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Veddy interesting!

Things are getting a little more competitive around here 😀

Great video, and I really like the Pink Panther theme music.

Welcome! We love beef, and we're jerks.

OI don't disagree. I just think there's a lot of space between those two extremes, and I do think the main issue is trust, not whether something is complicated to implement or not. It just takes work to create more user friendly trustless products. I think that's what justin is trying to do. There are big improvements with hardware wallets recently. Same with @k00b here. It's hard work. I don't think you need to be a hard core maxi to realize the chance you take trusting coinbase custody, for instance, or BlackRock.

Bitcoin exists because of the 2008 nonsense.

Well, you could look at it that way, but he was speculating about the future back in 2010, when shitcoins and all their faults hadn't been created, and neither had lightning. Also, I have all the respect in the world for Hal, but he had some wacky ideas like all of us. He was heavy into transhumanism (#1276224) and I believe his head is still cryogenically preserved somewhere.

A lot of cypherpunks were into transhumanism, I believe, including Hal Finney

@ek and I gave it a try, and I believe @optimism was checking out the code.

I understand some of those congressional bills are thousands of pages long to accommodate all the pork funding. Just a suggestion 😀

I have always wondered about this. Seriously

Very true. Stopping is the key. It takes patience at first, because a short walk may take a long time.

Great hockey player. I'm glad I got to watch him.

You probably know more about the history than I do, but I do have some crazy stories. I remember being with my friend in Times Square (a real hell hole back then, pre Disneyfication). We were trying to buy fake IDs so we could drink in bars. We were in a seedy place playing pinball. I suddenly had this weird sense of danger and told my friend we should leave. He laughed at me and told me he would meet me down the block after he was done with his game. I left, and he got robbed at knifepoint INSIDE the store. Luckily he just lost money.

Scorsese's Taxi Driver really captured the city I remember back then.

New York City has really always been a democrat city as far as I can remember. Bloomberg was a democrat at heart - "limousine liberal" was the phrase we always used to hear. Rudy was a real aberration, and only got in because of his crime fighting reputation. As a very young kid I remember my father despised Mayor Lindsay, even though he was a supposed republican. He hated that guy so much we moved out of the city.

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