Binh Phan

[Halston @halstonvalencia]

I just graduated from USC.

I now have a bachelor’s in Business Economics and a master’s in Marketing, where I took over 42 units of finance and economics courses.

And still, none of those courses taught me what I learned on my own.

No class explained the truth about the broken system we live in. It was brushed off.

I found that through late nights and early mornings studying Bitcoin, questioning fiat, and questioning everything I had ever been taught about economics, realizing the financial world is built on sinking sand.

Reading Broken Money by @LynAldenContact built the foundation.

Reading The Bitcoin Standard and Principles of Economics by @saifedean connected the dots.

The Big Print by @LawrenceLepard lit the fire.

@jackmallers podcast helped me put words to what I was feeling. Rage, urgency, hope, and purpose.

And hearing @adamobrien talk about Bitcoin as a way to protect his kids’ future made me realize I want that too.

Bitcoin gave me clarity. It gave me hope.

Choosing Bitcoin isn’t about wealth. It’s about building something real for my future family. It’s the hardest money there is, one that comes with strong conviction.

I’m making a decision now, to become someone my future kids will be proud of and grateful for.

A decision to reject comfort. To choose discipline over dopamine.

I don’t want to waste my 20s watching Love Island, mindlessly scrolling TikTok, or watching football each week.

I want to understand the truth behind financial markets and why the system is built to keep us dependent.

I want to see through all the noise, stack sats, build conviction, become unshakable, and tell the story of sound money.

I’m not like the rest of my generation, and I’m okay with that.

#bitcoin #getbased #soundmoney #saifedean #lynalden #larrylepard #jackmallers #adamobrien #thebitcoinwell

[Balaji @balajis]

Everyone is a libertarian on the Internet.

Because it is simultaneously far more progressive and far more capitalist than any previous society.

It is ultra-progressive because billions of people from every race, religion, and ethnicity are on the global Internet. Anyone can speak to anyone, broadcast anything, associate with anyone, and do just about whatever they want if it is permitted by code.

It is also uber-capitalist because billions of people can transact with anyone, hire anyone, work for anyone, found their own businesses, become zillionaires, set up their own servers, and enjoy perfect freedom of association.

The common thread is individual consent. You consent to sign up to a server. You consent to install an app. And every million-person community on the Internet is formed by a million similar voluntary actions.

So: the Internet proves that consent scales, that voluntarism scales, that internationalism scales, that capitalism scales.

It proves this empirically. Because by and large, despite all its faults, the total freedom of the Internet is attractive. The ultra-nationalist nevertheless chooses to post on an international network. The anti-capitalist nevertheless chooses to post through a capitalist phone.

The reason the Internet works is that code is law. So all the impractical libertarian ideas that presupposed flawless judges or strict property rights suddenly became feasible.

For example, open borders in the physical world doesn’t work. But in the digital world, a site like Facebook actually can onboard billions of strangers and automatically adjudicate the interactions between them.

Similarly, polycentric law before the Internet didn’t work, because you couldn’t realistically have multiple legal systems in the same physical location. But now with Bitcoin and Ethereum and Solana, you can simply swap between different monetary policies and contract enforcement as you see fit.

The fundamental point is that the Internet makes libertarianism more practical.

For example, the esteemed @RonPaul wrote about ending the Fed, but that couldn’t realistically be done at the level of the state. However, tech libertarians could build Bitcoin, and thereby practically end the Fed at the level of the network.

Similarly, tech libertarians couldn’t shut down the Post Office, but they could boot up email. They couldn’t reform taxi medallions, but they could boot up Uber. They couldn’t reform these failed states, so they built the alternative on the global network.

Such examples can be multiplied. But the point is that actually existing libertarianism does exist. It is called the Internet. It is simply the most popular thing in the world, perhaps the most popular thing in human history. It is much more popular than any individual politician or state.

And yet it is still underestimated.

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️

We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.

The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

Customer-focused companies win.

This is a huge problem in rooftop solar.

Companies have huge customer acquisition costs because they don’t offer a good deal.

They’re trying to extract margin, rather than grab market share by providing a better product.

This will change.

[Craig Lawrence @clawrence]

I somehow missed this one. We are going through the largest disruption in the residential solar industry since the advent of the zero-down PPA/lease 20 years ago. Buckle up.

Solar finance platform Mosaic files for bankruptcy https://t.co/lQ7LRrRdez

[Nivi @nivi]

Can you learn taste?

Yes.

Taste is the ability to judge the quality of solutions.

It develops through repeatedly seeing the long-term consequences of decisions. This makes taste closely related to wisdom.

Good taste also requires care for people and the reality in which they live. This is the problem situation, and new knowledge will be required to solve it, whether deciding what clothes to wear to a party or how to structure your code. People with good taste generally understand aspects of the problem situation that others are not considering.

Finally, having taste requires an intolerance to merely adequate or sufficient solutions.

Taste is an overused word that I would prefer not to use. Judgment is better. Here are some things that have helped me improve my judgment:

The books of Edward Tufte:

https://t.co/VDpgo8OBTF

A Pattern Language:

https://t.co/lb9jhbde2B

Dressing the Man:

https://t.co/r3GbqrVMCy

Noah Daniel on interior design:

https://t.co/k16HzqL0ww

[Naval @naval]

Turns out that instead of scraping the web to train an AI, you can just scrape the AI that scraped the web.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Once you understand Kardashev Scale, it becomes utterly obvious that essentially all energy generation will be solar.

Also, just do the math on solar on Earth and you soon figure out that a relatively small corner of Texas or New Mexico can easily serve all US electricity.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

How sad would it be to look back on your life when its near the end and realize you didn’t achieve your potential because…

.. your significant other distracted you

.. you were tired

.. your friends discouraged you

.. you were scared

The best decisions serve our future selves, not just the version of us that exists today.

[Ran Neuner @cryptomanran]

$330 by next Friday. $SOL

[Ran Neuner @cryptomanran]

Just keep buying $RIN.

[Ran Neuner @cryptomanran]

I now have 2X $SOL: $ETH!

[Ran Neuner @cryptomanran]

$Matic popped! Next $DFYN and $QUICK!

[Ran Neuner @cryptomanran]

Putting in an ETH OTC order in 2017!