Bigger space, more meat and I'd make sure that guy with glasses gets more groupies.

That the material is already out there, but what my students find valuable is my explaining it. That is, I find it surprising that people find what I can do valuable enough to pay me.

It's the wonderfulness of capitalism, in a nutshell.

Probably the scripting system. The stack-based language is not easy to reason about, though in some ways it has a particular form of elegance.

Something like Simplicity from the beginning would have been nice.

galbi, preferably without the sugar.

There's a really good Korean BBQ restaurant that just opened: https://www.kbbqaustin.com/

Charm is pretty good, too, though further away.

It's the love of money that is the root of all kinds of evil. I've argued in the past that fiat money causes us to love it through a form of monetary Stockholm syndrome. We have to pay close attention to it because it's being stolen away from us all the time through inflation.

Bitcoin actually frees us from being held hostage and we're free to pay attention to other things. That's not to say that it's impossible to love money, it's just not a trap that's as easy to fall into. In that sense, I think Bitcoin is much better for humanity.

I think the main Javascript Bitcoin libraries is this one:

If you're interested in learning, this looks promising:

Thanks!

Very first one was a faucet transaction in 2011. IIRC, I got 0.05 BTC, but I put it into a web-wallet and that service disappeared soon after. Crazy to think that it's so much money now.

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I miss clubhouse.

I did, maybe 7 years ago, for a few months. Unfortunately, the room I had it in got really hot and my wife didn't like the noise it made, so I sold it. IIRC, I mined like 1.5 BTC before giving up.

The reason I don't anymore is because it's too much maintenance. It's one of those investments that's also buying yourself a job. Not a big fan of buying myself new jobs.

a) The chain reaction part seems particularly difficult. I hesitate to give it any percentage, but I'd think less than 5% b) This is arguably the case already. Many people keep their coins on Coinbase, for example. I'd say there will always be such people who are willing to trust a central authority, at least until they get screwed. c) This isn't possible.

I offer my courses live over zoom whenever I do the courses in person. I've experimented with making the content available over video, but I'm just not happy with the results. I won't count it out, but it's not on my roadmap, either.

I'm not sure they're different things. A blockchain is really a database and a centralized blockchain is a centralized database under one company's control.

Transparency has a lot of value, particularly for customers, especially for assuring them that the company is not cheating.

It wouldn't be very Christian of me to hate the guy. There's no doubt the guy has caused a significant amount of destruction with his con, though.

I'm a startup guy, just like you, so I've been around the block a few times when it comes to VCs. I'm now fully convinced they've taken the function that banks used to have, just with a more money-printing, fiat-centered model.

I wasn't always this down on VCs, but the more I examine the current monetary system, the more it's clear they are the essential gatekeepers. Very few players make it without VC money.

Anyway, I know you didn't ask, but if you can, keep the equity yourself, do what gets you profit and don't rely on VC money. They'll make you grow too fast and work too hard. You really don't want to be enslaved to them if don't have to be.

I started contributing to open source projects that were Bitcoin related and kept going.

Honestly, this world opened up for me because I know how to code. I can't emphasize how much of a superpower this is.