Saifedean Ammous

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saifedean@primal.net

Author of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard, and Principles of Economics. Teaching economics on saifedean.com.

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| I don't buy into flat earth because:                                           |
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| The time it takes to fly from London to New York to Tokyo to London is         |
| significantly shorter than the time it takes to fly Dubai to Miami to Hong     |
| Kong to Dubai, and that time is longer than the time it takes to fly Sydney to |
| Sao Paolo to Johannesburg to Sydney.                                           |
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| This only makes sense if the earth is round and thicker near the equator. If   |
| the earth was flat with the north pole in the middle, the Sydney               |
| circumnavigation would be the longest, London the shortest. I can't think of   |
| any other explanation.                                                         |
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| Value is not a physical thing                                                  |
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| To all the people who think bitcoin can’t have value because it’s not          |
| tangible...                                                                    |
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| Tangible assets constitute the following percentage of the Mag7 market caps:   |
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| Nvidia: 0.66%                                                                  |
| Apple: 1.38%                                                                   |
| Tesla: 4.06%                                                                   |
| Microsoft: 7.29%                                                               |
| Alphabet: 8.39%                                                                |
| Meta: 9.56%                                                                    |
| Amazon: 16.28%                                                                 |
| Combined weighted average: 5.79%                                               |
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| If you liquidated all of these companies’ physical assets, they wouldn’t       |
| amount to 6% of their valuation. There have been days in which the market caps |
| of these companies have moved by more than the total value of their physical   |
| assets.                                                                        |
|                                                                                |
| If 94% of the value of the most valuable companies on earth is non-physical,   |
| then value does not have to be physical.                                       |
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| If digital things have no value, then you should have no problem with giving   |
| me your computer to erase all the data from it. I will return your computer to |
| you in the same exact physical form. I will just press a few buttons that      |
| remove all your data, photos, and contacts, and make it impossible for you to  |
| restore them. If value can only be tangible, then all of these digital things  |
| have no value, and you shouldn’t mind me deleting them as long as the devices  |
| return in their original state. I don’t think you would.                       |
|                                                                                |
| Technology, data, business knowledge, customer base, brands, and so much more  |
| are non-physical assets whose value likely exceeds that of all the planet’s    |
| physical objects and land. This is something most people understand in their   |
| daily lives, but because most people have no understanding of money, they do   |
| not understand how it applies to money, too.                                   |
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| Most people think their money is physical, but in reality, most fiat           |
| currencies today are 90%+ digital, and usually less than 10% of the supply is  |
| physical paper money. There are no stacks of dollars in your bank sitting in a |
| box under your name, available for you to pick up at any time. A tiny fraction |
| of the money is physical, and the rest is digital, manufactured in various     |
| quantities by your bank, government, central bank, and other pedophiles, in    |
| quantities based on pure vibes. People still give this non-physical fiat money |
| value because it is the only money they can use with a bank account, since     |
| governments only license banks that use their local fiat shitcoin. There is no |
| need for the money to be physical to work; digital fiat money works as well as |
| physical fiat money; or as badly.                                              |
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| Bitcoin is an entirely digital money, but it is given value for far more       |
| intelligent and peaceful reasons than fiat money. You can read more about that |
| in my books The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard, which you can buy from |
| Amazon or TheSaifHouse.com.                                                    |
|                                                                                |
| A common objection to bitcoin’s value is: “But if people stop believing in the |
| value of bitcoin it can lose all value.” But that is true of everything. If    |
| people stop believing in the value of gold, it would lose value and just       |
| become another worthless rock. If people stop believing in the value of        |
| electronic devices then Apple and Nvidia go to zero. If people stop believing  |
| in the value of Manhattan, then all Manhattan real estate goes to zero. If     |
| people discover that tomatoes are poisonous, they stop believing in the value  |
| of tomatoes, and the entire planet’s tomato industry goes to zero. Just        |
| because something is physical does not guarantee its value, as we can see from |
| the infinite amount of sand and rocks on our Earth left completely untouched   |
