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2025 Book List

The Big Print by @Lawrence Lepard ✅✅✅✅
The Blockchain Wars by Evan McFarland ✅
Broken Money by @Lyn Alden ✅✅✅✅
The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
Debt: First 5000yrs by David Graeber
Diaspora by Greg Egan
End The Fed by Ron Paul ✅✅
End Times by Bryan Walsh ✅✅
The Fourth Turning is Here by Neil Howe✅✅✅
How to Heal Your Metabolism by Kate Deering ✅✅
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez ✅✅
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel ✅
Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard ✅✅✅
Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed ✅
The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth ✅✅✅
The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan ✅
When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson ✅
You Will Own Nothing by Carol Roth ✅

The number of ✅ is directionally my personal scoring of the book on a number of different factors. Scored them all at the end of the year based on gut remembering of the book.

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ChaseThings · 7w
I’ve tried to get my local breakfast spot to turn on lightning payments. I’ve mentioned it now three times. Each time they acknowledge my request and are nice about it and say they’ll look into ...
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They are a square seller.

The staff is flying around early in the morning fulfilling people’s orders. Not a lot of time to orange pill.

I mentioned the savings vs debit/credit rails being a square user. They nodded and quickly ran back to fill an order.

Need to go in when it isn’t busy I guess .
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Diyana · 7w
Have you handed them one of these print outs? https://blossom.primal.net/240b69851d9d0f1fa19fc695e4b6ae2e739bdf2076eb834a0c0acc772de98e60.jpg
CITADEL DISPATCH · 7w
CD189: MONEYBADGER - BITCOIN PAYMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA Carel van Wyk is the founder and CEO of MoneyBadger. MoneyBadger enables easy bitcoin payments at 650 thousand stores in South Africa. - nostr:n...
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I’ve tried to get my local breakfast spot to turn on lightning payments. I’ve mentioned it now three times. Each time they acknowledge my request and are nice about it and say they’ll look into it. There is always a line. They are extremely busy. And by the end of a long day I doubt they remember. I don’t want to be the guy that keeps annoying them. And usually the person taking orders doesn’t have a financial incentive or economic interest in the flow of payments.

Lots of good solutions mentioned in this pod.
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MoneyBadger · 7w
Get the staff to download a Lightning wallet, tip them well, and let them be your ambassadors.
Swear Jar · 7w
Pay other people to ask as well. Simulate demand.
twood · 7w
are they a square seller?
ChaseThings · 7w
They are a square seller. The staff is flying around early in the morning fulfilling people’s orders. Not a lot of time to orange pill. I mentioned the savings vs debit/credit rails being a square user. They nodded and quickly ran back to fill an order. Need to go in when it isn’t busy I gues...
mcshane · 7w
sometimes takes time and friendship. took me a year of being a regular and some casual hangs and dinners with the local butcher squad. similarly busy environment and they really laughed at first.
Diyana · 7w
Are they a square merchant?
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Has anyone made a bitcoin companion app/wallet/website for kids? @Tuttle Twins TV, and a number of Bitcoin kids books are helpful onboarding them to the concept but then the tools get very technical. @COLDCARD Blockclock + OpenDime seem like a good way to watch NGU with their stack especially away from a screen. @mempool is visually pleasing.

Wondering if anyone has used any existing app or device in a way that has engaged their children in the #Bitcoin?

Collecting coins is very in a piggy bank is very tangible and satisfying but we all know the problem with that.
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A little surprised we are not seeing more discussion about Marines being deployed domestically in the US to support in civilian peace keeping efforts. #Marines #LosAngeles
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Glenna Balistreri · 41w
because changing. https://blossom.primal.net/8ea22dab2d952b7f6e5a61f0dd82bbb204ce395694ab3ae5a9e9ac5ad5d77462.jpg to the math because it is soar GDP is is going
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There is a lot of talk out there about Bessent’s recent comments about growing GDP faster than the debt. A lot of people are saying that means “the printer is coming” and inflation is going to rise. I do not disagree with that. But it is worth thinking about other “creative” ways that the admin can make GDP grow faster.

All we have to do is look to Lutnick. He gave us a hint when he was in the “All in Podcast” a few months ago and in Fox News where he talks about changing the calc for GDP removing “non-productive spending.” Which in theory would lower GDP BUT he talks about changing “expenses” or something.

Just saying that like admins in the past they will likely get creative before they do “the hard thing.”