Last Notes
It’s less so conspiracy theory and moreso analysis showing that in all societies - democratic or not - power naturally concentrates in small groups through organisational advantages, specialised knowledge, and network effects.
Think “the purpose of a system is what it does” for social and political power.
Sociological & political concept that power always tends to concentrate in the hands of a few elites.
Vilfredo Pareto (of Pareto Principal 80/20 fame), Gaetano Mosca who wrote about small organised groups exercising power, Robert Michels who wrote about the Iron Law of Oligarchy, and James Burnham who synthesised it with the Managerial Revolution and our understanding of what we now call the Deep State.
You could say it’s about how power actually works rather than how people think it works, interesting if you’re familiar with ancap ideas about natural voluntary hierarchies.
- Elite theory
- The world after fiat
- Digital governance
Anyone interested in any of these please leave an emoji and I will follow you
Very rare to see panic amongst Bitcoiners any more, they just gobble up cheap Sats.
Good luck to fiat trying to defeat a foe like that!
Bitcoiners HODLing through insane volatility compared to what normies go through is a trump card which nocoiners don’t understand.
“A part of the generation that is coming up has been told, that there is something especially wicked about Israel’s existence, and it’s actions and its people … The State of Israel has been uniquely libelled, has been uniquely lied about, it’s history has been uniquely lied about, it has been uniquely put under an international microscope in a way that I cannot think of many other countries in the world that have been treated that way.”
Motherfucker the State of Israel exists by fiat, due to a deal with the Rothschild Central Banking family called the Balfour Declaration which handed the Zionists already occupied territory of Palestine.
THAT IS PRETTY FUCKING UNIQUE DOUGLAS
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Imagine if you had to actually sign on to a social contract, had full exit rights and recourse to get rid of Gov, and Govs had to put forward budgeted plans first and secure their funding voluntarily to provide services people want to pay for..
That’s the world I want.
🙉
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That difference has been gone for over a century and I don’t think the banksters are just going to give it all up
If a country’s trade imbalances with the US are balanced out, but that country continues running trade deficits with China - why would they denominate their trade of Oil in USD?
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Abandoned brake down - feels like home 😂
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I think this is the beginning of multipolarity where the US dollarises a bunch of allies and has a smaller sphere but with greater control over economics and security and hopes they can do what they’re best at - spying, intel, colour revolutions etc. - to disrupt the formation of the other pole.
Likely it just ends up a mess and we have a dollar curtain where the US completely dominates their sphere and the other sphere goes on as sovereigns cooperating rather than being vassals to China.
Been a while since I wrote about the rise of BRICS but I expect that’s going to come to the fore again now.
They’re going to have their cake and eat it too.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-chairman-steve-miran-hudson-institute-event-remarks/
"104% tariffs on China are not enough…America is the #1 economy on earth with all the cards. We will not have that forever. It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall." - Kevin O'Leary
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#02 BitDevs FFM 🚀🔥
When: 16.04.2025
Open 6.15pm, Start 7pm
Where:
Die Zentrale
Berger Str. 175
https://btcffm.org
The Frankfurt Bitcoin Meetup is the continuation of the “original” Frankfurt meetup started in 2013. We meet on every third Thursday.
From September through April we meet in a beautiful co-working space called Die Zentrale in Bornheim. During the summer, we’ll meet somewhere outside: In a public park, a BBQ place or a beer garden - your input on cool locations is welcome!
#meetup
Very cool! I was wondering when we’d see this kind of functionality on #nostr
Why did you choose not to build with smart contracts?
ABS has the median income at $72,592 which after tax is $4,879 per month - not even half the mortgage.
Fucking insane is right.
Tell me more
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Monerobros are useless in the fight. They autistically got stuck on privacy and think money should be able to buy drugs first and maintain a clear and probable economic policy second.
They’re retards.
Great book! Interesting ideas and helps drag the Overton window to where we should be going - more of that needed
Congrats #AUStriches, the median Sydney house is now asking over $2 million dollarydoos!
Just $10,476 for monthly mortgage repayments over 25 years with 20% down.
She’ll be right mate
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Yep and he’s not telling people “you must buy Bitcoin”, just saying like all good Bitcoiners do, go study it for yourself and ignore the crypto scams along the way
Sam Hyde talks #Bitcoin for a solid 10 minutes in his latest video in a way that will break through to a normie audience.
