Murray von Nakamoto

Capitalism, Bitcoin, meat, fossil fuels.

Hoppe, Rand, Mises, Rothbard, Nakamoto.

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2024-04-05 10:52:14

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Intellectuals yet idiots, as Taleb (who, granted, now has a forever tarnished reputation)
called them.

2023-12-08 15:20:33

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No, but they could just start bombing you anyway, and they would in the end get away with it or they wouldn't. (This depends on many factors, including current political realities.)

2023-11-27 16:15:56

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Intellectuals yet idiots, as Taleb (who, granted, has a stain on his reputation now) called them.
What I love about Bitcoin is that these losers have the massive personal cost of being wrong staring them in the face at all times in the form of the Bitcoin price.
They cannot transfer the cost of being wrong to other people in this case, as this vermin usually does.

2023-11-19 22:34:31

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You are one courageous truth teller. 👍

2023-11-13 15:58:35

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I would love to believe this, but everyone knows it's not true. It's just a question of one law getting passed, and that's it. Just like in New Zealand, 90% of Americans would simply hand over their guns, if it means that's the only way they're keeping their social security.

2023-11-13 15:53:08

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A complete joke of a site, full of mostly leftie/greenie morons patting each other on the back for being PC and (in all seriousness) liking posts from the WEF about "climate change."

2023-11-12 11:21:00

Well said. Paraphrased: "If they could be saved, they would already have figured it out by now."
I already gave up on trying to convince anyone of anything a year or two ago. #note1kce…cywj

2023-10-28 08:37:02

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I gave up trying to explain these things years ago. (Glad someone is still trying.)
Most *prefer* getting REKT to doing homework. Their intellectual laziness knows no bounds.

2023-10-26 17:03:50

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After enough time, one just gives up. In the end, one can only save oneself. The intellectual laziness of most knows no bounds.

2023-10-26 12:53:11

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The tricky part is, sometimes it's literally just sitting and doing nothing that is the right, most rewarding/profitable, course of action. Such time is not wAsTEd.

2023-10-26 12:49:15

If you see anyone talking about cALoriC iNtAke or rEstRiCtiOn when it comes to diet, you know you are dealing with an ignoramus.

2023-10-26 11:06:28

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Lol, thanks. It works :) I just zapped most of my newfound zap gains (due to your post) to you now (300 sats). Please confirm it worked.

2023-10-26 08:48:30

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Thanks; I'm new to zaps. Can you please try now? (To test it.)

2023-10-26 08:35:28

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Imagine trying to TiMe thE mArKeT. These people will, e.g., wake up one morning to an overnight 100k upward candle that they missed while sleeping. This is how fiat bagholders will be created.

2023-10-26 08:31:17

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Nice; I recall that debate! Here is a video from around 6 years ago where Mosler gets it wrong on Bitcoin: https://youtu.be/4aq8-Kx_qUM

2023-10-24 16:37:44

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The solution is obviously to lock-away non-trivial amount of sats with every post. Proof of work.

2023-10-24 14:24:07

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Your greater gains are the market telling you that you *are* more productive. Only Marxian morons, harboring delusions about the labor theory of value, would tell you otherwise. Few understand that sometimes, *sitting* and *waiting* is the most productive endeavor.

2023-10-24 14:16:13

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Bearish.

2023-10-23 11:29:43

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"Where is Hitler when you need him?", he said. (From abandoned novel.)

2023-10-21 20:17:36

A fantastic speech with ideas that more people need to be aware of. https://youtu.be/dvA75F7SHyE

2023-10-21 20:13:11

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Can someone in the GrapheneOS community please get it officially supported on some actual MOBILE phone? (iPhone Mini or smaller form factor.)

2023-10-21 20:08:47

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Few.

2023-10-17 18:20:53

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My dinners are almost always meat. But when I try to do also a meat lunch, I find that to be too heavy on the stomach. Any ideas on this?

