The hardest currency is military might

You are always one desicion away from a different life. Never give up!

Marcus Aurelius nailed it. The moment you are disturbed by insult or pleased by praise, you are still a slave.

"Oh how blessed the young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and a beginning in life." - John D. Rockefeller

"I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time. When I do go out, from time to time, it's just to convince myself again that I'm not missing a lot." - Dietrich Mateschitz, founder of Red Bull

Puppy maze challenge # 02

Entrepreneurship isn’t for average people.

Change it, accept it or leave it. So good.

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.” — Aristotle

Major cheat code for life: Always assume things will work out, then do the work to make it true. It’s a mindset of active optimism. Earned faith. It creates a quiet confidence that allows you to tolerate the uncertainty of life better than anything else.

One of the most common questions we get about AI data centers is how much water do they use? Fair question. Older designs cooled servers by evaporating water and people naturally assume ours do too. They don't. $IREN's sites are different. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling in a closed loop. Same idea as a car radiator or a fridge. Fill it once and the water just goes round and round. Over the life of a 200MW site, the initial fill plus every top-up averages out to about as much water each year as 3 households. Not a town. Not a suburb. Not a street... 3 houses. Water matters in the regions we build in. Which is precisely why our cooling barely uses any.

This is what entrepreneurialism feels like. x.com/tannokasa9/status/2079…

After a decade of blockspace fears and non-monetary-use panics, Bitcoin still has no spam problem. Fees are 1 sat/vB: anyone can move any amount globally with immediate processing for ~$0.30. The free market has always solved Bitcoin’s blockspace challenges. $BTC

bitcoin immutability is central. if there's no technical or ecosystem consensus: no change. core properties are simply not open for change, people will fight you on that hill. many groups tried to impose views and failed hard. aggressive VCs, rogue developers, now confused plebs.

i'm a cypherpunk, and have been running nodes since 1990s. exit remailers, tor, file sharing, bitcoin nodes. p2p networks don't exist unless people with mettle run nodes. filter bippers are weak leeches, scared to p2p, demanding to censor to make nodes "safe" for the weak to run.

Nobodyyyyyyyyyyy is more stressed than a man who has seen his potential and knows he is not living up to it.

Love this re-imagining of America’s founding using Docs, Gmail, Calendar and more from @GoogleWorkspace. Really puts the history in version history :)

Pursue the unattainable to the neglect of the achievable

If you had invested $1000 into $IBM in 1911, today you'd be dead.

America's cultural ideal has been the self-made entrepreneur while Europe's was rooted in aristocracy, with status inherited rather than earned. Europe's inheritance laws show this divide. Many European countries have "forced heirship" laws that require people to leave 50-75% of their estates to their children. Want to leave the majority of your wealth to charity? not allowed. Your kids are estranged from you, struggling with addiction, or irresponsible? still required to give them the money. Want your kids to avoid a life of entitlement? tough. Incredibly, these laws look back at transfers made during your lifetime. If you have 3 children in France, you're required to bequeath them a minimum of 75% of your estate. Because French law calculates this based on your assets at death plus all lifetime gifts, giving away more than 25% of your wealth while alive means your heirs can legally sue to force charities or foundations to return the funds. This has limited the development of the nonprofit sector on the continent. The cultural gap between an entrepreneurial society and one shaped by dynastic wealth is enormous. If you make it yourself, you tend to want your kids to do the same. If you inherit it, the primary goal is protecting the estate for the next gen. Countries like Spain, France, and Italy legally entrench family dynasties, while America has historically sought to limit them through estate taxes. The result is not only a weaker culture of philanthropy and civil society in Europe, but also less economic dynamism.