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Bookshelf Report: Best Bookshelf in Bitcoin

They're in a different place, outside the pic I'm afraid. Unforgivable oversight, I now understand

Photography

Houses in Pittsfield

pappasbland

Wonderful! 

I love wester Mass, a very cool place

...and I don't even have that one! Was just a digital, PDF review copy

Or course! Probs about 90-95% of the ones you see (the unread shelf is elsewhere)

Having most of the library splayed out on the floor (not even all the books, mind you!) is terrifying. _Over all this I am in charge? For all these books, I'm the custodian?!_ (https://stacker.news/items/1403332/r/denlillaapan, https://stacker.news/items/1413116/r/denlillaapan)


![](https://m.stacker.news/126547)


I have a [decent claim](https://primal.net/e/note1tmrcjhx9t62pkyn8pr04met9f9cmsl06dceffevqfhl9cwuf0e0qxaeua0) to having the best bookshelf in bitcoin (https://stacker.news/items/965278/r/denlillaapan). Looking at a bunch of the titles -- trying to sort them, LOL -- I'm thinking that I _probably_ have the best monetary econ library in my country... and perhaps the top-5(-ish) best Austrian economics library in Europe.

Pretty cool when you think about it. And no, _don't ever_ think about the sats opportunity cost for this lil collection/hoarding behavior.

the_stacker_muse

podcasts

The Poetic Mr. Livingston, I Presume?

Mr. Adam Livingston is a little much sometimes, but his vids are so well scripted, so eloquently put together that I can't stop myself from watching... and frequently reminded of the brilliance. 

So here's his PRO-SAYLOR OMG BULL CASE recently ("I BOUGHT MORE MSTR BECAUSE THE MATH IS INSANE" obvs all-caps because, reasons?) and it's littered with clever beauties that make me dream of fiction books (https://stacker.news/items/1413116/r/denlillaapan): 

MSTR only trades at a 5% premium to the bitcoin that Strategy owns (for all the dirt I may fling Saylor's way, and for all the custody risk I've outlined a ton over at ~econ, https://stacker.news/items/1410584/r/denlillaapan, https://stacker.news/items/1411583/r/denlillaapan, this is AMAZING): 
> Let me say that again for the dead-eyed portfolio managers who still think that MSTR is too risky: You are paying 5 extra pennies on the dollar for the privilege of owning the most aggressive bitcoin accumulation engine in human history...  5%! **I can hardly call that a premium, this is a rounding error on a cocaine tab at a tradfi Christmas party.**

"STRC is the on-ramp to the orange casino; there is no tolls, no tax... these fixed-income clowns are underwriting their own demise, one dividend check at a time" 
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> The common shareholders keep sitting back, like degenerate royalty... this is the vampire yield-farm from hell that is feeding on the carcass on the dying fixed-income markets, and it's turning it into the bitcoin exposure for the equity base. 

Brilliant. 

Equity analysts (with "MBAs from state schools," LOL) criticizing Strategy, 
> ...are still modeling this as if it's a gold ETF with a drinking problem... they're still stuck on "leverage=bad" like it's 2008 and they just got laid off by their employer -- again!

Diminishing returns to these jokes but still wonderful: 
> These numbers are so wildly bullish that they make ethereum start to look like a lemonade stand at a methadone clinic. 

"And every single time [Saylor] clicks 'issue Stretch,' another fund manager gets bitcoin against their will"
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beautiful

> this is the endgame asset for the intelligent degenerates out there that _actually_ understand how capital is ACTUALLY going to flow.

lightning

Steak N Shake adds 10M bitcoin exposure after huge success accepting LN payments

06bc1a977d

Decent! Just another burger joint, basically

HealthAndFitness

Chasing the Midwinter Sun: I Went Here Today

Yea, 22-something, but the sun just dips below the horizon so it stays bright all night

Book Review: My Bags Are Big, by Tiber Fischer

Meh. Perhaps a little. Mostly glad that I finished it and could add it to the Bitcoin books list

Stacker_Sports

2mi in the heat!

realBitcoinDog

culture

Inspired by Elon Musk's 1 million dollar challenge for the best article.....

roytheholographicuniverse

_This looks like a job for me, so everybody, just follow me..._

A little bit of both, I'd say. Winter pulls me outside more often than summer does... but some days it's just stay inside and hunker down. _Work, sleep, gym, eat_

Made me laugh, lol. _Thanks!_

How's this for topping it all off?
 

![](https://m.stacker.news/126438)

Mr. Scoresby digging well down the spiritual well

history

Politics_And_Law

I drew your favorite President

bitcoingraffiti

Middle-_ish_ of winter is pretty harsh. 
To be honest, we're almost a month out from winter solstice and at my latitude we're gaining 7 minutes of daylight every single day. In a week or so the sun will even return!


If there’s one thing my yoga journey (https://stacker.news/items/933248/r/denlillaapan) has taught me, it’s that we reflect outward and emotionally what we carry inside. Yogis speak, only somewhat metaphorically, of storing stress and worries in, e.g., our hips.

Today, the external world gave me stillness and peace and the winter paradise I’m here for, while the internal world gave me chaos, anger, frustration, sadness, and hopelessness. Clash the two and it didn’t take many steps up the incredibly snowy mountains before I was cursing the snow, cursing the divine, cursing life and human existence itself.

![](https://m.stacker.news/126425)

With only the top portion frozen of the 50 cm or so snow that fell over the last few days, the powder below treacherously waiting, today’s hike was an **endless Stairmaster machine itself on an incline**. Every single step, _swish_ snow up to my thighs. 

Also, [truthful and sad](https://www.instagram.com/p/CzttqjgiEqX/): 
> “I’m angry that I’m so weak, that my body can’t take half of what my ego want, and that I’m not seeing enough progress.” 
> “When you humble yourself enough, with nature and with bodily exhaustion, rage dissipates. Nothing material is solved by hiking up a mountain, of course, but at least for this day all my problems go away.”



It’s true what they say: People go up the mountains to find God
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...just not in the way you think. The pain, the heartbeats, the screaming muscles, your physical stamina just running out. We come here to ask God for forgiveness, for redemption, for ending our goddamn misery. 
_Your will to live runs out._ *Is it time for You to take me yet?* we ask the divine when we’re here.  
*Is it time for me to leave this miserable existence? Will You please end my suffering?*

![](https://m.stacker.news/126426)

![](https://m.stacker.news/126427)

At exactly solar noon, the internetz informed me, the sun stood 3° above the horizon, thus still easily covered by the mountains to the south. Up a few hundred meters on another mountain, it was a different story

Everything’s **supposed to be more, and better, than it is**. I rail against the universe the same way I slam my fists against this worthless snow that won’t hold me up. Literally crawling on all fours to at least make some tiny, minuscule progress.

Tl;dr. **I went here today.** (https://stacker.news/items/1204263/r/denlillaapan) What did you do?


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trying to emulate gnilma's hiking adventures, I gotta post in ~photography too!
https://stacker.news/items/1403495/r/denlillaapan