2023-09-30 20:19:43

The self-sacrificial mentality runs deep and needs to be challenged.
For example, the problem is not how "wE tHroW aWaY sO mUcH fOod wHiLe oTherS aRe sTarVinG". The problem is why the hell those others are not rich enough to *also* be able to throw away food that is not near-perfect.

2023-09-30 19:58:30

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I was going to say basically what you said, but now I don't have to. Thanks!
The self-sacrificial mentality runs deep and needs to be challenged.
Another example: The problem is not how "wE tHroW aWaY sO mUcH fOod wHiLe oTherS aRe sTarVinG". The problem is why the hell those others are not rich enough to *also* be able to throw away food that is not near-perfect.

2023-09-26 09:07:53

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This was Bastiat.

2023-09-22 13:45:43

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I realized over 10 years ago that most people (90%) are normies who... simply do not care about such things. Banging my head against a brick wall is more productive than even trying to engage with them. I subconsciously made it my mission to avoid these people.
During the scamdemic, all these people came to the surface, and exposed themselves for all to see. This was a blessing because it made it far easier for the like-minded to find each other.

2023-09-21 15:48:31

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Great to see you in here. Any chance you could become more active here, and ideally mirror your X content here? (Many of us are now fully locked out of X and have no idea what's going on in that place anymore.)

2023-09-16 11:33:42

There are so many diet-normies in here, posting photos of their vegetables—as if that is something that I'm supposed to find attractive or worth consuming. #note1xwz…0y6p

2023-09-14 19:54:42

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If you cook too long, it gets too dry. How to find the right balance?

2023-09-11 13:40:07

I might be the only person on the planet, at least in the Bitcoin space, talking about this issue.
It goes way beyond just stacking sats, folks. #note1p0m…ksxc

2023-09-10 06:49:52

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As you may know, it's because he was a real economist, not a fake "economist". He described the distinction in 1949: https://youtu.be/L29JXmeYkaM

2023-09-08 18:28:48

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In a society where almost everybody agrees with what you wrote, of course hardly anyone is going to care about anyone's flip flops.
What I see around me is a lost, decaying society. My hope was that so-called "low-time-preference" Bitcoiners would try their best to reverse this deadly trend.
Clothing: If I approach someone while I'm wearing a potato sack and flip flops (zero proof of work), I'm just disrespecting them and showing how unimportant they are to me.
Language: Words matter. The words on your cup mean something. The way we use words can, whether we like it or not and whether we're trying to be funny or not, corrupt our brains: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/obscenities-are-symptoms-of-weak-minds/ (He's talking more in the context of anger/swearing, but I think a similar message holds in general.)
It's worth mentioning that this subjectivist mentality, that things (including arts and language) are not objective, is a part of the deadly, post-modern philosophy that plagues modern universities and is a big reason why people come out of there with corrupt brains incapable of rational thinking. (It's also the exact opposite of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy, in case anyone is interested. I'm not saying Rand is some prophet and right about everything; I just happen to agree with her on this.)

2023-09-07 14:13:43

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One would think that "low-time-preference" Bitcoiners, who wax lyrical about beautiful buildings, would jump at the opportunity to bring back beautiful clothes and language. Unfortunately, this is turning out not to be the case.
High-time-preference clothes: T-shirts and flip flops. High-time-preference language: Swearwords like "sh**" and "fu**". That appears to be the unfortunate norm in the Bitcoin space.
I would love to see Bitcoiners rise up, and spearhead a new movement to bring back three-piece suits and eloquent language, but so far my opinions have fallen on deaf ears.

2023-09-07 08:15:16

This is why (generally speaking) traveling is a scam, and why restaurants are a scam. #note1ra9…spw9

2023-09-06 15:49:58

People who say that Bitcoin is a "gReAt vALuE trAnsFeR mEcHaNiSM, but NoT a GoOd StoRe oF vALuE" have obviously never asked themselves where this value comes from in the first place and don't understand that such transfer requires liquidity. #note1gcu…au8m

2023-09-06 15:46:39

Do people need the ability to send hundreds of billions of dollars of value (measured in current US dollars) across borders within 1 hour, with final settlement?
If the answer is yes, the next obvious question is: How much liquidity does that require?
The rest falls in place easily. Simply hold Bitcoin and sleep soundly.

