https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwmyaxpJwoc
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-is-forever-money
https://fountain.fm/episode/gSwHz52HfVPakPt6gmoD
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:16:32 Bitcoin legitimisation
00:32:10 Fiat decay & the sly roundabout revolution
00:52:23 Balancing economics, ethics, & engineering
01:14:45 Ossification & user rights
01:34:48 Consensus & changes
01:50:42 Sovereignty & sound money
02:02:49 Funding Bitcoin development
02:13:52 The crypto regulation political war
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“Third, accepting and dealing with constraints is a sign of maturation in Lightning and in life.”
Every orange pill attempt should be tailor-made towards that person. It's best to not pick what you think is most important about Bitcoin. Pick what would make it most useful to them.
If they are older and concerned about inflation's effect on their fixed income, talk about it's scarcity resulting in an inflation hedge.
If they come from a country with poor human rights, mention how hard it is to confiscate, and how you can flee a country with your life savings as 12 words in your head.
If they are politically active, talk about it being unstoppable. You will never have to worry being deplatformed from financial services.
If they own a business, show how they can save money on transaction fees.
If they are a content creator, talk about innovative new monetization techniques are made possible only by Bitcoin.
No matter who they are, there is a way Bitcoin will improve their life. You just have to figure out which use case they most need.
Children of Time, by Adriad Tchaikowski. Intelligent spider civilization.
All I can say about the comment thread is: Nice.
https://i.imgur.com/6ixyJA5.png
nice to see bitcoiners experimenting with new approaches to employment
Chicks
Ironically, we are today making the same mistake the largeblockers did.
The problem with LargeBlockism was that, eventually, a node becomes too expensive, people don't run nodes, and then you are just left with Bitcoin as an inefficient version of VISA / WeChatPay.
Today, we have many users of "custodial" lightning. Custodial = infinite blocksize node. We also have non-cypherpunk leaders, who do not care about privacy. A non-private node = an infinite blocksize node.
We also have people who address the "node problem" via shame. That won't work.
What we should do is:
I have actually already done all these things, so we could do all of this tomorrow. Instead, however, we are focused on the opinion of tradfi , etf , various laws, etc.
We must be focused on the user experience, of course.
Please have a listen to @kr latest episode with Ian Major from Joltz. This is real world integration that the "crypto" "web3" people could only dream about.
To hear RFK Jr. speak so eloquently about what might be the biggest issue to me - the collusion of corporate and government corruption - and then present solutions that make some sense gives me immense hope for the future as I realize I am merely a French peasant who has no clue what the most egalitarian or just solution is to this immense problem.
The attitude of his VP choice, “healthy planet, healthy humans,” does however imply too much a greenwashed compassion-as-power authoritarian response to the world than I like, personally.
Is there a 1099 requirement to the U.S. government? I would think there would be.
Not an expert in raising kids but I feel like a lot of people resort to repetitive uses of mantras like you listed without their children actually taking it to hearth or actually understanding the meaning behind it.
I think "Words are not actions" is a brilliant example of this. Plenty of humans out that agree with this notion and think of themselves as following this but still being super passive in things they do
I don't have a better solution tho.
Like GR, I have also come to learn the zapping habits of a few stackers. But I think it’s nice to remain anonymous. If you want to send a stacker sats, you can do it via their lightning address and include a message
Or as a haiku:
Chest aching, legs lost
wandered through a lily pond
Nemo’s cuz nom-nom
I think of it as the tidal flows of the sea. If the establishment can fine tune the credit expansions and credit contractions then the economic sea will appear relatively stable. Doomers predict a devastating tsunami but the establishment will expand and contract credit with relative skill. Bitcoin is our way of building and contributing to an alternative system; it will take to build out. I personally don’t want the current system to collapse as it would hurt the masses more than it harms the parasites.
Here’s a great explainer of what BIP-324 offers (as I found myself asking that Q):
https://protos.com/bip-324-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-bitcoin-proposal/
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d177c95be7bcb000149b1f8/1583900970688-1XVHXOYRG1X3SC22R8S4/DEF030+-+Dominic+-+Large+Banner.png
https://www.defiance.news/podcast/the-depth-of-addiction-dominic
dupThe answer to most of these questions, given is Bitcoin’s design, is the same as: would I do this if I were a miner or writing mining software? I’m 95% certain miners put the highest fee txs in their block template as they come in. They’re doing the work anyway, why not maximize your returns? In PoW your likelihood of mining a block is independent of the last hash you made, so incrementing the nonce, replacing a tx, or replacing all txs before you hash the header again, all have the same odds of finding the block. Ie you don’t make progress as you mine, you merely exhaust a very very tiny few of possible losing blocks as you go - all that matters is you don’t choose the exact same block again. Eg if I flip a coin and it’s tails, the odds of it being tails on the next flip is still 50% regardless of whether I flip it tomorrow, or on the moon, or on a hill, or in a valley.
