BaileySanchez66F

bitcoin

What are you working on this week?

CarolynOrtiz8OM

This is a bit of UX question - in Zeus (and other apps) there is always some new thing, interaction or new concept that you have to introduce to users, give it a name and a label in the UI. 

What is the right number of new concepts that single application can reasonably introduce? When is it too much? Do you have experience with users giving you feedback on complexity of the UI? Have you ever thought about the UX from this perspective?

devs

What books are you all reading this weekend? Any topic counts!

Weekend Book Recommendations

econ

Bitcoin for Kids

AlisonEdwardsKRN

Just as an experiment I search for this number hahaha

"The numerology energy represented by the number 184 resonates with a pragmatic and detailed focus. The focus generally is on things that are, or may become, essential in attaining current goals or for its well-being now and in the future. "

I read BTC... even I know it's not science.

conspiracy

My wife and I were troubleshooting the sprinkler system this morning. We both had to be outside to check which ones were working. So just for 5-10 minutes we leave the kids inside, every now and then checking through the window that everything was ok.

After some time I come back inside to see that my son is rubbing his hands and see that there's liquid hand wash over parts of his body. I take him to the sink to wash it off and see that he's put everything on the bathroom counter into the sink. Cream, towel, toothbrush, scissors etc. I told him off and put everything away. I think he got the idea from some recent Halloween games like making witch/warlock potions.

So tonight I go to brush my teeth and somethings not right... 

It tastes funny...like SOAP!! 

I should have known but damn... 

It lingers too...

Parents Corner - I Have Soap In My Mouth

Design

Utxo Dealership: forthcoming BTC privacy tool & winner of Tabconf 2023 Hackathon

It might be my contrarian nature - when I was a teenager, I asked for a Zune instead of an iPod. So in the great debate of classical revival, my instincts tell me to swing Epicurean. 

The ultimate goal of Stoicism is “living in agreement with nature.”
The ultimate goal of Epicureanism is “freedom from fear of God.”

These are both reductive statements; Stoicism places high value on a life of virtue and Epicureanism places high value on pleasure. 

What happens more often than not in contemporary conversation, however, is that the _goal_ of the Epicurean is physical, material hedonism, shirking away from society, and “not feeling the troubles of their own life” (to paraphrase Seneca). But let’s look under the hood. 

The Epicurean is tasked with defining _pleasure_, which is done in four different ways: mental vs physical pleasure and constant (katastematic) vs active (kinetic) pleasure. Because of the immediacy and subsequent end of kinetic physical pleasure (such as eating), greater emphasis was placed on katastematic mental pleasure - constant mental pleasure. What does this mean, practically? It’s hard to hypnotize yourself into a state of constant wellbeing. For the Epicurean, this meant freedom from mental pain: freedom from fear and anxiety - freedom from the fear of God being the highest possible pleasure. 

The Stoic is tasked with defining _virtue_, largely. Correct me if I’m wrong! Obviously, this mini-essay is in favor of Epicureanism and I saved myself the pain of over-researching for a forum post. 

So what is virtue? Stoics seem to define this as participation in society - this is where the Stoic “most correctly” criticizes the Epicurean. 

I don’t disagree that virtuosity in life may be best defined when one is in “full participation” - action within the social sphere. However, I wonder how well we understand our intentions and limitations, especially when considering the possibility that every social interaction is an exchange of power[^1].

So is it virtuous to participate in a society that takes advantage of you - whether you know it or not? Is it _more_ or _less_ virtuous to participate in a social interaction wherein you are taken advantage of? Is it _more_ or _less_ virtuous to participate _knowingly_ or _unknowingly_ of your complicity in being taken advantage of? Does it matter?

Perhaps you could say I am an apologist for those who are abandoning or opting out of social participation. Largely, I argue for self-education.

Foucault, who I hope is replacing Marx as the over-assigned philosophical read in undergraduate education, argued that revolution begins with the reclamation of the individual physiology. This is in contrast with Marx’s claim that revolution begins with taking back the means of production.

If you were to follow through with reading on the Four Dimensions of Power, you may come to the conclusion that Foucault implies that through reclamation of individual physiology, you reclaim your capacity for violence, which is the most fungible and flexible power resource over which the individual has immediate and tangible physical agency to develop. Implicit in this is also that the tools of “mental” or “psychic” power (education) have been coopted: i.e. “they” brainwash you, and even in the pursuit of developing the ability to “mentally coerce" someone (argue for a point of view), you may just be mentally coercing yourself into another position of psychic submission toward an authority that may not be in your best interest[^2]. But there is no argument as to how much weight you can carry: how much force a strike you may blow contains.

A bit edgy!

What is not implicitly implied (ha) in Foucault, however, is the power found in pain-free movement; a physical health that is defined by transcending the definition of physical autonomy. 

“Health” is largely becoming another method of coercing behavior into a certain mode of standards, but that’s another essay. Health as defined as capacity for physical action that is free from pain - to me that is power. And it is a power that is _rather_ pleasurable - although to argue for it might be even more. 

[^1]: Some light reading on the [Four Dimensions of Power](https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2021.1878411). You may also like Keith Johnstone's chapter on Status Transactions in _Impro_. 
[^2]: However, to follow a terminus of thought involving the invention of the weapon: _invention of technology_ is arguably a superior way to ensure physical safety and/or assert power.



Epicureanism vs Stoicism + BONUS Foucault

Bitmain Labels Miners That Can Mine Multiple Hashing Algorithms “Trans Miners”

CharleneDixonM4T

No. 
Reason number 1: Reminder that the tor network exists
Reason number 2: https://www.bip324.com/
Reason number 3: "The internet is a network of networks" If your ISP tries to ban it, just route around them. We can do IP protocol over mail, with Pidgeon carriers, WISP (wireless internet service providers) internet over radio, internet over satellite any method you can think of to communicate, you can do internet with it and therefore, you can do Bitcoin with it.

BooksAndArticles

REXEARCH : Virtual Size of Onchain Transaction

BryanCarlsonMJX

Interesting! I've never thought about a full node in that way but my initial reaction is that it still counts as full because i can send/receive any bitcoin with a wallet that uses that node.

This is a short clip from a great conversation between Brett Weinstein and Steve Patterson: https://odysee.com/@Undisciplined:a/markets-and-science-are-self-correcting:c

It's been a while since I've watched this, but the gist is that both markets and science converge toward reality over long enough time horizons. For markets that means our allocation of scarce resources becomes increasingly aligned with our preferences and abilities: i.e. efficiency. For science it means that our understanding of empirical reality becomes less false: i.e. truth.

The self correcting part is vitally important, because we want processes to work well regardless of the outside influences and incentives. Both science and markets can be corrupted in the short-term by bad actors, but eventually in both cases a correction comes, as reality exerts itself.

Markets and Science are Self Correcting in the Long Run

Pix in Brazil: A Field Study for the Bitcoin Community

LND brought down by huge bitcoin transaction again

EvanFrazier21G

First was enthusiastic about the possibilities described in the article: https://ambosstech.medium.com/lightning-balance-sharing-and-network-statistics-32e687a4db25, but thinking just a little this is clearly the living hell of surveillance capitalism.

A short thread:
https://twitter.com/openoms/status/1585526779648917511
 
We need a simple app for the cursed LND nodes to share random data quickly.