Here’s a bold, Bitcoin/crypto-rails vision that actually has a path from today’s messy “financial plumbing” to a clean, internet-native stack.

The North Star Money should work like the internet: Bitcoin is the hard, neutral base layer. Crypto rails are the high-speed layers on top. The 22nd-Century Financial Stack (Layered Like the Internet) Layer 1: The Immutable Base Settlement Layer = Bitcoin Bitcoin becomes the global settlement asset: the thing you use to close the books. […]

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Physical:100 Contestants and Steroid Allegations

Fans of Netflix’s Physical:100 noted that many contestants have exceptionally muscular physiques.  Soon after Season 1 premiered, social media lit up with speculation that participants were using performance-enhancing drugs.  For example, a Twitter user dubbed the show “Roids:100,” commenting that “if the show’s producers had actually done a proper steroid test…they could have sorted out most […]

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Legacy Financial Rails

Bold vision to re-make it into Bitcoin, crypto rails  … Traditional payment “rails” include interbank networks and central-bank systems (e.g. SWIFT, ACH, Fedwire, TARGET2, CHIPS) as well as card networks (Visa, Mastercard). For example, SWIFT is a global messaging network connecting 11,000+ banks in over 200 countries .  It securely carries payment instructions but does […]

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I have 110 bitcoins by Eric Kim

I Have 110 Bitcoins I have 110 bitcoins. Let me say it again slowly, not to flex, not to brag, but to feel the weight of it in my bones: I have 110 bitcoins. This is not about money. This is about gravity. Bitcoin is not cash. Bitcoin is not “crypto.” Bitcoin is not a […]

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Ideal environments for humans

pdf, https://erickimphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Ideal-environments-for-humans-7.pdf So this is actually a very very funny thought, now that we are ever living more and more in digital cyber world, my general thought is funny, rather than trying to like kind of escape all the time we are spending in the cyber world, maybe, the interesting twist path is instead, to […]

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Typica Coffee

Caffeine Typica is not a stimulant bomb. It is not pre-workout powder in liquid form. And that’s the whole point. Typica generally has moderate to slightly lower caffeine compared to many modern Arabica cultivars. Not because it’s weak—but because it’s balanced. Most Typica lots sit around the classic Arabica range, roughly 1.1–1.3% caffeine by weight, […]

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Beef Liver in Bone Marrow Fat: An Overview

Nutrient-Dense Synergy. Beef liver and bone marrow each deliver complementary nutrient profiles.  For example, a 4 oz (113 g) portion of beef liver provides extremely high levels of vitamins A (∼5,580 µg RAE) and B₁₂ (∼67 µg) and large amounts of iron, zinc, copper, riboflavin, folate, choline and protein .  In contrast, beef bone marrow (1 tbsp/14 g) is mostly fat […]

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Ideal environments for humans

So this is actually a very very funny thought, now that we are ever living more and more in digital cyber world, my general thought is funny, rather than trying to like kind of escape all the time we are spending in the cyber world, maybe, the interesting twist path is instead, to do something […]

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