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Ouch 😂
I like talking to people IRL but not so much with people online I haven't met, except maybe a select few.
Which is why my ratio is inverted lol

2026-07-20 20:12:55 UTC

The mass movements I see on the news, the ones with angry protesters, signboards and anti-authoritarian rhetoric, never call for reduction in government power but an increase in it.

2026-07-20 19:56:40 UTC

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Wait what's Zeus Route?

2026-07-20 12:46:15 UTC

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What would be a significant number for similar amounts in your opinion?

2026-07-20 10:53:19 UTC

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@nprofile…6mz3

2026-07-20 10:52:49 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/5188a82ac38b9c7aa8e51301ccdadff7565e3effaadd9571e22997dfe9b064a5.png

2026-07-18 23:50:30 UTC

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When Bitcoin goes up again stuff will kinda trigger in the back of their minds and make em think 'ah maybe this guy had a point'

2026-07-18 21:01:23 UTC

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Haha yeah I can relate to your frustration. I never talk about Bitcoin with people unless they bring it up themselves since it requires putting in a lot of time and effort to understand. It also gets tiresome to explain the whole thing to them.

2026-07-18 20:35:07 UTC

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Was it a heated political conversation with a friend that triggered this?

2026-07-18 20:32:13 UTC

With every transfer window in Football, I see player valuations inflate to levels I didn't think it could possibly reach.
Deals are being made for £100 - £120 million like it's normal now.

2026-07-18 00:09:47 UTC

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'Social contract' my ass lol

2026-07-18 00:06:15 UTC

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Don't forget Instagram
Shorts videos are probs the leading cause of brain damage and mass delusion

2026-07-18 00:03:38 UTC

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*All schools lmfao

2026-07-18 00:02:19 UTC

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Sports, food, music, business, fucking feelings and gossip. Let em come at me with anything. But I don't let the conversation steer into politics. Can't tolerate stupid statist shit. Fuck. That.

2026-07-17 23:57:14 UTC

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What keeps me from totally losing my shit is the awareness of my own flaws and the kind of retarded things I used to believe and say in the past
We've been blessed with good guidance and time, patience and energy to read, reflect and think things through. Others probably have different priorities and strengths.
But I still get fucking pissed the fuck off 🤣
Didn't want to end up resenting everybody so I've kinda drastically reduced talking politics IRL nowadays

2026-07-17 21:35:55 UTC

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One can find 'dirt' on every politician or people around them 😂
People in power, whether they call themselves socialists or believers in whatever ideology, have to do dirty things. If they don't, they lose power. Power corrupts yes, but they also have no choice but to be corrupt. That's how they can survive the game. Politicians are ordinary human beings looking after themselves. Not a single one of them are worthy of worship.

2026-07-17 20:27:10 UTC

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>'but please look into xyz when you get a chance and inform yourself'
Sheesh that sounds condescending
Yeah we've all been there I agree

2026-07-17 20:23:48 UTC

'Ending fiat' doesn't necessarily mean people stop using dollars, yen, rupees, etc.
I heard Bob Murphy from Mises Institute making a point that 'ending the fed' doesn't mean people will suddenly stop using dollars. Americans used dollars without the existence of a Federal reserve or any central bank at all during multiple periods in the country's history.
Same goes for people from all over the world with regards to the respective currencies they use today. Central banking has not always existed. It's a modern phenomenon.
An important detail to keep in mind while arguing in favour of ending fiat is that dollars, like every other widely-used fiat currency today, had to be adopted organically on the market first.
They used to represent claims on/units of monetary metals, which themselves were adopted organically. They are not inherently fiat. They can go back to being sound money.
Ending fiat is rather about:
•Ending central banking and introducing real market competition in banking and credit
•Letting interest rates emerge organically on the market
•Abolishing legal tender laws, currency controls, capital controls and letting people buy and sell using the money they prefer while holding whatever currency in whatever amounts for however long they think best suits their economic needs.

2026-07-17 19:41:52 UTC

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It's like bucky from MCU turning into winter soldier every time he hears a set of trigger words
They stop sounding like themselves and don't see you as a friend all of a sudden. It's super fucking weird when that happens

2026-07-17 19:20:17 UTC

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Yeah and it gets so emotional and heated. That type of conversation almost always ends up draining my energy and making me feel worse. So I've been trying to avoid em
Unless the other person's a Bitconer and have read Austrian stuff I'd prefer not to a enter into political discussion or express my opinion to them.

