply of 21 million, known to all. The denominator is always 21 million. Issuance, miner awards, circulation, velocity, liquidity, hodl’ing are all in the numerator. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Do you hear the grasshopper which is at your feet? https://youtu.be/FDW0kc8h_Sc?si=bwjm3f6wYgZJ-3rJ npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ It’s not about Ver. It’s the reality hitting everyone that the US government will come for your Bitcoin. And there’s nowhere to hide. Even after you give up your citizenship, the US will grab you. And every other country in the world will help them. Initially they’ll want you to give up half of your Bitcoin. Call it exit tax, capital gains, unrealized gains or money laundering (because you have a cold wallet) etc. they want it and you’re going to have to give it up…. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Wow. She’s amazing: https://twitter.com/ProofOfMoney/status/1777763701392802203/video/1 npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ I hear you bro. Your heart is in the right place. And, I’m realistic about the fact we can’t stop it anyway, but imho, having the fiat world throwing massive amounts of money at manipulating development of software that’s perfectly fine, is a risk to Bitcoin. We should at least recognize that. I personally like grass roots for core at this stage. Spend the money on adoption and L2. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Ask yourself, how is it, that you do not? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Do you hear the grasshopper which is at your feet? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ So it’s not a commodity (since you can’t eat it, like wheat; and it’s not a raw material, like oil or gold). And it is indeed money (UoA, MoE, SoV). In the past people used commodities also as money or to back money to approximate scarcity. Scarcity is the key. So gold, for example was both, a commodity and money. Interestingly valued differently for each function. For the first time in human history, Satoshi-san invented pure money with absolute scarcity. Nothing else exists that cannot be corrupted, like #Bitcoin. There are a lot of confusing forces at play. Like shitcoins pretending to „improve“ on Bitcoin in some way, but compromising one of the key attributes of Bitcoin like decentralization or PoW and hence enabling corruption for private gain. Or governments and corporations changing the meaning of words like cryptocurrency, stablecoins and yes, money vs commodities, to attack and control Bitcoin or move it into another realm. The other big confusing factor is that during the adoption toward hyperbitcoinization, the purchasing power of your money, Bitcoin, actually increases. Which makes Bitcoin behave like an investment not a savings (SoV). The price of goods and services decreases far beyond the natural decrease in prices due to increased productivity and innovation. So you have a lot of fiat behavior going on, like trading, etf‘s, options etc. Once Bitcoin adoption reaches critical mass, it’s simply money. Goods and Services will be priced and exchanged for Bitcoin. You can’t invest in money, because how would that work? I earned one Bitcoin, and invest one Bitcoin, so I still just have one Bitcoin. And, because Bitcoin is THE money, not a commodity, you don’t trade it for another money. The beauty of scarce money is, society will be able to harvest the benefits of innovation and technology. Abundance. Existing things will get cheaper. People will have time to focus on new inventions (at premium prices), art, architecture and beauty. It’ll be a beautiful new world, not a brave new world. During adoption to hyperbitcoinization Bitcoin will turn greed in altruism. Due to scarcity, Bitcoin will flow to value. So even when bad guys start with more Bitcoin, unless they become productive stewards of our earth, they’ll spend more than they make. So it’ll all work out. Fix the money, fix the world. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Right, he changed the meaning of the word commodity, conflated it with the meaning of the word money, and hence moved #Bitcoin into another realm. He also said Bitcoin and the USD will coexist. Dangerous. He also said, at #Bitcoin Atlantis, that the Banks and Corporations need Bitcoin, true. That that helps Bitcoin, true. And then concluded that we should embrace them-lol. I don’t think so. Finally, he used other people’s money to get rich with Bitcoin. While you can argue about the virtues of using the fiat system to get rich, he surely isn’t pure. Again, be careful. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ #Bitcoin is actually money. A commodity is a raw material, or something you can eat. Before #Bitcoin, commodities were used as money, or to back money, to achieve scarcity. Calling Bitcoin a commodity is intended to regulate it. To tax it, track and trace it etc. A trap. And ignores #Bitcoin‘s UoA (the recording) and MoE (currency) features. The P2P system that would make us free. Accuracy of language is very important. „By controlling the language, Big Brother controls the way that the people think“ (Orwell). #MichaelSaylor also tells you Banks and Corporations are your friend….be careful out there. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ #Bitcoin turns greed into altruism. Because after hyperbitcoinization, there will be consequences for bad behavior. That’s great, as #Bitcoin will clean out the tyrants peacefully. #MichaelSaylor; however, extrapolates that phenomenon and tells us that we should embrace the tyrants (Banks, Apple, Government etc.). I don’t think so. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ It’s a system thing. We can’t vote ourselves out of it. H.L. Mencken explains why democracy is doomed in 10 points: 1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty." 2. Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink: "Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness." 3. Democracies are plutocracies; they're run by the aristocracy of money. But the plutocracy "lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal." 4. The plutocrats lack "an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security." He submits. He can be bullied and broken. 5. Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them "pedagogues." These are not genuine thinkers; they’re "men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs." This describes most journalists. 