2023-09-06 15:45:27

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Also: Do people need the ability to send hundreds of billions of dollars of value (measured in current US dollars) across borders within 1 hour, with final settlement?
If the answer is yes, the next obvious question is: How much liquidity does that require?
The rest falls in place easily. Simply hold Bitcoin and sleep soundly.

2023-08-31 11:19:19

All I heard were crickets. #note1mr8…qgef

2023-08-30 19:31:00

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I'm reminded of 1990s Linux users: "Hey, man. Linux is really great because it's open source - if it's missing a feature, just add it yourself!" 😀

2023-08-30 09:49:58

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The movies get a lot of bad rap. But I find myself watching a handful of individual scenes regularly because they motivate me (to keep going Galt, among other things). Some of the soundtrack too.
To me that falls under great art.

2023-08-29 21:27:27

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Zeus! https://youtu.be/LWAqPfxD7qk?feature=shared

2023-08-29 16:24:40

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Saifedean, BeautyOn_, francispouliot_, WallStreetSilv, TuurDemeester

2023-08-29 14:52:10

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Ok, but at least Apple pay lipservice to privacy. Google don't even pretend not to be spying on you. So for normies, I don't see any benefits.

2023-08-29 14:11:35

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Isn't it *necessary* to de-Google an Android for it to be worth it? Are there any choices other than GrapheneOS here?
And what are you comparing against here? (iOS?)

2023-08-29 10:43:19

Bitcoiners who are only in it "for the tech", and are not here to kill central banks - because sOciEty hAs dEvELopEd cEntRaL BanKs oVeR CenTuriEs aNd thEy wiLL cOExiST wiTh BiTcOin - are boring.
We are not the same. Not even close.

2023-08-29 09:30:03

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Let's not fool ourselves as Bitcoiners. We came very close to borking the entire system in 2018. https://cointelegraph.com/news/inflation-bug-still-a-danger-to-more-than-half-of-all-bitcoin-full-nodes
In the end, a transparent blockchain is no substitute for code audits, and there is no 100% guarantee that developers won't mess up again in the future.
(This is also what bothers me about the "Bitcoin is antifragile" mantra. The mantra is true only from a certain point of view (outside attacks). But from another point of view (developers messing up), it is very fragile indeed.)
Very few Bitcoiners are fully honest about this issue.

2023-08-28 18:39:57

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Better than a fossil fuel benefit deniers.

2023-08-28 18:20:26

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Interesting; I didn't know there were such strong views against this.
Can you please do another post with more info about why drivechains are a bad idea?
I have no dog in this fight fyi. Actually, I'm probably on your side (on the side of conservatism and not messing with Bitcoin), but so far I've only heard Sztorc's side of things (on P. "Nuance" M.'s show for instance).

2023-08-28 16:58:32

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Okay, but are relays storing IP addresses and showing them anywhere publicly? (For instance as afaik happens when a Bitcoin transaction is posted.)
I use a VPN but it still makes me nervous because I could forget to VPN one day.

2023-08-28 16:09:01

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Can someone speak about the risks of Nostr? E.g. leaking your IP address to everyone.

2023-08-28 16:07:55

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Under "welfare" states, only dogs get capitalism.

2023-08-27 21:08:37

If the concept of coal improving our environment perplexes you, chances are good that you have a superficial view of what the concept "our environment" means to begin with. #note1kh8…9zvw

2023-08-27 20:34:09

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Can you please elaborate on Bulgaria? I thought it was a mellow 10% income tax jurisdiction.

2023-08-27 18:05:01

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It would be nice to learn why. (What am I missing about Nostr, the thing that makes early adoption important?)

