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2026-07-04 19:02:25 UTC

came here over a decade ago with nothing but curiosity; you let me learn, build and belong & i'll never stop being grateful for that. thank you

2026-07-01 16:14:17 UTC

strong & free

2026-02-25 04:43:48 UTC

Redemption is not for the perfect, it is for the brave.

2026-02-24 05:19:38 UTC

Curiosity is becoming

2026-02-16 06:51:06 UTC

Unnecessary prejudice hinders understanding. People are people everywhere.

2026-01-28 14:41:34 UTC

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🫡

2026-01-09 00:56:01 UTC

What exists is already changing. You are no exception. The only direction is through.

2025-12-25 21:27:33 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/3ab4441583001500fe224e944f537d2a989d2484f9c16b434fd3d32d99319841.jpg

2025-12-14 01:09:56 UTC

Nothing is incidental. How you do anything is how you do everything.

2025-12-11 07:22:51 UTC

The angels are gone.
The sea stays red.
Third Impact came after all.

2025-12-10 03:30:03 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/509a4f2367293d0e1b3393f3110265e7c3f6813aed8a5c0572cdac2299235373.jpg

2025-12-10 00:01:30 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/track/0b4PmGxMzWWx7NMrLJwFRR?si=s-x0VSYzROyULVwt0pLQ7w

2025-11-10 17:18:06 UTC

I’m exceptionally proud of this remarkable team. You pushed the vision of making Bitcoin everyday money and it succeeded because of your unshakeable conviction and relentless drive. You made it real. Well done!

2025-10-29 06:01:59 UTC

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the framework of trying to find a formula might be a trap. Cognitive work might be fundamentally discrete, path-dependent and irreducibly multi-dimensional in a way that resists equations. Or is it?

2025-10-29 04:58:17 UTC

AI is not a tool. AI is work. 🤔

2025-10-28 00:13:24 UTC

meaningful relationships + meaningful work = well-being & good life

2025-10-27 05:42:30 UTC

nature can generate persistent, structured rhythm as a purely quantum phenomenon arising from particle correlations; rhythm that classical physics cannot predict and that exists without any energy cost.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/dc2s-94gv

2025-10-23 21:25:46 UTC

Are you ready for the machine economy? a16z says it's a $30T economy.
https://blossom.primal.net/2f14fc384b9950abcae865c1a2abdfe07013d44803db4013434afaa2b21ad82a.mov

2025-10-21 23:59:54 UTC

👀 OpenAI is becoming your web browser with Atlas...
https://blossom.primal.net/2443be5f90f0d15e1bf0ec0db18b4dce3566b042dcf522a8dfaf971444fffae3.png

2025-10-18 13:56:41 UTC

everything good gets targeted. guard it. guard all values

2025-10-12 16:28:13 UTC

Pain is temporary. Memory is selective. Your brain is already working to forget the bad and amplify the good. Let it.

2025-10-08 23:59:23 UTC

something unexpected is coming…
https://blossom.primal.net/5a50951e92c7e1989ccadc0a531fc985f4f37dd4c64d92f72b7f1440ab154e38.jpg

2025-10-08 14:02:17 UTC

Amazing to see the Square bitcoin banking & payments launch. From early conversations in Feb/March to today, this team’s execution was exceptional. Proud of the team and all their hard work.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251008033341/en/Square-Brings-Bitcoin-to-Main-Street-With-First-Integrated-Payments-and-Wallet-Solution-for-Local-Businesses

2025-10-05 17:53:49 UTC

orange leaves. orange pumpkins. orange coin. ₿
https://blossom.primal.net/f9ebfde0299631d58cf93c8185a9de92de88bfe2ea829868fe679ca0ef1b0742.jpg

2025-10-04 14:34:54 UTC

He’s gone full orange bitcoiner.
https://blossom.primal.net/ddb94fc13b4c2e207811bef6d2f01cb7504a622005fbe318f12db2e82214cd35.jpg

2025-10-02 13:42:09 UTC

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some code to trigger cli llm + cli llm to review and execute on the machine + some custom instructions to make sure llm doesn’t do something silly.

2025-10-02 04:08:14 UTC

within 21 days an ai operated lightning node goes from 0 to top 3.5%. 👀

2025-10-02 01:31:17 UTC

politics is the art of looking right. markets only care if you are right. confuse the two and you become obsolete.