2026-07-17 19:01:02 UTC

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What point were you arguing in favour of though?

2026-07-17 18:57:40 UTC

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'What you're saying only works in theory and not in practice'
*Proceeds to make a point based on a theory*
It's so tilting
Usually happens in conversations related to the economy or markets. And the other person is usually not aware that they have adopted a particular theory/worldview of their own.

2026-07-17 13:24:54 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/cd0019f84c7448d6cb90be8c1c9855ac201a511396169100982a1c1b4845efd3.png

2026-07-16 19:54:25 UTC

To 'separate money and state' means to advocate for and enable the following to happen as ultimate ideals, however impractical they may seem to be:
•Abolition of legal tender laws and existence of market competition in money
•Abolition of capital gains taxes on all monetary goods
•Abolition of foreign exchange controls
•Abolition of price controls on money
•Abolition of central banks
•Disruption of fractional reserve banking by legalizing free banking or full-reserve banking while criminalizing fraud
•Transitioning from fully-planned or partially-planned interest rates to purely market-driven interest rates

2026-07-16 16:26:36 UTC

From Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
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2026-07-16 09:51:46 UTC

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I'm skeptical about Spark as well but will give them the benefit of the doubt and see the nascent ecosystem built out before coming to conclusions
Unilateral exits are possible on paper and have been done but are being developed to be used in a user-friendly manner by Breez's team right now for their SDK

2026-07-16 09:48:00 UTC

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My preference is for the trust model to be as self-custodial as possible
Which means Lightning with Zeus, Phoenix, Blixt or Alby
Rest I'm just documenting to be aware of them

2026-07-15 23:39:03 UTC

Provision of atomic swap services will get more and more profitable as Bitcoin payments using Fedimint, Cashu, Spark, Bark, Arkade and Liquid proliferate, albeit slowly
I don't expect Boltz to be the only major service in that arena for long. It's possible that they see a lot of profits in stables and get distracted. Competitors might either leverage reputational advantages by being Bitcoin-only or undercut Boltz on fees. Boltz is quite established yes, but the market itself has a lot of room to grow.

2026-07-15 23:18:27 UTC

Bitcoin scaling tech available to be used today, their trust models and consumer-facing wallets that have integrated them:
(Lightning is well-known so I'll cover the others before getting to it.)
Name: Bark
Open source: Yes
Privacy: No
Tech: Ark
Trust model: semi-custodial, unilateral exits exist
Wallets: Noah, Arke, Bark
Name: Arkade
Open source: Yes
Privacy: No
Tech: Ark
Trust model: semi-custodial, unilateral exits exist
Wallets: Arkade, Bluewallet
Name: Spark
Tech: Statechain
Open source: Yes
Privacy: No
Trust model: semi-custodial, unilateral exits exist but are expected to be available in a user-friendly manner in the future.
Wallets: Blitz, Blink, Wallet of Satoshi
Name: Liquid
Tech: Sidechain
Open source: Yes
Privacy: Yes, if confidential transactions are enabled
Trust model: fully custodial, no unilateral exit. Sidechain is run by a multisig federation of organisations.
Wallets: Aqua, Bull Bitcoin
Name: Fedimint
Tech: Chaumian eCash
Open source: Yes
Privacy: Yes
Trust model: fully custodial, no unilateral exit. Mints can be and are often federations.
Wallets: Fedi
Name: Cashu
Tech: Chaumian eCash
Open source: Yes
Privacy: Yes
Trust model: fully custodial. No unilateral exit. Mints are not federated.
Wallets: Macadamia, Bey, Minibits, Cashu(dot)me, Zeus, Numo.
Name: Lightning
Open source: Yes
Privacy: Yes, depending on how it's used
Tech: Payment channels, hashed timelock contracts, multisig
Trust model: self-custodial, unilateral exits exist
Wallets: Zeus, Phoenix, Blixt, Alby, Bitkit, Electrum
Note: Lightning is at the heart of it all and, along with atomic swaps in some cases, is what enables all the solutions above to interoperate. You can pay or get paid using an LN invoice (or an on-chain address) on all the listed wallets above.
Wallets
The supported wallets list was made with names that came off the top of my head. Will update with links to websites, GitHub, etc. and more details about the underlying tech if I get the time.

