Last night I had a dream that the Grayscale ETF got approved today and we proceeded to melt-up to $100k.

Stack accordingly.

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As Bitcoin grows, it will be more present.

I'm just concerned it might not be politicians licking Bitcoin asses, like people around here love to see, but rather politicians and statists might start pointing at Bitcoiners and blaming them for whatever-fucking-thing to try to crush the movement.

I would love all politicians to ignore bitcoiner hard, really hard. And we just keep doing our thing. And hopefully, one day, everyone is using Bitcoin before it even became something relevant in the political sphere. And then, hopefully, it will be too late to try to crush it with propaganda, violence and other miserable tactics.

If there is a consensus of CO2 being a problem it is for a reason. Yes. It is a big problem. This question in 2023 doesn't make sense. It is going to be worse for next generations, a massive problem and they will hate us for this. We humans knew about the problem for decades and we did nothing. Now it is too late. We must face the consequences.

We can try to mitigate it a bit, that's all. We cannot reverse it anymore at least with current technology. We needed new nuclear technology decades ago. Fusion is advancing super fast but not fast enough.

You are living a mass extinction event at high speed.
In other words. Yes. A big problem.

This is kind of an ironic post to bump into today. I'm about to drive up to a far away town to make some music, and they're going to give me enough money to cover this month's mortgage! haha Admittedly, today's gig is pretty good for a Tuesday, but my income is currently^[1] still entirely from music, and I have four dependents! I'm not sure how you're defining economic value, but there are people and companies that are willing and able to pay myself and other artists that I work with enough to live pretty comfy, middleclass lives.

I would recommend avoiding V4V for anybody that is actually making music commercially. It's fun for side projects, and a great place for hobbyists, but really the only way to monetize recordings is to sell at shows or through bandcamp exclusively. Most artists in circles that I run in view Spotify and Wavlake and similar platforms more for documenting work. When you want to release something on the internet in a scarce way, use bandcamp.

1. I actually totally want to work in bitcoin these days. My passion is there since 2020, but ironically can't find anything beyond volunteer stuff, which is fine. In the meantime, music is my daygig! haha ↩

I propose something else:
Who is doing himself a TLDR of the links is posting, will get more rewards.
Who is posting only a link, will get less rewards.

Incentive for proof of work not for chatGPT and idiocy.

I don't live near my friends, because I don't make enough money. The housing around each of them is absurdly expensive (e.g. houses around one friend are about $500k, with one recently selling for over $1 million). They are able to afford those houses because (a) they are married and both work, and (b) their careers are going far better than mine. In one firend's case, he constantly works overtime to make ends meet.

The only way I can see my situation changing is if my friends were to move out of the suburbs, which some of them are willing to do. One of my friends has proposed two ideas:

• Buying a large plot of land (perhaps 300 acres) and subdividing it similar to Celo. I'd happily quit my current job and live in a van building houses to help get that going.
• Moving into a near-dead town, which once had thousands of residents but now has a dozen, elderly residents. This would involve each person/family/couple buying housing/land in and around town until the intentional community is the majority at the city council.

The former option is infeasible, because plots of land that size are extremely expensive and difficult to find, and most have retarded state-imposed restrictions on them.

The latter option is, in my estimation, the most likely to succeed. The community could be built piece-meal, with each person/couple/family moving in a house at a time. And if they want to leave, they can sell the house to the next person wanting to move in or sell it to the community.

But I don't think an intentional community of my friends will materialize until after the upcoming depression is done and only if my friends have wealth to spare thereafter.

Rats...I just clicked on this item because it was so negative.