| by human hands. Physical things can be valueless and non-physical things can   |
| have value. Value and physicality are two independent things that are          |
| orthogonal to each other. You are doing yourself a disservice if you are       |
| unable to benefit from the world’s most advanced money and best saving         |
| technology because you are unable to see that value can be non-physical in     |
| this one instance, when you have no problem seeing it elsewhere.               |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 19d -------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| I just published The Gold Standard 5 months ago, cut me some slack!! 😭         |
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| Lol I already did on Twitter but never hurts to do it again: assassination,    |
| blackmail, false flags, and murdering US soldiers on the USS Liberty and       |
| having their political leadership cover it up, making it clear to the US       |
| military that they're controlled by traitors who'd gladly applaud their        |
| murderers                                                                      |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 78d -------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| I didn't say I would sell. I said I would admit my thesis is wrong and would   |
| not recommend others buy bitcoin. I'm still staying on this ship no matter     |
| what                                                                           |
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| Think marginally.                                                              |
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| You can find it on saifedean.substack.com                                      |
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| This important account documenting Israel's genocide is being censored on      |
| Xitter. Give them a follow here!                                               |
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| eqvzqqqqqqys30n5p                                                              |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 285d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| Same thing you do if a shitty restaurant demanded a year's income to not       |
| poison you. You go to another restaurant. You hire another security firm.      |
| Obviously the honest security firm will be infinitely more efficient and       |
| powerful than the scammers trying to get by on theft                           |
|                                                                                |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 285d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| They use their gains to hire private security that is 100x cheaper and 100x    |
| more effective than buying bonds to fund genocidal pedophiles in the hope      |
| they'd protect you                                                             |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 286d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| No, you did not miss the bitcoin train.                                        |
|                                                                                |
| We are just getting started.                                                   |
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| Just because bitcoin went up a lot does not mean it cannot go up a lot more.   |
| On the contrary, the more it goes up, the more it demonstrates product-market  |
| fit, the more likely it is to go up.                                           |
|                                                                                |
| Bitcoin is different from stocks, bonds, and commodities because it has a      |
| much, much larger addressable market. Let's compare:                           |
|                                                                                |
| Apple's total addressable market is 8 billion people who can own an iphone and |
| laptop. A lot of them already do, and a lot of them are too poor, so there's   |
| just not much more room for growth. Maybe Apple can increase by 5x, or 10x,    |
| but it would need to introduce new products that are wildly popular to do so,  |
| which is very difficult. Ultimately, an Apple stock is a claim on cashflow,    |
| and it is priced based on expectations of Apple cashflow, and it is not easy   |
| to continue to increase cashflow once you're a trillion dollar company.        |
|                                                                                |
| But bitcoin is money, and its total addressable market is all of the planet's  |
| cash balances, which currently include something in the range of $100 Trillion |
| in physical government cash and checking and saving bank accounts, plus ~$120  |
| Trillion in government bonds, ~$22 Trillion in gold, and arguably, a chunk of  |
| the world's real estate and stock markets, which people are holding to beat    |
| inflation, and not to take risk in search of return. All in all, bitcoin's     |
| Total Addressable Market is in the range of $200-300 Trillion, which is about  |
| 100 times larger than what it is now. All of these assets are trash compared   |
| to bitcoin, and there is no reason for anyone intelligent to hold a            |
| significant position in them. Everything held in these assets has lost ~90% of |
| its value against bitcoin in the last 5 years, and will likely keep losing     |
| another 90% every few years. The only things maintaining significant demand    |
| for these assets at this point are their holders' old age, intelligence        |
| deficiency, and susceptibility to government propaganda. They can continue to  |
| hold these assets as they decline, making them poorer, or they can shift to    |
| bitcoin and start getting richer. Either way, and regardless of what they do,  |
| the world's wealth is going to end up in the hard money, and not in the        |
| obsolete moneys of the twentieth century.                                      |
|                                                                                |
| Bitcoin has no cashflow to price it. Most nocoiners think this makes it a      |
| ponzi, but that is only because they have never experienced real money, and    |