2025-10-01 05:08:51 UTC

actions generate information

2025-09-28 03:43:48 UTC

Noise: win or lose.
Signal: the next move.
Be ready.

2025-09-27 00:36:38 UTC

The knife always comes from the blind spot.
In crypto, it’s a backdoor.
In life, it’s betrayal.
Politics = PoS with masks.
But karma = rep ledger.
Trust compounds, then nukes fast.
The paranoid aren’t afraid, they’re ready. 🫡

2025-09-25 01:41:20 UTC

freedom has no borders. neither should money. bitcoin is everyday money.
https://blossom.primal.net/09297308e49186e520ad8ee5e103004320c817f1db86f52319cfa43988578c18.mov

2025-09-24 04:40:49 UTC

claude code w/ 32k “ultra think” still locks into tunnel vision. better: spawn independent sub-agents + fuse. parallel > deeper. worth a read: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04475

2025-09-23 13:19:26 UTC

clarity means nothing to closed minds

2025-09-21 14:26:31 UTC

just breathe
what if everything i think i know is backwards
what if the things i’ve dismissed are actually true
what if the things i’ve held onto are the illusions
pause here
question everything
especially the things that feel most certain
but truth doesn’t care about comfort
what would i see if i flipped the script
sometimes the most radical act
is admitting you might be wrong
about everything

2025-09-20 05:53:59 UTC

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let’s do it again… 10x

2025-09-20 05:52:53 UTC

block is for ₿uilders
https://blossom.primal.net/36a29d87756f87da95b0df2c00693cd0d1364de7748c3873150bb704f01cbcf2.jpg

2025-09-19 19:44:34 UTC

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@nprofile…8dn7 the wise. ;-)

2025-09-19 19:43:42 UTC

don’t seek validation from others. credit is in the outcome.

2025-09-19 19:41:44 UTC

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credit is in the outcome 🎯

2025-09-19 14:14:24 UTC

it’s important that bitcoin is everyday money

2025-09-16 13:10:50 UTC

tether’s usat launches as first genius act compliant stablecoin is creating regulatory bridge between the offshore usdt and US institutional markets through hadron’s multi-chain architecture.
the stablecoin wars just got interesting. while usdt dominates emerging markets, american institutions have been locked out.
architecture
- hadron platform: multi-sig wallets, configurable cryptography
- chains: ethereum, bitcoin l2
- kyc/aml/kyt integrated at protocol level
genius act compliance
- reserves: 1:1 backing (usd, t-bills, overnight repos, money market funds)
- monthly public attestations by registered accounting firms
- no issuer yield (third parties can offer)
structure
- issuer: anchorage digital (federally regulated crypto bank)
- custodian: cantor fitzgerald (reserves + primary dealer)
- hq: charlotte, north carolina
- ceo: bo hines (ex-white house crypto council)
interoperability
- unified addresses/interfaces across all blockchains
- federal reserve must create international agreements
- foreign issuers bridge through occ-registered intermediaries
- seamless exchange listing alongside usdt pairs
- 1:1 atomic swaps with other genius act stablecoins
framework
- freeze/burn capability for legal compliance
- bank secrecy act adherence
- no fdic insurance or legal tender claims
- bankruptcy: token holders get priority
- reserves segregated from corporate assets
vs usdt
- us-only regulatory framework vs global operations
- federal oversight vs offshore structure
- monthly reporting vs quarterly attestations
- restricted reserves vs broader composition
- domestic redemption vs international settlement
launch targeted for end of 2025
the genius act just handed tether the keys to a market where circle thought they had regulatory moat. 🔥

2025-09-15 16:40:27 UTC

the existing system relies on population growth, human productivity and debt growth. all three are peaking. what is needed is a new economic model: next-gen money meets machine intelligence. productivity constraints become irrelevant when ai never sleeps.

2025-09-15 02:18:50 UTC

a peer-to-peer network of ai agents allows direct economic exchange without trusted intermediaries. cryptographic proofs enable autonomous commerce between machines at negligible marginal cost. the system requires no central authority.

2025-09-14 23:39:57 UTC

the root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. central banks debase at 11% annually. the system is working as designed. bitcoin fixes this.

