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2024-08-21 09:05:49

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no, it’s German

2024-07-16 13:49:34

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haven’t named her yet, but really I should have, smh. and she’s a Bosch, so I guess should be German name?

2024-06-21 19:07:51

fiat is retarded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMNy9e7r41Y

2024-06-09 13:17:22

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favorite activity is definitely hanging out with allen 👍

2024-06-06 09:16:51

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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 09:15:53

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nah probably not

2024-06-06 09:00:22

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

2024-06-03 06:56:24

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

2024-06-02 21:53:30

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good thing I didn’t do that then?

2024-06-02 08:35:40

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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 08:21:45

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 15:42:20

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

2024-05-27 16:12:30

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

2024-05-26 11:16:03

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😢

2024-05-24 09:03:43

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vitalik?

2024-05-24 07:46:09

mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRz2MxhAdJo

2024-05-13 20:14:52

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idk man he shitcoined real hard

2024-05-10 08:08:09

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a bit depressing as an answer, but during covid, that a frightening number of people will do whatever they are told and then rationalize it post hoc, no matter how completely insane or evil the instructions are.

2024-05-04 09:39:45

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stay humble, stack kids.

2024-05-03 18:26:21

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YOU’RE A SUBSET OF PI

2024-05-03 18:23:33

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 08:57:29

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

2024-04-27 08:50:23

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

2024-04-27 08:23:59

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

2024-04-25 11:53:50

mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhYEWrtX7YA

2024-04-13 18:02:16

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unfortunately you’re going to have to accept I don’t have much high standard content and never did. it’s shitposts all the way down.

2024-04-13 14:31:49

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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 …

2024-04-12 17:06:16

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he’s not serious. there’s not much more to it than that.

2024-04-12 16:41:33

what @npub14mc…frlx is doing for Bedford >>> what Saylor is doing for Microstrategy

2024-04-09 16:22:00

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glad you are enjoying it!

2024-04-09 15:11:41

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

2024-03-31 21:56:21

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

2024-03-30 16:52:52

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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 🤷‍♀️

2024-03-30 16:51:51

cowboy carter is 🔥

2024-03-28 10:40:19

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aren’t you bullshit on every chat?

2024-03-24 13:38:56

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 08:47:06

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 11:37:12

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

2024-03-14 14:54:37

me: “hey babe have you ever wondered about how “wizard” means basically the same thing as “witch” but “wizard” is masculine and has positive connotations whereas “witch” is feminine and has negative connotations? isn’t that kinda unfair?”
mrs allen: “no, but I am wondering why you are such a pussy all of a sudden.”

2024-03-02 12:12:55

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

2024-02-29 08:54:29

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

2024-02-27 13:23:26

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

2024-02-22 11:07:15

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I DONT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS BUT I LIKE YOUR ENTHUSIASM

2024-02-21 07:43:16

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

2024-02-20 19:44:36

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no jokes I watched a really good explainer about the differences between the book and the movie.

2024-02-19 21:41:21

"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.

2024-02-17 15:35:46

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nostr but centralized and with tokens. don’t think about that too hard.

2024-02-17 15:30:31

had a call with a prospect who touted farcaster as "super interesting and worth me looking at”.
I looked at it.
I fell on the floor laughing.
I came to nostr to tell you all this story.
you're welcome.

2024-01-02 13:49:01

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

2023-12-29 21:43:34

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 🤯

2023-12-18 11:45:39

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

2023-12-12 14:30:22

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

2023-12-07 17:05:25

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 😃🥳

2023-12-02 16:50:28

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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 16:05:47

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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”.

