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2026-02-04 16:45:47 UTC

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What are you practically suggesting? How should someone act in the context of ubiquitous deceit? Seems like the rational approach would be to get the hell out of bitcoin. This is sketchy.

2026-01-13 05:00:39 UTC

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I thought Saylor called out Danny and the podcasters for their BS pontificating. Danny loves divide and wax on with the same weak analysis any chance he can. Danny wise proponent of true bitcoin looking out for all the plebs who will get recked.

2025-10-22 00:33:32 UTC

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Regarding 1. The way to raise workers salaries would be to increase efficiency and decrease the number of employees. Lots of unemployment will ensue.

2025-10-22 00:31:45 UTC

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Regarding 2. Cumulative cost of SS over next 20 years is $80 trillion. Rich people taking a pass on benefits is negligible. Rich people being taxed to the extent necessary to fund the plan, well, that’s a big ask.

2025-10-21 12:17:15 UTC

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Regarding 3. Sure, one time jubilee. But don’t you also have to stop subsidizing college in general or else you have actually made things worse?

2025-10-21 12:15:20 UTC

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Regarding point 4. Where do you think 2nd home owners would reinvest? What assets would be bid? What would happen to local communities and school funding with the resulting decline in property tax base?

2025-10-21 12:11:19 UTC

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Regarding point 5. Elimination of dynastic potential would likely be demotivating.

2025-10-15 03:23:32 UTC

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Pep talk? Or for real?

2025-05-19 02:50:29 UTC

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He will do ok, it’s a solvable problem

2025-05-19 00:46:20 UTC

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What about Capital B Bitcoin for 21 million and lower case b bit coin for 2.1 quadrillion

2025-05-16 14:03:20 UTC

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I’ve seen you on both sides of this.
On the one hand, bitcoin is uncontrollable, don’t try to shape it or have preference or directional aspiration because it’s futile and you are wrong.
On the other hand, bitcoin needs active shepherding of the technology and and fostering of the type of culture that would facilitate technological evolution or else it will fail.

2025-05-11 17:15:13 UTC

@npub1s5y…6q7z why so pressed on twitter? The emotion is not productive imo.

2025-04-25 14:22:34 UTC

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Just saw a report of India closing down water to Pakistan. What goes around comes around?

2025-04-24 21:56:06 UTC

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In your 21 speech, you spent a fair bit of time defining your lane as being bitcoin native —not a pivot from some other business activity.
Not clear why that is an advantage?
Are you aiming to market to younger investors?
Noticeably absent was any acknowledgement or reference to MSTR. Why not address the elephant?

2025-04-24 21:48:32 UTC

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Thank you. I will think about this for a while.

2025-04-24 16:17:07 UTC

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Why does China choose to do that?

2025-04-24 15:49:59 UTC

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Jeff. Wondering if I have this right.
Assume an inflationary system: innovators are motivated to find new methods/discoveries/systems that can outpace inflation. The reward of these “hacks” are first accrued by the innovator and then later diffused to the larger population.
In a deflationary system (Bitcoin), will innovation slow because the motivation of outpacing inflation has been removed?
Does the inflationary system have to run its course completely via AI and robotics before a deflationary system takes hold?

2025-04-23 04:51:58 UTC

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The audio wasn’t too bad.

2025-03-17 00:53:09 UTC

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Great article. Thanks.
How will quantum computing affect garden variety bitcoin mining? Do quantum computers have any supped up ability to mine?
Is the expectation that all other assets would be quantum resistant before bitcoin?
Also, in a world of quantum computers what would the quantum folks want to diversify into? Nothing else is particularly scarce. What would happen with a massive market buy of the dollar? I wonder how the currencies would respond?

2025-02-19 19:48:11 UTC

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Within personhood, is there a common progenitor of political thought and religion? Or does one proceed or direct the other?
Is it a lens shaped by accumulated experience, inherited and personal?
Is it a lens that is both progressively refined and also one that can jump to a new paradigm (like a scientific revolution)?

