You are good, just stick clear of anything inscriptions or L1 spam. It’s a painful failure from the past and apparently the present too.

Do look around, maybe you will find some use for EVM that isn’t all fiat games.

You disagree philosophically, and that’s ok. Everyone deserves to get paid for their work. I will remark however that marginal cost of a line of code has dropped considerably in the last year…

I do think that SN hints at a general core idea that software trends towards more permissive or free licenses over time.

AGPL from the beginning is noble, but ultimately limits reach. Delegation to the commons of “deciding how their work gets treated” that permissive licenses grant is exactly how software products get popular. Changing the rules when you get successful (competitors reselling your product and you not getting a cut) is of course an option, but so is taking the last known free and open version and building something new from it.

Sigh. And now someone has to fork the last MIT licensed version to keep it free. Source available is bullshit and means closed source. Free and Open source means you don’t and should not care what people can do with your code. Worrying about what other companies do with code you released to the commons, including commercial exploitation, will send you insane. See Wordpress for a modern example.

“If the only library is closed source, then there's a project to make an open source one.

If the only library is GPL, then there's a project to make a non-GPL one.

If the best library is MIT, Boost, new-BSD or public domain, then we can stop re-writing it.”, Satoshi Nakamoto, 2010

Trash trash trash. All the spam tx formats like inscriptions need to go in the trash, and anyone pushing them trashed.

If Bitcoin backed EVM is what you want, Botanix launched last month. Say what you like about EVM, but it can be done in isolation with this, not causing an impact on L1. It doesn’t spam the network with junk txs. It’s basically just like the other eth l2s but the gas is in sats. There are bridges from Bitcoin l1 to botanix chain.

Middle finger for wheel

Of course you are free to run it, Infact any software you like.

But knots is not Bitcoin. It’s a Bitcoin LARP client developed by a fool.

Stupid take from Udi. Nothing Udi does matters, spams and scams.

Meanwhile, actual Bitcoin is Bitcoin Core, and a bunch of other fools are being lead astray by another fool. Ignore the scammers; and don’t run fake Bitcoin clients; your funds will be knotted away forever.

But why the fuck would you run knots?

Story checks out, I don’t believe Luke has ever been right in his life!

I’ve been promised nothing by any government; and will take nothing.

I don’t need other people’s children funding a retirement Ponzi scheme.

You didn’t answer the question of why being alone is a problem. You just told me to die.

I will add that this dependence on grandchildren is a poor, developing world meme. It’s selfish, and if you see your offspring as your retirement account, this is further evidence of broken fiat money, broken fiat society and broken incentives.

Kys? Excuse me?

Do you regularly tell people you disagree with to do this? You are a bad person, and furthest evidence of decay of civilization. Rethink your position, as you are making the world a worse place.

Why is being alone a “sin”? And what have having children got to do with loneliness?

Our civilization is ending, the selfish bringing more humans into this bad world is the real “sin”.

the vendor shouldn’t have custody, for sure. The problem is that you can scream self custody, but people will ignore it. Every lost coin is a gift to everyone, but I do hate to see it.

the gifter should retain custody until the recipient has transferred it. Ecash is nice because there are less on chain fees to take possession. If many people are claiming onchain around lunar new year, fees could get high. High fees mean people are less likely to take custody. It would be interesting to see how many sats are effectively burned from HongBao due to loss. What is the model of the “paper” — it is a sweepable seed phrase?

These look really nice. I like the embossing. What is the “bill generator”? A paper wallet tool?

HongBao is a good use case for ecash. The problem with giving away L1 bitcoin on paper is that many will lose it. It’s been this story year after year. It’s far better to give people the ability to reclaim their unclaimed gifted sats after some timeout.

The men that know the most about AI are cashing in. They don’t care about the rest of society, or the effects it will have on it. You are a pleb, who will pay your dues from your pittance subsistence wages forever. They are drunk on fiat.

You can’t compare good scientists like Einstein, who genuinely cared about the world and peace.

It’s a positive feedback loop. In general this is a good thing as long as it is sustainable, economically sound and accretive. Confidence is high, and the game was always about arbitrage on rules for different pools of capital.

As prime capital concentrates into Bitcoin, it will seem inevitable.

You can always build more houses. You can build land. Cloud cities. Arcologies. Build out, build up. Dwellings are not finite, not held fixed in number by algorithm. Housing, in value, will decay against Bitcoin forever.

You can of course sell above market rate for sats, and use that premium to buy more sats, it would be accretive.

Wages are 1/7th their value 30 years ago denominated in gold. Housing is 75% its price 30 years ago denominated in gold. Houses are cheaper, but your parents earned 7x as much.

The money is broken. We absolutely are not wealthier today when you consider hard asset value equivalence.