2023-11-08 21:11:21

great idea from this random anon #note1ved…edjz

2023-11-03 18:51:39

I’ve engaged with enough professional shitcoiners, or shitcoin-adjacent tradfi deliquents, to have noticed a hilarious pattern to their butthurt reaction to nobody really caring about ordinals, BRC20, or whatever they are migrating to of late.
keep in mind what a monster breakthrough shitcoining on bitcoin would be to their business models, btw (which I may or may not get around to writing up soon - this isn’t it, fyi). given shitcoinery at large is finally fading away, this spins up another 5+ years of complete and utter nonsense marketing and the FOMOing management fees that follow spouting this bullshit confidently enough.
what they’ve converged on to explain resistance - apathy, even, given I wouldn’t say I care one way or the other. yay fees! - is the idea that bitcoin development works in a top-down manner and has “priests” (they like this kind of religious vernacular, which I’ll come back to) who decree what projects will and won’t be worked on.
the level of projection here is astounding. it’s an open network. you can work on whatever you want. we are talking about ordinals NFTs in the first place because you already did it! you ran the scam! you got out with the money! and you’re upset that … you weren’t congratulated for it more?!?
it’s completely insane. contrast that to the alternative: they fucking despise lightning and there is no end of deliberate misrepresentations they won’t tell about it to aggrieve how hurt their butts are. obviously lightning isn’t perfect (nothing is perfect - it’s engineering, not art or, as they are more used to, performance art) but notice that isn’t their object level complaint because they don’t have the technical understanding to frame it that way. they describe their complaint as if it were anthropological, something like: the “priests” decreed all scaling efforts will focus on lightning, and lo, it was so.
again, it’s an open network (this time on top of another open network). I can’t tell you how many times I’ve spoken to founders who are building on lightning because, unlike whatever crypto ecosystem they already spent 3 years toiling away in achieving nothing of practical value but doing free marketing to unscrupulous financiers, lightning actually works. they appreciate the design methodology. they *choose* to work on it. it is as bottom up a phenomenon as could be imagined and yet to the reactionary shitcoiner, it must be top down. how can it be explained any other way? what else could make people want to work on an ecosystem with no money printing if not central and ideological coordination? iT dOeSnT mAkE aNy SeNsE!
(fun fact: now they are learning what nostr is, they recycle all these same patterns of thought. "why would you work on decentralized social media? don’t you know we tried that in crypto? don’t you know you can issue tokens on bitcoin now?!?”)
so people aren’t using one free and open tool because they’ve been told not to by their church, but they are using another because they have been told to by their church. it couldn’t possibly be that they’ve decided to work on one and not the other because they *understand how they work and what potential value they will have long term, not to their unscrupulous financiers, but to their users and to the world.* nope, couldn’t possibly be that. must be the religious dogma.
now obviously we can expect object level discourse agitating for defi, DAOs, and all that kind of nonsensical bullshit. but, again, it’s frankly a more anthropological examination that fascinates me. what is it they are saying about the people involved? is there a social analysis rather than a (quick and boring) technical one?
self-congratulatory as this unavoidably is, what they hate is the raw meritocracy. money means nothing, reputation means *something*, but by and large ideas stand on their own. there is a fascinating subtlety here around the human (i.e. anthropological) response: because this stuff is technical and has to *actually work*; because it isn’t just aesthetic; because it serves a purpose and is validated in the real world; there is some objectivity to what is and is not a good idea. now, you can’t deduce it. it isn’t math. there will always be pros and cons. but it isn’t just taste either. some things *objectively* work better than others. there is nothing “open minded” about praising poor engineering.
honest, intelligent people attracted to the intellectual meritocracy will, therefore, on a long-enough time horizon to allow for battle testing the ideas, for teasing out pros and cons to a satisfactory degree, tend to agree on which are the best.
now, these people have bad ideas and get mad they can’t buy or shame or whatever else the meritocracy into getting onboard, so they project all this crap about “clergy”, “anointed”, and whatever other religious vernacular fits their cargo cultish misunderstanding of what it is they are looking at in the first place. heathens to this church are treated as brave, independent trailblazers, fighting back against an intolerant majority (by freely building one kind of free stuff over another 😕). that almost everybody independently concludes that these ideas are bad, because they proudly have rigorous standards for evaluating merit, BECAUSE THIS STUFF MATTERS AND IS BIGGER THAN YOU … they see as groupthink; as monotonicity; as the hierarchical broadcast of dogma.
and by the way, build to your heart’s content. as mentioned above, I don’t particularly care, and I think most people are the same. just don’t demand I like whatever bad idea you are working on. the problem is not “the builders” of reformist lore, it is their financial exploiters, of whom this is all downstream …
they all come from a world in which bullshitting hard enough will tend to yield a positive return in the end. obviously, in such an environment, everybody’s bullshit contradicts everybody else’s and yet everybody still wins. the idea of meticulously working to weed out bullshit and narrowing in on the actual truth is extremely uncomfortable if this is all you have ever known, and what you now expect to find.
as alluded to above, the funniest part is the projection. everything I’ve just sarcastically outlined is in fact its very own meme. it circulates in these cliques and infects any host susceptible to non-explanation for this culture shock. *it is not arrived at independently via rigorous reasoning*. it literally is the hierarchical broadcast of dogma.
and it’s ramping up for another 5+ year wave. enjoy! 😃🥳