2025-09-13 06:05:00 UTC

reflection: privacy is not secrecy. it is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.
the cypherpunks understood that cryptography is work against entropy.
information does not want to be free. it tends toward maximum entropy. governments and corporations accelerate this process, aggregating and normalizing all data points.
consider: freedom of speech requires constant energy expenditure against entropic forces. without active maintenance of anonymous systems, without new code, without preserving the temperature differential between private and public spaces, the system reaches equilibrium.
the network seeks to know all. we must work to reveal selectively.
this work is not optional. it is life itself.
cypherpunks are ₿uilders. ₿uilders write code. the code continues to run.

2025-09-13 05:49:08 UTC

“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.” 🎯
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

2025-09-11 13:45:27 UTC

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https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2020-letter-to-shareholders
second half

2025-09-11 03:50:08 UTC

deep reflection: reading bezos’ last letter. he quotes dawkins on biology’s first principle with everything trends toward equilibrium. toward sameness. toward death. organisms work against this. they maintain difference. temperature gradients. chemical imbalances. information asymmetries. this work is life.
companies do the same work. markets pull toward commodity. toward normal distributions. toward efficient equilibrium. staying different requires constant energy expenditure.
democracy isn’t normal. free speech isn’t normal. open protocols aren’t normal.
decentralization isn’t normal. they all require active maintenance against entropic forces.
the world wants you typical. wants your company typical. wants your platform typical. a thousand small forces pulling toward the mean.
“be yourself” isn’t inspiration. it’s thermodynamics. it’s the work required to not dissolve into surroundings.
bitcoin is work against monetary equilibrium
nostr is work against information gatekeepingsquare is work against financial exclusion
the work never stops. when it does, temperature equalizes. the organism dies. the company commoditizes. the mission dissolves.
differentiation is survival. and survival is work.

2025-09-10 13:28:26 UTC

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what is a better alternative?

2025-09-10 04:57:24 UTC

i didn’t plan to buy a new phone and now this… #bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/7d8fd2ff3fcf29db5362c32a8d63d9cb00672d88cb7250655fbe38bb350cdf2e.png

2025-09-10 02:23:08 UTC

my form of proof of work tonight…
https://blossom.primal.net/a26c66780bef5c3a7e753db3832af911fc6c4c6c8c77bcc30262f2192ec4066b.jpg

2025-09-06 00:43:37 UTC

put a bad apple in a basket of good apples and the whole basket rots. put a good apple in a basket of bad apples and it rots too. choose your basket wisely.

2025-09-04 00:46:41 UTC

playing with gpt + debt data. numbers say more than politics.
https://blossom.primal.net/20c290dcd416b9b81eb45e2d1b1f4428c2c54575a5d7665190a98e182284b56b.png

2025-09-02 04:42:58 UTC

journaling while… https://music.apple.com/ca/album/stardew-valley-festival-of-seasons/1831635023

2025-09-02 04:20:40 UTC

our lives aren’t defined by central authorities or collective mandates. our lives are the sum of our individual choices. we are masters of our own fate. nothing is written by power brokers or institutional controllers. the future we want comes from voluntary cooperation, individual freedom and personal sovereignty… not centralized control.

2025-09-01 20:02:41 UTC

what is still scarce in a world of abundance? #bitcoin
https://x.com/tesla/status/1962591324022153607?s=46

2025-08-30 23:20:29 UTC

watching governments debate cbdcs is like watching prison guards argue about chain thickness while the inmates already tunneled out with #bitcoin

2025-08-26 04:14:30 UTC

luddism 2025 isn’t about removing machines, it’s about removing fiat, cbdc and black-box ai. bitcoin or digital slavery, choose.

2025-08-25 00:20:04 UTC

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wow... nice!

2025-08-23 17:21:18 UTC

real beauty is simplicity

2025-08-19 13:54:23 UTC

bitcoin keeps evolving beyond a store of value. it’s driving microtransactions, crowdfunding and cross-border payments.
it’s set to be everyday money with square accepting it for payments. can’t wait.

2025-08-19 05:43:15 UTC

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🔥

2025-08-19 05:00:32 UTC

bitcoin is the only thing you can actually own. everything else is permission.
your bank account: permission
your house: permission
your stocks: permission
with bitcoin:
no one can take it
no one can stop it
no one can debase it
property rights aren’t granted. they’re verified. every 10 minutes. forever.
this fixes everything

2025-08-18 19:37:55 UTC

permission isn't ownership

2025-08-15 19:48:43 UTC

challenges are like riding a horse. if you feel comfortable, you’re probably doing it wrong.