| only have as a frame of reference the hot potato trash fiat money which        |
| everyone smart tries to exchange for hard assets as soon as they can. They are |
| incapable of understanding people demanding to hold money for its own sake,    |
| for its ability to hold value, and not for cashflow. This is how gold became   |
| the money of the world without generating any cash flow, and this is why       |
| bitcoin, which is infinitely better money than gold, is going to continue to   |
| monetize and grow.                                                             |
|                                                                                |
| Nonetheless, bitcoin's demand is highly variable, and with leverage, it will   |
| likely continue to be significantly volatile for the foreseeable future, so    |
| always keep in mind that it could decline significantly, and manage your       |
| position accordingly.                                                          |
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| Dr. Hisham Ammous: Life as Clinical Surgery                                    |
| Sept 1, 1944 - June 6, 2025                                                    |
|                                                                                |
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| Hisham Saifedean Rashid Ammous was born in the village of Atteel in Palestine  |
| on September 1, 1944. After finishing high school in nearby Fadiliya school in |
| Tulkarem, he moved to Saudi Arabia to work as a school teacher, then to Kuwait |
| to work in the electric company. Unsatisfied with his career, he decided to    |
| become a doctor, and applied for a scholarship from the Jordanian government   |
| to the University of Madrid in Spain, through the Spanish embassy in Jordan.   |
| He moved to Madrid without speaking a word of Spanish, but graduated as a      |
| surgeon with distinction in 1976. After that scholarship, he practically never |
| needed, asked for, or took anything from anyone until his last day.            |
|                                                                                |
| In his five decades as a surgeon, Dr. Ammous must have performed over 20,000   |
| surgeries across Spain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Palestine, Brazil,       |
| Lebanon, and Libya. He relished his work as a plastic and reconstructive       |
| surgeon. To his profession and mission, he was the most devoutly dedicated     |
| man. He lived for surgery. Come rain, shine, snow, checkpoints, military       |
| invasions, cranky kids, genocide, or regional war, he found a way to make it   |
| to Al Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem almost every day, braving countless       |
| Israeli occupation checkpoints and dealing with the young criminals manning    |
| them and getting all of their life's meaning from the impunity they have to    |
| make the lives of innocent Palestinians hell. He became a regular traveler to  |
| wars and refugee camps to perform surgeries. He worked nonstop all day for     |
| days on end in warzones. He went to Gaza for surgeries after every Israeli     |
| mass slaughter over the years, and was desperate for the current genocide to   |
| end so he could return. His favorite 'vacation' was to visit me in Lebanon and |
| perform dozens of free surgeries for destitute refugees.                       |
|                                                                                |
| His discipline was supernatural. He was never late for anything in his life,   |
| and was never disorganized. No matter what life threw at him, he relentlessly  |
| pursued his mission and was always prepared. His doggedness, determination,    |
| focus, and obsession will sound insane to most people, which is why most       |
| people will never perform 20,000 surgeries or do anything remotely as          |
| important with their lives. In his wake, hundreds of messages have poured in   |
| from people remembering how he helped them with his kind generosity, healed    |
| them with his skilled hands, and made them laugh with his legendary searing    |
| wit. Among the most amazing stories I heard was that he gave his patients’     |
| families the keys to his hospital office so they could sleep in it and not     |
| have to drive through hours of checkpoints every day.                          |
|                                                                                |
| His supreme motivation in life, and the thing that gave life meaning for him,  |
| was to give his children a life better than the one he had, and he dedicated   |
| himself to it until the very end. He never ceased repeating this lesson to me, |
| and he exemplified it every day. All his time, attention, and interests        |
| revolved around improving the lives of his children. He understood the whole   |
| of our human civilization rests on the foundation of people investing in       |
| giving their children a better life, and this was also the most profound       |
| lesson I learned from years of studying economics, and the central theme and   |
| most important lesson of my third and best book, Principles of Economics. For  |
| teaching me this lesson before I could read, that book was dedicated to him.   |
|                                                                                |
| He is survived by his two sons, Ahmad and me, his daughter Dana, and three     |
| loving grandchildren who lit up his last ten years. Nothing can compare with   |
| the joy his grandchildren brought him. No money or accomplishment by him or me |
| could have made him happier than my 2 year old making ever more outrageous     |
| demands for gifts as she tries to discover if there is anything he won't get   |
| her. His joy around her convinced me that the best thing you can do for your   |
| parents is to give them grandchildren. It seems offensive that life could be   |
| this simple and banal, that mere reproduction is the secret to its             |
| satisfaction, but he showed me it was true, and far from banal. We humans are  |
| wired to spend our lives seeking reproduction, and having it shape our         |
| happiness and satisfaction, because we wouldn't exist otherwise.               |
|                                                                                |