2025-02-19 17:40:27 UTC

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Wondering if you can help
me think through something or point me in a direction?
In the context of contemporary American Christianity, how are political views and religious understanding related?
I think American Christian’s believe their political views (both left and right) are moral and aligned with their faith.
Those of opposing political would likely quietly or openly characterize the other side as having misguided politics and probably suspect them of also having elements of misguided theology.
Where do political thought and religious understanding map to within personhood? Is one the wellspring of the other? Or are they more or less indistinguishable—a single unified moral concept? They seem very closely placed, possibly even in those who would deny it. (I’m political but not religious or I’m religious but not political).
Conversions from progressive or liberal Christianity to traditional or evangelical Christianity are essentially always accompanied by a political conversion as well. And the opposite holds true as well. Conversions from traditional or evangelical faith invariably occur in concert with a political shift.
It may actually be that leftward translation is social/political 1st, followed by religious (if religiosity is maintained. And rightward shift is more often a primary religious impulse followed by political realignment? But I’m not sure.

2025-02-18 04:34:16 UTC

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An app to help Germans insult each other online? Maybe a German could just hover the cursor over a palette of insults to craft the needed phrase. Then it is posted to nostr for all to appreciate.

2025-02-10 11:17:14 UTC

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Thank you for the description. But I don’t particularly like the auction analogy.
Sometimes the lowest bidder wins. It’s probably closer to buying lottery tickets—more tickets = more chances, but all you need is 1 chance to win.
At any rate, I think the notion of collaboratively mining or searching for the block makes good sense to me.

2025-02-09 20:23:27 UTC

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I wonder if it’s a matter of scale. Are we too big to have effective self government? Have we scaled to the point where the institutions are disconnected from the individuals?

2025-02-09 16:59:25 UTC

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The selling impulse unleashed by capital gains reduction is a good point.
If cap gains are held constant then price increase remains the main driver of coin redistribution.

2025-02-09 03:19:39 UTC

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Good analysis.
I like characters and storylines that test my moral intuition. A complex, but solvable puzzle, that requires perception and empathy is the best.

2025-02-08 03:47:15 UTC

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Thanks for the intel/perspective.

2025-02-07 16:43:05 UTC

What is the point of saying “5% of MSTR is held by Blackrock”?
Is that similar to saying 90% of all bitcoin is held by the United States?

2025-02-07 16:37:57 UTC

Is the point of Strike the exchange of local currencies using btc network?
And the point of XRP the exchange of local currency using ripple network?
And the point of tether is moving USDT internationally on the lightning network?
Of the 3, is tether is arguably best for bitcoin and the US dollar?

2025-02-07 16:24:40 UTC

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Good job Jeff

2025-02-07 15:51:56 UTC

What is the behind the scenes thinking that has focused Michael Saylor on the message of “Bitcoin is digital capital” while allowing for others to be digital assets or currencies?
Why does Jack Dorsey link Saylor and XRP?
Has a back room deal been struck?

2025-02-06 22:26:01 UTC

What does ripple do? Is it good at it?

2025-02-06 18:41:45 UTC

Analysts of “on-chain data” who explain bitcoin price, and cycles, and holder behavior produce tortured and bizarre content.
Podcasters please spare us!

2025-02-05 21:03:10 UTC

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Good episode.
Consensus is tricky. It requires coordination, and centralization?
If Danny can’t decide if a given BIP is a good idea, it will never happen. I mean, he lives this stuff. If he can’t make a call, how can anyone else ever get comfortable with it?

2025-02-05 00:31:42 UTC

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“Immoral from a societal perspective” seems like a Utilitarianism (greatest good for greatest number”. This may appeal to your analytical mindset, but I think it is a brutal totalitarian philosophy that can justify anything in the name of the societal perspective.
And “you do you…I prefer moral” is obnoxious and smug.
You may find yourself in a very small society with this approach.

2025-02-04 20:29:33 UTC

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Scientific progress is a kind of a mirage. Populations change and the so does the data. Evidenced based medicine is just like every scientific enterprise—linear, and progressive only within a given paradigm. New paradigms are more the result of new thinking, than accumulated data from the old paradigm. Check out “the structure of scientific revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn.