6. Democracy is anti-excellence. Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon...but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority. Democracy says "the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest." 7. Mencken explains how this era demands we repress our greatness: "A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye." 8. Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: "There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it." 9. Mencken: "The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom." To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect... 10. Mencken believed democracy will cancel itself out: "Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack." -a tweet from @oldbooksguy npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ I‘m sorry #Michaelsaylor, but the tyrants have to go. You‘re saying they’re ok, because they need #Bitcoin? Eh, no. #Bitcoin appeals to greed during hyperbitcoinization, but crushes inefficient use of capital under a Bitcoin standard. Companies like Tesla or Boeing will not survive. Only because the Tyrants are greedy and ushering in hyperbitcoinization doesn’t make them ok. They have to go. #Plebchain npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ It would have gone parabolic Wednesday, had they not shut down Coinbase. And then the ETFs didn’t buy any Bitcoin Thursday while Grayscale supplied an additional $600 million in #Bitcoin. A little market manipulation; however, that can only slow it down by a few days. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ I would categorize it like this: The Russians were too stoic The Chinese were too stupid The Europeans too scared of the US The Africans too poor The Arabs too rich And the US? Too greedy to let it go. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Miami ESG https://image.nostr.build/fa3033f043c6ea26e76aebe13cd2f80b755716718158ed3146957e79233bbf2d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b154ed196a44df8331d6cfc9bc28c1615256e90e1a3f33cfbadf56817b671130.jpg npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Miami Beach https://image.nostr.build/b154ed196a44df8331d6cfc9bc28c1615256e90e1a3f33cfbadf56817b671130.jpg npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ The problem IMHO is equally with the Sheeple as it is with the Tyrants. I posted this yesterday, but fits well here: H.L. Mencken explains why democracy is doomed in 10 points: 1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty." 2. Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink: "Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness." 3. Democracies are plutocracies; they're run by the aristocracy of money. But the plutocracy "lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal." 4. The plutocrats lack "an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security." He submits. He can be bullied and broken. 5. Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them "pedagogues." These are not genuine thinkers; they’re "men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs." This describes most journalists. 6. Democracy is anti-excellence. Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon...but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority. Democracy says "the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest." 7. Mencken explains how this era demands we repress our greatness: "A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye." 8. Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: "There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it." 9. Mencken: "The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom." To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect... 10. Mencken believed democracy will cancel itself out: "Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack." -a tweet from @oldbooksguy npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved big brother. -Orwell npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ H.L. Mencken explains why democracy is doomed in 10 points: 1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty." 2. Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink: "Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness." 3. Democracies are plutocracies; they're run by the aristocracy of money. But the plutocracy "lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal." 4. The plutocrats lack "an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security." He submits. He can be bullied and broken. 5. Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them "pedagogues." These are not genuine thinkers; they’re "men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs." This describes most journalists. 6. Democracy is anti-excellence. Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon...but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority. Democracy says "the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest." 7. Mencken explains how this era demands we repress our greatness: "A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye." 8. Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: "There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it." 9. Mencken: "The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom." To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect... 10. Mencken believed democracy will cancel itself out: "Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack." -a tweet from @oldbooksguy npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Except, #Bitcoin is not a commodity. Since you can’t eat it or use it as a raw material. It is in fact money. A MoE, SoV and UoA. Accurate definition of terms is key to a functioning society. They have everyone confused by changing the meaning of things. Orwellian… npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ …and, #Bitcoin aligns capital allocation with value creation and panelizes value destruction (because you lose your bitcoin, and the losses can’t be plugged by printing new ones). Its P2P nature also means looking someone in the eye and a handshake (trust) will mean something again (because you may lose your bitcoin). Ultimately Bitcoin leads to a better world. Fix the money, fix the world. