Matt

Running bitcoin

Thinking about how to reduce CO2 emissions from a widespread Bitcoin implementation

Number 1, Number 4, Number 7, Number 8

@Dominic2306 . .

7/ What can be done? The prospects for a Tory-Reform deal are much lower than many Tories assume. They underrate the extreme hate and distrust. Much of Reform feels like I do about how the Tories sabotaged the 2019 majority - how they ditched the promise of lowering immigration and deliberately engineered the highest ever, from some of the worst places on earth including the centres of the rape gang industry. And Farage has 30 years experience of Tory MPs lies and delusions and condescension. There will probably only be a merger if a) a Third Force emerges as an independent power bloc (per SV elite 2023-4) and b) Trump/Elon broker the deal of the three forces coming together. Without this we face 8 years of the Left wrecking the country. A key question is whether Reform try to, and can, turn themselves from a one man band to an 'alternative government'

1/ New blog. What can be done about the collapse of both old parties & Whitehall? (Link at end) We can see the crackup of both old parties and the crackup of state capacity. Labour MPs have to face that Whitehall is shattered and Starmer put in charge of fixing it the guy responsible for pandemic preparation in 2019-20. SW1’s cross party approach to Ukraine — deeply deluded and doomed as I said from the start — has blown up under the whole rancid ecosystem and humiliated us globally. SW1 response is to call £6B 'a new war footing'. The whole pattern since 2016 plays out again: as delusions are exposed, double down on new delusions, deepen humiliation, circle wagons, call everyone who rightly said SW1 is herding to idiot positions 'Hitler', lose more credibility with voters (now hard to do as credibility is close to rock bottom, the only ones who still believe in 'our institutions' are those making money off them or rabbiting about them). We're on a path to serious internal violence and financial meltdown with pure Idiocracy ‘in charge’.

Imagine everything, divided by 21 million.

Your flex isn't a flex. No one cares about your car. Or your bigwig job title. Or your watch. I was just in a room full of c suite execs from fortune 500 companies. People that have reached the pinnacle of traditional success. But they aren't in control of their time. Most of them completely missed their children growing up. Many of them are unhealthy. And few of them know how to enjoy life, because they have spent their lives focused on the next rung of the corporate ladder. Conditioning themselves to live for "someday" that will never arrive. In their defense, when they started their careers decades ago, it was a lot harder to achieve a high quality of life outside of the big corporate setting. But now the status symbols they aimed at (the title, the big house, etc.) have lost value. The new status symbols are: - Control over your time - Control over where you work - Freedom to watch your children grow up - Ability for your spouse to stay home - Ability to travel whenever you want - A fit body and a healthy mind Just like the old status symbols, nobody really cares whether you achieve these things. But your family will. And that's what matter most. So how to get these things? We live in an age of incredible opportunity. The opportunities for individuals and small teams to build wealth via business have never been greater. You no longer need to slave away in an office for decades to bank $10+ million. Traditional media used to monopolize the power to influence; today that power has been decentralized by platforms like X. Similarly, corporate influence has lost ground to individual influence. Authentic individuals are the brands that people now trust. And people will always prefer to buy from brands they trust. This is an opportunity for those who recognize it and act upon it. That alone should make you optimistic. But what if you don't want to start a business? You can still get there by choosing to save in #Bitcoin Families that have adopted a Bitcoin standard for their savings have seen dramatic increases in living standards compared to people who save in assets like the S&P500. For every Lambo-flaunting crypto scammer, there are probably 1,000+ families spending more time together because of Bitcoin. And at the end of the day, that's the only status symbol that really has any substance.

There's nothing more meaningful to me as an artist, than having the opportunity to show my art to people who actually CARE about seeing it. So grateful to @BitcoinAtlantis for the opportunity.

Happy #BitcoinInfinityDay! There will only ever be 21 million #Bitcoin in supply, and the demand for them is ever increasing—to infinity. ∞/21M on 8/21.

BREAKING! WE'VE JUST RECEIVED THE GENESIS BLOCK OF THE 1ST INTER-GALACTIC TIMECHAIN! When we meet our alien neighbors, we'll gift them a beautiful physical copy of our Timechain. 👀👉 TimechainArtifacts.com 👈👀

I looked through the 2023 macro outlooks from the largest financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and BlackRock. (Links to all reports at the end) Here’s what they’re expecting next year:

Justice for all? Land of the free huh? SBF yesterday: Ross Ulbricht:

Introducing Bird SQL, a Twitter search interface that is powered by Perplexity’s structured search engine. It uses OpenAI Codex to translate natural language into SQL, giving everyone the ability to navigate large datasets like Twitter. perplexity.ai/sql

Do Kwon - free Alex Mashinsky - free SBF - free Alex Pertsev - prison Ross Ulbricht - prison DO THE FUCKING MATH

And lastly, even if it absolutely nukes the bitcoin exchange rate, I’ll gladly call out fraud for what it is, with my name behind the words. I’ve done my homework. I have all the time in the world. My conviction has only strengthened. Burn it down. Nothing has changed.

The Definitive Thread on FTX I met SBF before FTX started, and witnessed their rise and fall. I can't stand @nytimes's puff piece. If anyone wants to know what happened, send them this.

@Dr_CSWright @hodlonaut And hey while we're playing the memory game, the next time you want to tell Twitter you were never anonymous, try and keep your story straight, you miserable corncob.

Today is #BitcoinInfinityDay Thanks again to @FractalEncrypt and @knutsvanholm for this art piece and the #Bitcoin #Infinity day! Keep stacking #sats 🧡⚡️

Happy #Bitcoin Infinity Day! Supply of #bitcoin is limited to 21 million + Demand is unlimited and increasing = Value goes up forever to infinity ∞/21M on 8/21

Epic fucking moment at @TheBitcoinConf !!! The owners of the #Bitcoin Full Nodes numbers 4, 5, 6 in order. These guys all changed my life and I'm forever grateful. @saylor @SatoshisArk @Eric_BIGfund