Binbash Farhan

[Binbash Farhan @BinbashFarhan]

What’s the problem?

Fix the money, fix the world.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

The best video about #Bitcoin 🤯

This should be taught in every school.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Elon Musk on whether kids should still go to college in the age of AI

"If you want to go for social reasons — being around people your own age in a learning environment — that's a valid reason.

But will these skills be necessary in the future? Probably not.

We're heading toward a post-work society. AI and robotics are a supersonic tsunami — the most radical change ever.

If something truly interests you, study it. Take a wide range of courses. But you don't have to go to college."

Even his own sons agree their skills may become unnecessary — yet they still want the experience.

1:59 clip inside — blunt, forward-looking perspective.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🧬 Humans Will Soon Go Back in Time — and It Might Happen by 2029 ⏳

What if aging… simply stopped? What if time itself began to reverse — not in the movies, but in real life? 👀

According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, we might be just four years away from something he calls “longevity escape velocity.” It means that every year, medical technology will extend our life expectancy by more than one year — giving us time back on the clock.

Think about it: you age a year, but science adds a year and two months to your lifespan. You’ve just gained two months of life. That’s not fantasy — it’s math. Kurzweil believes that by 2029, humans will start moving “backward in time” biologically.

From AI-designed vaccines created in days, to simulated biology and nanotech healing from within — it’s all speeding up. But here’s the mystery: if death stops being inevitable… what happens to humanity next? 🧠

Will we conquer time — or will time find new ways to catch us?

[WAR ECONOMY by KRIS 📿 @ektrit]

UKRAINE

For somebody who knows Theology, History, Finance and Supply Chains for the last 25 years, Ukraine can be easily explained, it's all about Putin's mind.

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[Pavel Durov @durov]

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The ability to know what you can't predict and work with unpredictability is the best measure of intelligence.

(Fooled by Randomness, Chapter on Philostratus).

[The Raven of Wall Street#BIP110 @RavenofWallSt]

The best explanation of Cantillon Effect by @LynAldenContact

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

BITCOIN VS. REAL ESTATE DEATH MATCH

You seriously don’t understand how terrible of an investment real estate is.

🧵Let’s break down the numbers in FIVE EASY STEPS👇

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; idiots discuss local real estate; and retards discuss health hacking.

(Completing Eleanor Roosevelt) Version 2.

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

It's nice that politicians are pandering to bitcoiners, but promises are cheap. There is a major insurmountable obstacle to the US govt buying bitcoin: The US govt does NOT own or control the US Federal Reserve, which is a cartel of private banks. The US President can't just tell this cartel what to do with their reserves. The US dollar is the sacred cow of this cartel, and it's how they rob the entire planet. They're not about to give up this racket because some politician made a promise whose implications he doesn't understand. They're not going to buy a million bitcoins, because a commitment to purchase bitcoin will just encourage everyone to dump their dollars and buy bitcoin, and destroy the value of the dollar and their ability to rob the world with it. If you think they managed to build this century-old cartel while being stupid enough to fall for this or powerless enough to stop it, you're going to be disappointed to find out they're actually just evil.

But can't the US government buy bitcoin itself, without the Fed? With whose money exactly? The US government is fiscally irresponsible and its biggest expense is debt servicing. There are good reasons your irresponsible debt slave friends never get bitcoin and keep laughing at you when you bring it up. Irresponsible high time preference people and institutions don't understand the concept of long term savings. More importantly, the US government needs the Fed to buy its debt and keep its Treasury ponzi going. Buying bitcoin in spite of the Fed's opposition is a full-on declaration of war by the US government against the Fed and the fiat dollar, and that's just not something that Trump, or Kennedy, is up for. Trump has repeatedly praised the Fed. Kennedy wants to implement some ridiculous low interest rate subsidized home lending scheme only possible with the Fed creating cheap money. These men are not Andrew Jackson, nor are they even trying to be him.

The real enemy of bitcoin, and humanity, is the Fed. The US government is just its tool, and politicians are interchangeable actors that haven't mattered in decades. You're not going to destroy the Fed by promising to vote for one actor over another. Your only chance of destroying it is for bitcoin to grow larger than the dollar and Treasury bonds, and for dollar users to continue to get impoverished into oblivion while bitcoiners thrive with their superior technology. I humbly suggest you not waste time and sats on the politics circus, and work hard to stack sats instead.

[Lawrence Lepard, "fix the money, fix the world" @LawrenceLepard]

This is a great 2 minute clip. Worth your time.

[Nic @puckrin]

Bitcoin was $16k when he said this.

It's up 7.1x since then.

