LMAO, I think its sometimes because libertarians have built a social identity around complaining and defining problems, rather than building or understanding solutions. And i don't even mean that in a super negative way even though it kinda sounds that way. They tend more towards defensive mindset and the kinda of "natural world alternative" so to speak, rather than the cypherpunk technological "solution" to these problems.

Short version: I believe they think more in the framing of politics rather than technological systems.

I saw a few including Woods and Jeffrey Tucker go down the cRyPt0 road, most with Bcash, and it has made them gunshy about bitcoin.

In fact I think some of those old guard libertarians are still bcashers today. Just sad.

THIS is the thing that cryptocurrencies are doing to harm Bitcoin.

Both.

It would be better if it improves and we have things I would like to see as a technological solution, but it's not going anywhere if we don't get those things. Never discount the fact that it fucking works and it seems there's nothing anyone can do about.

Cosmic Version:

We've seen the rise of the "side gig" in the past 10-15 years as an increasingly normal and almost required part of the economic system. Nostr, Bitcoin and V4V is going to aggressively build toward solving problems for this market (because people will build it for themselves), which will only continue to grow, and in another 10-20 years the majority of small business around the entire globe will exist in this ecosystem in some form or fashion. Like not having a website eventually became a really stupid thing for any business in the 2000s and 2010s, not having a Nostr ID and social graph, not having bitcoin integrated into what you do, and not connecting to the networks that leverage these tools will look like using a fax machine. It'll be leaving seriously good money on the table, imo.

Ditto.pub Highlighter.com Satlantis Fountain

These have been my recent focus. They change very frequently though as new stuff drops.

Nah never went full carnivore, but I've been "paleo" (or something basically that) for a really long time. Meat and animal fats are certainly my dominant source of protein and energy. When i deviate i notice it very quickly too. A couple of days eating like crap and I pay for it quickly. I always end up going on a steak cleanse to get back to baseline, lol.

My diet staples though are bacon and eggs, steak, lots of fruit, some grain free "breads" from time to time, almond milk/butter (occasionally), sweet potato, and some sort of yogurt on occasion.

Favorites when i was younger: Sublime, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Marley, 311, Nirvana, a lot of alternative rock and some classic 90s pop is always a go to.

Today i listen to a larger variety of music, but less often. Probably my favorite band right now is Twenty One Pilots and we listen to that a lot in our house, but I also love orchestral music, film composers and soundtracks, and more electronic mood music. I can binge that stuff for hours while I'm working on ideas and/or writing.

All the time. Probably one a week, or two weeks depending on my density of chores and driving, lol.

If you are meaning comparing the amount though, I do much more listening then actual reading. Probably 3x. The overwhelming majority of my reading is stuff that gets published as my audio, physical reading outside of that is minimal just due to time constraints.

No, their starving I'm sure

first part: a. I don't really focus on it alot, but if there are places that i know accept bitcoin i will always go there and try them out. But i don't specifically avoid anything else because they dont, and i very often bring it up if there is any opportunity to when i go anywhere.

Second part: c. and then i just use my visa. but i always add a little comment about why btc would be more convenient for me or why they should accept it. Never pushy, just cordial and/or playful. I think being pushy will associate being annoyed with hearing about bitcoin, and I think that works against us. If its just a tool out there that it seems like people are using, then they are more likely to look into it, imo.

I blab to people about it constantly, lol

Getting paid in bitcoin and paying people in bitcoin. that's what i do with my business, have been on a bitcoin standard for a number of years now.

Thank you!! 🙏🏻

All the time. That's why i ask for suggestions and stuff. It's not only hard to find good stuff, but its also hard to filter the huge amounts of trash. So i rely on other people's linking or sent suggestions a lot

Both. Can't choose.

The Pear Stack and Nostr but have enormous potential and for slightly different reasons. I really kinda think that the more time goes on, the pear stack will be a dominant way of delivering files, resources, and building your own networks between devices, while nostr will serve largely as a global identity, social graph, and payment directory on top of it.

In other words, I think both are trying to be the entire stack, and I think each will settle into their "optimal place" in a combined stack... at least it intuitively seems taht way to me right now.

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austrian economics, bittorrent and p2p tech, system's administration for some company maybe (not sure how long that would last, i don't work for other people very well). I'd have eventually ended up running my own business one way or the other, imo. It's the only place where I feel like I can scratch my own itch without getting trapped.

Also very likely i stayed focused on media and film production and just took it to Youtube. That's a very likely outcome considering I've migrated back to as part of what I do with Bitcoin

oh shit... that's an impossible question, lol.

