StartOS 1.0 and the router!!!

I don't care ho a project is funded, only that it works. How it's funded may impact how it works in the future, but that's a problem for the future. RIght now, self-hosted matrix works great, especially if catering to a non-technical community. Basically only something like Telegram, Slack, DIscord, or Matrix satisfies our requirements in terms of features and UX, and of those, only Matrix is open source and self-hosted. So it's a no brainer.

We have an entire developer space on a different Matrix server that is open to anyone. We have independent rooms for every service anyone is working on and Start9 developers standing by ready to help.

We don't have to worry about scammers there.

Here is the link to the space and all the rooms:

I exist in silence - driving, coding, running, sitting, you name it. Though I will sometimes listen to an audiobook when I drive.

Not really my area of expertise. We keep a passive eye on developments there, but I think it's about 10 years too early for real commercial use. At some point, we will need to mesh around the ISPs, so it's in our future, but not yet.

No, but my diet is mostly eggs, meat, smoothies, chocolate, and the occassional vegetable or salad.

Andreas uses language, analogies and humor perfectly, all of which are important for clear communication. He is perhaps the best communicator I have encountered, and that is a heuristic for intelligence. He is also an exceptional public speaker. Andreas understood Bitcoin and its potential more than anyone, and it is becuase of him that so many of us understand it as well as we do today. He is the reason I fell so hard into Bitcoin and was able to understand some of it. I read Mastering Bitcoin 4 times.

Becasue it's a cesspool of scammers. It's also someone else's house, and we prefer to interact in our own house where we make the rules.

Yikes, tough one. Let's just say I'm super interested and inspired by decentralized computer system, open source everything, interplanetary travel, unschooling, consciousness as an axiom and primitive of physical reality, and personal responsibility. Might change if I thought about it longer

It was film with an emphasis in writing. Clearly not what I do today.

Some of my favorite books are, in no particular order:

This is the topic of many long form debates. In short, almost nobody thinks you can scale layer 1 to support the entire planet without undermining decentralization. That is why so much effort is being put into layer two solutions like Lightning and Liquid and others. In my opinion, there will be many viable layer two networks, each with their own use case and tradeoffs. The chain itself should only be touched in rare circumstances.

Depends on how much data you have, but basically just as long as it takes to download then upload.

Upload is fast becuase it is done over the local network and doesn't need to travel around the Interet.

The hardest part is getting used to the new network configurations needed to access your private cloud from various devices. It can take a few hours to set up

Nobody has really solved POS system yet. BTCPay server is a great interface but is not itself hardware. That said, Rockstar Dev over at BTCPay has devoloped a cool mobile device that works great and has been used at many conferences. It's just not really commercialized yet

That explains how I've always felt :)

No, the server will continue to fulfill that function. A router serves 3 functions:

Powerful router are too complex for people to use. Easy-to-use routers are not powerful enough. We will make a powerful router that is easy to use...and bonus points it will integrate seamlessly with a Start9 server :)

We absolutely should, mostly just busy as hell

Pokemon is a game for Gameboy. Twitch is a live video streaming app. “Twitch Plays Pokemon” was a popular phenomenon where Twitch users would collaborate to play a SHARED game of Pokemon on Gameboy. Here's how it worked:

Participants would use the Twitch message board to enter commands that then got executed in the gameplay. For example, if someone entered the command “right”, that would cause the player to move 1 space to the right. Commands would execute immediately after they were received, and anyone could enter a valid command at any time. You can think of Twitch Plays Pokemon as the more practical equivalent of placing a Gameboy in the middle of a crowded room and telling everyone to push buttons at the same time. As you might expect, the gameplay of Twitch Plays Pokemon was quite “twitchy”, but in a very “infinite monkey theory” way, progress could eventually be made.

In an effort to streamline play, a new game mode was devised in which players would “vote” for the next command and, every 4 seconds, whatever command received the most votes over the previous 4 seconds would execute in the game. Also introduced in this mode was the ability to attach multipliers to a command, such that the command would execute that number of times. For example, “right2” would cause the player to move 2 spaces to the right. “right3” would cause the player to move 3 spaces to the right, and so on. The highest number any participant could place after a command was 9, meaning whatever command they entered would execute 9 times. As you might expect, gameplay in this mode was less chaotic, more efficient, but it also meant each participant had less direct and immediate influence over the game. If a group of even 5-10 got together and colluded on their votes, they could practically take over the game and make contrarian ideas irrelevant. The new game mode was called “Democracy”, and the original game mode became known as “Anarchy”. Which game mode was engaged was itself governed by a democratic process: if more participants wanted to play in Democracy mode, then Democracy mode engaged; if more wanted to play in Anarchy mode, then Anarchy mode engaged.

To summarize: in Anarchy mode, everyone had equal influence over the game, but progress was slow and clunky. In Democracy mode, progress was fast and efficient, but colluding groups could marginalize individual participants and ruin the game for them.

So… individual participants discovered a means of effective protest whenever Democracy mode became suffocating, but they could not garner enough votes to switch back to Anarchy mode. Someone would type the command “start9” into the comments. This command meant “open the start menu 9 times in a row”, which, as you might imagine, would be enormously disruptive if executed. The entire screen would be blocked by the start menu, over and over. Typing “start9” was a participant's way of signaling to other participants that they felt marginalized by Democracy mode, and they were ready to fight back. If others felt the same, they could also begin typing “start9” - then, sure enough, “start9” would finally receive more votes than the colluding group's command, and the menu opening would begin. Every 4 seconds, the menu would open 9 times…again, and again, and again…until finally, the colluding group would be forced to either cooperate in reverting the game mode back to Anarchy mode or quit altogether.

Playing in Anarchy mode was impractical, but people did not want to play a game where they had no voice, where a group of insiders had taken total control. And so “start9” became the battle cry of the individual, the out-group, a means of signaling to other individuals that it was time to fight back against the usurpers - to use their own rules against them, until there was no alternative but to return control to the individual participants.

We've already begun work and are making great progress. So hopefully in 2025.

Will check out TollGate

At least $72,000

No, but LSPs might become ISPs :)