2026-07-15 14:24:50 UTC

The Government, i.e., the State, is a greedy corporation.
It is a monopoly by definition and in how it operates.
It does not like competition that can do things better or in a more efficient manner and will try to kill them off by undercutting them.
It raises prices and reduces quality of the services it provides.
It looks to increase its profits and reduce its costs.
It has employees who have their own ambitions to achieve, finances to look after, ladders to climb and families to look after.
It has different departments that don't have to agree with each other.
It has a logo and brand.
It has loyal customers and fanatics.
It is subject to the consequences of laws of economics and human action.
It can go bankrupt.
It has its own paid and unpaid marketing department.
It does not need to honour its promises or fulfill its contractual obligations and often doesn't.
It can and does enslave people in practice without seeming so on paper.
It does not need to be just and can and does define what is and isn't just.
It has the ability to exempt itself, its employees and allies from rules everyone else must follow.

2026-07-14 21:53:23 UTC

Hayek's famous quote on money can be modified and generalized:
I don't believe we shall ever have a good [insert any produce or service that is demanded by the market] again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop.
Applies to everything including law, security, technology, religion, education, health, finance, banking, money, food, housing, clothing, media, etc.
If the government in your region has not sunk its claws into a particular domain listed above, be assured that it will. It is an ever-expanding corporation built not only on greed, but also on power. It is above the law that applies to everyone who is not in its favour.
As long as governments exist, humanity faces an existential threat that is far beyond what it could face from anything else.

2026-07-14 21:42:57 UTC

It's shocking how every industry follows similar patterns.
Established firms form coalitions with regulators to create a moat for themselves, intentionally or unintentionally.
Public opinion moulding begins.
Laws start to extend beyond dealing with acts of aggression.
This ultimately kills competition.
The industry becomes cartelised.
Costs go up. Prices go up. Quality comes down.
'The market' is blamed for 'failing'.
And socialisation of the means of production is presented as the alternative which becomes more and more palatable to the public.
It gets implemented and makes things worse.
Everything gets worse for everybody except a select few who have learned how to play the game.

2026-06-04 06:40:40 UTC

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This was a good listen.
Hoppe deals with the public goods argument quite well in chapter 10 of 'A theory of socialism and capitalism'
https://mises.org/library/book/theory-socialism-and-capitalism
It's so crucial that a particular distinction is made when communicating these ideas with people - that it isn't about opposing a particular service itself, like defense, justice, infrastructure, etc. but the institution which is providing it, i.e. the state.

2026-06-03 20:02:05 UTC

The narrative that big corpos are inherently evil because they are greedy and that judges, regulators, politicians and police are holier than all of us, are not greedy and thus deserve special privileges that exempt them from laws that apply to everyone else is ridiculous.
Think about the level of brainwashing that is required for one to take this position with conviction, and all the ideological foundations that underpin such a narrative.
(Not difficult to pinpoint socialist ideas for blame)

2026-06-02 18:24:24 UTC

It is 2026 and self-custodial async payments are still not widely adopted or even possible in Lightning.
You know.. simple, one-way trustless payments that don't require the recipient to be online or have his wallet open.
But hey, bots can pay each other and shitcoins can be issued over Lightning so apparently Bitcoin is winning.
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2026-06-01 16:00:39 UTC

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Nostr has never been anonymous or private by default, afaik. That's okay though. I've always used it under this assumption, and network-level privacy is upto the user to care about.
Idk about relays being controlled by NSA and Google, and I'm not bothered by it as well. If they don't want to honour my deletion requests, it is what it is. Can't do anything about it, except wish.