2023-08-27 17:13:02

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Have you looked into Qubes, where *everything* you do all day long is on a VM by default? They have made it so easy and smooth. Been using it for 2 years, and my only regret is that I didn't start sooner. I don't feel safe using normie Linux anymore. (Not to mention the macOS and Windows spyware systems, obviously.) https://qubes-os.org

2023-08-27 17:09:00

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There is no particular benefit to being an early adopter of Nostr, as is the case with Bitcoin.
For instance, Saifedean Ammous (to name just one example of countless) could start becoming active here today, or next year. It wouldn't make any difference for him. In fact, one could argue that he'd be better off just waiting and seeing how things develop, and staying on X until then.

2023-08-27 16:08:01

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Great for vacations, but horrible to be a tax resident in (if the goal is low bureaucracy, low taxes, strong rule of law, and stable political climate). Is that a good summary?

2023-08-27 06:26:30

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More important than cheapness is: no capital gains tax, no exit tax, and a stable political system that make the sudden implementation of an exit tax very unlikely.

2023-08-26 11:03:59

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The book "Zurich Axioms" taught me to fall in love with people - not political jurisdictions, lands, buildings, or things.
In the past, people have crossed oceans in search for a better life, knowing they would likely never go back. Normally, things had to be *really* bad for people to consider this - as in, starvation-level poverty.
Out of curiosity, have you wondered how bad would things have to get before you would consider leaving Germany? (It gets harder the more people you love you would have to leave behind. However today, nobody is really leaving anything behind as in the old days because of communication and travel technologies.)

2023-08-26 09:55:35

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Imagine being one of the television viewers and newspaper readers who liked that tweet.

2023-08-25 20:25:44

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Zeus! https://youtu.be/LWAqPfxD7qk?feature=shared

2023-08-25 20:21:24

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Can someone here confirm this series is not tainted by leftie wokeism, like most other recent Star Wars garbage?

2023-08-25 18:40:52

Searching for "Republican full debate" on YouTube just gives me fakestream media commentaries about the debate. I just want to watch the debate itself, you morons.
YouTube has become such a garbage platform. Not surprisingly, I ended up finding the full debate on Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/XsAM2s9pUTrY/
(Disclaimer: I watch this only for entertainment purposes; not because I believe any of these political parasites will solve anything.)

2023-08-25 09:13:43

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Bitcoin fixes this, yes, but in the sense that under a Bitcoin standard, such people will never exist or afford to become this stupid in the first place. (But not in the sense that Bitcoin will fix these particular people; they are already lost for life.)

2023-08-24 10:26:38

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Similarly, "dAtA sCiEncE" is a buzzword for... copying and pasting Python code until you get a nice chart.

2023-08-24 10:25:19

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Agreed. "AI" is a mere buzzword. For decades it used to be called... optimization.

2023-08-23 10:19:24

The "curing cancer" industry is a scam. There is no need for any more inNovAtiOns in this area.
What you want is water fasting. Very few understand this. It's not talked about because you preventing cancers by not consuming anything doesn't make anyone money.
Here is a highly recommended video. If you're short on time, the best part in my opinion is 25:00 - 35:00 (10 minutes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOvn4UqznU (Fasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas)

2023-08-22 20:34:31

Rule of thumb: Stick with poisons that people have been consuming for millennia, and avoid poisons of the 20th century. Enjoy your wine, coffee, and cigars.
Another rule of thumb: If you do one or two multi-day water fasts per year, you don't have to worry as much anymore about having the oPtiMaL hEaLThy diEt.
Anything beyond these rules is just pointless overoptimization; too much effort for no or hardly any gain; not a smart way to live life.

2023-08-22 20:33:13

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2023-08-22 20:08:14

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The solution is to abandon macOS in favor of Linux. My only regret: I didn't do it sooner.

2023-08-20 18:34:57

https://youtu.be/KET-lghduGg

2023-08-20 18:34:37

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https://youtu.be/KET-lghduGg

2023-08-18 19:37:46

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Brother, your demon within is actually a daemon (not necessarily negative). Embrace him as your best friend. I discovered this truth just in the past few days. It has been known to man for millennia; The Discourses of Epictetus:
"Zeus has placed by every man a guardian, every man's Daemon, to whom he has committed the care of the man, a guardian who never sleeps, is never deceived. For to what better and more careful guardian could He have intrusted each of us? When then you have shut the doors and made darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not; but God is within, and your Daemon is within, and what need have they of light to see what you are doing? To this God you ought to swear an oath just as the soldiers do to Caesar."

