Marius

Show: "What Bitcoin Did". Episode: "Confuse Experts". When it comes to Bitcoin, Brent's take is "I think X is going to happen, but would not be surprised about -X". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPDZvFf1Is @Danny Knowles

Halfway through @Saifedean Ammous' The Gold Standard, I’m intrigued by its novel genre and delighted by how gripping it is. Without giving away too much, the takeaway for me is this: When the status quo drifts too far from reality, imagining—and building—a better one stops being optional.

"Yet the stupidity and senselessness of the war were no impediments to the Kaiser abusing his central bank to finance fighting insane, expensive, pointless wars that were irrelevant to his people in his pursuit of grandeur. Via round. about ways, the German people’s savings were to finance the war effort." @Saifedean Ammous - in "The Gold Standard". You can replace "the Kaiser" with any of President, Prime Minister, King, Queen, The Government and the sentence would still hold. Since hundreds of years. This got to end. Decentralization of power is worth a try.

If you are 50+ (euphemism for old), and zoom out, and zoom out again, and again, aaaand again: what do you see? Me: I am in the post reproductive phase, where I have become invisible to Darwinism. My genes are not going anywhere. And my mitochondria never did. That is kind of cool for a libertarian, isn't it, freedom pure? Now: Jump onto clawdstuff? Or support darwinistically exposed people to jump onto clawdstuff? Hahaha - this is fun. I know my answer - find yours.

PV

Ask yourself how many of your daily services would still work if you were in Iran. Add Gmail to Odell's list. Oh and yes, all my services. 📝 0016ab9e…

These are really great 👍. I am halfway through the initial delivery and will be ordering more for sure. Can recommend. 📝 d77c22fb…

Did you ever watch a fly (of the 1-day life expectancy group) and wondered whether they would engage in a healthy lifestyle? Stretching after landing. Low sugar diet. No high speed adventures. To live 1.01 days? That fly is us.

There is so much interesting stuff that I read, experiment with, try out, and debug that the day is over before I share any of that here. In addition I have a lot of options (both informed and otherwise) which age/wisdom 😇 prevents me from sharing. And then I have accumulated technical user-level Nostr debt like relay mismatch, embarrassing incoming payment failures, etc. All leading to a busy SILENCE 😁

In 2022, we moored next to the Mercator on our way back from the English Channel. https://zeilschipmercator.be/en/about-mercator

PV

Bitcoin is the best chance to get our lives back into our own hands. People here probably know this. But then, people in control surely know this too, and they will try everything to steal your Bitcoin. Buying, selling, and owning Bitcoin, while ethically and morally clean, may become illegal at some point and for some time. True system change will happen only if we are prepared to hold on to our Bitcoin in such a scenario.

Die Re:set (aka Re:sat) Episoden mit @markusturm und @DerPhiL kratzen schwer an meiner Souveränität: Die sind jetzt die einzigen im Bitcoin-Podcast-Universum, die ich unmöglich ohne meine Freundin hören darf; würde sie mir nicht verzeihen. https://www.blocktrainer.de/wissen/blocktrainer-podcast#1…

I finally configured my first Liana wallet after listening to the episode with npub1c2d9mjwwfq0gw9jya6zesywuzzs4ngzp06wf9dcl0kdtmks706dsv6kxar : high quality software extra strong Bitcoin security: https://stephanlivera.com/episode/704/ Thank you @Stephan Livera

Pilled a restaurant and also let them use my infrastructure. Populating BTCmap one store at a time takes time but that is one basic building block of adoption.

I love these 2024-era Midjourney images with their poetic touch

Is obsidian walking the blackberry path? It seems to do everything I need except allowing me to run the server side on my own hardware. Am I missing something?

In every new encounter we have the choice of using our intellect and experience to "defeat" the other, or we can use them to find creative solutions together 🍀.

Was thinking about "logic" in biology while reading Nick Lane's book "Power, Sex, Suicide" (ignore the catchy title; it's a great book). Not every logic applied by someone who studies nature is automatically bio-logic. In summary and retrospect, I would say that most of the logic I have used in my years in biology was math, physics, or engineering logic. Very little was truly bio-logic. Nick Lane, by contrast, argues very logically that bacterial design prevented them from growing and evolving the complexity of the higher organisms that surround us today. What I am trying to say is this: determine and address the root question (challenge) in what you do as early and as rigorously as possible.

I have been driving a Tesla Model 3 for 5 years (bought it right after Tesla announced it had added Bitcoin to its balance sheet). A great car, very reliable. But I wonder why Tesla would constantly nag you about driving a little bit too fast, breaking a little too late (like having grandma on the passenger seat), or watching something else for 5 seconds when you are alone on the road, _and_ refusing to re-activate the USD 7k full-self-driving package after ignoring their nanny advice for a few times (happened to a friend). All this while Elon is spearheading sovereignty and free speech. Drove a Taycan the other day just to see that all the nanny functions can easily be switched off using the standard user interface.