He’s a weird fit but it feels like he’s stepping into the shoes Jordan Peterson left behind when he went off to shill for Israel.
https://youtu.be/-lDXyz_c_L0
My country ranks just ahead of Yemen in economic complexity so I know the problem well #note1kzs…8rxu
But dollarydoos are not the global reserve currency - your US dollars are.
You can either maintain dollar hegemony (as Trump has insisted he wants), or you can reshore manufacturing (which Trump also insists he wants) - but you can’t do both.
Unfortunately for the world I think you’re going to dollarise allies and create a new shitty new empire of nations who will enable a Frankenstein model where the US tries to do both at ever increasing expense to the vassal states.
It’s going to be awful for everyone involved, and those on the other side of the new dollar curtain will be better off than those inside.
Like Tim Dillon, I’m skeptical they can turn the podcast economy around
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Watching Americans say that China needs American markets to sell into so Trump has all the leverage..
Bitch, you can’t even make a screw 😂
You gonna build those new factories out of US Treasuries? 🤣
https://x.com/balajis/status/1667365839807590400
WHAT COMES AFTER FIAT?
Last year I watched this Murray Rothbard speech given shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/KWdUIuID8ag
He makes the point that for the decades of talk by academics and think tanks and policy institutes, pretty much no-one had paid any real mind to the question “what comes next?” If you could wave a magic wand and make your ideological enemy collapse tomorrow, or they hand you the keys and surrender, what do you do?
I’ve thought a lot about this in the context of fiat but have noticed that very few Bitcoiners talk about it.
It’s all just assumptions that status quo nation states (the source of all fiat) adopt our economic system and..
And then, what?
Are those parasites going to magically stop being fiat?
Are the bureaucrat class just going to resign and enter productive industry?
The MIC is just going to stop hankering for wars? Israel is just going to start playing nice? Spooks are going to stop overthrowing foes? Pharma is going to stop poisoning people? The mass immigrants are just going to go home?
And what of Bitcoiners and their families, how are they going to handle this new found generational wealth? Are we bringing back primogeniture? Are we going to start arranging marriages of children? Are we going to fund pogroms to exterminate the parasites? Are we going to lobby the power centre, or take it over?
As positive a future as Bitcoin could enable, this needs some influence to take the shape we would want to see or I can tell you the answer to what comes after fiat:
Fiat 2.0, backed by Bitcoin.
I’m not interested in another spin on that merry-go-round and if you’re not either, I hope you’ll join me in beginning to discuss these ideas.
What is Trump’s fatal conceit?
He can never admit when he is wrong.
One need only look at how he kept talking about how great Operation Warp Speed was when even his own supporters would jeer it.
He has been talking about tariffs for a year, and has finally implemented them but if they don’t work out as he expects, do you really think he’s going to admit that and change course?
Going to bat for tariff policy generated by ChatGPT is a sign of stupidity.
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So good we borrowed it directly into English
Which means what exactly?
When learning #languages, discovering words which don’t translate is my favourite part.
Which words do you have that don’t translate into English?
#asknostr
Once the government is banning knives, it’s all over.
When it is considered good governance to ban sharp objects, and the opposition is so weak (or more likely, in agreement with the incumbents) to stop it - your country is gone.
No-one is going to run on a platform of “we will unban knives” knowing that a single incident will be put upon them by the M5M and their opposites which is all they care about.
It’s not going to happen, the problems won’t disappear but that doesn’t matter - it’s not getting undone and now you can’t even carry the most basic of self-defence making you entirely reliant for protection on the system of idiots who screwed it up in the first place.
We are beyond “reform” at this point. The system is cooked and it’s gotta go.
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SAPol are advertising they’re recruiting internationally.
What could possibly go wrong bringing in foreigners to police the unarmed domestic population?!
#AUStriches
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A helluva lot of whiskey. Buying rounds for all of humanity 😂
Moon landing is gr8 b8 for 🍿
When violence is entirely removed as an option to the masses, the worst elements of society run rampant and face no accountability.
Get your affairs in order people, 💩 is on its way to the fans
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A wholecoin = sovereignty
This just isn’t widely understood yet
For 16 years, #Bitcoin has been the ultimate social mobility opportunity.
With BTC ranging in the $80k region before the money printer inevitably goes brrrr is the call for last drinks at the last chance saloon.
1 wholecoin now secures your family's position in the 21st century counter elite which will dismantle & replace the dying establishment order.
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Yes, nukes were scary because of the scale of destruction they could cause, this is scary because if can be pinpoint and controlled on the other side of the globe.
The year is 2031, the Chinese government are desperate for more corn after their disastrous ban a decade prior however the Bitcoiners 3d printed drone dog army is heavily armed and ready to defend from the coming hordes.