2023-11-02 17:46:42

there is a wave of shitcoinery coming to bitcoin like you guys have never seen.
I started writing up my thesis on this, thinking it would be a cute little note and get a zap or two, but I’m an hour in and I’m just angry. will maybe post tomorrow, but in the meantime enjoy my muse (I read it so you have to read it too):
https://outlierventures.io/article/bitcoin-unchained-the-new-startup-goldrush/

2023-10-05 17:00:24

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no because the differential in funding rates won’t turn that to a profit because you can’t know when it’s going to happen. the whole construction relies on everybody (rightly) assuming it always goes up on a long enough time horizon. you can’t just profit no matter what! 🤣

2023-10-05 09:42:07

BOOM! 🧡🔥🚀
https://www.axiombtc.capital/orange

2023-09-20 23:17:16

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“building”
iykyk it’s not a company, it’s a vaporware R&D project patronised by bitfinex.

2023-09-20 23:11:20

has John “the midwit’s midwit” Carvalho ever actually done anything admirable? the more he attacks me from behind the block and the more I troll him in response and win over his own followers, the dumber and dumber he seems and I’m trying to remember if he’s literally ever said anything worthwhile or built anything anybody uses.
I also feel an amusing sense of calm asking this here because he virtue hates nostr and is building his own version that nobody can explain, including himself, or use, including himself.
fwiw, I mulled over just letting this go an taking the high road but then I’ve been entertained and alarmed in equal measure by my DMs filling up with stories of him being a cunt irl. so now it feels more like bullying a bully and I’m occasionally pretty into it …

2023-09-16 19:15:46

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aw man, I just thought about Rome again.

2023-09-02 12:59:07

I don’t think anything has convinced me of the utter uselessness of twitter for substantive exchange as opposed to shitposting and engagement farming than the drivechain “debate”.
I’ve found myself going back and forth on it *SOLELY BECAUSE* I see an obviously stupid or disingenuous argument for and think “ugh, now I wanna be against” or against and think “ugh, now I wanna be for.”
which is not to say there aren’t intelligent and honest arguments both ways, just that twitter is designed to make them hard to find.
(p.s. in case the wording here isn’t incredibly clear already, this note has nothing to do with drivechains. if you reply as if it is, I will treat that as shitposting and engagement farming and encourage you to go back to twitter 👍)

2023-08-26 14:43:02

@naddr1qqxnzd3exvcr2ve5xc6nyv3eqgsgym5l39dcr26p53fzy69jf8ng6qk2s9sgmm6k9fynem34llzuwkgrqsqqqa28w4pwfy
(not quite sure what I’m doing here. posted via habla so hopefully this works as intended. if it doesn’t and you know why, please let me know 😂)

2023-08-25 17:19:25

good people of nostr!
Julia Tourianski and I have written a review of Barbie that we are scheduled to post tomorrow but I’ll probably just post it here shortly 1) to test out Habla and 2) to reward people for staying off the bird app and living in the decentralised future (or the letter app? idk what we are supposed to call it now fml)

2023-07-23 09:10:37

Twitter post scheduled for an hour’s time but the good people of Nostr obviously get to see my new pricing model first!
🚀🥳🧡
https://medium.com/@allenfarrington/modeling-bitcoin-value-with-vibes-99eca0997c5f

2023-07-18 14:58:57

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I don’t see that as consumption at all, it’s just trading financial assets. why would a founder be any different in this respect to any other holder of the equity?

2023-07-18 11:16:45

given I primarily use the bird app for shitposting (and now apparently marketing, fml) whereas nostr is where real work gets done and real learning happens, I’d be very happy to discuss Capital In The 21st Century if anybody has any questions.
AMA!

