🇭🇰 This week, V and I have been breaking pattern. We are up in Sai Kung in the North East of Hong Kong - a popular area for holiday, hiking and all sorts of water-sports. The weather was often cloudy and not too hot - almost perfect in fact!

We used the week to relax and enjoy life - disconnecting from all the nonsense going on in the world - breaking pattern indeed. There are plenty of walking trails around Sai Kung and it is really nice to just enjoy them - eg down the peninsula to Trio Beach. On that one we were accompanied by a school outing with dozens of kids running around heading to the beach in packs of 5-20; this is very typical of Hong Kong.

We also made a fabulous boat tour around the islands off Sai Kung. This took us up to the HK Geopark. I grew up beside the Giant's Causeway and for years I believed it was the best global example of hexagonal rock columns. Well the Geopark is at least an order of magnitude bigger in every dimension - well worth a visit if you are ever in Hong Kong. The world is a big place and you have to go to places to see what it is really like.

Movie of the week

Thanks to one of my subscribers who suggested this. The plot is simple: One day, without warning, there is a big flood. We’re introduced to an unnamed black cat living in a run-down house curiously filled with drawings and sculptures of cats. There are no people around this house, or any other part of the movie. In fact, there is no dialogue at all during the hour and a half running time. Within a few minutes, you won’t notice or care. 

Movie Review: Flow

A band of animal misfits embark on the journey of a lifetime

All Science Great & SmallEric Fish, DVM

I do recommend this - you might be able to catch it in a local cinema - if not the usual streaming services will offer it and, of course, Lookmovie (VPN needed in some countries). For sure there is symbolism aplenty in this that you can analyse and you will find plenty of "20 things you never knew about Flow" if you look but I just enjoyed it and you likely will too. Perfect for our week out.

Interview of the week

In a further pattern break this week also listened to the recent All-In-Podcast. I was intrigued by this extensive interview with Elon. For sure, what you see is not what you get with Elon but it is good (or at least interesting) to know what he says on some of the current hot topics. Specific topic links are below:

(3:10) Elon on X's new algorithm - some bugs needed corrected
(11:35) Creating Grokipedia: Wikipedia's failures, the future of information
(24:52) Three years of X: Looking back on the Twitter acquisition
(42:49) Tesla vote on Elon's compensation
(47:40) OpenAI lawsuit, for-profit conversion, OpenAI's great irony
(56:24) AI power efficiency, Robotaxis, future of self-driving
(1:09:34) Bill Gates flips on climate change, solar, energy production

All of the topics were most interesting. The stories of the early days of the take-over of Twitter were wild - the waste and absence of accountability beggar belief - with hindsight you may be able to see this as part of the plan. I also found the discussion on Grokipedia rather interesting. I do agree with the failings they mention of Wikipedia. Elon claims that Grokipedia addresses all of weaknesses making it an order of magnitude better. The better product will win and you can be sure that the Empire will use this new tool as part of what is currently being orchestrated.

Know both enemy and yourself: you won't need to fear the outcome of many battles — victory becomes reliable. 
Know yourself but not the enemy: every victory will be paired with a defeat — results are uncertain. 
Know neither: you will fail in every battle.
~ Sun Tzu - The Art of War

Books of the week

I also got round to reading a couple of fascinating books recently. Remember how often I have explained the importance of Ethical Skepticism. These books and the two video links that follow are good examples of why this is important. They will open your mind and you will realise many things that you believed are not by any means certain. Are you not curious what the truth might be?

In Forbidden Faith Richard Smoley traces Gnostic philosophy from its ancient roots in the Gospel of Thomas. He tracks how Gnosticism was publicly repressed but survived underground in various forms of Christianity, surfacing in the Middle Ages with the Cathars, a group of Christians in southern France who were exterminated by Genocide ordered by the Pope and the Church of Rome.

In History of Christian Religion to the year two hundred, Charles Waite provides a comprehensive chronological listing of “Christian writers and writings of the first two centuries". You will find insights that should make you realise that no documentation on Jesus exists prior to 70 AD and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were certainly written by people who could not have known Jesus and they may not have been written until 80 or 90 AD - some 40-60 years after the events they purport to describe.

All of this supports the work of Joe Atwill in Caesar's Messiah - recall that we have discussed this before. Grok's view is here.

Additionally, yet another comprehensive academic analysis also puts the earliest documentation after 70 AD. Ralph supports many of the foregoing conclusions and he goes further in his analysis in several interesting directions. He will likely startle you with who Paul really was, considering that Paul wrote 13 of the 27 books in the New Testament - and he may well have been the real writer of the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles as well. All the pieces in the puzzle fit together, once you see this.

Suffice to say - the truth is out there and it is likely not what you were told and always believed. Where you go next is up to you - the Ethical Skeptic would certainly want to hear the arguments and would not react from emotion without having considered the evidence.

More in this issue

• Photo memories - Hong Kong and Sai Kung this week
• Project Updates - ARK and ARKADE - how interesting
• Plenty of useful links - don't say nobody told you!
• Closing out - Navigating Archaix.com

🛠️ Project Updates

Just one update this week. It is an interview from the recent Bitcoin Conference in Lugano, Switzerland. What are you doing?