| In my 44 years of life, I never recall seeing him bedridden with illness, and  |
| after five decades of caring for patients and children, he must have dreaded   |
| the thought of being on the receiving end of the care of others.               |
|                                                                                |
| Dr. Ammous passed on the first day of Eid Al Adha, while taking a nap, after   |
| having called his friends and family to exchange Eid greetings. He died        |
| suddenly and immediately, and almost certainly felt nothing, and never had to  |
| suffer any serious illness or confront his impending mortality.                |
|                                                                                |
| He lived blissfully immersed in his life's mission until its very last second. |
| And he succeeded in it completely and perfectly. He gave his children          |
| everything they needed until they needed nothing more from him. The only       |
| consolation in his passing is that until his last minute he was strong,        |
| cheerful, healthy, sharply-dressed, and eagerly looking forward to seeing his  |
| grandchildren in a few days and giving them the many gifts he bought for them, |
| and looking forward to vacationing this summer with his family in his beloved  |
| Madrid.                                                                        |
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| In his passing, he deprived his loving children of the chance to provide him a |
| tiny fraction of the love and care he provided them for decades. This was a    |
| man determined to contribute more to this world than take from it, and to give |
| his children everything. And he accomplished his life's mission clinically,    |
| like his surgeries.                                                            |
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| 1fd508acd4554.jpg                                                              |
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| aab049b8f81af.jpg                                                              |
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| eaf3e02c19e90.jpg                                                              |
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| 8f5a54152935c.jpg                                                              |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 321d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| If I don't call for the murder of anyone, how am I possibly extreme? Consider  |
| the obvious alternative explanation that you are do pathetically and heavily   |
| proagandized that you view the idea of Jews and goys being equal under the law |
| as extreme.                                                                    |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 321d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| Thank you for your wonderful gift of your product. Can't wait to get stuck in  |
| it!                                                                            |
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| Thank you sir                                                                  |
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| Never heard of this. Is it good?                                               |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 480d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| Bitcoin has now been working and trading for 15 full calendar years. It's time |
| to see how it's doing and run some numbers.                                    |
|                                                                                |
| On Jan 1, 2010, there were 1,624,000 bitcoin in circulation trading at around  |
| $0.001 each. The total market capitalization of bitcoin was ~$1,624.           |
|                                                                                |
| On Dec 31, 2024, there were 19.803 million bitcoin trading at around $93,389   |
| each, for a total market capitalization of $1.85 trillion.                     |
|                                                                                |
| In total over the 15 years, the size of bitcoin cash balances has increased by |
| 110,400,000,000,000%, or around 110 billion percent.                           |
|                                                                                |
| If, during the next 15 years, bitcoin grows at only 1 ten millionth of its     |
| growth rate over the last 15 years, it grows to a total market cap of around   |
| $210 trillion, making it larger than all the world's fiat currencies and       |
| government bonds combined.                                                     |
|                                                                                |
| In such a world, a government may be able to keep its shitcoin alive if it     |
| doesn't inflate its supply too much (a big if, and an even bigger may).        |
| Whether they do or do not is largely inconsequential, because either way,      |
| inflation won't be able to touch the majority of the world's wealth.           |
|                                                                                |
| Any bitcoin bearish thesis needs to present a coherent explanation for why     |
| bitcoin's next 15 years are going to have a growth rate that is significantly  |
| lower than a ten millionth of the rate of the past 15 years. Don't expect to   |
| hear one from people who get paid from the inflation bitcoin will kill.        |
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| Happy 2025!                                                                    |
| Fiat is over if you want it!                                                   |
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| 102bb8bdd0ec.jpg                                                               |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 513d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| No it's cheaper in terms of human time but more expensive in terms of fiat     |
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| Yes! Stay tuned!!                                                              |