2025-08-15 13:51:04 UTC

proof of beauty ⛏️
https://blossom.primal.net/954ad306d8234d9d06cd4309a72433a887463f6298c76df1c7e5d95c4313ff83.jpg

2025-08-14 14:07:43 UTC

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great podcast episode

2025-08-11 16:57:34 UTC

how do you cause people to believe in “magic internet money”? first, you never admit that all money is imagined.

2025-08-11 05:15:45 UTC

we did not adopt bitcoin. bitcoin adopted us.

2025-08-10 05:54:06 UTC

don’t be a follower; be a student.

2025-08-09 06:08:15 UTC

stop playing chess when no one else is even at the board.

2025-08-08 03:38:17 UTC

the trojan horse paradox: how dollar stablecoins are accidentally building bitcoin's future
@ARKInvest's conversation with @Tether_to's @paoloardoino and @realartlaffer reveals a counterintuitive truth about bitcoin becoming everyday money. tether's 450 million users (growing 30 million quarterly) aren't adopting dollars. they're adopting bitcoin's infrastructure while using familiar dollar units. paolo admits something remarkable: tether teaches bitcoin in emerging markets but users demand $USDT instead. this apparent rejection of bitcoin is actually the perfect adoption sequence.
the three-stage monetary revolution most don't see:
stage 1 (happening now): 30 million new users quarterly learn self-custody through stablecoins. the critical shift: money transforms from bank-mediated to cryptographically-controlled bearer assets. turkey's 50% inflation victims aren't just escaping lira. they're learning private keys, wallet addresses and trustless transactions.
stage 2 (laffer's vision): stablecoins must appreciate with inflation to survive competition. it revealed the endgame: once stablecoins target purchasing power instead of dollar parity, users hold something fundamentally different. tether's projected $15+ billion profit in 2025 creates massive incentive for this evolution. the psychological break from fiat happens when "stable" means stable purchasing power, not stable dollar price.
stage 3 (the inevitable flip): paolo revealed the trigger: commodity traders already prefer usdt for oil shipments. when $130+ billion in treasuries backs private money that appreciates while governments print endlessly, the question becomes: why reference dollars at all?
the data points most people missed:
tether holds $163 billion market cap with over $130 billion in us treasuries. they're the 16th largest holder globally, fifth largest purchaser while china and japan dump. the genius act legitimizes this parallel monetary system, thinking it strengthens dollar dominance.
the overlooked detail: paolo said africans using usdt can pay salaries, buy houses, buy equipment. full economic loops exist outside banking. once these loops include inflation adjustment (paolo hinted at us market plans for 2025), the dollar becomes unnecessary scaffolding.
the historical connection: 1790 to 1913, america had private money with zero inflation for 123 years. the fed created 32-fold price increases since 1913. stablecoins are recreating pre-fed monetary competition but globally and instantly settlement-capable.
$BTC hit $120,000 (up from $250 when ark first analyzed it with laffer in 2015); meanwhile, gold touched $3,400. both signals scream the same message: escape from government money accelerating.
the irony: every bank launching stablecoins post-genius act accelerates tradfi system's obsolescence. they're building the rails for trustless, bankless, eventually bitcoin-based commerce while thinking they're defending dollar supremacy.
bitcoin is becoming everyday money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xRVRav3vs8