2025-02-03 13:28:16 UTC

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Why do you think Coinbase is creating paper Bitcoin? It seems more likely to me that the early distribution/accumulation of Bitcoin is very concentrated in the hands wales
It will take a long time to reach equilibrium, possibly generations

2025-02-02 21:39:06 UTC

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Seems like a pretty easy arbitrage to close. Get it while it’s hot cause it’s not going to last

2025-02-02 21:08:41 UTC

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If we were moving from an unregulated environment to a regulated one I could see your point. But we are just swapping one set of rules for another. This has been the state of things pretty much forever.

2025-02-02 17:56:51 UTC

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Med school faculty and doctors in general are followers, not thinkers.
They are practitioners within the current scientific consensus.
To say they all take vaccines is to understand the obvious. People entrenched in a paradigm follow the paradigm.
I am a physician and this is how it is.

2025-02-02 17:46:37 UTC

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Sounds like you formed a hypothesis, ran the experiment, collected data, and made an assessment, and published your results on nostr. You even included a discussion referencing possibility of placebo effect.
Maybe you are more of a scientist
than you think.
Perhaps you could have a friend disable WiFi for you randomly for 1/2 the days of the month. You could provide blinded assessment of sleep quality and look for correlation with overnight WiFi.

2025-02-02 16:52:15 UTC

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Why is Jack so wise?
What experiences give him the perspective that Saylor is a sellout?
Is Saylor a sell out, a realist, a local thinker, or a long term strategist?
Can you get to Jack’s vision without passing through Saylorville?

2025-02-02 16:26:12 UTC

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True

2025-02-02 15:04:25 UTC

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Interesting. What does that do?

2025-02-02 14:41:05 UTC

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I think you are forgetting that at pre tariff baseline, we did not have free trade. If we did we would have had one economy.
Pre tariff baseline Canada is exceedingly protectionist—the US economy has been footing the bill for Canadian economy and autonomy.
Meanwhile, Mexico undercuts US labor costs by circumventing the US tax system.
The tariffs are visible tax.
The pre tariff system was obscured.

2025-02-02 01:48:59 UTC

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Ya, it’s probably better to just throw the ring in the fire. Ossification seems safer than favoring actions, shenanigans, and unintended consequences.

2025-02-02 01:27:58 UTC

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I’m thinking about why adjusting economic inputs is an exercise in centralization. Do you mean that because the action requires coordination it is de facto centralized? Or maybe because the intent is to benefit some group—the ability to focus specific attention is evidence of centralization?

2025-02-01 15:34:27 UTC

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Has low cost of block space really resulted in a security risk? I get that security is not maximized in this co text, but maybe it’s optimized?
Is it really a problem for Bitcoin to be a premium network for the most important transactions? Why does it have to be the network for all transactions?

2025-02-01 15:23:39 UTC

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Good point Jack.
What’s wrong with the code being a static cosmological constant?
Why can’t it simply be “it is what it is”?
Wouldn’t the ecosystem adapt to the parameters?

2025-02-01 14:13:43 UTC

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This sort of self correcting mechanism is elegant and appealing.
Seems like the difficulty adjustment.

2025-02-01 14:06:49 UTC

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If blocks stay at same size some future transactions get priced out?
Need to be aggregated with off chain layer 2.
But miner revenue is predictable/strong?

2025-02-01 14:01:08 UTC

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Thank you for the thoughtful presentation and conversation.
I am cautions by nature and this feels abstract.
If you have a moment, could you briefly explain what is definitely lost if the block size stays the same?

2025-02-01 13:38:47 UTC

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Same? https://image.nostr.build/6455013a34dea440c42f7dfa18d59444f534ac27c751eff2e9de8199f9a99f05.jpg

2025-02-01 13:33:07 UTC

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A change today to the benefit of some will beget a change tomorrow for the benefit of others.
The BIPs you highlighted demonstrate the difficulty of Goldilocksing the protocol.
Maybe we should put the Fed in charge of the protocol. They can fine tune the dials for optimal performance.