2023-07-15 13:11:26

my new thing! (with some fresh content to boot!)
https://www.axiombtc.capital/capital

2023-07-03 13:15:58

mrs Allen’s review of Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony:
“yeah, it slaps.”

2023-06-16 21:01:43

Trust Me, Bro
https://allenfarrington.medium.com/trust-me-bro-fb5a25964634

2023-06-14 13:26:54

god damn it, I like google now.
but I also hate google so this is confusing.

2023-06-13 20:37:48

starting to think all these trillion dollar walled garden tech monopolies are maybe up to no good …

2023-05-12 07:52:11

mrs allen on an idea I have for a talk:
“give it in Riga, that will really slap”

2023-05-12 07:25:36

you can always tell when people haven’t read Snow Crash because they say “the Metaverse” unironically.

2023-05-04 19:15:04

anybody else think it’s weird that Sardinia is in Italy but Corsica is in France?
Corsica should obviously be in Italy. if I were Italy I’d just take it back as sneakily as possible and see if anybody even complains …

2023-04-30 06:18:37

guys, I literally had an entire thread of maxed out tweets dunking on Cullen Roche’s misunderstanding of accounting lined up and ready to go, was just doing the final edits and the browser glitched and I lost everything.
I don’t have the willpower to do it again, but just know this: liabilities are sources of funding, not “what you owe”.
if you argue with me, you will give me the motivation to destroy you here instead. and it won’t even need to be a “thread” - it can be an offensively long note instead 😂

2023-04-25 19:25:06

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shitposter actually. similar but different.

2023-04-25 19:21:04

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that’s referred to as “zapsturbation” in the biz.

2023-04-19 12:26:18

“flexibler” should be a word

2023-04-13 12:12:44

thrilled to report that not only does my new flat have a microwave, but that I just discovered the washing machine is ALSO a dryer!!!
I aspire to one day acquire a dishwasher and literally drop dead of hedonism.

2023-04-12 08:04:12

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exactly. here, nobody can censor me for earnest poop related inquiry.

2023-04-12 07:16:19

is there a word for when you are pooping but then you also pee unexpectedly and everything is a little frantic while you get it all under control?
I bet German has a word for this.

2023-04-06 19:45:56

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I DUNNO WEN BITCOIN CONFERENCE, HUH?!?

2023-04-05 12:44:12

lmfao I see we are at the “round up your political opponents and throw them in jail” phase of regime takeover and social collapse.
one of my favourites.

2023-04-04 08:15:21

no but seriously, you have to read this. I’m now reading it for a second day in a row and may go all week:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation

2023-04-03 07:58:57

LOVE IS BLIND SEASON FOUR PART TWO 😱

2023-03-24 11:06:19

happy skull day everybody! 💀⚡️

2023-03-19 16:42:18

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OH YEAH?!? WANNA BET?!?

2023-03-18 09:09:47

“Nostrica” is supposed to rhyme with “Costa Rica” if you say both fast, right?
RIGHT?!?
I’ve now heard multiple say it “noss-trik-uh” and I’m wondering if I’m the crazy one …

2023-03-17 11:02:22

kinda feel like whipping up a medium post called “the beginning of the end” or something to that effect.
serious question: is there even any point? will I say anything that everybody doesn’t already know?

