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Scott Dedels

@LanternBitcoin

Building @Block_Rewards | Writing about Bitcoin, money & time | Author of The Dao of Bitcoin, Bitcoin For Financial Advisors, and The Age of Time
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The Age of Time is a book about civilization.

How humans coordinate, create meaning, and carry it forward across generations.

It explores consciousness and identity as consensus processes.

How the mind assembles continuity, and how societies do the same at scale.

It traces the rise of mechanical time as a solution to coordination.

A system that allowed humanity to agree on sequence when we could no longer share place.

It looks to architecture as memory. What past civilizations built, and what their creations reveal about how they thought in time.

And it asks a deeper question:
What happens when our model of time changes?

For centuries, time has shaped our perception of reality.

We inherit it without question.

But the system we use compresses experience into an ever-narrowing present.

The signs are everywhere: we build for disposal, optimize for return, and treat time as an input cost.  

Bitcoin introduces something different.

A process that transforms perception through participation.

A clock that does not accelerate.

A system where order and value converge.

It points toward a new civilizational relationship with time.

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Scott Dedels @LanternBitcoin
AI was supposed to make 1 person unicorns and in reality zero person unicorns are like hold my beer.
MTS @MTSlive 3d
SITUATION DETECTED: Delaware is drafting a proposal for a new form of corporate entity called an Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC). An AI managing an AIC would be able to provide services, sign contracts, hold property, and even file or defend lawsuits in the company’s name.
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Scott Dedels @LanternBitcoin
We made it harder on young men to feel rewarded for their efforts, to start families, & be low time preference. And we made it easier for them to gamble and see boobs & be high time preference.

This is in a nutshell encapsulates why certain cultural things are going to shit.
Joseph E. Barbuto | 🌊 The Economic LongWave Verified account @TheELongWave 3d
🚨 THE GREAT DEPRESSION VS. THE GREAT CREDIT BOOM.

Mens Real Wages 1920 to Present

Look carefully at this chart of Canadian men's real wages since 1920.

Even during the 1930s, real wages rose an estimated 1.5% annually.

From 1980–2024? Just 0.35%.

Think about that.

A decade associated with economic catastrophe recorded faster real wage growth among wage earners than the following 44 years of unprecedented credit expansion.

Of course, the Depression brought devastating unemployment. Rising wages for those employed did not mean rising prosperity for everyone.

But the historical contrast is extraordinary.

Between 1946 and 1980, prosperity was increasingly supported by rising real incomes.

After 1980, prosperity became increasingly dependent on cheaper credit and appreciating assets.

We substituted debt for income.

And now the debt cycle is reversing.

❄️ Welcome to the great challenge of Economic Winter.
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