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Like an investment security that I expect to outperform my money on a risk-adjusted basis? Bitcoin is not an investment, it’s money. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Why was Max Kaiser wobbly about the Tether question? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ I think it’s totally ok to save your money. The point here is one around the integrity of Michael Saylor. He is using software/cognitive warfare techniques to manipulate. Bitcoin is money, not a commodity, it’s also not an investment, but can be saved. It replaces the fiat system and the USD. You should hold your own Keyes not give them to the banks. And, he uses other people’s money to acquire Bitcoin. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ …; however, while the staring point may not be fair, #Bitcoin will always flow to the most value, to whom contributes the most. Due to Scarcity. If you don’t produce more value than you consume, you’ll spend more Bitcoin than you take in. So, in a Bitcoin standard world, it’ll eventually balance. Value, integrity, loyalty, community, beauty, art and architecture will become things again. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ It seems the government could manipulate the #Bitcoin price in USD? Let’s say, through various entities, the own 20% of Bitcoin (or 10, whatever). They could just buy and sell Bitcoin at the desired price to themselves. While there me be slight losses through upward momentum induced by true market forces, they can cover that through printing money. Given the market cap of <$1T, it’s small compared to the stock market. Which essentially does the same thing, in a more complex system. Counter points? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ You wonder though. Since it’s pretty simple. Why, even under extreme circumstances like Venezuela, Lebanon, Argentina, Turkey, Cuba etc etc people don’t adopt it. What is it going to take? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ It’s the genius of #Bitcoin that it appeals to greed and turns it into altruism. In that, until hyperbitcoinization, it also increased in purchasing power. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Das interessante ist, dass die Menschen viel Schmerz und Leid hinnehmen, und trotzdem nichts tun. Man sieht das ja in China, Lebanon, Venezuela oder Argentinien. Auch in Orwells 1984 hat Winston ja am Ende aufgegeben. #Bitcoin npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ It doesn’t really matter though. As they have nothing to do with what’s really going on. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ https://cdn.nostr.build/i/d4f59d1596148ec7cab86560950ada6c7eca999c27707341327c73ee3407fa1e.jpg npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Why? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ When I talk to businesses in the US, sales and income tax is the issue with adoption. What’s the solution? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ If you own it-property tax npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ #Nostr can become a market place. That would seal full freedom of speech and free market. Freedom. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ #Bitcoin is probably the most profound invention of mankind. What we do with it is really up to is. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Of course, Winston didn’t make it 😳 “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself…he loved big brother” npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ I’m equally disgusted by the sheeple as I am with the tyrants. That covers 99.5% of the population. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ The one thing Orwell had wrong is that Corporations, Wall Street, the media and the government are collectively Big Brother vs a central entity. More ala Huxley. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Twitter? I don’t think so. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Strike didn’t work for me since it didn’t have Lightning. Have they added it? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Innovation and commoditization measured with a constant denominator (21 million) will result in an ever accelerating cycle of innovation and abundance. Because to compete with the existing the new has to be better. Which makes the existing cheaper, but the new, better can be priced higher. The difference will be that innovation and value are the only drivers of the economy. Not money printing and bailouts. While the existing gets cheaper we‘ll also get more time. To focus on: innovation, art, muse, architecture etc. it’ll be beautiful. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ What would be the verb? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ The vast majority of people follow along. Just like in Orwell’s 1984. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Yes, although it’s more extreme than you describe. VCs pick few individual companies that are not viable and pump them. Tesla, Amazon. They aren’t profitable for decades, but are consciously selected, puppet leaders put on place (Musk), to allocate capital to the few. Or, Boeing. They should be long out of business. Without government contracts and bailouts they’d be gone. And think of all the innovation and new businesses that society missed out on. Maybe we’d be flying around in small personalized drones if the trillions in wasted capital would have gone to entrepreneurs and innovation rather than Boeing with 1940s technology. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_b3584df212e67b8d7ee0cb3413329cd81126b97998dfe37220545d438fc0a10d.jpeg npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ IMHO- it’s very fiat thinking to project one’s own responsibility to someone else in the guise of safety. It leads to a race to the bottom, over regulation and surveillance. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Don’t follow you, probably too stupid, but the question was serious. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Interesting…why the specific reference to Zimmermann in the middle? npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ No. You do not need to monetize free speech. npub1z6yhh745p8l39fmgy9lpf4rjm40g52hprnqwxdqt7tt0vl6m4jps9059zk Des Imoto マキシ Trying to change my profile picture, but it has a long string of characters in it that I can’t seem to be able to delete. Any pointers appreciated.