Fractal Howler

Just listened to the latest masterclass with @Jeff Booth on @nat brunell's Coin Stories Podcast. Absolute gold as always. Jeff’s framework from The Price of Tomorrow is playing out exactly as expected. The broken fiat system fights deflation tooth and nail because abundance (more energy, lower prices) threatens collateral values, debt loads, and Cantillon winners. Right now in Alberta, many pro-independence voices are panicking over potential Venezuelan heavy oil supply returning after the Maduro ouster. They fear it crashes oil prices, tanks CAD further (since O&G priced in USD), and makes oilsands projects uneconomic. Even more insane: some leftists are weaponizing this fear, openly suggesting Maduro’s regime (with its brutal price controls and suppression) actually “benefited” Alberta by keeping supply off the market and prices artificially high. How is more abundant energy ever bad? It’s only “bad” inside an inflationary credit system that requires high prices to service exponential debt. Left, right, separatist, federalists etc. in Canada — almost everyone still measures reality through the distorted fiat lens. Yelling at symptoms won’t fix the root cause: broken money. The escape hatch is Bitcoin. Deflationary abundance works for us there, not against us. Full convo (highly recommend):
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Most of Bitcoin Nostr gets the money. Some get the energy. But not enough get the AI. Watch these two videos back-to-back and you’ll see the next layer click into place. First is a breakdown of AI-native firms—companies run almost entirely by autonomous agents. Not theoretical. It’s already happening. These firms don’t scale through hiring—they scale through compute. Human labor isn’t just optional—it’s inefficient. Then listen to Jeff Booth lay out the macro layer. Fiat systems cannot adapt to exponential deflation from AI and automation. It’s not a policy issue—it’s a physics issue. And he says it flat: “If we’re entering a world of AI and automation, then the best thing we could have is Bitcoin.” Why? Because in the world that’s coming, cost isn’t measured in dollars. It’s measured in compute and energy. AI doesn’t care about legacy abstractions. It optimizes for throughput. And the only ledger capable of pricing energy, latency, and cost in real time, with no central distortion, is Bitcoin. Gold is too slow. Fiat is fake. Bitcoin is the base layer for machine incentives. AI will chase the cheapest energy. Bitcoin mining already does. They’re converging toward the same thermodynamic truth. That’s the loop. That’s the alignment. If we don’t anchor intelligence to energy, it gets captured by power. Bitcoin is how we make AI serve life—not control it. 🔹 AI-native firms: 🔹 Jeff Booth x Gammon: Bitcoin isn’t for AI. It’s what keeps it human-aligned.

People who don’t understand that falling labor costs mean falling prices will keep resisting automation and technology, and in doing so, they end up driving costs even higher. These unionized Uber drivers believe they’re improving their pay to keep up with rising expenses, but they’re missing the larger point. If every sector pushes for higher wages while also expecting the cost of goods and services to stay low, it creates a contradiction. The only reason platforms like Uber could compete with regular taxis in the first place was because they operated with lower overhead and fewer labor constraints. You can’t raise labor costs across the board and expect prices to stay the same. Everyone wants to earn more and pay less, but that balance is impossible when people fail to recognize they are on both sides of the trade in any market. This cycle is entirely predictable. Most people still haven’t grasped the deflationary reality of technology. As Jeff Booth explains, technology is supposed to drive prices down by making processes more efficient and reducing the need for human labor. That’s not a bug—it’s the point. But instead of allowing deflation to benefit everyone through lower costs, the current system fights it by printing money to preserve the illusion of growth, which ends up distorting market signals and inflating asset prices. Technology lowers the marginal cost of everything it touches. That means labor, across the board, becomes less economically valuable—and in a truly functioning system, prices would fall to reflect that. But instead, wages stagnate, prices rise, and people fight to claw back purchasing power through unions and legislation, not realizing that the core problem is the monetary system refusing to let deflation happen. Once again, the @Jeff Booth thesis is unfolding exactly as he predicted. Until we shift to a system aligned with technological deflation—like Bitcoin—these contradictions will keep accelerating.

Bitcoin 2025 in Vegas — it’s what you make of it. For me, it was the people. Whether we talked for hours or just a few minutes, I appreciated every moment. Not just the nerd-famous — but everyone I crossed paths with: taxi drivers, waitresses, even strangers on the street talking Bitcoin. Wish I could list all the amazing people… thank you everyone who was a part.

What a great time at the HeatBit booth in Vegas. This will be a very memorable week I’ll remember for a very long time, met so many great people!

Just went through U.S. customs at Vancouver international. The American customs official asked about my purpose of travel to Las Vegas, he then asked about some shitcoin I’ve never heard of and if it was good. And how about about DOGE coin? I told him Bitcoin only but if his shitcoins go up sell them immediately for Bitcoin. The officer at the desk next to him said, see I told you—Bitcoin only!