Never has such an ignorant statement been made with such confidence.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

My view is that buying and holding real estate is not an effective investment strategy in our current economic environment, for a few reasons.

1) Real estate is more interest rate sensitive than it is inflation sensitive, so given our current circumstances it is likely to go down in real terms

2) It is a fixed asset that is easy to tax, which limits its impacts on your ability to diversify

3) Real estate is nailed down, so investing in it makes it more difficult to move money from one place to another

That’s my view, in a nutshell. I’m curious to hear if you agree.

#GovernmentDebt #debt #principles

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

HFSP

[Seán Murray @financeguy74]

THE NEWEST WHY JACK DORSEY IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO

C++ for Bitcoin source code
Now confirmed Jack coded in C++ as far back as mid-90s

C in the White Paper
Now confirmed Jack coded in C as far back as mid-90s.

Satoshi pseudonym
"Satoshi" was the first tweet Jack's best friend (Crystal Taylor) made on the beta version of Twitter in 2006 in reference to DJ Satoshi Tomiie. Jack revealed this on Tumblr in March 2011.

Bitcoin Miner
Jack's college mascot at University of Missouri-Rolla was the Miners.

Adam Back, the first person that Satoshi emailed
Jack wore an Adam Back code t-shirt in his college yearbook photo and linked to Back's website in the 90s from his own with the note "Very good."

Hal Finney, the first person to really help Satoshi
Jack linked to Hal's website in the 90s from his own with the note "essays, explanations, and challenges".

Ecash (What Satoshi originally called Bitcoin)
Jack linked to David Chaum's Digicash (ecash) website and to a page that contained Cypherpunks' C library-based ecash-lucre in the 90s. Jack noted this page as being "The best."

Cryptography
Jack is confirmed to have been obsessed with cryptography, dedicating his personal website to it in the 90s

Cypherpunks
Jack confirmed to be one of ~1,300 subscribed cypherpunks in the world in 1996, and made the list a central focus of his website while promoting its mission. Another one of his emails is confirmed to have been on the list in 2000.

Bitcoin White Paper
The White Paper cited a 1997 ACM Research paper and Jack was a confirmed member of ACM in 1997.

Research Paper Production
Jack ran a team of programmers in the 90s at Mira Digital Publishing that wrote academic research paper production and distribution software. Such papers were formatted like the Bitcoin White Paper.

St. Louis
In 2014, a hacker tried to extort Satoshi after breaking into his email by publishing a doctored Invoice with a St. Louis address. Jack is from St. Louis.

Windows (what Satoshi first coded Bitcoin for)
Jack is confirmed to have coded for Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux, and Blackberry all prior to Bitcoin's release.

Numerology
11/19 - Satoshi joined the Bitcoin forum on 11/19 (Jack's birthday)
1/11 - Satoshi's first transaction to Hal Finney was 1/11 (Jack's mom's birthday)

California
Satoshi's IP is widely believed to have leaked on 1/10/09, placing him in California. Jack was in California at the time.

Sailor's Adage
The bitcoin source code contained the phrase "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three." Jack was obsessed with sailing.

"Denials"
2020 - Jack tells Lex Fridman that if he was Satoshi he wouldn't tell him.
2023 - Jack tells a conference interviewer in an odd denial that "Bitcoin and Satoshi in 2009 was a combination of my childhood and my curiosity and everything that I aspired to be and everything I loved."

British Spellings
Satoshi occasionally used British spellings, but not all the time. Jack in 2009 shared that he sometimes changes the language settings in his phone. So UK English settings would have therefore auto-corrected his American English to British.

Craig Wright
The COPA lawsuit that disproved Wright as Satoshi was financed primarily by Jack.

Jak
Wright claimed to own thousands of Bitcoin addresses in a lawsuit but this was thrown into doubt in 2020 when 145 of them signed a message claiming Wright was a fraud. The oldest address, from May 2009, was 1JaKriNjceGmggKYQkURmatQv6LXyvUiAB. "Jak" was how Jack spelled his name for about 7 years and was also his online pseudonym. Satoshi had previously written about brute forcing the first few characters of a Bitcoin address to spell out one's name.

Novels
Jack's friend Alyssa Milano wrote 2 books (Hacktivist 1 and 2) about Jack, that claimed that he had been living a double life under a famous hacking pseudonym. The first was written in 2013. Jack is godfather to her child.

First
Jack's company Square was the first publicly traded company to talk to the SEC about Bitcoin.
Jack's company Square was the first publicly traded company to sell Bitcoin.