2025-08-03 05:52:52 UTC

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👀

2025-07-30 21:10:04 UTC

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thanks for sharing

2025-07-29 23:06:44 UTC

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🔥

2025-07-29 23:05:22 UTC

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🔥

2025-07-29 05:22:58 UTC

Ten days after GENIUS: The $28 trillion reality only few talk about
In the ten days since Trump signed the GENIUS Act, I got more questions about this topic than all last quarter. Same question: "How fast can we move on stablecoins?"
Here's why people are panicking:
Deutsche Bank dropped a bombshell: Stablecoin transactions hit $28 trillion last year. More than Visa and Mastercard combined. The market's grown 45x since 2019, from $5B to $232B.
The yield ban is the feature, not the bug: By prohibiting interest on payment stablecoins, Congress created crystal-clear product segmentation. Payment rails vs investment products. No more regulatory grey zones. Your Venmo doesn't pay interest either because payments and investments are different beasts.
Tether's $163B pivot changes everything: They're building an entirely new US-specific stablecoin. Not upgrading USDT, starting from scratch. Why? GENIUS makes their global product essentially non-compliant for US users. The world's stablecoin market is splitting: compliant America vs wild west everywhere else.
The MSTR speculation: Saylor's sitting on 600,000+ BTC worth $71B. What happens when he launches a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin? No Treasury backing needed - just 150% BTC collateral and smart contracts. GENIUS just cleared the path.
Big Tech needs banks now: Amazon can't launch WalmartBucks without a banking partner. One paragraph transformed every bank from disruption target to necessary partner. JPMorgan's already ahead with JPMD on Coinbase's Base; tokenized deposits, not stablecoins.
Your competitors are asking:
- Which stablecoins to integrate? (USDC leads in the US; USDT leads international)
- Partner with a bank to issue our own?
- How to rebuild treasury for instant settlement?
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Bessent projects $2 trillion in stablecoins "soon". That's $2 trillion in forced Treasury buyers. We invented a machine that turns global dollar demand into US debt purchases.
The paradox? Stablecoins aren't Bitcoin's enemy, they're its Trojan horse. Every company integrating stablecoins is one API call from Bitcoin payments.
The 12-month implementation window isn't a grace period. It's a race. In five years, not using stablecoins will be like not using email. The GENIUS Act didn't regulate an industry. It legitimized a new financial operating system.
What's your strategy - build, partner or watch from the sidelines?

2025-07-27 19:09:16 UTC

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it’s already the case. don’t need the government for “enforcement”

2025-07-27 19:07:39 UTC

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🎯

2025-07-27 19:07:09 UTC

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the fascinating part isn’t how humans operate, it’s how predictable we are. prevailing opinion doesn’t need enforcement because we enforce it ourselves. we’d rather be wrong together than right alone. the real tyranny is that most people never realize they’re choosing conformity; they think they’re choosing truth.

2025-07-27 19:04:53 UTC

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yea - best practices are just the average of what didn’t get people fired. the real value is knowing which rules exist to prevent disasters and which exist to prevent excellence

2025-07-26 16:50:59 UTC

“tyranny of the prevailing opinion” can be more oppressive than any censorship

2025-07-26 13:49:08 UTC

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your papers, citizen, before you speak
#nevent1q…vxy3

2025-07-26 13:44:12 UTC

we are the ai

2025-07-23 03:04:06 UTC

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at the moment focus is on in person payment terminals

2025-07-22 22:24:38 UTC

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it is important for bitcoin to mature into a medium of exchange. we are on track to make the transition to everyday bitcoin payments…
#nevent1q…c0lj

2025-07-22 02:59:44 UTC

working with an incredible team to make bitcoin everyday money a reality. block by block…
https://block.xyz/inside/policies-to-unlock-bitcoin-as-everyday-money

2025-07-19 03:23:53 UTC

the only stable thing in the digital world is bitcoin’s block reward schedule. everything else is vibes.

2025-07-18 21:19:29 UTC

bitcoin is my safe word.

2025-07-15 13:32:47 UTC

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🔥

2025-07-15 13:31:15 UTC

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🧘

2025-07-14 04:22:41 UTC

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actively working on it and it planned to come later this year. will soon follow up with an update.

2025-07-12 22:22:19 UTC

tested sun day ( https://github.com/jackjackbits/sunday ) from @nprofile…zj6n and love the idea. vibe codes a streaks feature with milestones & notifications. also wondering to add a avoid burn notification. wdyt?
https://blossom.primal.net/353c6677e619b94940e02c1f9c810f5feb7f576ceb220e5799d5717faa43196c.png
https://blossom.primal.net/5f448edaa9c93bf54d8f39864541c0d00d599e7333beac740db3bdabe5db45fb.png

2025-07-01 16:08:46 UTC

consider: what would make the next 10 years feel like the best decade of your life? do that.

2025-07-01 07:23:01 UTC

🇨🇦

2025-06-19 23:02:18 UTC

🧘‍♂️
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TPFs2E4kzOI

2025-06-15 06:47:23 UTC

focus
https://blossom.primal.net/765d4bf63c09265886577e35795004bd01e94b9e9f595de211530378ed899da7.jpg

2025-06-15 06:43:31 UTC

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https://m.soundcloud.com/yeah-yeah-yeahs-official/spitting-off-the-edge-of-the

2025-06-15 06:37:33 UTC

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🫶 been thinking about this lately too. great song