First "smart" is very hard to define, but let's say I'm thinking "intuitively smart." As in, able to adapt, take in new information and merge it into current worldview, immediately understand and expand on the implications, etc... first come to mind Dhruv Bansal, Jeff Booth, maybe someone like that. But there's so many different kinds of smart and reasons or levels on which to value someone's input. I don't think there is a hard way to compare people on that metric. The list could easily include like 30 people I know for different reasons, imo.

lol, yeah i can get that. Honestly as much as CTV and CSFS would give a lot of cool benefits for building novel systems, its not necessary. Bitcoin is fine with or without them honestly and we haven't nearly exhausted the potential for the technology that is available to us today.

I really think its just because its fun to talk about new things we can build and new ways we can solve problems, and doing the grueling work to REALLY get the previous era of tech working in the most robust and complete fashion is less exciting... thus the soft forks get more attention and buzz, rather then the hard work of building out what we already have.

But i don't think its an emergency or some disaster that we don't get it, or even that it just takes 7 years to get some basic covenant proposal that is both very low risk and highly desirable. Probably makes sense to actually build out full working versions of things that need CTV before any serious discussion of a soft fork should be considered anyway.

hmm, probably in building the alternative networks to make the bitcoin ecosystem more robust against corporate or state capture. This is where I think nostr and the pear stack will play a massive role.

People forget that a huge part of Bitcoin's security is ensuring that the narrative and perspective around it can't be manipulated. Social media is an attack vector at the social layer. Building routes around central points of control and manipulation in simple information propagation is really important.

Luckily I think we've understood this intuitively, even if not in the explicit context of defending Bitocin, and we've made huge leaps in a very short span of time.

The Name of the Wind Mistborn and honestly maybe The Martian, i really loved that book. Great pacing and very cinematic in structure.

But this is also an impossible question, because i also consider "best" "favorite" and those terms to be hard to pin down. For example, the films and books I respect more than any other because of the sheer depth of the story and novelty of what they tell, also aren't often the ones I read or watch over and over again. So are they my "favorite" or are the ones I've seen 20 times, and maybe even think are a little stupid in some ways, but love that about them, are they my favorite?

Tons more could make the list that I've loved but only read/listened to a single time; Foundation, Dune, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Dresden Files (silly at times but really fun series), numerous Brandon Sanderson books, etc.

I also find myself diving into fantasy more than sci-fi most of the time. But as is the common trope, "sci-fi is just fantasy with rivets." So hard to say one or the other most of the time, lol

I agree and disagree in a sense. For someone to truly be on a bitcoin standard, they shift the mindset to weighing everything against the bitcoin cost and potential, and using bitcoin as their dominant monetary tool. But I also don't agree that someone not using bitcoin directly, "isn't really using it," simply because they aren't getting the value out of it.

Analogy, my grandmother is using the internet when she calls someone on the landline, but she doesn't know it and doesn't get any of the real benefits that the internet offers, but she definitely is using it and no longer has to pay long distance rates because of it.

So part of me agrees in a sense, that there will have to be a big shift in mental framing, and I think it will happen naturally, but it will never permeate to everyone. We are social creatures by our nature. There will be plenty of people who "adopt" bitcoin without knowing or caring why, they will simply use it because its the largest network of people demanding it for trade and unwilling to accept fiat trash.

No and no.

I think the first "problem" is a "we have to fix something I predict in the future" thing which clearly isn't broken now, and the second isn't realistic anyway, so its a waste of time, imo.

It's way more fun

Not sure, but I've thought about it a lot.

Separating the money supply from political control. Hands down, not even a contest.

Basically everything I do podcasts on, lmao.

Also I love just building stuff and tinkering with electronics. I ripping out my closet and put in custom shelving and cabinets. My brother and I remodeled my kitchen. The extra bath is currently half done 😅. I've done construction for a large portion of my life and I just like doing it. Its also a great way to reset.

I had an awful week last week and just a huge series of cascading "bad news" items that piled on top of each other, and when it gets bad I just reset by fixing things or building something.

I used to play lots of games and watch tons of film, but i do less of that as I've gotten older. Still read a bunch of books, and also will randomly explore ridiculous amounts of random software and tools on the computer. This is specifically why I've ended up with a podcast about Bitcoin, Ai, and P2P tech... these are things I spend a lot of time just exploring in my free time.

Ah shit. It's literally ALL in boxes right now and about 80% is in my storage unit. We are finally finishing out the basement so I have nothing of consequence to show you on that front, lol.