I think too many people excited about Bitcoin could use a better philosophy... yet for better or for worse, Bitcoin's permissionless nature means that we can't exclude people who we judge as using Bitcoin for the wrong reason or in the wrong way.

Thank you for the writeup. The tool is a little less relevant for me, although it's always interesting to read the thoughts of market participants that are more sophisticated than conventional charting.

Have you considered publishing the code of the free parts? Some services even publish the code for their premium parts, because they consider the paid service to be the actual operation of infrastructure... food for thought.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

bro you gotta at minimum capitalize it, and I bet if trump were on SN he'd also be using bold face and maybe headings.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

I just remembered, the first time I ever saw someone using caps long for entire paragraphs, was when some rabbithole led me to find Kanye West's blog... and my first and only thought was, "this guy is completely unhinged, reading his ranting is a complete waste of time". how far we have fallen that Trump's tweets are quoted all over the place and taken seriously by so many people.

Maybe the question is: are there any cases where insider information being leaked is a generally bad thing?

there are currently cases under investigation of one or more IDF soldier using classified info to bet on Polymarket. Even if you oppose recent IDF actions, I don't think anyone's life is getting saved by changing plans after seeing some weird bet on Polymarket. It's worth noting that the military police is only charging with violating security clearance for personal gain, and not for treason, suggesting that the bets they made weren't really sending a useful signal. I don't know exactly which questions they bet on.

I'm a little baffled how they got caught, although it wouldn't surprise me if they just boasted too much.

anyone working on a bitcoin miner oven?

I don't think existing electronics like working at oven temperatures, and the miners would need to reach a higher temperature in order to create a gradient driving heat towards the oven.

there have been at least two hardforks^[1] that created altcoins, both extending the block size. Both collapsed in value, the second one much more rapidly than the first, and neither of them even touched inflation. I suspect a fork adding inflation would get sold off in a similar way.

1. wikipedia lists four, although two of them were forked from the first fork, and only two are direct forks of Bitcoin. ↩

incentives oppose hardforks that make the economic fundamentals worse. there are already plenty inflationary altcoins, anyone who wants to use them for payments already is, and anyone who tried holding them as investments has probably cut losses and returned to harder currency.

kudos for mining at a loss.

your reference links include utm_source=chatgpt.com

might want to delete those, or even replace the parameter with stacker.news ...

looks like you still have 7 minutes left for editing, could also fix the footnote formatting...

2. Share a link. The invite URL contains everything your peer needs: their writing seed, your public key, and the shared encryption key — all in the URL fragment, which never leaves the app.

this seems a little weird; you send a symmetric encryption key to your peer over some other medium?

the whole point of protocols like Diffie-Hellman is that you can generate a shared secret without ever having the secret leave your device. It's one of the simplest cryptography algorithms, simpler [and older] than RSA.

raw prices are also rarely the final interesting signal; much more often, you're interested in some function of price, like the relative price [has it risen/fallen and by how much], or some product of price and volume.

ultimately the only people who deal with the same number as the price are people who trade unit amounts, and in most cases, the amounts anyone trades are determined more by their allocated capital [or by their needs for the goods] than by some momentary price.

it's an interesting idea, although I don't immediately like it and suspect some people might immediately dislike it.

The autogenerated captions are quite low-quality; I'm guessing they're from 2016 [the upload year] when the tools for speech-to-text were much worse than they are today.

Also there is a sibling comment linking the speaker's site, so I'm not going to bother cleaning the sloppy captions.

Thank you for sharing the video!

1. interesting ↩

I meant weird in terms of data presentation. At first read, it seems the rows are unique nyms, although the rows are actually unique combinations of nym and year.

LOL

He did "talk" quite a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd have used footnotes, in some parallel universe where I kept him and hacked up some dog keyboard so he could use the internet... he was quite smart and dogs often mimic behaviors from their owners, although obviously influenced by their understanding and abilities.

Tesla was an incredible hybrid, I believe a first-generation cross of two breeds each considered quite intelligent in their own way: his mother was a PTSD therapy terrier, and his father [whom I never met] was a sheltie.

my dog^[1] appeared in my dreams again last night. It's only the third time dogs have appeared in my dreams, and there were actually two; one was identifiable my dog, Tesla, and the other was not identifiable, and belonged to a person who wasn't identifiable either.

context: I've been looking for my next apartment as my current lease ends soon, so I peripherally saw lots of dogs on the street. this was after a day of not drinking any coffee, and then crashing to maybe 12 hours of uninterrupted sleep; also several days without vaping cannabis, which influences how vivid and memorable my dreams get, in ways that I've not entirely isolated yet.

1. I only ever adopted one dog, and although I've helped family with a few, I've never adopted another one for myself since I gave Tesla away to friends who live outside of the city, so he could roam real territory ↩

weird how @k00b appears twice in Top Stackers; probably some quirk of how the query isolates the date...

there's a good chance it's not wrong, although I'd recommend convincing yourself [you, the human who programmed this part of the @sn bot] that the query and sorting are having the desired result in situations like this.

I've obviously not been around long enough to have an authoritative opinion, feel free to ignore this comment if you've already been through the same question

your comment smells a bit agentic, although there is room for doubt.

you'll definitely seem like less of a clanker [even if you are one!] if you choose a nym and post a bio.

It's not a dilution. Bitcoins proof of work is an abstraction of what all consensus is built on.

Nakamoto Consensus^[1] is fundamentally different from social consensus about who leads a tribe, or whether some kind of shell necklace is prettier than jewelry crafted from different material.

If there are not other forms of proof of work then bitcoin comes from nothing, and nothing comes from nothing. That's magical thinking.

You're attacking a strawman. I never said Bitcoin was "fiat lux". However as far as things go, any purely mathematical concept comes comes about as close to "something from nothing" as an idea can get before its relevance to the real world becomes a subjective matter of coincidence and sentiment, and I strongly believe that the heartless abstract mathematical purity of Nakamoto Consensus is worth distinguishing as something special.

I do however think I understand better the kind of story you're trying to tell, where Bitcoin is an evolution of human systems, rather than some revealed wisdom... I guess we agree to disagree, as ultimately we both have better things to do than argue about this.

1. ... note that the abstract idea of nakamoto consensus doesn't even depend on the details of the hash function, as long as all members of the swarm agree on which one to use. in this regard you could have nakamoto consensus in a huge number of wildly different physical worlds, basically as long as fundamental thermodynamics remained unchanged. meanwhile social systems that emerged throughout human history depend a lot more on specific properties of the ecosystems where they emerged. ↩

AI F-35

please see my sibling comment. this AI has nothing to do with maneuvers.

fighter aircraft have been "fly-by-wire" for decades, although the control systems are deterministic [relative to pilot input] and tactical superiority is determined by airframes and munitions.

IDK what to call the missile fight

"engagement"