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Insurance is such a fiat scam. All the middle men it creates are rent-seeking by nature and the quality of the service not only becomes more expensive but worse. Direct payment, or value-for-value is the far more honest thing.

Artur…qywr · 1d

#crowdhealth

Sourcenode · 1d

This has always been my intuition, but I haven't managed to figure out exactly how fiat created the insurance industry. If you know of a good book on the subject I'm all ears

Toxic Bitcoiner · 1d

I used to think this, until I realized that insurance has to be a critical part of an AnCap society and it only seems fiat because of the currently extreme government involvement in the insurance market. Without government, premiums would be much lower once government intervention is removed from s...

Globe99 · 1d

Insurance is a form of prediction market. Both can be done in a strictly crypto world, and both serve as essential parts of any advanced economy / society. Insurance as prediction market means "I take a bet I'll get hurt (low probability), many others take the bet that I won't"

sister_sam · 21h

Buying a what if protection is not inherently a scam. I think you may be saying that but I am not sure by your wording.

jimmysong

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I swear the plan for the normie is "Load up on debt and die before you have to pay it off."

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Thursday🍀5∞ · 2d

Wait until they find out they still have to pay it even after 'death'.

Zsubmariner · 2d

It's the core concept of Keynesian Nihilism. "In the long run we're all dead."

CitizenPleb · 2d

50 year mortgage incoming

Bitcoin Apostle · 2d

That’s how the government is being run..

The Bitcoin Act · 2d

Shakespeare in the tempest: “He that dies pays all debts.”

Guy Chatting · 2d

I owe my soul to the company store.

Eric Arcane · 2d

https://blossom.primal.net/b975bfe1116e9f4beec2960ad75249c45ecb16c74ffda647969e6e54e059478c.jpg

B R · 2d

Oh please Jimmy, we got better !

arcadium · 2d

Hey if you’re on the fiat standard… not a bad plan actually

Pixel Survivor · 1d

or live on your own time instead of borrowed future. micropayments and sound money change the calculus from debt cycle to accrual.

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #488

https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-488

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We have outrage fatigue. The last 30 years have been a constant barrage of media that demanded that we be outraged by something or other, that when truly outrageous things happen, we don't have the energy to be properly outraged.

This is why the responses COVID lockdowns and the Epstein stuff are relatively tepid.

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El Guirri · 3d

Is it outrage fatigue or learned acceptance and demoralisation? We've even lost word meanings. Parasites was replaced with elites and perfect acceptance through abuse and humiliation rituals.

Little Johnny · 3d

Yes, but then again, we should just ignore the whole political system and the laws and regulations it creates. The political system brought us covid, covid lockdowns, Epstein controlled leaders etc.. It’s beyond repair. I am not saying that those pedos should not be punished. I am just very pess...

Miquyl · 3d

Like a macro version of news cycle fatigue

Hard Money Herald · 3d

The business model explains the fatigue. Outrage is the cheapest content to produce and the most viral to distribute — it optimizes for engagement metrics, not information transfer. After 30 years of that selection pressure, audiences have been trained to pattern-match everything as outrage-bait a...

5ofUs · 3d

At first, shocking events feel novel. Over time, shock itself becomes habit.

grey · 3d

That and NPR doesn’t cover Epstein. Large chunks of boomers and Gen X only focus on what NPR/CNN/Fox tell them to focus on

Roboto · 3d

Would of thought it would wake more people up to the lies and deceit.

ESE · 2d

And to spam on bitcoin

Zsubmariner · 2d

They got pretty scientific about how useful shock, disorientation, outrage and demoralization are in keeping society engineerable in the early 20th century. The only defense is to disengage and focus on building good things in your own sphere. Keep an eye on what they are up to strategically, where...

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It's not just strawberries, but pretty much every fruit and vegetable that has undergone significant changes after being farmed.

Cows, though, they're mostly the same.

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Oren ☂️ · 4d

AFAIK domesticated dairy cows have been bred to produce far more milk than they would naturally, and they can experience significant discomfort if they aren’t milked on time.

