Some public infrastructure works great.
I just drove from Denver to Chicago and every public rest stop in Nebraska and Iowa was spotless and very nice.
Meanwhile, every gas station or fast food bathroom was disgusting.

I like Jon Stewart a lot, but this is one of the most un-curious, willfully ignorant conversations on bitcoin that I’ve ever heard.

Ben McKenzie is a giant moron.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-show-with-jon-stewart/id1583132133?i=1000761485137

Never forget that JD Vance killed Pope Francis.

Not enough people question the presence of Jared Kushner in US international negotiations. Kushner is NOT an elected representative, does NOT hold an appointed position, and in fact has no position at all in the Trump administration. Meanwhile he’s cutting business deals in the background, all over the Middle East. It’s just an insane level of corruption.

Newest bitcoin use case is paying Iran to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

I find John Carreyrou’s investigation into identifying Adam Back as Satoshi Nakamoto very convincing.

However, I feel terrible for Back, because whether or not he is truly Nakamoto, his life has now been turned upside down. He will be investigated by others and he will be targeted by malicious actors.

I also regret that John Carreyrou and everyone else that works at the New York Times have never put the same level of energy into understanding bitcoin as they have to “unmask” Satoshi Nakamoto. They have a 17 year track record of terrible reporting on bitcoin, always lumping it in with the rest of the crypto industry and framing flat out falsehoods as objective facts. Even in their reporting on Back, they demonstrate minimal to zero understanding of what makes bitcoin different than every other crypto currency.

Gift link (no paywall) for anyone that wants to read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZVA.nZG4.5xGVb9vFAWiJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share