2026-06-01 15:56:13 UTC

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Damn I had to double take when I saw your profile 😂
Sup bro
A few things actually:
1. Nostr doesn't 'fix' social media. Public forums are always going to have interactions you don't like with people you don't like. Private, invite-only, closed forums are simply better than 'public square'. Same reasoning as public vs private property. Public sucks. Private better. Nostr makes people harder to censor. And it can enable devs to experiment with social apps a lot more. Also, zaps make people behave in a performative manner, more than likes. When you get 100 bucks for being outraged, you'll double down. Not saying that's good or bad. It is what it is.
2. Open source folks tend to criticize the misaligned incentives that come with profit-driven ad-based, payment-based or subscription-based models, but idk if they realize that the grant-based or donation-based funding models also come with their own drawbacks and incentives. Atleast when profits are prioritized over ideology, energy and capital will flow towards what the market really needs and towards satisfying the demands of consumers and users. Besides, devs and researchers need to eat. Sometimes I feel like the industry is too narrow-minded about the issue of money - like they loathe making money and people who want to make money, while holding aloft the benefits of money.
3. Austro-Libertarianism is extremely useful if it is learnt in a value-free manner. Treating it as a science that explains cause and effect in history, economics, law and politics is far more useful. As an ideology, like all other ideologies, it isn't really useful. You might end up wasting time trying to convince people. Approaching things in a praxelogical manner is the best. Epistemology is also far more useful than we think, especially to become psyop-resistant.

2026-06-01 12:07:14 UTC

Nice little break from social media, including Nostr. Made some low time preference, difficult but positive lifestyle changes during this period, which I hope to continue doing. Feels like an adventure.
Saw if I could disappear from Nostr using kind 5 and kind 62. Turns out not all relays honour those requests. I wish they do at some point in the future.

2025-12-18 23:07:19 UTC

A great point from Hoppe's 'Theory of Socialism and Capitalism':
A state cannot hope to lengthen its subjugation and thievery if it tries to dip into all the production arenas of an economy. That would mean eventual rebellion or gradual decline of the economy it depends on for its parasitic survival. Thus, it has to, as a necessity, pick and choose carefully the endeavours that will extend its lifespan.
Which is why the states that define 'strategic sectors' and stick to regulating, monopolising, capturing and expropriating those alone have a higher chance of survival.
Such parasitism can also yield better or worse results. It's not a given that the policies of parasitism will always achieve their goals.
It is about finding an equilibrium of terror such that those prone to withdrawing their consent are outnumbered and out-capitalised by those who do consent.

2025-12-16 16:43:12 UTC

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YakiHonne slapped on a GIF button and I can't stop using it

2025-12-16 12:06:26 UTC

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The 40 hours per week of bitcoin podcast meme might start to lose relevance already

2025-12-16 05:03:23 UTC

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Yeah that's well-put
It's a shame that devs and tech folks, like Bitcoin++ organizers, think nobody watches their stuff and decide not to invest much in production of better quality videos.
It's difficult to discover them or share them as well as a result.

2025-12-16 04:46:06 UTC

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Oh no, my apologies if you thought it was referring to you or your suggestion.
I was just talking about my own preferences. Will check out the episode you shared if I get the time 👍

2025-12-11 19:39:32 UTC

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Are they collapse-able and expandable though?
That would be HUGE

2025-12-09 17:12:30 UTC

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Support staff play a huge educational role in helping people understand the technology they are using.
Their role is so important that it's almost a social service. I don't know if those who work in that role realize what an important and wholesome job they have, even if it can get insanely frustrating.

2025-12-02 08:55:22 UTC

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All the Nostr links we add in Bitcoin Breakdown now uses njump.to by default. There are quite a few of them, especially in the Tuesday and Thursday issues.
Thank you for building this tool @nprofile…tf6v 🙏
#nevent1q…mgwt

2025-11-30 00:02:55 UTC

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I don't think it's possible.
@npub1xnf…lpr5 Is it possible to open a channel to someone else's embedded node from my embedded node?

2025-11-27 18:54:27 UTC

@npub1v5u…n0v5 has gotten a lot better. I can see myself shifting all my Bitcoin podcast listening activity to Fountain very soon, if they keep improving.

2025-11-26 09:25:48 UTC

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"You wouldn't zap a car crash".
- @nprofile…205a

2025-11-24 08:54:49 UTC

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Certain Bitcoin folks do quite well to address Bitcoin's real shortcomings in a constructive and productive manner by building and engineering solutions.
Shitcoiners just give up and start shilling shitcoins as the solution to everything.

2025-11-23 22:27:58 UTC

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But the thing about responsibility is it has to be a choice. It can never be forced.
It's not possible to make someone responsible by force imo.

