American Bitcoiners should defend Roger here. Principals are important in legal interpretations— they're coming for your private keys.

I know you say "While communities should be empowered to define their own concepts of justice"

Though I'm wondering how the movement defines Justice?

If you ever want to wedge yourself in between nation states, you kinda have to be a bit more strategic about it.

If you're going in to the outdoors for prolonged adventure, be prepared for survival. Even if a survival-esque trip is not your intention.

Watching that block count tick down, just like today :D

Seize the initiative.

The billboard advertisements explain the whole thing— pure propaganda.

Bitcoin is a free market of participants, not a formulaic if x then y. The reason you hold Bitcoin is not the reason everyone else holds Bitcoin. They will buy it and sell it whenever they would like to do so for reasons that they agree with.

The confusion comes from the illusion that Bitcoin holders on X, Nostr, and other social media create that their narrative is the narrative of the entire market, when in fact it represent a minuscule percent of the market participants.

Lastly, no. It’s not nation states selling to fund an army. Armies are built and funded over years to decades, with government budgets and massive strategic process. Not on a whim of events on the ground.

If you want to become a professional software engineer, you need to understand what your role is in a business.

Software engineers are there to solve business problems with code as their tool. Focus on the business problem and the value it would bring when solved.

In terms of code writing- fix technical debt as soon as possible, don’t build new features until your debt is paid.

It's collecting less data than the actual Facebook homepage.

I've seen this quite a lot over the years and have established a couple of points of view on what I believe is going on based on my own personal experience.

The idea that Bitcoin leads to faith or Christianity is not based on total nonsense, but a classic case of "correlation does not imply causation".

When fully understanding Bitcoin, it makes visible a clear distinction of Virtue vs Vice in an important part of our society. Not only does it clearly present that distinction to us, but makes clear the value of Virtue over Vice.

Once you see this clear distinction, it's impossible to ignore. When one starts thinking about where else they experience a Virtue vs Vice struggle in life, you'll find it everywhere.

The Virtues— Wisdom, Courage, Justice, Temperance have been written about and taught over thousands of years (Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient China) as the proper way to live ones life at one with the Universe (read: nature, logos, God).

Christianity (Apostle Paul) adopted these virtues as the "Cardinal Virtues" at the base of their religion from Hellenistic Philosophy (Plato: The Republic).

Therefore— my point of view is not that Bitcoin leads to Christianity, but leads to an important lessons that despite being taught for many thousands of years before Christianity, we (at large) still refuse to learn.

It just so happens that Christianity is the most prevalent set of teachings based on this lesson in the western world and many decide to not dive deeper in to why it resonates with them.

Bitcoin love, who could ask for much more?

Given that the organiser stated yesterday that it’s a carnivore only event “specifically so we don’t get any vegans”, I’ll take a hard pass.

Sounds like a diet cult piggybacking on freedom.

Bitcoin

I'd be very happy to see miners forced out of the USA

I’m similar, I’ve been unsure for a while how many others own/use a laptop. So many normie friends don’t even own one these days

Almost always these days for scoping out new solutions and bouncing ideas for better ways, pros/cons of implementations. Super helpful to paste in errors too.

I also use copilot which is definitely a productivity booster.

I don't think so, like you said— 1 sat = 1 sat.

I support us moving to a Bitcoin standard, otherwise what about GBP, EUR, RUB pricing too? The community is larger than the US so dollar pricing is a regression in accessibility.

Just my 2 sats!

I guess this isn't necessarily a big ticket item, but something I don't think people spend properly on:

High quality groceries.

Your body is a collection of the things ingested, low quality in, low quality out. Buy the highest quality food you can get your hands on, even if it costs 3x what you're used to.