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[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Ayn Rand: "Under a free system, no one could acquire a monopoly on anything. If you look at economics, and economic history, you will discover that all monopolies have been established with government help."

[Simply Bitcoin @SimplyBitcoin]

Gold was money for 5,000 years.
The dollar has been backed by nothing for 55.
Bitcoin has been running without fail for 17.

Which of these trends do you think continues.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Ansel is right. People with this view don’t truly understand the open source aspect or the proof of work aspect fully.

A strong point about Bitcoin is that it literally doesn’t matter who created it. It can be assessed on its own merits since it’s transparent and decentralized.

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

One of the greatest Bitcoin speeches of all time.

[Adam Meister @TechBalt]

I made this #Bitcoin video 10 years ago today. Back then some were shamed if they had paid the "high price" of $700. Others were paralyzed because they could no get over the fact that some had only paid double digits per #BTC a few years earlier. Lack of long-term thinking!

[Trending Bitcoin @TrendingBitcoin]

Must read from Edward Snowden

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good explanation of nihilist philosophy

[Peter Holderrieth @peholderrieth]

We are also releasing self-contained lecture notes that explain flow matching and diffusion models from scratch. This goes from "zero" to the state-of-the-art in modern Generative AI.

📖 Read the notes here: https://t.co/RULWDgn9pm

Joint work with @EErives40101.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation.

They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

He literally explained why you must keep going.

[Math Files @Math_files]

In 1798, a scientist effectively “weighed” the Earth — without leaving his laboratory.

The English scientist Henry Cavendish designed an incredibly sensitive experiment.

Inside a quiet wooden shed, he hung a horizontal rod from a very thin wire. Two small lead spheres were attached to the ends of the rod.

Nearby, he placed two much larger lead balls.

Because of gravity, the large spheres slightly pulled the smaller ones. The force was extremely tiny — so small that the rod twisted by only a minute fraction of a degree.

Yet that tiny twist held a big secret.

By carefully measuring this small movement, Cavendish determined the strength of the gravitational attraction between objects.

From this, scientists could calculate the mass of the entire Earth.

His estimate was remarkably close.

Cavendish calculated Earth’s mass to be about 6 × 10²⁴ kilograms, while modern measurements give 5.97 × 10²⁴ kilograms.

Sometimes the biggest discoveries come from measuring the smallest forces.

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Jack Dorsey on the power of attention to detail

[Saylor University @saylordotorg]

Big news! We've been awarded international accreditation by ASIC UK for the next 4 years!🎉
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[UTXO Times @UTXOTimes]

RAY DALIO: Bitcoin technology changed my view of the world.

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

The dollar is fake.

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

“Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme”

Meanwhile Banks:

[The General @1776General_]

🚨Great clip on the GOLD STANDARD.

Show this to everyone you know.

[Trending Bitcoin @TrendingBitcoin]

The #Bitcoin SHA-256 cryptography explained

[Javier Hermosa @JavierHermosa21]

Bitcoin network hashrate every Christmas Eve:

2009: 9 MH/s
2010: 108 GH/s
2011: 8 TH/s
2012: 22 TH/s
2013: 9 PH/s
2014: 271 PH/s
2015: 709 PH/s
2016: 2.3 EH/s
2017: 14 EH/s
2018: 39 EH/s
2019: 99 EH/s
2020: 134 EH/s
2021: 177 EH/s
2022: 240 EH/s
2023: 521 EH/s
2024: 779 EH/s
2025: 1.1 ZH/s

From 9 megahashes to 1.1 zettahashes. 122 trillion times more computational power securing the network.

Merry Christmas 🎄

[Fiat Archive @fiatarchive]

This is why we buy Bitcoin 📉