During a database backup last night, the filesystem where we store temporary (non-critical) database files got borked somehow. For some reason, the database's cope, likely recreating the temporary files over and over again without anywhere to store and reuse them, caused it to get really slow. It took us awhile to figure out that was the cause and it was fixed by literally turning it on and off again.
Thank you to everyone that reported it, and sorry for the downtime and the verbose error messages. (It's not wholly intentional to show you the sausage making but it helps us diagnose issues easier until we create some kind of error digest system.)
::channeling the fasting nerds to come contribute to this thread::
Not the easiest place to visit with a non EU passport, but Liberland is a very BTC friendly place to go
Everyone speaks English and there's a strong sense of community. Plots of land can also be claimed, if you are able to stay for 25 or more days.
Liberland was the first country to accept Bitcoin, before El Salvador.
Great question and something I sometimes wonder myself. There are different factors to keeping Bitcoin from getting popular in Japan but the important ones in my opinion are:
It took significant effort to get started and especially to start it required me making sure good bitcoin content wasn’t ignored and new comers were engaged. I also spent several hours a day sourcing content.
As time goes on I can do less of this but it’s still an hour or more of my average day.
Sadly theses don’t turn on like a faucet. Someone has to commit to dancing alone for as long as it takes to attract other dancers and even then they have to keep dancing until there’s so many people no one notices they’ve stopped.
~nostr and ~tech are relatively dead because no one is very energized to make those subs what they should be.
Does that make sense?
That's also what I think will happen with blog articles with things like Alby, if you have created a solid piece of content that ranks highly you will be able to get sats fro it for a while to come until someone creates something better and updates it with new information
I enjoyed the part about how not knowing about Bitcoin meant that ek didn’t have any walls with other people. Some deep introspective thinking here.
Well, it’s lonely at the top, so enjoy the great view!
yes we tried this but strangely putting the
override fun onCarConnected() {}function in a try block seems to stop the listener from firing in the case where the app is open before connecting to the car - very odd!Fawlty Towers is one of the great little-known (in the US) treasures in all of television history. God that show was genius. THanks for the reminder.
My take on this so called Bitcoin conference...
You are fooled if you believe that politicians care about you and your bitcoins.
Especially RFK, he was put in that presidential race EXACTLY to fool you, to give you false hope, to move your attention from more important things. He will never win any elections, no matter what you will think. He was pushed and trained "to be with bitcoiners" so later can be demolished in the campaign, is just a puppet.
The whole political game is rigged and people still do not realize that.
I don't need anybody to give me any "right" to use Bitcoin. I just use it and I don't give a shit about any politician. Is not their damn business what am I doing with my own money.
Here I also explained how I would like to see these conferences: https://stacker.news/items/180224
I will repeat this over and over until more people will understand it:
Bitcoin adoption will happen only when people will learn to be sovereign individuals, not with politicians "help" and speeches.
https://i.postimg.cc/zX2ZDQD1/vader-sovereign-adoption.jpg
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/how-bitcoin-will-save-the-world