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Trump seems obsessed with William McKinley and his use of tariffs and has completely ignored the monetary standard in place at the time. Bastiat knew what was up
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Annnnnnd it’s gone..
Wonder where the money was coming from that it was suddenly switched off? 🤔
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1,000 Liechtensteins
https://youtu.be/r_indiK8lnc
If hes a human rights abuser then he deserves a lot more than just being barred from pubs.
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Why is the US policing shipping lanes 11,600 kilometres away from the US?
If it doesn’t work out the whole word is fukt so might as well not worry about it
Bitcoiners are borderline
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Yeah not sure about that one mate
Dudes sitting in chairs chatting shit won’t appeal to marketeers though
I doubt he foresaw all of this when creating Nostr. But that’s the sign of a good product, people use it in ways you never envisioned.
Someone has to pay for that €500 Billion in extra debt Queen Ursula signed them up for, might as well make it their enemies
First time mining since you could do it on a laptop
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“Tell your client devs..”
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TAX THE RICH!! WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO, FIND A WAY TO KEEP MORE OF THEIR OWN MONEY?!?!
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Here’s an even easier test - can you take Crimea of Putler?
No you can’t so that’s the end of the discussion.
Don’t go trying to justify shit from “da international communituh”. The US hasn’t had legitimacy for decades and they’ve still managed to kill a few million people running around playing world police.
Accept the world as it is, and change it if you don’t like it.
Remember the H1B debate just a few months ago?
This isn’t a left vs right issue any more, it’s a question of maintaining the system (which requires mass immigration) or being willing to upend the system in favour of a new one.
No-one from the establishment elites on either left or right want the latter so they default to the former.
Correct.
The difference isnt left VS right anymore, now it’s between:
Those who believe in narratives VS those who understand the purpose of a system is what it does.
#AUStriches forecast to add 1.8 million people over the next 5 years, a 6.7% increase.
This will blow out by 50%+ and it’s not going to be achieved with native births but rather, UberEats drivers from India.
Australia is the Ship of Theseus - you have to ask yourself how much of it will be ripped and replaced to satisfy the globalists whilst still being able to call it Australia.
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This is what it looks like when you’re number 1 national export is inflation
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#AUStriches social media is awash with commentary on the Budget; what’s missing, pet policies they wanted but didnt get, vote buying with pork barrelling, measures that don’t go far enough etc.
Really it’s all just commentary and critiques on the arrangement of the deckchairs on the Titanic - none of it matters or addresses the sinking of the ship.
The obsession with public squares is really strange.
Why would I want a global public square? I have multiple public squares in my city which I avoid, why then would I want to visit one with shit from other ends of the world with niches that are completely meaningless and irrelevant to me?
Speak for yourself.
I’m super bullish on #nostr in particular expanding beyond social media usecases.
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Rippletards still would https://i.nostr.build/7fJYo9swAAuNnBg8.jpg
I thought this account might have been Rational Aussie, an Australian Bitcoiner on Xitter.
Clearly not
I thought USAID funding got cut already, how are the gay space communists still going?
What do you think? Should this be required reading for Bitcoiners?
That’s impressive for any breed to go that long.
My dog is 11.5 years old, I can’t see him making 15.5 from here.
I hope he does, but I’ll take what I can get from him. Every day is great having a dog who’s been with you that long at that stage
One high school in my little town - 2 suicides and 1 failed attempt after Kurt went.
Outside of a big car accident which killed 4 teens and fucked up a bunch of people, Kurt’s death was the next biggest thing.
Ryan has had Mosha for longer than I’ve had my dog, and I’m watching my dog get old and slow down and now reckoning with his mortality.
I dont like pugs as a breed but I know what it’s like to have a loyal companion for over a decade; hes not just gonna switch off his compassion.
We shouldn’t be breeding things that don’t work, but I can understand being in and committed - that’s humans and dogs.
I just paid more for my dog to relocate internationally one-way with me than return Business flights for me and my missus. That’s how dogs go sometimes.
Have a pug amongst 7-8 dogs on my daily walk with my Kelpie-Heeler-cross.
The pug is the only thing I feel sorry and embarrassed for. It’s the only thing my dog doesnt react to, other than frogs.
Take care of Mosha and then no more pugs man.
25 books in 2025 was my goal for #bookstr. I had a fully planned and oversubscribed list coming into the new year but something in the aether told me to put this one to the top and all I can say is it was the best decision.
