it's a good question and an interesting problem.
you will always need computers to sign, send and verify transactions. but these operations are lightweight such that you don't need much power. all of the above can be accomplished via something as simple as a raspberry pi connected to a solar array.
the real challenge IMO is robust, censorship resistant bandwidth. bootstrapping a node requires downloading and verifying the entire ~500gb chain. you can trust someone else's node, but this may not be wise in an adversarial environment (and in bitcoin land we do like our "worst case scenario" thought experiments). it's even trickier when talking about lightning as nodes must be online to receive payments.
great post.
I find it useful to track a lot of other metrics aside from dollar values of assets and debts. How much is your net worth in dollars, bitcoin, median housing units, gold, lattes?
i also like to measure it in terms of living expenses. if i lost all sources of income, for how long would my savings sustain my current lifestyle?
a good example of how expertise in one domain does not translate to expertise in another.
when discussing technical subjects, certain phrases reveal that the other person is fundamentally confused and not really worth engaging with. for example, in bitcoin land such a phrase might be "intrinsic value", "blockchain technology" or "yield".
i think "ubi" is one of those trigger words for me when it comes to economics. it conveys an almost childlike naivete of how money and incentives work.
i usually dump any sats earned from this back into the rewards pool, which i assume is what also happens whenever someone tips the anon account. so doesn't make a difference really!
has a dozen important work deadlines coming up
spends all day optimizing a tiny piece of irrelevant code
why am i like this
am amused by the partnership announcement between reddit and open-ai
i reckon we should train llms on all the popular social media platforms and have them duke it out
it'd be like robot wars except instead of flamethrowers and buzzsaws you'd have memes and racism