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Nathan James Montone

@NathanMontone

Founder & CEO @M31Capital

New York City Katılım Ocak 2011
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Cathy Tie
Cathy Tie@CathyTie·
It's my birthday today! Enjoy the Saint-Saëns. "Genetics is like sheet music. The important thing isn't can you read music, it's can you hear it. Can you hear the music?"
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Nathan James Montone@NathanMontone·
No hard fork No market sell pressure No ideological compromise No circulating supply inflation No honeypot for foreign adversaries Budget-neutral funding for the SBR and permanent U.S. dominance in the Bitcoin adoption race. Bitcoin wins. America wins.
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Nathan James Montone@NathanMontone·
The U.S. government working with a U.S. company is likely first to get a CRQC, not a foreign company/government. - Take custody (not ownership) of Satoshi’s BTC - Store in the SBR (already executive order) - Give Satoshi/heirs 30-years to claim them - Absorb into USG ownership after that
nic carter@nic_carter

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SightBringer
SightBringer@_The_Prophet__·
⚡️This “professor “ asking “where are the servers” in 2026 is like a medieval cartographer asking where the edge of the earth is in 1520. The question reveals that the person asking it hasn’t updated their model of reality despite overwhelming evidence that the old model is wrong. Bitcoin has been running for seventeen years. It has survived the shutdown of Silk Road, the collapse of Mt. Gox, a Chinese mining ban, multiple 80% drawdowns, regulatory assault from every major government, and active hostility from the entire traditional financial system. If the CIA built it they built the most resilient piece of infrastructure in human history and then let it be attacked repeatedly by other arms of the same government. That doesn’t hold up for five seconds under basic scrutiny. But the CIA theory isn’t really about the CIA. It’s about the desperate need to locate an authority behind the thing. Because if there’s no authority then every assumption about how power works, how money works, how systems work, comes into question. And for someone whose entire career and status and identity is built on understanding how systems work, that’s not an intellectual problem. That’s an existential one. The real thing happening in that clip is a man protecting his worldview in real time. The question “where are the servers” isn’t curiosity. It’s defense. If the servers can be located then the system can be understood within his framework. If they can’t be located then his framework is incomplete. And admitting your framework is incomplete when your framework is your career is something almost nobody will do voluntarily. This is why Bitcoin adoption follows generational lines more than intelligence lines. It’s not that older people are dumber. It’s that they have more invested in the existing model. Decades of career. Status built on expertise within the current system. Reputation staked on understanding how things work. Bitcoin doesn’t ask them to learn something new. It asks them to accept that something they spent their life mastering is being replaced. That’s a fundamentally different ask. Learning is easy. Unlearning is almost impossible when your identity is built on what you know. The “where are the servers” question will be studied in the future the way we study people who rejected the heliocentric model. Not as stupidity but as a perfect example of how paradigm resistance works in practice. The evidence was available. The system was running. The proof was on the blockchain for anyone to verify. And he looked at all of it and said “but where is the building.” There is no building. There was never going to be a building. The entire point is that there is no building. And the people who need a building to believe something is real are going to be the last people on earth to understand what happened. By the time they get it, it will have already restructured the global financial system around them. They’ll be standing in the rubble of the old model still asking where the servers are while the new one runs on sixty thousand nodes they never bothered to look at.
Ansel Lindner@AnselLindner

🚨 "People recognize [bitcoin] is the CIA. I want to know where the databases are, where the servers are, physically.” - Prof Jiang This is the opinion of so many midwits. It's also the reason even some gold bugs cannot comprehend bitcoin to this day, and why midwits believe in centralized scam sh*tcoins. They don't understand decentralization.

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Nathan James Montone@NathanMontone·
The difference between a Civilization and a Culture is systems vs. meaning. Autists build systems. Schizos build meaning. We’ve optimized for systems. Now we’re starved for meaning. unherd.com/2026/04/the-gr…
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Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein@ericweinstein·
Having studied symmetry my whole adult life, I have come to the belief that we don’t fully know why symmetry is so important in physics. It may be more than one reason. Or it may be one reason. We aren’t there yet to be able to call it. We don’t even fully know what it is. We dont even know if symmetry and redundancy are different, equivalent or exactly the same thing. We dont know if Supersymmetry is a symmetry. We cant say easily what E8 is a symmetry of other than things made from E8. If you were simply to change the definite article at the beginning of this post, it instantly becomes a great point. If you leave it, it remains a fascinating boast. Either way, it’s great food for thought. Thx.
François Chollet@fchollet

The reason symmetry is so important in physics is because symmetry is a highly effective compression operator. If a system is invariant under some symmetry, you only need to explain one axis of it. Scientific models represent the systematic exploitation of the universe's internal redundancies through symbolic logic.

