In one generation, China went from not having playable pianos and condemning conductors who played Debussy and Beethoven to death - to being the world’s largest producer of pianos.

Among the Persian poets, Rumi is perhaps the most well-known outside of Iran. But within Iran, the highest poet is Hafiz - whose Divān resides even among the diaspora who have long shorn their links between state and religion, and is celebrated among the wine he may have literally or metaphorically celebrated.

Great to catch y’all on here! Mirrors the experience had

We need to find the 8.5%

Keeping up on why people don't want CBDCs at all.

exactly

Context: this is the guy who thinks Canada’s government will magically save massive, substantiative amounts of the deficit by replacing people with ChatGPT or somesuch. I wouldn’t trust Mark Carney with a computer, nevermind a country.

It’s sorta an open secret, but I usually carry maple syrup with me at many times in Bitcoin conferences Fun to give it out to people who love maple syrup!

oh shit dude, now my full time job is making memes on Nostr

I gotta go overtime on the memes

Looking forward to discussing how the Chinese government couldn’t kill Bitcoin or Nostr even when it tried to put down bans at . China is what the cybersecurity business calls a “red team” - the state most capable and willing to try to censor permissionless networks. That it failed - shows the promise of both Nostr and Bitcoin.

It is forbidden to forbid.

Always!