Mucker (Zed)

Bitcoin since 2012.

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

@LimitlessReader @mentalliberty May I? :) "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past" - Spinoza

[E-go @EgoDriv]

You live more peacefully once you accept everyone is a retard.

Including yourself.

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

@drgurner @FedEx 😂 be kind to your local courier))

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

A trait I see in a lot of founders & self-made wealth:
The internal distaste for authority.

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

@incentivising but we've already ended up with a dumb mass of useless workers - that's what was wrong with this society even before

[Kwabena Ohemeng @Mister10k_]

If you aren’t running into failure often, you aren’t trying hard enough.

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

@TextDeep1 the clearer everything becomes the less calm you are

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

@Tim_Denning at least you don't need any psychiatrist or therapy

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

The freedom of being totally unhinged is one of the greatest f*cking feelings in the world.

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

@EgoDriv 😂

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

@TextDeep1 yes)

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

The US government built a tool that makes you invisible on the internet. Then they gave it away for free.

Tor is legal. Most people think it is not.

The US Naval Research Laboratory invented it in the 1990s. Three scientists named David Goldschlag, Mike Reed, and Paul Syverson. The Office of Naval Research and DARPA paid for it. The State Department still pays for it today.

The same government that runs the NSA also funds the tool that stops the NSA from watching you.

How it works: your traffic bounces through three random volunteer servers. No single server knows both who you are and what you are looking at. Your internet provider sees only that you connected to Tor.

What Tor does NOT do: it does not make you a hacker. It does not drop you on the dark web. You browse normal websites with more privacy. It does not break any law in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, India, or most countries.

Who uses it:

The New York Times runs a Tor address for sources to send tips. The BBC runs a Tor mirror so people in censored countries can read the news. Facebook has run a Tor address since 2014. Edward Snowden used Tor in 2013. A 2012 NSA internal slide deck, made public through the Snowden files and reported by The Guardian and Washington Post, called Tor the king of high-secure, low-latency internet anonymity.

In 2023 and 2024 the US government paid the Tor Project $2,556,472. The biggest grant funded uncensored internet access in China, Hong Kong, and Tibet.

The Naval Research Laboratory's own page says two million people use Tor every day.

BSD-3-Clause license. Windows, Mac, Linux, Android. Roger Dingledine still runs the project.

This is what the internet was supposed to look like from the start.

(Link in the comments)

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Freud was wrong about most things, and he was wrong about this.

The "years of struggle" are never the "most beautiful."
Struggle sucks, it is hard & often painful.

Romanticizing struggle is something people who haven't really struggled do.

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

yeah. thats. why. we. have. phones. and. books. and. movies. and. music. 'cause that shit is not interesting enough.

[Dan Martell @danmartell]

If you’re addicted to your phone, your life isn’t interesting enough.

[Mucker (Zed) @CryptomuckerB]

omg. please. ask. clever. questions. always.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

You must play dumb. Ask dumb questions, request clarifications. Never show your intelligence outright. Force the others to overexplain and gather intel. And watch as they reveal far more than they should. Few understand that in the wrong environments, high intelligence is naturally perceived as a threat.

[Taylin John Simmonds @TaylinSimmonds]

I'll admit, I enjoy playing with AI.

It's fun to argue with. Do writing exercises with. Study books with. Turn my ideas into visuals. Go down late-night curiosity spirals.

Shortcuts are one option.
They're not the only one.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The worst thing that can happen to you is playing a game your entire life only to end up atop the winner’s podium with an award you don't even want.

[Taylin John Simmonds @TaylinSimmonds]

2008: Iron Man comes out.
Everyone wishes they had their own Jarvis.

2026: Everyone has their own Jarvis.
They complain about it on LinkedIn.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Being with someone who is your intellectual match, will become more important than you think.

Be able to have great conversations.

Having a pretty or handsome idiot may seem fun, but as the years pass their early looks shift, and then you're just left with....an idiot.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

“Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.” - G. Doyle

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

You get rich by betting on things other people are wrong about. Because most "good" investments have their "goodness" priced into them, making them "mediocre" or "bad" investments in reality.

The key is to find something that looks bad but is actually good. Which means you gotta be willing to have people tell you why you're dumb (then wait). Then get called lucky. Then do it a few more times. Then have people say you're finally good.

But by the time they say you're good it already stopped mattering to you what they thought because why would you respect someone's judgment who was so repeatedly bad? They now only say you're good because everyone else does and not because they could ever make up their minds on their own.