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M31 Capital
M31 Capital@M31Capital·
The government stagnated theoretical physics in 1973. We should all be asking why. Dynamic nuclear polarization has been suppressed for 72 years. There's one book on the subject. The frontier isn't closed. It's been underfunded, gatekept, and in some cases buried. Full recap next week @M31Capital.
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M31 Capital
M31 Capital@M31Capital·
The booklet asks “What if we’re wrong?” Today's panel answers: we are. About gravity. About energy. About what propulsion requires. About what physics allows. Three researchers with decades at NASA, presenting work most institutions won’t touch. Today. 2 PM. @deeptechweek NYC. We’ll be sharing it as it happens.
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M31 Capital
M31 Capital@M31Capital·
This Friday at 2 pm @deeptechweek NYC, we are hosting the headline event: “Spacetime Metric Engineering and Quantum Vacuum Technologies.” Zero-point energy. Propellantless propulsion. The physics that institutions won’t fund and journals won’t publish. We’ll cover it live.
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Nathan James Montone@NathanMontone·
@M31Capital is hosting a talk on antigravity & zero point energy this Friday. Come get sci-fi with us
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Andrew Côté
Andrew Côté@Andercot·
You can come see Charles Buhler present his work live this Friday as part of NYC @deeptechweek along with @EagleworksSonny on casimir energy with a keynote by @ericweinstein on the state of physics today. Kindly hosted by @NathanMontone and @M31Capital deep-tech-week.com/events/b4efb60…
Jesse Michels@AlchemyAmerican