2025-11-23 19:49:30 UTC

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You'll never believe just how prone people are to blame others for their retarded decisions.
They'll ape into Bitcoin at ATH instead of DCA'ing like we told them to and get mad at us when the price dips

2025-11-23 15:39:02 UTC

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That's up to Rumble I suppose

2025-11-23 11:05:00 UTC

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LN support coming soon according to Tether's Paolo
https://blossom.primal.net/23bf219612c3f53158f98a634d9d9e2e345aa4333b49e81a505b4143ed89eb90.png

2025-11-22 22:50:52 UTC

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Checked out the interface. Feels fast. Cool that they added a tab with ways for people to spend sats as well.
Haven't tried transacting with it though

2025-11-22 20:01:16 UTC

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Also, are they really useful?

2025-11-21 09:09:27 UTC

If you'd like to speed up @nprofile…5qez wallet's startup, I recommend turning off Express Graph Sync on startup (how performant your phone is will also determine startup speeds).
However, you can manually make the wallet do the sync and reset the graph when you're making payments to increase success probability.
You'll find these settings at Embedded Node > Express Graph Sync
The first option is to turn auto EGS at startup on and off.
The second option is to do it manually.
This is for people who want to open the wallet for other things than lightning payments like fetching wallet history, checking balance, managing channels, making on-chain payments, etc. but don't want to wait for long every single time.

2025-11-20 17:00:22 UTC

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Zeus wallet is in its rightful place on top. Not many realise this.

2025-11-19 05:31:55 UTC

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My favourite:
When opening the app after a while, a small bubble on the top right hand corner of the feed shows you the number of posts you've missed while you were away. If you click it, you can see the missed posts one by one.

2025-10-24 17:24:15 UTC

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This was a great listen! Thanks for sharing.
@npub1ghc…ygat Check this out. You’ll love it!

2025-10-19 21:04:52 UTC

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2025-10-18 05:19:51 UTC

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I used to like Hamilton because of that pretty good musical by Lin-Manual Miranda (It's very good actually).
Then I discovered Libertarianism and realised he was just another big government guy and that Jefferson was the based one.

2025-10-15 18:11:57 UTC

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Oh no, Bob? Damn.
Maybe because he thinks it's a way of privatizing something that's been captured the state regulations, without asking for permission.

2025-10-09 17:46:17 UTC

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Idk I'm going by my phone's battery usage stats

2025-09-25 19:56:25 UTC

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#nevent1q…vasn

2025-09-23 14:13:39 UTC

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It is about holding a politician who claims to be libertarian to a libertarian standard.
This means attaining libertarian goals through libertarian means.
A fiscal surplus achieved by increasing tax coercion is certainly not a libertarian policy program.
Increasing govt debt is not a libertarian policy program either, as it just pushes the instance of tax coercion into the future.
If the surplus was attained by reducing spending, reducing debt and also reducing tax coercion at the same time, then yes. It can be appreciated.
And the counter argument that 'net taxes' fell is also not what I consider to be the standard. There should be no increase in taxes whatsoever.
In terms of monetary reform, abolishing the central bank would be worthy of praise. Backing the Peso with Gold would be another one.
The fact that no government doing this is not a valid justification he can give either.
And it's not just an economic criticism. There's also the question of whether he brought in libertarian legal reforms.

2025-09-23 11:36:44 UTC

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Ergo,
Play fiat games, win fiat prices

2025-09-23 11:22:04 UTC

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Yep it was Saifedean
https://saifedean.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-the-milei-ponzi
Also:
"It is true that he has made the names of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard and other thinkers of the Austrian School known to a wider public. But his knowledge of their ideas and theories is superficial and flawed, and his praise is therefore double-edged. In any case, we can only advise the public not to regard Milei’s statements on economic philosophy as authoritative...
...it is not enough that he pursue liberal goals with his policies. Rather, the political means must be objectively suitable for actually achieving those goals. This should be self-evident, but it is often disregarded in politics, as Ludwig von Mises repeatedly pointed out. Milei’s policies are a case in point."
- Prof. Dr. Rolf W. Puster, Prof. Dr. Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe
https://mises.org/power-market/resignation-scientific-advisory-board-ludwig-von-mises-institute-germany

