Go go gadget fork!

Was too depressing for me to be around any longer. When it hits rock bottom and people have the balls to do what needs to be done, then I might return.

#Bitcoiners should meme this narrative - Trump is Satoshi. He will pump it to a $Billion, and all the worst people will have fun staying poor rejecting #Bitcoin because of his association with it.

Good luck with your banh mi’s #AUStriches. They cost $1 Dollarydoo here in #Vietnam for a basic one, $2 for a good one, or $5 if you want to go gourmet like Banh Mi Huynh Hoa. Aus could easily still attract Vietnamese labour, but they’ll never be able to afford to buy out existing owners or open a new bakery nowadays; completely inhospitable to small business.

Haven’t listened to many Bitcoin pods of late but I did this one and it was quite good. Jimmy identified the same issue with Core that I did - Devs spend all their time talking to other Devs, so they focus on things other Devs want which is more things to play with. They don’t know what noderunners want or need, they don’t even understand why noderunners run nodes, but worse now we’re at the point where they don’t even see Bitcoin “the thing” the same as the people running the nodes so they’re imposing their ideas and the network is rejecting it (as seen by v30 takeup). Also appreciate the chat about the “leftists” trying to use their ineffective tactics against #Bitcoiners - we cannot shy away from this, it is absolutely happening and if it’s not addressed these people will do real damage to the project as they have done on numerous other open source projects because they *cannot* seperate their leftist worldview from the work itself. Andrew Chow doesn’t suddenly drop his tranny mental illness when he opens his laptop to work on Core. No, he goes full redditor tranny and censors everyone who opposes him. We need to stop being “inclusive” and start following Conquest’s second law

This is obviously very different, but it is excellent. Best to begin with the Conclusion and decide if you want to see how that was reached in detail

THE THREE TECHNOLOGIES WHICH MADE US HUMAN Language, money, and religion are humanity’s 3 most important technologies. Together, they work to solve the same fundamental scaling problem: enabling cooperation beyond the clan. Language lets strangers communicate across tribal boundaries without shared context or values. The universal substrate for information exchange. Money lets strangers trade without trust or repeated interaction. Without it, “I’ll help you now if you help me later” is a prisoner’s dilemma where defection pays. Collectibles turned this into simultaneous exchange: I give you meat, you give me shells, done. The universal substrate for exchanging value. See: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/shelling-out/ Religion creates shared ritual, collective consciousness, and moral obligations that bind groups together. It generates the social solidarity that makes people honor commitments, respect boundaries, and cooperate in ways that individual self-interest alone cannot explain. See Durkheim below: Together these 3 form humanity’s scaling architecture: • Language = communicate with anyone • Money = trade with anyone • Religion = coordinate deeply within groups Without them, we’d be just monkeys limited to groups of Dunbar’s number. With them, humans conquered the planet and increased carrying capacity 10x over Neanderthals. Most miss this following Graeber’s debt-money thesis, which only works within societies that already have all three technologies - you cannot run a ledger with people you’ll never see again who have different moral frameworks. That #Bitcoiners can grok this is what puts them so far ahead - they’re the only ones who understand how the game actually works. We’re HODLing proto-money whilst we develop our memetic language and spread the orangepill religion to all corners.

Yarvin loves to ramble and show off his (admittedly impressive) recall, he’s always been long-winded.

Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) has speculated that Nick Szabo is Satoshi in his latest Grey Mirror article: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/us-60735250-and-the-roots-of-bitcoin Yarvin is not nobody on this subject. He discusses his 2005 provisional patent application which hints at fixed supply “tokenomics”, and how he similarly had something like the precursor to React patented. He also links to conversation threads he had with Nick pre-Bitcoin on the topic. He is also the founder of Urbit, a Thiel-funded radical attempt to rethink computing (interesting, but destined to fail) and highly influential in that circle (Thiel/Andreessen/Vance et al - Silicon Valley “little tech” types) for his political and philosophical ideas. Not sure why he’s decided to dredge up this history now; he set it up with the React thing a few months ago, and could have made the point of his article without the Szabo commentary. I’ve listened to and read Yarvin for years, he is very intelligent and extremely well-read but I’ve long thought he is a snake in the grass - reading this gave me a bad vibe..

Nick Szabo is once again dragging Adam Back who has found himself on the wrong side of the #Bitcoin spam debate. One can only assume Adam has something in the pipeline from which he will personally benefit with Core now bending over for L2s and inviting spam onchain.