At its very core, Bitcoin's ever-evolving narrative lies in a pursuit as ancient and universal as humanity itself—the pursuit of happiness. It's a quest that transcends the boundaries of time and technology, finding its expression in our search for security, peace, love, and even the more tangible goal of financial prosperity.
This universal truth that everyone desires to live happily is so self-evident that agreement is reached even before it is fully expressed.
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131 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 29 Feb
As I've stated elsewhere, I'm somewhere between a Ossificationist and a Conservative.
I think every Bitcoiner needs to ask themselves: What non-negotiable properties do I most value in bitcoin?
We must realize that no new development comes "for free", there are tradeoffs of everything. Even for developments that pose no inherent technical flaws, there exist lots of potential risk....namely that it can shift the incentives and focus against those "non-negotiable properties".
I think we should resist the urge to make Bitcoin a solution to every problem. We should think of this with the "unix approach": Do one thing and do it well and pipe those tools together.
So Bitcoin should be base-money, immutable and secure store of value....and most of the other features should be pushed off to other (competing) layers.
As a quick example. Adding zk-rollups to basechain. Its an exciting prospect to add such privacy features to the mainchain...however are you prepared to negotiate on the outcomes of that? Suddenly the total known supply of bitcoin becomes opaque and amounts that are locked in zk-rollups are no longer able to be easily counted? Is there an inflation bug? who knows?
Its far better to push those privacy features to other layers / chains and keep the base layer of bitcoin transparent and auditable.
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What makes you more happy?
  • when you receive sats
  • when you are able to spend your sats
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 29 Feb
Short read, but with profound insights. Thanks!
This, in particular, resonated with me in a way I haven't thought of before:
The challenges that arise, like the risk of Bitcoin becoming captured by closed custody solutions or the centralization of consensus, echo the risks faced by ancient societies when the conditions of their covenants were threatened or broken.
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maybe the idea of pursuing happiness is a bit off. I think the core of the issue always was the pursuit of meaning. There can be a lot of unhappiness too in that path, but we travel it because it is worth the effort
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I agree with the second part. Something to consider is meaning is just the intellectual mind searching for truth. The underlying question is, why do we search for truth?
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For me, the seeking truth is meaningful in out of itself. Why not? got anything better to do? lol
maybe a more pragmatic approach is to assume that being closer to the truth is better than the alternative
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💯 but why is it better?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car OP 1 Mar
The reason it’s meaningful is because it often guides us closer to happiness. Also keep in mind some things can have no meaning and still make us happy. 🫠
Great discussion
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True happiness comes from annoying random people from the internet (?) 😂
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I don't know the answer you are looking for, maybe those who didn't where darwined out? also there is no limit to the use of the why question
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