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| I've had him on my podcast before!                                             |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 567d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| They're a fiat scam. See my podcast with Malcolm Kendrick.                     |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 567d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| I am good thank you. I'm not in Lebanon anymore if that's what you're asking   |
| about.                                                                         |
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| Nothing like it                                                                |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 647d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| I wonder about the same thing and think you're probably right                  |
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| Riverside is shit. It ruins conversations by having a huge lag and causes      |
| people to keep speaking over each other. Streamyard is a lot better.           |
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| Thank you!                                                                     |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 702d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
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| He's not saying it wouldn't decrease the purchasing power, he's saying the     |
| decrease would not be exactly inversely proportional to the increase in supply |
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| Thank you!!                                                                    |
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| Yes the copy feels and looks great. But no there are no edits added            |
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| Dr. Hisham Ammous: Life as Clinical Surgery                                    |
| Sept 1, 1944 - June 6, 2025                                                    |
|                                                                                |
|                                                                                |
| Hisham Saifedean Rashid Ammous was born in the village of Atteel in Palestine  |
| on September 1, 1944. After finishing high school in nearby Fadiliya school in |
| Tulkarem, he moved to Saudi Arabia to work as a school teacher, then to Kuwait |
| to work in the electric company. Unsatisfied with his career, he decided to    |
| become a doctor, and applied for a scholarship from the Jordanian government   |
| to the University of Madrid in Spain, through the Spanish embassy in Jordan.   |
| He moved to Madrid without speaking a word of Spanish, but graduated as a      |
| surgeon with distinction in 1976. After that scholarship, he practically never |
| needed, asked for, or took anything from anyone until his last day.            |
|                                                                                |
| In his five decades as a surgeon, Dr. Ammous must have performed over 20,000   |
| surgeries across Spain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Palestine, Brazil,       |
| Lebanon, and Libya. He relished his work as a plastic and reconstructive       |
| surgeon. To his profession and mission, he was the most devoutly dedicated     |
| man. He lived for surgery. Come rain, shine, snow, checkpoints, military       |
| invasions, cranky kids, genocide, or regional war, he found a way to make it   |
| to Al Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem almost every day, braving countless       |
| Israeli occupation checkpoints and dealing with the young criminals manning    |
| them and getting all of their life's meaning from the impunity they have to    |
| make the lives of innocent Palestinians hell. He became a regular traveler to  |
| wars and refugee camps to perform surgeries. He worked nonstop all day for     |
| days on end in warzones. He went to Gaza for surgeries after every Israeli     |
| mass slaughter over the years, and was desperate for the current genocide to   |
| end so he could return. His favorite 'vacation' was to visit me in Lebanon and |
| perform dozens of free surgeries for destitute refugees.                       |
|                                                                                |
| His discipline was supernatural. He was never late for anything in his life,   |
| and was never disorganized. No matter what life threw at him, he relentlessly  |
| pursued his mission and was always prepared. His doggedness, determination,    |
| focus, and obsession will sound insane to most people, which is why most       |
| people will never perform 20,000 surgeries or do anything remotely as          |
| important with their lives. In his wake, hundreds of messages have poured in   |
| from people remembering how he helped them with his kind generosity, healed    |
| them with his skilled hands, and made them laugh with his legendary searing    |
| wit. Among the most amazing stories I heard was that he gave his patients’     |
| families the keys to his hospital office so they could sleep in it and not     |
| have to drive through hours of checkpoints every day.                          |
|                                                                                |
| His supreme motivation in life, and the thing that gave life meaning for him,  |
| was to give his children a life better than the one he had, and he dedicated   |
| himself to it until the very end. He never ceased repeating this lesson to me, |
| and he exemplified it every day. All his time, attention, and interests        |
| revolved around improving the lives of his children. He understood the whole   |
| of our human civilization rests on the foundation of people investing in       |
| giving their children a better life, and this was also the most profound       |
| lesson I learned from years of studying economics, and the central theme and   |
| most important lesson of my third and best book, Principles of Economics. For  |
| teaching me this lesson before I could read, that book was dedicated to him.   |
|                                                                                |
| He is survived by his two sons, Ahmad and me, his daughter Dana, and three     |
