Some bitcoiners want bitcoin as money and think price appreciation is counterproductive because it makes people hold bitcoin instead of spending it. Other bitcoiners want bitcoin to keep appreciating as an asset without becoming money, so it doesn't upset the government. In my view, bitcoin can't become money without its value rising, and its value can't keep rising without it becoming money. If bitcoin keeps working as designed, it keeps appreciating until it becomes money.
Money is the general medium of exchange, the thing people are most likely to trade. What you are most likely to trade is the thing in which you have the largest cash balances. Bitcoin will only become money when its cash balances are large and held by a very large number of people, and for that to happen, Number must Go Up. If bitcoin cash balances are tiny, it cannot be money, no matter how much we larp circular economies and annoy merchants to accept it only to convert it to fiat to pay their rent and staff. If bitcoin keeps appreciating until its cash balances are the largest of any cash in the world, people will use it for trade, and it will be money. You won't have to pester a merchant to accept it, because his own cash balance, and the cash balances of his landlord and staff, are mostly in bitcoin, and they all want it.
Bitcoin will have to appreciate enormously to work as money, whether you like it or not. And if bitcoin keeps appreciating, people will use it as money, whether you like it or not.
Embrace the NGU.
I don’t care how many reps I do.
I care whether each rep is challenging enough to make me stronger.
That’s why I go slow, and why my training takes under 60 minutes a week.
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When humans left hunting and gathering for grain agriculture, the skeletons tell the story. Average height dropped several inches. Dental disease, anemia, and infectious disease rates rose sharply. The new “have-nots”—the early farmers—were shorter, weaker, and sicker than the meat-eating populations they replaced. The ones who kept access to animal foods stayed taller and more robust.
The pattern held for thousands of years. Pastoralists and warriors who ate meat and animal fat consistently outperformed the grain-dependent peasantry in strength and health. Grain was what you ate when meat was scarce or deliberately withheld.
Today the labels have flipped, but the biology has not. Modern elites fund and promote observational studies that downplay meat while elevating grains, seed oils, and ultra-processed carbohydrates as the virtuous choice for everyone else. The same playbook that once kept peasants on bread now uses manipulated science to convince the public that the foods of scarcity are actually optimal.
Meat was never the luxury. Grain was the compromise.
I’m turning 72 in 2027.
People constantly tell me I’m leaner, fitter, and stronger than most men my age.
They assume it’s the 1,000+ hours perfecting my approach.
Sure, that was part of it.
But the number one thing was simpler:
Deciding I refused to be out of shape.
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Today marks 11 years as a carnivore. A progress report:
-Nutritional deficiencies: zero
-Blood tests taken: far too many
-Blood tests showing problems: zero
-Scurvy symptoms: zero
-Fiber deficiency symptoms: zero
-Chins: 1
-Manboobs: zero
-Deadlift personal best: 2× body weight
-Sleep: effortless and deep, 5–7 hours every night
-Afternoon crashes: zero
-Brain fog: zero
-Calories counted: zero
-Bloating: zero
-Digestive problems: zero
-Mental health on a scale of 1-10: 12
-Books written: 4
-Books I’d have written had I been eating plants: zero
-Days I was bored with steak: zero
-Plans to change: zero
-Sugar junkies concerned about my health: all of them
-Sugar junkies who were concerned about my health when I was fat and eating garbage: zero
-Convincing reasons sugar junkies have given me to eat plants: zero
-Health problems sugar junkies told me I would get from not eating plants: all of them
-Health problems I actually got from not eating plants: zero
-Years required before sugar junkies stop asking me whether carnivore is sustainable: more than 11
My guide to eating and cooking meat, which I wrote after 5 years of carnivore: https://t.co/JD7nnyNvxj
Stroke of a Pen
I told Opus 5.5 to read my Bitcoin & monetary-history wikis & make a music video with code only.
it used ElevenLabs for the track.
Then a swarm of agents storyboarded and coded a 3:23 portrait reel. ~75 shots cut on the beats.
Had to do 2 revisions - first the people looked like poorly animated stick figures & it rewrote the rigs.
Then I said use matrix code to make it more interesting.
Impressive!
I am working on a second edition of Principles of Economics.
If you found any mistakes in the first edition or have any suggestions for improving the book, please email them to me on info @ saifedean dot com