ARK and ARKADE

You should be well aware by now how important Bitcoin scaling solutions are. Cashu and Fedi (Chaumian eCash) are both solutions that I use and support. There is yet another contender for this important role and they have even bigger ambitions. This is a MUST LISTEN discussion.

The most interesting part is that they go beyond payment and settlement into enabling quite a few so-called "traditional banking" features that will inevitably be required as Bitcoin goes bigger and more mainstream.

CD182: ALEX B - ARKADE

Alex is Head of Ecosystem at Ark Labs. We discuss their new bitcoin protocol: Arkade. It can be used with the lightning network to make self custody…

Citadel Dispatch

(03:11) What is Ark? Positioning vs. Lightning and L2s
(04:32) Ark fundamentals: batching, VTXOs, and two-of-two with an operator
(08:38) Double-spend risks and the operator trust model
(10:24) Settling vs. zero conf: anchoring batches onchain
(16:04) Beyond cheap payments: programmable offchain Bitcoin
(18:12) Ark Lightning swaps and unilateral exits
(21:01) Unilateral exit costs, trees of transactions, and anchoring cadence
(26:17) Wallet UX: automating settlement and exposure management
(27:22) Ark vs. Spark: security model and settlement feedback to L1
(34:39) Onchain demand: Lightning realities, Spark cadence, Ark batches
(36:59) Ark is tech, Arkade is implementation
(37:45) Batch frequency and scaling: hundreds per batch, Taproot efficiency
(38:41) Covenants soft fork would cut interactivity overhead
(42:01) Users, servers, and always on clients: who runs what?
(45:02) DeFi on Arkade: loans, new opcodes, and secondary markets
(47:00) Credit, derivatives, and Bitcoinisation
(55:06) Company model: Ark Labs, open source Arkade, and revenue
(01:01:02) Flagship apps strategy: neo-bank, swaps, prediction markets
(01:07:05) Try it today: arkade.money PWA and roadmap to native apps
(01:12:05) Operators landscape: competition, network effects, resilience
(01:15:27) Closing thoughts: adapt, focus, and take the white pill

🔗 Links for your edification

This week I am giving you some new topics and alternative perspectives - it is a big world out there. As part of breaking pattern this week, I have been looking into and enjoying some interesting hobbies and pastimes that people have.

Book binding - who knew?

One such example is Book-binding. You may have wondered but never really knew how this was done - these examples should broaden your mind. Preservation of books is also rather important as you should understand by now too.

First up is a classic example. An artisan who uses the most authentic tools and techniques - the pure form of the art.

Next up is how the modern generation tackles this challenge. Much more pragmatic and using some more modern tools and techniques but equally interesting.

Grandfather clock restoration

And then this! In fact I know at least one of my subscribers who has this as a passion. I recall when I was young I loved to take these things apart but I was never able to get them back together again - especially the springs! How about you?

People really have had enough

More and more people really are fed up with the evil nonsense of Micro$oft that we discussed last week. They are taking action and discovering that you do not need to accept the ultimatum. In fact you will be very happy that you made the change. Here is just one example. Are you affected - what are you doing?

Meanwhile in the UK

As Iain points out, speculation is entirely appropriate (even useful) in the absence of proper facts and evidence from trustworthy police investigation. As is so often the case recently there is an overwhelming number of "coincidences" surrounding this event - not least: in March there was a similar training exercise—on the same line in the same place—executed by crisis actors.

The Huntingdon Train Attack: Speculation and Further Questions

On Saturday Novembers 1st, ten people travelling on the 18.45 London North Eastern Railway (LNER) service from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to London’s King’s Cross station were reportedly stabbed and later hospitalised.

Iain Davis SubstackIain Davis

Additionally - the local Chief Constable said he actually had been training for an Operation Plato incident only last week. This is a police and emergency services protocol that is automatically set in motion whenever a “marauding terror attack” is suspected. The Plato protocol requires a predefined police response, including the immediate dispatch of armed counter-terrorism units. Police later stated that Operation Plato was activated and then quickly rescinded, though it is hard to understand why that would have been the case.

Further - it is a matter of public record that Operation Galdio is a decades-long false flag terror campaign known as the “Strategy of Tension.” The objective was to terrify the public in order to convince them to accept control measures imposed by the government "for their safety".

Quite clearly, the Huntingdon attack could have been a state-run operation that exploits the Strategy of Tension with the aim of convincing the population to accept digital ID and facial recognition surveillance. Remember: there are no coincidences.

Let’s hope the police investigation is indeed thorough and objective.

🤔 Closing Thoughts

A while back Jason updated his website to make it more accessible to newcomers and those who are waking up to the truth and seeking reliable knowledge sources. The site is an absolute wealth of information and I recommend that you watch the video below where he walks you through the homepage and the main sections. Then check them out yourself.

After that, check out the website yourself. Just scroll down and you will find all the sections - they are also linked below for ease of further reference:

Archaix

ArchaixArchaix

• Archaix for beginners
• The Phoenix Phenomenon
• The records of the Annuna-ki
• The true history of Atlantis
• The astonishing Giza artifact
• Surprising technological artifacts
• Fossils of a forgotten world
• The Gobekli Tepe Psyop
• Origin of the Zodiac and our Binary Ecliptics
• The true origin of Christianity
• Transcending the Materium
• Mathmatical proof of the simulation

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