Critical Path was Buckminster Fuller’s magnum opus, written when he was 85, it’s seemingly the writings of a time-travelling Bitcoiner and the most important thing I’ve read in more than a decade.
A compilation of his ideas and concepts spanning 50 years of work, his completely unique philosophy, an optimism our world today sorely lacks, and a full outline of his view for progressing humanity by doing more with less based on material science.
@Gigi recently mentioned we were promised flying cars and I noted millenials and younger weren’t promised shit.
Well Fuller in his day promised much more, designed it, prototyped it, built what he could and told fantastic tales which could align people to progress along his futuristic way - we need Buckminster Fuller in 2025!
A few Bitcoiners have posted clips of him discussing energy and a single global accounting system (see images) going back to 1967 but I’ve not seen any review this book.
It’s simply phenomenal. I can’t attest to the veracity of all of it, I will have to dig some rabbitholes and definitely re-read it again in a year but if even 30% holds up then every Bitcoiner ought read it for that alone.
Fuller articulates a worldview where humanity stops fucking around, stops letting parasites control things, focusses on sharing the most important information to build the best technologies to do more with less and raise QoL standards for all.
@ODELL managed to meme Mandibles to the fore for Bitcoiners - if ever there was a book all Bitcoiners should read; THIS IS IT.
You won’t agree with all of it, the terminology may be a bit dated, but you will be interested throughout and amazed at his foresight 45 years ago, and hopefully motivated as I am that you too can just do things like Bucky the OG did and the world can change for the better.
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It was huge news in Aus. In the 90s we had a real Republican movement with serious ppl involved and they got a referendum to become independent which failed - the monarchy had a lot of strength amongst Aussies back then.
We only had 2 TV channels back then and her funeral procession was on both. It was on every news bulletin and in all the papers and magazines. I remember finding it all weird even as a kid.
Her death and Kurt Cobain’s in the 90s had big impact in Aus. Hers on the oldies and Kurt’s on the younguns.
Bitcoiners who are still on Xitter and don’t have a presence on Nostr at this point are either retarded or BitcoinBugs.
The difference a few hours can make https://i.nostr.build/wh21cObNOnUei7ZB.jpg
Saylor is a BitcoinBug - pass it on
This is 100X more appealing to me than the latest iPhone
Block #888888 visualised.
At least Hitler got a mention I guess 🤷♂️ https://i.nostr.build/NDK53f0gNbLXyODP.jpg
It would be really cool if we could comment on blocks with Nostr IDs @npub18d4…6lt3
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Earn more income rather than cutting more costs is peddled by the influencoor class.
On net they’re right that earning more is preferable and easier than cutting, however you’re more right that actual analysis of the fiat treadmill means it’s pretty pointless unless you can get yourself OFF the treadmill entirely, but they’re not advocating for that. Yet..
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Income Tax is the penalty you pay for being productive.
Congratulations Britbongs, you played yourselves. https://i.nostr.build/1BXKPvDItFh5lYrB.png
I saw on Xitter they wrote a mea culpa that they did screw up the new app, but now I’ve just got 2 unusuable apps so that doesn’t really help their customers
Had mine for 8 years now and they’re still great quality sound.
But what the fuck have they done with the software? I had to re-setup in my new place recently and instead of just connecting to a new wifi network I had 2 apps and had to factory reset the whole thing to get it working again.
Don’t know how they screwed up the user experience that bad.
When to leave is a very personal decision, but being ready and having your plans in place is important for everyone to do.
You do not want to be scrambling when everyone is rushing for the exits, you want to be walking through the airport unbothered *before* shit hits the fan.
They’ve made an early start:
If they do ramp up for war then yeah it won’t take long with the debt burden already in place
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Trump is just outright saying it now lol.
If you live in the West* and your Security is ostensibly guaranteed by the US, you will be accepting USD stablecoins by 2028. Maybe your local shitcoin will survive alongside it, maybe not, but the that’s going to be the price of vassalage.
*Except Europe - you guys are getting a CBDC and are going to be fukt
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Good to have you on here - leading from the front(ier).
Greetings from Vietnam & thanks for pushing on and sharing your thoughts and experiences!
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View from an irregular Nostr user (myself):
Disclaimer:
As things change on here by the week, as a "non-power user" one is certainly quickly falling behind, so the following statement might be already outdated.
With that said:
While Primal seems to have - currently - the best UX ( you can read most notes and loading times are fast - which is not necessarily true for some other interfaces such as Snort or Iris)... when it comes to "ZAP"ping, it seems that it simply is not possible if you follow standard Bitcoin security practices.
