“If you have this disconnect between Core devs that value one thing and the users that value something else, something’s got to give at some point, right? Either you get developers that are more in

“When you hold the Bitcoin yourself, you already have the control over it that you don’t get with any other custodial financial instrument. And I think that people need to think about that more because

“The atomic economy and Synonym’s mission is to research, design and ship a working free market society. So not just a free market economy, but a free market society. /CUT/ So it replaces government, it

“It’s that old saying, right? It’s that meme. It’s like, however bad you think it is, it’s going to get worse, right? But at the same time, it’s also going to get better.So be very

“The whole MNav trade, it has as much implied leverage on the way down as it does on the way up.I have a lot of sympathy for the idea that actually this is what triggers

“There have never been more tools available to the individual than there have been today.And it’s like cryptography is like the thing. If cryptography is like the wheel, like we invented the wheel. Okay, cool.

“Obviously we’re trying to make fountain the best possible listening experience and the best possible app for discovering great audio content.But more broadly than that, we don’t want to turn into, you know, another version

“Consumerism is something that kind of hollows out society. It takes away from the real meaning of why we’re here. Why we’re here on earth and what our goal should be. And I think that

In this re-release episode from “Run Your Mouth” with RobbieTheFire, we delve into the intricate world of economics, exploring the challenges posed by the US dollar’s status as a global reserve currency. Robbie and I

“You can delete your Lightning transactions.So unlike a blockchain, a blockchain’s an append-only database and every transaction that gets stored in a blockchain is stored there forever. Lightning transactions don’t go on a blockchain. Where

“Either you don’t have a fiat currency or you don’t have a democracy. But the two things together, and this has been proven, cannot coexist happily without the complete erosion of purchasing power of a

If Bitcoin is a paradigm shift, it gets to that stage, like it will be an even bigger product than AI, than chat GPT. And like, okay, now imagine the world where not everyone’s fighting

“I think there’s a very clear distinction between inflation and hyperinflation.One is a rational response to an increase in the money supply. Right? So if the money supply is increasing by 10%, you increase the

“A year and a half ago, two years, bitcoin was still a joke. Bitcoin was still something that was very hard for someone legitimate to… you had to have balls to go speak of it

“People can use inscriptions today and they do use them.If on the one hand you believe that marginally raising the costs to unwanted usage of the chain is going to succeed in discouraging them, which,

“You must not work hard for something that somebody else can make an infinite amount of for free at no cost and no contribution. If you are working hard for something, do it for something

“For me, the most important war, the thing that we are fighting for in the world today more than anything else for me is the spirit of the West. The spirit of the West has

“All fiat dies because it’s a trusted token that governments can arbitrarily change. Every fiat with every single powerful military behind it fell when the entity decided that they were just going to change the