🚨BREAKING: NASA's Lead Electrostatics Scientist claims he’s discovered a “new force” that counteracts gravity with no fuel necessary. Dr. Charles Buhler has run 2,000 vacuum chamber experiments showing a propellantless thrust force that persists after the power is switched off, and cannot be explained by ion wind, magnetic effects, or classical energy conservation. The input is pure electricity and the output is millinewtons of thrust counteracting gravity. He believes his work vindicates the legacy of midcentury antigravity pioneer Thomas Townsend Brown and will lead to a new paradigm of propellantless deep space travel that transcends chemical combustion rockets🚨 Charles Buhler has a PhD in condensed matter physics from Florida State University, spent over two decades at NASA's Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center (which he now leads), and is the incoming president of the Electrostatic Society of America. He is NASA’s authority on electrostatics. His colleague Andrew Aurigema, a 35-year veteran engineer working from the Townsend Brown electrogravitics lineage, developed a parallel version of the same experiment independently, and the two discovered each other through a mutual colleague who had been watching both of them work in silence for years. Together, under their company Exodus Propulsion Technologies, they have tested nearly 2,000 variations of what they believe is a previously undocumented force. He’s also developed a quantum electrodynamics based theory to explain his results. Buhler’s patent is now under formal examination by the U.S. Patent Office with affidavit-signing witnesses being contacted independently. This is the future of space travel, beyond chemical combustion. With Rocketry, we can only get to Proxima Centauri B in 80,000 years. And you’d burn through the fuel well before that. It’s completely untenable for interstellar travel. 1. Buhler’s Skeptic Mentor Stopped Cold in 2010 The first demonstration happened in a non-vacuum lab using a laser aimed at a wall to detect small displacements. Buhler had his future brother-in-law run the test. His mentor, Dr. Sid Clements, an electrostatics expert who had dismissed the work entirely, watched the laser move and immediately abandoned what he was doing. He walked over, ran through a series of verification steps on the spot, and never questioned the reality of the effect again. That was 2010. It took two more years working with Drew before Buhler realized the force appeared even without any B field or current present. He wasn't in the field momentum regime at all. He was in pure electrostatics. 2. The Force is Not Explainable by Newton’s Laws or Ion Wind Ion wind produces thrust in the same direction the ionized air is traveling. The “Exodus force” (Buhler’s name for his new force) produces thrust perpendicular to the expected ion wind direction, reverses cleanly when the device is flipped, and remains present inside a sealed enclosure where no ionized air can escape. Buhler documented this publicly with video: a balsa lifter placed inside a sealed plastic box on a scale, powered up, lifts internally while the scale reads flat. That is conservation of momentum. That is what ion wind looks like. The Exodus force is something different, and Buhler, as the person who leads NASA's only electrostatics lab, is in an unambiguous position to make that distinction. 3. 2,000 Variations, All Producing the Same Result Since beginning collaboration with Drew, Buhler has tracked nearly 2,000 distinct test articles, each tested multiple times. Pendulums. Spinners. Rotators. Force plates. Scales. Pendulum deflections inside Faraday cages. Reversed polarity tests. Vacuum chamber runs at multiple pressure levels. DC-only configurations that eliminate magnetic field artifacts entirely. Every geometry, every material, every packaging approach. The force appears consistently. When a confounding variable is proposed, they address it, run the modified test, and the force is still there. Buhler says if an exotic explanation remains, it is not one he or any colleague has been able to name. 4. The Device Generates Thrust With the Power Off This is the finding that breaks the classical framework entirely. After charging the device and disconnecting it from the power supply, the thrust continues. The capacitor does not drain in the way a simple energy storage calculation would predict. Put on a scale, the weight reduction persists. Buhler's description: if placed in space with the power off, the device would accelerate. He cannot explain that to the scientific community and says so directly. David Chester, who has independently interacted with Drew through APEC sessions and private communications, said he cannot think of a prosaic explanation for this. The phenomenon has been reproduced enough times across enough configurations that calling it experimental error is no longer a defensible position. 5. The Implications of This for Past Antigravity Work Buhler believes his work is derivative of and related to Townsend Brown’s midcentury asymmetric capacitor experiments also showing thrust with pure electricity as the input. Chemical combustion is limited - plain and simple - we can’t get to the nearest habitable planet (Proxima Centauri B) in close the amount of time we’d need; it would take us 80,000 years and we’d burn through the fuel before we got there. It’s a checkmate in one argument against anyone claiming rockets are the frontier of efficiency. This was the dream of Thomas Townsend Brown – one that got stifled and suppressed behind the veil of secrecy and subcompartments. The common trope from experiments around the world are high electric field differentials seem to result in thrust. Buhler’s experiment exists in this lineage. 6. The Patent Office is Running the Peer Review Buhler made a deliberate choice not to pursue academic peer review as a primary path. His second patent is currently under examination, and the examiner's office has been reaching out to independent witnesses who have signed affidavits confirming they have seen and reproduced the effect. Buhler describes this as equivalent to scientific peer review, run by people with no financial interest in the outcome. His first patent may have been held under a national security review process before release. He does not confirm this, but he was aware it was a risk when he filed. 7. A QED Theorist Could Poke Holes in the Theory, But Not the Experiment We brought in UCLA PhD David Chester to evaluate Buhler’s ideas on quantum electrodynamics (which might account for the thrust being seen). David Chester's contribution was not to validate the theory Buhler proposed. He found some issues with the specific scalar virtual photon framing Buhler had developed. What Chester could not do was provide a prosaic explanation for the experimental results themselves. He said directly that, of all the anomalous phenomena he has surveyed, Buhler and Drew's work ranks in the top ten for experimental persuasiveness, specifically because of the iteration rate and the self-consistency across configurations. He noted that Drew's innovation rate alone, constantly testing new geometries and material stacks, is unlike anything he has seen from other groups making similar claims. Buhler pointed out that his theories were based on time-independent perturbation theory which Chester admits requires further examination from him. 8. NASA's UAP Investigation Had No Physicists Buhler and his wife, an engineer in NASA's Launch Services Program, were approached to assist with NASA's second UAP follow-on investigation. When Buhler asked to be placed with the physicists on the project, he was told there were none. The group was instrumentation-focused. Buhler says he was genuinely shocked. His reaction, expressed directly: if you are facing objects that defy the laws of physics, why is there not a single physicist in the room. He described the same reaction Eric Davis has expressed publicly. This is either institutional brain death or something else is happening somewhere else. 9. Six Lights Emerged from the Ocean Near Patrick Air Force Base Around 2013, Buhler and his wife were alone on the beach near Cocoa Beach, Florida, three miles south of Patrick Air Force Base. A red light appeared roughly three miles offshore, grew extremely bright, then appeared to explode, lighting the full length of beach. A helicopter launched from Patrick Air Force Base, flew to the location, hovered briefly, and returned to base without intervening. The light did not stop. It began moving toward them. At some point it split from one light into six rotating orange-pink lights that went under the water and re-emerged in a repeating cycle. The lights tracked their movement along the beach for forty minutes, closing to within roughly fifty yards before disappearing. Buhler says similar lights have been reported by others in the same area, and Stephen Greer runs group observation sessions approximately forty minutes south of the same beach. 10. The Force Crosses the Unity Threshold for Space Already The current demonstrated force is in the five to ten millinewton range. For Earth launch, that is not yet sufficient, and Buhler does not claim otherwise. For orbital station-keeping, for preventing satellite orbital decay, for repositioning between orbits in microgravity, the force exceeds what is needed. Buhler calls this hitting unity for space, moon, and Mars applications without any major development beyond what has already been demonstrated. The self-launcher, a device capable of lifting itself from Earth's surface, is the declared goal. No blueprints exist yet for the energy requirements. But the force is real, it is directional, it reverses on command, and it does not require continuous power to sustain. Why This Matters NASA's lead electrostatics scientist ran nearly 2,000 controlled experiments, eliminated every prosaic explanation the field has available, documented a thrust that persists after the power is cut, watched the fine structure constant emerge from the data repeatedly, and submitted a second patent currently under formal examination. A QED theorist with no commercial stake in the outcome reviewed the experimental claims and could not find a conventional explanation. The standard debunking line for this entire lineage of experiments has always been ion wind. That argument has been answered, documented, and filmed. What remains is a force that requires either new physics or an error that two decades of systematic testing has not been able to locate. The patent process will resolve part of this. The vacuum chamber footage will resolve more of it. Full conversation is live now. The next stage in human space travel is here.

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Andrew Côté
Andrew Côté@Andercot·
There is a growing tidal wave of innovation in fundamental science and technology bringing a new era of industrial progress and abundance. To see a taste of just how good the future will be, come to NYC Deep Tech Week on March 30th. The future belongs to everyone @deeptechweek
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