Happy Halloween freaks, fam have headed out on the hunt, I’m left to welcomes the ‘treater’, wondering whether to celebrate by cracking a pack of BBB @Bitcoin Trading Cards to see what treat awaits me. Also wondering whether to offer the older trick or treaters a shot of scotch!?!?

Gm nostriches, 17 years ago today Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper to the cypherpunk mailing list. He/they (plural not gender none specific) had likely been working on this idea for years, building his own “proof of work chain” so that when anyone read the work, they weren’t able to just disregard it due to some fundamental flaw or oversight. He/they, at great personal risk then began running the software protocol, allowing others to do the same, and interacting with others in a clear, courteous manner for the next few years. I’d hazard a guess that most nostriches here have a good deal more personal freedom, intellectual confidence and maybe even sunned balls than they would have without both the tireless work and later sacrifice of Satoshi made. So not in some type of religious way, but in a broader, raising up our heroes kind of way, take a moment out of today, work out the next piece of work you could be delivering to the world, give yourself a target to get it done by and then get at it. Not in the name of personal glory (although I’m a massive egoist and all about the selfish action), but to know deep within yourself that you’ve achieved something and benefited those important to you (family, friends, and I consider you all part of both groups). So, happy white paper day, don’t simply post a picture of the paper (although cheers @FLASH for the reminder this morning), take some time, be reflective on how far you have come and how much farther you can go, if you do the work. It isn’t only about lambos and second girlfriends any more…….. the prize is getting much greater everyday, but there will only be a Utopia if we build it. Peace. ☮️ #catstr unfussed about a “peer to peer electronic cash system”, but everyone should be. #bitcoin #grownostr #coffeechain 2nd cup time.

Now ms Reeeves, exactly how to you plan to “defy gloomy forecasts”? Optimism, cognitive dissonance, vibes, more tax, more regulations, or actually getting out of the way of individual ingenuity, creativity and drive, and then allowing people to benefit from their efforts rather than taking it from them and giving it to the less productive in the society? Have a hunch that it won’t be the latter.

Gm nostriches, lectures finished for the module for another year. Hope I was able to connect with some of them, didn’t stray into the explicit “free speech” domain, but I think I got my point across thanks to Rosenberg’s awesome quote. Research isn’t just something loser boffin’s do in labs, it’s what the pioneers do (🫡🙌 @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 ), when building conviction, it’s what we do when responding to normie slop, and “people” might not like it, and that is absolutely fine. The slide after this, I let them know the “treasure hunt” I’ve been going on about for weeks is actually related to bitcoin……. Now to see if someone can actually connects the dots and wins/takes 75k sats (out of my own pocket). @HODL channelling your don’t give a fuck attitude, in my own whiny British way. 🫡🙌

Gm nostriches, watching the news this morning, shock 😮 horrors about the awful companies using shrinkflation, scimpflation or greedflation (WTF) to sell smaller products for sometimes more money…….. the consumer “expert” was clueless, unsurprisingly. Worse still, one of the presenters used to be economic secretary to the treasury, he should know better. Massive issue with this misinformation and focusing on the greedy corporations, although good there was a less price sensitive small business owner, but didn’t mention about her profit margins being squeezed…. When the value of the currency declines (commodity prices increase) what do they do? 1) Put up prices? Lose customers 2) sell smaller products? Get this backlash from tv idiots wanting them to be more transparent. 3) do nothing until you make a loss on the products you sell? Go out of business!!!! Balancing a little shrinkage with smaller increases in prices is the logical way forward for them, but not printing money rather than growing more cocoa/ ditching inflation currencies would also be good. And for the love of god, don’t blame the billionaires, these companies are publicly traded, when owned by the family cadburys was a much better company that actually sold chocolate!!!