I appreciate the shoutout. There are lots of people on SN I enjoy interacting with, but here are some that immediately come to mind:

I always look forward to @elvismercury's long form posts and book club conversations.

@siggy47 is great to go back and forth with in the comments, plus his lessons learned posts are great.

@TomK is my primary source of European economics news.

@ekzyis has really interesting site development ideas.

edit: I should have said "In addition to those mentioned in your post..."

Interesting perspective. afaik, obelisks around the world used to mark the time of the day, month, years based on the shade generated by the sun. I saw somewhere a really nice documentary of how the one in St. Peter place in the Vatican was working and the esoteric meaning related to it. Below is a summary of my understanding of my understanding.

https://m.stacker.news/42537

The sum of the shades also relate to the letters J and X, initials of an old name of a messiah (J for Jesus, X for Christ), representing the most known christogram, the symbol generated of the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ, “Χριστός” (Christos), which are Chi (Χ) and Rho (Ρ), overlaid or superimposed.

a bit more info about the OCCULT SYMBOLISM OF THE VATICAN here https://werdsmith.com/genesology/AxhSAwIRw

Very cool compilation!

Here's another one showing bitcoin lightning transactions in SA 👀

I think the best possible scenario for bitcoin is it's severely and progressively attacked and we anticipate and adapt to survive it. The worst possible scenario is bitcoin isn't attacked, becomes ubiquitous, and is only then attacked and more people suffer a loss from it.

I had an answer like this in mind, but not as elegant as the way you've put it. I had imagined it as a basketball metaphor:

Think of btc as a team in the NBA at the beginning of the season. The best thing that could happen is if the team faced enough adversity that they were forced to suffer, to scramble, to fight with each other and figure out who to be, but not so much adversity that they were torn apart by it and fell into learned helplessness.

Over the course of the season they slowly improved, with many ups and downs, but got on a run before the playoffs -- they started really putting it together. In the playoffs, every series was close, but high variance -- they won big and they lost big. They faced elimination. They had to manage euphoria. They made adjustments. Round 1 demanded a somewhat different approach than round 2. Different heroes emerged each series. The players grew and evolved and adapted.

They win the title in the end, exhausted but jubilant.

Thanks for sharing.

It triggered another smash buy for me, knowing what kind of slimeballs I'm defunding.

Implementing a new outputs operating mode to our controller's. This operation mode applies to a crosswalk, it will control a light signal with several parts and road studs. It will work with radio frequency for wireless communication between crosswalks.