I haven't had a drop of alcohol in over 12 years.

Since January 2024 they've also doubled their sats/share.

There is also the replacement cost. If a large entity wanted to buy a large amount of corn, they'd push the price up and their average price would be higher than the current price. This alone justifies a premium, as long as there is demand.

I like neither.

Should it be our job to use it though, or should it be Bitcoin's incentives?

I thought it was standard with many courier companies? At least in the UK and probably in most of Europe. I've received packages like that before and when I buy something online, I see options to have it delivered to a store that's a pick-up / drop-off point for the particular company. This includes, but is not limited to, DHL, UPS, DPD and Evri. And you can have Royal Mail packages delivered to a Post Office.

Thanks for the video!

I found it interesting that the phone store owner at the end when he was asked about Bitcoin as a savings technology, he essentially complained that it was too volatile as savings and not volatile enough as an investment. Looks like he has this division in his mind between savings (which need to be 'stable') and investments, which need to return a 100x or otherwise they're not worth it for someone with $1000.

It may be more common than we think that people struggle to wrap their heads around the idea that there could be something in between; something that's somewhat volatile, but more like savings in that it grows in purchasing power forever and doesn't require timing the market. And perhaps that's why we're seeing institutional buying and little interest among ordinary people.

Yes, low time preference is a privilege of those with positive cash flows and low uncertainty.

Price against the USD is only a short-term proxy for purchasing power.

When I saw the title I thought this post would be about books written by AI.

Meanwhile in China:

The AI used for coding would really have to be self-hostable to protect the privacy of the code being generated.

In this interview with Dr. Ned Hallowell, who is apparently an expert on ADHD, he says smartphones and social media may be changing our brains and actually giving us ADHD.

I only run Bitcoin Core. No LN node.

I don't use a bundle, but my own setup using Ubuntu and Bitcoin Core.

Initially I enabled clearnet connections, but when I looked at the map of nodes and saw my house on it I decided to go tor-only.

Yes, Tor can be deanonymized, but that takes resources and I'm more worried about wrench attacks than the government going after me for running a node. It's a Bitcoin node, not a dark web marketplace.

A VPN costs money, I don't want to add liabilities, would rather stack more sats.

Connecting to the node from Sparrow takes a bit longer when it's over Tor, but I do it infrequently enough that it doesn't matter.