my best academic work before bitcoin is driven by hate. my best work after, by love.

make all your students buy your book ❌ buy your book for all your students ✔️

I don't care how smart you are, or well-educated, or successful in other walks of life. If you do not love this thing, or hate it, or both... you will not keep pace. It's too strange, touches everything, changes constantly. Bitcoin expertise requires obsession. Nothing less.

Useful framing. Elsewhere in epistemology, figuring out direction of error (false positives vs false negatives) is key. Going without error altogether is not an option; so which error is better? Regulate processes accordingly. Doubt everything, and you’ll believe no truths. Accept everything, and you’ll disbelieve no lies. So then, the question for bitcoin: with an eye to empirical results so far, is it better to err by having too much, or too little?

I think a lot of people's allergy to great books courses stems from the misconception that teaching a certain work means teaching a certain view as "correct." That would be a terrible way to teach! Fortunately it's not one that you often encounger among the great books crowd.

Excellent analysis of the new debanking EO from @nic__carter

A future member of the Federal Reserve board has tweeted Bitcoin Fixes This

Stablecoins are going to win because every single bank wire is a giant flashing ad saying “this could have been a stablecoin transaction”

He was found guilty on the charge that directly contradicts FinCEN's guidance. Unbelievable.

request: please do not be aggressively inarticulate