I might be late for the daily discussion. I'm excited for tomorrow because I've started working with another Bitcoin project to orange pill people from South Africa. I firmly believe Bitcoin adoption will explode in Africa in the next five years. One of the leading retailers in South Africa also started accepting Bitcoin payments. I am bullish.

Absolutely agree. I try my best to always sort by recent. Imagine you're the boss of a business... Go interact with your customers at every opportunity. Be a face not a faceless entity. Build relationships and people will come to you.

Catch-22 is always worth a look. I read at least once a year. That's some catch that Catch-22.

Thanks. Appreciate the shout out but was just having fun with all my degen (you included) friends.

Post of the year was the Satstraiser for Anita. Hat tip to @siggy47

Watching HN completely miss Bitcoin has been a fairly interesting experience over the last 12 or so years.

In part I think their anger is related to the collapsing returns within tech industry itself. "Silicon Valley Life" was the former gold rush that is now sunsetting....the industry has metastasized into a handful of kingdoms and growth is falling into traditional late-stage growth curves.

They should have seen it coming - and they know that. The internet developing its own native currency that displaces traditional system was an obvious tech development, but somehow they missed it.

But there is another - deeper change - that has happen. The "tech industry" itself has moved from being a very libertarian place in late 80s / 90s - to now a deeply state worshiping place. Its quite ironic (and they seem completely blind to it) that 99% of the tech they worship, was developed out of a mistrust of central authorities.