2025-02-01 13:27:05 UTC

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In the face of large scale institutional adoption it seems better to stand on immutability rather than try for Goldilocks.

2025-02-01 12:21:01 UTC

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Can you bring your philosopher friends over?

2025-02-01 12:18:31 UTC

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Is that South Africa? Clouds make a table cloth?

2025-02-01 11:23:09 UTC

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Was MSTR issuance of STRK discounted? Sold below market price?

2025-01-31 20:03:23 UTC

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Also. When I have scratched the surface on the neuroscience of sensory perception and cognition, I’m left with the sense that it is all metaphorical anyway.
I mean, what does it mean to “see” or “hear” or “recognize” or “compare” or “imagine”?

2025-01-31 19:46:59 UTC

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I have found Rene Girard and mimetic theory helpful—YouTube lectures on the topic and some Jordan Peterson use of ancient myth.
One’s literal understanding is too fickle to get to the bottom of this.

2025-01-31 19:25:56 UTC

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It’s way deeper than literal.

2025-01-31 19:24:27 UTC

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Cap gain change would transiently benefit OG holders most I think?
BTC increase increase of 20% would benefit all btc holders, but newer holders relatively more than OGs?

2025-01-31 19:18:23 UTC

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Eliminate cap gains on BTC or BTC goes up by 20%?
Which would you favor and why?

2025-01-31 19:17:09 UTC

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So the idea is that cap gains tax inhibits economic flow and vitality.
Remove tax and get more economic activity, which is better than less.

2025-01-31 18:01:02 UTC

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What would be the incentive that would prompt the US to lift capital gains tax for bitcoin?
What is the line of thinking that would explain that action?

2025-01-31 17:44:58 UTC

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How is it made?

2025-01-31 17:03:24 UTC

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I think the comparative value of MSTR relative to pure BTC comes down to the aggregation and management.
Do you think $100,000 or 1 btc is more likely to survive and/or grow when aggregated and managed by Saylor….or do you think it will do better on a seed plate or invested in your own business.

2025-01-31 14:38:08 UTC

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On a risk adjusted basis,
No. MSTR will not out perform.
Note: I don’t know what that statement means. Just seems like the sort of snappy response a talking head might throw out to stir the pot.

2025-01-31 03:46:32 UTC

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Nice chairs

2025-01-30 16:44:32 UTC

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EU is spineless/mindless. They will have no shame backtracking on this.

2025-01-29 22:22:45 UTC

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What are some sound countermeasures or strategies?

2025-01-24 15:35:53 UTC

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I think Empathy is a thought experiment.
Can I follow the line of reasoning that gets me to a place where I can understand the situation?
Sympathy seems more or less given to another on faith. “I can’t understand this, but I grant you some sympathy”
Could be wrong on this though

2024-12-02 04:57:16 UTC

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This is a catastrophe. We have to find a way to preserve the conversation.

2024-10-23 23:21:07 UTC

Denmark with an unrealized capital gains tax on crypto?

2024-10-23 23:19:47 UTC

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2024-10-22 17:56:04 UTC

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And stacking cold storage sats.

2024-10-22 17:54:50 UTC

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He has said many many times, “buy Bitcoin. don’t sell your Bitcoin.” This is good advice, sincerely given, I think.
Anyway, he is not the ceo of Bitcoin. He has a view just like everyone else. I think he is dialed in to the community enough to know that
ODELL and other bitcoin cultural leaders will not fall for the headfake. Fiat people will be appeased, and Bitcoiners will be resolute.
Staying humble,
:-)

2024-10-21 23:15:41 UTC

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But, I still want an invite to your party when btc hits 100k.

2024-10-21 22:58:03 UTC

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But now we press on from different flanks. Good luck on your end.

