*Bitcoin's non-capture story rests on client plurality + rough consensus + time* View quoted note β†’
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The World’s $111 Trillion in Government Debt, in One Giant Chart \ stacker news ~charts_and_numbers
While global public debt is lower than pandemic highs in real terms, it remains stubbornly elevated at $111 trillion. This graphic shows world debt...
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*Intelligence can only get you so far. A little curiosity can help get you the perspective you need* View quoted note β†’
*We optimize for comfort and call it success. We mistake the absence of pain for the presence of wholeness.* View quoted note β†’
πŸ‘€ *the dollar network went from being valued at 3.46x (346%) of all the gold in the world in 1960, to only 0.76x (76%) 65 years later, which is a 78% decrease in value relative to the rising global population and global gold supply* View quoted note β†’
*We have replaced the glory of doing with the illusion of appearing* View quoted note β†’
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*save in bitcoin and self custody so the banks can’t play the same games with bitcoin as they do with metals* View quoted note β†’
*the proliferation of AI slop may contribute directly to a cultural shift: elevating poetic, paradoxical thinking and diminishing patience for the sterile recursion of logical argument, as more people seek insight and meaning in artful complexity rather than mechanistic clarity* Perplexity
*The biggest nightmare for government is for people of uncommon ancestry to make common cause. Because if that happened, they’d have no choice but to respond to the people rather than their oligarch clients. They bring in foreigners who have no business being here precisely to destabilize and divide IMO.* View quoted note β†’