Enjoyed Riga a lot ♥️. And #BH2025 felt like a Bitcoin conference in 2016 wrt people, style, and insights. Dozens of nugets to take home. Here are two: "99% of the people don't understand Bitcoin treasury companies and are better off just hodling Bitcoin" - and (paraphrasing) "Most Bitcoiners are unprepared for the wealth rip that is coming to them. Get creative, find out who you are. Consumers will drown, producers will flourish" - https://cdn.satellite.earth/313a156305b0870979730fc11f63adaadc361a96e12e69f555168fb0d9a221bc.jp

pure hubris

GN

Thank you for the podcast and the thoughtful insights you bring to my feed. As someone who’s not an insider on any social platform, I first came across Yoel Roth’s name in the context of The Twitter Files. This interview adds important nuance. I appreciate the emphasis on applying scientific methods to the moderation of public discourse — an approach that resonates with me regardless of the personal value systems of those involved.

Why not have dinner on downtime credits? It's kind of a new thing - to put it mildly. Imagine the owner of a spinning mill in the 19th century in Switzerland inviting his friends for dinner and cigars on "downtime credits". He would attract the attention of both the town's priest and medical doctor. But, hey, here we are ...

I rarely log into LinkedIn but use it as "business card" from time to time. It is funny how messages are trying to catch up culturally (from informative to _being cool_) but are trailing by at least five years.

The following excerpt is from *The Vital Question* by Nick Lane. In his book, Lane explores how the production of cellular energy—through the respiratory chain—is a deeply coordinated process between mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA. In this passage, he discusses the trade-off between fertility and energetic efficiency. Species with exceptionally high energy demands, such as birds, have a very low tolerance for mutations in the genes encoding mitochondrial proteins. Even slight mismatches between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes can trigger apoptosis (programmed cell death) early in embryonic development. Here’s how Lane puts it: “For bats and birds and other creatures with high aerobic requirements, the threshold must be set low — even a modest rate of free-radical leak from mildly dysfunctional mitochondria (with slight incompatibilities between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes) signals apoptosis and termination of the embryo. For rats and sloths and couch potatoes with low aerobic requirements, the threshold is set higher: a modest rate of free-radical leak is now tolerated, dysfunctional mitochondria are good enough, the embryo develops. There are costs and benefits to both sides. A low threshold gives a high aerobic fitness and a low risk of disease, but at the cost of a high rate of infertility and poor adaptability. A high threshold gives a low aerobic capacity and higher risk of disease but with the benefits of greater fertility and better adaptability. These are words to conjure with. Fertility. Adaptability. Aerobic fitness. Disease. We can’t cut much closer to the grain of natural selection than that.” In my view, the book’s title is aptly chosen. The Vital Question touches on fundamental truths about life that our society would benefit from understanding more broadly—especially the biological logic underlying how we operate. But of course… let’s fix the money first.

Evolution has favored puberty, a developmental phase in which some people show random behavior. The ongoing experiment is to establish whether this has positive outcomes also for entire countries.

PV

We will recognize the great people by their ability to change their mind: "I was wrong about Bitcoin for all these years. Where can I buy some". Whoever you are, you'll be welcome here.

PV

GN

PV

There is a level of factual average world leader intelligence (last word meant as 100 dimensional vector). It's pointless to think ahead and pretty futile to think short of it. Why not accept it and use your extra skills for private endeavours (and Bitcoin :)).

At one point it will unsensical to denominate in a dying currency. I wonder what will become the measuring stick for Bitcoin when Bitcoin will be the measuring stick for everything else.