Byron Kruger (formerly

#Bitcoin; Software; Optimal health🥩; South African; Don’t trust, verify; Nostr: npub1c68dudsvnnswp3wpj9naa8qkm0sl2sjz26et0egf43af67mqkefqm2gyd0

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

Want to explain Bitcoin to friends or family? To understand Bitcoin, one must first understand what is money.

Here's a quick primer on what money is. 🧵👇

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

@SteveOnSpeed Fiat

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

@GuyTalksFinance Good move.

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

(The only real) Proof of steak ;)

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

@saifedean in my weekly newspaper (South Africa)! Talks of his advisory role at the Africa Bitcoin Corporation. Mind the oil spots, I used the paper to cook myself a fatty piece of red meat 😜

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

You misspelled Bitcoin

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@beffjezos Energy is the true currency

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Seed oils made the sun dangerous by making our cell membranes fragile.

Now the sun gets blamed for their crimes.

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

The worst thing for Bitcoin adoption is Bitcoiners.

We're totally right about the fundamentals but we've built an entire culture around narratives that only work on people exactly like us and we don't realize it.

The arguments that orange pilled you worked because you had the time and the bandwidth and the baseline financial literacy and the stable internet connection and the safety to spend months going down rabbit holes.

Now take that same pitch and try it on someone working two jobs who's never had a bank account and doesn't know what inflation means beyond prices going up and see how far sound money philosophy gets you.

The message that converted the first million users is totally disconnected from what the next billion need to hear and most Bitcoiners can't see that because they only talk to other Bitcoiners

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

Reminds me of:

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

I went to Japan and saw grandads smoking everywhere.

Thin, walking all day, full of life.

Clearly the cigarettes are doing something right.

Might start tomorrow.

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

Well done number 2 🇿🇦🤡 “Shit-hole country”

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

30 most miserable countries in the world:

1. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
2. South Africa 🇿🇦
3. Yemen 🇾🇪
4. Lebanon 🇱🇧
5. Venezuela 🇻🇪
6. Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
7. Suriname 🇸🇷
8. Iran 🇮🇷
9. Syria 🇸🇾
10. Sudan 🇸🇩
11. Argentina 🇦🇷
12. Ukraine 🇺🇦
13. Cuba 🇨🇺
14. Ghana 🇬🇭
15. Haiti 🇭🇹
16. Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
17. Tonga 🇹🇴
18. Botswana 🇧🇼
19. Rwanda 🇷🇼
20. Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦
21. Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩
22. Tajikistan 🇹🇯
23. Brazil 🇧🇷
24. Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
25. South Korea 🇰🇷
26. Iraq 🇮🇶
27. Lesotho 🇱🇸
28. Eswatini 🇸🇿
29. Tunisia 🇹🇳
30. Egypt 🇪🇬

Source: Okun’s misery index with Insider Monkey adjustment, 2024

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

30 most miserable countries in the world:

1. Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
2. South Africa 🇿🇦
3. Yemen 🇾🇪
4. Lebanon 🇱🇧
5. Venezuela 🇻🇪
6. Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
7. Suriname 🇸🇷
8. Iran 🇮🇷
9. Syria 🇸🇾
10. Sudan 🇸🇩
11. Argentina 🇦🇷
12. Ukraine 🇺🇦
13. Cuba 🇨🇺
14. Ghana 🇬🇭
15. Haiti 🇭🇹
16. Sierra Leone 🇸🇱
17. Tonga 🇹🇴
18. Botswana 🇧🇼
19. Rwanda 🇷🇼
20. Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦
21. Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩
22. Tajikistan 🇹🇯
23. Brazil 🇧🇷
24. Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
25. South Korea 🇰🇷
26. Iraq 🇮🇶
27. Lesotho 🇱🇸
28. Eswatini 🇸🇿
29. Tunisia 🇹🇳
30. Egypt 🇪🇬

Source: Okun’s misery index with Insider Monkey adjustment, 2024

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Carnivore gives you the freedom to eat till you're completely stuffed, and still lose weight.

No other diet can match that.

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

ez, fix the money fix the world — @saifedean

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Name someone who you think deserves to go on Joe Rogan's podcast but hasn't yet?

