rikki🏴‍☠️

Nolan’s Odyssey is an absolute masterpiece. Watch it on the best screen and sound system you can find. The cinematography and sound design are otherworldly.

Do incels fork or not? I'm tired of their onanism.

10,000 Mexican agents on the border to disrupt fentanyl trafficking: is this Trump's victory? False. It's just propaganda, it's marketing to voters, and only the narcos cartels will benefit. The Mexico-US border is 3,145 kilometers (1,954 miles) long. To put it in European perspective, it is longer than driving from Paris to Moscow (2.834 kilometers). As if that were not enough, the border alternates between desert and densely populated areas in which the cartels have been building tunnels and logistical facilities for decades. It is a very long sieve. 10,000 agents are useless. They are just security forces diverted from guarding Mexican territory, where the narcos already have total control, in defiance of the state, army and police. Trump has only given a wildcard to the narco-traffickers. International drug trafficking can only be solved by ending prohibition.

“Subsidize me harder Buki. “

Soon Beast Games will be over. Of the 1,000 contestants for the $5 million final prize, only 10 are left. In interviews with the finalists everyone, white, black, Latino, male or female, says they want to win to get out of debt. Betrayals, greed, lies, cheap shots, all to save their families from debt. As a European this shocks me and makes me realize that this is not about Obama, Bush, Trump or Biden: the U.S. is broken.

BREAKING NEWS: El Salvador “is on the right path”, not “winning” anymore.

Tariffs are inflationary. China won’t pay tariffs. The american companies that buy from China will pay the tariffs. Prices will go up in the US. The near future of bitcoin is even brighter now.

Today we celebrate. Ross Ulbricht is free. Great news.

Yet countless people are still detained for nonviolent drug-related crimes. Is the bitcoin community ready to fight for them too or was #freeross just a cool meme?

The only true crime is prohibition.

Vigo the Carpathian. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.

Have you admired the Falcon Heavy coming back to earth and being grabbed by the chopstick platform? Did you share the video until it went viral?

Bravo. It is an unprecedented technological milestone.

So meet Tom Mueller: chief designer and true genius of SpaceX.

Immigrants made America great.

#MAGA

Trump can't scan a QR code with his phone.

Let that sink in.

https://x.com/radarhits/status/1836514566467145934?s=46&t=VkuGQ7uER1s53wrTl69HNg

Tales from the Land of Freedom and Bitcoin:

For the third time in a matter of months, El Salvador censored Telegram yesterday, preventing access to the app on all five of its national mobile networks. The event “ accidentally ” coincided with Independence celebrations, and on the very day when anti-government demonstrations were taking place in the capital San Salvador. Organizers were using the messaging app to coordinate participants.

This year, government censorship for Telegram in El Salvador had already been triggered twice, on the day of the President's inauguration and in July, to crack down on the Telegram group of CiberinteligentiaSV hackers, who have been very active in exposing alleged illicit and corrupt practices of the Salvadoran administration.

But hey, Buky on X guaranteed that in El Salvador “you won't be arrested, censored (...) for exercising your right to free speech.” Why should we worry?

#nostr fixes this

Sources:

• https://infodemia.com.sv/dos-observatorios-digitales-reportan-bloqueo-de-telegram-en-el-salvador

• https://x.com/netblocks/status/1835290491094483100

• https://x.com/OpenObservatory/status/1835360393906074078 https://m.primal.net/KrwU.jpg

Imagine shouting on social media that your shitcoin is so much better and then, in the last 9 blocks, there are 469 transactions.

#XMR

Hal Finney was also a secular transhumanist, active member of the Extropians, and an ecologist, working to reduce C02 emissions from mining.

The puritan maxima-priests conspiracy theorists in disbelief.

"Bitcoiners" are NOT like-minded individuals.

Herd mentality is peak fiat.

The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

I wonder if this is why border control is such a hot topic among conservatives in the United States.

"Mining's huge power consumption will send Texans' power bills through the roof," Bitcoin detractors screamed.

According to

over the past year, the load of mining in Texas has increased by 30 percent while the price of electricity has dropped by 80 percent.

We often underestimate how Bitcoin's real incentive lies in its intrinsic link to electricity.

I have been very often critical of Bukele, especially of the state spyware Chivo Wallet, and of the statist propaganda of many bitcoiners who portray El Salvador as "Bitcoin heaven."

I must admit that it is good to read the president admit in his TIME interview that the adoption of Bitcoin in the country has NOT been the success that was expected.

Truth always wins.

TIME: I also want to ask you about the adoption of Bitcoin in El Salvador. (…) In your opinion, has it been a success?

BUKELE: Yes and no; a lot more could definitely be done. Bitcoin hasn't had the widespread adoption we hoped for. (…) It hasn’t had the adoption we expected. The positive aspect is that it is voluntary; we have never forced anyone to adopt it. (…) For me, it is an option we have given to Salvadorans. I'm not going to say it's the currency of the future, but there's a lot of future in that currency.

TIME: You bet a lot on Bitcoin. BUKELE: El Salvador invested $135 million. Now, we have $400 million in Bitcoin in the public wallet alone. (…) I feel that it could have worked better, and there is still time to make some improvements, but it hasn’t resulted in anything negative. On the contrary, it gave us branding, it brought us investments, it brought us tourism. (…) In the end, the fact of being a “First Mover,” I think, gives us a small advantage, as far as it goes. I feel that it could have been much better. I wouldn't consider it a resounding success. Still, I do believe that the positive outcomes outweigh the negative.

Source: https://time.com/7015636/president-nayib-bukele-interview/

Two years ago

and Max were the first to put their trust in a semi-unknown Italian podcaster by giving him a speech at the Baltic Honeybadger 2022.

It was a somewhat polemical talk entitled ‘Lights and shades of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador’, the result of a long journey of exploration, 41 days in the country of Bukele without cash or credit cards, just bitcoin. The aim was to understand whether, far from Bitcoin Beach, in the most rural areas of the country, one could really survive using only Bitcoin.

A lot has happened since then. Many more trips spent reporting on adoption in emerging countries, many, many more prestigious international conferences. Until Honeybadger 2024, where I was honoured to be among the hosts on the main stage.

All this to say that I am beyond grateful.❤️

PS. Those who would like to see that debut speech can find it here:

Did you know that…

The term "credit card" first appeared in the realm of science fiction. It was introduced by author Edward Bellamy in his 1888 novel Looking Backward. In this utopian novel set in the year 2000, Bellamy describes a future society where people use a form of "credit card" to make purchases. This early concept of a credit card is different from what we use today but laid the groundwork for the idea of a card-based payment system.

Bellamy's vision involved a system where citizens could access their share of the nation's wealth through a card that debited from their government-provided credit, rather than borrowing money as in modern credit card systems.