Since @BtcPins spilled the beans on the RHR live chat, I’ll ask Nostr for feedback. Been working on a site for people to find the best bitcoin products. Still a work in progress and will be cleaning it up and adding to it in the coming days. Let me know what you think:
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This was one of the more interesting conversations I've had on the show this year. Johann Kurtz is the author of Leaving a Legacy. A book about how wealth comes with the responsibility of duty over one's dominion, how wealth should be passed down and why the trend of boomers spending all of their money or giving it to charity is a travesty.
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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast • #690: Why Billionaires Shouldn't Give It All Away with Johann Kurtz • Watch on Fountain
Marty sits down with Johann Kurtz to discuss the cultural shift away from intergenerational wealth transfer, the moral framework of duty that once ...
The Trump administration seems to be leaning into industrial policy in the same way that the politicians of James J Hill's time were in an attempt to build out the American rail system. Central planning never works, and I find it hard to believe it will work in this context. View Article →
A lot of victim mentality from bitcoiners during this chopsolidation phase. Stop complaining. Attack. Get your bitcoin off the exchange. Teach others how to self custody. Convince your local Square merchant to turn bitcoin payments on. Move your life to a bitcoin standard.
Skating can teach you so many lessons about life. Rodney Mullen is GOAT'd. https://www.youtube.com/embed/DBbmNAZWq-E
If you are using bitcoin privately, the government will assume you are doing something nefarious and label you an enemy to be dealt with. This is wrong and it needs to stop. #freesamourai View Article →
Earlier today I re-watched this mini-doc on James J Hill and how he succeeded during the railroad boom despite refusing government subsidies that were plentiful at the time. He focused on efficient capital allocation and investing in civilization. Part of his success was derived from how simply he set the goals for his company. "We must operate: - the fastest locomotives, - to pull the longest trains, - with maximum tonnage, - over the straightest tracks, - using the least change in elevation, - with minimal maintenance costs." Every capital allocation decision he made focused on achieving these goals. It's hard not to think about the AI boom and all of the government investment going into the sector these days after watching this. How many opportunists are circling their wagons to feed from the government trough at the moment? How efficiently is that easy money going to be allocated? Who in AI and the booming energy infrastructure industry budding around it is taking the hard but lucrative path that James J Hill took during the railroad boom?
If at first you fail to convince people with good ideas, make it illegal for them to share their own ideas. View Article →
FinCen and the Treasury are expanding the Patriot Act to attack bitcoin self-custody and privacy. We shouldn't live in a world where standards cater to the lowest common denominator and make things worse for the overwhelming majority of the population. View Article →
TFTC 656 w/ @Peter Alexander : "China's not gonna invade Taiwan. They play the long game - assimilation over generations, not war" We discuss: ⚡️ US is fiscally boxed in with zero leverage ⚡️ China wants regional hegemony, not empire ⚡️ Taiwan is America's biggest bargaining chip