Radu Butucelea

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@levelsio what's the easiest way to invest in private companies (e.g cursor before acquisition, stripe) for regular people without accredit investor accounts?

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

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[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@1x_tech Creepy to say the least. I'm convinced this is personal taste, but from a product pov, I see this form factor as unattractive as the VR headset.

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

Bitcoin is a better investment than Swiss hotels or restaurants or car factories because bitcoin is offering a far more valuable product to the world: a replacement for central banks. Since central banks are the absolute worst, most criminal and most destructive thing on earth, there is an enormous market reward for anyone that can put offer people an alternative. When you buy bitcoin, you are growing the bitcoin pool of liquidity and offering people a money better than central bank slavery. You're making bitcoin better and the market rewards you for your investment. The world needs a central bank replacement a lot more than Switzerland needs another hotel.

But this is a transitory phase that cannot last forever. Bitcoin can't keep replacing central banks forever. Eventually it replaces them all and when they and all their shitcoins are dead, bitcoin won't be making enormous returns anymore. It only makes enormous return by eating other crappy moneys , but when all the crappy moneys die, bitcoin only grows in value as the production of other goods increases. It will only appreciate at 1-5% per year in terms of most goods and services. At that point, Swiss hotels become attractive again.

Deflation is NOT a bad thing, and this is the biggest and most criminal psyop ever perpetuated on humanity, because everything evil is downstream from government inflation, and this is the justification for inflation. Deflation is just another word for economic growth. It is completely normal and good that things become cheaper over time. That's why we work. Work produces things and when things become more abundant they become cheaper. The market chooses the money that is the hardest to make precisely because the limit on supply growth makes it depreicate the least. The natural order is that everything gets cheaper. This does NOT mean that nobody would be consuming or investing. People do not consume just because they expect their money to depreciate. They consume to survive and to enjoy life. It doesn't matter how much cheaper you expect food, clothing, phones,or shelter will be next year. You want these things today and will pay for them today to use them today. Everyone knows their laptop and phone will be significantly cheaper next year and yet they all buy it. It's true that appreciating money will make you less likely to spend money on frivolous bullshit you don't need, and that's a good thing. Debt-fueled mass consumption is a moral disaster for humanity and Bitcoin can't kill it soon enough. The world doesn't need you to waste money on stupid bullshit.

And people don't just invest because they expect money to depreciate. They invest because productive activity produces a surplus over holding money. And the key thing to remember is that money would not appreciate if people weren't investing and producing. So it's impossible to imagine a scenario where nobody invests but money appreciates.

In sum, deflation is great, and it is the absolute best thing about bitcoin. Bitcoin being deflationary makes it the best investment opportunity in the world for as long as central banks exist. You are being perfectly rational to not want to invest in things that aren't as productive, morally imperative, and important as ending central banks. There'll be plenty of time and money for Swiss hotels when central banks are dead.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

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[BTCPay Server @BtcpayServer]

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[Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino]

I keep hearing WS guys questioning why people use stablecoins when everyone can use directly the USD.
Probably they never talked to anyone living in a developing country.
Banks gave up on many communities, billions are unbaked.
Tether and Bitcoin are life.

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@Playful121 @LN_Capital From what I understood, this is one of the main use cases behind Bolt12. it does enable streaming payments and the conditions of the payment can be programmed (e.g cadence, amount)

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@LN_Capital Good intro, thank you! a part 2 would be welcome :)

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

If it has counter-party risk, it's not money. #Bitcoin

[Waking Up @wakingup]

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[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

Jeff Bezos said:

“There is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.”

Here’s the writing framework Bezos uses (that you can too):

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@mikealfred I must admit that I am an example of this trend you've identified.
@saifedean and @moxie amongst others have inspired me to do some soul searching and have a shot at "separating the wheat from the chaff".

[Stephan Livera @stephanlivera]

Imagine having your bank shut down by a regulator and still not seeing the value in Bitcoin.

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@csuwildcat Although I am reluctant in having a conclusive opinion about it since I feel I don't have enough history&context, I feel the "gun debate" is diverting people's attention from far more pressing issues that the society faces (e.g economic policy, extreme politics, divisiveness).

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@JeffBezos *fixed supply

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@JeffBezos Mr. Bezos, it is truly important for public figures to stand up and denounce simplistic or even false characterizations of the current economic turmoil. Why not go one step ahead and be part of the solution (e.g sound medium of exchange with limited supply and no custodian)?

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@0x_Vivek A “fast food” type of a post, with poor conclusions backed by no insights/ reason.

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> My first impressions of web3 https://t.co/yCWZW1BGre via @moxie

[Radu Butucelea @RaduB23]

@cdixon @NotFoundNoName I think this is an important point. The way you refer to it: “web2” vs “web3”. We vs they approach is not helping to settle a pretty useless argument.