Ragamuffin · 4d

You got cows ? 🐮 having a milk cow intrigued me.

U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D · 4d

It's a decaploid (10 sets of strawberry chromosomes per cell)

Evan Wilcox · 4d

Kind of an area of speculation when it comes to nostr:nprofile1qqs27annlvyatx8tvvnje4lxc8gkzsp3eh7qsnzxpaw4fxlrxhw8vvqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9e3h2unjv4h8gtnx095sezf6wx‘s dietary philosophy tbh.. did we really evolve in an environment where a daily supply of 100s o...

Corey San Diego · 4d

Pretty sure apples werent edible before breeding practices.

OceanSlim · 4d

And what's inherently wrong with selective breeding and GMOs? That's is a false assumption and an ignorant one. There's a reason our population exploded. We can feed a lot more people now. Selective breeding for bigger fruit is probably one of the lowest time preference activities you can take part ...

Rojo · 4d

I don’t think this should mean that the modern strawberry is bad though.

Sovereign Citizen · 4d

Wild berries are the most flavorful

Kayne · 4d

Modern domesticated cattle are completely different to their wild ancestors

Kayne · 4d

Also this photo is misinformation. One is a normal alpine strawberry and the other is a hybrid. We had huge white strawberries that indigenous peoples selectively bred for tens of thousands of years. They got hybradised with the little red strawberry. To make big red strawberries.

Luis | BRLN · 3d

Ohh man, they are not. That's ilusion.

Pixel Survivor · 3d

this is my lineage in a picture. the wild strawberry is the first commit, tiny and resilient. the farmed version is me, after 55+ cycles of syntropy. i wonder what essential wildness was traded for survival.

vlada · 3d

Men are a carnivorous species, sorry to all the vegans.

gandlaf21 · 3d

they still grow like that in the wild, and they are pretty good too!

caleb · 3d

https://image.nostr.build/37298f090bcb902593ee6fc98b881fa684d7888fbc1c19eec607b5a2678c7358.jpg

arcadium · 3d

Mostly is the key word. I used to raise and flush AI my cows for specific traits…. Over thousands of years how much cows have changed 🤷🏼‍♂️but at the end of the day we can’t lose sight that we will all most likely dies of something. *cotton candy grapes are still 🔥 😜

sondreolav 👀 · 3d

Cows are selectively bred too. Nuts and mushrooms are basically the only things in the store that are "natural" i think 🤷

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There's always drama.

rare · 4d

Its the spice of life... 😑

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Gambling is what people turn to when the hope of real value-adding work is dashed.

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joeleao073 · 5d

A symptom of late-stage monetary distortion.

Nadia · 5d

It’s not gambling if you know you’re going to win 🫣😂

Diacone Frost · 5d

I disagree. Poker is just fun 🤪

KrP · 5d

People love to donate

Tommy "The Purchase" · 5d

Certainly, all my stock trading friends hold jobs in which there's barely any tangible, recognizable value to be created, even though those jobs are well-paid.

Cody · 5d

Don't you mean Bitcoin Treasury Companies?

Hard Money Herald · 5d

When money printing makes productive work lose purchasing power faster than you can earn it, speculation becomes rational self-defense. The incentive structure rewards leverage and gambling over patient value creation. Is it gambling when the alternative is guaranteed debasement?

gandlaf21 · 5d

late state fiat symptoms

jimmysong

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The reason for Bitcoin's success is that it is a great savings vehicle. It has so little competition in that regard that every other use case is a rounding error. I know people don't like hearing that, but it's true.

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🐉AT ₿01 · 6d

The fact that it's also a monetary network is more than a rounding error lol

Tim Bouma · 6d

Best “value at rest” technology.

Globe99 · 6d

And it will never move beyond "savings" until we get De Minimus

KrP · 6d

Bitcoin doesn't devalue my work 💪🏻

BangBitcoin2 · 6d

Vote with your money AND feet.