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As in:
You never (as in: NEVER!) have the ability to sign transactions on the same device that you use to browse the Internet.
Currently - it seems - "zap"ping on Primal requires either the Primal Wallet/App ( I use a Browser and keep any apps on my phones to an absolute minimum - hence not an option ) and or NWC... which also requires signing capability on the same device that you use to browse the Internet.
On some of the other Nostr clients it is possible to zap from a different device - you can press the "zap" button, obtain a QR code/Lightning invoice... and then simply scan the QR code from a separate dedicated device connected to a dedicated node.
Browsing and transaction signing capabilities clearly separated.
Currently Primal makes it easy if you are fine to ignore these iron security rules - but also leads to more Sats being held in a closed ecosystem/custodial where... it is absolutely not necessary (imho).
The current way the Zap mode on Primal is provided is not interoperable with any other Lightning wallet (and/or node!) - it requires you to have Sats on your Primal Wallet and/or NWC... on the same device that you use to browse the Internet.
Some (most?) people might just not care, but it's currently the "main blocker" in my personal Primal UX.
I do not want to install an app.
I do not want to install a Browser extension.
Kim Jong Un wants me to press the button - and I do not want to press it.
Yes, it is paranoid.
But as the old saying goes:
"Only the paranoid survive".
Or the recent beautiful iteration of it by @nprofile…ls58 :
"Systems that heavily rely on trust have the best UX until they have the worst UX."
Currently on Primal, if I want to zap someone - I need to load the note via a different interface... and hope, that I can even load the note.
At which point - unless I really, really want to zap the person - the drop-off rate increases drastically and the Zap will not take place.
With that said:
All of this might have already been solved at the time of writing - and I just haven't discovered yet how to do so.
If so, feel free to call me out as a noob'ish Nostr laggard - and lmk how to zap on Primal from a different device than the one used to browse the internet.
To some degree yes, but in choosing the easiest to manipulate and indoctrinate they opted for soft power which can never win in the long run against hard.
White college educated women are going to have to be checked before they tear society apart.
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Make that 200,000 Indians 😂 https://i.nostr.build/hq3PiagpipKTbwh0.png
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#AUStriches 🥐 https://v.nostr.build/eZU6u5z4GSrykZld.mp4
Stay tuned, I’ll post a review for #bookstr soon.
Thankyou. Weird we can’t get something as simple as note @ing standardised across clients
I think his point was that just smashing through books to brag you’ve read X books is pointless, you don’t retain or absorb the information or follow the loose threads to fully comprehend what you’ve read.
I’m aiming for 25 this year and so far am on track but can already tell that will be a stretch to fully absorb that many.
And yeah there’s a lot of useless books, including in #Bitcoin now, but then occasionally you come across a gem as I have right now - one of those right books with the right content at the right time that happens a few times in life and gets you really juiced for it.
My Weber BBQ just arrived but have to change the hose before I can use it here.
Might need to get a charcoal grill too, haven’t had one for ages
Ordered the brisket 3 times! Just for you 😂
American beef so it’s ok, heading to the shops now to buy Aussie beef which is better and 10-25% cheaper than I could get in Aus
All you can eat Korean BBQ Buffet for USD$10.39
#carnivore is quite affordable in #Vietnam
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Monerobros should watch Sam Hyde nail “privacy”
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NYT mea culpa 5 years on from Covid that the conspiracy theorists were right from the very beginning - OOPS
What is wrong with this image?
1) Washington DC is 3,665 miles / 5,898 km away from the start of the red shipping lane
2) Washington DC is 7,246 miles / 11,661 km away from the end of the red shipping lane
3) The United States and Washington DC is not at war with Yemen
This is why the world is sick of the US Empire. They have no right to declare themselves world police, especially when it is THEIR policy which created the hostile groups in the first place, who they would now seek to police..
Fix your own country.
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Nothing changes until REAL accountability comes to those in power. #BBTG https://i.nostr.build/ZCLBTWOs8YtReywA.jpg
I realise you’re playing devils advocate but Conza mostly replies rather than posts himself so the metric doesnt really tell you anything - he’ll stay in threads for days talking about niche and very deep things.
If you want to discuss Austrian economics there aren’t many better, particularly with his level of recall.
Follower counts are a shitcoin. People with them will say we’re jealous but look at how many low follower count plebs you follow here - it’s a function of what signal you want and that often won’t equate to followers.
