"I must also mention that I’m a person who has trouble living in the moment. My brain is constantly thinking about and preparing for future events." I wish there was a switch to turn it off. There really is no escaping it I swear.

Moscow and its oblast are about 22M people. Metro areas weren't included, just the city limits of each one. The city of Moscow has a geographical footprint of 2562km2. Chicago is 607km2, LA is 1210 km2, and NYC is 783 km2, which all add up to be almost exactly Moscow's, and what's interesting is the population density of Moscow is about equal to other 3 US cities added and averaged.

for @bitcoin_citizen as well

nice one

I agree with this on Heinlein. I was kind of going through the sci-fi canon after pirating Dune 2 (a visual masterpiece my god), starting back with Lovecraft working through Asimov to about Gibson. Like damn, I didn't even know the wild controversy StarTrek caused in the 60s when it showcased the world's first interracial kiss on film. Or how Asimov got put on the FBI watchlist for his socialist and anti-religious views. Kind of an endless list of stuff. It's not all of them course, but the sci-fi canon much like you and @doofus were saying.

Cool AF.

I hope enough friction gets dumped from LN that pleb nodes swarm and lower the routing fees of higher and higher value txs. A one-touch LSP mode for pooling would be awesome. I think it's probably the tx's above $50 where the LSPs make all the money. Let's work it to $1000 to start. I hope the future isn't everyone connecting to pools with single regulated Co's, cuz that sort of says the design was wrong. I think the design is right. L1/L2 sort of mirror opposites in strengths and weaknesses. Where as L1 I feel trends from a lower order to a higher order, L2 I feel trends from a higher order to a lower order.

Loud and unreliable. A great DIY project though. You'll want a baffle box and make certain you know how to fix the mining rig. I'm not bullish on it saving anyone money or decentralizing the network.

I doubt they ever will be for plebs. Perhaps small timeframes when it is.

Maybe bitcoin's first conjunction when the halving and difficulty adjustment occur on the same block will be cool in the early 2030s, otherwise no, the closest thing related to celebrating specific blocks might be ordinal theory, captured in rare sats via Ordinals.

I'm bullish on everything about bitcoin. If it doesn't do the world a great service, then it'll trend to a volatile minimalist state like the old testnet. As for impact, the Bitcoin experiment I feel will look like the American experiment. Anyone doubtful of bitcoin's forces beyond its ticker quote price doesn't understand it, hasn't developed a [healthy] relationship with it, and is a moonboi, and up to the present time, I define moonboi's as gambling junkies masquerading as investors who have gotten rekt by volatility at some point swapping it for a weaker money/asset, or just gotten lucky with the timing and passed it off to an audience as intelligence. I see a little bit of everything happening in this exchange:

Does bitcoin save the world? Every bitcoiner goes back and forth on this question wether they admit it or not. The rabbit hole is deep man. How deep and hypothetical do we go? Regardless, the world needs adjustments, some rebuilds, and people willing to make sacrifices. Today my feeling is below, but always ready to re-visit my worldview:

You don't need to leave your "golden cage" to learn powerful new skills in this age of information. Then what? Then you become a better version of yourself and you can help us all along after you're done doing that with your grandparents.

Agree with the former! Psilocybin I can vouch for, esp micro-dosed, taken with lion's mane and a thermogenic like niacin. Fungus is sort of a deep rabbit hole itself. Can't vouch for MDMA though, pretty wicked day after effects, too much like fiat.

A language influences a person's mind and how they view the world. Language is a significant hurdle still. I can say this just using some of my own family members as examples.

The world has been trending towards a single language for a very long time. It's possible we had one at one point long ago, but it was primitive, unusable by today's standards, like gold is.

At the very bottom, they perceived their NgU was threatened by an OG who was lending validity to a competing project by writing a technical manual on it.

In reality, Andreas, like Jack, like many "questioned" bitcoiners could've cashed in astronomically by simply releasing their own coin, token, or alt project. They didn't. That's my litmus test. Andreas remains my all-time favorite bitcoiner.

Damn I miss him. Guy still has fire whenever he wants to breath it. I'm not a member. I'm interested to see the replies here though. I use Umbrel, so I guess I support him indirectly since he's part owner

the nuance I was talking about here was commodity money versus fiat money.

To be fair she never said she was, her DNA test showed she had Cherokee ancestry, which is how it was worded. Also, bitcoin never lost anything with Warren in office for over a decade. It never will. She is no threat and never was.