Kevin Kimle

WSJ Journal article today - Wyoming is buying gold. Makes sense—states are hedging against debt, inflation, and dollar risk. But history offers a caution: In 1933, the U.S. didn’t just hedge with gold…it confiscated it. Executive Order 6102. A state legislator mentioned in the article trying to leave something better for grandchildren. I know what I’m saving in for my grandchildren. It's not dollars. Or gold...

@agstartupengine @JoelTHarris @Colin_Hurd @mikaylas95 It's been a great journey. And will get better!

We're excited to announce that we have closed our third fund at Ag Startup Engine, a $7M Seed Fund! Thankful to all the investors who believe in what we are building. Read more here: agstartupengine.substack.com/p/ag-startup-e… @KevinKimle @JoelTHarris @Colin_Hurd @mikaylas95

@SimplyBitcoin @luke_broyles @AdoptingBTC Internationally-traded commodities will come to be quoted in BTC terms. Corn-Bitcoin price = 15,309 bushels.

Luke Broyles on nation states pricing Oil in Bitcoin terms as the unit of account and how we are still very early.

Thanks @VanceCrowe for speaking at Iowa State University. "Bitcoin ≠ equal gold. Bitcoin ≈ Farmland." Now I have to change my presentations about Bitcoin!

@lymanstoneky The best written policy I've seen in... maybe ever.

i was all ready to be mad and polemical and then i was like awwwwww

For the first time, farmers may manage: Corn vs Soybeans Spot vs Futures AND Commodity vs Bitcoin Money itself becomes strategic. That’s not product innovation. That’s business model innovation. bitcorn.biz/the-bitcorn-5

Interesting, Bill. The tractor analogy is good to consider. @neil_dahlstrom wrote a great book, Tractor Wars, that documented how very early, in the 1850s, people could see that tractors would be great tools. It just took the invention of the internal combustion engine, and many decades, for tractors to actually become a reality. Technology is evolving so much faster now...

There is a real cost to intentionally spreading the "doomer" narrative over and over. Imagine being the early 1900s, and the USA polling as "anti-tractor" and some other country "pro-tractor." Its really no different.

Bad actors in money? Imagine!

2. And another 1980s flashback. The grain probe at the local grain elevator was broken, so the manager would step out and take a sample with a coffee can from the top of the load on the scale. A family decided that the broken probe represented a good opportunity to load the bottom of the truck with rotting corn and fill the top with better stuff. It only took a few loads for the guys unloading the trucks to tell the manager what was going on. I still recall my dad explaining this small town scandal to me as a lesson in bad actors.

“Don’t trust, verify” is one of the shortest phrases in Bitcoin—but it carries an enormous amount of meaning.

Looking for gift the book-lover in your life? The Only Free Road is the historic fiction Patti and I published about the Underground Railroad in Iowa. Purchase at Dog-Eared Books in Ames, Amazon, or a bookstore near you.

Wall Street Journal: "All that stands between the U.S. and debt-market freakout is the dollar." Is that supposed to make readers feel better? #Bitcoin

2016 to 2025. What changes in 9 years? Global money supply - $80T 2016 ==> $142T 2025. Foreign central banks now hold more gold than U.S. Treasuries. From metallic gold to digital gold? Details in Commodity Markets and Decentralized Money: startsomething.cals.iastate.edu/files/inline-f… #SoundMoney #BitcoinStandard

Two centuries of centralization… …and now Bitcoin swings the pendulum back. 📘 From my white paper: startsomething.cals.iastate.edu/files/inline-f…

📉 Nixon ends gold convertibility, 1971.

The Founders designed the U.S. Constitution with an aim to balance the centralized and decentralized, the great yin and yang of American political economy. U.S. monetary history = a pendulum between centralization and decentralization.