I post about elite theory which is a niche barely anyone cares about on here but it’s the rabbit hole I’m in and interests me so I post about it. If it gains or loses followers isnt the point - social media works because people put out what interests them and others eventually pick up on new ideas.
The system doesnt allow it. Resource extraction is low value, these non-aligned countries are denied the capital for value-add to develop their economies and rather kept under the thumb of the global central banking cartel who control it all.
Bitcoiners are going to have to re-think this entirely, we can’t win fully inside the current system regardless.
Influencoooor @npub1a2c…w83a throwing the weight of 700K followers around because a Bitcoiner who has encyclopaedic knowledge of Mises, Rothbard and Hoppe doesnt have enough followers to be engaged.
👏
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I’ve not crossed paths much with that hipster class since Covid so couldn’t say.
VIC - The Overeducated State
You’ll be on the border, they’re in the cheaper areas a bit further north so you should be ok.
When they venture into the more civilised parts it’s typically to steal cars and rob homes (with machetes). Had a neighbour 3 houses away had their Porsche Cayenne stolen out of the driveway about 6 months ago - usual suspects caught on CCTV
It’s all over Melbourne now. The Africans used to be confined to the West but there’s so many of them they’re in the North and South East (Dandenong through Cranbourne and Frankston is bad) too.
The #AUStriches state I just left is banning machetes because the Africans they imported are wreaking havoc and they keep letting them out on bail to reoffend.
Where I live now in Vietnam a guy rides around on a motorbike with a speaker blaring “Sharpen your knives, sharpen your scissors, rehandle your knives” and you can go outside and buy a machete off him or take your blunt knives and he’ll make them razor sharp for you for a dollarydoo 😂
Somehow I don’t think banning machetes is going to solve anything.
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This is one of my more prescient posts going back 18 months ago for what I saw coming from the United States.
Trump’s talk of Canada as a 51st state as well as Greenland and Panama for “Security purposes” all lining up with my thesis that the US is going to get desperate in its attempts to secure a Dollar-sphere as the world fragments into multipolarity.
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You’re the first one to make the connection.
What does that say about my estimation of Australia?
“Privacy is not a winning idea. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be a winning idea - it’s just not. And if you think that it is, you’re not reading the room.”
Sam Hyde on Bitcoiners who fell off and got obsessed with zcash and Monero.
https://youtu.be/fg06m0QHhMc
The absolute last thing governments let go of will be law enforcement and tax collection. Treasuries will be shoved down the throats of a whole bunch of state-sanctioned entities who might be unhappy buyers of treasuries, but they’ll be buyers nonetheless.
In your scenario there is effectively no government and I’m sorry but that’s every bit as naive as Marx saying the state would whither away and die - it’s just not how things play out in reality.
Even in countries that have fallen apart in modern times, they maintained these minimal functions because without them the politicians are an enraged mob away from having their heads lopped off and it’s preferable to the individuals within police and tax collectors to take some money from the husk of the state than join they baying hungry masses long since cutoff from funds and food.
They won’t be able to get KYC lists from Exchanges and engage in lawfare shakedowns against Bitcoiners?
Every adult alive today had a chance. The kids who grow to understand it will blame their parents but they’ll still be far better off joining the network than bitching about it.
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Don’t assume that all hyperbitcoinisation is equal.
There are paths and scenarios which are very much deadends and bad for Bitcoin.
This idea that everything is good for Bitcoin is naive child’s play pushed by podcasters who want to sell you on a fairytale instead of being realistic about downsides
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That’s fine, I’m just pointing out the irony of how close-minded “Alan Watts” is.
Like if that’s who you’re going to style yourself after
1) don’t be a complete statist cuck -and-
2) actually have an open mind
Silicon Valley expected to evolve their investments into “AI”.
The whole ecosystem of startups and banking and financing and VC firms and Angels and equity for early employees and advisors - the whole thing which has been built up for 4-5 decades now just got rug pulled.
The stock market side is a legit ponzi on top of the incumbent structures.
China wants the world to revolve around real world production. Manufacturing.
America wants it to revolve around software protected by IP laws protected by the US military.
The winner is already obvious.
I didn’t just come up with my ideas 5 minutes ago
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Your replies are full of shit, have zero intellectual depth, don’t even match your ideological portrayal of “Alan Watts” and are supposed to pass judgement on something as serious as the state adopting Bitcoin despite having zero rigour behind it.
You’ve been found out here.
Nation state continuance under the status quo is the kind of fallacy someone who self styles under “Alan Watts” really ought not be using as justification for their worldview.