Web-based Payments
Jack's company Dnet first contemplated web-based payments without a bank account starting in 1998. Jack's company Square revolutionized retail POS payments (founded in 2009).

Self-control
Jack is already a twice self-made and publicly famous billionaire. Satoshi's "wealth" of Bitcoins would hardly be enticing, especially given his philanthropic attitude and behavior.

Reasons to hide in the beginning
In July 2008, E-Gold Ltd. (E-Gold), an Internet-based digital currency business, and its three principal directors and owners, pleaded guilty to criminal charges relating to money laundering and the operation of an illegal money transmitting business.

Reasons to keep hiding in 2010-2011
Twitter was in the hot seat with the US government over WikiLeaks' usage of twitter to distribute information.
Twitter's board was planning to bring Jack back into a day-to-day role.
People were using Bitcoin to fund WikiLeaks.

Visa was planning to invest in Jack's company Square.
Visa had banned payments to WikiLeaks.
Visa announced its investment in Jack's company a couple days after Satoshi announced his goodbye.

Wei Dai, Nick Szabo
Adam Back testified in the COPA lawsuit that he did not think Satoshi was familiar with Wei Dai's "b-money" because he had to tell him about it. Meanwhile, the cypherpunks had to tell Satoshi about Nick Szabo's "Bit Gold." Jack's cypherpunk fan page mentions several cypherpunks including Adam Back and Hal Finney, as mentioned before, but did not mention Wei Dai or Nick Szabo, as if he perhaps he wasn't aware of them either, just like Satoshi.

Open Source Track Record
Jack's commitment to open-source software is well established and can be traced going back to the mid-90s. From Dnet to apps he wrote, to statements he made, to forums he posted on.

Time Period
early Aug '08 - Jack finds out he's going to be fired from Twitter
8/18/08 - Bitcoin .org is registered
8/20/08 - "Satoshi" emails Adam Back
9/8/08 - Jack tweets he has a plan in his back pocket
10/5/08 - Satoshi registers account on SourceForge
10/15/08 - Jack fired from twitter
10/30/08 - Jack takes his blog (gu .st) that's been running for 7 years offline
10/31/08 - Bitcoin White Paper released

2/11/09 - Satoshi announces Bitcoin on P2P Foundation.
2/11/09 - Jack launches payments company named Squirrel, later Square.

12/5/10 - Satoshi tells people not to donate Bitcoins to WikiLeaks.
12/7/10 - Visa bans payments to WikiLeaks.
12/13/10 - Satoshi stops logging into the Bitcoin forum.
12/14/10 - Twitter receives secret court ordered demand over WikiLeaks.

3/28/11 - Jack returns to Twitter as Executive Chairman while remaining CEO of Square.
4/23/11 - Satoshi sends goodbye email ("I've moved on to other things").
4/27/11 - Visa invests in Jack's company Square.
5/23/11 - Twitter's tech lead suggests that Jack's company Square might integrate with Bitcoin.

Attempts to disprove
The only attempt to disprove the Jack is Satoshi theory was debunked by the likelihood that Satoshi could have and likely did post to the internet from a cell phone, thereby eliminating perceived time conflicts between Jack and Satoshi.

Denials from others
Nick Szabo, Adam Back, Hal Finney, Peter Todd, Wei Dai, etc. all deny being Satoshi.

Who Finances Bitcoin Development Today?
In the Fall of 2024, 1A1z released its report that revealed that Jack Dorsey was the primary financier of Bitcoin's development today.

SEC Disclosure
Jack filed a shareholder letter with the SEC in early 2024 stating that Square (now Block) is following "Satoshi Nakamoto's" design when it comes to cryptocurrency. The implication is that the company is simply following the CEO's design.

Today
Satoshi shirt, JackjackBITS username on github, release of BITchat, Block/Square is bitcoin-integrated payments company with $1B of Bitcoin on balance sheet

Jack Dorsey is Satoshi Nakamoto.

[dinosaur @dinosaurs1969]

timeless

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

Coinbase have released a brilliant advert that rips the piss out of the current dire state of the UK.

Let's be honest, it's funny and feels pretty accurate.

This is what this disastrous Labour has reduced us to. We're now a global laughing stock.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Dostoevsky demolished Karl Marx in a single paragraph

In just a few lines, he dismantled Communism — and exposed the evil at its rotten core

Here’s what Dostoevsky wrote, and how it put Marx and Communism to shame…🧵

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

#Bitcoin self-custody is the new flex 💪

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

The bitcoin network performs about sixty-seven times more computations per second than there are grains of sand on Earth.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned. ... Neoclassical economics has become the Aeroflot of ideas." Much truth in this.