KYC is a permissioning system! This is why KYC/AML must ultimately fail (ie be eradicated) for BTC to serve the unbanked. KYC / AML is an evil in exactly the same way that freedom of speech isn't ! However KYC cannot prevent p2p transactions (they remain permissionless given decentralisation) With this in mind - name something / anything more useless than a private blockchain. I'll wait!

One of the amazing things about bitcoin is that : Once a mid-wit like me has worked out that #BTC makes for a better world, that same midwit understands more than all of Wall Street about money. The beauty of this is that as Wall Street works ever harder to collect ever less meaningful paper we acquire for an under-appreciated, ever strengthening, ever more widely accepted call on all future goods and services. By implication simply understanding what money is makes the world a better place. Skate to where the puck is headed in 2025 Stack sats (ohhh and try to be ever so humble - yup its getting harder ) h/t @ODELL

Thoughts on FIRE ❤️‍🔥 Financial Independence Retire Early Reads to me like a recipe for wasted dissatisfaction. Retire = Withdraw, Retreat, Quit & coast To really live involves an ongoing effort, find meaning, to strive & to realise goals. Better: Find, Intend, Realise, Enjoy If you can do this, you can enjoy a sovereign success free from unwanted externalities

@ODELL GM 2025 Sometimes I worry that BTC & Nostr & freedom technology adoption is slow. I believe Thought Go Up is THE best freedom enabling technology but has the slowest adoption rate in history. TGU is hard work and a result of diligence and an open mind. Wishing you and your readership TGU in 2025, since: where thoughts fear to tread - bitcoiners dare to follow

I think I may hove found the techological muse that inspired the latter day thinking of @Lyn Alden ...

Interesting take on Bitcoin and MSTR from a giant of business education

If you, like me, have struggled to grasp @Jeff Booth s "You can't measure (or change) a system from within a system" - you should watch this. A beautiful understandable illustration of the concept using Galileo as an example