I'm not sure that UTXO size distribution tells us that much about wealth distribution in bitcoin.

Almost half the UTXO set is made up of UTXOs with less than 1000 satoshis. These probably aren't people who are trying to hold bitcoin, but rather inscriptions, runes, and the like or just dust. I guess it doesn't change the meaning of the chart much, but it is probably more weighted toward the middle than it seems.

(chart: https://research.mempool.space/utxo-set-report/)

you have an interesting concept here, but I think you need to get a little ruthless with your editor's pen: cut 2/3s of it and see how it reads. I have a feeling you'd get a lot more readers/responses if it was a fair bit shorter.

Maybe the reference is to this very short section on "Protection of Self Custody" which, to non-legal mind, seems incredibly limited (no self custody protection if you aren't going to follow sanctions law...well how is that going to be enforced?)

I certainly spend more time online than I did five years ago. Percentage of that time doing genuine social media? slightly up, but not much.

Houseplants. I keep propagating the ones I have...don't even need more.

Books used to be an issue, but last time we moved I couldn't bring them, and I haven't bought too many books since.

Yes, or perhaps they let you "manage" your tether tokens with a key you control (even though they can lock any tether they want at any time).

Can you describe the guide/process a little more?

I'd be interested in giving it a whirl.

TIL: all signets have the same Genesis block.

I suppose it's true that the paragraph words in articles are often there so the headings don't look naked. At least, "if it wasn't worth putting in the heading, why should I bother with it" is a plausible, if slightly unreasonable, subconscious path.

Certainly headings (and the increasing frequency at which they occur in writing) is something new(ish) with which both writers and readers are learning to contend.

I'm writing something just now. My routine is to write a paragraph or three and then return later to find some catchy summary for a heading. Is it the case that the paragraphs are mostly data and citation, while the headings contain the most digested analysis? Possibly.

Perhaps I should abandon headings altogether in favor of single sentence paragraphs a la Tractatus.

In Texas, we have food truck parks, but I don't think they have such good food. How many hawkers are at a typical hawker center?

Pretty cool! I'm here for these first hand accounts of using bitcoin in the normie world.

These are great. Good find!

My understanding was that fedimint does have some ability to handle byzantine faults.

Fedimint does say in their docs that "a BFT consensus algorithm is used to agree on a set of consensus items."

On another page they say

But the reason dpc is working on this (aside from it being really interesting) is that they perhaps would like it to be more robust.

I was able to do it anonymously at hosterbox (although I had to make up a name/address). They didn't check require any further info. I paid with lightning.

So many of my thoughts Chesterton thought before me.

my childhood (in a conservative family in the NW) was an exercise in listening to adults complain about politics.

when I got older, I got to know a lot of people who were quite happy with the way politics in the NW were going. I don't think they were power-hungry people. More like they are operating with wildly different values. Freedom is not as important to such a world view as fairness or equality. Seeking power for yourself is somewhat hard to hide from yourself, but seeking power on behalf of others, to do good for others...this is limitless and never feels bad. This is how we get such messed up systems.

has anyone tried out harbor.cash since their v1 came out? (I was going to, but I have to upgrade a dependency and I think it will break some other things and I'm not tech enough to "spin up a vm")

549 minutes...ouch