LongtailXplorer

long/short 100x

[Grummz @Grummz]

You will eventually need a license to own a computer.

This is where all this "Age Verification for OS" stuff is coming from.

It's not about protecting kids. If it were, the CA law would not demand that you share this age data with any dev that asks for it.

It's about controlling access to compute and what you do with it.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

Cancel ChatGPT subscription

[Mary ⚡|| Buy the Dip || 🇵🇭🇳🇬🇹🇷 @mary_imasuen]

I've been saving $1 of Bitcoin everyday for 365 days. My goal is to prove that you don't need a lot of money to start saving in bitcoin.

It's been 3 years since I've been doing the challenge.

Every year I do a video sharing my progress. And this is year 3 of my progress.

[Chron @nabubito]

History proves that those who try to dictate how Bitcoin should be used eventually fork themselves away: the anti-ASIC crowd exited to Litecoin, the big-blockers left for Bitcoin Cash, and the purists currently complaining about JPEGs are fighting a losing battle against Bitcoin’s most fundamental rule-
That it is permissionless.

[Breadman @BTCBreadMan]

If you own $118,000 worth of IBIT you are not a whole-coiner.

You are a no-coiner.

[Pledditor @Pledditor]

AFAIK, I think I was the first to sniff out verifiable evidence that @NayibBukele was making public misrepresentations about El Salvador's bitcoin treasury

He kept on referencing a 3rd party tracking website which double counted some of El Salvador's bitcoin purchases

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

This is creator of VLC media player . He refused tens of millions of dollars just to keep VLC ads-free , meet Jean-Baptiste Kempf.

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

No, you did not miss the bitcoin train.

We are just getting started.

Just because bitcoin went up a lot does not mean it cannot go up a lot more. On the contrary, the more it goes up, the more it demonstrates product-market fit, the more likely it is to go up.

Bitcoin is different from stocks, bonds, and commodities because it has a much, much larger addressable market. Let's compare:

Apple's total addressable market is 8 billion people who can own an iphone and laptop. A lot of them already do, and a lot of them are too poor, so there's just not much more room for growth. Maybe Apple can increase by 5x, or 10x, but it would need to introduce new products that are wildly popular to do so, which is very difficult. Ultimately, an Apple stock is a claim on cashflow, and it is priced based on expectations of Apple cashflow, and it is not easy to continue to increase cashflow once you're a trillion dollar company.

But bitcoin is money, and its total addressable market is all of the planet's cash balances, which currently include something in the range of $100 Trillion in physical government cash and checking and saving bank accounts, plus ~$120 Trillion in government bonds, ~$22 Trillion in gold, and arguably, a chunk of the world's real estate and stock markets, which people are holding to beat inflation, and not to take risk in search of return. All in all, bitcoin's Total Addressable Market is in the range of $200-300 Trillion, which is about 100 times larger than what it is now. All of these assets are trash compared to bitcoin, and there is no reason for anyone intelligent to hold a significant position in them. Everything held in these assets has lost ~90% of its value against bitcoin in the last 5 years, and will likely keep losing another 90% every few years. The only things maintaining significant demand for these assets at this point are their holders' old age, intelligence deficiency, and susceptibility to government propaganda. They can continue to hold these assets as they decline, making them poorer, or they can shift to bitcoin and start getting richer. Either way, and regardless of what they do, the world's wealth is going to end up in the hard money, and not in the obsolete moneys of the twentieth century.

Bitcoin has no cashflow to price it. Most nocoiners think this makes it a ponzi, but that is only because they have never experienced real money, and only have as a frame of reference the hot potato trash fiat money which everyone smart tries to exchange for hard assets as soon as they can. They are incapable of understanding people demanding to hold money for its own sake, for its ability to hold value, and not for cashflow. This is how gold became the money of the world without generating any cash flow, and this is why bitcoin, which is infinitely better money than gold, is going to continue to monetize and grow.

Nonetheless, bitcoin's demand is highly variable, and with leverage, it will likely continue to be significantly volatile for the foreseeable future, so always keep in mind that it could decline significantly, and manage your position accordingly.

[William Huo @wmhuo168]

They solve puzzles and dream in color.

Now we’re freezing them alive for sushi. 🧵

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[Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs]

Peter Thiel is going on the Joe Rogan pod highlighting how big of a deal
bitcoin is and starting a crypto bank.

He also sold his Bitcoin stack right before his speech at Bitcoin 2022, making ~$2 Billion.

That’s all I need to know. Btw, that stack would have doubled by now.

