The Age of Time is a book about civilization.
 How humans coordinate, create meaning, and carry it forward across generations. It explores consciousness and identity as consensus processes.
 How the mind assembles continuity, and how societies do the same at scale. It traces the rise of mechanical time as a solution to coordination.
 A system that allowed humanity to agree on sequence when we could no longer share place. It looks to architecture as memory. What past civilizations built, and what their creations reveal about how they thought in time. And it asks a deeper question:
What happens when our model of time changes? For centuries, time has shaped our perception of reality.
 We inherit it without question.
 But the system we use compresses experience into an ever-narrowing present. The signs are everywhere: we build for disposal, optimize for return, and treat time as an input cost.   Bitcoin introduces something different.
 A process that transforms perception through participation.
 A clock that does not accelerate.
 A system where order and value converge. It points toward a new civilizational relationship with time. theageoftime.com

2026 will be remembered as the year that showed the most people who knew better that they were not as convicted as they thought they were.

Bitcoin For Financial Advisors 2nd Edition is live on Audible. audible.com/pd/Bitcoin-for-F…

The time to decentralize is upon us! Decentralization is the only political structure that actually disciplines government, and Switzerland's canton system proves it with 700 years of evidence. Twenty-six cantons compete for residents and businesses. Appenzell Innerrhoden runs differently from Zurich, which runs differently from Geneva. When Basel raises taxes past the tolerance of its engineers and entrepreneurs, those people move to Zug, which has kept its corporate tax rate under 12%. Basel loses the revenue. The lesson writes itself. Centralization is the villain. Every time a federal authority absorbs a decision that cantons once made, you lose the price signal. You lose the experiment. You lose the exit option. Brussels crushes this mechanism across the EU, which is why French farmers and German industrialists both scream at the same unresponsive bureaucracy with nowhere to go. Competition between governments constrains Leviathan the way competition between businesses constrains monopoly pricing. Strip away that competition and governments do exactly what monopolists always do: extract maximum value from captive subjects while delivering minimum service. The canton system works because it keeps power close to the people funding it and gives those people somewhere else to go. Take power and responsibility out of the hands of bureaucrats thousands of kilometers away. Localize it to within manageable sections, and watch your area flourish.

During breakfast today at a seminar for financial advisors, after explaining what I do for a living the person sitting next to me says "wow, you don't really hear much about bitcoin. That's cool it's still a thing"

🇨🇦 Deaths from assisted dying: 16499 🇺🇸 Deaths from firearm homicaide: 15364 More people died through Canada’s assisted dying program than were killed with guns in the United States. Make it make sense...

If I could give one piece of advice to people who are new to bitcoin it would be to ignore this stuff. Doesn’t mean it won’t happen but the accounts who speak authoritatively on it probably don’t know much more about the timeline than you do.

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Been waiting for this 💫✨💫✨ Dao of bitcoin was incredible. I'm sure The Age of Time will raise the bar 🕰 @LanternBitcoin

CANADA UNVEILS THE NEW $10 BILL. Carney is fucking crazy if he thinks a majority of Canadians support giving Ukraine even $1 more. FUCK THE LIBERAL MONEY LAUNDERING OPERATION. (Conveniently overseen by Christian Freeland now, BTW)