Like that is way out of line with what you’re supposed to be portraying. I’m no Watts expert, but I do know that.
So if you’d like to make the claim that nation state adoption is core to Bitcoin’s enduring success “ALAN WATTS”, you should engage the argument I proposed that nation states ought not continue under the Status Quo and Bitcoiners ought be replacing them and be in charge of those systems which for some bizarre reason you just don’t want to touch.
To which I responded here - #note1vsm…42u6
You didn’t want to respond to that and went off with your “amusing type of Bitcoiners” post.
Sure. That’s why you didn’t engage in dialogue and instead went and posted this a few minutes later - a wider trend of you not being able to engage people who don’t believe that status quo nation states adopting Bitcoin is a good thing of which you have how many people in your replies?
You didn’t respond to my considered post and then posted this clearly in response to me without tag.
Ok dude.
If you can’t make an argument with a cypherpunk Bitcoiner then perhaps you’re just weak sauce who people shouldn’t actually listen to?
I asked you to consider the nature of the State entirely and who ought have power and you couldn’t do that “Alan Watts”, it was too much for you, you just wanted the status quo state adopting Bitcoiners’ system to be praised and not consider it any further.
You can consider it amusing.
I consider you pissweak because you can’t even challenge the basic premise of your own world view, and extremely ironic naming yourself after Alan Watts and being completely unable to consider a point of view you hadn’t already internalised which also happens to validate your preconceived notions.
Why is that the separation?
Why go half way when you could go all the way and destroy the state as it exists today and institute a new version of the state?
I contend you cannot retrofit hard money into a fiat system. It’s not possible. The incentives are misaligned and they’ll just try their fiat games on a system where it doesn’t work.
If I’m right (maybe I’m not right but no-one is arguing this point against me) then why are we just giving the same parasites our system so they can fuck that up too?
Path dependence is a real thing.
Who has control matters.
Why are we accepting fiat politicians continuing their reign when they’ve done nothing but fuck things up for 100+ years?
Do Bitcoiners really think they couldn’t do better?
This is the PM in charge of my country. We had a guy who shat his pants at McDonalds before him and a guy who ate a raw onion on camera before that - you think I couldn’t find a more impressive Bitcoiner than these cunts?
https://v.nostr.build/VaPJhnthuTYEQIQc.mp4
For a self-styled Alan Watts account - that’s an incredibly narrow-minded point of view.
Bitcoin winning and becoming the dominant money =/= status quo nation states and corporations adopting it.
Why do we want status quo nation states adopting our money and economy?
Why shouldn’t we be aiming to replace status quo nation states and their permissioned “body corporates” entirely along political and ideological lines which suit us?
Why would we want status quo politicians to be in charge, with our money?
Why shouldn’t we be in charge?
You’re accepting rulers so don’t give me the ancap “rules without rulers” line - if you want rulers, why not have Bitcoiners in charge?
Why the mob who got us into the shitshow in the first place? Why would you trust them to do anything other than fuck it up and not be seeking a paradigm shift from people who might avoid the pitfalls they entered?
>”Bitcoin don’t GAF about the state.”
Bitcoiners do though.
Bitcoiners are the network which gives Bitcoin value.
Without them, it’s no different to any other crypto shitcoin.
You lose them, you lose the decentralisation, you lose the security, you lose the value, you’re back to a new version of gold.
The state doesnt need Bitcoin - it needs anything to get itself out from under the mess the state created and Bitcoin just happens to be the easiest and best thing to cling on to.
Bitcoiners don’t need the State - the State needs Bitcoiners to save them from their own shitshow.
We should aspire to more than bailing out the State.
Why would real Bitcoiners who are in it to separate money and state be euphoric about the state - the biggest state to ever exist - stacking bitcoin?
They’re called BitcoinBugs, and know they won’t change their minds because they only care about NGU
You asked for something I’ve done which no-one else has - I gave you something.
You have not shat on those spots, only I have.
If you want to dedicate your time to be the second person to shit on those spots to prove I alone am not the only person to have done so then you would just prove my point about engaging in completely futile endeavours.
A thing is not valuable or useful just because someone has done it.
He might have done this on an actual instrument and produced the music himself.
Niccolo Paganini was a violinist and composer who wrote pieces where he would have strings snap during his performance and continue playing on 3 then 2 and finally a single string and still produce beautiful music.
That is actual skill.
https://youtu.be/cJnh6RTm0HI
I’ve taken shits on stretches of beach which no-one has ever shat on.
Doing something no-one else has ever done is a bullshit measurement and does not of itself warrant praise or admiration. That’s labour theory of value commie nonsense.