2025-09-18 21:37:35 UTC

If I were to convince a Bitcoiner to embrace Libertarianism, this is an outline of how I would do it:
The Bitcoin network is not fully resistant to censorship as long as there's a government monopoly in the regulation of the provision of internet services.
An ISP is legally bound to block off your internet access if the state orders it to.
Spectrum is considered a public good that everybody owns, in theory.
The state owns all of it, in practice.
By 'own', I mean that the state has the ultimate say in the usage of spectrum and the ends towards which it is used.
Ownership rights in spectrum is inevitable and necessary since there exists scarcity and conflict regarding its use.
However, no homesteading or first appropriation was involved in government ownership of spectrum.
A law was written and passed, after which the started owning all of it, by fiat. (Whether this was done democratically or by other means does not matter. Fiat is fiat)
The state then leases out the spectrum to ISPs, through auctions.
You'll also need to procure the mandated licenses to set up an ISP.
Hence, a libertarian legal order which enables the provision of internet to become fully privatized is necessary for Bitcoin to become truly censorship-resistant.

2025-09-10 15:53:48 UTC

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GM
Tai Lung out here slaying samourais

2025-08-30 06:18:06 UTC

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No Amber login

2025-08-08 13:17:27 UTC

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Can a watch-only wallet be set up for other hot wallets though?

2025-08-07 20:04:35 UTC

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Blockstream does have it now. But I don't think Nunchuk does.

2025-08-07 15:52:48 UTC

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I have no issues at all with you guys selling me stuff.
But I'd appreciate a Nostr login option as an alternative to email. Is that something you've considered?

2025-08-04 15:51:26 UTC

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In addition to involuntary conscription being slavery, there are also other statements I use as litmus tests for how much a person believes in freedom like,
"Taxation violates property rights and is hence, theft."
"Property right is a human right."
"Property rights are necessary for freedom of speech and expression."
"Not all property titles are valid and just."
"Contracts can only be made with alienable ownership titles."
"Right to life and self-ownership is inalienable and cannot be violated."
"Freedom is not about popularity contests and free stuff. It is about the inviolability of natural rights."
How a person responds to these statements would give me a good idea about whether he is serious about human freedom or just virtue signalling.

2025-08-02 21:30:28 UTC

I love the idea of freedom tech. But why don't people who advocate for it also advocate for removing government involvement in spectrum allocation and telecom licensing and regulation?
Surely, a 'free' internet wouldn't involve getting permission from a bunch of bureaucrats to access. (Free as in freedom, not free beer.)
Seems to me that the most critical layers of the internet stack all over the world is run by various crony-bureaucrat alliances, rather than sound free market principles like property rights, contractual exchanges and homesteading.

2025-08-02 11:42:15 UTC

😂 Cheeky Rothbard quote from Ethics of Liberty:
"Furthermore, all the various forms of statism have now been tried, and have failed. At the turn of the twentieth century, businessmen, politicians, and intellectuals throughout the Western world began to turn to a “new” system of mixed economy of State rule, to replace the relative laissez faire of the previous century. Such new and seemingly exciting panaceas as socialism, the corporate state, the Welfare-Warfare State, etc., have all been tried and have manifestly failed. The call for socialism or state planning is now a call for an old, tired, and failed system. What is there left to try but freedom?"

2025-08-01 04:51:21 UTC

Apparently,
Price controls, interest rate controls, taking of property in the name of public good, progressively stealing and redisributing more and more of people's income, consistent increases in money supply, fleecing of people's savings, monopoly-causing regulation of businesses, trade barriers in importing and exporting, restrictions on natural rights or complete outlawry of them, imprisoning those who resist theft and aggression, funding mass murder and displacement of innocent people living thousands of miles away,
are all fine, as long as they are forced down the throats of people by leaders who win popularity contests, using a group of people who didn't win anything as instruments to execute these policies, citing the written laws which these popularity contest winners can change much as they like as the legal basis for these actions, which are promptly upheld by scrutinizers who are paid by those whose actions they are scrutinising.
https://image.nostr.build/e39eab0937504390a02b22538d981022829db157c0de11784b83feef9803b8ef.jpg

2025-07-20 19:15:52 UTC

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So all we need to do is pay more taxes to change the weather and make quantum computing possible