2024-10-21 21:26:33 UTC

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I think Saylor is like the oracle in the Matrix. He is saying exactly what everyone needs to hear.
The fiat world needs to hear that Bitcoin is not a threat and that it can safely fit within the fiat paradigm.
The Bitcoiner’s hear Saylor’s words of heresy and double down on self sovereignty. We hear the CEOs words and work even harder to create btc circular economy and self custody.
Saylor knows Bitcoiners will be undeterred and he knows fiat will be placated.
Well played imo.

2024-10-21 14:31:39 UTC

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In my view Saylor is speaking intentionally specific audiences.
His comments do not deter Bitcoiners, and he knows this.
His comments assuage fiat while simultaneously motivating Bitcoiners.
Well played imo.

2024-10-01 18:37:26 UTC

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Doesn’t look good

2024-09-16 22:27:24 UTC

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Living without risk probably wouldn’t be living or human for that matter.
So, I’d say, no. Digital me isn’t alive in the human sense.

2024-09-16 17:02:44 UTC

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Is one more privacy oriented, and the other more business custody oriented?

2024-09-16 14:47:13 UTC

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Casa v unchained?

2024-09-15 18:17:16 UTC

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Where’s your pit crew?

2024-09-15 14:08:26 UTC

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I’ve never thought the pentagon was a notable architectural triumph. But compared to the Surat, it looks like a
Cathedral.

2024-09-14 19:42:01 UTC

What is a good price for a 1976 Catalina capri? $500? https://image.nostr.build/9e269e7eccdb2af59561d9c779f12c627280d989165e6e63b045a8db0c482e00.jpg

2024-09-14 18:05:31 UTC

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Indeed. I will make it through :-)
I asked my 14 yo son what he thinks of the name Mr Obnoxious, he said he likes it. So, maybe you are on to something!
(He is a semi regular listener—i have podcasts playing when I drive him to practice and school. He of course likes it when you swear. I do think he has picked up a few things along the way though.)
Congrats on the win today.

2024-09-14 17:53:00 UTC

Standard:
What is your background?
Better:
Can you tell the audience how you know this?
Better yet:
Were you into this as a kid?
I think the most interesting interviews are subtle and humanizing in how the narrative is advanced. Makes for a much more credible and interesting discussion.

2024-09-14 15:11:27 UTC

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Working, earning, saving. Certainly seems like the right approach.
The savings of bitcoiner’s will provide the foundation for the capital formation needed for the following renaissance. This is valuable and will be rewarded.

2024-09-14 14:35:34 UTC

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I agree. I would favor an election result that is an evenly divided low turnout event.
I do not want to provide energy or validation to this ludicrous spectacle.
Culturally, there is room to grow. Along the way there will be conflict. Arguments and elections are lagging indicators of a society.
I am more interested in examples. Who is choosing to live in which manner and with which priorities and what are the results?

2024-09-14 12:40:11 UTC

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This is probably true, and therefore worriesome.

2024-09-14 11:55:36 UTC

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Maybe focus on your fans rather than your enemies.
Is the name some sort of inside joke?
Without context I find it off putting. Even with context (whatever that might be) it has a lot of connotation to overcome.

2024-09-14 04:14:55 UTC

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How did you land on Mr obnoxious?
Seems like an unnecessary uphill climb for a brand based on personal likability.

2024-09-13 16:30:36 UTC

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I was mesmerized by that video of
the belly dancer singing to Saylor and never looked back.

2024-09-13 15:02:59 UTC

Mr. Obnoxious
I’m 10min in to Peter’s new podcast.
no intro, no framework, no sense of what the payoff will be for listening through the 2+ hours.
Not sure where this is going and not sure I can make it through.
Also, the name “mr obnoxious” needlessly puts the whole effort in a negative frame. Why? Being thoughtful and persistent is not obnoxious

2024-09-13 03:49:14 UTC

Chat gpt is a bitcoin bull, bull, bull.

2024-09-12 13:08:23 UTC

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You are correct! Thank you

2024-09-12 12:20:09 UTC

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I like Damus too.
Do you know if there is a way to change the background on Damus to dark?