| loving grandchildren who lit up his last ten years. Nothing can compare with   |
| the joy his grandchildren brought him. No money or accomplishment by him or me |
| could have made him happier than my 2 year old making ever more outrageous     |
| demands for gifts as she tries to discover if there is anything he won't get   |
| her. His joy around her convinced me that the best thing you can do for your   |
| parents is to give them grandchildren. It seems offensive that life could be   |
| this simple and banal, that mere reproduction is the secret to its             |
| satisfaction, but he showed me it was true, and far from banal. We humans are  |
| wired to spend our lives seeking reproduction, and having it shape our         |
| happiness and satisfaction, because we wouldn't exist otherwise.               |
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| In my 44 years of life, I never recall seeing him bedridden with illness, and  |
| after five decades of caring for patients and children, he must have dreaded   |
| the thought of being on the receiving end of the care of others.               |
|                                                                                |
| Dr. Ammous passed on the first day of Eid Al Adha, while taking a nap, after   |
| having called his friends and family to exchange Eid greetings. He died        |
| suddenly and immediately, and almost certainly felt nothing, and never had to  |
| suffer any serious illness or confront his impending mortality.                |
|                                                                                |
| He lived blissfully immersed in his life's mission until its very last second. |
| And he succeeded in it completely and perfectly. He gave his children          |
| everything they needed until they needed nothing more from him. The only       |
| consolation in his passing is that until his last minute he was strong,        |
| cheerful, healthy, sharply-dressed, and eagerly looking forward to seeing his  |
| grandchildren in a few days and giving them the many gifts he bought for them, |
| and looking forward to vacationing this summer with his family in his beloved  |
| Madrid.                                                                        |
|                                                                                |
| In his passing, he deprived his loving children of the chance to provide him a |
| tiny fraction of the love and care he provided them for decades. This was a    |
| man determined to contribute more to this world than take from it, and to give |
| his children everything. And he accomplished his life's mission clinically,    |
| like his surgeries.                                                            |
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| https://blossom.primal.net/9ac0b8a480c4efd877fb1f845be0f0c88ac9cd55a719f51d7ff |
| 1fd508acd4554.jpg                                                              |
| https://blossom.primal.net/a6b65d456a39b08aa578c09ca719278129b327a9b8470be6a27 |
| aab049b8f81af.jpg                                                              |
| https://blossom.primal.net/aa44a757f3d5e4994510d41fdfb430666f39aa25e5a5444a0b1 |
| eaf3e02c19e90.jpg                                                              |
| https://blossom.primal.net/2013fb4fc6a186e019bd2b7141972295b72ec27d09e60bb82e0 |
| 8f5a54152935c.jpg                                                              |
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+- Saifedean Ammous -- 480d ------------------------------------------------[...]+
|                                                                                |
| Bitcoin has now been working and trading for 15 full calendar years. It's time |
| to see how it's doing and run some numbers.                                    |
|                                                                                |
| On Jan 1, 2010, there were 1,624,000 bitcoin in circulation trading at around  |
| $0.001 each. The total market capitalization of bitcoin was ~$1,624.           |
|                                                                                |
| On Dec 31, 2024, there were 19.803 million bitcoin trading at around $93,389   |
| each, for a total market capitalization of $1.85 trillion.                     |
|                                                                                |
| In total over the 15 years, the size of bitcoin cash balances has increased by |
| 110,400,000,000,000%, or around 110 billion percent.                           |
|                                                                                |
| If, during the next 15 years, bitcoin grows at only 1 ten millionth of its     |
| growth rate over the last 15 years, it grows to a total market cap of around   |
| $210 trillion, making it larger than all the world's fiat currencies and       |
| government bonds combined.                                                     |
|                                                                                |
| In such a world, a government may be able to keep its shitcoin alive if it     |
| doesn't inflate its supply too much (a big if, and an even bigger may).        |
| Whether they do or do not is largely inconsequential, because either way,      |
| inflation won't be able to touch the majority of the world's wealth.           |
|                                                                                |
| Any bitcoin bearish thesis needs to present a coherent explanation for why     |
| bitcoin's next 15 years are going to have a growth rate that is significantly  |
| lower than a ten millionth of the rate of the past 15 years. Don't expect to   |
| hear one from people who get paid from the inflation bitcoin will kill.        |
|                                                                                |
| Happy 2025!                                                                    |
| Fiat is over if you want it!                                                   |
|                                                                                |
| https://image.nostr.build/ca557c49ced382d356a89d5ef181f3cbe68dc1eecd8b56619f7f |
| 102bb8bdd0ec.jpg                                                               |
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