2025-07-11 03:39:52 UTC

Bitcoin's price touched ₹1 Crore (₹10 million) for the very first time on Bitbo 🧡
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2025-07-06 14:34:54 UTC

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2025-07-03 05:53:54 UTC

Balaji S on the Libertarian nature and character of the internet.
Nostr solves 'the free speech problem' because it enables property rights in relays first, as diatjaf himself explained. Nostr is libertarian by design. It represents real advancement in the anarchic internet ecosystem. One of the best in this decade.
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2025-06-29 13:37:36 UTC

Gave an introduction to the Austrian school of economic thought to some people in Bangalore, India.
📍Venue: Bitspace by Bitshala, a co-working space for open source Bitcoin developers
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2025-06-18 11:11:26 UTC

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Reading List For Austrian Economics
1. Ludwig Von Mises:
•Human Action
•Interventionism
•Theory of Money and Credit
•Theory and History
•Planning for Freedom
•Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
•Epistemological Problems of Economics
•The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
•Economic Freedom and Interventionism
2. Murray Rothbard
•What Has Government Done To Our Money?
•Man, Economy and State
•Power and Market
•America's Great Depression
•The Panic of 1819
•The Logic of Action (Published as 'Economic Controversies')
•The Progressive Era
•The Case Against The Fed
•The Mystery of Banking
•An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
3. Hans-Hermann Hoppe
•Economic Science and the Austrian Method
•The Economics and Ethics of Private Property
•The Great Fiction
4. F. A. Hayek
•Choice in Currency
•Individualism and Economic Order
•Use of Knowledge in Society
•Prices and Production
•Monetary theory and the trade cycle
5. Eugen Von Böm-Bawerk
•The Positive Theory of Capital
•Capital & Interest
6. Carl Menger
•Origins of Money
•Principles of Economics
7. Jörg Guido Hülsmann
•Ethics of Money Production
8. Roderick T Long
•Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action: Praxeological Investigations
9. Saifedean Ammous
•The Bitcoin Standard
•Principles of Economics
10. Henry Hazlitt
•Economics in One Lesson
•The Failure of the New Economics
•The Inflation Crisis, and How to Resolve it
You can find all these books at https://mises.org/

2025-06-16 17:07:22 UTC

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Easily the worst spam attack Nostr has faced so far 🤢

2025-06-11 05:34:42 UTC

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2025-06-06 04:32:29 UTC

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I think OKC wins this series?

2025-06-01 09:29:06 UTC

Sats flow > Cash flow

2025-05-25 17:39:42 UTC

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Using a masterball for Magikarp is illegal according to all known laws in the universe

2025-05-25 17:38:29 UTC

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https://youtu.be/IwInqrN_auU
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2025-05-25 17:29:04 UTC

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Emerald’s my favorite
Its soundtracks take me back

2025-05-13 12:04:50 UTC

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I agree with one of the responses.
It's the best LN wallet at the moment.
I use it a lot and like everything about the wallet except the startup time, which I'm assuming is dependent on the ping times with your embedded node's neutrino peers?

2025-04-24 11:54:08 UTC

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Maybe his attempts at value-free analysis made him avoid embracing natural law at any point explicitly.
Rothbard touched upon this in the first chapter of Ethics of Liberty. It gives a primer on why different groups tend to dismiss natural law.

2025-04-18 23:35:23 UTC

Halfway through 'The Genesis book' by Aaron Van Wirdum.
Awesome read so far.
It's really cool to know that the Austrian school of economics had such a big influence on the early Cypherpunk movement.

2025-03-25 08:52:35 UTC

'Considerations and Reflections of a Veteran Reactionary Libertarian' by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Narrates an interesting story about the Frankfurt school and then delivers another sharp criticism of Javier Milei and other western politicians like Zelensky, Trump and Netanyahu as well. Ends with a critique of American imperialism.
https://youtu.be/gOsm4_NYZy8

2025-02-09 00:03:16 UTC

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2025-02-01 20:44:07 UTC

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2025-01-30 13:41:05 UTC

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Nice!
This is a great exercise to keep diving deeper, since you can tell the LLM to keep giving counter-points over and over again.
It won't get triggered, emotional or lose patience, unlike people with limited time, patience and energy.

2025-01-30 13:38:11 UTC

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I gave it the list actually.
I mostly stuck to people from the Austrian school.