Thanks! Yeah, I meant GitHub.

I guess Satoshi is the ultimate example to aspire to. Whatever he did to remain pseudonymous seems to have worked.

There is always a point on the road to totalitarianism where government becomes obsessed with identification ("papers, please"). Sadly we are at that point.

Good points. Do VPNs like Mullvad solve this? It seems like decentralized git alternatives are also necessary now.

Devs need to be nyms only. I'm amazed that isn't the norm yet.

I never knew F.A. was such a dope lyricist.

"That is the actress Salma Hayek......and she never said those things..."

-- Abraham Lincoln

The time for civil disobedience is here.

Bitcoin is a dire threat to the state. They wouldn't be doing this otherwise. They know it takes away the seniorage, power, and control that fiat gives them. There will be a final reconning, this has been true since Satoshi mined the genesis block.

Now is the time to remember: they are losing and they know it. The dollar is losing its reserve status. The US government is run by a senile puppet controlled by pedos. The equally corrupt and incompetent government is spiraling into totalitarianism, surrounded on all sides by threats like free speech, the internet, failing institutions, collapse of trust, encryption, and most of all Bitcoin. This is the moment it was created for.

A poll in 1990 about the Internet would have been identical.

It's the big LSPs that need to be worried. They are easy targets. The government is doing a great job of keeping bitcoin/lightning decentralized.

Ironically the samurai guys are always talking negatively about lightning.

It is inevitable that the state will attack bitcoin in every way it can. It's not inevitable that it will win. Given the first part, keeping a low profile, not bragging about enabling illegal actions online for example, is important. Bitcoin is censorship resistant, key word resistant. The level of that resistance is affected by behavior.

About a year. It's awesome. Hardest thing I've ever done. It is good motivation to do all the other stuff.

I never thought about it before but that XKCD comic is pretty stupid. it pokes fun at an extremely specific and unlikely scenario where good encryption is useless. Yes sure, but the other 99% of the time it's very good to have.

I've done 100 pushups a day since the end of January. I added planks and leg lifts for core to that. I also do 30 minutes of cardio daily and Jiu-Jitsu twice a week. And of course the dog gets two walks a day.

The non-physicality of bitcoin, combined with easy verifiability, are unbelievably profound.

Don't forget shitcoin!

Bitcoin separates the wheat from the chaff.

$250k is pretty low. A lot of average joes will be screwed by this. Saved up for your kids college fund the last 18 years? Sorry, now you can give Trudeau 67% of it.

3 things I'm less concerned about than power hungry tyrannical authorities.

We don't want that commie metric crap around here.