@brian_armstrong If someone can spend their entire paycheck on smokes, booze, lottery and a Las Vegas trip, they should be able to invest in whatever they want. Oh wait, that's because gov is getting tax revenues, my bad.
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@garrytan Yeah, I'm not only building up OpenClaw I'm also either adding many of the tools built for it into Antigravity or building them into Antigravity's 'toolbox' to launch via OpenClaw. Memory, autoresearch labs, MSFT Bitnet, Tandem etc. Sovereign GPU+cloud, fun!
NEW: Bitcoin educator Andreas Antonopoulos says he will stop producing livestreams and new content due to health issues.
Antonopoulos previously said he has been suffering from debilitating migraines and has tried nearly every treatment available, but nothing has successfully stopped them.
This has never been truer. Look at what ECB is doing, and other countries are pushing forward. The 'convenience' of a cashless society, fully under gov control. If you don't already own #bitcoin, time is running out.
When I listened to this episode of Joe Rogan with Andreas Antonopolous in 2016 it made sense because I was new to Bitcoin.
But now in 2024 we all can see that Andreas was 100% right. This is exactly what's happening in our society right now.
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THE PHYSICS OF MONEY JUST CHANGED FOREVER
For 10,000 years, humanity faced one impossible problem: Energy cannot be stored. Energy cannot be transported. Energy dies the moment it is born unused.
Until now.
Jensen Huang, CEO of the $4.5 trillion company that powers artificial intelligence, just stated what changes everything:
โBitcoin is taking excess energy and storing it as a new form called currency. You take that currency wherever youโd like. You took energy from one place and transported it everywhere.โ
Read that again.
The numbers are staggering.
In 2024 alone, Texas was forced to throw away 8 terawatt hours of wind and solar energy. Brazil discarded 28 terawatt hours in eight months. Globally, over $20 billion in clean energy vanishes annually because grids cannot absorb it.
Bitcoin mining now consumes 211 terawatt hours per year. 52.4% from renewable and nuclear sources. Miners co-locate at stranded energy sites, converting worthless surplus into globally transferable value.
This is not digital gold. This is something physics has never permitted before.
For the first time in human history, energy has become portable. Joules transformed into hashes. Hashes settled into satoshis. Satoshis moved across borders at the speed of light.
The sun sets in Arizona. That captured sunlight arrives in Tokyo as money.
Wind dies in West Texas. That momentum resurfaces in London as settlement.
Critics said Bitcoin wastes electricity. The man whose chips process most of the worldโs AI workloads just told you the opposite: Bitcoin is the battery that never existed. The transmission line that needs no wire. The export of energy without the tanker.
The implications are civilizational.
Stranded renewables become profitable. Remote regions become energy exporters. The economics of electricity generation inverts permanently.
Energy is no longer trapped.
Energy is now free.
Abigail Johnson is CEO of Fidelity, the largest provider of 401(k) retirement plans. She rarely makes public appearances, statements, or gives interviews. But today, she says, โI like Bitcoin. I own Bitcoin. It will play a role in the savings hierarchy.โ
I thought that trick may work. ๐ Bitcoin made it easy.
Peter is so close. He understands all the problems with money today, but only views bitcoin as a speculative asset. He hasnโt used bitcoin enough. He is a gentleman though.