2023-08-18 18:50:07

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There might be a catch (hope not): Are you in a political jurisdiction that has an exit tax?

2023-08-18 18:06:44

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Zomg! Just when I had developed the idea that side dishes are a scam, you prove me wrong. Definitely going to try a cheese side dish with my meats soon. Thanks! #meat #cheese

2023-08-18 10:08:28

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This is a good base on which to continue the discussion. (Appreciate the dialogue BTW.)
At the end of the day, owning land and real estate and renting it out (or selling it) is a business, in many ways like any other business.
The most competent stewards of wealth seek out the greatest returns on their investment. Throughout history, that has meant diversifying away from real estate and into other opportunies. (Certain stock market sectors (railroads, canals, bridges, technology, etc.), commodities, Bitcoin, etc.)
Just because some families have owned land for centuries, doesn't necessarily mean they are in any sort of an enviable position or made great business decisions. Either way, it doesn't tell us much anyway because real estate might at times be a mere drop in the ocean of the family wealth. But to the extent they make worse returns than other wealth owners, their is being dissipated and eroded over time.
That being said, I don't want to dismiss one of the other points that (I believe) you're making: Generation X is kind of REKT from the outset: entering the workforce when real estate is topping out worldwide, too late to buy Bitcoin in the early days, and so on. (Some of them will still be able to grab the final 10-100x still remaining in Bitcoin.)

2023-08-17 20:23:48

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To address the issue (I believe) you're raising—the scarcity of land (i.e., all the land for homesteading is simply finished) and there are "too many" people—many societies have historically built more vertically, eventually up to skyscrapers.
It is unfortunate that (at least many) socialists, instead of fighting for more property rights and freedom (e.g., to erect skyscrapers), they clamor for the expropriation of property and the destruction of private property rights, not realizing that they are shooting themselves in their own feet.

2023-08-17 16:43:45

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Property slowly dissipates. As the saying goes: "From shirtsleeve to shirtsleeve in three generations."
For instance, two or more children, who inherit property, are not in any ideal position. (For how can a house be split into parts?) Very often, they sell the property, take the money, and split it.

2023-08-16 10:09:18

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2023-08-16 10:08:17

https://youtu.be/j1cqNDDG4aA

2023-08-16 10:06:02

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Why do so many Bitcoiners wax lyrical about low time preference and beautiful buildings, but—not necessarily you but many others—continue to wear ugly, high-time-preference clothes (T-shirts and shorts) and use high-time-preference foul language (swearwords like "f*ck" and "sh*t")?

2023-08-09 15:31:30

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I don't wish for this, but he's inevitably going to get REKT in stonks, real estate, and government bonds. 100%.

2023-08-09 15:29:27

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BTC's last remaining 10-100x combined with real estate's 10x collapse: The trade of the next decade.

2023-08-09 15:27:56

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Make sure to always HODL at least 1 year, which means 0% "capital gains" theft in Germany. (As far as I know.)

2023-08-04 12:06:50

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It's very bad, but it wouldn't be nearly as bad were it not for modern "architecture," which is a cancer on humanity.

2023-08-04 11:57:46

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There are too many people here denying the concept of self-responsibility. Being fat is unhealthy and disgusting. It's not a diSeAsE. Fat people are responsible for themselves and their own sugar and carb addiction.
"The problem fiat food producers and their universities and newspapers have with meat is that it kills your desire for the highly profitable industrial junk that sponsors them. This is why there is a new dumb scare-story about the evils of meat every week, and why the kind of people who listen to universities and newspapers are far more concerned about my health for eating meat than when I was drinking two liters of sugar a day." - Saidedean Ammous, https://saifedean.com/meat
#Meat #Bitcoin

2023-08-01 11:11:11

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Scammers like these are doing the world a favor by parting dumb people from "their" money. (If one is *that* dumb, one is not mentally capable of *owning* anything in any meaningful way.)

