How Fiat Ruins Mining and Why Mining Decentralization is Inevitable

I'm kinda amazed that you can edit videos almost the way you can edit text. I've always seen coding and writing as similar in that the magic is in the editing and not the first draft. Turns out video is similar if you don't care about one long continuous take.

Why I'm Vlogging on Nostr

Don't be google.

At some point the hashers that don't understand or care about Bitcoin will be outflanked by the people that actually do. It's one of the inevitable consequences of number go up.

It is for freedom that people will come to decentralized technologies and it isn't until that freedom is threatened that they'll come.

Powerlifting will cure this very fast.

Billions and billions put into AI and we're already at the point of diminishing returns. At some point, people will realize Bitcoin has way more juice in it left.

Grateful that we have decentralized, anti fragile protocols for when things go south.

Enjoy this. The grind, the hardness, the difficulty. The achievements, the dreams, the camaraderie. Because there's a lot more of it up ahead.

Life is so much better when there is hope

CapCut. Started using it yesterday, and I was impressed enough to upgrade to the paid version after two videos.

Fiat Follies: US doesn't enrich uranium.

Transcript: Good morning, Nostr. I wanted to start this vlog because I think there's a lot of important stuff on Nostr and incentives are much better. See, the current model on most social media platforms is to get you to click, add and view and look so that they can sell more advertising. That's not necessarily that bad, but the way it's evolved is that they want you to be addicted to their content more than they want you to be enriched or enlightened or get some insight out of these videos. And that's what's led to doom scrolling at this point, where people look through content because their hindbrain sort of engages with it and doesn't actually get much out of it. The actual intellectual part doesn't get much out of it. So that's what I think needs to be changing is better incentives and Nostr has that, because honestly, if this video find somebody that actually really appreciates or is enlightened by it or enriched by it, then they're going to zap me a lot more than somebody that's just viewing. Cause really what happens on these social media platforms is that you're always catering to the marginal user. And marginal users in general are not very sophisticated or insightful. Nostr is not for the marginal user. It's for people that are at the center and that's who I wanna be making videos for. That's I think the far more interesting thing. I heard a while back a tweet by my friend David Perrell. I think he was saying something like ten years ago, best stuff on YouTube was people sharing something that was really interesting or at some interesting insight into some historical event or something like that. And now the most popular videos are Mr Beast, it's just slop. It's just stuff that to get you to watch and not enrich your life in any way. And I think what Nostr can do is put us back into that space of having videos, having content, having images and stuff which are more powerful than, than text by far that actually enriches you, that add something to your life. So that's the hope, that's what I'm hoping that this whole platform becomes really, but also for a lot of these videos, these vlogs and so on. Because if you zap, you can basically tell these people that are making these things, hey, good job. Go make more of it. So incentive alignment is a huge thing and , that's why this is important

I'm thinking vlogging will be a good way to learn fast video editing. Thoughts?

First crossfit class in months, and man, it's always the cardio that gets you.

Early on in many people's Bitcoin journeys, they dreamed of mining so that they could print their own money. Until they discover that energy and equipment costs money and then they just go buy Bitcoin instead. But much later, as they really learn about Bitcoin, they start to realize that mining is a critical part of the ecosystem and for the good of the Bitcoin they own, they start thinking about it again. I think there will be a lot more OGs mining in the next decade.