[Knut Svanholm ∞/BIP-110 @knutsvanholm]

Bitcoin treasure companies are this cycle's shitcoins.

VC funding, insider trading, paper bitcoin, extra layers of risk. All the usual crap. Nothing new. You're the "yield."

Not your keys, not your coins, ffs!

The usual suspects are behind most of the scams. Follow the money.

[Max Keiser @maxkeiser]

Bitcoin separates money from state.

TradFi Bitcoin (ETF’s, BTC treasury co’s) reunite Bitcoin with state.

Some will argue, as they did with altcoins, their ROI improves and they can buy back Bitcoin later. This never happened. 99% of shitcoiners get REKT.

What people fail to see, and what TradFi Bitcoin promoters are failing to tell you — a ‘Compounded Bitcoin return’ 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝐂O𝐌P𝐎U𝐍D𝐒 𝐑I𝐒K‼️

And this exponential increase in risk is being glossed over by the promoters of these BTC treasury plays.

[Matthew R. Kratter #BIP-110 @mattkratter]

Bitcoin Nodes, Mining Pools, and Spam

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

The Linux X11/Wayland graphics conspiracy, for non computer geeks.

TL;DR: There’s a weird conspiracy going on in Linux with how pixels are drawn, and we don’t know why yet, but corporations are acting BIZARRE. As they say, where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

The way graphics is commonly done on Linux is undergoing radical change. For over a decade X11 (we like weird names) was the standard way to draw the user interface elements on Linux.

About a decade ago this all changed with a new way-of-doing-things called “wayland”.

An app written in wayland is not compatible with X11. Still with me? This caused havoc in the app world. I know, because my fellow engineers at Google bitched about how wayland graphics was totally incompatible with X11 but being forced anyway.

Fast forward a decade.

X11 has essentially be choked to death. Red Hat (a linux maker who now is the caretaker of X11) is refusing to accept fixes for known bugs. Essentially software donations. And not just refusing one or two fixes, but over a 1000.

Obviously this causes our spider senses to tingle. But let’s not jump into a conspiracy right?

Well late last week that all changed.

One of the prominent engineers decided to fix all the problems of X11 by: (1) forking the project and (2) accepting 1000+ bug fixes.

This is all pretty standard stuff on the open source world. However there was a twist: the X11 fork would be DEI free and gone too was the toxic woke “code of conduct”.

What came next is shocking:

RedHat and Ubuntu went APESHIT

Red hat banned the software developer from the original X11 repo. But went further with Purging 1000+ community fixes that hadn’t been merged yet. Too late though, it’s already been forked!!

Ubuntu (the most popular flavor of linux) in the span of 72 hours announced that they were purging the X11 graphics driver from every future release.

The amount of coordination and pressure being applied to kill this boring legacy graphics driver is absolutely bizarre, and no one knows why.

But oh boy, can we speculate…

Profit? Control? Surveillance?

This would have been a fringe conspiracy a decade ago.

Now it’s becoming clear there is some agenda in play: X11 must die and must be replaced by the wayland graphics driver.

I’m sure it will become clear. We are in the age of whistleblowers and leaks.

If you are a country outside the United States my advice is this: audit wayland and be hyper vigilant. It’s starting to look like wayland is some sort of intelligence backdoor/trojan horse to compromise your system.

[BURKOV @burkov]

This is probably the largest identity theft in the entire history of art. There's no doubt that OpenAI purposely used frames of Studio Ghibli animations to train their image generation model.

I feel utter disgust at this and all the people involved, from the CEO to decision makers to executors, you will live with this for the rest of your lives.

I don't know how many other artists have been robbed of their distinctive styles they invented and developed over decades of hard work and practice. We will know this later.

The fact that an entire establishment doesn't stand up, enraged, and demand that these people be forbidden from touching computers ever again, like they did with hackers, is outrageous and speaks volumes about what kind of unprincipled society of consumption we all are.

Shame on all of us.

[LongtailXplorer @longtailXplorer]

@bobthemanV1 Already 50 f. Are you on mars?

[indi.ca @indica]

White Empire has always been bad, this is history, not news. They've always been genociding, stealing, and spreading corruption. What's ending White Empire (America, UK, 'Israel', same thing) is not its bads but its lack of GOODS. 1/x

[Teddy Bitcoins @TeddyBitcoins]

I just unfollowed Fraud Kruger and I recommend you do the same.

It’s become clear he is experiencing serious brain rot and cannot be trusted as a member of the community as his intentions are not honest.

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