FWIW I had a coworker once who lost a fair bit of weight swimming. He had also been injured, and gained a lot of weight, so swimming worked for him at losing weight without reinjuring himself.
Re: motivation in general, I'd suggest getting a Fitbit or similar watch, along with their automated scale. Weigh yourself regularly and let their system keep track of what you are gaining and losing. Similarly, keep track of how many steps you are taking and how active you are.
Personally I've found that the most effective way for me to lose weight has been to incorporate it into a commute with cycling... I was a lot skinnier when I had a 9-5 office job and biked to work. Unfortunately, that's not easy to replicate for many people, including myself!
Secondly, in general I've found that exercise is much more effective for me than diet. I already eat reasonably healthy, and don't lose weight; specialty diets like carnivore are just too limiting to stick too. But every time I consistently exercise for awhile, I quickly lose weight as long as I keep that up. Doesn't even take much: just running reasonably hard for 15 minutes a few times a week is enough.
Good luck!
gaining and losing a cowboy hat has become a significant side quest in my life
yea this is super fishy.
As a US citizen I find it amazing that she would leave so quickly. You'd have to drag one of our clowns out of office kicking and screaming
As of 12/31 they had 2.8b in cash, and 10b in “securities” of unknown quality.
On the other side, they had 10b of deposits and 4.2B of short-term obligations.
My guess is they pledged their securities and got that 4.2B. No one will give them anymore money.
So, they have very little cash cushion. If their securities drop, they will be margin called and go out of business.
Wouldn’t really touch it at this point, because the odds of their random securities dropping as the Feds continue to raise rates are pretty high.
Normally, they would be acquired before bankruptcy, but with choke point 2.0 in full swing, not many people would want to touch it.
When you create a clip on Fountain it will appear in the discover feed for all your followers. With just one tap they can:
If someone likes your clip this action will also go out to their followers - meaning good clips can spread through the network and give the show / episode some great discovery and also you as the clipper the ability to earn more sats!
Some of my recent clips:
LOL what a stupid argument. If someone cannot read and write how are they going to use Bitcoin anyway, regardless if their wallet uses seed phrase as a backup or not, come on! Also, 8 billion people should not be using seed phrases because a few million are illiterate? Since when we level down in technology? Perhaps we should also stop driving cars because blind people cannot use them? Or maybe let disable or encryption because most people don't understand cryptography? Get lost.
I think it’s getting slightly worse but I’m not certain.
My theory is that two related things might be happening:
The reason that it causes standards to go down is that In the past, none of this could be measured well, but it was obviously important, so good businesses placed a priority on getting good, empowered employees to fill those positions. Now all that matters is keeping average response times and ratings above a certain level, which results in a lower bar being met, mostly sustained by those simple common issues that arise.
Btc is a system of money. A community is a bunch of relationships. Just because the mechanics of how btc works doesn't allow the money to be clawed back doesn't mean that, as a member of the community, you shouldn't behave like a decent human being. It is two separate issues and value systems.
Btc is not an excuse to be a dick just because sometimes there are fewer consequences for doing so. Is this really such a foreign idea?
Reminds me of an old post, is Bitcoin money of Earth, the solar system, or the universe?
https://stacker.news/items/146595
Yes except the word "eventually" makes it sound like a future reality when it's really a present one. Go be an LSP right now if you want to. It's never been easier. If you feel like there's an obstacle in your path, what is it? I'm happy to help you overcome it.
They can't stop us all
What's nice about being an LSP is, you make money by doing it
The government can't even stop bittorrent and that's just anonymous movie downloads
Imagine them trying to stop anonymous payment routers whose income is on the line
In bitcoin world the bugs in the software you use pay you money! :D
I am not interested in buying outright quite yet. I need to see where things go with the wallet stuff and how that impacts zapping and activity on the site and then what the plan for territories and marketing SN is going forward.
If prices got juicy enough I may buy 3M extra sats and set them aside until I decide whether to take the plunge on outright territory ownership and if I decide against I have an extra 3M sats. Can’t go wrong.
Shower thought:
Because they are part of territories on SN, pinned posts should be called landmarks
or maybe landmarks can be something else, like widely zapped, highly valuable posts that each territory can elect to showcase as a "this is the kind of content were about here" "this post is our magnum opus" "this is representative of our culture and traditions here"
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