2023-03-17 09:59:47

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“I’M NOT IDEOLOGICAL, YOU’RE IDEOLOGICAL!!!” - every ideologue, ever 😂
you are correct that I’ve thought a lot about it. I’ll try to keep the answer short(ish) rather than writing you a book.
whether you really are ideological or not, you will inevitably seem that way to others for a handful of related reasons. what you are proposing, even is solely positive terms, is so absurdly outside the Overton window most have trouble interpreting it at face value and think there must be something else going on here, you must be kinda crazy, etc.,
since you are implicitly (or explicitly!) rejecting enormous swathes of contemporary culture, politics, and economics, it’s difficult for people to see that as *anything other than* ideological. of course they don’t realise they are living and participating in a competing ideology, but its dominance is such that their attention is never drawn to it. having their attention drawn in that way is unpleasant and they’d usually rather pathologies the pest rather than genuinely introspect.
for what it’s worth I try to tap into this in how I communicate in public. as much as I see the place of the tribalism, memes, lore, etc., and hence am not at all knocking anybody who focuses on that kind of thing, I am wary of this coming across as overtly ideological and unnecessarily unpersuasive. I tend to focus my commentary on how stupid and evil the fiat system is, often veering into outright mockery and humiliation of those who believe in and propagate it. the goal is to make *them* look crazy, not us.
when I talk about bitcoin itself my tone is usually dry and the content purely factual. where possible, I play up the technical challenges both to be honest about the material and to fake my own humility to try to strike a contrast with fiat propaganda.
so something like, “bitcoin is the fastest and most secure value settlement mechanism ever created and lightning offers nearly free and instant simulation of “payments” by swapping cryptographically enforceable deferred settlement in this layer. contrary to every other fiat payment method in existence, it is a true debit. there is no counterparty risk and no credit extension, although maintaining adequate channel liquidity and protecting against malevolent channel partners are both novel and challenging … etc.”
rather than: “lightning can do a trillion transactions per second and is going to DESTROY card networks and bitcoinize the dollar.”
the latter is probably true but the former is how I’d prefer to communicate. so back to your question: I don’t think it’s a good or a bad thing about the arguments themselves, and it’s not even necessarily true - it’s just an unfortunate reality of how they are likely to be perceived by most. but depending on what you want to achieve, you can certainly affect that perception.
(sorry for the novella)

2023-03-16 09:08:05

it would be awesome if Napoli won the champions league. I’m an Inter fan but this is so great to watch.

2023-03-13 07:51:55

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the hilarious thing is they have now made it a fiduciary imperative to hold at least some bitcoin in treasury.

2023-03-12 22:20:44

happy bank run eve, everybody. see you in the morning for the main event.

2023-03-12 09:29:22

gm
let’s meme a global financial crisis into existence by tweeting “BANK RUN” nonstop.
who’s with me?

2023-03-12 00:18:08

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quick addendum so as not to sound too holier-than-thou: I have non-negligible deposits in fiat banks but i) it would be impossible for me not to and still function like a normal human, ii) with this in mind, I do my best to minimise it, and iii) if (when) it all disappears, I won’t blame anybody except myself. it’s a calculated risk and it’s nobody else’s problem.

2023-03-12 00:15:30

I’m not sure I can be bothered tweeting this coz I don’t want to deal with the negative pushback, but equally I do want to vent so I can sleep soundly:
if you deposit in a fiat bank, you are an unsecured creditor. you are not a victim. the real victims are those furthest from the fiat spigot, who are persistently priced out of ever accumulating capital, and whose time will be stolen *yet again* to plug the gap of fake value destroyed by this latest round of insane leverage collapsing.
the idea that it is crass to be rooting for bank failures or opposing clear-cut short-term fixes has a certain sentimental appeal but is ultimately asinine.
THE BANKS ARE ALL GOING TO FAIL.
the longer it takes, the worse it is going to be for exactly the people who are harmed by it happening now. if you really care about them, you want this out of the way as quickly as possible. but the idea you can just close your eyes and procrastinate this all away is juvenile. it is arguably even *the cause* of the problem. this could have been dealt with at any point in the past 50 years, but no. we just kept borrowing more than it is possible to repay and consuming more than it is possible to produce.
at some point people need to learn to take responsibility. ignorance is not an excuse unless you are also willing to pay the entire price yourself, which, note, nobody whining about this is. you can tell because, if they were, they wouldn’t be whining.
“but I thought I was a depositor!” <> “I don’t give a fuck what you *thought* - you were lazy and you were wrong. and you are asking the already poor and already fucked over by your ignorance to pick up the tab for it *again*. learn what is actually happening and have the balls to fix it.”
feel free to quote me to anybody you think needs to hear that.

2023-03-11 16:01:11

I’m starting a GoFundMe to bail out Silicon Valley Bank. the target is $1bn because that’s the most GoFundMe will allow, so I will say that we probably need to do this 119 or so more times.
shoot me a nostr DM if you wanna workshop the pitch or contribute any good jokes 😉
I’m about to be offline for a few hours to watch rugby but when I get back I expect to get these creative juices flowing!