2023-07-30 15:56:25

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Here's an idea, just for you:
You looked way cooler (in my opinion) in the old days on Twitter when you had nicely combed hair, a suit, and tie. This was (to me) obviously the way forward, but I'm not sure how this truth got lost along the way.
Just like Bitcoiners talk about beautiful low-time-preference architecture, it would be nice to see more Bitcoiners drop the T-shirts and spearhead a new movement to bring back beautiful low-time-preference clothing.
(Saifedean Ammous was similar: Started in suits, but degenerated into high-time-preference T-shirts.)
#Bitcoin #Civilization #Fashion #Clothing

2023-07-27 17:41:38

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I just told them. "I'm on Signal or Threema. Hope to see you there."
Thankfully, the most important ones came over (although they keep using WhatsApp etc. for other normie things). Others didn't, and I no longer communicate with them.
Try this, wait for a month, and test how many of them are interested enough to be in your life :)

2023-07-27 12:11:49

It is a common misconception that by dressing up one is "showing off." On the contrary, it means that one has enough respect for the people around one.
When a man shows up in flip-flops and shorts, he is not seen positively as being "free from restrictions" by the cultured. He is just being disrespectful to his fellow men and nothing else.
T-shirt wearing and swearing (using words like "fu**" all the time) so-called "low-time-preference" Bitcoiners, whose content I otherwise like, unfortunately do not tend to understand this.
One would think that "low-time-preference" Bitcoiners, who wax lyrical about beautiful buildings, would jump at the opportunity to bring back beautiful clothes and language. Unfortunately, this is turning out not to be the case.
#Bitcoin #Clothing #Fashion #Civilization

2023-07-27 12:09:19

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It is a common misconception that by dressing up one is "showing off." On the contrary, it means that one has enough respect for the people around one.
When a man shows up in flip-flops and shorts, he is not seen positively as being "free from restrictions" by the cultured. He is just being disrespectful to his fellow men and nothing else.
T-shirt wearing and swearing (using words like "fu**" all the time) so-called "low-time-preference" Bitcoiners, whose content I otherwise like, unfortunately do not tend to understand this.
One would think that "low-time-preference" Bitcoiners, who wax lyrical about beautiful buildings, would jump at the opportunity to bring back beautiful clothes. Unfortunately, this is turning out not to be the case.
#Bitcoin #Clothing #Fashion #Civilization

2023-07-26 13:22:56

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Sadly 99% don't care for "freedom tech". They never have, and they never will. The past 3 years prove this.
If they buy "BTC" at all they will do in the form of a BlackRock IOU and get rekt.

2023-07-24 14:23:20

Imagine believing that salads are something that thriving human beings should eat, not something that animals should eat so that human beings don't have to. 🤡🤡 #meat

2023-07-23 20:10:13

The hisses and screeches of well-to-do middle class climate change zealots in the West is irrelevant noise. Why? Because the only people who matter when it comes to this issue—the billions of people who are happy to burn coal and breathe a bit dirtier air in exchange for their first refrigerator and toilet with running water—don't care one iota about these hisses and screeches.

2023-07-23 19:55:07

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Also Die Prinzipien des Wohlstands by Florian Homm and Moritz Hessel, to learn how to shift Bitcoin into a long-term value stonk portfolio after the next BTC 10x.

2023-07-23 19:53:08

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Capitalism (1990) by George Reisman. A huge 1000 page tome full of economics red pills.

2023-07-20 20:59:07

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Nix users unaffected.

2023-07-09 20:30:46

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You and Gigi are two famous Bitcoiners here on Nostr. What others are here?
I'm completely cut off from the Twitter world now. I have no idea what's going on there anymore.

2023-07-09 20:28:00

LOL @ morons who are eating less meat because they think this will hELp sAvE tHE eNviROnMenT. 🤡🤡🤡