* Quantum computing is a fantasy, it's impossible in all likelihood. * Bitcoin is not some magical quantum-proof system. * If quantum computing turns out to be possible, bitcoin (as it is) is vulnerable. * Bitcoin can be enhanced with quantum resistant cryptography if it ever becomes necessary, which it won't. * Bitcoin should add new suitable cryptography when it becomes available because secp256k1 will likely not last forever.

Elon should buy Canada and gift it to the U.S. for its 250th birthday

Yep. Measured in gold ounces, in 1999, Bill Gates was worth substantially more than Elon Musk is now.

The idea that this Big Boy was rotting in a parking lot in Pomona, CA for six decades until Union Pacific rebuilt every component to get it working again is actually awe inspiring.

i would rather glaze a trillionaire than join a union

Five dimensional chess doesn’t exist. Everyone is furiously improvising all the time. The future is utterly uncertain.

reminder

The US govt spends $7 trillion every year and they don’t solve shit.

Hey @elonmusk would you please buy Washington state so we can make it beautiful and free again? Shouldn’t cost much more than X did, and look what you did there. Thanks.

«Я вырос, ненавидя белых людей. Только белые учителя и тренеры в моей школе нравились мне, они были другими. Обычного же белого человека я не любил, скорее на подсознательном уровне. Пока рос, я постоянно слышал об одном и том же, про рабство и то, что белые сделали с моим народом. Молодой и неразумный мозг впитывал это и казалось, что все белые нажились на рабстве. В своём районе ты видишь сплошные трудности, но никто не хочет брать ответственность, все винят белого человека. Поэтому в такой обстановке ты просто начинаешь ненавидеть белых. А большинство белых американцев приехали уже после отмены рабства и не имели к нему никакого отношения. За два с лишним века трансатлантической работорговли в США привезли всего около 450 тысяч рабов, а в Южную Америку 10 миллионов. Масштабы несопоставимы, 450 тысяч, это меньше населения Скоттсдейла. Америка не была пропитана рабством, это лишь часть её истории. Добавлю, первый законный рабовладелец в американской истории, это был чёрный по имени Энтони Джонсон. Чернокожие тоже владели рабами, белых тоже линчевали, просто чернокожих больше. Но об этом вы никогда не услышите, потому что некоторые предпочитают сеять ненависть и ложь.»

The immigrant who used to shower at the YMCA to save money is now a trillionaire after making self-driving cars, reusable rockets, and worldwide internet access a thing. Only in America! 🇺🇸

Actually, about this: Elon once offered the UN $6 billion for World Hunger in 2021 - on the condition that the UN provided Open Source Accounting and allowed him or anyone else to track and audit exactly where the money was spent on. Which I think is a fair request considering that UN had multiple high-profile embezzlement cases such as what happened in Somalia in 2010 and Ethiopia in recent years. There's even one being actively probed right now in Sudan. UN has not have a good track record of monitoring where other people's money go to, and that's an understatement. The UN's response? They said they would at best, offer summaries and high-level category reports...which is not very helpful. It was also not going to be an open ledger, so no one outside of UN leadership could see where the money would go to. So...the offer fell through because the UN was unable to provide trackable details on where the money goes to, making auditing extremely difficult. The rest is history, which is now being actively memory-holed by you OP. Sure hate Elon that he bought Twitter, at least be fair.

Today I took a tour of Tesla’s factory in California. It was eye opening, especially on a day like today. At the factory, which is four times the size of Disneyland, I saw thousands of people working on building the cars of the future. People who not only got a salary and benefits from this job, but stock in the company they’re helping build. Ordinary people who in many cases saw their lives change because of Elon. You often hear people say that those people created the company, and Elon just stole it from them. And of course, the Tesla team deserves endless credit for making the business successful. But most companies don’t give their factory workers any equity. Tesla does. Tesla is the one company that does actually reward the front line workers with ownership in the company. These people also miss just how valuable and important visionary leadership is. The Tesla Fremont factory originally opened in the 1960s, as a General Motors plant. Before it was making fast electric cars, it was making American muscle cars. But as General Motors stumbled, the factory was shut down. The factory wasn’t shut down because the workers weren’t doing their job. It shut down because of bad management. And all of the workers paid the cost. Then Toyota came in and partnered with GM to reopen the factory. With Toyota management training workers on the Toyota Production System, the factory had a new life. Many of the workers who lost their livelihood returned, thanks to good Japanese management. In 2008 the financial crisis hit and the factory was shut down again. Workers lost their jobs, again. Then Elon came in with an insane vision for a car factory that would build the cars of the future. Fast electric self-driving cars. Because of his vision this factory is not only still operational, it makes more cars than any other car factory in North America. This factory and its workers went from dying to thriving. The only difference? Good management. Visionary leadership. The best artisans and workers in the world are useless if they’re working on the wrong thing. But focus on the right problem and even ordinary people can change the world. That’s why good management is so important. It’s not about the manager, it’s about all the people whose talents are wasted if they’re not led in the right direction. If we say that leadership is worthless, and leaders shouldn’t be compensated for the value they create, smart people will do other things. They will run hedge funds or build real estate or become lawyers. It makes absolute sense to compensate leaders, not because they’re so great, but because the lives of so many others depend on them doing a good job. Letting Elon have a piece of the businesses he’s created has been an incredible deal for the American people. He got $1 trillion from his efforts, but the public saw $10 trillion of value creation and consumer surplus. If this is what we villainize, we are idiots.

I didn't read sci-fi novels all my life to want a company like SpaceX to fail.

They did it. SpaceX has now launched more satellites than the rest of humanity, combined, all time.

Elon Musk does not own a yacht Gavin Newsom does

idk about you but I'm having a bull market

Not “one of.” @elonmusk is THE greatest entrepreneur in the history of the world, and it isn’t even close. Wayne Gretzky-tier dominance. And his success illustrates the sublime beauty of capitalism: you can absolutely hate the guy’s guts (I don’t), but you can still plug in Starlink and have high speed internet anywhere in the world, or let your Tesla drive you to work every day. You don’t have to vote for him. You don’t have to like him. You don’t have to agree with his politics or his behavior. His success has taken nothing from you. It has only added. Hell, you can come on the app he owns (and liberated from shitlib tyranny) and shit on him all day long. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like him. It doesn’t matter if you don’t admire him. It doesn’t matter. His success still enriches you. He has made your life vastly better, whether you like it or not.

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but @LukeDashjr didn't really do much at all during the UASF in 2017. He helped Shaolin a little with client release, and acted as a figure head on Twitter. That's it. He did none of the actual background lobbying, convincing business or market actors, none of it. He literally just acted like a mascot. So good luck guys, have fun cargo-culting 2017. You picked the guy who literally did none of the work that actually made it successful as your leader.

BTC monthly: When the falling wedge of prior cycles was NOT retested, the bottom was in. When the falling wedge of prior cycles was retested, the bottom was in. Will this be the first retest that fails? 👀🤔❓

bitcoin is not firing miners, luke is starting a new bitcoin airdrop style altcoin with a different PoW. like bitcoin gold. #FOFO