Guy who loves LLMs and uses them for everything: From the inside, guy feels great. Powers are extended and levered; productivity is up. From the outside, it feels like losing a friend.

Week 2: Who Owns bitcoin & Where? On average, 13% of people surveyed across 25 countries own bitcoin - just shy of gold’s 16%. 🧵👇

To the contrary, the Trump admin has signaled that it favors the restriction of its disfavored energy resources while pushing use of uneconomic resources, which many have pointed out (including some on the right). See a few examples below 👇

When it comes to money movement, I’m bearish and negative on the flurry of new centralized networks that aim to replace old centralized networks. The world needs and deserves an open, neutral network, not controlled by any single company or group. A true open money grid. The only “network” that’s fit for purpose with neutrality in mind, is Bitcoin. It used to be slow, expensive, and limited functionality-wise, which held it back, but this is no longer true. Everything else will fail, or end up being niche. Bitcoin will be the king interop network for all closed payment systems and wallets in the world.

Buildings for people that think, you say?

People often ask me, upon hearing that I am a philosophy professor, what I have learned. What wisdom have I acquired through decades of study? Are we free? What things are conscious and why? What is the divine? Perfectly reasonable questions, but I have nothing useful to say!

She lives!! This covert mining setup combines solar and battery power to mine Bitcoin in public 24 hours a day. Guerilla Solo Mining, baby!

i would like to make it illegal to talk about free banking (in the context of stablecoins) without having read the following books: - Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience, and Debate, 1800–1845 by @lawrencehwhite1 - Competition and Currency: Essays on Free Banking and Money by @lawrencehwhite1 - The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue by @GeorgeSelgin - The Experience of Free Banking by Kevin Dowd - Money Free and Unfree by @GeorgeSelgin - Free Banking – The Scottish Experience as a Model for Emerging Economies by Randall Kroszner thank you for your attention to this matter!

NEW REPORT: ARE BITCOINERS CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL? WHAT'S MORAL MAXIMALISM? @thetrocro of @NakamotoProjct w/@WalkerAmerica Fountain: YouTube: Spotify: Apple: Rumble: SUBSTACK: Everywhere else:

My thoughts on the current state of things after attending the Quantum Bitcoin Summit last week at @PresidioBitcoin. Tldr; I'm not convinced the threat is urgent enough to reorient the entire ecosystem around it now, but not convinced it will never be either. Article below: