The political novelist is a fiction writer in diminished form. The great novelist’s intentions, motivations, and biases are forever obscured behind a rhetorical mask. The great novelist doesn’t aspire to be a political actor, but a ventriloquist.

Aaron Gwyn Charlie Cy Well, it's not political by my intention. Politics is the most reductive way to process experience, and I'm not interested in it. Whatever its agenda, storytelling that has those preoccupations falls under the category of 'propaganda' to me.

My face when someone asks me to be brief

My face when paige asks me for a brief summary

Calle is a true cypherpunk. Calle writes open-source code. Calle builds freedom tech. Calle makes the world a better place. Bitcoin *exists* because of cypherpunks like calle. We need more people like Calle. Go full Calle.

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Labor Day reading

James Joyce would have been a poaster, a podcaster

Selections from the canon

There is no “bloat” check the mempool lol Nodes relay valid Bitcoin transactions under the consensus rules. That neutrality is what protects Bitcoin as a freedom technology. That’s it! What’s this all really about 🤔

Node operators are not hosts. If you run a full node, you’re not a host!

Gold did not become money because people said "it needs to be used for payments" Gold became money because it was scarce and eventually most people had some, and then eventually most people used it for payments

New episode of Think Bitcoin Podcast with Trey Sellers ∞/21M dropping this week. Subscribe wherever you get your pods!

Great conversation with Logan coming soon.

There's a world of accounts that folks use for short-term stuff: working capital, sinking funds, savings accounts, the stuff that's usually kept in money market funds/accounts. $STRC is better.

Tell me you don't understand how this works without telling me.