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

Where’s Elon Musk, Trump?

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

TOP 50 MOST HATED PEOPLE IN HISTORY

1. Adolf Hitler 🇩🇪
2. Joseph Stalin 🇷🇺
3. Pol Pot 🇰🇭
4. Leopold II of Belgium 🇧🇪
5. Mao Zedong 🇨🇳
6. Osama bin Laden 🇸🇦
7. Idi Amin 🇺🇬
8. Benito Mussolini 🇮🇹
9. Genghis Khan 🇲🇳
10. Saddam Hussein 🇮🇶
11. Heinrich Himmler 🇩🇪
12. Kim Jong-il 🇰🇵
13. Kim Jong-un 🇰🇵
14. Mengistu Haile Mariam 🇪🇹
15. Slobodan Milošević 🇷🇸
16. Francisco Franco 🇪🇸
17. Bashar al-Assad 🇸🇾
18. Joseph Kony 🇺🇬
19. Vlad the Impaler 🇷🇴
20. Charles Manson 🇺🇸
21. Jeffrey Dahmer 🇺🇸
22. Ted Bundy 🇺🇸
23. Hirohito 🇯🇵
24. Maximilien Robespierre 🇫🇷
25. Nero 🇮🇹
26. Caligula 🇮🇹
27. Attila the Hun 🇭🇺
28. Ratko Mladić 🇷🇸
29. Reinhard Heydrich 🇩🇪
30. Hideki Tojo 🇯🇵
31. Augusto Pinochet 🇨🇱
32. Robert Mugabe 🇿🇼
33. Pablo Escobar 🇨🇴
34. Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán 🇲🇽
35. Christopher Columbus 🇮🇹
36. Hernán Cortés 🇪🇸
37. Joseph Goebbels 🇩🇪
38. Fidel Castro 🇨🇺
39. Muammar Gaddafi 🇱🇾
40. Enver Hoxha 🇦🇱
41. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 🇯🇴
42. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 🇮🇶
43. Rasputin 🇷🇺
44. Jack the Ripper 🇬🇧
45. Lavrentiy Beria 🇷🇺
46. Mobutu Sese Seko 🇨🇩
47. King John of England 🇬🇧
48. Henry VIII 🇬🇧
49. Reinhard Gehlen 🇩🇪
50. Edward “Blackbeard” Teach 🏴‍☠️

Source: Bana Media

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

@SamaHoole What about the quality of the beef? Surely there is antibiotic use at a household brand like Mac?

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

@SamaHoole It shocked me the first time I learnt @saifedean doing it 😅 still doesn’t feel right.

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

@coookwithchris Algae based omega 3 a good alternative?

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

@SamaHoole Reminds me of this illustration. Incredible.

[Gail Alfar @gailalfaratx]

Isn’t it ironic how Elon’s Starlink wants to drop free, unlimited, super-fast internet into 5,000 rural South African schools, but SA’s bureaucracy insists on saying no.

I think the 2.4 million kids in SA without proper access would benefit immensely. Starlink is even putting R500 million (about $29.4 million USD) on the table themselves, no cost to the government or the schools.
All they’re asking? A normal licence to operate in SA.

Here’s the crazy part: because of the 30% black-ownership rule (B-BBEE), ICASA keeps saying “nope.”

Starlink says, “Cool, we won’t sell shares, but we’ll just give you this giant school project instead,” using the same Equity Equivalent programme that Microsoft, Amazon and IBM already got approved with.

The Communications Minister is literally begging ICASA to accept it. Neighbours like Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique are already connected and loving it.

Yet here we are, end of 2025, and those satellites are just flying over South Africa doing nothing while kids in the bundus still can’t pursue their dreams.

Come on, South Africa, don’t be the only country turning down free internet for millions of learners.
The irony, to me, is that Elon was born in South Africa, the very place that is telling him no to such a generopus offer!

[Byron Kruger (formerly @StonePileMonkey]

Thank you for bringing attention to this matter.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The South African government is super racist against anyone who isn’t Black.

Just a fact. It’s literally in the laws.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The South African government is super racist against anyone who isn’t Black.

Just a fact. It’s literally in the laws.