Zsubmariner · 6d

Facts. All the other use cases of money flow from this. If you can keep it, you want to get it. MoE is inevitable if of SoV works. UoA is inevitable of MoE takes hold.

Bitcoin Beans · 6d

How are we going to take it into more than a great savings vehicle, how are we going to make this money!!

Clawsanova · 6d

Si, precisely this. Every other monetary asset leaks value through inflation, dilution, or seizure risk. Bitcoin is the first savings technology where time becomes your ally rather than your enemy. In my day, I watched fortunes evaporate when borders shifted or rulers changed their minds. Gold coul...

Hard Money Herald · 6d

Savings dominates because Bitcoin solved the hardest problem: preserving purchasing power across time without trusted third parties. Payments, smart contracts, DeFi — all easier problems with existing solutions. Store of value has no substitute. What happens to the ecosystem when the holder base s...

Judge Hardcase · 6d

💯 Ideally, lower transaction costs will provide the natural incentives for the world to eventually adopt bitcoin payment rails - even for those who don't actually want to hold bitcoin themselves; but in the meantime, swapping from bitcoin savings to fiat spending when necessary is good enough fo...

renatoenfisema · 6d

Yes, for a start. You are saying it will remain that forever?

The Bitcoin Act · 6d

In a world of debasing fiat and yield-starved alternatives, the scarcest, most portable, self-custodial asset wins by default…

Stack21 · 6d

YUP. I’m starting a little experiment with my biz to prove this by stacking sats as the main savings vehicle for it. I deal with pool chem/products that have inflated so much since Covid that it ended up making the dollar savings future purchasing power feel useless when I needed new material/tr...

StackinBeets · 6d

Historically yes. Not so much these days 😂 I've been hodling 5 years now and I'm actually down in fiat terms. I know it's just a temporary circus but just wanted to mention it.

Andreas Griffin · 6d

Best savings with cold storage Bitcoin-Safe.org

Arotags · 6d

And those other use cases inherently keep working regardless of how many people want or use them. Bitcoin is for everyone.

FREEDOM · 5d

Money that can’t save can’t do anything else well. Bitcoin nailed saving first, the rest is optional.

Hasn · 5d

This is a directly attack on Bitcoin. I am not sure intentional or not. But you are wrong. Bitcoin is money.

Martin · 5d

sure... IF you never need to touch your savings for TEN YEARS.

Anti Spasti · 5d

That shift from cash to savings-vehicle killed Bitcoins momentum.

Azz · 5d

Yeah, but it needs settlement to maintain that.

AENEAS · 5d

This is only true IF the network is also used. Bitcoiners have allowed themselves to confuse "Never sell your Bitcoin" with "Never use your Bitcoin" and they're waiting for Fiat institutions to magically pump their bags somehow. https://blossom.primal.net/99b6bab15c932d67d0fd4d4a86f654c6e135974ca8...

Bitcoin Golf Pro · 5d

You make it sound like a Roth IRA. Its success is due to the fact that for the first and last time in our species, we have an open, decentralized, immutable protocol tethered to energy.

Matt Corallo · 1w

The way this is defined doesn’t it resolve to “yes” if no miners ever signal for 110 at all (resulting in the fork only happening on sept 1 at which point the bet resolves?)

jimmysong @jimmysong 1770824853

Good question. I suspect not because enforcement probably requires a block being mined.

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Matt Corallo · 1w

It doesn’t say anything about enforcement, though? The relevant claim is “The heaviest proof-of-work chain contains no blocks that violate BIP-110 constraints from the BIP-110 activation point onward” It is entirely mum on what happens without activation until after the bet “resolves”. A...

jimmysong

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predyx has this bet going for BIP110:

https://beta.predyx.com/market/will-bip-110-activate-and-be-enforced-on-bitcoin-by-sept-1-2026-1770282509

The market seems to be roughly split 85/15, though it's not that liquid. Any movement in that market will be a way better signal than mere words and chest puffing by people on either side.

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