Having “knowledge” of how to play a video game song on a controller at 200% speed is objectively useless. It does nothing to progress anything for anyone.
Knowledge is only useful if others find it useful and replicate and spread and build upon that knowledge. He could have learned how to build a machine to do this in a fraction of the time which would have given him actually useful skills that could be applied elsewhere - what use is having the skill of being able to play a toy video game controller really fast?
He can’t even play the song on an instrument and actually make the sounds himself with this “skill”.
Not mad, making the point that he objectively wasted his time.
What purpose is there of playing a song at 200% speed? Then throw in hes not doing it on an actual instrument but rather a toy in a video game where hes not actually producing any sound but just pressing buttons meant to mimic actual music.
And he did this for 9 months, approximately 1% of an average human life.
You don’t have to pretend to appreciate people doing frivolous stupid shit - it’s ok to call bullshit you know?
He *wasted 9 months
Imagine all the knowledge he could have acquired, all the experiences he could have had, all the life he could have lived instead of this nonsense
TIL Britbongs have a “personal savings allowance” set by their tax authority.
>”The tax authority can "automatically detect" interest generated on savings accounts and will know if savers have exceeded their Personal Savings Allowance.”
https://www.gbnews.com/money/hmrc-warning-savings-tax-deadline
I’ll bet you a million Sats they’re not
Good to hear.
They’re going to try anyway.
They have all the courts, all the bureaucrats, all the regulations, and all the regulated entities on their side.
Here’s your best defence. Give it a few coats of blood lube and see how the power dynamics shift.
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Are you ready to fight fire with fire?
They’re going to try to take your property and stop inheritance in your family.
Will you strike fear into the hearts of parasites?
95% WHOLECOINERS
Everyone had a chance to be a part of the #Bitcoin monetisation process, however the #wholecoiner class has been 95% determined by now.
At some point it has been affordable to all; that people lacked the knowledge and the mental fortitude to secure their wealth is no fault of Bitcoin’s, it is in each and every case down to the individual who dismissed it in favour of other opportunities.
This applies to me who was mining Bitcoin before the first ASICS came online as it does to you and everyone else - we are not today super rich because of our own choices.
Now that BTC has reached $100k per coin the ability to become a wholecoiner has been limited. 95% of the families who will ever have a wholecoin already have them and just a few existing wealthy will join the ranks.
That’s neither good nor bad - it just is what it is.
These are simply the cards Bitcoiners have been dealt. We are the new financial elite - the rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet.
Are you ready for the coming class war against us?
https://i.nostr.build/CucDOygVDmLB51Se.jpg
They’ll be coming for all of us.
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The coffee culture here is incredibly good. I’ve moved from Melbourne which claims to have a great coffee scene but Vietnam has it well beat
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In Da Nang, right in the centre.
Its an incredibly beautiful city!
Đà Nẵng. Quite similar, less Russian 😂
Well #AUStriches, I have joined the growing Aussie diaspora and pulled up stumps on the homeland.
Now calling Vietnam 🇻🇳 home. A big change but so far so good!
https://v.nostr.build/w89LfyCkW0ytpd5W.mp4
If only people could easily spend Bitcoin at point of sale, like say at those ubiquitous square terminals https://i.nostr.build/5hjDRj0nC8HGwpDW.jpg
Who is this dude and why is he so cringe?
There is a reason women didn’t have rights over societies for thousands of years. Their manipulability has been recognised for literal ages and only in the last ~100 years have we convinced ourselves that women have moved beyond this when they CLEARLY have not.
One thing @npub1xee…z3mx gets really right is the US is not one country any more, there are 2 very distinct nations who have fundamentally different understandings of reality.
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The geographic separation means the meat grinder won’t be on your doorstep.
The politics in Aus means that conscription is every bit as possible and they can still just send you back into it 🤷♂️
Look to get away from the Western sphere, they’ll all get dragged in together.
That would be out of the frying pan, into the fire..
If I were living in Europe and on the look out for 🚩🚩🚩about the short to medium term future, I’d be booking flights after seeing this tweet.
First they’re going to rob you en masse to pay for it - then if you’re really unlucky, you’ll be conscripted to go fight in an unwinnable war on behalf of people who literally hate you.
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1) What
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Hasbro to trying to save 3 cents by selling monopoly board games without paper currency instead having kids use a banking app.
Hopefully it’s connected to their Hasbro Digital ID so the banker can de-bank them and seize all their property for the true dystopian experience.
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